Forum Introduction

[Jim Davis]

Originally Posted by smokum

Thanks for the welcome's !!

** Sorry if I'm drifting or not making sense, but I just got back from surgery and I'm still Kinda fuzzy !!

VapeOn,
Greg

Good Lord!!

They'll let anyone in here!!

Welcome Greg,

Surgery?? Didn't know. Whatever it was, I hope it's over now, and all is well.

All the best for a speedy & total recovery. (Save me some of doz drugs)

Cheers;
jd

[smokum]

Hey Jim.....

I figured us strays may as well stick together, so I sent out the search party (thanks mage, lol) !!

I too hope its over, well at least for the leg part it should be !!

Now if they'd just get started on the wrist and shoulder to get it fixed up to what it once was I could move on and join the workforce again (its been almost 3 freakin years !).

But the mild brain damage appears to be too big a job for them to figure out (where's future science when you need it, lol), so the short term memory loss is just another one of life's challenges to deal with.

So much for being a rocket scientist..... hahaha

VapeOn,
Greg

ps... Hi Misty

[Royal]

Hey smokum, don't worry about the short term memory thing. Sometimes I can't find my glasses when I am wearing them. Embarrassed

[Misty]

Hi Greg!!..so awesome to see you here..and the rest of the gang too!..feels like a home already!

Meanwhile, rest and take care of yourself ..!

ps..did you get Wedns snowstorm too?

[smokum]

Yup Yup.... the 'GANG' is the one thing I miss most about quitting, and I'm glad to have found them playing over here.

Oh Ya !! it came, it conquered, it blew around, then it left a big arsed mess to clean up around the farm I tell ya.

At least it happened before the surgery....... Don't know how I'm gonna handle the Sunday snow yet (but stubborn me will probably just tackle it regardless........ git er done !).

VapeOn,
Greg

[Cadyr]

Well hello there! Joined up here, just today. Been vaping for about two months now, and haven't touched a normal cigarette since! Seeing as I used to be two packs a day, that's pretty darn good!

I started with a Volcano, then I got a 510 USB passthrough, and then bought the rest of the 510 parts. Needless to say, my Volcano went back in the box, and is just gathering dust at the moment. Hahaha!

So far, loving my 510 I got from Innovapor, with liquid from Wet Your Stick.

[smokum]

Welcome Cadyr,

And congrats on your progress to no analogs (wish I had your success, but am very happy with my own progress getting down to under a pack from almost three per day !!).

Wow, what an expensive starting tool to have collecting dust in a box !!! but I sure understand the decision, since sucking vapor from a bag wasn't for me either.

So far, I'm flip flopping between my Protege-510 and my GLV5v-510 mod while trying to find that "perfect" juice for ME. I also recently picked up an Iolite in an attempt to eliminate the "combustion" of tobacco completely but haven't be able to locate any untreated tobacco yet (next season, with the help of a horticulturalist friend of mine, I'll be attempting growing some natural tobacco here at the farm with the intention to vaporize it and/or experiment with nicotine extraction).

Hope you enjoy your stay here on ESF as we grow to into an expected very active forum !

VapeOn,
Greg

[mcquinn]

I just gave up the analogs because I am tired of being treated like a leper.Vaping has worked for me where nothing else has I am one level from no nic .I hope I can get off the nic before the bans set in.Too bad we didn't find these forums before we invested a lot in bad products.I am sticking with classic pennstyles cause I have a lot invested ,had I had the knowledge of the masses I would have started with a 510.

[Jim Davis]

Welcome cadyr;

Nice to see another Houston member too.

[DonDaBoomVape]

Or, at least, middle-aged to vaping and that ECF place (since June 2009). Jim Davis has encouraged me to spend some time here. [So blame him!]

I tend to be long-winded, so feel free to skim (or ignore) the saga that follows:

I am the oldest of the Baby Boomers*, very happily married for 32 years, originally from the NY/NJ area, and a resident of South Florida for 30 years. During most of my career, I let myself get stuck in corporate America, breaking out into independent consulting a dozen years ago. I'm the author of a couple published business books and am now semi-retired. ['Semi' because I can't afford to go all the way, 'retired' because the demand for management training consultants dried up.]

* [My first name is Don and I love to Vape: thus my silly screen name.]

I smoked for 40 years. I quit twice during that period, but started up again after a year or so, after which I accepted that I am (scratch that: was) a smoker. And, in fact, I enjoyed it (at least the hand-to-mouth, inhalation/exhalation, throat hit experience, if not the taste).

In May of this year, I caught the tail end of a local TV news story about electronic cigarettes. Gee, that's interesting. I love gadgets. Let me check this out on the Internet. I was infatuated with the blu (it does have great packaging), but discovered ECF, and you know what I learned about it there.

I gathered all the information I could absorb at that time and ordered a Kr8 from CigEasy, because it seemed simple. And I wasn't wrong. But I have never liked the taste of Kr8 cartomizers (GreenCig carts are good) and those things were becoming expensive (at the time, I didn't know how to refill them).

But I was hooked on vaping and I have never missed smoking since I started. I thought I enjoyed smoking, but I love vaping more than sex (which I can't engage in that often these days anyway*).

* You've got some nifty unique emoticons here. Is there one for aging?

And the flavor ... and flavor choices! Fantastic! [I forgot to bring a backup battery to a temp job a few weeks ago and I bummed an analog off a coworker: yucky pooey! I couldn't finish it. I just suffered with the nicotine deprivation for a couple hours.] But I digress.

Two weeks later I ordered a DSE801 penstyle (from NHaler, which was having a clearance sale). I loved it (and still do). It gave me everything I wanted: vapor, throat hit, and flavor ... and I like the elegant length.

A couple weeks after that, I splurged on the Prodigy to intensify the experience. I only use that occasionally these days. I guess I'm just a 3.7V guy ... and to me, it is clunky. Other than trying new juices, I settled in for several months ... until a couple months ago, when Drew at NHaler asked me to write a guide for the 510 (and he sent me a starter kit so I would know what the heck I was talking about). I now switch back and forth between the penstyle and the 510 (and my GreenCig carts). I love them both in different ways: the penstyle for my nicotine hits, the 510 for my non-nicotine "pacifier" vaping (I border on chain-vaping).

On Black Friday, I ordered an M201 (I've become frustrated with 801 atty unreliabiltiy/inconsistency) and an M702, both from LiteCigUSA. The M201 is great (if I can find an atty that doesn't die after 3 daysMad!), but I'd be happy to sell that M702 thing, if anyone is interested.

I have established myself on ECF (and recently garnered some nice recognition), primarily with the long opus referenced in my signature. It's stickied at the top of the New Member's forum and I'm pretty proud of it. More recently I started a thread in the "OUTSIDE" subforum there about the butchering of the English language in forum posts; and my Tattoos poll and thread in The Lounge has been fairly popular.

So there you have it: More About DonDaBoomVape Than You Ever Wanted to Know.

Don't hesitate to say Hi in this thread or PM me. I look forward to hearing from you ... and to begin having fun in this playground.