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By the way, @classwife , you can probably tell us easier than anyone else: Among active members here, who's been here the longest?
This thread got me wondering. So did some digging and found some receipts as well as went to some online vendors who are still in business and found those orders in my account.
I've been vaping longer than I thought.
Started vaping in 2009 but didn't fully break away from tobacco until about 2012.
So if you count from 2009, I've been vaping for around 11 years. But if you count from the year I made the switch completely, that would only be around 8 years. I never did like remembering quit dates and things like that so I don't know my exact "anniversary". What's passed is passed.
I fought box mods hard, I didn't want a setup bigger than a cigalike or a boxy form factor. Then I gave into Zmaxs & VV eGos. Then I gave into the boxy form factor I bought an iStick 20W, then a 30W then a Cloupor Mini 30W soon after.
I also didn't want to do any rebuilding but I basically got scared into it when I saw the writing on the wall. But I digress.
I've been vaping longer than I thought.
Started vaping in 2009 but didn't fully break away from tobacco until about 2012.
So if you count from 2009, I've been vaping for around 11 years. But if you count from the year I made the switch completely, that would only be around 8 years. I never did like remembering quit dates and things like that so I don't know my exact "anniversary". What's passed is passed.
I fought box mods hard, I didn't want a setup bigger than a cigalike or a boxy form factor. Then I gave into Zmaxs & VV eGos. Then I gave into the boxy form factor I bought an iStick 20W, then a 30W then a Cloupor Mini 30W soon after.
I also didn't want to do any rebuilding but I basically got scared into it when I saw the writing on the wall. But I digress.
So you disappeared for quite a while apparently. I've been here only a few, but didn't see you around at all until fairly recently. Why'd you leave, and why'd you come back? Don't mean to derail, just curious.
at 8 years makes me a rookie but smoked a lot longer.if i do have health problems in the future,how can i say it's vape or smoke related?grateful i did,no early morning hack.
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Okay, but I did say "active."
Seriously, that'd be a cool thing to know. Wish someone could do it.
I come and go from the vaposphere because vape info/chatter tends to bore me after a certain amount of time. Most of it doesn't apply to me as a "tootle puffer". It's hell coming back, though, because you miss out on changes that are strange to grasp. It's like when you buy a computer. You research everything and you buy one. Then you stop researching computers and in 3-5 years when you're ready for another one, it's like you don't know anything about them anymore.
I'm here now because of the potentially bad situation I was in as a USA-based vaper. But I took care of that problem now so soon I suspect I'll be gone from ECF within a month or so.
No offense to ECF or anyone else here. It's just the way I am. Yes, I just gave ECF the old "it's not you, it's me" line
The way I look at it, I never joined a smoker's forum when I was a smoker, so...
Well, that might not tell us much anyhow. If a mod found the oldest forum member account, which would be from 2007, that doesn't necessarily mean that member started vaping at that time. They could have started vaping a year or 2 after they become a member, but just came here to gather information. When vaping was new, I'm sure there were a lot of smokers who waited a while to actually try it because they didn't know what the hell they were inhaling. There were lots of rumors that it was anti-freeze, for instance.
10+ years for me, although I did quit vaping for a year or so then picked it back up. I never went back to smoking though.
I do not miss the oral steroids and their side effects, nor did the people around me who ALSO had to deal with their side effects (they make me a tad... angry.)
Not sad I'm not carting around an oxygen tank either, honestly.
It took me a while and some major health scares to transition fully to vaping. I said I would ALWAYS miss things about cigarettes, but I find this less and less to be so as time goes on. IDK.
3/4 years ish relative newcomer, honestly but having a great time vaping. Many thanks to the old timers who did all the experimentation and whatnot.
Anna
Not sad I'm not carting around an oxygen tank either, honestly.
It took me a while and some major health scares to transition fully to vaping. I said I would ALWAYS miss things about cigarettes, but I find this less and less to be so as time goes on. IDK.
3/4 years ish relative newcomer, honestly but having a great time vaping. Many thanks to the old timers who did all the experimentation and whatnot.
Anna
Hate to go off topic, but you seem to be someone who probably sees doctors a lot. If I'm right, what to they think about you vaping...do they even say anything about it being a better option for you over smoking or do they pretty much ignore it or treat it like smoking?
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I actually... Not as much as you'd think, anymore. I see my specialist about every 3 months, and my old docs, one was SUPER pro vaping (for me) the other one vaped, so he was kind of useful with the whole quit effect.
I have a new doc who is pretty easy going but I don't vape outside my car or home anymore (I live in a tiny town, and I'm the integrated behavioral health specialist in a tiny town.) I work for a federally qualified health center so like, they believe vaping is like worse than Satanism for kids.
Snus has made this easier than I thought. .I have never been asked if I vaped or used snus, so I am still deciding to like, whether I want to pollute my medical records.
All my docs were firmly on the PRO side of the equation but I had had a laryngeal cancer scare that LITERALLY traumatized my doc more than me, I wound up rasping stuff like, "If so I earned it," I got the FASTEST referral to an ENT ever, and like, the receptionist was like,, "Where are you?" and I was like, "My address you mean?" and she was like "Where are you ONW what are your cross streets" and then told me to drive RIGHT to the office. Fastest scope in the Western Hemisphere possibly. Then with the 18 months of pneumonia well you could just see them looking at this 41 year old woman, who had beaten ETOH and opiates, who could NOT quit smoking and who was gonna have an oxygen tank. They were really sad, my PCPs. It kind of played a role, I mean, I had these PCPs for over a decade, they saw my family members. They never told me I HAD to quit, or HOW, but their sad faces as they described my future life was like, impactful to a degree.
They were just pretty damn happy the first time I followed up to an appointment without a wheeze, and my vaping doc was pretty helpful with the PG thing.
My pdoc was more like, "Oh hell, I know this chick not gonna waste my breath, maybe save it for a momentary prayer." I'm sure he doesn't mind me not smelling like Total .... at appointments but he wasn't really dealing with the day to day.
I really only visit a doc like your typical amount if you have a specialist or two. Apart form a rough transition to Cochise county my meds have been stable (and are so again) Not TOO much goin on.
Anna
I have a new doc who is pretty easy going but I don't vape outside my car or home anymore (I live in a tiny town, and I'm the integrated behavioral health specialist in a tiny town.) I work for a federally qualified health center so like, they believe vaping is like worse than Satanism for kids.
Snus has made this easier than I thought. .I have never been asked if I vaped or used snus, so I am still deciding to like, whether I want to pollute my medical records.
All my docs were firmly on the PRO side of the equation but I had had a laryngeal cancer scare that LITERALLY traumatized my doc more than me, I wound up rasping stuff like, "If so I earned it," I got the FASTEST referral to an ENT ever, and like, the receptionist was like,, "Where are you?" and I was like, "My address you mean?" and she was like "Where are you ONW what are your cross streets" and then told me to drive RIGHT to the office. Fastest scope in the Western Hemisphere possibly. Then with the 18 months of pneumonia well you could just see them looking at this 41 year old woman, who had beaten ETOH and opiates, who could NOT quit smoking and who was gonna have an oxygen tank. They were really sad, my PCPs. It kind of played a role, I mean, I had these PCPs for over a decade, they saw my family members. They never told me I HAD to quit, or HOW, but their sad faces as they described my future life was like, impactful to a degree.
They were just pretty damn happy the first time I followed up to an appointment without a wheeze, and my vaping doc was pretty helpful with the PG thing.
My pdoc was more like, "Oh hell, I know this chick not gonna waste my breath, maybe save it for a momentary prayer." I'm sure he doesn't mind me not smelling like Total .... at appointments but he wasn't really dealing with the day to day.
I really only visit a doc like your typical amount if you have a specialist or two. Apart form a rough transition to Cochise county my meds have been stable (and are so again) Not TOO much goin on.
Anna
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