"You can't do that around me, I have asthma!"

[JollyRogers]

My Dad's 2nd wife is like this. She claims to be allergic to all kinds of things... animal dandruff, smoke, you name it. It has come between us honestly. She doesn't pay visits to us because we are "smokers" and have "those dogs and cats". One time she blew a gasket on my dad because we brought our dog with us even though we kept him outside. Well recently we were invited to their house for dinner and decided to go. I vaped in the house when she was not paying attention and she never noticed. I went outside with my wife when she went to smoke and vaped with her. She complained of my smoking... funny thing since I wasn't and had been vaping in her house all day without a single comment.

I guess my point is people do have it in their mind they are allergic to something or things cause them to react a certain way. But when they don't actually see it, nothing happens. I vaped right behind her with ZERO reaction! lol. Regardless, I seldom visit my father because of her and he seldom visits us now because of her. Pretty sad honestly, I have wished for them to split up for a long time now and unfortunately my father has succumbed to her overpowering personality and ways of bullying and manipulation in fear of being lonely in his later years of life. Go figure, I wouldn't live with her if I was paid all the money in the world.

 

[underwater goddess]

I say vape right behind her when she isn't looking, and capture the whole thing on film. That will teach her

Or, film yourself vaping in the house all day...you get the idea.

 

[Zedoctor]

my mum could smell smoke a mile away, i could smoke then have a shower and brush my teeth and she could still smell it.
i vape in the same room with her now, it doesn't bother her at all.
she still worry's about the long term effects.
but is happy im not on analogues

anyone who complains is just faking it.

that being said i don't mind keeping vaping outside/ in designated area's.

 

[CartHeadMod]

my mum could smell smoke a mile away

true story....one night my mother woke up the entire family because she had smelled smoke and it woke her up....we searched the house, nothing....it was raining, we looked outside, nothing in the yard....there was a glow of orange on the horizon.....she called the fire department.....we got in the car.....a barn on an abandoned farm THREE miles away had been struck by lightning and caught fire.....in a rainstorm, three miles away and the smell of smoke woke her up.....

 

[Remrey]

true story....one night my mother woke up the entire family because she had smelled smoke and it woke her up....we searched the house, nothing....it was raining, we looked outside, nothing in the yard....there was a glow of orange on the horizon.....she called the fire department.....we got in the car.....a barn on an abandoned farm THREE miles away had been struck by lightning and caught fire.....in a rainstorm, three miles away and the smell of smoke woke her up.....

Is your Mom Wovlerine?!
Damn, that's an impressive sense of smell.

 

[mini_art]

I think some people just have a sense of smell for certain things . I was home one day with friends and kept saying I smelled propane gas. No one else could smell it at all.
The next day the entire sky was black from an underground propane delivery line (big one)
that had broken and cought fire when a farmer ran by the area with some equipment that ignited it . It had been broken for 3 days and no one knew it but I could smell it 3 miles away. I have always been able to smell gas this way, but not much else since I smoked a lot then.

 

[david_juan28]

You must have explained her that is not a regular tobacco cigarettes. People must know and have a clear view about electronic cigarettes. One of the greatest advantage in using e-cigar is we can smoke from anywhere since it does not produce any smoke.

 

[Israfil]

my mum could smell smoke a mile away, i could smoke then have a shower and brush my teeth and she could still smell it.
i vape in the same room with her now, it doesn't bother her at all.
she still worry's about the long term effects.
but is happy im not on analogues

anyone who complains is just faking it.

that being said i don't mind keeping vaping outside/ in designated area's.

My mom is the same way...Cancer nurses are the worst antismokers. Vaped in my room for a few months before letting her in on it. She didn't have much to say and now I vape in the living room, and her car without her caring. Of course, I made sure to talk with her about it often and give her all the health info. (they like to know that you have done the research)

 

[toobraids]

Yeah, well, they don't work though.


I mean, seriously, isn't the sucess rate like 5% or something.
I would think 5% would quit just by chance, using just a placebo.

I agree with you totally on that point...also when I tried the gum thing it was so unsatisfyling that I would overdo it and get hiccups and heart palps and STILL wanted a cig! I think I am more addicted to throat hit than nicotine

 

[toobraids]

I just had a horrible experience with my own sister this week. While going to her house to visit along with my husband who has switched to e-cigs, she claimed after a good couple of hours that the vapor was "bothering" her. She said at first she wasn't sure what it was she was smelling or if her house was just stuffy, then later it progressed into her saying it stinks and smells just like cigarettes.

When we woke up the next day, she claimed she could smell cigarettes down her hallway and she put an air freshener in and sprayed Febreeze there to get rid of the odor, as she put it. She went so far as to claim that maybe we didn't wash our clothes and that was the reason for the smoke smell.

Is it possible that my sister is so closed minded and prejudiced that her mind tricked her into smelling cigarettes? I am completely dumbfounded. I could not smell a thing myself.

tell her her its her upper lip, would knock a buzzard off a .... waggon

 

[Thejables]

so from this post....

To be allergic to ejuice...

You can't eat most hard candies, cause your allergic to the flavor oils.

You can't be around fog machines

You can't use an inhaler

Which I would quote that to anyone who tried to give me guff. If they still said something against it, I'd tell them to dip their face in a wood chipper.

End.

 

[SeriousLevity]

When my father was alive it seemed as if he was alergic to everything.
(or claimed to be)
The newspapers had to be taken out of the house because the smell of the ink bothered him.
He would'nt go to church because he claimed the little old ladies bathed themselves in perfume which made him gag.
Never seen him breakout in anything other than irriatation though. Brain allergies he used to say. How does one treat a condition like that?

 

[markfm]

L...

'I would think 5% would quit just by chance, using just a POTATO '

I sat here for 5 minutes thinking..'wow really? You can use potaotes?'

There's nicotine in potato skin, so maybe you didn't misread it

 

[uzzaperez]

Right, the correct answer is "So do I! That's why I started doing this and boy has it helped me a ton!".

Then spit in your hand and offer to shake, you know, to really seal the relationship.

 

[d.dutton9512]

I've had one experience so far with a fake gagger. I fired it up in a store while I was shopping and some fat lady gave me the look and the loud "Excuse Me!"

I looked back and said "It's ok, you're not bothering me"

Lady: "You can't smoke in here"
Me: "That's cool, I won't"

You can kinda see where this went from there. I did explain it to her after some time but she lost interest and dropped it.

 

[cjf1961]

Kind of amusing in it's own way, was standing in a crowd the other night and vaping, anyone that saw it immediately coming from me ducked or went around, but anyone that didn't never flinched. Why because it isn't SMOKE!!!! Gotta love the fakers in this world, unfortunately they are running this country........

 

[greenrainbowc]

At my boyfriend's place, I've always had to smoke outside because he will start "coughing" the minute I light up. (but on the rare occasion when he has a few drinks, he'd share a cig with me)

anyway, today he walked in to his living room to see me vaping for the first time. he immediately said, "that smells like smoke."

i told him that was impossible, but admitted that i wouldn't be able to tell anyway because i'm so used to that scent. so to "experiment" i blew the vapor directly into his face and he said, "oh, well it must've been the microwave.. i was heating up some food."

now he's even taken a few draws, and has no problem with me vaping inside.

 

[noss]

My wife has asthma. She's VERY sensitive to smoke, perfume, etc.
She has had to leave work several times when someone is wearing too much/the wrong kind of perfume/cologne. Candles set her off.
Basically anything with complex proteins/aroma.

I have been using my 510 around her for three days now and she says "can't smell a thing, doesn't bother me at all."

Not saying this co-worker couldn't be affected, that she couldn't be sensitive to it, but it doesn't seem likely to me.

 

[evilferret]

I know its a small chance but remember there are people allergic to PG. My grandma (before she passed) developed PG allergies which prevented her from using her inhaler, which resulted in costly doctor visits. This coming from a woman who used asthma inhalers for 20+ years. I know she was old but there are people who have adverse conditions to PG.

You should read some of the conditions of allergies some vapers are having. I wouldn't want to cause those reactions to people near me.

I would hate for e-cigs to get banned because some idiot is trying to justify smoking around people who may have legitimate concerns (and die). Plus I find it bad manners. If somebody asks me to stop vaping, I do. Its just common courtesy (unless I'm home than I just laugh at the people visiting and ask them to leave while I vape).

I usually do try to explain e-cigs but found it easier to just say its a menthol nubulizer (since I'm a menthol only guy). Once you start using medically terms people quiet down.

Edit: Also remember that non-smokers have better noses than us, ex/or soon to be ex smokers. Also the recovery time is different. My cig smoking friends can't notice e-cig smoke at all whereas the non-smokers can tell I'm smoking something but don't know what. I think they automatically trigger it as smoke since most non-smokers are anti vapor too. Only one of my friends who quit cigs (cold turkey) can notice vapor but only after a year of detox but he hates it saying it reminds him of smoking.

Most people are saying their significant other's don't notice vapor. I think its because they were probably ex-smokers and vapor less pungent than cigs.

I would love for a blind "smell" test with non-smokers, smokers and vapers.