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[Moonlighter]

Originally Posted by lhntx

I've been commenting on this forum and asking questions for a couple of months now, and I've noticed a few things: I can't find anywhere any instructions on how to get the special "i've not smoked since mmddyy and save $$" box to automatically appear at the end of my posts, I did figure out how to generate the html code, but if I enter the code manually I get "you haven't posted enough to reference outside urls". Haven't I hit 15 uses yet???? Why 15?? Why should it matter how many times I've posted if I want that as part of my personal profile?? Very annoying. It seems really easy to get lost in this forum especially if you try to remember where you put your last comment, and it's difficult to backward navigate especially if you edit your own profile. There seems to be no "main" or "home" tab that I can figure out. I'm pretty techy, but I feel like I'm stumbling around in here. It's annoying to type a really long reply or comment about a service or product then get a "temporarily not available" error when trying to submit and losing everything that you just typed (that's happend 3 times to me today already), or get a message that you aren't authorized to reply or you aren't allowed to post here, etc. Tell me that before I spend 20 minutes typing! I also see that the forum also suffers from a common thing that many other forums have - really bad headers on individual comments so you have no idea what the comment or question is about without reading it. Hey other users: headers like "help me please!" are really ineffective especially in a list of hundreds of posts! Try something more descriptive like "need help repairing xxx " to give other users some type of hint what the post is about when scanning down a list of hundreds of posts. It would also be nice to have a list of e-cig slang somewhere for those of us that are new or just aren't that "cool" It took me a while to figure out some of the slang. I also have noticed some threads in what I would consider the wrong place, but there is no really right place that I can see and no one seems to have permission to creat a new thread.... I would like to post my experience using a vendor from China (it was a good experience) but the vendor isn't in the vendor list and there doesn't seem to be any other place to put the info and I'm not authorized to create new thread. Sigh. I would like to see a place for nothing but comments and tips on cleaning atomizers by type, but again I can't start a new thread so I've been trying to dig through lots of usage tips that end up being about things that I'm not interested in (the old relevent header comments mentioned above really would help here). The search option seems to be useless. I hope that these comments are taken as something good to consider for whatever powers that be and not as flaming. I love the forum and want it to get better and better and I figured that if I'm having this much trouble (as a techy) then some users must REALLY be having a hard time figuring this out! Crap!! I just got "you do not have permission to perform this action. Please refresh the page and login before trying again" when I hit "submit reply". I AM logged in. VERY FRUSTRATING!!! This time I'm copy this so I can paste if I have to start over again, which I DID!!!

Hi,
I am new here also. You need to post several times first cause that proves you are really interested and not just coming in to plaster ads and links. That happens so that's why.
I lose what I type also if I dont check the box that says remember me when I first sign in. I did it today. YOu just gotta remember to check that little box.
The forum is divided into types of threads and you have to learn your way around. I still don't know how to do a lot here.
It took me a month to figure out how to start a new thread and when I did I entired it under newbies which was the wrong thread but the mods fixed it for me.
It's best to ask just a couple questions at a time if you want a lot of people to answer. (from what I noticed)
If you ask 20 things it's just too time consuming for a lot of people that would otherwise take a minute to answer one of two.
Style of the way new threads are started is really an individual thing.
Hope this helps. Deb


PS
To give a review or find other threads about fixing,repair, etc. go to this page cause it has the big list. There is also a live chat towards the bottom of that page.

e-cigarette-forum.com • The place for electronic cigarette reviews, news and chat

For reviews go to
Electronic Cigarette Reviews - e-cigarette-forum.com • The place for electronic cigarette reviews, news and chat

search for the model you have and add it to the thread that matches your model or click open on the right where it says FORUM TOOLS

And select STart new thread.

Hope that helps....Deb

I'm not a moderator but I can draw one and pretend to be


I found a list of the meanings of different terms thanks to a post from "Imsewsure"
ECF Abbreviations 101

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I'm fairly new to e-cigarettes and this forum but not to message boards in general. I have found on other message boards that there is some sort of thread that contains abbreviations and their meanings. I was not able to find one here so I decided to start one and hope everyone will add to it anything I have missed and, of course, correct any of my errors. (I am starting off with the 2 abbreviations that I used in my title=)

General

ECF - E-Cigarette-Forum
Noob - Beginner
OP - Original Post(er)
Analog - Regular Cigarette
Mod - Homemade device/Moderator.
Pull - The act of sucking on the mouthpiece to pull the vapor into your mouth
TH - Throat Hit (The tingling sensation in the back of your throat)
Vapor - the "smoke" emitted from an e-cigarette
Vape, Vaping - The use of an e-cigarette (similar to the term "smoking" when referring to an analog)
Topping off - Adding drops of e-liquid to your current cartridge.
Dripping - Vaping by adding a few drops of e-liquid directly on the atomizer instead of using a cartridge.
Dipping - Sticking the bridge of the atomizer in e-liquid.

E-Cigarette

E-cig or E-cigarette - Electronic Cigarette
PV - Personal Vaporizer
Atty - Atomizer
Cart - Cartridge
Bat - Battery
Filler - The fiber found inside your cartridge that holds your e-liquid
PCC - Personal Charging Case
SD - ScrewDriver
JS - Janty Stick
PT - Passthrough or passthrough battery
2-piece/Disposable - 2 part e-cigarette. The Battery and a "cartomizer".
Cartomizer - An atomizer built into the cartridge, marketed as disposable (you throw it away when the e-liquid is used up).
3-piece - 3 part e-cigarette. Battery, Atomizer, and Cartridge.
Cutoff - Refers to how long the battery will activate the atomizer before shutting down (safety measure to protect the atomizer).

E-Liquid

E-juice, e-liquid, juice - the liquid nicotine that you fill your cartridges with.
DIY - Do it yourself (homemade e-liquid mixture)
PG - Propylene Glycol
VG - Vegetable Glycerin
PEG - Propylethylene Glycol

Suppliers

JC - Johnson Creek
PS - PureSmoker
TW - Totally Wicked
EST - E-smokeytreats

Miscellaneous

FDA - Food and Drug Administration
ECA - Electronic Cigarette Association
NRT - Nicotine Replacement Therapy (patch, gum, e-cig)
PH - Public Health
BP - Big Pharmaceutical Companies
BT - Big Tobacco Companies
ALF - American Legacy Foundation
'Anti's - Anti-smoking people who do not acknowledge that vaping is a viable alternative to smoking analogs.
RYO - Roll your own (tobacco)

Here's the link to where I got that from

ECF Abbreviations 101

[SailorJack]

Warning acknowledged. ;^D

[farmerjoe]

fair play, cheers

[smokinzgonehitec]

Ditto and I have a question. Does anyone know of a nic free liquid that has a very strong mint taste I have only used Tasty Doublemint and it just isn't strong enough.

[June]

Originally Posted by smokinzgonehitec

Ditto and I have a question. Does anyone know of a nic free liquid that has a very strong mint taste I have only used Tasty Doublemint and it just isn't strong enough.

Vapor 4 Life has a mint that I think is very strong. They also sell it in 0 nic. Too much mint for me, so you might like it. They have 5 ml samples for $3.50. I did like their other flavors I tried, pear and almond, and shipping was completed the same day.

Vapor4Life- Electronic Cigarette: Nobacco Mint e-Liquid

[MrEDJay]

Hey I'm a new around here and I would like to say that this is a great site! I have been reading for about 1 1/2 months in order to make sure that I'm not making a mistake with something that is going to be a long term thing. Better to test the waters and go in feet first than dive right in, right?

Well, I figured that it was time for me to make myself known and begin contributing towards the forum because well, whats the use of being around and not putting in anything and gaining such a high return from this forum.

Again, thanks for creating such a place, If it wasn't here now, I would have probably tried to do it myself, but I don't think it would have turned out nearly as polished as this forum has.

Great job

[Kattdaddy]

I have just started ... have been smokin for over 25 years and tried everything on the market to quit... I really hope that this really takes and does me right. I researched for quite a while and settled on the screwdriver.. now, I am experimenting around with some different juice to find what I like. I would like to say that this forum is a very big help .. to see what others are doing and be able to ask advice and actually discuss different possibilities is a big help. I would like to personally the founder of this forum and all the users who try their best to help folks get aquainted in something that is a lot healthier alternative than smoking.

[Kattdaddy]

Hello all,
I have been a smoker for the better part of 25 years and marlboros have been my brand. I have tried numerous times to quit using the patch and zyban and gum and so on. Nothing helped, so I quit quitting.I have just recently started vaping.. I did my research and decided on the screwdriver. I have had it since the beginning of the week and I must say, I think I am on the right track. I want to try some different types of juice but don't want to go haywire!!! not yet, anyway.
I really appreciate all the help that I have received from the users on this site and give big thanks to the founder. I haven't touched a cigarette in four days and am not as groughy, as I usually get away from cigs with any other means to quit. Thats a lot better than I can say for many years now and I owe a lot to running across this site and finding out what an e-cigarette is.
Anyway, I find this to be and hope this is a healthier alternative overall. I am not sure what the FDA is up to but rest assured, I feel that they are threatened by a product that will eventually shuffle to many dollars out of the usually u.s. market. Anyone with common sense can see that all the toxins in tobacco cigs( at least 700+) reduced to a fraction of a percent is more healthy than the real thing. I.E. - vaping should be considered the new real thing.
Sincerely,
TM