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Jimi

Jimi

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Good mornin Family :wave:
Another beautiful day in the neighborhood:rolleyes:
I hope everyone are well and havin a great day:)
Your health is everything;)


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SirKadly

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Bliss Doubt said:
I meant to add, and have said it often in this forum, I definitely agree with bumping up your nic level. People think they'll gradually reduce their nic level and then quit vaping, and be free of vaping, smoking, all of it, but when their nic gets reduced so much, one day, like a zombie they'll stop somewhere and buy a pack of cigarettes, and so they're off the wagon.

Cigarette nicotine is a different addiction than vape liquid nic, but a sufficient nic level in the vape is support in breaking the cig addiction. I did reduce from 18 mg. to 12 at 3-4 weeks after my final cigarette, only because I felt wired all the time, waking up in the middle of the night. I have kept at 12 mg. since then, without ever suffering cigarette cravings.
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This seems like a good place for a short story.
A Tale of Two (or more) Threads by Not_Charles_Dickens :giggle:
It wasn't the best of times, it wasn't the worst of times (both of those were still in the future, but that will be another story for another time), it was just regular times. It was almost the age of wisdom (vaping), but in the spring of 2015 it was still the age of foolishness (cigarettes), smoking around a pack and a half per day. I had a couple of scary nights though waking of with coughing fits so bad I felt like I was going to pass out before I was able to breathe again. And so I determined I needed to try to quit for about the thousandth time.
Ran across some info on the Aspire Ego One, bought it, and after finding a couple juices I liked, put the ciggys down about two weeks later. Was vaping 18mg at the time. Then I was in a car wreck, and considering that things went flying wildly in the car (that tends to happen when the car goes from 60 to 0 in s split second) I was concerned about the safety of my mod. Did some searching found links to Mooch's battery safety stuff (not that it answered my specific question) and wound up on ECF. Stopped looking at that point so didn't know about VU yet.
On ECF I found a small group of people who just sort of clicked, we started out own social thread, and gradually became more like family than friends. Shared each others highs and lows, supported each other, etc. That thread became my home for the next two years. Met two of the people from that thread in person, talked to three of them on the phone. Knew a few of them by their real names.
After a couple months found my vape style changing, realized I preferred things a bit more open, a bit higher wattage, but not at 'cloudz bro' levels. Started hanging out with the mod wompers from time to time, bought modwompy type gear, reduced my nic to better suit the gear. Probably moved to fast on cutting my nic levels, because for some reason after that car wreck I went back to smoking occasionally, and would go through cycles of not smoking for several days, then smoking a couple per day for a bit, then not smoking again for awhile. Was there to see the exchange between Rixy and Retired1 that led to the people from that thread abandoning ECF and moving here.
Which is what led me to VU in April 2016. But my 'family' was still there so even though I hung out in the ECF Refugee thread, I wasn't a true refugee. But I enjoyed the company of Juicy, Andria, moo, Hank (RIP), and, well, while I didn't know all of you back then, a couple of you did post in that thread at least on occasion.
Short version (the longer version will have to wait for another time) is that in October 2017 I took a kind of sabbatical from both forums. The good news is that I stopped smoking completely from then until basically February of 2020. At that point, for a variety of reasons, I started smoking again. A couple a day at first but it gradually moved back to the point of my old pack and a half per day habit. Occasionally I would think about trying to get back to vaping, but mostly just sort of looked at my gear and ignored it.
A couple months back I heard a song that was actually the trigger for me to return, but, well, I've already written half a book, so I'll come back to that another time.
 
SirKadly

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My positive for the day, I remembered to take the trash and recycling out to the curb a few minutes ago. I usually forget to do it before I leave for work, which means I have to do it when I get home at 12:30am since they will come to pick it up before I wake up in the morning.
 
SirKadly

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SirKadly said:
This seems like a good place for a short story.
A Tale of Two (or more) Threads by Not_Charles_Dickens :giggle:
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Part Deux
For anyone not familiar with the history of blink-182, they took a hiatus in 2005 due to various disagreements primarily involving their guitarist, DeLonge. Relationships with him remained strained for several years. When the drummer, Barker, survived a terrible plane crash a few years later it brought them back together, at least for awhile. But the unresolved issues, would eventually cause them to replace DeLonge.

“When we did get back together after my plane crash, we only got back together, I don’t know, maybe because I almost died,” Barker said at the time. “But [DeLonge] didn’t even listen to mixes or masterings from that record. He didn’t even care about it. Why Blink even got back together in the first place is questionable.”

2021 Hoppus announced he was battling cancer. DeLonge became one of his biggest supporters through his treatment. Evidently they resolved some of their long standing issues, and DeLonge returned to the band in 2022.

In late September of this year, I awoke in the middle of the night with one of those coughing fits like the ones I had experienced back in 2015. Up until then I hadn't cared too much one way or the other if smoking was going to eventually kill me, but at that point I decided I needed to once again do something. Pulled out all my old stuff, sorted through it, started vaping again at least enough to cut my smoking roughly in half.

At about the same time I heard blink-182's new song "One More Time" on the radio. It opens with the line:
'Strangers
From strangers into brothers
From brothers into strangers once again'

These words struck me, I had been a part of a group of people that started as strangers, but became family, and now once more we were strangers. So I decided it was time to get back on my old home thread at ECF, especially since I had returned to vaping. Only the thread was long since closed, the old 'family' gone, no posts from any of them anywhere in a couple years.

Came back to VU, same thing, the Refugees, at least the ones I had mostly talked to, gone. A couple still seem to very occasionally drop by VU, but they aren't very active. Don't know why I thought nothing would change in the six years I was gone, but honestly I miss some of the camaraderie that I had in those threads.

That said, I am glad I stumbled into this thread and joined you.

I will fill in some of the holes I've left in my story at another time.
 
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Jimi

Jimi

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Good Mornin Family :wave:
Beautiful day here today, already up to 33 and sunny, I miss bein able to strip down to shorts and work out in the sunny garden, it looks like waste land now all bare:giggle:
I hope the day day is bein kind to everyone;)

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