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Post by lobeydosser on Nov 13, 2015 12:22:50 GMT
My local pharmacy is a subsidiary of Boots and they say they cannot get it. Also the chemist in the next village who is an independent chemist, also cannot get it. Now I did buy a litre about a year ago on the internet, but I cannot remember where I got it.
Plenty of battery type distilled water for sale, but I want something that I know would be safe to use for vaping.
So does anyone know of an e-cig vendor that sells it?
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Post by lobeydosser on Nov 13, 2015 11:42:31 GMT
I have been searching both these pages and the internet in general for the past 2 days looking for "food grade" distilled water and drawn a blank.
So please can someone point me to a supplier of this?
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Post by lobeydosser on Nov 13, 2015 11:20:40 GMT
Hi jaye12, Another vote here for the Vamo as a spare. I too use an Istick 20w (well actually 4 of them) but even as I sit here, I have a boxed Vamo sitting on the desk in front of me. If I am away on a trip, it is in the bottom of my bag with a couple of spare batteries and a charger. Oh sure, it would be easier to take a spare Istick and a charging cable, but I know I can depend on the Vamo if all else fails.
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Post by lobeydosser on Nov 11, 2015 20:03:24 GMT
Yup. I'm the same. I have one on a lanyard round me neck and that gets used from first thing in the morning until I head for bed. I have one on the bedside table with Minth in it for reading in bed and two in the shed with different flavours for when I am having a break from the garden or it is raining which is more likely.
Ofcourse there are others scattered around the house again with different flavours, but these don't get more than a few tokes per day.
E-cigs are nothing more than "a nicotine replacement therapy" for me. Albeit a very healthy and pleasant way, but I have been through the shinyitis phase and these days I am content with what I have and the juice I mix for them.
My "shinyitis" now comes from Seed & Plant catalogues and my satisfaction from watching things growing.
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Post by lobeydosser on Nov 11, 2015 1:49:25 GMT
Okay, we Forum Members know that (some) of these are overcharging etc etc, but most newbies to the vaping fraternity are coming in through these shops and they are not aware of Forums like AAE-C where they can find out where to buy good gear much cheaper.
3 of my neighbours are now Vapers and although I have told them about AAE-C, as far as I am aware, they are still travelling the 40 odd miles to Glasgow just to buy their Vaping needs from a B&M Shop. A shop by the way that gave them pretty duff advice originally and has tied them in to buy much more expensive gear than they needed.
However, I can take the horse to water, but I canny make it drink it.
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Post by lobeydosser on Nov 10, 2015 23:05:38 GMT
I find that most hobbies these days cost a bleedin' fortune.
The price a spares for our classic cars have gone through the roof and I would hate to think what we have shelled out on computers over the years.
Even the price of a night on a caravan park makes us think twice about going away over the school holidays. Camping/caravanning is no longer a cheap way of holidaying.
Although the savings were not my original impetus for starting Vaping, I was surprised to find out that after the initial expenditure, that it turned out to be so cheap and yet so satisfying. Probably the only "hobby" I have these days that doesn't cost an arm and a leg!
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Post by lobeydosser on Nov 10, 2015 22:10:33 GMT
Oh come on now GunJack. Just think of all the fun I had this afternoon, standing in the mud with the puddles coming in over the top of my shoes while I planted out 30 Polyanthus. And what's more, I go to bed tonight thinking about how much more fun I will have tomorrow, planting out 30 Sweet Williams, 30 Stocks and 20 Pansies. I just hope the shoes dry out overnight!!! Never leave until tomorrow, what you can do today, 'cause if you do it today and like it, you can do it AGAIN tomorrow!
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Post by lobeydosser on Nov 9, 2015 23:12:03 GMT
Hi GunJack, Since last May the garden has gone from this;- To this;- Well actually it is a bit further on than that and I already have some veg coming up that will be ready next Spring. Tomorrow, if this bloody rain goes off, I have 105 winter flowering plants to go in and then I have to fill some tubs to take 1 Raspberry bush, 1 Tayberry bush and a dwarf Plum Tree. In the meantime I am off to study some seed catalogues. Oh JOY!!!!
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Post by lobeydosser on Nov 9, 2015 16:55:28 GMT
Hi TJ, My 2 "Wooly Hot Water Bottles" Bichons by breed, used to avoid me like the plague when I smoked. If per chance they got a whiff of cigarette smoke, their top lip would curl back and they would sneeze fit to burst. Today they will lie on my lap, even when I am vaping, and doze. If that doesn't say something against the chemicals in tobacco, nothing will. Hi @nursemorph, Every one of us are ex-smokers and every one of us has found a new way of life from changing to vaping. Vaping is just the first step, the possibilities are almost incalculable. So go for it and enjoy the ride. And this from someone who last year thought that having Green Fingers was a disease, now it's a hobby.
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Post by lobeydosser on Nov 9, 2015 16:44:08 GMT
... and I think you'll find that those Superkings are more like £20/day now; I saw inside a cigarette display at a local supermarket recently and noticed that Benson and Hedges are almost £10/pack!! Thanks for that chykensa. I am too scared to look these days at what I once thought I would be spending for the rest of my life. They say that you will not miss what you never had. Well the idea of losing what vaping has brought me, gives me the terrors. Gawd help us if government schemes takes away our vaping.
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Post by lobeydosser on Nov 9, 2015 16:37:57 GMT
Hi GunJack, A wee while ago when the total, based on 40 super-king costing £15, I did a calculation which said I would have spent £17,000. At that time my total vaping expenditure was aprox £2,400. In the 3+ years since I changed to vaping we have bought a Brand New Car (Dacia 4X4), an old Caravan (which we have refurbished) and spent a small fortune on a new garden. The savings have not just come from vaping though. I have no need to make the daily trek to the local shop so I am not buying the inevitable rubbish that I used to buy when I went for fags and so not only do we have tangible items to show the benefits of vaping, but our Bank Balance is considerably healthier than it has been in years. SWMBO gets her Winter Holidays with her friends while I get the "pleasure"???? of staying at home TV Remote and Dog Sitting. A task which suits me just fine! I guess the biggest change of all is that for years we would view catalogues and TV Adverts and "drool" over things, wishing we could afford them. Today we don't drool. Today, if we like something, we can afford to buy it. I'm not saying we do though. Just because we can afford something, we have had a long enough time of being skint that things have to be of good value before we will commit to actually purchasing them. The Car. The Caravan. The Garden. Aye, and Vaping too, all fall into the same category, in that they all follow the Flag of "Freedom of Choice".
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Post by lobeydosser on Nov 8, 2015 22:23:50 GMT
I don't know that I have experienced any actual health benefits, however if there are any, they have come through the change of lifestyle that vaping has allowed me to indulge in. Through the savings I bought and did up an old caravan and so we now see much more of the countryside. I have also spent a fortune doing up my old back garden which was a cross between a Paddy Field and a Dump. By next year we hope to become self sufficient in all our main vegetables and fruit. So yes, no more sitting at home watching telly with a fag hanging from my gob, I am either exploring some part of our beautiful country or in the back garden, usually in the pouring rain, up to me ears in muddy soil or trundling a wheel barrow. I might die of pneumonia or trench foot, but certainly not of lung cancer!
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Post by lobeydosser on Nov 8, 2015 15:50:13 GMT
To give beginners a better view of vaping and ofcourse for my own use, I have just done an Oct 2014 to Oct 2015 inventory.
I then ordered all the chemicals I have used, to bring my stocks back up to what they were.
All in all my vaping it is working out at 32.9 pence a day.
3 years ago I stopped smoking my usual 40 super-king that was costing me £15 a day.
So whether you are considering changing to vaping for health or social reasons, just perhaps the extra jingling of spare cash in your pocket/handbag may be a good enough incentive to give vaping a serious go.
It certainly was for me.
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Post by lobeydosser on Nov 7, 2015 1:25:18 GMT
Pity the rest of Scotland's NHS is not of the same mind. E-cigs are totally banned in all NHS buildings and grounds apart from Lothian NHS.
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Post by lobeydosser on Nov 2, 2015 18:43:20 GMT
When I started vaping it was with a £12 special offer kit for a "cig-a-like". With that kit, it took me a month to get off the fags completely and onto 100% vaping. However, by 2 weeks later, I had saved about £150. It was then that I made up my mind that no matter what, I would never spend more on vaping than half of what I had saved by not smoking. I then bought a decent (to me) vaping kit at £60. By only spending half of what I have saved, no one, especially SWMBO can have any complaints about what I buy vape wise and indeed she is over the moon about how little we are spending these days. Courier131, You buy what you think will suit you best, but do try to not spend more than you would have if you were still smoking. In the beginning, one of the best feelings of taking up vaping is feeling the extra cash in your pockets.
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