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Stealth vaping for desk jockeys

Giraut

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If you have a desk job and you want to vape to your heart's content without anybody being any the wiser, here's an idea: a condenser box that you put under your desk and exhale your vapor into in total discretion.

All you need to make one is a large cardboard box with thin cardboard walls, some box tape, an aquarium hose and an aquarium ball valve.

Put tape around the edges of the box nice and tight, and anywhere the box might leak, so that any pressure inside diffuses only through the cardboard walls. Slip the hose through the box and stick some tape around the hose. Install the valve at the end of the hose. Then place the box somewhere discreet and the end of the hose near you above your desk, so it doesn't raise suspicion.

Here's what my box looks like:

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Here's what it looks like under my desk: it looks like some parcel I just received from the shipping department, that I stored there, and the hose isn't visible without looking under the desk:

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And here's what the end of the hose looks like on my desktop when the hose is stowed away:

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How to use it: open the valve, blow the vapor into the valve, close the valve and voila: no vapor whatsoever, even if you vape at full power:

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What happens is, the vapor gets "stored" inside the box where it has time to get absorbed partly by the cardboard, and diffuse slowly through the cardboard walls between tokes.

As far as stealthiness is concerned, the worst that can happen is, someone walks in on you and finds you blowing into the valve. It looks so odd that you just have to make up some cock and ball story and your visitor will swallow it hook, line and sinker. At any rate, however odd it looks like, it most certainly doesn't look like vaping - especially since it lets absolutely no vapor out. It's not just a theory: I've been using that thing for months and it really does work.
 

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I got this at a vape show from a vender. It's small and works pretty good. Just blow into it and the vape is cleaned.
 

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People are going to see that box under your desk, with the hose and call the bomb squad.
 

Giraut

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The vape cleaner gizmo reduces the amount of vapor at best. I guarantee you the gizmo won't scrub a big-ass cloud at full power, while the box will.
 

Giraut

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People are going to see that box under your desk, with the hose and call the bomb squad.

I work in a factory. Cardboard boxes lying around under people's desks and odd bits and pieces are a common sight. Your mileage may vary of course: just install the thing where and in a way that doesn't look out of place in your particular environment.
 

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NGAHaze

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Personally, I just hold it in for a few seconds.
I vape here, there and everywhere.
Never had a single sole come up to me to complain.

That's what I do too although admittedly, I do not create huge clouds with the way I vape.

Nobody has ever said anything to me either despite the fact that some were obviously aware of what I was doing. I think for most folks it isn't a big deal as long as you aren't spewing like a smokestack.
 

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The point of the box is to vape exactly the way you enjoy with zero giveaway. I'm not interested in toning it down, holding it in longer, or dripping juice directly into my mouth.
 

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That's what I do too although admittedly, I do not create huge clouds with the way I vape.

Nobody has ever said anything to me either despite the fact that some were obviously aware of what I was doing. I think for most folks it isn't a big deal as long as you aren't spewing like a smokestack.


Sir, your are my kind of vaper!

Unless you are in your own home or a vapemeet
 

zaroba

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Saw a picture somewhere where somebody turned an asthma inhaler into a vape mod.
Nobody would say anything about using an asthma inhaler in a public place, be it a restaurant, store, or work as there are plenty of lawyers that chase any hint of a discrimination lawsuit, especially when it comes to medical issues.
 

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I would raise my nic level and use a cheap low vapor tank...then hold your breath after the inhale..after about 10 15 seconds nothing really comes out on the exhale vapor wise but you get that nice nic buzz on the exhale...Experience be told.
 

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Saw a picture somewhere where somebody turned an asthma inhaler into a vape mod.
Nobody would say anything about using an asthma inhaler in a public place, be it a restaurant, store, or work as there are plenty of lawyers that chase any hint of a discrimination lawsuit, especially when it comes to medical issues.
You might be thinking of this product. It's not a mod, but a nicotine inhaler.
https://quicknicmist.com/

Here is Smokie's review of it.
 

eSMOKA

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The point of the box is to vape exactly the way you enjoy with zero giveaway. I'm not interested in toning it down, holding it in longer, or dripping juice directly into my mouth.

You must hate your job.

As far as stealthiness is concerned, the worst that can happen is, someone walks in on you and finds you blowing into the valve. It looks so odd that you just have to make up some cock and ball story and your visitor will swallow it hook, line and sinker.

LOL. Who is going to see you blowing into a hose and not investigate further, especially followed with a cock and ball story?

Pretty sure this is a hoax thread.
 

Giraut

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You must hate your job.

Actually I love it so much I want to keep it. That's why I want my office free of vapor at all time.

LOL. Who is going to see you blowing into a hose and not investigate further, especially followed with a cock and ball story?

Wrong.

There is a strange thing in human psychology: if you look like you're trying to hide something and you act all shifty, you're likely to get busted. Whereas the more outrageous and in-your-face your story is, the more you're likely to get away with it.

That's why some POTUS almost get impeached for bugging an opponent's building or getting a blowjob and trying to keep it all hush-hush, while others can be busy shafting the country on a vast scale without even trying to hide it and get away with it.

In my case, I only got caught red-handed blowing into the tube 3 or 4 times - because normally it takes so little time to exhale the vapor into the box, and I can hear people's footsteps getting closer in the corridor.

However, when it happened, I certainly didn't try to hide what I was doing - quite the opposite: as the people walked in, I blew even harder and with as much drama as possible for a good 20 seconds.

At least once, the guy just looked at me funny and let me finish whatever I was doing without asking any question. When people did ask, I told them I was trying to blow condensation out of my Camelback's tube (I cycle to work), and that was the end of the story.

Pretty sure this is a hoax thread.

Believe what you will :)

But seriously, don't knock it before you try it. I'm not saying everybody should have the same setup I have: it works for me because I have my own office in the middle of a long corridor and I don't work in a highly antagonistic environment. It may not work in offices where people are at each other's throat, or in a cubicle farm.

But if you have the opportunity to be left alone somewhat safely for 15 seconds at a time for a toke, and you just want to keep the air clear the rest of the time and not wait 5 minutes for the fog to clear up and fear that someone might walk in while the room is all cloudy, the box works great.
 

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I stumbled upon this thread looking for something else. My bad.
 

mattdarat

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I use a plastic iced tea jug with a hole in the side and a paper towel over the hole. Someone comes in. Tilt it back put the cap on and toss in trash very in conspicuous and the boss saw me twice and never noticed because me drinking iced tea is common site. :)

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Depending on the workplace rules, vaping at your desk in a building could be grounds for termination.
 

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Could always use something like the VapeNut. Does it work? I have no idea but it defiantly looks nicer and you wont have to assemble some kind of survival box, unless you are that bored at work, and maybe its just me, but even as a woman I wouldn't like to blow/suck at hoses during work, cant imaging guys enjoying that lol. Maybe I am just weird, I run my own business and can vape in my office without ppl complaining :D
 

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Could always use something like the VapeNut. Does it work? I have no idea but it defiantly looks nicer and you wont have to assemble some kind of survival box, unless you are that bored at work, and maybe its just me, but even as a woman I wouldn't like to blow/suck at hoses during work, cant imaging guys enjoying that lol. Maybe I am just weird, I run my own business and can vape in my office without ppl complaining :D
Aww man you don't like that? Your no fun. JK
Yes there are better ways. eBay has activated charcoal bounce tubes for sale. But if it works than it works.

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