jjinlasvegas

Thanks everyone for all your ideas. My Dad's 510 should be here tomorrow or Tuesday. I will see how he likes it and see if he thinks he will give up smoking or at least cut back. If so..then I will look into getting him a unit that will be easier for him to use. He can always give his 510 to my daughter, who has also recently started vapeing. I have saved all these suggestions and I'll let you know how he progresses. It was mentioned that there are other people out there with vision issues and I too believe that should be addressed by suppliers/inventors, if at all possible. Thanks everyone

Thanks Rusty for the offer, I appreciate that. Although Dad is on a fixed income, he is a retired school teacher so his income is sufficient. I just wanted him to realize a cost savings for switching to the e-cig as well as the health benefits. If it's easy for him to use he'll use it....if it's too difficult I'm afraid he'll give up and stick with his analogs. At his age, he'll just figure; "it's time to die, anyway"! BUT...if he can save money then that will make a difference to him. Does that make sense? lol

Commandment #10 is definitely the best!! LOL... great!

I've heard about that Redbox! We only have Hollywood Video out here in the middle of this gawd forsaken desert!! But, you're right, that's a way cheaper way to go lol

What else?? FaceBook GAMES, of course!!!

WAIT!!! Isn't this your 3 day weekend?? DANG, that really sux! However, you *could* pack up the car and go to visit your poor old Mother-in-Law who plans to cook for the next 3 days....oh and go to bingo, of course. What a great idea!! Tracy and I could go to bingo and you and Richard could stay home and babysit and do some heavy VaporTalk!!! lolol....sometimes I just amaze myself!

Run down to Blockbuster and grab about 10 movies?? lol GL!!!

As I mentioned on a couple of other posts my Dad is 81 years old and practically blind and very hard of hearing, almost deaf. He has smoked cigarettes since he was 9 years old and just yesterday asked me to go ahead and order him a 510 (menthol). He is on a fixed income and although he buys analogs at a far reduced price I would like him to see that if he switches to vapeing he will save $$$ (he realizes the health benefit). Because of his long term habit I don't think he will be able to get by with cartridges only but I am looking for options for re-stuffing cartridges. However, I'm pretty sure he will prefer direct dripping. My question is: Does anyone have any ideas for a sight impared person to easily direct drip without getting juice everywhere?

Thanks everyone for the PTB info! Main reason I'm asking is not for myself, I'm getting along fine with direct dripping, so far. BUT... since I have been vapeing my hubby and my daughter have started vapeing; and best of all, my Dad has now ordered a 510 for himself!!! My Dad is 81 years old and has smoked cigarettes since he was 9!! I know that the cartridges will be the easiest for him to manage and if I could find a good way for him to restuff his cartridges (or for me to restuff them for him) that might be the way for him to go. He hasn't yet received his package in the mail, so I'll have to wait and see how he likes it but keeping my fingers crossed.

Would that be a normal Lipton tea bag?? After I made that last post I went to Youtube to see if I could find something on "PTB" and sure enough there were a couple of videos there. As far as I know they were using just regular/normal tea bags. I am not sure what a "pyramid tea bag" is. Also, I'd like to know if you really need that stuffed cartridge? I have mostly done direct dripping on to the atomizer and using an empty cartridge, but maybe I am doing that all wrong and need to use a stuffed cartridge. I'm not sure. Anyone with any advise on this issue would be appreciated, thanks!

At the risk of sounding like a "noob" (which I am); what is a PTB mod????

Stubear, Would it be possible for you to post a link here to that video when it gets published? Please :> Sometimes I have a hard time finding stuff, lol.

Welcome!! You have 1 day on me!! I'm wrapping up my first smoke-free day! I didn't think I could do it, even ONE day, lol.

Right now it's just my user name I lived in Vegas for 10 years and really really miss it. My Mom was ill and my Dad is nearly blind and can't hear, so when Mom passed away someone had to stay here in California with my Dad. I got elected. My Dad is very stubborn and won't leave here and I can't just leave him here. BUT...if I had my way I'd still be living in Vegas. I guess that's why I refuse to change my User name!! As a side note, my Mother died of lung cancer attributed to smoking at the age of 77. I wish I'd known about vapeing a long time ago. Of course, there's my Dad, who has smoked since he was a boy of 9 years old; he is now 81 and still smoking with no signs of lung cancer or any health problems other than his sight and hearing. I've shown my ecig to my Dad and he seemed interested but not interested enough to give up his analogs. I just recently chose to give up smoking after 46 years. And, as far as I know, I have no signs of cancer, yet. I am having health issues, but I think mostly due to "getting older". I'm among the 40 million people in this country without health insurance, and because of that I don't really know where I stand "health wise". I decided if I can stop smoking now, I might not be too late. I had always thought that my addiction was NOT to the nicotene but rather to the tactile pleasure of handling the cigarette, and the oral pleasure of drawing on the cigarette. Until now I coudln't find anything to satisfy those urges. That's why I am so happy that I found the ecig!! Ok, this was not supposed to be my life history lolol. Sorry, I tend to ramble on sometimes!!

I had only had my ecig for about a day when I had to go to my regularly scheduled Dr's Appt. My doctor knows that I smoke and has given up chewing me out about it, lol. Before leaving the exam room, I wipped out my ecig in front of him and took a hit then said, "So, Doc, what do you think about this?" He kinda looked shocked for a sec. and then said, "OH, you've got one of those e-cigarettes!" "But what's the point? You give up one addiction for another"? I said, "Yes, but hopefully this one won't kill me." He said, "Well, be sure to read the Surgeon General's warning on those". And that was it. I haven't bothered to look and see if the Surgeon General actually has a warning on ecigs, but I just know that no matter what it has to be better than smoking analogs.

Thanks, Jeff!! Yes, I did get 2 batteries with my new 510, but I'm still worried, lol. I watched a lot of the videos on the PassThrough and for me, it looks like a necessity. Considering the fact that me and "Betty" are about the same age, there's not a lot for me to do but sit at the computer and play World of Warcraft, write on forums, watch videos and play my facebook games, LOLOL. So, yeah, I do sit a lot at the machine! I'm liking the 510 better than my Njoy. The design is better and not nearly as much juice getting into my mouth as with the Njoy, lol. In fact, so far, I haven't had a mouth full of juice since I started using it!! So, that is a definite PLUS!

Thanks, Nana, I know where to come and I'm not afraid to use it lolol. I can see already that I do have to do some "stocking up" but hey, it'll still be cheaper than my 2-3 pack a day habit!!

Today is the first day I am using the 510. I did what I was supposed to and charged it for 8 hours, however, after reading a lot of the posts I see that I really didn't have to wait that long on the battery. Anyway, today will be my first "smoke/analog free" day. I'm a little nervous that I won't have one battery ready when the other one dies, but we'll see how that goes. So far I really do wish the battery would last longer. I like the manual operation and I'm not finding it difficult to deal with, so that's good. I got the black one and I like the design. I'll report in later in the day when I need some "waiting on battery support" lol.

BUT WAIT!!! I really would like to have a "PassThrough" :> or a Purple 510 or The Spade..........lol (there's my Xmas list)! hehe

LOL...Jeff has to be nice to me, I'm his mother-in-law!!! And thanks for the welcome :>

All of California has non-smoking restaurants so we have no choice here. A couple of days ago I went into a restaurant and when the urge to have a smoke hit me I pulled out my ecig. Since I am still very very new at using the ecig I was prepared for anything. I took a couple of hits, no one said anything, so I took a couple more hits. After about 6 hits the urge to smoke (analog) left me and I was fine. In the interim no one ever said anything about using the ecig at the restaurant :> So...I agree! Don't ask for permission, just do it and see what happens.

Thanks for your response! Slowly but surely I am figuring this out. Thanks!!

Thanks, Jeff! I appreciate the help :> After I really learn how to do this I can give up my analogs!! lol

Thanks for posting this!! I was wondering the exact same thing... I guess we're just sloppy vapors? I really need to get used to the lingo lol Are we "vapers" or "vapors" or do we just "vape"? I got the "vaping" thing...since we used to smoke, we were "smokers", now that we "vape" we are "vaping". Blah...who cares, we'll live longer, unless we poison ourselves!!!

I just ordered a 510 today from awesome (arno) and from what I've read so far, it seems to be the best way to go. I haven't finished reading this entire thread yet, but I'll let you know if I have any issues with it when it arrives.