Sup, i need to share this to encourage other people to stop smoking, for real.
I'm located in Austria, we have a lot of smokers, people can buy a pack of cig's legal at the age of 16, most start around 12-13yo, I myself started at 15 and smoked about a pack a day (20p) until recently, i'm 24 now. Obviously that had some side effects .. e.g. my parents are 194cm (Dad) and 181cm (Mom), i ended up 176cm, ruind my athelitc ambitions due lack of lung performance, had my first girlfriend leaving because she could not take the smell anymore, atleast 2 dates on wich smoking was an absolute dealbreaker and many many more shitty things because i deluded myself of "needing it" for that nice excuse to have a smoke-break at work, compensate stress or just have something in my hand when i feel awkward. Around 22 i decided to break the habit with vaping, did some research and ended up with an Eleaf iStick Pico together with some random juice that frankly tasted like piss. The transition was really easy and i kept scaling the piss-juice down from 6mg to 3mg to 0mg in a duration of 3 months untill i felt relief of that nicotine dependence, so i quit it all together.
Two week later in a weak moment, i found myself sucking on a cancer-stick again, eventho it tasted like absolute shite to me, i went throught with it, like a madman and before i knew it, 2-3 weeks i was back on 1 pack a day.
It took me a good year and half to admit defeat before i tried again, but this time with something new, i wasnt happy with that leaky SMOK tank i bought for my ISticky Pico back then in combination with coils that taste burnt and last for 2 days, so i started researching again ...
To my suprise, the vape-scene grew quite a bit, the variety of things to buy upon rediscovering vaping was really discouraging, i felt overwhelmed with choice, that's also how i landed on this site and made my first post asking for "advise". Took me a solid 3-4 days of investigating diffrent products and watching very VERY unique personalities on Youtube to figure out what i wanted. After i set terms with that, i could not help but read a little bit more about my countries import laws, concerning vaping stuff, because while doing my inital product research i kept reading that things have changed drasticly over the years.
So i found this : https://i.gyazo.com/b46a205dcbbee83f865d5d404bc24219.jpg
Yes, that tiny Schnitzel looking piece of red in the middle is .. Austria.
My lovley country, wich leads almost any statstic you can find, in any aspect possible related to smoking, wether it be lung transplants or teenagers smoking, we are very high up there, if not the biggest smokers, in the entire world https://i.gyazo.com/de96eea35897e95814863286bf715d41.png
We are also pretty high up there with alcoholism .. anyway! As i'm sitting at a nice restaurant that same evening, eating a good healthy salad, trying to process those sad news, a mother on the table next to me with 2 kids poisons together with 99% of other people in that room that are also smoking, my very intimate space of already mediocre oxygen. I've had enough, i could not comprehend, why on earth it is so damn hard, to bring in vaping products into the arguably "smokiest" country on earth. Back home i sat down and came up with the most ridicolous plan to get my vaping gear wich took me more then a month to execute.
Back home, as i look on my disgusting ash tray, i rememberd a trival fact, wich was that i live 20km from the German border, oh yes, beautiful, liberating Germany wich has "not yet" imposed those ridicolous regulation Austria has waived over it's people. So the first thought was shipping my goods to Germany, but where? I knew nobody even remotly close there and since ive had a little bit of "issues" to say the least, with renting a mailbox due some onion related "business" ( dont judge me ), that wasnt an option either. So this is where it gets borderline ridicolous.
I'm going to the same barber for 15 years now, he does a great job and lives in my area. Some lady left a quite big dent in my neck with her razer machine or whatever you call that thing to shave the back of your head, when i was a little kid, so i have trust issues with barbers .. some people are scared of clowns, spiders well .. i have that with barbers. I man'd up and went through with my plan, i looked up diffrent shops near the border and found a decent one with a fast to reach route, before i went there i obviously had to let my hair-friend of 15 years know that we wont be seeing eachother for a while now and it has nothing to do with his great service, i stepped into store and straight out told him something like :" Listen dude, it has nothing to do with you, but i need to have my future haircuts in germany, i need to quit smoking its destroying my life and i cannot get vaping stuff in Austria". We built a very good relationship over 15 years, the guy pretty much watched me grow up and he always gave me hints that he thinks that i might be a little bit stupid and yea .. at that day i probably confirmed his false suspicion that im a retard as he looked back at me baffled as fuck, then i just left the store.
So this is already getting reeeally long, so i try to keep the next part short.
I dressed up like a gentleman, drove to the new store and met my new barberess, wich ofcourse had a striking simularity to the shadow i can remember of that neck cutting demon lady many years ago. I had pre-planned specific cigaratte quitting small talk for this session, but as i sat down sweating like a pig, i could not get anything out of my mouth that made progress towards my plan. After 15min she was done, i was exhausted and hated my haircut, but ofcourse i told her, that i never looked as great before in my life, together with tipping her like 50%, wich was part of my plan. I went back there 2 more times every 10 days and in the third session i felt like i was her new favourite, great tipping customer already, so i started talking about my struggle with cigarattes and how im unable to quit because of vaping import issues and "if i only lived in germany".
After finishing my rant, i sat there in this chair and felt like this is the most important moment of my life, she then opend her mouth and said :" why dont send it to us and pick it up when you come for a cut".
I felt like falling on the ground crying out of joy but i managed to remain in the chair and GREATFULLY accepted.
I made my order, with the shops adress, stocked up on everything i need, i actually bought great Juices recommanded on this site from Vaping.Watch ( im not affiliated ) and within 1-2 weeks, i got everything safely assembled in my beauitful home. suck on deez nuts Austria. ( crossing the border back with that stuff was also ridiclous, but this is already getting way to long anyway so .. )
My proud loadout:
Riccardo Captain PD1865 Mod
Free Max Mesh Pro Tank
Free Max Single/Double/Triple Mesh Coils ( loads )
Juice : [Vaping Watch] Strawberry Doughnut, Pear Cake, Dragon CranApple and many others ...
https://imgur.com/a/cCCu9Op
Btw, for american readers, Austria is a really beauitful country, also quite rich and has overall amazing standart of living, except for that crazy smoking paradox, wich i later learnd has to do with the goverment lobbying these imports to benefit local sales? .. something like that, it's complicated.
I'm already down to 3mg, i will eventually get away from vaping aswell, but in case i fall back to old habbits, i rather suck on this beautiful, stressfully aquired device that i have now, then one of these bloody cancer sticks.
If you read through this post and you smoke, my dude/my lady just ship a started kit to your place with prime, within 2 days you can get away from a life long, cancer habbit, you will feel SO much better and also, its cheaper ... with that beeing said .. dont tell me quitting smoking is hard, i know all about that.
I'm located in Austria, we have a lot of smokers, people can buy a pack of cig's legal at the age of 16, most start around 12-13yo, I myself started at 15 and smoked about a pack a day (20p) until recently, i'm 24 now. Obviously that had some side effects .. e.g. my parents are 194cm (Dad) and 181cm (Mom), i ended up 176cm, ruind my athelitc ambitions due lack of lung performance, had my first girlfriend leaving because she could not take the smell anymore, atleast 2 dates on wich smoking was an absolute dealbreaker and many many more shitty things because i deluded myself of "needing it" for that nice excuse to have a smoke-break at work, compensate stress or just have something in my hand when i feel awkward. Around 22 i decided to break the habit with vaping, did some research and ended up with an Eleaf iStick Pico together with some random juice that frankly tasted like piss. The transition was really easy and i kept scaling the piss-juice down from 6mg to 3mg to 0mg in a duration of 3 months untill i felt relief of that nicotine dependence, so i quit it all together.
Two week later in a weak moment, i found myself sucking on a cancer-stick again, eventho it tasted like absolute shite to me, i went throught with it, like a madman and before i knew it, 2-3 weeks i was back on 1 pack a day.
It took me a good year and half to admit defeat before i tried again, but this time with something new, i wasnt happy with that leaky SMOK tank i bought for my ISticky Pico back then in combination with coils that taste burnt and last for 2 days, so i started researching again ...
To my suprise, the vape-scene grew quite a bit, the variety of things to buy upon rediscovering vaping was really discouraging, i felt overwhelmed with choice, that's also how i landed on this site and made my first post asking for "advise". Took me a solid 3-4 days of investigating diffrent products and watching very VERY unique personalities on Youtube to figure out what i wanted. After i set terms with that, i could not help but read a little bit more about my countries import laws, concerning vaping stuff, because while doing my inital product research i kept reading that things have changed drasticly over the years.
So i found this : https://i.gyazo.com/b46a205dcbbee83f865d5d404bc24219.jpg
Yes, that tiny Schnitzel looking piece of red in the middle is .. Austria.
My lovley country, wich leads almost any statstic you can find, in any aspect possible related to smoking, wether it be lung transplants or teenagers smoking, we are very high up there, if not the biggest smokers, in the entire world https://i.gyazo.com/de96eea35897e95814863286bf715d41.png
We are also pretty high up there with alcoholism .. anyway! As i'm sitting at a nice restaurant that same evening, eating a good healthy salad, trying to process those sad news, a mother on the table next to me with 2 kids poisons together with 99% of other people in that room that are also smoking, my very intimate space of already mediocre oxygen. I've had enough, i could not comprehend, why on earth it is so damn hard, to bring in vaping products into the arguably "smokiest" country on earth. Back home i sat down and came up with the most ridicolous plan to get my vaping gear wich took me more then a month to execute.
Back home, as i look on my disgusting ash tray, i rememberd a trival fact, wich was that i live 20km from the German border, oh yes, beautiful, liberating Germany wich has "not yet" imposed those ridicolous regulation Austria has waived over it's people. So the first thought was shipping my goods to Germany, but where? I knew nobody even remotly close there and since ive had a little bit of "issues" to say the least, with renting a mailbox due some onion related "business" ( dont judge me ), that wasnt an option either. So this is where it gets borderline ridicolous.
I'm going to the same barber for 15 years now, he does a great job and lives in my area. Some lady left a quite big dent in my neck with her razer machine or whatever you call that thing to shave the back of your head, when i was a little kid, so i have trust issues with barbers .. some people are scared of clowns, spiders well .. i have that with barbers. I man'd up and went through with my plan, i looked up diffrent shops near the border and found a decent one with a fast to reach route, before i went there i obviously had to let my hair-friend of 15 years know that we wont be seeing eachother for a while now and it has nothing to do with his great service, i stepped into store and straight out told him something like :" Listen dude, it has nothing to do with you, but i need to have my future haircuts in germany, i need to quit smoking its destroying my life and i cannot get vaping stuff in Austria". We built a very good relationship over 15 years, the guy pretty much watched me grow up and he always gave me hints that he thinks that i might be a little bit stupid and yea .. at that day i probably confirmed his false suspicion that im a retard as he looked back at me baffled as fuck, then i just left the store.
So this is already getting reeeally long, so i try to keep the next part short.
I dressed up like a gentleman, drove to the new store and met my new barberess, wich ofcourse had a striking simularity to the shadow i can remember of that neck cutting demon lady many years ago. I had pre-planned specific cigaratte quitting small talk for this session, but as i sat down sweating like a pig, i could not get anything out of my mouth that made progress towards my plan. After 15min she was done, i was exhausted and hated my haircut, but ofcourse i told her, that i never looked as great before in my life, together with tipping her like 50%, wich was part of my plan. I went back there 2 more times every 10 days and in the third session i felt like i was her new favourite, great tipping customer already, so i started talking about my struggle with cigarattes and how im unable to quit because of vaping import issues and "if i only lived in germany".
After finishing my rant, i sat there in this chair and felt like this is the most important moment of my life, she then opend her mouth and said :" why dont send it to us and pick it up when you come for a cut".
I felt like falling on the ground crying out of joy but i managed to remain in the chair and GREATFULLY accepted.
I made my order, with the shops adress, stocked up on everything i need, i actually bought great Juices recommanded on this site from Vaping.Watch ( im not affiliated ) and within 1-2 weeks, i got everything safely assembled in my beauitful home. suck on deez nuts Austria. ( crossing the border back with that stuff was also ridiclous, but this is already getting way to long anyway so .. )
My proud loadout:
Riccardo Captain PD1865 Mod
Free Max Mesh Pro Tank
Free Max Single/Double/Triple Mesh Coils ( loads )
Juice : [Vaping Watch] Strawberry Doughnut, Pear Cake, Dragon CranApple and many others ...
https://imgur.com/a/cCCu9Op
Btw, for american readers, Austria is a really beauitful country, also quite rich and has overall amazing standart of living, except for that crazy smoking paradox, wich i later learnd has to do with the goverment lobbying these imports to benefit local sales? .. something like that, it's complicated.
I'm already down to 3mg, i will eventually get away from vaping aswell, but in case i fall back to old habbits, i rather suck on this beautiful, stressfully aquired device that i have now, then one of these bloody cancer sticks.
If you read through this post and you smoke, my dude/my lady just ship a started kit to your place with prime, within 2 days you can get away from a life long, cancer habbit, you will feel SO much better and also, its cheaper ... with that beeing said .. dont tell me quitting smoking is hard, i know all about that.
