Welcome to Fuck Combustion...Tell us about yourself here!

adjome

adjome

New Member
Hi All,

Complete newbie here, from Manchester UK but dotting about the world a lot.

Finally after 14 years of smoking the glorious herb I'm making the jump to vape this week, cigs and spliffs gone... e-cigs, vapes in, might even go jogging (definitely won't be going jogging)

Done a lot of research, read a lot of forums and am going for the Arizer Solo I think, really excited to get started, looks like a nice portable/desktop hybrid for my needs.

I ended up getting it from greenvapes.co.uk - Of course I got too excited and jumped in without doing too much research about the site, does anyone have any experience of greenvapes?

The paranoid-research-chase has helped me find out it's a 'sister' company of Namaste... The Paypal payment went to Rocca Media Ventures (which is the parent company of namastevapes)

Obviously I'll be covered, but I was really looking forward to getting my Solo in the 2-3 days it advertised on the site, I'll keep you updated for sure with how it turns out... I just want it to arrive so I can start vaping the shit out of this silver haze!

Cheers All!
 
JamesTiberiousKirk

JamesTiberiousKirk

Well-Known Member
I imagine you are all wondering why I have gathered you all here today.

It is to make my introduction, and tell you a little bit about my history.

I am apparently JamesTiberiousKirk. I am as surprised as you.

My History:

I have never been a prolific consumer of cannabis, but I am not exactly new to it. I consumed reasonable amounts in the early 80s while attending college, and sporadic use for the last 30 years.

And then the state I call home actually legalized it.

That was not something easily ignored.

I bought some taxed weed, loved the memories, but hated the smoke. I had heard of 'vaping', and decided to try it out.

My Devices:

1) Flowermate V - At a local retail cannabis boutique, I bought a re-branded "Flowermate V" . I did not know it was a rebranded Flowermate V, until I googled it, and thus found FuckCombustion. The device was re-branded as an "Elements Capricorn"

I Love my re-branded Flowermate V, every single temperature (only one) and every inch of its silicone mouthpiece.

2) Ascent by Da Vinci - It is a masterpiece of a chemistry set with a too large bowl. I love it. And I have learned to love glass flowers and @CarolKing

3) Magic Flight Launch Box (maple) - It is like hang gliding. Do it right, and it is the greatest thing ever. Do it wrong and you end up with a taste of burnt popcorn and flop sweat.

I love all my machines. MFLB is my current frequent flyer. Becaue it demands so much respect.

Mostly I love everything I have learned from the generous posters at FC.

Happy 2015.
 
ChippyMalone

ChippyMalone

Be here now.
Accessory Maker
JamesTiberiousKirk said:
I imagine you are all wondering why I have gathered you all here today.

It is to make my introduction, and tell you a little bit about my history.

I am apparently JamesTiberiousKirk. I am as surprised as you.

My History:

I have never been a prolific consumer of cannabis, but I am not exactly new to it. I consumed reasonable amounts in the early 80s while attending college, and sporadic use for the last 30 years.

And then the state I call home actually legalized it.

That was not something easily ignored.

I bought some taxed weed, loved the memories, but hated the smoke. I had heard of 'vaping', and decided to try it out.

My Devices:

1) Flowermate V - At a local retail cannabis boutique, I bought a re-branded "Flowermate V" . I did not know it was a rebranded Flowermate V, until I googled it, and thus found FuckCombustion. The device was re-branded as an "Elements Capricorn"

I Love my re-branded Flowermate V, every single temperature (only one) and every inch of its silicone mouthpiece.

2) Ascent by Da Vinci - It is a masterpiece of a chemistry set with a too large bowl. I love it. And I have learned to love glass flowers and @CarolKing

3) Magic Flight Launch Box (maple) - It is like hang gliding. Do it right, and it is the greatest thing ever. Do it wrong and you end up with a taste of burnt popcorn and flop sweat.

I love all my machines. MFLB is my current frequent flyer. Becaue it demands so much respect.

Mostly I love everything I have learned from the generous posters at FC.

Happy 2015.
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Welcome. Lots and lots of us like you. I live the high life in Colorado throughout the 90's, then spent over a decade in Alabama where I took an involuntary but not bothersome extended tea break all that time. Then Colorado and Washington legalized, I became disabled, a chronic pain patient, and moved my ass to Western Washington since I always knew it was like Colorado, but with better climate and food.
 
DoubleVanos

DoubleVanos

Well-Known Member
Hello fellow FC members! I just wanted to introduce myself to this awesome forum. I've been a lurker for quite a while and have always enjoyed reading the wealth of info on here.

I quit smoking cigarettes 3 years ago , and picked up a classic volcano as a reward. I've been hooked on vaping ever since. Since that time I've also added a Vapman, and I just ordered the Crafty, which I'm super excited about.
Anyways, that's just a little about myself , and I hope to learn a lot from others and share my own experiences on here. Thanks for reading!
 
lwien

lwien

Well-Known Member
DoubleVanos said:
Thanks! Quitting cigs is a proud moment in my life :)
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It is in mine as well. I was smoking 3 packs day, doing a gram of coke a day, taking Quaaludes at night to take the edge off and putting a pinch of crystal meth in my coffee to jump start me in the morning. I quit all of that stuff cold turkey about 40 years ago. And out of all that stuff, tobacco was the hardest to quit, so again I say...............big gratz to ya.
 
DoubleVanos

DoubleVanos

Well-Known Member
lwien said:
It is in mine as well. I was smoking 3 packs day, doing a gram of coke a day, taking Quaaludes at night to take the edge off and putting a pinch of crystal meth in my coffee to jump start me in the morning. I quit all of that stuff cold turkey about 40 years ago. And out of all that stuff, tobacco was the hardest to quit, so again I say...............big gratz to ya.
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Congrats to you sir! That is an achievement, to say least. Way to turn your life around.
 
DoubleVanos,
Eschient

Eschient

Giga-Dweebess
Well, Hi all. I'm Eschient. I'm a housewife in my mid 30s with dreams of becoming a writer. My husband and I just bought our first house this summer and our cats are our children. And yes, my birthday really is April 20th.:rockon:

I don't have a very extensive history with weed. I smoked for about a year in high school, but I fast figured out that I was abusing it to make myself oblivious to all the garbage in my life - abusive relationship, unpleasant childhood, bullies, depression, isolation and all that jazz. So I swore off it one day in a fit of teen angst.

Flash forward ~20 years and not much got better. I was 70+lbs overweight, I barely left the house, I didn't talk to anyone and my depression had me at the point where I cried myself to sleep every night and woke up in tears every morning because I was back in the real world. It never let up and I hadn't had a "good" day in about 15 years. I was waiting to die.

Then this plant made its way back into my life. That screaming buzz of stress and anger that was always attacking me could let up for a little while. I could get stupid and not care that I might possibly look silly or childish or gods forbid unintelligent {translation - show weakness}. But it was something I did rarely, like drinking. Then I decided it was time to give up the cigarettes for good. I'd been smoking since high school and it was obvious I had to quit. I'd quit a few times but it didn't last long...usually until PMS set in or the depression made me unbearable to be around. But the weed did its job and I've been cigarette-free for 2 or 3 years now.

This is when I became a regular toker, and this is when my life started to change. I wasn't using it for change, of course. I just wanted to relax a little and maybe sleep when I went to bed instead of laying there thinking, and obsessing and crying for hours on end. But, with regular use I started having some revelations. The first of which was about my depression. As I said, I had been in a constant state of depression for many, many years. My "best" mood was apathetic, hopeless, ghostlike. My worst frankly scared me.

One night, I realized my depression was going to kill me. One way or another, it would end my life. I would either simply lose it one day and do it myself or I was going to keep gaining weight and living under this constant sense of doom and stress until my body simply gives up. Another night, I realized that this is all my own fault for giving myself so wholly to other people and being so afraid of losing them that I morph myself into what I think they want, killing who I am in the process and destroying what initially attracted them to me to begin with. Blah blah blah, this is rambling.

The culmination being my first break in depression since about 2000. I felt motivated to become a better person, to become myself, to stop being so afraid of all the absurd "what if's" I kept buying into. It let me be strong enough to not care what other people might think, so I could do what made me happy. Over the last 2 years, I've lost the extra weight thanks to the weed allowing me to be nicer to myself - allowing me to be happy for accomplishing something every day rather than letting my depression creep in and tell me it's pointless as it had every other time. It helped me enjoy just being instead of obsessing about things. It helped me sleep at night so I was less stressed and exhausted all the time. It soothed my anxiety enough that I could finally go ask for help with my depression. It allowed me a break from that constant, slow downward spiral that never seemed to end.

So, here I am, a self-medicating loser stoner with nothing to offer the world because of demon weed. :disgust: Oh, wait, I mean a person literally saved, with the whole world in front of them for the first time ever because of this miraculous, yet illegal, plant. If only they'd preached responsible use when I was in school instead of the gateway drug scare tactics, I might have had this breakthrough with myself 2 decades ago. Such a shame.
 
scottg402

scottg402

Well-Known Member
Eschient said:
Well, Hi all. I'm Eschient. I'm a housewife in my mid 30s with dreams of becoming a writer. My husband and I just bought our first house this summer and our cats are our children. And yes, my birthday really is April 20th.:rockon:

I don't have a very extensive history with weed. I smoked for about a year in high school, but I fast figured out that I was abusing it to make myself oblivious to all the garbage in my life - abusive relationship, unpleasant childhood, bullies, depression, isolation and all that jazz. So I swore off it one day in a fit of teen angst.

Flash forward ~20 years and not much got better. I was 70+lbs overweight, I barely left the house, I didn't talk to anyone and my depression had me at the point where I cried myself to sleep every night and woke up in tears every morning because I was back in the real world. It never let up and I hadn't had a "good" day in about 15 years. I was waiting to die.

Then this plant made its way back into my life. That screaming buzz of stress and anger that was always attacking me could let up for a little while. I could get stupid and not care that I might possibly look silly or childish or gods forbid unintelligent {translation - show weakness}. But it was something I did rarely, like drinking. Then I decided it was time to give up the cigarettes for good. I'd been smoking since high school and it was obvious I had to quit. I'd quit a few times but it didn't last long...usually until PMS set in or the depression made me unbearable to be around. But the weed did its job and I've been cigarette-free for 2 or 3 years now.

This is when I became a regular toker, and this is when my life started to change. I wasn't using it for change, of course. I just wanted to relax a little and maybe sleep when I went to bed instead of laying there thinking, and obsessing and crying for hours on end. But, with regular use I started having some revelations. The first of which was about my depression. As I said, I had been in a constant state of depression for many, many years. My "best" mood was apathetic, hopeless, ghostlike. My worst frankly scared me.

One night, I realized my depression was going to kill me. One way or another, it would end my life. I would either simply lose it one day and do it myself or I was going to keep gaining weight and living under this constant sense of doom and stress until my body simply gives up. Another night, I realized that this is all my own fault for giving myself so wholly to other people and being so afraid of losing them that I morph myself into what I think they want, killing who I am in the process and destroying what initially attracted them to me to begin with. Blah blah blah, this is rambling.

The culmination being my first break in depression since about 2000. I felt motivated to become a better person, to become myself, to stop being so afraid of all the absurd "what if's" I kept buying into. It let me be strong enough to not care what other people might think, so I could do what made me happy. Over the last 2 years, I've lost the extra weight thanks to the weed allowing me to be nicer to myself - allowing me to be happy for accomplishing something every day rather than letting my depression creep in and tell me it's pointless as it had every other time. It helped me enjoy just being instead of obsessing about things. It helped me sleep at night so I was less stressed and exhausted all the time. It soothed my anxiety enough that I could finally go ask for help with my depression. It allowed me a break from that constant, slow downward spiral that never seemed to end.

So, here I am, a self-medicating loser stoner with nothing to offer the world because of demon weed. :disgust: Oh, wait, I mean a person literally saved, with the whole world in front of them for the first time ever because of this miraculous, yet illegal, plant. If only they'd preached responsible use when I was in school instead of the gateway drug scare tactics, I might have had this breakthrough with myself 2 decades ago. Such a shame.
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Wow, great story. I can relate to a lot of this as well. Thanks for sharing and welcome to the forum. With this kind of heart I believe you will fit in well here!
 
cybrguy

cybrguy

Putin is a War Criminal
Eschient said:
Well, Hi all. I'm Eschient. I'm a housewife in my mid 30s with dreams of becoming a writer. My husband and I just bought our first house this summer and our cats are our children. And yes, my birthday really is April 20th.:rockon:

SNIP SNIP

So, here I am, a self-medicating loser stoner with nothing to offer the world because of demon weed. :disgust: Oh, wait, I mean a person literally saved, with the whole world in front of them for the first time ever because of this miraculous, yet illegal, plant. If only they'd preached responsible use when I was in school instead of the gateway drug scare tactics, I might have had this breakthrough with myself 2 decades ago. Such a shame.
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Waste is ALWAYS a shame, but you have invested enough energy in that already. Now it is time for CELEBRATION!!! It is remarkable to me how much and how often MJ gives people the strength to MOVE ON WITH THEIR LIVES and solve or at least get more control over those things they think are controlling them. Good on ya, Girl, and keep moving forward. Your success is making MY day better. :)
 
Eschient

Eschient

Giga-Dweebess
scottg402 said:
Wow, great story. I can relate to a lot of this as well. Thanks for sharing and welcome to the forum. With this kind of heart I believe you will fit in well here!
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cybrguy said:
Waste is ALWAYS a shame, but you have invested enough energy in that already. Now it is time for CELEBRATION!!! It is remarkable to me how much and how often MJ gives people the strength to MOVE ON WITH THEIR LIVES and solve or at least get more control over those things they think are controlling them. Good on ya, Girl, and keep moving forward. Your success is making MY day better. :)
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Thank you both, I'm glad I stumbled in here. It's a great community full of really supportive, nice people!
 
Linard

Linard

Well-Known Member
Hi everyone! I am sixty and I vaped with a Herbalaire for many years going though two of them before getting a volcano. I have been using the volcano for just a few days. I enjoy the bag system over a whip so the cano is working out nicely for me. I have a classic with the solid valve system. Love how the vape stays in the bag until released. I don't care for the noise the volcano makes whe it's blowing up a bag. Other than that, the volcano is rocking my world.
I have been vaping herb for about 10 years now. Vaping sure has saved my lungs.

Thank you for having me!
 
mundzz

mundzz

Member
Hey,

I am mundzz. I am occasional MMJ user. I am still in Uni and today is my birthday. So I want to spoil myself and buy me a vapo.

hence me being here.

Fun fact about me? I just smoke for a regular old bowl. I used a bong once. thats about it
 
ANOKHI

ANOKHI

Blow that shit out!!
Hi I'm Anokhi and new to posting on FC, but I've been a follower for long time. I use mflb, and currently looking at the Okin. I love,love the concept. I look forward to seeing you all on FC., you all make FC a great place to come to.
 
AhBeVapin

AhBeVapin

Mindful Member Wellness User
Hey now,
AVB here, checking in for the 1st time. Been lurking as a member since July 2014. Recreational user who fucked combustion in April 2014 with a PAX. Took a week to get used to not getting that carbon monoxide hit to the brain that comes with blazing.
All equipment in my sig below is a direct result of this rockin' forum.
I have read every page of the SOLO, EQ & Cheap High Quality Bubbler threads, most of the E-Nano & Underdog threads.
My go to online stores are Planetvape & Vapeworld (Canada). I have purchased glass from Kathy057 & Sunshine Store on DHGate. Zero problems with any of these vendors,
AVB out
 
BeardedCrow

BeardedCrow

Well-Known Member
Old member, but haven't been on here too much lately. My hobbies shift, bit currently back to vaping :)

Solara dna 30
Silo
And soon to have a kayfun v4
 
BeardedCrow,
ichibaneye

ichibaneye

Vapriot, Traveler & Vaporizer/ing lover!
elvenflow said:
I'm a seriously ill old fart who moved 3,700 miles to be able to use cannabis legally. Since settling in Portland I have had absolutely no one to talk to about medical use of the herb and have had to muddle through on my own. There is a great deal of prejudice against medical cannabis users in the medical community here, and I have actually been refused dental services, of all things. Its rather isolating.
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If I still lived in P, OR. I would definitely wax poetics with you my friend. Don't get all down about the corporatism of main stream health/dental care. At least you know who the dentist pledged allegiance to now.
 
FlyingLow

FlyingLow

Team NO SLEEP!
I really enjoyed this site for a while, then had to take a leave of absence over the last few months while recovering from a nasty hand injury... I nearly lost my thumb.

I have lots to catch up on, PMs to return and a lot of fresh news to read. I look forward to getting online a bit more in the coming months.
 
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