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This month makes for 10 years smoke free. Started with an Ego/ CE4 kit and Pharmboy Black Sundae liquid. Now I’m all fancy and stuff. 
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Congrats on your 10 year Vaperversary my friend!This month makes for 10 years smoke free. Started with an Ego/ CE4 kit and Pharmboy Black Sundae liquid. Now I’m all fancy and stuff.
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Wow 10 years!
This isn't my Vapeversary, but on Sunday April 22 was my 20th yr anniversary of quitting the cigs.
Didn't know where else to put this, sooo put it in here..
Really don't know when I started to vape, all I know I was stressing out and Vaping saved me from smoking the cancer sticks..
Congratulations my dear friend. I don't think anybody here will quibble over numbers. Vaping kept you off cigarettes, so there you have a vaperversary.
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Yesterday was 8
8 years! Congratulations Vape Fan. Wishing you many more.
I have no idea why your cake is wearing a fur coat. Don't eat that part.
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Big congrats on 10 years, R3alJim Shady! That Ego/CE4 kit was the starting point for many of us, myself included, and it worked, and worked and worked.
Stay free.
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Congrats Wolfie, 20 years is amazing. Here's to many more!This isn't my Vapeversary, but on Sunday April 22 was my 20th yr anniversary of quitting the cigs.
Didn't know where else to put this, sooo put it in here..
Really don't know when I started to vape, all I know I was stressing out and Vaping saved me from smoking the cancer sticks..
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Big congrats @Vape Fan!Yesterday was 8
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Big congrats on the milestone of 10 years!This month makes for 10 years smoke free. Started with an Ego/ CE4 kit and Pharmboy Black Sundae liquid. Now I’m all fancy and stuff.
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Thank You !Congrats Wolfie, 20 years is amazing. Here's to many more!
Congrats! That's a great milestoneThis month makes for 10 years smoke free. Started with an Ego/ CE4 kit and Pharmboy Black Sundae liquid. Now I’m all fancy and stuff.
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Thanks ! I got bronchitis 2x in 3 months and again b4 years end and got to where the cigs made it harder to breath. It was like every time I smoked one I said self you gotta do something. Having tried Chantex twice and another script once, and all the other common ways you can think of(other than hypnosis), nothing had worked. Luckily found a local shop that had serval Nautilus's set up with diff flavors for customers to try. So first setup was Nautilus/SVD 2 DNA 20W, wish I had it, 2 weeks later no smoke.
I'm glad you liked it, but I couldn't stand that ugly hand. 20 years deserves better, so I made you a new one and edited my post with it.That's cool, You did a GREAT job ! Thank You !
And, the cake tasted Mighty Good..
Celebrating 10 this year! Started with a shitty ego twist that I literally used to snap the atomizer off of lol. I remember being annoyed that the 15mls at the the time were like 20 bucks. Currently puffin' a blvk ello bruce chee 2500 puff. Bizarre how far everything has come along.
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Welcome to the VU, cloudboi_x. 10 years is quite an achievement. Did you take up vaping to quit cigarettes?
Thanks!! I did! Smoked 27s since I was about 14-15. Started vaping at 20.
Then here it is with 10 little vape candles.
After I started with the ego-T 3.3v, then up to the slightly higher power Ego-T 3.7v, then on to the Ego Twist, I found there were problems with those Ego Twists. I had two arrive dead. The seller replaced them, but the replacements didn't last very long. Then on to the Vision Spinners, better, but ultimately it's the eLeaf I've stayed with since 2015, long lasting, reliable, attractive, practical. I'll have my 11th anniversary in November of this year.
Happy vaping!
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On another thread I was reminded that today is my 12th vapeversary.
Time to say that I'm happy to still be able to buy a few vape things here and there. Last year at this time it sounded as though the whole industry would be dead and buried by now. I'm grateful that we vapers are stubborn and we don't like to be bossed around!
Time to say that I'm happy to still be able to buy a few vape things here and there. Last year at this time it sounded as though the whole industry would be dead and buried by now. I'm grateful that we vapers are stubborn and we don't like to be bossed around!
Congratulations!
12 years is quite an accomplishment.
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Congratulations Nadalama. 12 years, wow.
Me too, glad we vapers are too stubborn to be bossed around.
Here is a cake for you, chocolate, white royal icing, and buttercream:
STAY FREE!
Congrats on 12 years of better choices nada
June 15th was 11 years....nobody cares.
Vaping is all but dead in the USA....I'll have to hide my vapes in my new place...breaking my lease...
If caught, I'm possibly off Sec8, and out of my Apt I fought for for 3 years...not worth it. Better to just smoke and die.
Vapers are a dying breed, a tiny subset of also dying out smokers...
Vaping is all but dead in the USA....I'll have to hide my vapes in my new place...breaking my lease...
If caught, I'm possibly off Sec8, and out of my Apt I fought for for 3 years...not worth it. Better to just smoke and die.
Vapers are a dying breed, a tiny subset of also dying out smokers...
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OMG, am I gonna die?
Caff, the people posting here certainly do care, because we know that the greater the number of years since vaping helped us quit cigarettes, the greater the chance that we would be dead by now if we hadn't done it.
Judging by all the administrative efforts to keep vaping off high school and college campuses, young people are taking up vaping. I'm not saying minor children should vape, and the sale of vape products to minors is illegal, as we know. I'm just saying it goes on.
I would say that any newspaper or magazine article saying that vaping is dying out merits our suspicion.
We have elected monkeys who conflate vaping with cigarette smoking. Whenever we hear of one of them trying to thwart us, we have to make our voices heard, by writing or by emailing them through their websites. They usually just want tax dollars from us anyway.
I'm more optimistic than you are. The power of our consumer dollars has been felt, or vaping would have been banned long ago. It doesn't matter if vaping isn't as mass market as, say, Doritos or water weenies. It only takes a critical mass to support those who would care to create and sell a product, to keep it going. If US vape sellers have disappeared, and even Chinese sellers have disappeared, it is because authoritarian governments have attacked the honest sellers of good products to honest people seeking smoking harm reduction and smoking cessation.
I don't recommend smoking to anybody, but as for it dying out:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/12/style/smoking-cigarettes-comeback.html
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/...02010/why-young-people-still-smoke-cigarettes
This says "In 2022, about 1 of every 7 high school students (14.1%) reported that they had used electronic cigarettes in the past 30 days."
https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/youth_data/tobacco_use/index.htm
This indicates the (so called) pandemic caused a certain amount of risk taking behavior:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-...-people-taking-smoking-40-year-decline-habit/
Unfortunately smoking is, you might say, an inherited habit. If your parents smoked, you're likely to become a smoker. That still holds true. This says "page last updated May 31, 2023":
https://www.lung.org/quit-smoking/helping-teens-quit/why-kids-start-smoking
I do not hope for people to take up smoking, but if there is anything to hope for it's that we can eventually introduce them to the harm reduction of vaping, and recruit them for our team.
Cheer up! It's your vaperversary.
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I'm going to congratulate you on 11 years off cigs anyway, ok? Congratulations!
You're a smart guy, you'll figure it out for the new place. Please don't pick up the cigs again. ((((Caff))))
It's never better to just smoke and die.
Your vaping in your own private quarters won't be detected as long as you take precautions. Landlords have to give notice before they enter your apartment, but not counting on that compliance, just make sure to keep your spare equipment and liquids in a closed cabinet, and know your quick place to stash your vape when there's a knock at the door. Vaping only makes your place smell fresh and clean.
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I care!
Congrats on your 11 year Vaperversary and sorry about all the crap that you are going through that is against your vaping.
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Wow been a while since I have been here I am way behind
I am way behindCongarts on 11 years of good sense, I am sure your lungs and Milly are thanking you too my friend
Congrats on 7 years Gadget and hopes of many many more7 years today!
After smoking for over 45 years it feels great.
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Big congrats!!! Smoke-free is wonderful!7 years today!
After smoking for over 45 years it feels great.
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I'm guessing this will be my 4th year anniversary of vaping (although I feel guilty posting this because I still occasionally slip back into dual use but never gave up vaping) I smoked for 40 years before I found vaping.
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Congrats on 4 years @VapeOn1960!
Happy Vapeversary, @VapeOn1960 !!!!
I don't know why I stopped getting email notifications on this thread. I would have sounded in sooner.
Congratulations @VapeOn1960
As your user name says, vape on!
It's my 11th vapeaversary today. I'll always remember it was the Saturday after Thanksgiving 2012 when I had my last cigarette with morning coffee before embarking on a day of struggle. I'd been both vaping and smoking for about six weeks, somersaulting through dozens of flavors when vape sellers were allowed to give free samples. On cold evenings at that time of year I started to look forward to getting home, getting warm, and having a rich, intense vape. I realized I loved vaping far more than smoking, and I was ready to quit the stinkies.
It still was hard for the rest of that day. I wanted a cigarette. The devil on one shoulder was saying "go ahead, have a cig, nobody is stopping you". The angel on my other shoulder was saying "you're doing great, keep vaping, leave the cigarettes, don't put this off another day". When I finally went to bed that night, I knew I was a nonsmoker forever. I had no cigarette cravings the next day, nor ever again.
I've told my story often, but I still see the success of that quit day as a miracle, the technology of vaping as a miracle, and I still love it. Love this forum and this thread. Thank you all for being part of my life.
It still was hard for the rest of that day. I wanted a cigarette. The devil on one shoulder was saying "go ahead, have a cig, nobody is stopping you". The angel on my other shoulder was saying "you're doing great, keep vaping, leave the cigarettes, don't put this off another day". When I finally went to bed that night, I knew I was a nonsmoker forever. I had no cigarette cravings the next day, nor ever again.
I've told my story often, but I still see the success of that quit day as a miracle, the technology of vaping as a miracle, and I still love it. Love this forum and this thread. Thank you all for being part of my life.
