has anyone received abuse from the public?

Reindeer · 18-07-2016 03:49PM

My generic response is "It's a lot less chemicals than smoking. It's misted and not burned. I can't say what the future holds for me with vaping, but I feel years younger VS smoking, and smoking is guaranteed to kill half of those that do it, and lord knows what it does to those around the smoker. Twenty years+ I've smoked, and this is the only thing that worked to get me to stop smoking. I consider myself fortunate."

beercr8te · 04-09-2016 03:53AM

Not had anybody abuse me, but had the odd ill informed comment about not knowing whats in the liquid or they are worse than cigarettes. My answer is my doctor says my lungs are like somebody that never smoked, I'm off the smokes 3 .5 years, my doctor knows that nothing is 100% safe, including any medication prescribed by any doctor, his words were that you have to strike a balance, does the treatment benefits outweigh the harm from side affects, I have to agree with him, he told me he would love his wife to go on the e cigarettes as the harm is hugely less.

What gets me is how gullible people are, they are scared by comics like the daily mail, worse still there are morons that believe the crap that gets posted on facebook as fact like the popcorn lung one doing the rounds. All I know is that the ingredients in most e liquid PG/VG/Nicotine have been declared safe to inhale, not including diecityl which is which is known to cause popcorn lung with extended exposure, saying that we know that nothing is 100% safe, but vaping is many degrees safer than smoking.

I had to do a stress test on my heart twice in my life, once when I smoked and the other when vaping, I couldn't complete the test when I smoked, I completed the whole test quite easily when I was vaping. As for nicotine, it is a drug of mixed blessings, it is good for mental health issues and certain brain diseases, but also causes damage to blood vessels and has been accused by the American CDC that it can cause diabetes because it can increase blood sugar levels.

Anyway, I don't vape in restuarants and if I have to go to pubs/cinema I wont sub ohm vape, I'll just use a different tank.

Thecageyone · 04-09-2016 11:39AM

I was at a wedding Friday, and had a few curious smokers quiz me on "them yokes" - I'm pretty certain at least 2 of them are going to give vaping a try. There's always that one idiot with the "I heard they put holes in yer lungs" BS, just laughing at them out of pity usually has them squirming away. Concentrate on educating the ones who actually listen

mossymac! · 04-09-2016 01:36PM

Thecageyone wrote: »

"I heard they put holes in yer lungs"

Good, about the only way I'll ever be holy

beercr8te · 04-09-2016 03:57PM

Thecageyone wrote: »

I was at a wedding Friday, and had a few curious smokers quiz me on "them yokes" - I'm pretty certain at least 2 of them are going to give vaping a try. There's always that one idiot with the "I heard they put holes in yer lungs" BS, just laughing at them out of pity usually has them squirming away. Concentrate on educating the ones who actually listen

You're absolutely right there, the smokers that come out with those stupid comments deserve to be laughed at, they are willing to do guaranteed harm to themselves and pay big money to do it. I have a cousin and his girlfreind that vaped and then read some rubbish on facebook about popcorn lung and went back on the cigarettes, needless to say their health isn't great. It is nice when a smoker approaches and asks genuine questions about vaping and as you say all we can do is educate them and hope for their sakes they switch.

celligraphy · 04-09-2016 04:15PM

Had a girl once give out to me in a nightclub, "oh you dunno what's in them , very dangerous like I would never try it etc " she then proceded to snort a line of coke

Thecageyone · 04-09-2016 04:51PM

beercr8te wrote: »

You're absolutely right there, the smokers that come out with those stupid comments deserve to be laughed at, they are willing to do guaranteed harm to themselves and pay big money to do it. I have a cousin and his girlfreind that vaped and then read some rubbish on facebook about popcorn lung and went back on the cigarettes, needless to say their health isn't great. It is nice when a smoker approaches and asks genuine questions about vaping and as you say all we can do is educate them and hope for their sakes they switch.

It's straight up denial, any excuse to continue smoking. I used to make silly excuses when I smoked too, but vaping wasn't really known at the time. Once I did discover it, and heard from others that it worked, I had no more excuses. Not touched a cig in almost 4 years now and feel a LOT healthier than I did when smoking

danjo-xx · 04-09-2016 04:57PM

Is there such a thing as passive vaping.

AngryDiMaria · 04-09-2016 05:03PM

danjo-xx wrote: »

Is there such a thing as passive vaping.

Only when you boil the kettle

Stealthirl · 10-09-2016 10:33PM

Walking out of work [recently moved to a new building so the staff have not seen me before] and i exhaled a nice big sub-ohm cloud and as it drifted away a member of staff walking the other way said "You'd be as well smoking"

OldMrBrennan83 · 10-09-2016 10:36PM

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mossymac! · 10-09-2016 10:43PM

Didn't you know - there's no point giving up smoking unless doing so is really, really difficult.
Quiting should be hard
Vaping makes it easy
Therefore you cheated, you b#';[]d

Stealthirl · 10-09-2016 10:47PM

Oh i remember explaining it all when i started and was in a different building. BTW i work on a government site with laboratories so it was FUN explaining vapeing

Reindeer · 13-09-2016 10:00PM

Something odd's been happening to me lately. At least to me, it's odd. I started mostly vaping 0MG. I consider it a great accomplishment. However, I still greatly enjoy vaping. The odd part is I am fielding attacks from vapers because of the 0MG. "Why bother?" etc. What the hell? Who's team are they on, anyways? I often get the same from non-vapers, too. It's almost like they forget it's a habit, and not just an addiction. You have to treat both parts. But, putting that aside, why not be pleased I am off both cigs and nicotine? It's so confusing.

youdipstick · 14-09-2016 05:17AM

A big part in smoking & vaping is keeping your hands busy & keeping your tools around like your ceramic tweezers & your zippo,it's all part of it whether you use nic or not.
Keeping hands busy is just as important,look at the RTE News 6pm,the newscasters need to hold a piece of paper with both hands,maybe their hands will start dancing in the air if they dropped that bit of paper

:D:D:D:D:D
If you're happy,keep vaping,there's worse things in life out there...

nobodys_hero · 14-09-2016 03:23PM

Reindeer wrote: »

Something odd's been happening to me lately. At least to me, it's odd. I started mostly vaping 0MG. I consider it a great accomplishment. However, I still greatly enjoy vaping. The odd part is I am fielding attacks from vapers because of the 0MG. "Why bother?" etc. What the hell? Who's team are they on, anyways? I often get the same from non-vapers, too. It's almost like they forget it's a habit, and not just an addiction. You have to treat both parts. But, putting that aside, why not be pleased I am off both cigs and nicotine? It's so confusing.

Well I for one think 0mg is brilliant. I hope to be there one day too. After that I will slow down and eventually stop, but what's the rush. Better to do it slow and sure than rush it and relapse!

PowerToWait · 16-09-2016 02:56PM

nobodys_hero wrote: »

Well I for one think 0mg is brilliant. I hope to be there one day too. After that I will slow down and eventually stop, but what's the rush. Better to do it slow and sure than rush it and relapse!

Why stop?

With the flavours and rigs available these days, couldn't it be argued a weekend vape be considered a viable and much less harmful alternative to a nice cigar?

Glebee · 16-09-2016 03:51PM

Reindeer wrote: »

Something odd's been happening to me lately. At least to me, it's odd. I started mostly vaping 0MG. I consider it a great accomplishment. However, I still greatly enjoy vaping. The odd part is I am fielding attacks from vapers because of the 0MG. "Why bother?" etc. What the hell? Who's team are they on, anyways? I often get the same from non-vapers, too. It's almost like they forget it's a habit, and not just an addiction. You have to treat both parts. But, putting that aside, why not be pleased I am off both cigs and nicotine? It's so confusing.

Im in the same situation. Down to 0mg but find when im out if I have the ecig with me I don't even think about smoking (most of the time). Im down to 0mg a good while now but do miss the nicotine and was thinking about going back up to 3mg. I hardy ever vape during the day and most of the time I would not have my ecig with me.

Thecageyone · 16-09-2016 04:20PM

I could probably drop to 0mg if i wanted. I've been on 3mg for a long time now. But I have mixed up some 0mg and it lacked any sense of a throat hit. I'd miss that.

syklops · 16-09-2016 04:23PM

PowerToWait wrote: »

Why stop?

With the flavours and rigs available these days, couldn't it be argued a weekend vape be considered a viable and much less harmful alternative to a nice cigar?

Now if I could just find a flavour that goes well with scotch.

OldMrBrennan83 · 17-09-2016 06:08AM

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jno547 · 17-09-2016 11:58AM

Thecageyone wrote:

I could probably drop to 0mg if i wanted. I've been on 3mg for a long time now. But I have mixed up some 0mg and it lacked any sense of a throat hit. I'd miss that.

Increase your PG ratio and you'll get a good throat hit with 0 nic.

Thecageyone · 17-09-2016 01:44PM

jno547 wrote: »

Increase your PG ratio and you'll get a good throat hit with 0 nic.

Yeah could do that but I'm not good with higher PG, used to get the odd dizzy spell when I vaped 60 PG, didn't know why for ages.

Reindeer · 19-09-2016 06:25PM

I have 0MG in flavours I love, and mostly vape those, but I also mix a lot of my juices because I like complex flavours with subtle hints. In those cases I have a lot of stuff that is between .8 and 1.5 nic. With TC or Wattage up there on my NEBOX or CUpti, it's a good hit. Some flavours I can only find in 3mg

One Hit WOnders Blue Berry Parfait is one of those. Freakin love that stuff.

One of my current mixes is White Lightning Flan mixed with their blueberry donut, GREAT blend. I also like to chunk some Muffin Man in with the parfait(another I can only get in 3mg).

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