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As a former smoker and vaper I find Juul and the whole e-cig business wicked. I stopped smoking and started vaping in 2012 and years later I realized I replaced

As a former smoker and vaper I find Juul and the whole e-cig business wicked. I stopped smoking and started vaping in 2012 and years later I realized I replaced a nasty habit with what was basically a hobby. I was never enthusiastic about smoking but I became increasingly enthusiastic about flavors and coils and all that crap. I was consuming way more nicotine than when I was smoking cigarettes. I noticed that when I chained 2 cigarettes after not smoking for 3 years and right after, I continued vaping with my mod for another 5 minutes. The moment I realized that I started vaping unflavored juice and stopped completely shortly after. It was never supposed to be cool and pleasant, it was supposed to stop me from being a smoker. In my opinion it's a good cessation device but the way it's marketed and how the whole industry is behaving just doesn't sit well with me. I totally get why teenagers are into it. It doesn't smell, it's pretty cool. I remember when I started smoking as a teenager, I had to chew mint gum and do all sorts of crazy things with perfumes to hide my habit from my parents. If I had Juul it would have been awesome.

ryanmercer 8y ago
>As a former smoker and vaper I find Juul and the whole e-cig business wicked. I stopped smoking and started vaping in 2012 and years later I realized I replaced a nasty habit with what was basically a hobby. I wasn't a smoker at all, aside from on occasional pipe or cigar. Around the same time I got into it too, there were very few mods back then but you had companies like "Ms. T's Bakery" that had tons of dessert type flavors. I'd sit there with my ego with a drip tip, puff, puff, puffing away at my desk mindlessly while I gamed. I'd puff, puff, puff away with friends. I started taking it to work and ducking into the bathroom to puff some brownies or blueberry soda. One day I was playing an FPS and realized I didn't feel good at all, I'd had about 40$ of juice in maybe 6 hours, I had nicotine poisoning because I just wanted to keep tasting the flavors. The few people that vape at work, all of them have super-fruity juices, I have to imagine that the flavor is some of what keeps them at it. I have a friend that is unemployed, trying to get disability, but he has probably 300$ in his vaping rig and the first thing he does when he gets some money from something it goes and gets more juice. Before food, before his precious mountain dew, before anything else he runs off to go fill his tanks. Always flavors.

ryanmercer 8y ago

>As a former smoker and vaper I find Juul and the whole e-cig business wicked. I stopped smoking and started vaping in 2012 and years later I realized I replaced a nasty habit with what was basically a hobby. I wasn't a smoker at all, aside from on occasional pipe or cigar. Around the same time I got into it too, there were very few mods back then but you had companies like "Ms. T's Bakery" that had tons of dessert type flavors. I'd sit there with my ego with a drip tip, puff, puff, puffing away at my desk mindlessly while I gamed. I'd puff, puff, puff away with friends. I started taking it to work and ducking into the bathroom to puff some brownies or blueberry soda. One day I was playing an FPS and realized I didn't feel good at all, I'd had about 40$ of juice in maybe 6 hours, I had nicotine poisoning because I just wanted to keep tasting the flavors. The few people that vape at work, all of them have super-fruity juices, I have to imagine that the flavor is some of what keeps them at it. I have a friend that is unemployed, trying to get disability, but he has probably 300$ in his vaping rig and the first thing he does when he gets some money from something it goes and gets more juice. Before food, before his precious mountain dew, before anything else he runs off to go fill his tanks. Always flavors.