My Vaping Anniversary

[lupostef]

Well done on the milestone bud

 

[Diche]

Well done for the anniversary. And, it sounds amazing (what you're doing) I admire anyone who stands up for what they/we believe in. Remember one thing when you are unsure or nervous about what you are doing. Everyone around you was the same at some point. But, like you, they believed in something, even if they believe in a different reality to you. My point is, finally, that us humans know when someone is passionate about something. So, even when you're nervous, people will take notice.
It's scary at first ( I do some public speaking in my job) but it does get slightly easier. I think that the trepidation is sometimes a good thing. It reminds you to be on your game.
Just my opinion/old geezer's advice. Keep going, you'll get a lot out of it.

I did a bit of theatre when I was younger, so the standing up bit isn't too bad, though I have to say an ensemble piece is MUCH easier than a monologue.

Talking to the politicians on election night was quite good fun, by the end of the evening we were getting on quite well with the UKIP lot, and the counters were nice, the lady that put down the extra stack of votes on the table did it with real panache lol. I think it is just important that we make sure our voices are heard, forums are great for us to learn about vaping but they don't really help the non-vapers to understand it.

 

[nikki from mars]

Diche congrats on the year... wow what a year you have had... well done and keep on fighting the good fight for us all

 

[Mr.Motivapr]

I bought my first Vape pen almost exactly one year ago, and I really had no idea what a change to my life that would be.

It was a chance purchase, not planned or considered. The last thing on my mind was quitting smoking. I bought it for one simple reason and one reason only, a LAUGH.


A few mates had tried them and waxed lyrically about them, but I didn't want to quit smoking so I wasn't really interested, so it really was a fluke that I bought one at all. I was bored, and wandering around a city centre on a Saturday afternoon when my eye chanced on an advert in a shop window.


“E-cigarette kit with 2 flavours - £10”


It was cheap enough and I though the flavours looked like a giggle so I wandered in. Roughly an hour later after much testing of flavours, I wandered out with my own little vape pen and a bottle of cherry and a bottle of honeydew melon. I though I might cut down the number of cigarettes I used maybe, and I was looking forward to giving it a blast. Where that spontaneous purchase might take me I had no idea.


So a year has passed and my kit is now a bit more advanced than a CE4 and an eGo, I have stopped smoking, and I feel healthier, but those aren't the real changes in my life.




The last week has been a roller-coaster of things I would have simply never imagined myself doing.


I started the week as I have started many weeks lately, running a social media campaign getting information out to the vaping community about the threats to vaping and how the government, the pharmaceutical industry and the tobacco industry are working in concert to take away our right to vape.


On Thursday I got up, packed the car, voted and drove to Barnsley where I stood outside a polling station for several hours taking an exit poll of the departing voters. I then spent the whole night in the company of politicians and the media, at the election count for Barnsley. Now, in the past, I haven't been the most political person on the planet, I can't say I have ever written to an MP, or met one until this year, in fact I can't even say that I always voted in the past. Yet knowing that if I don't do something then the thing I accidentally came across on a boring Saturday will be lost has spurred me to action.


On Friday I drove to London to meet, for the first time, two people I have talked to nearly every day for the last few months. There were a few comments of things like “you're taller than I thought you were”, but we have spent so long in each others company that the fact we had never met rapidly became irrelevant.


On Saturday morning the 3 of us stood on a stage in a room filled with thousands of people (though not all were listening lol) and gave a talk. It was nerve-wracking and scary in lots of ways, but we got through it and I only forgot my words once. There was a camera crew filming the whole event, and all the way through I was thinking. “Is this me? Am I really doing this?”


I'm not someone you would expect to be doing things like this, I work in sales in a DIY store, I don't have a degree in media or politics, half the time I've no idea if I am doing the right thing, the best thing or just banging my head against a brick wall. One thing I do know it that for me doing nothing isn't an option, I will not let them destroy vaping without a fight, not just for me, but for the millions of smokers who have yet to be bored enough on a Saturday afternoon.

I am stunned.

Only one year?

From your knowledge and advice to your sheer determination for the vape community I thought you had been Vaping for years.

You should be proud of yourself hun, amazed how far you have come in a year, if I was wearing a hat, I would take it off to you

 

[joe clay]

CONGRATULATIONS

Just realised i gave up the stinkies just over a year ago and think i become a potv member just after


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[gregorycartoon]

I did a bit of theatre when I was younger, so the standing up bit isn't too bad, though I have to say an ensemble piece is MUCH easier than a monologue.

Talking to the politicians on election night was quite good fun, by the end of the evening we were getting on quite well with the UKIP lot, and the counters were nice, the lady that put down the extra stack of votes on the table did it with real panache lol. I think it is just important that we make sure our voices are heard, forums are great for us to learn about vaping but they don't really help the non-vapers to understand it.

I just find it massively interesting. It's the sort of thing I'd like to get involved in if I had the knowledge about vaping (but, I don't). Again thanks.

 

[wullie46]

Congrats on both the year you have now been vaping and the excellent work and determination in doing what you are to save what we all love VAPING .

 

[Diche]

I just find it massively interesting. It's the sort of thing I'd like to get involved in if I had the knowledge about vaping (but, I don't). Again thanks.

It doesn't take that much knowledge really. I'm sure in a perfect world it would, but in reality the ability to just say 'fuck it' and have a go is far more useful.

 

[Diche]

CONGRATULATIONS

Just realised i gave up the stinkies just over a year ago and think i become a potv member just after


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I haven't got to my anniversary of giving up the stinkies yet, I've got another week to go for that

 

[dw1986]

Congratulations on your one year vaping anniversary!