who got you into vaping? part II

[Israfil]

I started because of a SmokingEverywhere vender in a mall back in 2009. Little Israeli dude gave me a "great deal" 60 for an ecig that I could "smoke" indoors. Was kinda fun going back by there like 6 months later with a mod I had built out of a snus tin and being like...hey, remember me? Here...try this. It's been quite a journey...but I love it.

 

[BostonSean]

I started because of a SmokingEverywhere vender in a mall back in 2009. Little Israeli dude gave me a "great deal" 60 for an ecig that I could "smoke" indoors. Was kinda fun going back by there like 6 months later with a mod I had built out of a snus tin and being like...hey, remember me? Here...try this. It's been quite a journey...but I love it.

Snus tin? Very cool. Got a pic?

 

[samturdo]

Snus tin? Very cool. Got a pic?

ya lets see that

 

[Rotowoman]

I thought I had answered this question already, but it seems I haven't. I had to go back and check. What can I say.....senior moments kicking in.

Anyway, I started vaping in a strange way. My air conditioner in house broke down in August. It cost me a boatload of money, and I was able to finance it, but it was another note I didn't want or need. So, I started thinking, " Dang, girl, you really need to quit smoking if you're going to pay another note. About the same time, one of my co-workers started vaping because his doctor had told him he had to quit smoking before his surgery. Then another lady friend of mine told me she had quit smoking by vaping. I got curious. I had tried everything before from patches, gum, cold-turkey, the whole nine yards.

One thing led to another. I took a trip to a B&M store, got a starter kit, and here I am. Four more batteries later, and oodles of clearomizers and whatnot, I'm not smoking anymore!! And, it's just been a little over month!! I can hardly believe it myself!! And the ride is just beginning!! ]

 

[satkizzle]

A good friend of mine used a Atmos ole to quit smoking. I considered it for months and then one day I got a coupon for a free Vuse. I used that but wasn't impressed so I asked my friend what to do, this was on a Friday. The following Monday he brought his ole in and gave it to me. I haven't smoked a cig since. Currently waiting on my itaste with a nautilus mini to be delivered on Tuesday.

 

[K_Tech]

Who got me into vaping?

ECF and YouTube. Seriously.

I'd tried cigalikes off and on over the years, and I was never satisfied. I didn't even know the term "vaping" until about a month before I started vaping!

I just happened to be on YouTube one day and I saw a video about this newfangled "vaping" thing.

One video led to another, and most of them mentioned ECF, so I came to lurk here.

The rest is (a happy) history!

 

[issy]

Definitely my brother...I'm kind of ashamed to admit that he has been vaping longer than I even smoked. He just always had it on him. He likes nicotine and started vaping so he could get nicotine whenever he wants. He buys local b&m house made fruity 18mg and happpily recoils his protank ii that he puts on a scratched black vision spinner. He never bought me anything but explained it to me and let me puff on it. Like any big brother he laughed when I coughed my lungs out. He taught me to lung inhale....maybe that was just for kicks, lol. Anywho, I wanted to quit and he had totally stopped rolling ciggies, so I tried vaping his way. Voila.

 

[negative-1]

I found out that my grandma had stage 4 lung cancer. She, my grandpa, and my mom were all heavy smokers. She had been cigarette free for about 7 years when she became ill, and it made me think about how crazy it is that if i quit today, I'm still at risk for years after. I went cold turkey during summer vacation, but when school was back in I would be around tons of smokers. My friend was on a diet of 5 cigarettes a day and vaping in-between, so I would use his vape if he smoked around me to keep me from craving. Eventually I bought myself an ego battery and a kanger pro tank mini. My collection has only been growing since and now I'm working my way up to a Manhattan mod. I still give my friends the benefit of the doubt and vape with them on their smoke breaks, but I get the real satisfaction when I'm blowing bigger clouds than they ever could with a cigarette!

 

[HauntedMyst]

My kid wanted me to stop smoking so we set a date and I bought a Jac cherry e-cig as the date approached. I liked it well enough to find out more economical solutions and quit smoking within a few days of buying my first atmos. I found ecf and the rest is history for the last 20 months.

 

[Israfil]

Apparently I do still have pics of it. It's long since disassembled for the parts... much like my RDAs I can't keep a self-made mod together too long before I build a new one.

If you look closely you'll see an old 510 atty and cartridge with Zero filler mod attached...well at least...you'll see the base of the 510.

 

[sketchness]

Tried a cigalike in 2009, don't remember the brand some gave it to me. It was terrible, cruddy vapor production and an awful taste similar to the gums I had tried. Quit smoking for a year because of a girl and started again after we broke up. Tried chantix gained 35 pounds but couldn't quite get more than 48 hours without a smoke.Finally I was cleaning out my sons drawers because he is a bit of a pig, showing him how to get organized and he had a little refillable cartomizer cigalike in there. that started me on the journey a couple months ago. 3 weeks and 1 day without a cigarette

 

[Budared]

A football forum. I'd been trying to give up on and off for a while and the missus was getting more vocal about it. I was vaguely aware of e-cigarettes but, living in a country where you can't buy nic juice in shops but can only order it from overseas, I hadn't seen that much of them. Plus a new law came in where you can only buy fags from special state-licensed shops which was obviously going to be a complete pain in the ..... Anyway, one guy on this forum started a thread about them and then loads of members pitched in saying how easily they had given up. So I hit google, ordered a load of stuff like ego's and CE4s and haven't looked back since.

Good old football (proper football, not that American version of rugby), given me so much happiness and still making me healthier after I've stopped playing regularly!

 

[Auntie Mame]

I had tried to quit several times. Chantix, patches, gum...the usual. Useless. I wasn't trying to quit because I wanted to, I was quitting because I thought it would be healthier.I quickly discovered with each attempt that it would not be healthier because without the nicotine I would land in prison for killing someone. Then, this past spring, I woke, got my coffee, lit that first morning cigarette. It was one of those light-bulb-over-your head moments. I was instantly angry. Angry that I NEEDED them. Angry at what I was spending on them. Angry that they smelled bad. Angry that it made me smell bad. Angry that somehow I was allowing this dangerous stuff to control me.

Once I calmed down, I decided to treat it as a real problem and research it just as I would a business issue to find the right solution. I made a list of questions I needed answered. WHEN did I smoke? HOW did I smoke? If I set aside the addiction side of it, WHAT other benefit did it give me? I realized that part of my need was the fiddling with it, the ritual of it, the interaction with other smokers (social aspects of it), And yes, addiction. I also realized what a wasteful smoker I was. I rarely finished a cigarette, I would take a few drags, get busy and it would simply burn away.

Next, internet. How to stop smoking. Lots of ideas out there, most I had tried, some were loony tune nut job ideas and then I kept getting results on e-cigarettes. So I looked. A few videos. Helpful sort of. Then I found this forum. I lurked, I read, and continued to do so. I looked at items mentioned here. Batteries, mods, juices, etc.

The last week of April I bought a couple of ego spinner batteries an MVP and a couple of tanks, plus some different juices. They arrived, I played with them for a few days, tasting and figuring out how they work and then, on May 3 when I smoked the last cig in the last pack, I quit. Been happily vaping since.

 

[AndriaD]

I had tried to quit several times. Chantix, patches, gum...the usual. Useless. I wasn't trying to quit because I wanted to, I was quitting because I thought it would be healthier.I quickly discovered with each attempt that it would not be healthier because without the nicotine I would land in prison for killing someone. Then, this past spring, I woke, got my coffee, lit that first morning cigarette. It was one of those light-bulb-over-your head moments. I was instantly angry. Angry that I NEEDED them. Angry at what I was spending on them. Angry that they smelled bad. Angry that it made me smell bad. Angry that somehow I was allowing this dangerous stuff to control me.

Anger is a great motivator -- it's what got me here! I was angry that the drugstore disposables (Fin, Njoy, & Blu) were so lame and tasted so foul... Angry at the weather; I'd been smoking outdoors for 16 yrs, but last winter was the coldest in THIRTY years! And yeah, angry at my own stupid habit, but knew dang well that "just quit" was no answer, tried that many times and it never worked. So I googled "e-cigarette" and found this place... If I hadn't found ECF and gotten that eRoll, I'd probably have just stayed angry... and smoking.

Andria

 

[friediceman]

A friend of mine used e-cig to quit smoking. In a period of 8 months, he went from 24mg down to 0mg; after that he decided to keep vaping more as a hobby rather than necessity. Once he was able to get off nicotine completely, he was on a mission to convert all of his smoker friends.

That's how I got started, and with a friend who is knowledgeable of different vaping hardware, it was easy to try out the equipment he likes and decide whether to get one for myself. Not being a heavy smoker helped with the transition; I was off cigarettes completely from day one.

 

[friediceman]

Good old football (proper football, not that American version of rugby), given me so much happiness and still making me healthier after I've stopped playing regularly!

Haha, a colleague of mine is a diehard fan of football (American rugby), so I always tell him that I love the "real football, the one that you play with your feet" just to mess with him.

 

[singalong]

I got into vaping because I was fed up with smoking, and I had set a goal to myself to quit smoking before the age of 30. Heart disease runs in my family and I wanted to quit mainly for this reason. For years I tried to quit smoking but never succeeded for more than 2-3 weeks. Patches felt too strong for me and gave me headaches; all the nicotine gums and candies I tried tasted awful and I hated having to keep a gum for 20-30 minutes in my mouth! I couldn't quit cold turkey because I was addicted to the gesture, the ritual of smoking - that's what I missed the most every time I quit, which is why I never bothered to try Champix or other medication. So the first time I heard of the e-cig, I could perfectly see the interest of it: I had to give it a try.

The first e-cig (Joye 306) I bought didn't feel satisfying though, and at the time, 3-4 years ago, I couldn't find nicotine juice so I could only vape 0mg liquid. The carts were a hassle to fill and there was no throat hit at all. It wasn't until I decided to buy a better model and use clearos filled with 18mg nic juice that I got seriously into vaping and managed to quit cigarettes completely. I'm so grateful that this product exists.

 

[No ash More Cash]

Myself with a little help with Google..The only way the Patch worked for me was to put 2 of them over my eyes so I couldn't find my smokes...I missed the TH