I wrote to Steve (at PureSmoker) about this, but thought this story was worth sharing with others as well.
I had a doctor's appointment today, and when doc came into the exam room, i was eager to show him my new "toy" (my e-cig) and announce that i'm no longer smoking.
The moment he saw the e-cig in my hand, his eyes widened with excitement! He said he had just been researching these gadgets online & thought it was a fantastic idea & insisted i give him a demonstration.
So, considering i was in a doctor's office, i took a light drag (just enough to pull a slight bit of vapor).
He looked a little disappointed and said that he had seen e-cig videos online that put out a lot of vapor.
I said, "Oh, you want to see the vapor? OK...." And so i gave my e-cig a good hit and let out a big billow of vapor.
Well, i thought my doc was going to urinate in his pants. He was SO delighted! He then made me come out and give a demonstration to the rest of the staff in the clinic. LOL!!
Imagine this scenario: A waiting room full of patients watching their Doctor, Nurses & other clinic staff standing around a patient urging her to SMOKE! LOL!! I gave my e-cig a couple more hefty drags and let out billows of vapor to everyone's delight & curiosity (and i cannot even begin to imagine what the patients might have been thinking. haha!)
My doc was very impressed & said he thought this was the greatest thing since sliced bread ....and from all his research, he could not find any harm in smoking e-cigs whatsoever. (In cases of patients who should not be taking nicotine: he said it was fanastic that e-cigs also sell decreasing levels to even zero-nicotine caps).
OH! And then fun part is when i expressed my dismay that i was down to my last capsule & my order for e-juice from PureSmoker hadn't arrived yet, and that my only hope to continue vaping would be to extract remaining liquid from used caps: my doc immediately started loading me up with all sorts of syringes so that i could recover e-juice from all my used caps!
In short: My doc gave e-cigs 2 thumbs up and was surprisingly supportive and enthusiastic of the idea. He even said he plans to buy a bunch of these e-ciggies himself -to let some of his chronic smoking patients give them a try (and some for his friends)(and i suspect one for himself
).
He wanted to know where i recommended buying them, and of course i had to recommend PureSmoker.com for many reasons. Best of all has been PureSmoker's customer service. Steve always responds to email questions promptly & is incredibly informative. I've never experienced customer support like this before! My doc wrote the website down -and with all the excitement, we almost forgot why i had come in to see him in the first place. LOL!
Anyway, i came home from my doctors appointment with hands full of syringes of all sizes (feeling too happy to be aware of the fact that i probably looked like a ...... addict rushing home for a fix) and managed to successfully extract an amazing amount of remaining juice from used caps with no problem, .....and am now sitting here happily vaping off my recovered "2nd-hand juice." WhoooHooo!
It's quite encouraging to have a physician not only reassure me of the safety of e-smoking, but also support it & share the same excitement of this discovery!
For the first time in my life, i can honestly say that my doctor made me smoke.
**Oh, and in the waiting room prior to my appointment: i vaped away in my seat and was only detected by one person who did not know what to make of the mist coming out of my nose while i was nibbling on what looked like nothing but a black pen. *grin*
Aloha!
I had a doctor's appointment today, and when doc came into the exam room, i was eager to show him my new "toy" (my e-cig) and announce that i'm no longer smoking.
The moment he saw the e-cig in my hand, his eyes widened with excitement! He said he had just been researching these gadgets online & thought it was a fantastic idea & insisted i give him a demonstration.
So, considering i was in a doctor's office, i took a light drag (just enough to pull a slight bit of vapor).
He looked a little disappointed and said that he had seen e-cig videos online that put out a lot of vapor.
I said, "Oh, you want to see the vapor? OK...." And so i gave my e-cig a good hit and let out a big billow of vapor.
Well, i thought my doc was going to urinate in his pants. He was SO delighted! He then made me come out and give a demonstration to the rest of the staff in the clinic. LOL!!
Imagine this scenario: A waiting room full of patients watching their Doctor, Nurses & other clinic staff standing around a patient urging her to SMOKE! LOL!! I gave my e-cig a couple more hefty drags and let out billows of vapor to everyone's delight & curiosity (and i cannot even begin to imagine what the patients might have been thinking. haha!)
My doc was very impressed & said he thought this was the greatest thing since sliced bread ....and from all his research, he could not find any harm in smoking e-cigs whatsoever. (In cases of patients who should not be taking nicotine: he said it was fanastic that e-cigs also sell decreasing levels to even zero-nicotine caps).
OH! And then fun part is when i expressed my dismay that i was down to my last capsule & my order for e-juice from PureSmoker hadn't arrived yet, and that my only hope to continue vaping would be to extract remaining liquid from used caps: my doc immediately started loading me up with all sorts of syringes so that i could recover e-juice from all my used caps!
In short: My doc gave e-cigs 2 thumbs up and was surprisingly supportive and enthusiastic of the idea. He even said he plans to buy a bunch of these e-ciggies himself -to let some of his chronic smoking patients give them a try (and some for his friends)(and i suspect one for himself
). He wanted to know where i recommended buying them, and of course i had to recommend PureSmoker.com for many reasons. Best of all has been PureSmoker's customer service. Steve always responds to email questions promptly & is incredibly informative. I've never experienced customer support like this before! My doc wrote the website down -and with all the excitement, we almost forgot why i had come in to see him in the first place. LOL!
Anyway, i came home from my doctors appointment with hands full of syringes of all sizes (feeling too happy to be aware of the fact that i probably looked like a ...... addict rushing home for a fix) and managed to successfully extract an amazing amount of remaining juice from used caps with no problem, .....and am now sitting here happily vaping off my recovered "2nd-hand juice." WhoooHooo!
It's quite encouraging to have a physician not only reassure me of the safety of e-smoking, but also support it & share the same excitement of this discovery!
For the first time in my life, i can honestly say that my doctor made me smoke.
**Oh, and in the waiting room prior to my appointment: i vaped away in my seat and was only detected by one person who did not know what to make of the mist coming out of my nose while i was nibbling on what looked like nothing but a black pen. *grin*
Aloha!
