Balvenie
Postman
- Joined
- Sep 3, 2014
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hey everyone.
decided to join as this seems the most informative forum on my vape journey so far.
Here's my story.. [TLDR: after some brief experience with some leaky tanks, found something that works and I'm hooked]
I've been off the straights (anolgues/stinkies - awesome terminology, loving it!) for almost 2 weeks now, after being a pretty stubborn and relentless 20-30 per day rollie smoker for longer than I care to admit. (15 years at the least)
But im not a quitter! I'm not addicted to tobacco, nicotine, or any substance I can define, I just like smoking. For all it's negatives theres something about inhaling and exhaling a substance I just cant quite put down.
Day 1 went far better than I expected, and despite a feeling I can only describe as my head filling up with helium every now and then it wasnt too bad, until late evening, I was struggling and remembered we had an old ecigalike type thing kicking around in a drawer from a couple of years back.. looks like a black cig, red light at the end, 3 parts, drop liquid in the cartomizer type thing.. pretty crap but at that point in time, served well as something to hold onto and toke.
Day 2/3 easy. Woke up with no craving whatsoever. Toked on my ecig.
Day 4 - my other half inspired by my awesome feat of willpower went an bought a cheapo Ego thing off of Ebay ( I know I know) BOOM so much vapour, more hit, more taste.... yeah I want one... so I got one too!
Day 5/6... well thats when the leaking and gurlgling started. On both our tanks. They work really well. As cold simulators.. trying to breathe through a snotted up gurgling tube. Utter frustration that could easily have had me back on the cancer sticks. Cheap replacement from local shop.. same thing.
So then back online, bit more research and hit by the total minefield of products out there.
Seems everything leaks or can do, or its a user error or whatever. Weighed up a few things, and liked the sound of the various Kanger / aspire tanks / maybe the innokin i30 but too many options (especially kanger) and all with mixed reviews so eventually plumped for the Anyvape Davide, which with the limted experience I had seemed like it would be better build quality than any of the above allthough sounds very similar to some of the kangar tanks.
So far so good, absolutely blown away, and I have to admit, I've have a few cheeky ciggies in the last week or so, ( which I class as evaluation, not failure) and been amazed that I prefer vaping and Im now completely off the dirty fags.
Next step I guess is to experiment with some of the batteries, my 900mha ego thing works well, but would like to try some of the variable wattage mods, I love the idea of mixing my own liquids and rebuilding atomizers but its early days for me, but as im getting a good vape so far from my current setup, I just want to experiment with different flavours and find something I can settle on ( or at least a few staples)
I intinally started with a few 0mg flavours, but last two days ive gone for the 18mg minty flavour which, yeah, whilst I'd like to ditch the nico completely, I have to say this is really doing it for me! lol
And then all the news stories about all the dangerous eliquids came out, so just as Im telling my family about how amazing this is, they can come back to me with all this disinformation about the evils of ejuice... /facepalm.
So yeah thats where Im at. Almost 20 years a smoker and overnight Ive finally packed it in and joined the Vape Revolution and I've joined the forum to try and share experience and get more info on best places to source jucies and maybe take the next steps to 'modding'.
Thanks for reading.
decided to join as this seems the most informative forum on my vape journey so far.
Here's my story.. [TLDR: after some brief experience with some leaky tanks, found something that works and I'm hooked]
I've been off the straights (anolgues/stinkies - awesome terminology, loving it!) for almost 2 weeks now, after being a pretty stubborn and relentless 20-30 per day rollie smoker for longer than I care to admit. (15 years at the least)
But im not a quitter! I'm not addicted to tobacco, nicotine, or any substance I can define, I just like smoking. For all it's negatives theres something about inhaling and exhaling a substance I just cant quite put down.
Day 1 went far better than I expected, and despite a feeling I can only describe as my head filling up with helium every now and then it wasnt too bad, until late evening, I was struggling and remembered we had an old ecigalike type thing kicking around in a drawer from a couple of years back.. looks like a black cig, red light at the end, 3 parts, drop liquid in the cartomizer type thing.. pretty crap but at that point in time, served well as something to hold onto and toke.
Day 2/3 easy. Woke up with no craving whatsoever. Toked on my ecig.
Day 4 - my other half inspired by my awesome feat of willpower went an bought a cheapo Ego thing off of Ebay ( I know I know) BOOM so much vapour, more hit, more taste.... yeah I want one... so I got one too!
Day 5/6... well thats when the leaking and gurlgling started. On both our tanks. They work really well. As cold simulators.. trying to breathe through a snotted up gurgling tube. Utter frustration that could easily have had me back on the cancer sticks. Cheap replacement from local shop.. same thing.
So then back online, bit more research and hit by the total minefield of products out there.
Seems everything leaks or can do, or its a user error or whatever. Weighed up a few things, and liked the sound of the various Kanger / aspire tanks / maybe the innokin i30 but too many options (especially kanger) and all with mixed reviews so eventually plumped for the Anyvape Davide, which with the limted experience I had seemed like it would be better build quality than any of the above allthough sounds very similar to some of the kangar tanks.
So far so good, absolutely blown away, and I have to admit, I've have a few cheeky ciggies in the last week or so, ( which I class as evaluation, not failure) and been amazed that I prefer vaping and Im now completely off the dirty fags.
Next step I guess is to experiment with some of the batteries, my 900mha ego thing works well, but would like to try some of the variable wattage mods, I love the idea of mixing my own liquids and rebuilding atomizers but its early days for me, but as im getting a good vape so far from my current setup, I just want to experiment with different flavours and find something I can settle on ( or at least a few staples)
I intinally started with a few 0mg flavours, but last two days ive gone for the 18mg minty flavour which, yeah, whilst I'd like to ditch the nico completely, I have to say this is really doing it for me! lol
And then all the news stories about all the dangerous eliquids came out, so just as Im telling my family about how amazing this is, they can come back to me with all this disinformation about the evils of ejuice... /facepalm.
So yeah thats where Im at. Almost 20 years a smoker and overnight Ive finally packed it in and joined the Vape Revolution and I've joined the forum to try and share experience and get more info on best places to source jucies and maybe take the next steps to 'modding'.
Thanks for reading.
