Smoking in your Van

[izwozral]

Last Saturday a friend was walking through Warrington when somebody told her, her handbag was on fire, it turned out to be her vaping device which had overheated. She was well hacked off because her nearly new expensive handbag had a large scorch mark. Apparently, it is not uncommon for vaping devices to ignite.

 

[Robmac]

Last Saturday a friend was walking through Warrington when somebody told her, her handbag was on fire, it turned out to be her vaping device which had overheated. She was well hacked off because her nearly new expensive handbag had a large scorch mark. Apparently, it is not uncommon for vaping devices to ignite.

So that's how you do it!!

It took me ages to light mine with a lighter. :mad1:

 

[Robmac]

....... I always smoked menthol anyway so thats what i went for. Hangsen Menthol Sensation. They seem a good manufacturer. Hangsen E liquids 10 for £16.99 Free Delivery | Cheap E Cig Liquid

Some of the better shops let you try different ones as well these days. Good luck.

The offer at the moment is 5x10ml bottles for £10.99 with free delivery Barry.

I've just ordered a mixture of flavours (nothing too fancy though), to give them a try.

Incidentally, I've now fired my machine up and had a go with a bottle of 6mg strength Menthol flavour I had lying about, and I have to say, I'm getting the hang of it. I haven't had a fag since your first post!

Thanks mate!

 

[barryd]

The offer at the moment is 5x10ml bottles for £10.99 with free delivery Barry.

I've just ordered a mixture of flavours (nothing too fancy though), to give them a try.

Incidentally, I've now fired my machine up and had a go with a bottle of 6mg strength Menthol flavour I had lying about, and I have to say, I'm getting the hang of it. I haven't had a fag since your first post!

Thanks mate!

Good! Especially if you can get away with 6mg. Thats very low. Mine are 18mg. That was the problem for me with the early stuff. There just wasnt the real throat hit, it never felt satisfying. The one I have now is superb and I really enjoy it. There are even arguments that nicotine is good for you and sharpens the brain. Its all the other stuff in fags that will kill you.

The biggest hurdle I had to get over was smoking while drinking. As you know, like your good self I like a drink (Although Im cutting down now) and the leccy fag just couldnt do it for me but I got over it eventually when I got the right gear. Ive still had the odd half a fag though in the past year if Ive really had a session but it blows the top of my head off.

 

[Deleted member 3057]

Can ex smokers be compared to born again Christians/Jews/ Muslims in being more consumed by the subject than the never smoked brigade?

Yes, none purer from the purified. (Me).

 

[izwozral]

Saw a guy the other day vaping on what appeared to be a small wardrobe it was that freakin big, he disappeared amongst great cumulus clouds of smoke.
Is there a certain cache attached for the biggest vape?
To a none vaper, it did look rather silly.

 

[john1974]

yes.. 18mg I would say..I haven't dared come down from there yet ..

 

[Robmac]

Saw a guy the other day vaping on what appeared to be a small wardrobe it was that freakin big, he disappeared amongst great cumulus clouds of smoke.
Is there a certain cache attached for the biggest vape?
To a none vaper, it did look rather silly.

Apparently there are different types of vaping Ral, and yes some try to blow the biggest cloud they can. I was behind a car the other day, and the clouds coming out of the window, you would have thought the car was on fire!

It doesn't interest me, I purely want an experience similar to smoking, with a similar amount of 'exhaust' and as small a vaping device as possible.

 

[Hercy]

Quit now for 6 months vaping...

First wee while was on a normal e cig then recently moved on to one of those big machines your talking about.

Have to admit I did used to look at the guys at work with them and think they looked a bit daft.

But...You don't have to create big clouds of smoke with them and the benefits for me are great.

In general same liquid seems to be much cooler and nicer to taste in the bigger machine more flavour basically. Also get less "burnt" taste from it than I did with the wick based ones. And I quite like the roughness of the volume of vapour it simulates a ciggy more I think.

I don't care how I look one look at my wardrobe would confirm that I guess.

Either way am not going back to the real fags

 

[izwozral]

Both my parents had Altzheimers and they both 'forgot' to smoke, it is not uncommon apparently.

 

[Robmac]

Both my parents had Altzheimers and they both 'forgot' to smoke, it is not uncommon apparently.

My mates mum was a chain smoker all of her life Ral, but she forgets to smoke now she has Alzheimer's.

 

[Tezza33]

Apparently there are different types of vaping Ral, and yes some try to blow the biggest cloud they can. I was behind a car the other day, and the clouds coming out of the window, you would have thought the car was on fire!

It doesn't interest me, I purely want an experience similar to smoking, with a similar amount of 'exhaust' and as small a vaping device as possible.

Our Daughter works for a vaping company so always has the latest biggest most expensive etc because she can then demonstrate them at vapefest and similar festivals, she is supplied with special equipment for power vaping, her and her partner love driving up the road then blowing clouds out of the windows, I will not tell you what I think:lol-053:

 

[Deleted member 9849]

Fortunately I have never smoked and what you've never had you never miss.I'm quite pleased I didn't because apart from causing obvious health issues the cost nowadays is prohibitive,it's nearly a tenner for a packet..Just 20 cigs a day works out at around £3500 per annum.If long term smokers stopped to think about how much they had spent over the years I think they would be shocked.Where do the young people that smoke get the money from to indulge in this expensive habit?

I could never buy a motorhome that had been owned by smokers,when we were looking at second hand vans before we bought this one there was several where we just put our heads inside the door,smelt the stale cigarettes and walked on to the next one.Mrs wakk is a reformed smoker and is more sensitive to the smell of cigarettes than me which apparently is quite common.

 

[Robmac]

Fortunately I have never smoked and what you've never had you never miss.I'm quite pleased I didn't because apart from causing obvious health issues the cost nowadays is prohibitive,it's nearly a tenner for a packet..Just 20 cigs a day works out at around £3500 per annum.If long term smokers stopped to think about how much they had spent over the years I think they would be shocked.Where do the young people that smoke get the money from to indulge in this expensive habit?

I could never buy a motorhome that had been owned by smokers,when we were looking at second hand vans before we bought this one there was several where we just put our heads inside the door,smelt the stale cigarettes and walked on to the next one.Mrs wakk is a reformed smoker and is more sensitive to the smell of cigarettes than me which apparently is quite common.

I spent a fortune over the years Steve, 30 odd fags a day, and I've smoked since I was 11, although obviously not 30 a day back then!

About 3 years ago, I switched to roll ups, and I get all of my baccy duty free, so it now costs me about a fiver a week or thereabouts. Still money going up in smoke, but I do enjoy a fag. Roll ups aren't quite as bad for you as taylor mades either, but still not good.

 

[Tezza]

Started off vaping maybe 7 years ago. Even started a little vaping business online and at MH shows. Don't bother now though. When we started vaping we use to use 32 mg which we use to import from China. But now we make our own juice and have got the strength down to 26 mg. anything less and we don't get the throat hit . Plus it's a lot cheaper to make your own and you know exactly what's in the mix.

 

[Robmac]

Started off vaping maybe 7 years ago. Even started a little vaping business online and at MH shows. Don't bother now though. When we started vaping we use to use 32 mg which we use to import from China. But now we make our own juice and have got the strength down to 26 mg. anything less and we don't get the throat hit . Plus it's a lot cheaper to make your own and you know exactly what's in the mix.

My son makes his own, so we may pool our resources.

 

[barryd]

This is all I use. Cheap battery and the Kangatech mini tank thing. I tried a couple of years ago a more expensive device but it broke after a couple of months and I decided it was pointless spending load of money on these big expensive devices. I just wanted to replicate a normal menthol cig and I have.

This is me vaping while reading this thread.

I am conscious you look a bit of a knob smoking one so want to be discrete. I gather its just water vapour that comes out but I wish they did them with no vapour at all to be honest. I got bollocked in Tescos once for sitting in the corner waiting for Mrs D to do the shopping when some jobsworth come running over telling me that they could be fined £2000 for me smoking in there. I went along with it but I think he was talking crap.

Oh one more thing. Never leave one of these things charging on the cheap USB chargers unattended. Ive had two chargers overheat to the point of melting. You smell them before they burst into flames though.

 

[Robmac]

......... I got bollocked in Tescos once for sitting in the corner waiting for Mrs D to do the shopping when some jobsworth come running over telling me that they could be fined £2000 for me smoking in there. I went along with it but I think he was talking crap.

I'm sure that most department stores employ a vaper Barry.

He sits behind the door smoking fresh baked bread flavour.

 

[Caz]

I switched to vaping the week before Christmas last year. I bought the gubbins from the local vaping shop but I then found that the ones in Poundland are just as good.

I have 3 now, the vaping shop one, one my daughter gave me and the Poundland one (the battery, cable & clearomizer kit costs a fiver, then replacement clearomizers and 10ml bottles of e-liquid are, of course, £1 each).

I keep trying different flavours, I like a bit of variety. At the moment I have a tobacco, a menthol & a cherry flavour on the go.

 

[Deleted member 775]

For those of you still smoking have you tried electric vaping? I tried for years to quit and never managed it. A couple of years ago I started vaping and cut down considerably on full fat real fags, mainly kept them for when boozing. About a year or so ago I knocked the real fags on the head. The vaping kit now is so good there really isnt a need to smoke real fags anymore. I tried various kits for years and they never really cut the mustard but they do now.

All I smoke is menthol juice. Its cheap as chips now and I get batteries off ebay which last about three to six months for a fiver or so. a little glass Kanga tank and coil for about another fiver and a bottle of Menthol juice for less than two quid lasts a week.

Its worked for me and I feel so much better for it.

electric vaping ,oh yes i did ,found it quite satisfying and i had no thought of a cig ,untill the day came when i developed what the doctor and the hospital refered to as popcorn chest . now i have never suffered any real effects on my chest through the dreaded weed to be honnest even after some 50 years of inhaling cig smoke,cigar smoke and pipe smoke . or for that matter inhailing asbestos dust ,coal dust ,foundry fumes all my working life and the general shat thats floating about in this pristine air we all breath from the first breath i took on leaving the warmth of my dear motheres womb . BUT VAPING OIL from those bloody leccy cig things put me on my back and in hospital hardly able to breath and took many months to recover from according to the experts the oil present in the vapour can collect in the lungs and cause breathing difficulties similer to the tar build up from tobacco ,so now i smoke good old tobacco and feel much better , mind you i am not being cocky or clever ,theres still time for the tobacco smoke to get me i suppose