Your number 1 non-health benefit to vaping?

[Charming]

Most of you have already listed my favorites, *stink-free* being Numero Uno, but I'll add three more.

1) The enormous sense of achievement in being smoke-free after 40+ years.

2) The <ahem> *justified* unbridled spending on juice.

3) I no longer harbor a sense of hostility toward establishments that do not permit smoking. That said, I still have an intense dislike of Smoke-Nazis.

 

[Charming]

"Now I can sit back taking my casual puffs and actually hold a conversation with her, both of us relaxed and sharing "quality time" together. Sappy? Probably so! But actually rather nice!"

Not. Sappy. FABULOUS!

 

[Mrs C]

Many of mine have been stated already but one I haven't seen...

Not finding stray flakes of tobacco on everything in my purse.

 

[OlderNDirt]

Most of you have already listed my favorites, *stink-free* being Numero Uno, but I'll add three more.

1) The enormous sense of achievement in being smoke-free after 40+ years.

2) The <ahem> *justified* unbridled spending on juice.
3) I no longer harbor a sense of hostility toward establishments that do not permit smoking. That said, I still have an intense dislike of Smoke-Nazis.

All good, but #2 reminded me of another. Even my wife kind of enjoys when I expose her (get your minds out of the gutter!) to new flavors. I gave her a whiff if my latest try, Blackberry Blitz, and her only complaint was I couldn't be vaping it when she is hungry! She even commented shortly after I started vaping that she could cut back on scented candles.

 

[Mediakiller]

Here's another one, that my coffee table looks like a some kind off crazy work bench. Pliers, flush cut dykes, a torch, small drill, drill bits, spools of kenthal, bits of cotton, screwdrivers, batteries, AVP's, little bottles of colored liquid and my iPad with an EFC thread on it. It's so much nicer than a pack, lighter and ashtray!

 

[OlderNDirt]

Here's another one, that my coffee table looks like a some kind off crazy work bench. Pliers, flush cut dykes, a torch, small drill, drill bits, spools of kenthal, bits of cotton, screwdrivers, batteries, AVP's, little bottles of colored liquid and my iPad with an EFC thread on it. It's so much nicer than a pack, lighter and ashtray!

And it is much easier to just blow the ashes off the table rather then taking all that stuff off to clean the drippings!

 

[Rossum]

Ashtrays. Ashtrays. Ashtrays.

So glad those things are gone.

Good point! I almost forgot about that. It's amazing how much cleaner my work area stays now, including my keyboard.

 

[readeuler]

I've always been a huge math nerd, but never the applied stuff. Vaping has given me a chance to really dig in and try and understand the stuff that kicked me to the curb in Physics 2. And thermodynamics? Forget about it. But I've beep playing around with some calculations on how long it takes coils to heat up, and it's been very enlightening and great fun. I'm hoping to do some more in-depth modeling soon, taking into account sources that dissipate heat, rather than just heat generated by flowing current.

 

[DC2]

The interesting people I've met and obscure things that I've learned.

I just realized what my most important non-health benefit really is...
The issues surrounding vaping have opened my eyes to how the world really works.

And honestly, that really hasn't been of any benefit to my health at all.
In fact, quite the opposite.


But it has most definitely helped me see things more clearly...
Seek information and review it more thoroughly...
And make better decisions in life...

Basically, I no longer trust any authority on any matter.

If something is important, I do my own research.
And I keep my eyes open at all times.

 

[DC2]

I just realized what my most important non-health benefit really is...
The issues surrounding vaping have opened my eyes to how the world really works.

Regarding my last quote...
Sorry to be kind of a bummer in such a great thread.

But it was my honest answer.
So there you go.

 

[AndriaD]

Basically, I no longer trust any authority on any matter.

If something is important, I do my own research.
And I keep my eyes open at all times.

I've been in that place for a long time, since long before I discovered vaping -- I discovered years ago that many natural supplements work as well as, if not better than, the pharmaceutical drug for the condition -- ginger works on nausea and motion sickness even better than dramamine, and even pregnant women can take it! But if you ask a doc about any natural supplement, they won't have the first idea what you're talking about -- all they know is to reach for the prescription pad, but it seems to me that humanity did ok with many chronic conditions and minor illnesses before medicine became a big-money science. Aspirin was, at first, an herbal remedy from the bark of willow trees -- but willow trees don't grow everywhere, and it's much easier to take a pill than scrape bark, brew it into tea, and then drink the bitter tasting stuff. Penicillin comes from bread mold -- I find it hard to believe that nobody, prior to Mr Fleming, discovered that eating moldy bread might cure whatever ailed you -- moldy bread has been around... since bread!

I DO NOT buy into the ever-present "see your doctor." I see my doctor once or twice a year, for my asthma checkups. That's it. If I have an emergency, I'll go to the emergency room, but I am NOT racing off to the doc for "every fart that's let" as we say down here. If something is wrong with me, I try to figure it out, and figure out what I might do about it -- as with my foot/ankle edema last year. Problem solved, with no need to bother my doctor or cost myself a lot of money. Whatever is wrong, if it's not bad enough to send me to the emergency room, will probably get better on its own, or with a little research and self-medication -- human bodies are like that.

Andria

 

[OlderNDirt]

I've always been a huge math nerd, but never the applied stuff. Vaping has given me a chance to really dig in and try and understand the stuff that kicked me to the curb in Physics 2. And thermodynamics? Forget about it. But I've beep playing around with some calculations on how long it takes coils to heat up, and it's been very enlightening and great fun. I'm hoping to do some more in-depth modeling soon, taking into account sources that dissipate heat, rather than just heat generated by flowing current.

The only "applied math" I want to use is 4 drips on the new coil, wait 10 minutes, 2 primer puffs, and go to town.

 

[jasonholmes89]

My car is SO MUCH cleaner and smells way better

 

[smittytoo]

I'll have to go along with the "smell" folks. After nearly 50 years of smoking, I didn't realize how
bad my clothes smelled until my 43 year old son pointed it out to me.
I haven't smoked a cigarette in over 8 months, but my wife still smokes, and fresh cig smoke still smells kinda good to me.
Stale smoke and ashtrays are terrible smelling.

 

[jchisholm]

Yup can't wait to dig out my dive gear again and invest in some new toys.. just think of how much money we save by not smoking hahahaha.
But yes diving presents a rare and very privileged means of exploring our world and our our own limits that just can't be matched.

 

[amoret]

My (very large) cat wouldn't come near me when I had a cigarette going. Now she comes and sits on me, therefore making it impossible to actually get up and do anything.

 

[FlamingoTutu]

I was going to say the money saved, over $5,000 (excluding medical for all the times I would have been sick and deducting for what's been bought so far) to date and still saving, but that should go under a health benefit; not stressing as much about money and being scared stiff the dog might get sick or injured and not being able to pay for quality vet care.

The ashtrays and stink gone are wonderful, ECF friends are priceless, but after reading the thread I realized what I'm really stoked about is sticking it to BT and BP. Got hooked on their tobacco and tried all their worthless FDA approved NRTs. Only thing it ever did for me was make me poor and sick. Never, ever again.

I just realized what my most important non-health benefit really is...
The issues surrounding vaping have opened my eyes to how the world really works.

And honestly, that really hasn't been of any benefit to my health at all.
In fact, quite the opposite.


But it has most definitely helped me see things more clearly...
Seek information and review it more thoroughly...
And make better decisions in life...

Basically, I no longer trust any authority on any matter.

If something is important, I do my own research.
And I keep my eyes open at all times.

Yep. I only had to smoke 43 years to learn that lesson. I didn't blindly believe them, I just never realized what underhanded, lying ...... they were.

 

[Rickajho]

Maybe not number 1 but way up there: The international chatting about all this stuff here on ECF. I've talked to people in Saudi Arabia, Italy, Poland, Ireland, UK, Australia, Slovenia, Singapore, Germany, Norway... the list goes on and on. Canada even.

Never did that in the Phillip Morris chat room. Oh yeah - ain't no such thing.

 

[klynnn]

Self Sufficiency.

 

[tjcraig]

Honestly just the convenience of it. I never smoked analogs in my apartment, but it's nice to just kick back on the couch and vape, and not have to worry about making small talk with my overly curious retired chain-smoking neighbor who gets up in everyone's business.

Other than that just all of the smells that came from analogs. From it lingering on your fingers, in your clothes, and obviously taking over your car's ambiance. My family hated that I smoked analogs so I'd always have to get an air freshener and drive with the windows down for a while if I knew I'd be driving them somewhere in my car. I started dating my girlfriend when I was smoking analogs and she was always understanding of the addiction, but still didn't necessarily like to be kissing an ashtray, so she tells me to this day how proud she is of me for making the switch on my own without her having to push me in that direction, and she enjoys kissing me much more now

It's also amazing just to have a community like this to share with each other. As an analog smoker I would've never thought, "I wonder if there's a forum out there where I can talk to other Camel filter smokers? That'd be rad!!"