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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: mijoieau on November 13, 2010, 04:13:40 PM
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I have a passion for one of the bushiness i run and its an easy way to give up smoking, the way it works the faster smokers can give up then the longer they will live and also play aces, then more kills for me.
The products are electronic cigarettes. I was able to give up 20+ years of cigs in 1 week due to electronic cigarettes, i was so impresses i brought the company.
So the offer just for fiend and foe is 10% off any products. BUT ONLY FOR AUSSIES! as we don't ship OS.
The site is www.evape.com.au
Coupon Code: aces_high
Just enter the code in the checkout to save some cash, again Aussies ONLY!
This is a shameless plug but even if your not a Aussie and cant kick the habit have a look around in your country and see if you can get a kit, its well worth the small outlay not only for your health but also the back pocket.
Cheers
Forkit
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Wow, you seriously bought the whole company, or just something like territory selling rights?
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Am I close enough?? hahaha...I've been trying to give up but you keep driving me to smoke :lol :lol :lol :lol jokes mate haha
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Ok just read the whole "About eVape" on the website and see that you do indeed own the company, kinda cool that you even mention that you found it through a friend from the U.S on an online game, which I assume is Aces High, congrats on the company, hope it works out for you.
Also, not sure about Australian laws, but are they like it is here in the U.S now where you basically can't smoke tobacco in any business like and including bars & restaurants?
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Ok just read the whole "About eVape" on the website and see that you do indeed own the company, kinda cool that you even mention that you found it through a friend from the U.S on an online game, which I assume is Aces High, congrats on the company, hope it works out for you.
Also, not sure about Australian laws, but are they like it is here in the U.S now where you basically can't smoke tobacco in any business like and including bars & restaurants?
Yep i read the first thing about e-cigs on aces high, a few guys in this forum talking about electronic cigs, from there had a go and it work a treat. I should donate half my profits to the aces high community and i would but i am a greedy bastidge. :devil
And the answer for the part about US bars and clubs is the next stage is pushing to get evape into them, because its a good reason for me to drink at every bar, try to sell the product and if they do or don't the drinks will be tax free as its a business expense that i am sure my accountant can hide somehow :}
And to Tongs, you may smoke more because of my bad nature, but you make me hit the hard drinks since i joined the stuff in the kitchen draw crew! Now i am searching for electronic vodka. :cheers:
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Those things strike me as the dumbest thing I have seen. Sorry, but that's how I see it. "quitting smoking"? Yeah right. Like saying I gave up drinking because I replaced beer with vodka. Smoking is a method to sustain nicotine addiction. E-cigs are just a different delivery device, and a stupid looking one at that. Quitting smoking in most peoples definition would mean breaking the nicotine addiction, getting free of the drug. E-cigs don't do that and I have to imagine when the fad fades, most will go right back to their original delivery device. That's my opinion of it anyway.
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Those things strike me as the dumbest thing I have seen. Sorry, but that's how I see it. "quitting smoking"? Yeah right. Like saying I gave up drinking because I replaced beer with vodka. Smoking is a method to sustain nicotine addiction. E-cigs are just a different delivery device, and a stupid looking one at that. Quitting smoking in most peoples definition would mean breaking the nicotine addiction, getting free of the drug. E-cigs don't do that and I have to imagine when the fad fades, most will go right back to their original delivery device. That's my opinion of it anyway.
But if it works for just 1 person,then its not a fad....to that person its a life saver ( literally )
Mijoieau ,
Wishing you the best of luck with this endevor, I hope the business grows leaps and bounds!!
Best uf luck
<S>
Mbailey
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Those things strike me as the dumbest thing I have seen. Sorry, but that's how I see it. "quitting smoking"? Yeah right. Like saying I gave up drinking because I replaced beer with vodka. Smoking is a method to sustain nicotine addiction. E-cigs are just a different delivery device, and a stupid looking one at that. Quitting smoking in most peoples definition would mean breaking the nicotine addiction, getting free of the drug. E-cigs don't do that and I have to imagine when the fad fades, most will go right back to their original delivery device. That's my opinion of it anyway.
You are a non smoker right? Alot of them have this attitude.
Consider this, the e-cig is the closest thing to satisfy the craving for cigs that has ever come along. Something that eliminates the by product of combustion has got to be less harmful than actual smoke.
You can choose different nicotine levels which is the method used with the step down patches only they do nothing to satisfy the oral fixation/habit.
I have tried these and it is very clear to me that they could dramatically improve the dismal quit rate of those motivated to do so.
The reason I haven't is that it's difficult to keep enough supplies and working devices around because you generally have to either order them from overseas or go somewhere else than the local market, but they have helped me to cut down on the amount of real cigs I smoke.
If people's real desire was to reduce the amount of harm caused by smoking rather than crap all over smokers and tax them to death, these things would be lauded and promoted at all levels.
One other thing I could mention, they also eliminate the nuisance and (exaggerated IMO) second hand harm caused to others.
I could puff on one of these in your house and if you didn't see me do it, you would never know.
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What Jim said..
Ya the withdrawls are a biznitch but I can live with them. I have an oral fixation. I've quit Ambien, Xanax, and other prescription drugs and dealt with the side effects but nothing I have tried satisfies me like I big dip of Skoal or Red Seal. Non tobacco chews just don't have the right consistency / taste to satisfy that urge.
I may have to try the E-sig and see if that's a viable alternative.
Good luck mijoieau
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What Jim said..
Ya the withdrawls are a biznitch but I can live with them. I have an oral fixation. I've quit Ambien, Xanax, and other prescription drugs and dealt with the side effects but nothing I have tried satisfies me like I big dip of Skoal or Red Seal. Non tobacco chews just don't have the right consistency / taste to satisfy that urge.
I may have to try the E-sig and see if that's a viable alternative.
Good luck mijoieau
Dicho, I think it would be a monumentally bad idea to inhale on on e-cig as an alternative to dipping or chewing.
While inhaling the e-cig vapor has to be safer than smoke, Don't do it if you are not inhaling smoke already.
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fair point Jim
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My sis bought one about a month ago, she hasn't smoked a sig since.
Rash
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Very cool FORKiT,
I have been analog(real cig) free for over 2months using a RIVA kit I picked up on-line..It has worked great,and the flavors of nic juice are amazing..
Someone said that its giving up one nic device for another,true,BUT,without all the other chemicals which actually do the most harm in an analog..My lung functioning is better,my taste and sense of smell is coming back..The lung function is rerally unbelieveable though..And this after 30 years of smoking.
I have just recently invested in a BOTTOM feeder mod called a REO..IT IS about $130.00 and it holds a juice bottle and a 3.7v 3000MAH battery..when you want more juice,you just give the bottle a squezze with your finger for a few seconds and vape on...These are 3 different styles..The wood reo,the MINI reo,and the reo GRANDE..The mini is the brushed aluminum one,and is smaller than a biz card..The one on the left,the GRANDE,is just a tad bigger.about 3.5 inches tall..They have no wires and are all mechanical switching,I believe the REO wood has wires.The other 2 are machined aluminum.
The REO thread can be found on E-CIG forum..The website for the reos is reosmods.com I believe..
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/e-cigarette-suppliers-forum/95123-reo-grand-opening-sale.html
And as far as using them..One can use them anywhere..It is not SMOKING,it is vaping,and one exhales water vapor..
The carrier for nic juice and flavoring is propylene glycol usually..The same stuff they use in fog machines at concerts..and when exhaled is only water vapor..
I have tried to quit numerous times over 30 years,and this satisifies much more than a patch or a lozenge for me..(YMMV)
Falcon23
(http://i325.photobucket.com/albums/k393/FALCON23_album/IMG_5469.jpg)
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Has anyone who's using these e-cigs used them inside buildings and had people try and tell them they can't use them indoors? I personally haven't used them, I'm just curious about the reactions people are getting from other individuals when using them indoors.
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Trax,I used one at a fast food restaurant the other day..my firend got asked if i was smoking,he said no,and they said ok...
My boss had to go to the hospital the other day to see his mom..He vaped and not a word heard about it..
ANd I vape in walmart all the time with it..
SOME airlines even allow it..
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What Jim said..
Ya the withdrawls are a biznitch but I can live with them. I have an oral fixation. I've quit Ambien, Xanax, and other prescription drugs and dealt with the side effects but nothing I have tried satisfies me like I big dip of Skoal or Red Seal. Non tobacco chews just don't have the right consistency / taste to satisfy that urge.
I may have to try the E-sig and see if that's a viable alternative.
Good luck mijoieau
MIJ,I got one recently(FLAVOR).I dont really care for..it tastes just like a DIP in my mouth..could work for you also..
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Hi Guys
I love hearing the good and bad stories from people, even opinions from non smokers that like to flame :}
I had or my wife had my 3rd kid on Monday and i could spend the whole time in hospital vaping i never had to go outside, i showed or was asked by doctors and many nurses what the ecig was and they were all amazed none told me i cant do it once i explained what it was, the thing that throw them was it doesn't smell at all and no second hand smoke. everyone in the hospital thought it was the best thing they had seen for smokers or people tiring to give up.
In Australia we are always around 3 decades behind euro and the US with many things, e-cigs here are no different, where ever i go people ask what it is, only a few have said they have heard about them but they don't know anything about them.
If i can by a 4 story house buy the sea with a deep boat access and a few people can give up real smokes then its all good :angel:
I just paid a guy to make me a cool little app that can ad up how much people save by the hour and also how many smokes they have avoided, it can be used as a signature or on html pages, but i have a question about the aces forum, when i add it as a signature is very small is this just the setting of the aces forum? (see my sig on the forum the little white box)
It seems fine on other forums but not aces.
This is the code for a forum banner which works fine as it shows up but when placed in my signature its very small.
(http://www.freezingpoint.in/projects/smokefree/banner/10019.png)
(http://www.freezingpoint.in/projects/smokefree/evape.html)
and this is the code for html
<img border="0" src="http://www.freezingpoint.in/projects/smokefree/banner/10019.png">
(http://www.freezingpoint.in/projects/smokefree/evape.html)
Anyone know why it would be so small? also as you can see its nearly finished needs a few bugs fixed like decimal places.
Cheers forkit
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Forkit, I bought one about a year ago and have never used it due to Chingrish instructions and what turned out to be a credit card scam for ongoing monthly payments of $50.00 US dollars for refills. I'll check your stuff out and talk to you about it next FSO.
Goodluck with the four story house.
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yea phatz..My original vaporizer was a RIVA black..from vaporjunction.com
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Good onya Mate, now about that free sample..... :P
I'll place an order this week, did the new juice come in yet?
Steely
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Steely shhh
Ducks on the pond!
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They've been out in California for about a year now, if they're a fad they might be one that sticks for a while. They seem to work really well, people can imediatley transition from smoking tabacco to then picking one of these things up and completely cutting out their tabacco intake from that point forward. My only concern with them is that people are simply replacing one nicotene delivery "device" for another, and not really kicking the habit or trimming down their daily nicotene intake... and nicotene is bad.
Best of luck with them down under, seems the strongest sales pitch and how "they became known about" out here so fast was they were being pedled by salesmen/women to smokers in the middle of busy non-smoking environments, like in the middle of indoor malls. I think they bought jumbo-packs of disposable mouthpiece covers made for hookas, and just slipped on a clean one, passed it to someone for a couple puffs and talked to them about the product, then found a new potential customer, put on a new disposable cover for them and let them drag on it a few times while pitching the product to them.
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My only concern with them is that people are simply replacing one nicotene delivery "device" for another, and not really kicking the habit or trimming down their daily nicotene intake... and nicotene is bad.
That is true, but the addiction to nicotine combined with the puffing habit is extremely difficult to break. Unlike other NRT's this device helps to satisfy both.
One can transition to lower nicotine levels until no nicotine at all, then tackle the puffing habit.
Considering that the worse thing about tobacco cigarettes is the carcinogens from combustion it is a safer nicotine delivery device, with no smell, ash or butts to dispose of, even as just a replacement it is still better for all.
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They give the E-sigs away free now in the US. They make their money on refills which are not expensive and come in many flavors.
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They give the E-sigs away free now in the US. They make their money on refills which are not expensive and come in many flavors.
As they are becoming more popular, and the refills are being sold more commonly at local gas station corner stores, I am noticing this too. They're kinda snowballing here in popularity the past few months here, customers selling the product to other smokers/potential-customers, they're giving away the device but selling things you need for them and still making a good profit (IE: car chargers, flavored-refills, etc.). I see a potential risk though with their use rising amongst the younger people out there. In the last couple months I've seen a shift from the thirty and late-twentys crowd as a quiting assistant to it being more popular and "cool" amongst the "tweens", If I hit the clubs on the weekend with some friends, I'll see a dozen of the younger kids with them now. Which means it won't be long until some 15-yo comes home from school with one of these things and we have their mommy flipping out the next day to the media.
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<--- evil laugh :devil
Cant wait for the aussies 15 years olds pick it up, they may get media attention then which even if its bad would be great for me :t
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Whats the age limit to buy tobacco in Australia?
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Whats the age limit to buy tobacco in Australia?
18, same as alcohol :)
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I think I got a carton of winfield and a carton of victoria bitter for my 18th