Saturday, February 20, 2010, 10:52 PM
Well, not quite smoke... It's vapor! E-cigarettes, to be exact.
Ok, so I was dumb and started smoking again a few months back. It wasn't doing anything good at all for my health, as you can imagine. Well, about a month ago, I finally got the money to get something I've been wanting to get for a long while now: Electronic Cigarettes. I'd been looking through different sites and chose one to go with first: Greensmokes.
Let me tell you, those are nice. They look like real cigarettes, they taste like real cigarettes, (unless you get the different flavors) but they don't smell like real cigarettes. And they don't give you ash, tar, carbon monoxide or any of the other nastybads that real cigarettes do. Immediately I started breathing better, and boy, did I love these things! There's the battery (the part that looks like the long part of the cigarette) and the cartridges (which look like the filter) and that's all there is to it. You recharge the batteries as often as you need to, and though they don't exactly WANT you to, if you buy "e-juice" online you can refill the cartridges a few times before you have to throw them out.
(You can find these at GreenSmoke.)
But they're expensive, so I decided to try another brand as well, see how they work out.
Joye 510. They're small cylinders, but that's where their visual resemblance to cigarettes ends. They come in different colors. I chose purple. (Those who know me won't be surprised) There are three parts to them, unlike the GreenSmokes. You have the battery, the atomizer (which is part of the cartridge in the Greensmokes) and the cartridge with these. And these cartridges were meant to be refilled as many times as the filling will handle it. They say the filling does break down after a while, but I haven't found the magic limit yet. The smoke volume is comparable, and I like it better because it's purple! ;)
(You can find these at E-Cig Express)
Then there's the BluCigs. They come in black or white. I chose black. Like the Joye, they come with three pieces, but these carts aren't meant to be refilled. You CAN, but it's harder to tell when they're full. (You can find these at BluCigs.com.)
The advantage to the Blu over the Joye and the Green is that the batteries charge very quickly -- in about an hour.The Joye takes approximately 2 hours. The Green can take as long as 5.
Each kit comes with two batteries and chargers for them. The Joye and Blu each come with two atomizers. All of them came with pre-filled cartridges in whatever flavor I wanted -- or in Blu's case, it was a variety pack featuring all of their flavors.
Just for the record, since I started vaping instead of smoking, my lung function has improved so much that my pulmonologist wants me to bring him brochures on these things to put around his office. If that's not a rousing approval of them, I don't know what is.
Til next time!
-- The Linds
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( 0 / 0 )Monday, February 1, 2010, 09:34 AM
Well, hello again, my friends! It's been a long time!
It's kind of a class project at this point in time. I've got to add to my blog because my teacher said to. However, that's not all I'm going to say. Let's see....
Since I last spoke to you all, I've been sick (as if that's news) and my doctors have placed me into a rehab center. Read that as "nursing home" and you'll be more correct. Yick. But at least I still have internet. It's not very stable, but it's internet.
The world is a wierd, wierd place.
But on another note, I found a new way to smoke that doesn't stink up the environment, give me tar, carcinogens and carbon monoxide, and create litter and ash. It's called Green Smoke. Check it out at the link below!!!
-- The Linds
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( 0 / 0 )Monday, April 6, 2009, 09:57 AM
More long absences.... but you know, this time, it's been good for me. :)
We live in Waco now, after having been homeless for a couple of months. On the whole, though, you might think homelessness would be a bad thing, but I've gotten more and more healthy as the time has gone by. We got out of that awful, unclean, unhealthy house we were living in, with the horribly abusive parents ShadowDark7 has. (They wouldn't let us clean the house because that meant moving their sh-- stuff out of the way so we could dust and vacuum and get the rat, mouse, and bug sh-- poop out of the house... so that we could be HEALTHY... and THEN they came over and yelled at us constantly about this thing or that.)
In late October, we got a new housemate, Ariel, who came to help us out when Janet got really sick and couldn't take care of herself, much less me. And I still have trouble with some small aspects of self-care. So he came and when Erich dumped me (less said about that, the better, unless he comments and says he didn't, and then I'll explain how he did), Ariel proclaimed that he had loved me since he first saw me, and that he would never, ever leave me. So far he's kept that promise, and in fact, he wants kids (something that I want, badly) and he's never even made noises about leaving.
In fact, we got married on March 20th :)
He has also helped me get out of bed, and into the wheelchair more often, until now I'm doing a lot of stuff for myself. I cook, I clean, I take care of the dogs. There's still a few things I can't do myself, but hey, we're working on it. You can't expect six months to get me completely well after years of bedrest.
AAAAAAND now Janet, Ariel and I are planning on starting school in May. It's a big step for all of us. :) But hey, I think we can do it!
Here's to love, life, and liberty!
Til Next Time
-- The Linds
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( 5 / 1 )Thursday, November 6, 2008, 12:44 AM
Hi Ho, Hi ho, it's off to Oz we go!
Or, Dallas, anyway.... so we've been here for a few months. That's good, I think...... right?..... Ok, not so good. I spent most of the first two months here in the hospital. SXince then I've been mostly bedbound with a few excursions out. I have gotten a puppy, though! Her name is Diamond. Janet got one, named Payback. Yeah... Diamond's a girl's best friend and Payback's a ... yeah, you get the joke. ;)
Till next time,
The Linds
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( 0 / 0 )Friday, September 5, 2008, 11:16 AM
Apparently these long absences aren't good for The Linds. I've sp[ent more time in than out of the hospital lately. [ add comment ] | permalink |
( 0 / 0 )Sunday, February 24, 2008, 09:45 AM
Oh... My.... GOD....
Drew Carey does the Time Warp.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvHMBkYg1sw
It's.... it's.... WRONG! LOL
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( 3.2 / 16 )Monday, December 24, 2007, 06:41 PM
The Linds was gone for TWO MONTHS! I was in the hospital. Not good. Yeeeeeah.
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( 3.1 / 19 )Friday, June 29, 2007, 05:49 PM
Bum Chicka Bow Wow!
Name that song. ;)
-- The Linds
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( 2.8 / 30 )Thursday, June 28, 2007, 11:51 AM
Fwustwation wuns supweme. Or at least Frustration runs supreme... ;) It seems that if I'm not activei n Dark Falls, nobody is. It's very frustrating. I've got a cohost that knows what's going on.... so why isn't she doing more? Ok, I know why. So I'm ranting.
Rant.
Rave
Rant
Rave
Rant
Rave
Ok... I'm done.... Back to your regularly scheduled blog....
Til next time...
-- The Linds.
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( 3.1 / 32 )Thursday, June 14, 2007, 01:56 PM
Holy CRAP! Zombies! Everywhere! I can see them walking up and down the street from my fourth floor window. Thank GOD I'm up here! Since they can't...
Oh, shit...
The elevators...
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