I thought the drugs forum was for recreational highs rather than, say, aspirin for headaches and other medicines.
Vaping - Your Positive Experiences and General Annoyances
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I thought the drugs forum was for recreational highs rather than, say, aspirin for headaches and other medicines.
maomao
普費斯
The ones that smell like refreshers really piss me off. I used them off and on for a few years, then gave up analogue da gs and just vaped for two years then over a year and a half ago quit cold turkey. Now I look down on vapers disapprovingly the same way I look at smokers.
And it's not a vapour and it's definitely not watet it's an aerosol formed of heated glycerols. Lovely.
And it's not a vapour and it's definitely not watet it's an aerosol formed of heated glycerols. Lovely.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
The great thing about vape is that you can gently lower the dose. Like weltweit, I started high (18mg), and fairly rapidly found that the headshocks got bigger, so cut back to 9, then to 6. Currently moving from 3 to 1.5. I seem to need the "prop" it gives me, but am shortly going to embark on a massive life change which I might also harness into a good reason to drop the vape.
But one of the nicer things about vaping is knowing that I'm not under the pressure to stop I felt myself under when I was smoking - I can gently wave it off over time. And not stinking. Or coughing.
keybored
Well done. You remember cat good.
I tend to hold mine in until what I breathe out has no visible vapour. I don't want it to be obvious I'm vaping.
Cloud chasers are fucking vermin tbh.
girasol
Addicted to handstands!
I've had the same unit for two years, Innokkin cool fire 4, very reliable. Just need to remember to replace coils, quite good at that now. Planning on quitting soon. I'm on average 50 puffs a day so hopefully it won't be too hard. I do hate being addicted to nicotine. Started smoking when I was 14. First serious attempt to stop at 30, way before vaping existed. Successful for 9 months. Since then I have become a social smoker, with occasional binges.
I am now 47, I do exercise almost every day and at least short term, vaping affects my aerobic capacity shit loads less than smoking. I want to stop for good though.
I mix unflavoured nicotine with coffee flavouring, so it barely smells, don't like strong smelling vapours!
I am now 47, I do exercise almost every day and at least short term, vaping affects my aerobic capacity shit loads less than smoking. I want to stop for good though.
I mix unflavoured nicotine with coffee flavouring, so it barely smells, don't like strong smelling vapours!
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Patteran
A nowadays excuse
It is a ball-ache. A daily reminder of just how elegant the cigarette & match are as a nicotine & smoke delivery system.
I've been vaping on & off for four or five years. Done grisly basic eGo set ups & 200 watt doofers with home-fiddled coils. I've now settled on an Aspire K4 - it's the Cleito tank on a simple battery stick. Coils cost £3-4, last a week or so with 10-15ml use a day. I get cheap high vg juice from here (though I also get pricier stuff as a treat). Ends up a couple of quid a day once you've spent £40 on the kit. It's the best set up I've used - reliable so far, not fussy, just one button, & absolutely no leaks. I switched from Smok for the same reasons you're stating - fed up with the coils. Couple of posters above have recommended Totally Wicked - I started with them, they're local, & had nothing but problems. (also, TW donated £25k to UKIP, as discussed here)
Idaho
blah blah blah
Nicotine is a medicine?!
oryx
Sitting on the bok of the day
I've been using an earlier version of this (TW Arc 4) for about three years and like it to the extent that I gave up fags two and a half years ago, and don't miss them.
However...I'm really pissed off that I'm onto my third one in about two years as the screw threads on the battery unit give out.
wayward bob
i ate all your bees
my primary annoyance with vaping was the gear. the amount of complicated shit it always seemed to involve - maintenance, failure, newfangled replacement, getting used to a different liquid when you can't get yours. and mainly running out of battery at key times or having to carry a spare. was a million miles away for the simple routine of pouch/skins/lighter and you can't keep them behind your ear.
it was the faff that finally did for me. i now have lighter bags and emptier pockets
it was the faff that finally did for me. i now have lighter bags and emptier pockets
Plenty of products that aid giving up smoking contain nicotine.
Idaho
blah blah blah
So any recreational drug becomes a medicine when you try to quit it?
Sorry I don't get your point at all. Nicotine is a recreational drug.
Idaho
blah blah blah
Just because nicotine is a drab, repetitive, pointless, dopamine-itch-scratch-repeat, drug, doesn't mean it's not a recreational drug.
Do you think people take nicotine lozenges for ‘recreational purposes’, or as an aid to combat addiction to smoking?
maomao
普費斯
I used gum and lozenges at work for a long time because I couldn't (chain) smoke or vape there. And I didn't see it as part of quitting.
8ball
Decolonise colons!
There's good evidence that it can help with Parkinson's, and a little with Alzheimer's.
But generally, not so much.
Drug is synonymous with medicine.
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
You echo Mrs Sas's view on this. (Mine too, unregulated fluids, containing... who knows?)
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
I admire your faith. There is no restriction on the sale of liquids, and there are many people bulk purchasing from China and splitting down for resale.
Unless you take the liquid to a lab and have it analysed, you do not know what is in it.
Frankly, vaping is about as safe as buying pills in a club, in neither case do you know for sure what you are getting.
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
Tell me how lovely it is being free of nicotine. I need some inspiration mate. I’m sick of being addicted to stuff. I know it’s only nicotine but the last time I didn’t have any addiction at all I was 14I’d love to be free, and I’m on the cusp. Push me over
I smoked for fifty years, and stopped in 17 days. A lung cancer diagnosis has that effect. No patches, just one of these wee inhalator beasties, the kind you put the cartridges in, for the last four days.
I don't miss them, don't miss the nicotine. Do it! Take that final step and stop.
Taking your analogy a bit further, based on the research that has been done on the potential harm of vaping, then if vaping is like buying a pill in a club, then smoking is like finding a bag of smack on the floor and banging it up with a dirty needle.
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
Good for you. There are idiots who still smoke after a diagnosis like that.
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
That covers shops, it doesn't cover bulk importers selling to workmates etc.
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
Well only buy from UK or EU shops & websites.
It’s great that you’re able to use recreational drugs at work.
sim667
All aboard the 303 bus.
What are you buying? I've had my mod at least 2 years. I replace the coil once a month, and buy 60ml bottles of liquid for are 2 for £22.50 including nic shots to go in them and last me 6-8 weeks. I probably spend 1/3 to 1/4 the amount of money I did when I properly smoked.
The mod is a Snowwolf something something. The batteries load into the bottom and the downward pressure has led to the bottom coming away slightly which means I need to exert pressure on it in order for it to work. Which is exactly the same issue that happened with my last mod of a different brand.
The tank is great - it’s the Horizon Tech Falcon. They do these mesh coils that are great. The trouble is there’s counterfeits about that don’t last as long and make you cough like buggery. So I’ll need to get yet another tank where a) the coils last more than a couple of days and b) I’m not going to get ripped off with counterfeits.
My third tank purchase in as many months. It’s irritating.
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
Taking your analogy a bit further, based on the research that has been done on the potential harm of vaping, then if vaping is like buying a pill in a club, then smoking is like finding a bag of smack on the floor and banging it up with a dirty needle.
I wouldn't disagree with that. The demise may not be quite as quick as the 'bag of smack and dirty needle' but is just as certain.
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