Where do you smoke at work

[cyberwolf]

I used to go outside to a smoking area several times a day to smoke an analog. I have been vaping for about a week now and find that I no longer really like to go outside with the rest of the smokers. I also don't seem to get the same performance outside as I do inside. At home I love the fact that I can now "smoke" inside, but work is a different story. I don't really relish the confrontation that will probably arise from vaping inside.

Just wondering if anyone else has had the same feeling.

 

[Skad]

I don't go outside as much as I used to when I smoked analogs, but I do still try to go out a couple of times a day. Get a little sunshine, get away from the cube, that kind of thing. No one in my office gives me any trouble about my ecigs, other then my ugly USB passthrough.

 

[mizmare]

I still go outside. It's nice out and I like the excuse to get away from the desk.

 

[bea58]

I go in the bathroom to vape since it would be deemed unacceptable at my desk. Being the only female at my workplace, nobody is the wiser.

 

[wanderlust]

Afraid I'm the owner and pretty much tied to the desk. Vape in my office and common areas. My office manager suffers from copd (I never smoked inside) and comments how much better I smell. He's still not really sold on the "vapor" though but doesn't think it's affecting his health.

 

[JustPuffin]

After 25 years of freedom to smoke just about anywhere Las Vegas banned smoking in almost all public places. Smoking at work became an ordeal. Depending on where I was working it was 5 - 15 minutes each way to the smoking area. Now as long as I am not in a public area with customers present I can vape anywhere.

My solution was to give a unit to my immediate supervisor and to the director.
Both smokers who now vape everywhere with me.

In the last three months we have quite a growing circle of VapePires. I can't reveal the exact location as we are not strong enough to win the battle with the VapePire hunters.

 

[Ahinch]

I now vape at my desk and no one seems to care but then again not to many have noticed other than those right next to me. I try to go outside at least once a day but really that only makes me want an analog more.

 

[Nick O'Teen]

I work nights in a petrol station (US: "gas station",) and since I'm alone, I just vape in the back (next to the 'no smoking' sign, and under the industrial strength smoke detector,) out of sight of the customers - just don't want to have that conversation with every customer who comes in, though I've shown a few regulars (and maybe even converted a few.)

The boss would probably be a tw*t if I vaped 'on camera', so I use a modicum of common sense and keep it away from the counter (and the CCTV.)

 

[navgal66]

I use to go out side to smoke at least 5 times a day at work. Now I just vape at my desk. So far no one seems to have a problem with it. As a matter of fact they are trying to get the tobacco chewers to vape so they don't have to look at the nasty spit bottles!

 

[Elle]

i work with the public in a financial office, and i still do it at my desk.

shhhhhh!!!

i'm not sure if anyone's ever seen that episode of Friends when Chandler is secretly smoking at his desk? Kind of like that.

I bend down to go into my drawers, draw, and exhale back into the drawer or over my shoulder, lol. Nobody has seen me, that i know of.

On my breaks I just go to the breakroom. I don't go outside anymore because all the guys from the restaurant next door smoke out there and they're a little rambunctious for my tastes.

 

[donei]

I vape everywhere at work... it helps that there are 3 other people who vape.

We don't work with the public so vaping everywhere is accepted. The only time the owner has asked us to be discreet is when a potential customer visits our warehouse. Then I'll just shut the door to my office.

 

[Tomcat338]

I'm waiting on my first ecig and mentioned to my employers HR dept that I would like to enjoy my ecig inside. It scared the crap out of them!! They have a smoking policy and a smokeless tobacco policy but nothing on the ecigs. I work for a large paper company and HR told me that they would have to do some "research" before giving me a response. I told them that it was being sold/used here in Florida. No laws being broken so why can't I use it outside of our designated smoking areas.

Waiting for their response

Tomcat338

 

[bugeater]

My cube is in a corner by a wall and passersby don't really see me. I vape in my cube all the time. One time I was in a conference room where my e-cig was charging through my laptop. Some one asked what it was and I showed him. There was one guy that freaked out saying that nicotine is still in the air and that I was passing it around for everyone to breath. Because of him, I don't like the attention at work and hide my vapor activities from public view.

 

[bugeater]

I'm waiting on my first ecig and mentioned to my employers HR dept that I would like to enjoy my ecig inside. It scared the crap out of them!! They have a smoking policy and a smokeless tobacco policy but nothing on the ecigs. I work for a large paper company and HR told me that they would have to do some "research" before giving me a response. I told them that it was being sold/used here in Florida. No laws being broken so why can't I use it outside of our designated smoking areas.

Waiting for their response

Tomcat338

That's another reason why I don't like people seeing me vaping. I want to be able to vape in the confines of my cube. If people saw me and complained, they'd go to HR and some kind of rule would be made against it and I'd have to go outside.

Good luck on their response. Let us know how it goes.

 

[Wildsky]

I work at home, so I guess I vape at my desk - LOL I used to go outside to smoke!

 

[cyberwolf]

There was one guy that freaked out saying that nicotine is still in the air and that I was passing it around for everyone to breath.

That is precisely why I am hesitant to Vape at the office. I can just imagine the headaches, nausea, rashes, severed limbs, etc. that would be attributed to it.

 

[AmyLynne]

I go out to my car just like I used to - i don't want any unneccessary attention at work. I suppose once its below zero again maybe I'll go to the restroom

 

[Wildsky]

That is precisely why I am hesitant to Vape at the office. I can just imagine the headaches, nausea, rashes, severed limbs, etc. that would be attributed to it.

severed limbs!

 

[laynies]

As soon as I got my 901 I showed it to my boss and explained what it was. He said if there wasn't any smoke I could use it at my desk anytime!

He's been very supportive over the years in my quest to become a non-smoker and I think it made him happy I found a 'healthier' alternative.

 

[squirrel]

I VAP at my desk, outside, in the studio, the bathroom is really nice, I vap wherever I want, my boss is just happy the I dont through my butts in the parking lot ..lol..