Sealth Vaping

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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

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??

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.

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

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

Including me.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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?

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!

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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!!!