How did you come across ecigs for the first time

i had looked at them online,thought they looked ok and was considering giving up smoking, problem was i enjoyed smoking so much and truthfully didnt really want to
then my mother died,i used that as an excuse not to quit for a week or so, a week or so after i was at riverside markets, bought an ego-t and some juice, havent touched any tobacco scince
moved on again scince then now i have a provari, with all sorts of carts attys ,tanks drip tips,loads of bottles of juice in the mail lol you know how it is

 

I discovered ecigs via WP forum also.
I am really glad to see so many heard via word of mouth.Spread the word
I tell as many people I see smoking especially young people about ecigs.

 

Totally... The 3 people i converted to e-cigs on average have converted 3 and so on... Someone on the level below me if you look at it like a pyramid has just made a 500 dollar order from healthcabin to pass down the line to the bottom people on the pyramid. 10 kits all up. So from me there are about 20 others who have started.

 

G'day, i was doing champix and thought if i don't find some product to SMOKE i would be back on the fags in no time ... so i hit you tube looking for some kind of non tobacco grass/ weed/ anything and stumbled on e cigs.

I was like why hadn't i herd bout this ???
i ordered a ego t kit same day e pipe 3 days later and just ordered a jazz carto pipe today lol

 

Thats great..i am quite surprised by the amount of health professionals who have not heard of them.
My regular GP,3 Chemists,2 other GP's.I think more health care pros should be aware of ecigs.
It was debated some time back upon creation of this forum whether it would be good or bad.Most cons were if it became too widely known then the powers that be
would find a way to tax i heavily or totally ban the importation and sale of hardware and nic juice.
Pros were it would get a proper study and evaluation and maybe we could buy nic juice incomstralia.

Customs and Qld health did confiscate some orders of juice and Qld health banned it (unsure whether that still applies as I have not ordered for 15 months.)
Hey Qld Health VAPERS are VOTERS and more smokers are becoming vapers..

 

yeah that's a real concern the more popular e cigs get its only a mater of time that the government will want to add a tax and with time that tax will grow

 

i just stumbled across them on the wirlpool forum and had tryed patches gum inhalers with no luck.
lasted about a month the first time,3months the second and about 4 months the third time gettin on the piss stuffed that idea

got a kr808d1 kit to start used it for 3 weeks or so now have a vmax and going strong got my brother keen
hes waiting on his 2x 510 starter kits and juice

went up to my mates last week and got on the comce and took my kr808d1 for him to try
and he liked it so i ordered him a 808 starter kit

will have to wait and see but i think/hope they will give up the coffin nails

cheers dawzzy

 

At a local market(In Victoria) they had a stall of dirt cheap e-cigs, The Mrs said she saw something about them on the box so we bought a couple thinking if this thing works it should be great.........mine lasted about 5 mins b4 the air flow meter shat itself, the better half's lasted about 3 hrs. But the possibility of this actually working was still running through the head so with a bit of research went off to order a couple of eGo's and haven't looked back

 

I'm not sure if this has come up before but I was wondering where everyone 1st got introduced to vaping?

For myself it was a doctors appointment chest X-ray due to extremely bad bronchitis. Doctor asked if I smoked i said I do and he recommended looking into ecigs. Showed me his kr808d-1

 

thats a first .. cool

there is a long thread with a poll somewhere asking this question..

 

Your doctor recommended e-cigs? That is so awesome to hear!

My first exposure was crappy disposable models on TinyDeal. I was ordered some Nintendo 3DS stuff and figured for $12 (or whatever it was) I'd see what the hell an "electronic cigarette" was. While I was waiting for them to arrive I started reading up on "proper" e-cigs on Whirlpool. Before they even arrived I'd ordered some 510 and eGo gear. The rest, as they say, is history

 

My girl and i where coming up to the end of our champix script (drugs given for stopping smoking) and i was in fear that once the drugs stopped i'd go back to smoking so i herd a friend of a friend was vaping i got online to find out more about it, i liked what i was reading and then i hit utube then i clicked some links and ordered an egoT starter kit and some no nic juice.

My girl and i enjoyed Vaping but it was missing somthing so i joined this forum and got some ideas about getting nic juice from O/S and been smooth sailing from there on in.

Without this forum we wouldnt know about the pv's and clearomizers we have now.

 

WOW I am impressed !!

Which state are you living in - just curious ?

 

there, found, merged and restickied.

 

I am so impressed that a doctor recommended vaping. I don't see my doctor often enough for her to recommend anything. I'm too healthy to waste her time.

I read some news articles about electronic cigarettes and went the lazy way. I chose a cigarette look-alike becomse the cartomisers were available at my local supermarket. No nicotine, of course. Batteries lasted a few hours, very little vapour, tasted like cardboard.

I lost interest for quite a while, then reached a point where I knew I had to give up smoking before my health really suffered... Except I really enjoyed smoking! Spent ages trawling the net, watching You Tube, reading reviews, got slightly put off by the jargon and supposed complexities, but went with an Ego T kit to start and realised that this really could work. Switched to cartomisers, imported nicotine - yep! No more smoking! It seemed very complicated at the time, but now, it's part of my everyday life.

 

I first heard about e-cigs from a friend I met on a forum I ran - this was about 2 (maybe 3) years ago, and she was living in America where they were all legal.
I started to read up about them here - mainly on Whirlpool, and was discouraged to see that we couldn't buy the nicotine.
I kind of forgot about it for a while, and then the local tobacconist (only a few weeks ago) began selling these single disposable e-cigs.
I think they were called "E-Health" or "Health-e"

A few of us bought a couple - but they were very bland- hard to draw on & practically no vapour, but still it at least felt & looked like a cigarette.
So that's when I started searching the internet again, & found this forum, & took my advice from here.

 

I'm in a country town in Wa. He said he couldn't say defiantly that ecigs are not bad for me but he did say its gotta be better than smokes.

He then whipped out his and had a vape in his surgery. I went home and researched and was impressed

Good doctor

 

I think I first heard about them via spam a couple of years ago (and I still get a bunch of e-cig spams a day). It wasn't until a member of a forum I operate gave them a whirl and was very enthusiastic about the results that I delved into the topic some more. Who would have thought running a forum would lead to giving up smoking - up until that point, if anything, it was comsing me to smoke more .

 

I gave up the analogues cold turkey, NOT pleasant, i had a constant sore throat for almost 4 months, got sick of going to doctors to be told "well, the throats a bit red, but not that bad" when in fact it was so sore i could barely swallow, i started doing some research online about sore throats after giving up cold turkey and discovered it seemed to be a common complaint, a guy in usa said he only got relief once he discovered e cigs, and he believed that the vapour helped, didnt have a clue what an e cig was, but if it worked for him i was getting myself a bloody e cig, i was desperate, got a pathetic lil one at first, things have changed of course , and who knows maybe a coincendence, but voila! within two days sore throat gone, and havent had one since then, almost 3 months ago. hail the e cig!

 

My wife got me started on e-cigs (thank you rainbow4006) inadvertently - I was coughing my guts up and not really enjoying the analogues but of course enjoyed one out of every five or ten or so. So rainbow bought a cig alike and she did a bit of a search and found this forum after the useless icanquit forum - i got interested and thought "i'm 43 and being smoking for 30 years now, coughing my guts up, doctors visits etc, it's time to do something about this". I approached it with an open BUT determined mind to give vaping a go. Yes it is not easy but it is way easier than I thought it would be. Without the support of my wife and the larrikins on this forum I'm quite sure I would be hovering between the analogues and the digitals but i'm happy to say it is only e-cigs for me at present. What probably works for me is saying to myself that if I have one analogue it is not the end of the world and they are always close by at the moment but I have not picked one up or even opened my one half pack to sniff them - bit of a rant but it is working for me.