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Quit smoking last November, switched to vaping after doing both for about six months. Never looked back. No more pleghm, no more feeling crappy after smoking too much on a stressful day, no more butts, no more ashtrays, no stink. I can smell smokers too - doesn’t bother me but I know what non-smokers smell now. Went to a doc appt a few weeks ago and my oxygen level was 98. Amazing. I feel so much better. It’s such an improvement. All these pluses and control freaks are STILL miserable jerks.

I switched to vaping with a bunch of people I work with. We all quit cigarettes. What the heck is wrong with that?

There's NOTHING wrong with it. My O2 last week was 98%, too. Now, don't get me wrong - I'm no rabid anti-smoking zealot now that I've quit. We both know how good it is to light one up after a good meal. Or good sex. Hell, even after a bad meal or bad sex (Is there such a thing?). LOL! Man, do I miss that part. But you brought up a good point: now that I no longer smoke, I can smell it clinging to the clothes and hair of someone who does, and I think to myself, "My God, I walked through life for thirty years smelling like THAT to other people?!?" I actually stopped and asked myself how many women rejected me simply because I stunk, not because I wasn't a nice guy. And how many jobs I may have been rejected for because of the smell of my clothes at the interview, not because of my resume. Whether we want to admit it or not, it is a factor. Live and learn.

I do have to ask, do you feel like you’re getting as much nicotine as you were with cigarettes?

I am 46, started smoking when I was 19 because I worked in kitchens and smokers got breaks but non-smokers didn’t. I found I liked the stimulant effect, but after my dad, a 40+ year Pall Mall unfiltered smoker had to have half of one of his lungs removed due to cancer, and my father-in-law died of esophageal cancer after years of constant cigar smoking, and then I my wife got pregnant and I didn’t want a kid growing up seeing me smoking like I did with my dad, I quit. I miss it, and just loved pipe smoking, but I like to inhale and really feel it, not just taste it. I tried vaping when it became popular here last year, and at first it was great, but within about two months, I just wasn’t getting anything from it. I wasn’t craving, but it was like my body adapted and vape or not vaping, there wasn’t the alert/stimulant/little bit of buzz to it. I always got that when smoking pipes or cigarettes. I tried pretty high nicotine content juice, but adapted to that, too. Also that made me dehydrated as hell.

What the heck is wrong with that?

What??? You are STILL happy?

They'll FIX THAT!

It's their mission in life, to deprive anyone of their pleasure, no matter how small or transient.