Anyone on here use them at all?
I'd be interested to hear if they are any good x
Quote from: lisaparkin on November 25, 2012, 19:47:03
I'd be interested to hear if they are any good x
I can guarantee they work. I tried one just to see if it would help me and the wife cut down a bit. Neither of us have smoked a single f*g since and that was a year ago next week. Without any cravings, mood swings or will power at all.
They do work well if you also have a bit of will power as well especially the first couple of days.
However if you smoke over 20 a day they might not work for you straight away but persevere even if you smoke some cigarettes as well at first.
I am very tempted to try one of these electronic thingumabobs. :confused2: They have them for sale at our local tobacconists.
Are they expensive to use?
They do work very well and if you get the right one and not a silly cigalike one they're instant. I used to smoke over 40 day, for over 30 years and I managed to give up without any cravings or bad moods instantly.
I needed NO will power at all. All I wanted to do was to cut down my 40 a day habit. Without noticing it I stopped smoking completely on day one. As did the wife and we've never had a single craving since.
Just don't get one that looks like a cigarette, they're useless. You need one with a decent battery and a proper atomiser. You'll need at least two batteries, one to use and one on charge.
As for being cheap to run? 20 quid per month for two of us as opposed to 250 plus for fags for the same period.
But be warned! There are literally 100's to choose from ranging from 20 quid to 180 quid and more. It can become a complete hobby in itself and you could spend a lot on collecting them and all the paraphernalia that goes with them.
These are a couple I use at the moment, as you can see, they look nothing like a f*g. They use big batteries that last most of the day. There nothing worse than having to charge your battery up for two hours when it only give 10 minutes use.
(http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb42/m0awb/mods_zps6928ea21.jpg)
The longhaird general wants to pack in can you get them at 250 valts
Thanks for the warning about the different types Plot69. The local shops sell the "looks like a ciggy" variety.
I haven't got around to looking closely at the price/s yet.
I have found a link which gives me more information about the type you have shown in the photo. Late night / early morning reading for when I have time later on.
Again - thanks for the tips.
I agree with Plot69 - I dont speak from personal experience but a good friend has gone from 40 a day to nothing. She was a dedicated smoker. Just don't get the ones that lok like a ciggy!
Would some one stick the link on please
Quote from: davyw1 on November 26, 2012, 21:31:36
Would some one stick the link on please
Here's a few good ones that I use regularly. Whatever you decide, if you do decide to try it. don't get cigarette lookalikes, make sure you get two batteries and that they are 510 fitting. With a 510 fitting you can try 100's of different atomisers. Generally the cigalikes use specific fittings and are more expensive as you can only buy them from one company.
If you want to swat up a bit more here's a good forum. http://ukvapers.org/index.php
http://www.ecigwizard.com/shop/
http://www.liberty-flights.co.uk/index.asp
http://www.cloud9vaping.co.uk/
EDIT: Forgot to say, picking an ecig is easy, finding a flavour you like is a whole new journey, there's 100's to choose from.
Thanks for those links Plot69. Appreciated.
I'll have a look later this evening once I've had someting to eat & drink. :coffee2:
This is a very timely thread. I've just bought a starter pack for Vapouriz Electronic Cigarettes just in time for Xmas. Have been smoking about 25 a day since I was a teenager and really need to cut this out. Hopefully this will be the start of a healthier 2013. Tried and failed with other give up methods so this is going to be make or break - no pressure :-)
Speaking to a chap the other day and his wife uses custard flavour.
You can get almost any flavour you can think of. I use caramel/hazelnut, banoffee, and I've even got some blue cheese flavour.
Think of a flavour, you can get it.
Quote from: elhuerto on December 13, 2012, 07:24:00
This is a very timely thread. I've just bought a starter pack for Vapouriz Electronic Cigarettes just in time for Xmas. Have been smoking about 25 a day since I was a teenager and really need to cut this out. Hopefully this will be the start of a healthier 2013. Tried and failed with other give up methods so this is going to be make or break - no pressure :-)
I really do wish you luck - let us know how you get on.
Quotelet us know how you get on
Thanks for asking - 10 days now and haven't gone back to the real cigarettes and pretty sure I won't. I've been very surprised to be honest and thought they were a bit gimmicky and would still rely a lot on will power. That hasn't been the case.
There is a slight after taste to them but quickly got used to that. Remembering to charge them hasn't been a hassle as the pack I bought came with two cigarettes (crucial I would say). Friends and family have been very supportive with several smokers considering trying them out - seems a few have bought them from the chemist in the past and chucked them away - I guess the quality wasn't there.
My plan now is to stick with these through January as is and then look to start getting weaker nicotine liquid after that.
I have lost the morning cough and no tightness in the chest. Felt fine after a spot of wood chopping at the weekend so all round I'm feeling pretty good and positive for 2013.
Well done you :wave:
I know this is an old thread but how are you all getting on. I have just got one myself as we have too many rugrats to babysit nowadays and being shoved out in the garden to smoke my cigars or pipe is a bit tedious. I have got some high nicotine content liquids but they all seem to leave an apple like aftertaste. Is this normal?
Quote from: ACE on September 12, 2013, 18:22:09I have got some high nicotine content liquids but they all seem to leave an apple like aftertaste. Is this normal?
Only the apple flavoured ones.
I tried many, many flavours, most of which I don't like. I mix my own now, an RY4/Caramel/Hazel nut blend and I can honestly say it taste nothing like apples.
Two years now since I got my first e-cig, not smoked tobacco since. Good luck with it.
9 months on and I'm still off the ciggies but still hooked on the e-cigs. I am using a weaker nicotine level now in the liquid but it's still probably low-medium. I think the taste is one you get used to - I've tried a few different ones and keep going back to the same. E-cig shops are popping up all over the place here but I still purchase online so I get the liquid I like. I may try cutting down a bit on the nicotine level but not sure I want to really give up - I enjoy smoking but had just had enough of all the coughing, bad smells etc.
It seems obvious that even with some chemicals (the flavourings etc) and obviously the nicotine, they are a healthier option than ciggies. A few friends have switched to them and do not regret for a minute, even though they keep "smoking" (well, vapurising!). There is almost no smell, and even if one or two still smoke one or two real cigarettes a day they have noticed a big difference in their sense of taste, and with voice clarity, coughing etc which has cleared up.
Why does the word "f*g" get censored?
Quote from: Plot69 on September 18, 2013, 14:30:30
Why does the word "f*g" get censored?
American moderation. I suppose because it is a derogatory name for someone who's a bit light on the loafers
Quote from: ACE on September 18, 2013, 15:13:09
American moderation. I suppose because it is a derogatory name for someone who's a bit light on the loafers
But we're not in America. Last time I looked this was a .co.uk forum.
WWW. might give you a clue.
Nearly a week and don't miss the pipe at all. But I have had a bit of trouble with the flavours. Sorted for the time being but the cigar flavour mixed with a hint of menthol is half reasonable. Chocolate, fruit and nuts are tempting but only in a bar wrapped in silver paper with the cadbury logo printed on the front. :sunny:
The e-cig shop near here let's you try before you buy. I went back to the stuff I originally got off the net as that's what I'd got used to but it was "interesting" the flavours they had available. I've just started to mix the weak with medium liquid to start weaning off the nicotine.
I have been using products for a while now and they work for me.
There is a concern within the industry that politicians will try to ban them - or bring them under the same regulations as tobacco products - pure and simply to increase there tobacco tax income. In many ways it is a shame that tax on tobacco products might impact the long term success of electronic cigarettes.
Edit to remove advertising link
I forgot to ask - what do others think of the issue of secondary smoking?
Tests show the risk is minimal compared to tobacco products but would you feel comfortable standing next to someone using an ecig?
Quote from: tmark938 on December 04, 2014, 14:15:15
I forgot to ask - what do others think of the issue of secondary smoking?
Tests show the risk is minimal compared to tobacco products but would you feel comfortable standing next to someone using an ecig?
Something I feel very strongly about: its probably irrational, but I would hate to be in, say, a restaurant with any other customers in the act of "smoking".
I've never smoked, because as a youngster it upset me that my Father did. He gave up when he retired, but Lung Cancer killed him 9 years after that. Numerous of his contemporaries, people for whom I had a lot of respect and who gave me a lot of kindness and encouragement as a youngster, went the same way. I see myself, now, as lucky that I never started because I have never had to face the challenge of giving up and I take my hat off to anyone who has managed to do that.
With a non smoking spouse and inlaws, all of whom suffer from Asthma in varying degrees, we had significant difficulty (e.g. in restaurants) before smoking was banned in public - personally just the smell upsets me now, and having to run the gauntlet of smokers huddled outside a doorway in the street is equally an annoyance for me. Not their fault, just stupid that the location assigned to them puts them in the direct line of people like me who would prefer to avoid them, and they are usually a group rather than singles so there is more of an issue, for me, than if they were spread about - ironic isn't it?!! - by way of comparison the old days of smoking and non-smoking train carriages suited me just fine, I and they had a choice.
I may be the minority though? I know next-to-squat about it: are there E-cigs that might be a (real) annoyance / hazard to others? if that is the case, or could become the case, then it seems to me that allowing them in public cannot be condoned, also (perhaps?) if it provides a difficulty for the venue owners / operators being able to deduce who to challenge and who not to have to - seems to me to be a pity E-cigs look like cigarettes, in that regard.
You can poke your "E" fags where the sun don't shine......Nuf said !!!!!!!!!!! :BangHead:
Quote from: gazza1960 on December 04, 2014, 22:48:32
You can poke your "E" fags where the sun don't shine......Nuf said !!!!!!!!!!! :BangHead:
Look Gazza was able to type the word f*g?
Looks like automatic censorship picks up f*g but not fags. Wonder if it is the same for that portion of butter. Yep, thingy and knobs
I've seen people with these e-cigs and they do produce a cloud around them but obviously less than standard ciggies.
The problem is that when people smoked freely, the ventilation in public places (pubs, planes etc) was very good but when it got banned, it was seen as an opportunity to cut the cost of this.
So I'm not sure we can go back to smoking in restaurants, and as someone who coughs a lot I hope not.
:icon_cheers:
Quote from: Jayb on December 05, 2014, 08:15:24
Looks like automatic censorship picks up f*g but not fags. Wonder if it is the same for that portion of butter. Yep, thingy and knobs
As an ex-smoker..................
Don't all you smokers hate it when someone begins a sentence with those words? :tongue3:
Naah. I smoked for fourty years. Started at ten (I know) when I started a milk round, buying Woodbines in five packs, and No10's, singly, from the tuck-shop opposite the High School. I smoked all through my army days, all through work and sickness. The last twenty years were spent rolling-my-own ciggies. One after another for every waking hour.
I must have smoked a mountain of the stuff.
Then, my first grandchild started to copy my cough like they copy all your behaviour, good or bad.
A coughing grandson was the end-of for me. I was fifty. Nearly eight years ago.
I used nicotine patches, the dummy ciggy thing, beer, any and everything that was available. I stuck, chewed, or sucked on, whatever i could, and I would have used the e-cigs too if they had been as available then as now.
I have no objection whatsoever to sitting next to or near someone saving their own life by using them instead of ciggies.
More power to you folks that are cracking it! You will find, particularly you long-term smokers, that it is the best thing you have done since, well since you started smoking.
You will soon notice you aren't quite so breathless going up the stairs. In fact, it won't be long before you can attack them like you did years ago.
You'll be able to ride a bike again without your out-of-breathness being the limiting factor. You'll be able to feel your muscles react to being afforded more oxygen as you breathe or exert yourself. You might even be able to do 'that' with a bit more of what had become unaccustomed vigour. :glasses9:
Walking, running, cycling, digging, breathing, breath, teeth, and lifespan, all improved just by saying 'no' to those dirty, yet pleasurable ciggies. :icon_cheers:
Good luck folks. If I can do it...... :sunny: