8 Year Anniversary

I started vaping before i turned 18, but i am going to use my birthday as my anniversary. In April i will be a one year old again. I still smoke the occasional cigarette, but that is only when i drink, so not too often.  

Today, marks 1 year smoke free thanks to vaping. I could not have done it otherwise. And of course the fine people on ECF had a lot to do with it also.  

Congratulations and Happy Fifth Anniversary, My Dearest Tibs!



What an accomplishment! Enjoy your big day and take a stroll down memory lane.

I can't believe that it's been five years since we met in the Burning Cartomizers thread... Seems like yesterday. Remember the first non-burning cartomizer that Lorikay discovered? I bought a box of them from Drew...



Yup. Greencig. It was hairy, though.

And then came the happy years of PVT and celebrating ECF veterans. That was fun!



And the co-ops you ran to help fellow ECF members get vaping gear for less money--so much hard work! Was this your first co-op?

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/pay-forward-pif/98230-trueman-tracking-2.html#post1498655

And look at you now--Evolv's DNA 40 mods and fancy nickel wire builds.

You've come a long way, baby!
Thank you for your friendship! Luv ya, gal!

 

Congratulations FastTech!

FastTech 8 Years Anniversary Giveaway  

I joined ECF back in August of 2017. I was sixty-five years old and had been smoking 25-30 cigarettes a day for 40+ years. I began vaping at the same time win the hope I could at least cut down. I dual used for months, continually cutting back on cigarettes. I smoked my last cigarette on May 11, 2018 - I am coming up on my three year anniversary. When I began, I vaped 24mg nicotine. Now I alternate between 3mg and zero nic.

Given how incredibly positive vaping has been for me, I am in shock at recent events. I was down to two working mods. I have ordered four mods, some tanks and a bunch of coils. I am still able to buy some eliquids where I live - but many of my favorites from Halo have been discontinued. I still have some outstanding hardware orders that I hope get delivered.

The treatment of vaping in the media has been a one sided disgrace, and propaganda works. Over the years when I have mentioned to people that I quit by vaping, they respond, ‘so you quit smoking by picking up a habit that is even more dangerous’.

I am set for at least a year. Fortunately I have kicked my addiction to nicotine - I recently vaped zero nic for a month. If I was just starting out, it would truly be panic time, and I would go back to cigarettes for sure. I suspect that many will do just that. Happy I started when I did.  

It's been two months today since I stubbed out my last analogue cigarette and totally switched to vaping. You can say I quit cold turkey. I have had a couple of puffs here and there to see whether I really was missing something and convinced myself I absolutely did not. Today I can't understand how I spent 45 years of my life consuming such horrible, stinky stuff.

Have I saved money? No, not at all. It will be a year at least before I get into the black, and that is if I stop buying anything, which is very unlikely. It's become a hobby now and I'm enjoying myself thoroughly.

Has my life improved? Immensely! I had reached a point where the least little head cold turned into bronchitis almost instantly. I had four bouts of bronchitis this last autumn and winter. Since I switched to vaping I did catch another cold but it stayed that way - just a light head cold. For the past couple of years I needed to take an anti-tussive at bedtime because that dry, irritating, smokers cough would not let me sleep at night. No more now... I'm free. But there have been other improvements I never even imagined. I suffer considerably form arthritis. For the past 20 years at least I have had to take painkillers in the morning to ease the stiffness and be able to function... probably because I slept so poorly and tossed and turned all night. No more. I now sleep well, wake up refreshed and almost totally pain free. Apart from the side effects of medication I'm saving money there too even though I am not taking it into account.

And I have learned so much... physics and chemistry - ohms law and coils, resistance and watts and volts and amps, batteries and safety. And proper lab procedure in my DIY juice experiments.

And of course coming to this forum and meeting such a host of lovely, generous and knowledgeable people, to say nothing of the wit and humour.

It's been an epiphany and such a joy! I smile a lot more now.  

Two days ago was my 5 year quitting anniversary. With all the stuff going on I missed it.


Made it through 5 years just to see the whole thing fall apart.  

So today I would like to thank the following people who not only started me on this journey, but who have supported me through what I feel was 1 of the best things that could have happened to me:
1. Gary Greener - You gave me my 1st set up for free an egoCtwist battery & Kanger Pro tank
2. Dylan Hill - You have been in my corner from Day 1- through up grades & bringing me to the BEST B&M to get juices & knowledge & for Building me Coils bc to be honest I'm just to lazy to build them lol
3. Maja Flava Vape Den 44 East Scott Street Riverside NJ - You guys have been AMAZING!!! Between all the time you've spent with me explaining vaping, mods, juices, coils, coil building, support, & Even more I can't Thank You Enough!! The vape community & people I've now become friends with from your store is incredible & with out you I wouldn't have been able to stay off the cigarettes.
4. ECF Forum - Thanks for having this forum!! The support, knowledge, & experience of the forum is so much more then I could have imagined.
THANK YOU ECF FORUM COMMUNITY TO EACH & EVERYONE OF YOU GUYS ON HERE HAS HELPED AS WELL!!

HERE'S TO MANY MORE YEARS OFF THOSE BUTTS & CLOUD CHASING DREAMS!!

THANK YOU ALL!!  

VAPING TESTIMONIAL
I smoked for over 50 years and it got to the point where I could barely breathe. I knew I had to quit but I also knew I had no will power to do so. Then 6 years ago I tried vaping and it literally saved my life. I still got my nicotine fix and could finally breathe easier and I was not inhaling all those harmful chemicals. I know taking anything into your lungs is harmful but vaping really is the lesser of two evils. And speaking of evils look at these statistics:
Cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year
68,557 people died in 2018 of an opioid overdose
in 2017, 39,773 people in the US lost their lives at the point of a gun
In 2016, 10,497 people died in alcohol-impaired driving crashes
30,000 deaths were the result of domestic abuse world wide in 2018.
There are 2,200 alcohol poisoning deaths in the US each year.
so in the last year 631,027 died of unnatural causes, extrapolated over six years that is 3,786,162 deaths
1978 to 1995 a total of 37 Americans were killed by falling vending machines
There have been six confirmed deaths connected to vaping across the US
of these two were from lithium batteries exploding and not the vaping itself
and two were from people experimenting by adding dangerous chemicals to their e-cigarettes.
So in reality only two people died due to vaping.
and you pick vaping as a just cause. Really? where are your values and priorities?
more people die each year from choking or acts of stupidity than vaping.
Of all these causes you could get behind why are you picking the least dangerous and offensive one? I think it's time people learned to pick their battles.
so, 480,000 deaths by cigarettes and why doesn't the government care? Here's why, because for every smoker that dies a new smoker starts. And tobacco is such a cash cow the government doesn't want it to disappear. In Canada the average taxes on a carton of cigarettes is 65%, in the US the taxes are around 45%. That's a lot of free cash. But, if people switch to vaping there are no taxes associated with it. There are no health concerns, it is purely greed.
Here is the thing about statistics: you can make up anything you want or manipulate the facts to get your point of view across. Why? Because they can't be verified. So all the government does is use scare tactics and people are gullible enough to believe it. They have no scientific proof to back up their claims, it is all BS.
Vaping is a much safer alternative to smoking, so why don't they shut down the tobacco industry? MONEY!! MONEY!! MONEY!!
I will defend vaping over cigarettes forever.  

I was thinking the whole situation in many countries that vaping is straight up banned or illegal....and also countries like USA that is not that extreme but still many regulations going on and anyways we all know the big tobacco companies and what they try to do.

I am sure tho that vaping won't be stoped...u can't stop vaping and all the big tobacco do is to try buy some more time for them cause they know that cigarettes are in their end..

I don't know how long this will last but I am sure vaping will make cigarette smoking obselete and it will go very big...

Europe claims they have a plan to end tobacco use until 2032 or something like that for example....maybe that happens and it would be good cause it's for everyone's good.... but u can't just fight vaping and let smoking still exist...

Vaping will be back and for good....the people slowly start accept it and learn it cause honestly imagine how many smokers are out there and how many vapers...while vaping is much more enjoyable objectively...

We the people didn't support vaping enough...
ok maybe we the vapers did but I mean the majority out there don't......people are scared and they don't like to change their habits easy....even if it's for their own good.

I know politics are corrupted and all that....but some of us live in democracies maybe not perfect but still....if all people wanted to stop smoking and switch into vaping to make their life better then they couldn't stop us...
Worst case they would do it to get votes like they usually do with everything they do... not that they care for us...

So yeah vaping will go very big the next year's..