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Sealth Vaping

18 replies

Allergictoironing · 16/06/2014 11:06

Just for a bit of fun, list some of the places you've stealth vaped in. I know we did this a bit in the threads before we got the Stop Smoking section, but there's a lot more of us around here now and it was a while ago.

I'll kick it off with stealth vaping in the formal exam at the end of the training course I've just been on Grin

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magimedi · 16/06/2014 11:11

On several Squeezy Jet flights & in the plane loo - it does not set the smoke detectors off.

Didn't someone vape in the hospital whilst in labour??

PlentyOfPubeGardens · 16/06/2014 14:02

At work, on night buses and at stratford station. Does it count as stealthing if you go in the loo?

I have heard that there are two sorts of smoke detector and one sort (the less common I believe) can be set off if you do a big cloud near it.

Raia · 16/06/2014 15:51

Station platforms and sneaky vapes in various toilets (hmm lovely!), and starbucks (next to an open window). It's a bit difficult to be stealthy with a vamo though, they're not exactly unobtrusive Confused

FlockOfTwats · 16/06/2014 16:08

I was at the back of the bus the other day and all 5 occupants of the back seats were stealth vaping.

Including me.

FlockOfTwats · 16/06/2014 16:09

Magi - That was me, i didn't actually manage to vape, i attempted to but had gas and air and gas and air won.
My other half was vaping in the labour room.

Jux · 16/06/2014 18:06

In a church service at which my dd was singing.

Otherwise only in your common or garden shops, supermarkets, trains etc. hoping to widen my horizons, though!

Boomerwang · 18/06/2014 00:03

I didn't know you can't use them in some places? I've used mine on an SAS plane, in pubs, supermarkets, in all places where smoking is prohibited. Should I have checked first then? I've only been using it for a few weeks but I plan to stick with it for a long time.

Allergictoironing · 18/06/2014 06:43

There is no law about not using e-cigs wherever you want, but the owners or managers of privately owned premises have the right to ban it. This includes shops, pubs, buses and trains etc. e.g. I gather Weatherspoons has banned vaping in all it's establishments. Reasons for this vary, usually along the lines of either staff have problems telling the difference across a crowded pub or that other customers may object

There's also a range of places where, though they haven't yet formulated a policy on the matter (too recent a phenomenon), vaping tends to be a bit frowned upon e.g. I wouldn't vape inside the hospital or the doctor's waiting room myself, and sometimes the hassle of explaining & arguing just aren't worth it.

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WidowWadman · 18/06/2014 06:57

Doesn't stealth vaping mean that "stealth vapers" use their e-cig more often than they would/could a normal cigarette, and therefore actually increase their nicotine habit rather than "quit" as they love to claim?

Boomerwang · 18/06/2014 07:23

Does everybody claim they're using one to quit, though? I did, when I first got one, but I'm considering whether or not to 'quit over a very very long time' because I find it enjoyable, particularly after coffee or alcohol, just like a real cigarette.

I'm still so very new to this. I had no idea there was an etiquette involved, although I did sense sometimes that it wouldn't be right. I live in a country which has banned the sale of them so people give me odd looks and that makes me sort of turn my back when I use it, much like you would if you'd taken a call from your mistress!

Allergictoironing · 18/06/2014 07:37

WidowWadman vaping patterns are very different from smoking. Whereas a smoker would have one complete cigarette lasting 5-10 minutes and 20-30 draws say every hour or so, a vaper will take possibly the same number of draws over that time but 3-4 every 10 mins or so. Nicotine is also taken up much less effectively and slower by vaping.

What vapers have quit is all the harmful and anti-social aspects of smoking. They may or may not want to eventually quit nicotine but continue vaping 0% liquid, some may want to stop the habit aspect altogether, some are happy vaping with nicotine because in itself it isn't harmful to health - unless you drink comparatively vast amounts!. They no longer "smoke" because the vapour from an e-cig just plain isn't smoke with all the harmful and smelly aspects of that, and they no longer cause any harm to non-smokers via passive smoking.

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PlentyOfPubeGardens · 18/06/2014 08:20

What Allergic said. Here's a graph that explains a lot (It's from a Farsalinos paper in Nature but I just whipped it off Reddit and don't have the full link).

I 'claim' to have 'quit' smoking (8 1/2 months - woohoo!), I don't 'claim' to have 'quit' nicotine and don't see why I should.

Sealth Vaping
PolterGoose · 18/06/2014 09:11

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FlockOfTwats · 18/06/2014 09:23

Widow I'm not bothered by nicotine levels. Nicotine isn't dangerous. I'm not sure how my vaping habits are relevant to my quit smoking status. I have quit fags, i now vape. It's a different thing. I have no intention of quitting vaping, i am happy with current research. If that changes I would consider my position.

If i stealth vape its usually because ive been busy though and havent had chance to vape normally. So no i'm not using it more. I'd have used it less.

YesJesseARobot · 19/06/2014 00:30

I wonder who is going to be the first to admit stealth vaping while their partner is under the covers...

Cardinal · 19/06/2014 02:00

Disabled loo in the boxes at a football stadium. Very against the rules!

OohQuack · 07/07/2014 22:47

I read on a fb group from a girl who works in weatherspoons that it's band just because the big boss doesn't like it.

I've vaped at work, supermarket, shops, the ward you go to after having a baby minds gone blank

I don't like doing it in shops n stuff really so I try my best to produce zero cloud

magimedi · 16/07/2014 21:21

Stealth vaped in the euro tunnel, in the car, en route home from France!

Stealth vaped in every French supermarket I went into (just home from visit to DS & DIL who live in France).

Saw very few vapers in 'La Belle (!) France!!!

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