Hi Guys
I travel a lot for work and I know I should always carry back-ups but I don't, I've never had an issue with the iStick I used before or the Subox Mini I'm currently using. Until last week in Johannesburg that is. On Wednesday evening while I was working at the hotel the purple efest battery in my Subox shorted creating a cloud all of its own. I ripped it out of the device within a second or two and it was already almost too hot to touch. Scary! So there I was, in Johannesburg with no back-up of any sort. I had a load to do, one meeting after the other and no time to find out where the nearest vape shop is to go get a new battery. And I wasn't sure if my device was ruined or not.
So, after 1 year and 5 months stinky free I did what I thought I'll never do again and drove to the garage to buy a packet of smokes. Not ideal, I thought but what the hell, in three days I'll be back at home and go to Vapemob to sort things out. So the rest of Wednesday night and Thursday the whole day I was back on stinkies, each time amazed how terrible they taste, how bad they smell and how little smoke they actually produce. It was terrible and with each one my throat hurt more and the idea that I was inhaling a toxic cocktail of a lot of crap wasn't the most appealing thought I had in a while. But it kept the cravings away and it was just a few days.
On Thursday afternoon I downed tools and decided this can't carry on. I did a quick Google search which told me there is a vape shop at Melrose Arch, just down the road from our office in Rosebank. So I grabbed my keys and left.
One Samsung battery later I discovered my device was OK and Witchers Brew Blackbird has never tasted that good. Man, vaping is amazing! We are so fortunate we live in an age where there is an alternative to smoking. When I was a smoker I really enjoyed it and accepted the well known risks associated with it. Isn't it amazing that the healthier alternative is also that much better than the real thing? We're a lucky bunch, all I can say.
Cheers.
Chris
I travel a lot for work and I know I should always carry back-ups but I don't, I've never had an issue with the iStick I used before or the Subox Mini I'm currently using. Until last week in Johannesburg that is. On Wednesday evening while I was working at the hotel the purple efest battery in my Subox shorted creating a cloud all of its own. I ripped it out of the device within a second or two and it was already almost too hot to touch. Scary! So there I was, in Johannesburg with no back-up of any sort. I had a load to do, one meeting after the other and no time to find out where the nearest vape shop is to go get a new battery. And I wasn't sure if my device was ruined or not.
So, after 1 year and 5 months stinky free I did what I thought I'll never do again and drove to the garage to buy a packet of smokes. Not ideal, I thought but what the hell, in three days I'll be back at home and go to Vapemob to sort things out. So the rest of Wednesday night and Thursday the whole day I was back on stinkies, each time amazed how terrible they taste, how bad they smell and how little smoke they actually produce. It was terrible and with each one my throat hurt more and the idea that I was inhaling a toxic cocktail of a lot of crap wasn't the most appealing thought I had in a while. But it kept the cravings away and it was just a few days.
On Thursday afternoon I downed tools and decided this can't carry on. I did a quick Google search which told me there is a vape shop at Melrose Arch, just down the road from our office in Rosebank. So I grabbed my keys and left.
One Samsung battery later I discovered my device was OK and Witchers Brew Blackbird has never tasted that good. Man, vaping is amazing! We are so fortunate we live in an age where there is an alternative to smoking. When I was a smoker I really enjoyed it and accepted the well known risks associated with it. Isn't it amazing that the healthier alternative is also that much better than the real thing? We're a lucky bunch, all I can say.
Cheers.
Chris
