Swapping spit

A thread about vaping tobacco and in particular about dedicating a whip or tube to exclusive tobacco use got me thinking about sharing a vaporizer mouthpiece. :/

Do you share the mouthpiece of your vape with others? Do you swap spit with everybody who wants a draw from your system?

When we owned a whip system we bought extra whip material. Not just so we could clean and vape at st the same time, we needed a third. So we would have a spare tube for any visitors. Specially any sickly or nasty visitors. (Nasty? Yeah, folks who you don't trust to wash their hands when they should. And there are enough of those that I don't trust anybody).

The Navy used to keep a toilet reserved at the end of the head. It had a red seat on it. Any guesses who got to sit there? Reminds me of the Zappa tune "Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?"

So we have a "Red Seat" tube for visitors. Clean as a whistle of course. And cleaned well after any use. They have theirs and we have ours. They keep their germs and we keep ours.

We weren't always this way. Many a joint has hit my lips after being passed from some unknown stranger. In the past. But this is 2008. MRSA, Herpes, Hepatitis C, Mono, Strep, colds, flu, and a bunch of other nasties including plain old filth...

How do you folks handle you sanitary situation?

Do you share the mouthpiece of your vape with others? Do you swap spit with everybody who wants a draw from your system?

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Only with those I would swap spit with on a more intimate basis. These days only one person qualifies .

We weren't always this way. Many a joint has hit my lips after being passed from some unknown stranger. In the past.

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Yep. It was either 'hit that soggy thing' or forgo the attitude adjustment. I always tried to use my thumb and forefinger as a mouthpiece. I've been known to ask 'who's been drooling on the jay?' as I tore or cut off the wet end.

One of the guys I vape with most often is a lifelong smoker and he coughs like he's about to die after almost every hit. It does gross me out, especially if we're using the ice chamber which you stick your lips into. I always wipe the surface off with my shirt before my hit and try not to think about it too much. Also I make him wash his hands before touching anything.

Thinking back to when I was a kid though, we shared joints and bongs with 100s of people. Complete strangers- and wouldn't think twice. The grossest thing was "baptizing" a joint. Basically you would slobber all over your lips and essentially fellate the joint so that it was soaked with spit. To make it burn slower of course.

I guess we know shirt wiping doesn't count for much when it comes to germs. Just saw an article on how anti-bacterial wipes are spreading MRSA in the hospitals (real science).

It was kinda my point that things have changed. And we seem to be a pretty health conscience group here. And a little older than some forums too, on average (I'm guessing).

Maybe what I was leading to is since vaping, we don't 'share' anymore. We give plenty away and toke plenty of people up still, but don't 'swap spit' anymore. It's a new world.

And we stay healthy. The flu was a twice a year thing when we smoked. Just another healthy benifit of vaping. Who knows what else we are avoiding...

^^^ good post mate!

Sorry to nudge an old thread, but since my vapor daddy died and I had to return the broken vaporite for an exchange unit I have now have 2 spare whips. I only sent abck the vaporite unit and recieved a complete package , whip and grinder so I have a spare ... for those spit swapping sessions.

I also now have 4 grinders

I'm not sure whether or not I'm making this thread into a zombie by posting, considering it seemed rather dead with its page seven status, but I thought that putting up an easy piece cleaning method in this time of swine flu and god knows what else would help at least one person out there.

My method whenever I'm using a (combustion) piece or j that isn't my own is to take the lighter and lightly brushthe flame against the mouthpiece. Might taste a little funky afterward, but an easy way to at least reduce the spit n' nasty that's passed around. Could probably work similarly with a whip, though more care would have to be taken not to burn anything.

Obvious, but I never even thought of itmyself until I saw my friend do it

we have an Extreme at work that is the communal vaporizer. Up to four people use on a regular basis. Since my job requires me dealing with a lot of people in close quarters, I cannot afford too be sick. Nor can any of my coworkers. We all have our own bongs that we use with a GonG attachment too the extreme whip. That way we don't trade spit.
we've had big bird flu outbreaks out here, so we have all adopted appropriate behavior too prevent sharing germs and the likes.
I no longer share my private use vapes anymore.
now the way things are I am more likely too catch something from being around my kid than sharing my vapes.

you must have a cool job.

Flaming the mouth piece always gives me piece of mind too, everyone has piece of mind except the stoned mofucka who thinks I'm lighting the blunt at both ends

Right? How cool would it be to vape while you work...
I'm in school still so no job, and vaping during class and hw just don't seem to mix with me ;(

Haha bluntfaced, I've totally been that guy, "Yo man, what the fuck are you doing to my pipe?! Lemme see that...look the bud is on this end..."
Good times...

I don't have many friends who do mj but if I do have someone come over that wants to take a hit off my vape I was thinking of just using an alcohol wipe in between hits. A separate tube or whatever would be ideal but at least an alcohol wipe would help.

You can always have people rap their hand around it so it creates a seal with no lip-to-mouthpiece action. I do this sometimes.

Just do it how we do it in Bush Alaska: dip it in Everclear after every hit.

yeah i remember the ritual of licking a joint prior to lighting it up - pretty gross in retrospect.
right - to burn slower or more evenly or something.
like we were experts.
lately i've been enjoying company with a woman half my age who walks over to my place almost nightly and we imbide for a few hours - i've converted her to vaporizing.
"I am most impressed with the vaporizer" she says...
anyway the way it unfolded and continues is that she hangs with the vapor bros and i hang with Melba, my PD....

it's fun having vaporizing guests over, particularly of the "opposite camp" but i have to do something about the electric plug situation, maybe get a longer power strip.