pava
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- Nov 8, 2015
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Hi all,
My name is Ian and I am a 58 year old man (although my wife insists I still act like a kid). I smoked from the age of 8, yes shocking I know. My wife and I both gave up smoking back in 1990, although I restarted following the death of my younger brother to cancer, of all things, 8 years later. I gave up again about 9 years ago, after being diagnosed with diabetes. However, following the passing of my granddaughter immediately prior to birth and my wife being diagnosed with breast cancer, I increasingly found myself turning to the odd cigarette as a coping mechanism when the stress became too much.
I got to the point several weeks ago where I was on the verge of going back to smoking full time. I read a "Given up smoking" thread on an unrelated forum that I'm a member of. It turned out that two of the regular contributors had given up smoking and had both taken to "smoking" e-pipes. This peaked my interest, as I was at the point of purchasing a tobacco pipe in 1990, just before I quit smoking. As a result of that thread I started researching the world of vaping.
Several weeks later I treated myself to a Smok Guardian II e-pipe kit, which came with the Aspire Nautilus kit, 1 battery, a double battery capacity charger and a free e-liquid. As I wasn't smoking regularly at the time I chose a 60/40 mix with zero nicotine. What an absolutely inspired first selection that turned out to be for me. No nicotine, as I understand it, means no harmful carcinogens from my epipe and no nasty nicotine dependency either. I get the throat hit and satisfaction that I get from real tobacco in a completely harmless format, again as I understand it. I'm sure if I have that wrong, someone will be kind enough to point that out to me.
I have purchased a dozen sample liquids thus far, some much more pleasing than others. My favourite so far peanut butter and can recommend that to any peanut butter lovers out there.
I look forward to reading, and more importantly, learning as much as I can about vaping and I look forward to contributing regularly.
ATB
Pava
My name is Ian and I am a 58 year old man (although my wife insists I still act like a kid). I smoked from the age of 8, yes shocking I know. My wife and I both gave up smoking back in 1990, although I restarted following the death of my younger brother to cancer, of all things, 8 years later. I gave up again about 9 years ago, after being diagnosed with diabetes. However, following the passing of my granddaughter immediately prior to birth and my wife being diagnosed with breast cancer, I increasingly found myself turning to the odd cigarette as a coping mechanism when the stress became too much.
I got to the point several weeks ago where I was on the verge of going back to smoking full time. I read a "Given up smoking" thread on an unrelated forum that I'm a member of. It turned out that two of the regular contributors had given up smoking and had both taken to "smoking" e-pipes. This peaked my interest, as I was at the point of purchasing a tobacco pipe in 1990, just before I quit smoking. As a result of that thread I started researching the world of vaping.
Several weeks later I treated myself to a Smok Guardian II e-pipe kit, which came with the Aspire Nautilus kit, 1 battery, a double battery capacity charger and a free e-liquid. As I wasn't smoking regularly at the time I chose a 60/40 mix with zero nicotine. What an absolutely inspired first selection that turned out to be for me. No nicotine, as I understand it, means no harmful carcinogens from my epipe and no nasty nicotine dependency either. I get the throat hit and satisfaction that I get from real tobacco in a completely harmless format, again as I understand it. I'm sure if I have that wrong, someone will be kind enough to point that out to me.
I have purchased a dozen sample liquids thus far, some much more pleasing than others. My favourite so far peanut butter and can recommend that to any peanut butter lovers out there.
I look forward to reading, and more importantly, learning as much as I can about vaping and I look forward to contributing regularly.
ATB
Pava
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