Bitches Be Crazy

[vuJim]

(Ed. Note: Meant humorously.)

My wife decides to try vaping to quit smoking. (I quit five+ years ago.) I accompany her to the store. (First mistake.) She tries it from sample tanks at the store. I try it. (Second mistake.) Think it tastes pretty good, may cure my problem with munching, and taking it up together may encourage her to quit smoking. We buy a pair of identical entry-level vaping setups. (My third mistake.) Next day: She's sick. Can't vape. Makes her cough uncontrollably.

Then I make my forth, and most tragic, mistake: Failure to Recognize The Signs. Should have stopped right there and then. Nope. I can be nothing if not oblivious. Carry on as if all's well.

Find I'm getting occasional burnt taste from the cheap clearomizer. Upgrade to a Mini Protank 3. Solved. But I want more vapor. Buy an eVic-VTC Mini on sale. Hey! That's much better! Start looking to upgrade the tank...

Meanwhile: She still can't vape. Still sick. Still makes her cough uncontrollably--even long past the exposure.

Last night: Bedtime: Wife: "I feel a bit nauseous. I think it may be your vaping." Mind you: I vaped maybe a dozen times, all evening, from over 10 feet away, in a 22' x 13' room with an open floor plan and multiple openings to adjacent rooms. Not big, gigantic clouds, but MTL from a Mini Protank 3.

So I put the vaping stuff away. Y'all may eventually see it up for sale.

 

[skiball]

Wow that's def crazy and thank you for sharing. It reminds me exactly why I stay single and just woundering how old are the two of you.

 

[vuJim]

Wow that's def crazy

Thus the title

It's from a The Big Bang Theory episode: Sheldon: ``No worries. I explained my predicament to our letter carrier. He was sympathetic. His exact words were “got your back, Jack, bitches be crazy.”``

and thank you for sharing. It reminds me exactly why I stay single

*shrug* I'd rather deal with the crazy than live without her. It's not as if I don't have more than enough of my own faults

and just woundering how old are the two of you.

Let me just put it this way: She's a member of AARP and the only reason I'm not is because I don't agree with the organization's politics.

In case I was not clear: IMO this is entirely on me.

 

[BigNasty]

To funny.
But hate to say this, I side with the wife.
Unknown to you a flavor/scent could be irritating her breathing.

And the day, week and month after quitting you will get sick as the tar and other bullshit exits the body.
Tell her to push through the sickness it will go away.

 

[Ibdaniel69_vaper]

If your completely new to Vaping it varies to how people will adjust to it if she's using 50 of 50 vg maybe she's allergic to pg try max vg. Of course after quiting cigarettes that's also not very fun so that's defiantly a part of it

 

[Discobob]

So you stopped vaping?

 

[vuJim]

Y'all misunderstand: She hasn't quit anything, except trying to vape. She's still smoking.

She's sick from having come down with something. Flu or whatever. A lot of people around here have. So did I, last weekend. Tho not as bad as her. (Doctor has suggested "allergies." Except who gets chills from allergies? And why have so many people lately experienced the same symptoms?

And, yes: I've stopped vaping, myself. At least for now. Whether that's permanent or not remains to be seen.

 

[Ryedan]

(Ed. Note: Meant humorously.)

My wife decides to try vaping to quit smoking. (I quit five+ years ago.) I accompany her to the store. (First mistake.) She tries it from sample tanks at the store. I try it. (Second mistake.) Think it tastes pretty good, may cure my problem with munching, and taking it up together may encourage her to quit smoking. We buy a pair of identical entry-level vaping setups. (My third mistake.) Next day: She's sick. Can't vape. Makes her cough uncontrollably.

Then I make my forth, and most tragic, mistake: Failure to Recognize The Signs. Should have stopped right there and then. Nope. I can be nothing if not oblivious. Carry on as if all's well.

Find I'm getting occasional burnt taste from the cheap clearomizer. Upgrade to a Mini Protank 3. Solved. But I want more vapor. Buy an eVic-VTC Mini on sale. Hey! That's much better! Start looking to upgrade the tank...

Meanwhile: She still can't vape. Still sick. Still makes her cough uncontrollably--even long past the exposure.

Last night: Bedtime: Wife: "I feel a bit nauseous. I think it may be your vaping." Mind you: I vaped maybe a dozen times, all evening, from over 10 feet away, in a 22' x 13' room with an open floor plan and multiple openings to adjacent rooms. Not big, gigantic clouds, but MTL from a Mini Protank 3.

*sigh*... Finally the penny drops I love her more than life itself, but I recognize the signs. She's now got it in her head that vaping and her are incompatible, and that's almost certainly the end of that. Logic (e.g.: "You can directly inhale the polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons, and God knows what else, from a lit cigarette, but...?") will do no good whatsoever. BTDT, GTTS.

So I put the vaping stuff away. Y'all may eventually see it up for sale.

Yup, been there done that too, LOL.

My wife and I have been together for 15 years. It took me a while to figure out that sometimes logic is simply irrelevant and that I was better off 'picking my battles'. The good thing is we communicate quite well and I was able to convince her to return the favor. It's worked out very well for us

 

[BigNasty]

Y'all misunderstand: She hasn't quit anything, except trying to vape. She's still smoking.

She's sick from having come down with something. Flu or whatever. A lot of people around here have. So did I, last weekend. Tho not as bad as her. (Doctor has suggested "allergies." Except who gets chills from allergies? And why have so many people lately experienced the same symptoms?

And, yes: I've stopped vaping, myself. At least for now. Whether that's permanent or not remains to be seen.

OK uphill battle here.
Cold and flu season while trying to shed decades of toxins, poisons and tar out of your system. Not a good combo, what lead me for failure my first few attempts.
Vapeflu is nothing to sneeze at either, took me about 2 solid weeks to not want to kill motherfuckers en-mas for simply breathing. The stupids are on thin ice still but that is more of my own personal bullshit level being set to zero.

Smoking covers up tons of underlying things also, like dental and digestive issues.

I got the chills with no fever, constipated and sleepless while going through allergy season.

 

[VapeRN]

I'm having similar issues with my wife, we both got our new vaping gear on 9/1/15, and I quit my 1/2 ppd smoking habit the same day. She has struggled however. I'm convinced it's not the nicotine but rather the myriad of other chemicals in cigarettes that act like anti-depressants in the brain.

She has mild problems with anxiety and they are exacerbated when she tries to quit analogs. She can go a few days but gets seriously nuts and breaks down and buys a pack. I mean, maybe I felt a little of that when I quit, but I don't have anxiety issues, so maybe there's something hard wired in her brain that doesn't function right without the MAOI compounds in cigs.

Sorry to hear you gave up. You should really keep pushing ahead. Best of luck.


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[vuJim]

OK uphill battle here.
Cold and flu season while trying to shed decades of toxins, poisons and tar out of your system. Not a good combo, ...

You're still not getting the picture. She's still smoking. She never stopped.

This... flu, or whatever it is, apparently hangs around, for some people, for weeks. It could be that what I "came down" with, last weekend, was merely what I came down with five weeks ago, and I thought had gone away, counter-attacking. Woman I talked to at the carry-out, last night, had been sick with it for three months. She, like my wife, also has asthma.

If my wife's not going to quit smoking and take up vaping: I'm going to drop vaping. I enjoy it, but one of the reasons I did it was to encourage her. She's quit smoking in the house ever since I quit smoking. I'm not going to sit there across from her, vaping, while she has to leave the house to smoke. And I certainly don't want her smoking in the house again.

 

[vuJim]

Sorry to hear you gave up. You should really keep pushing ahead.

Oh, I've suspended vaping until I find out what's going on with her. If she can take it up: I'll resume. If not: I'll not. As for "pushing ahead": I quit smoking over five years ago and good riddance. No problem, there.

Best of luck.

Thanks!

 

[Discobob]

Couple ladies at my work tried to vape after asking me about it then proceeded to make it my fault that it wasn't working for them.......one of them got a cold sore and blamed it on vaping......one of them got a red spot on her hand and blamed it on vaping.....bitches be trippin In the end they weren't ready to quit and wanted to blame something like me or a cold sore to justify wasting money on their set up, instead of just saying I don't want to vape.. Not saying this is the case though.

But if she's gonna quit she will if not no sense in pushing it that just makes them more stubborn.

Good luck man I couldn't even imagine if my lady still smoked and I didn't, it might even be a problem as smoking now makes me sick smelling it on other folks.

 

[vuJim]

But if she's gonna quit she will if not no sense in pushing it that just makes them more stubborn.

I haven't pushed her at all. Well, a little, teeny-tiny bit. Because you're right: She'll quit when she's ready. She may never be ready. That's one reason I put my gear away. I don't want to pressure her, even inadvertently. (Tho it's driving me a little bit nuts. Got a brand new eVic-VTC Mini stashed in the closet that I was having a ton of fun with.)

She says she doesn't want to give it up. She plans to give it a go after she gets over whatever flu or whatever it is that's got hold of her. We'll see.

Good luck man I couldn't even imagine if my lady still smoked and I didn't, it might even be a problem as smoking now makes me sick smelling it on other folks.

She doesn't smoke much, and she's very careful to keep both the smoke and any lingering scent of her having smoked away from me. She's been an angel in those respects. (Luckily: My sense of smell isn't that great. So it works.)

 

[freemind]

So why not just vape outside like she has to with smoking?

Just avoid vaping in confined spaces like she avoids smoking in the same, Problem solved.

 

[skiball]

So why not just vape outside like she has to with smoking?

Just avoid vaping in confined spaces like she avoids smoking in the same, Problem solved.

Hush I was hopeing he'd quit and sell me his gear on the cheap lol jk

 

[vuJim]

So why not just vape outside like she has to with smoking?

No offence intended: But that's just silly. Go outside in the blazing heat and humidity in the summertime, the freezing-ass cold and snow in the wintertime, the rain, the whatever... to... vape?!?!

Hardly. Before weekend-before-last I did not vape and had not smoked for over five years. I was enjoying it, but was enjoying the experimentation and discovery as much as the actual vaping. I can easily give it up.

Dream on @skiball All I have is an EVOD VV battery, a Mini Protank 3, a pair of Samsung 25R batteries and an eVic-VTC Mini. The batteries and mod are essentially brand new and would be worth the shipping cost for somebody to buy. If I sell: I won't be giving them away . The other stuff... I dunno what I'd do with it. Maybe that stuff I would give away for little more than the price of shipping, rather than have it go to waste. But most here won't be interested in an EVOD VV battery & Mini Protank 3 setup.

Too early to make any such decisions, however.

 

[skiball]

Well I PIF'ed my nautilus mini/cf always an option for your evod/pro

 

[freemind]

No offence intended: But that's just silly. Go outside in the blazing heat and humidity in the summertime, the freezing-ass cold and snow in the wintertime, the rain, the whatever... to... vape?!?!

Hardly. Before weekend-before-last I did not vape and had not smoked for over five years. I was enjoying it, but was enjoying the experimentation and discovery as much as the actual vaping. I can easily give it up.

Begging your pardon, but your complaints seem to be small. You expect her to go outside, yet you won't. You think she is being irrational thinking vaping is causing her distress. Maybe it is or isn't.
You obviously want to vape, or you would not be here venting about your situation, and looking so whiney to me.

You should either go outside to vape, or just sell your gear and be done with it. Aren't there bigger things in life to complain about? This seems pretty silly to me. Your wife chooses to smoke outside out of respect for you and your marriage. Quit being a sissy girl, and make a decision. Complaining on your wife over this trivial thing seems REALLY stupid to me.

 

[vuJim]

Aren't there bigger things in life to complain about?

Why, yes. Yes, there are. But this is a vaping forum, no?

This seems pretty silly to me.

What seems silly to me is somebody complaining about somebody bringing up a vaping-related issue in a forum dedicated to vaping. A particularly ironic complaint, considering your forum nick

And, since you appear to have completely, utterly missed the point, after I stated and re-stated it: I'm putting this on me, not her.

 

[Ibdaniel69_vaper]

I feel as though lots of people do not thoroughly read any ops posts and just say things.

 

[freemind]

Why, yes. Yes, there are. But this is a vaping forum, no?


What seems silly to me is somebody complaining about somebody bringing up a vaping-related issue in a forum dedicated to vaping. A particularly ironic complaint, considering your forum nick

And, since you appear to have completely, utterly missed the point, after I stated and re-stated it: I'm putting this on me, not her.

It's not a vape related issue. It's a marriage issue, and a matter of respect.

I wonder if she goes on a smoking forum and titles a thread "assholes be dickheads" and proceeds to vent about you making her go outside to smoke in in climate weather because YOU quit smoking. It's still her house too, bub.

Odd how potatoe head mofo's bring up the irony of my nic each time I don't agree with them. Because I see the bigger picture, not their tiny, one world, ME ME ME, bull.

 

[vuJim]

It's not a vape related issue. It's a marriage issue, and a matter of respect.

You either did not actually read my comments, or your reading comprehension is exceedingly poor. For example...

... you making her go outside to smoke in in climate weather because YOU quit smoking. It's still her house too, bub.

I don't make her "go outside to smoke in climate weather" [sic]. She did that on her own, for much the same reason I stopped vaping in her presence. She feels the need not to expose me to cigarette smoke for the same reason I feel the need not to expose her to vaping.

Odd how potatoe head mofo's bring up the irony of my nic each time I don't agree with them.

Uh huh. Referring to others as "potatoe head mofo's" [sic] being a sure sign of enlightened, free thinking

 

[5150sick]

I'm having similar issues with my wife, we both got our new vaping gear on 9/1/15, and I quit my 1/2 ppd smoking habit the same day. She has struggled however. I'm convinced it's not the nicotine but rather the myriad of other chemicals in cigarettes that act like anti-depressants in the brain.

She has mild problems with anxiety and they are exacerbated when she tries to quit analogs. She can go a few days but gets seriously nuts and breaks down and buys a pack. I mean, maybe I felt a little of that when I quit, but I don't have anxiety issues, so maybe there's something hard wired in her brain that doesn't function right without the MAOI compounds in cigs.

Sorry to hear you gave up. You should really keep pushing ahead. Best of luck.


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Check into WTA (Whole Tobacco Alkaloid) eliquid.
It often helps people who just find "something missing" when switching to vaping.

 

[5150sick]

Why, yes. Yes, there are. But this is a vaping forum, no?


What seems silly to me is somebody complaining about somebody bringing up a vaping-related issue in a forum dedicated to vaping. A particularly ironic complaint, considering your forum nick

And, since you appear to have completely, utterly missed the point, after I stated and re-stated it: I'm putting this on me, not her.

Same post as above applies to your situation as well ^^

 

[vuJim]

Same post as above applies to your situation as well ^^

Thanks for the hint & I'll keep it in mind.

Problem is: Right now, with whatever she's got going on, whether it be flu, allergies or whatever: She can't even "vape" steam, to clear her lungs, w/o coughing. (When either of us gets sick with lung congestion, we boil a kettle full of water, pour it into a large pot with some chamomile, and, with a towel to tent our heads over it, inhale that steam for ten minutes or so. Usually works well to help clear sinus and lung congestion.)

After I upgraded my tank from the cheap $5 throw-away to a Kanger Mini Protank 3, and while still using the EVOD: I had her try it. I'd been vaping a really mild juice that has 0 nic. She immediately went into a paroxysm of coughing This was something from which even I, after non-smoking for over five years, got little-to-no throat or lung hit.

She's not going to try vaping again until whatever this is that's plaguing her goes away. I'm probably not going back to it until and unless she can.