Vaping?

gandrfab

Buckeye wrote: »

How often are you replacing your coils and how do you know it's time? The guy where I've been going says "You will just know" and a coil should last 2-3 weeks. I'm going on week 4 and haven't noticed a difference.

Are you simply not using as much juice as when you started or are you making it yourself?

It was hard to tell at 1st if it was the battery dying or coil getting used up. Also when I started I was using a foam cartridge and not a tank system.
Yes I'm just using it less.
If you huff it hard like I used to my 650ma batters last less then a day now I'm getting 2.5 to 3 days out of a charge.
I don't make my own juice.

gandrfab

Coils are lasting me 2 or 3 weeks now.

Buckeye

gandrfab wrote: »

Coils are lasting me 2 or 3 weeks now.

Thank you.

I get about half a day out of a battery charge. A little longer I suppose, but I tend to change the battery once a day.

What kind of tank are you using? I am using an artic tank. I wonder if that has to do with coil quality. I guess the juice could too, but I am using 80-90% VG which they say gunks up the coils faster than PG. Do you get your coils from your local shop or online?

gandrfab

I use an elcheepo bottom feed tank looks something like this

Polar

I need to re build mine, have a EvoC twist.

Buckeye

This is what I use, with a arctic tank pictured above. It is mechanical and other than the battery and coil has no electronic parts.

Lucky7Team2

I'm glad I have a non addictive personality or maybe it's just chemical. I started smoking cigs in my late teens when I drank to be cool. Even back then, the only time I smoked was when I drank. If I had left over cigs on Monday they would stay in the box till the next time I went out. 30 years later it's the same. I have half a pak on the counter from 2 weeks ago and no want to smoke them. Even wine does not give me the urge, needs to be rum or vodka.
Quit drugs in my early 20's the same way. Woke up and said that the last blast and the last joint I'm going to have. Didn't even smoke a doob till 10 years later and didn't like it.
I really think it's chemical, not totally mental. Otherwise everyone could just stop like I did or not get addicted.

Buckeye

Lucky7Team2 wrote: »

I really think it's chemical, not totally mental. Otherwise everyone could just stop like I did or not get addicted.

I believe if it was chemical you would see people waking in the middle of the night to go have a smoke. People would literally walk off the job to have a smoke break.

I think it is a mental habit. I recall a time I was working at an oil refinery where no smoking was allowed on the grounds, for the obvious reasons, 12 hour shifts and never had the urge to smoke, but when the shift was over and the drinking began, it was nothing to smoke 2 full packs in 3-4 hours. Smoking and drinking has always gone together in my world I guess.

Unless you are breaking out in cold sweats in the middle of the night I don't believe it is a chemical dependency but rather a mental one. Ever seen a smoker in jail? Last thing they are worried about is having a smoke - it might be the first thing they want when they get out, but they aren't freaking out not having one in jail.

MRichardson

Illogical.
People have to eat yet sleep thru the night. And work.

Buckeye

Are you addicted to eating?

A pack a day smoker smokes 1.25 cigs per hour awake, assuming 8 hours sleep 16 hours awake. Does a pack a day smoker NEED a 5 minute break every hour?

Or

A pack a day smoker smokes 2.5 cigs per hour they are not working or sleeping, assuming an 8 hour sleep and 8 hour work schedule.

FibberMckee

Things have changed very recently, since federal ban, but it used to be extremely common to see "a smoker in jail" according to U.S News & World Report.

According to their 12/5/14 article: "Prisoners are historically more likely to smoke than the general public. Before the 2006 policy change, an estimated 60 to 80 percent of prison and jail inmates were smokers - far higher than the national average"

Buckeye wrote: »

Ever seen a smoker in jail? Last thing they are worried about is having a smoke - it might be the first thing they want when they get out, but they aren't freaking out not having one in jail.

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/12/05/smoking-officially-banned-in-prisons

Buckeye

Thanks, but the point was smokers in jail who can not smoke are not breaking out in cold sweats or having a nervous break down, thus my belief the "addiction" is more of a "habit" than a chemical dependency.

FibberMckee

Didn't a Surgeon General once say Tobacco is as addictive as Heroin? Or was it MORE addictive? My point was that your personal opinion doesn't reflect reality.

Funny how your point has morphed from "freaking out" into "cold sweats or having a nervous break down".

Responded to your Q "Ever seen a smoker in jail?" It used to be an extremely common sight. Inmates have killed each other over cigarettes. There were apparently prison riots when prison dispensaries stopped carrying tobacco products.

http://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/29/magazine/nicotine-harder-to-kickthan-heroin.html

Buckeye

FibberMckee wrote: »

Responded to your Q "Ever seen a smoker in jail?" It used to be an extremely common sight. Inmates have killed each other over cigarettes. There were apparently prison riots when prison dispensaries stopped carrying tobacco products.

http://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/29/magazine/nicotine-harder-to-kickthan-heroin.html

Smoking was once common at Burger King too, did you see riots when they stopped that?

jad1097

Buckeye wrote: »

I believe if it was chemical you would see people waking in the middle of the night to go have a smoke. People would literally walk off the job to have a smoke break.

I think it is a mental habit. I recall a time I was working at an oil refinery where no smoking was allowed on the grounds, for the obvious reasons, 12 hour shifts and never had the urge to smoke, but when the shift was over and the drinking began, it was nothing to smoke 2 full packs in 3-4 hours. Smoking and drinking has always gone together in my world I guess.

Unless you are breaking out in cold sweats in the middle of the night I don't believe it is a chemical dependency but rather a mental one. Ever seen a smoker in jail? Last thing they are worried about is having a smoke - it might be the first thing they want when they get out, but they aren't freaking out not having one in jail.

You have one before going to sleep and one immediately upon awaking and you say you are not addicted. Picking your nose is a habit, smoking is an addiction. You're in denial! Find a smokers anonymous meeting or seek professional help ASAP! https://nicotine-anonymous.org/

Buckeye

:rotflmao

duckmanJR

Ewww, Nose pickers.... :rotflmao

Lucky7Team2

Buckeye wrote: »

Are you addicted to eating?

A pack a day smoker smokes 1.25 cigs per hour awake, assuming 8 hours sleep 16 hours awake. Does a pack a day smoker NEED a 5 minute break every hour?

Or

A pack a day smoker smokes 2.5 cigs per hour they are not working or sleeping, assuming an 8 hour sleep and 8 hour work schedule.

I eat every 3-4 hours while awake and I do not wake up twice during the night to eat. Your not using a great analogy. It can be 100% a chemical dependency, and it can mental as well. If not, Nicotine patches would not work. And yes, people who give up smoking can have withdrawals. I think you are highly mistaken.
Is cocaine addicting? You bet ur ****. My buddy went from 220 pounds to 165 in a year. Had to go to rehab for 90 days and still struggles. I went from extensive partying to stopping and never thinking twice about it. You put chemicals in ur body and they react with other chemicals. The reaction I believe is what causes the addiction.

Buckeye

Lucky7Team2 wrote: »

The reaction I believe is what causes the addiction.

So the addiction is a feeling? Kind of like vaping, even no nicotine, simulates the feeling of smoking a cig.

Billy No Mates

Billy No Mates wrote: »

Your health is important to you or smoking is important to you.

Buckeye wrote: »

and smoking will certainly shorten my life.

Well...I guess you answered that question.:huh

Buckeye

Billy No Mates wrote: »

Well...I guess you answered that question.:huh

Of course. I would not be exploring alternatives if health was not a concern.

Which I guess leads to the obvious question - Is vaping safe?

From what I have read vegetable glycerin is a natural product that your body can absorb from the lungs and use the nutrients and expel the wastes. Propylene glycol (carries flavors) on the other hand is a man made chemical that there are few studies on. PG is supposedly safe for consumption orally, but I can not find any neutral information regarding inhaling it, thus I try to stick to as high a VG to PG ration as possible. Most baking flavor concentrates are PG or alcohol based.

FibberMckee

Buckey doesn't seem to realize that people "at Burger King" can go outside to smoke, buy cigarettes, get in their cars, etc - While people in prison are locked inside w/o tobacco products.

Buckeye wrote: »

Smoking was once common at Burger King too, did you see riots when they stopped that?

Buckeye

FibberMckee wrote: »

Buckey doesn't seem to realize that people "at Burger King" can go outside to smoke, buy cigarettes, get in their cars, etc - While people in prison are locked inside w/o tobacco products.

For the simple minded;

Customers smoking was once common at Burger King (or any other restaurant).

MRichardson

Buckeye wrote: »

Are you addicted to eating?

Yeah, if I don't I'll die.
My doctor confirmed it.

Lucky7Team2

Buckeye wrote: »

So the addiction is a feeling? Kind of like vaping, even no nicotine, simulates the feeling of smoking a cig.

No, the chemical reaction between the nicotine and your body composition. Sounds like you have it all figured out above and beyond the scientific community in regards to addiction...