This is a guest post written by Keyzygirl from Key West, Florida. Laid back and vaping in paradise.
I finally got a chance to make it to one of the bigger vape meets. I attended Vapestock at
Vapebash Crowd
Indian Rocks Beach in Florida. I have been vaping for a few years and know so many people from chatting every day on the Internet. I never met any of them face to face until now and it was an amazing experience for me.
The night before the actual Vapestock meet they held a “meet and greet” at the hotel and I was shocked at the crowd when I entered. It was kind of intimidating to see so many people vaping and partying. I recognized two women from their profile pictures – women that I felt I knew well from chatting with them every day. I ran over and introduced myself and hugged them both. The fear was gone and I knew I had found my people.
Keyzy and Steve Milin
I got up to take a walk and a man approached me and introduced himself and I was in total shock and awe. It was our very own Steve Milin, the owner of Vapor4Life. What a thrill to meet the man who got me into vaping. He has made a huge impression on my life and the lives of everyone I send to V4L. I gave him a big hug and thanked him for being so wonderful. I hope he realizes the life changing effect he has had on so many of us. He got me into vaping, his amazing products worked for me. I have made so many friends from vaping, become involved in so many aspects of vaping and even started my own vaping blog. He changed my life. What a thrill to finally meet him.
The Vapestock meet was awesome. It was held in a conference room at the hotel. Over 400 vapers attended. I met so many wonderful people and so many people I knew from the Internet forums and groups. There were a few vendors selling vape supplies. I saw Steve Milin giving out 6ml tanks to everyone. I got a pink one. Thank you Steve! I ended up with a ton of juice samples from different companies, two t-shirts, and a cute orange plastic variable voltage tube mod. I was even interviewed on the Vapers Place radio show. I was amazed how many people knew and recognized me from the vape community. I must have hugged over 100 people! It was a completely awesome experience for me. I will definitely be attending next year.
Vapebash
If you have the opportunity to go to a meet, go for it. I was nervous about it but once I got there I fit right in. Vapers are wonderful people and they welcome everyone. It’s a great way to try new things and see what’s new and hot on the vape scene. I look at things on the web but it’s so cool to hold them in your hand and test them out before buying! Being with so many vapers and being able to see and try so many things was amazing. If they have a meet in your area, go for it. You won’t regret it and I guarantee you will make a ton of new friends. Vapestock was awesome! I absolutely loved it!
VAPE ON!
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That’s really cool that you got to go to such a fun event! I’m sure it was a great feeling to connect with your vaping friends in person after so many conversations online. You got some great photos!
Wow Keyzy! WTG! That’s a great Blog and you’ve written it in a manner that makes me so jealous that I couldn’t be there too! LOL (That’s good writing
) Thanks so much for sharing that!
It was great to meet you at Vapestock. Glad you had a wonderful time and I hope you’re enjoying the samples.
take up simokng. I feel sick to my soul that I ever put one in my mouth and it still gets me, the thing is not to let kids start simokng in the first place, thats where it starts. I started when I was younger and felt sick from that day on, I have had nights when sucking on cigarettes have left me looking like a sallow dead man and I am a good looking dude proud of my god given physical prowess, stupid stupid stupid. You are all right, its connected to more than just a hit of nicotine, it has all kinds of associations, funny but when I see a hot girl I want to smoke, I am sure everyone has their associations that hit them to want to light up. The ecig gives that hit, and the want is removed. I have the tornado, I tried the ones that looked liked ciggies but found them useless, you see simokng isnt cool, it just makes you look like a moron and people who have self respect give you a wide birth, it lowers your concentration capacity too, its a proven fact that smokers are dim, look it up, the research is sound, I am dim, have gotten dimmer over the simokng years, lost more money more jobs couldnt get up in the morning didnt recognise myself in the mirror, the shine rubbed off. I got really annoyed that the look-a-like cigs didnt deliver anything it was only when I got this fatter battery one that I got the hit, yeah that throat hit, at times it can be really satisfying, and do you know what. Its pleasant! I can smell now in a crowd or amongst people who have just had a tobacco smoke, yeah it stinks doesnt it, and the first thing I say to myself is that I smell like that to none smokers, all my girlfriends havent ever smoked and I must have put them through a torture unmatched, a stinky filthy weak willed dim dope head.Oh we keep telling ourselves we are proud and upstanding but its not the case if you smoke cigarettes and on the death bed wheezing lungs full off pus, pain so intense is that the last thought you want, I wish I could have given it up!? I am proud of all of you for getting away from the smokes and using the ecig until maybe you fall in love again and simokng wont be replacing that lack so many of us can feel at times. vaping is better than cigarettes, even if it kills you )
I’m on the same boat as Andie. I started vaipng fairly recently, three weeks ago to this day. I have also experienced the same results; better breathing, increased sense of smell, and an overall increased sense of better health.When I found a cheap E-cig being sold at a big name store, I immediately went out and bought it. Then I gave my last pack of cigarettes away. At firsts, I was vaipng a normal dosage of nicotine then I switched to the lowest amount of nicotine. Now I almost don’t have to vape. I don’t have an overwhelming urge to vape like I did before and I usually don’t vape until halfway through my day. I’ve even had a cigarette while out drinking last night like I would’ve normally, and I after the first puff I immediately had to put it out because I was so disgusted by it. I think I can honestly say that I’m over and done with cigarettes.What I’m trying to get at is that when you have to choose between the lesser of two evils the E-cig has to be the best choice. There’s no tar or, like mentioned before, any of the 4000 other chemicals that is produced when smoking an analog cigarette. I would also like to mention that carcinogens were found only to be made when tobacco reaches a certain temperature, that an E-cig never reaches when vaipng.So I encourage all smokers that are tired of the reduced health, the overpriced overtaxed cigarettes, stain teeth, smelly clothes, and people pointing all of these things out to you: go out and buy an E-cig and change your life!