So this is my first review but I'm excited to do it because this forum was more than helpful when I got my first electronic cigarette.
This is directed at someone with little experience with e-cigs.
Table of Contents (feel free to skim)
I know my biggest curiosity when preparing to buy an estog is where to buy it. I went with ECM because others carrying the 901 had pretty shipping fees I did not intend to pay and a reasonable price for prefills (have since moved to filling myself).
They had/still have atm a deal in which the 901 starter kit costs 30$ (free shipping) coming with all you need as a beginner except a spare atomizer which is easily added for 9$. I also ordered their relatively cheap case, and a carton of pre-filled carts.
ECM processed my order in 2 days. The estimated shipping time I beleive was 7-20 days (didn't say business or otherwise). I got it in 6 days which was pretty nice seeing as I was nervous about having it delayed being shipped overseas.
On top of that their customer service seemed pretty good to me. 2 of my friends also ordered the same order as me and I contacted ECM to fix the two following things. 1 accidentally ordered the wrong carts and they fixed his order without having to delay the order. The other got a malfunctioning battery and they replaced it for free in his next cart order.
2. First two weeks
Everything worked great in the beginning. I read the manual and knew I had to smoke off the primer, the batteries charged nicely and lasted a reasonable time.
The prefills seemed like a waste because they were losing vapor quantity well before they were cashed. I'd recommend getting a set of carts to try it, and save all your old ones. That's what I've done and it's worked out great for me. There are more advanced and efficient methods, but this is the easiest.
3. After the first two weeks
Well my first problem was an atomizer which mostly stopped working. I say mostly because it was more faultering at first, working great sometimes, not another. I boiled it, blew dry it, and it returned to working functionality... for a while.
Eventually both of my atomizers became like this. It's not all that frustrating, usually one of the two works when the other doesn't, I play with it, clean it, and it works. I get my estog most of the time and it's definitely as much as I need for my first entry into e-cigs.
One other problem I have is the 'glue' holding the battery to it's component which screws into the atomizer weakened. It's kinda scary because I have to be careful screwing and unscrewing it because now I've seen all too well that there are two tiny wires attaching the battery and the wrong twist could easily break them. Other than that it still works, just kinda janky.
4. Me before 901
Before the 901 I smoked about 5-6 regular cigarettes a day. An entire pack by the end of a night of drinking.
5. Summary
For one I have to say, I easily smoke much more often now. Pretty much half of the day I smoke. Didn't mean to, it just became that way. As such I switched to lower nicotine levels, although I'd easily guess I'm still getting much more nicotine in total.
As of 2 weeks after only smoking the e-cig... I officially couldn't smoke cigarettes enjoyably. I tried smoking one and the taste was so bad it made me wonder how I ever started. I assume it is because my taste buds grew back, but I don't know for sure. I don't want to sound like an e-cig elitist, but I literally did go from loving the taste of cigarettes to not being able to take a drag without regretting it.
I would recommend my process (both ECM and the 901) for someone new to e-stogs and trying to determine if it's for them, but I'd expect to move onto something a little less generic and possibly higher quality soon enough. The 901 is suction switched so its comfortable, I enjoy the mouth piece because its flattened so you can easily hold it in your teeth.
My troubles with failures might also be because I take it everywhere. I ordered the case but it is pretty useless imo because it doesn't fit in there without unscrewing it. It holds spare carts, bats, and atomizers but it still just wasn't for me. There's probably better cases though.
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I hope this was helpful, I'm more than open to whatever questions anyone has.
Cheers,
Robert
This is directed at someone with little experience with e-cigs.
Table of Contents (feel free to skim)
- My Experience with E-Cigarette-Mart
- My Experience with it for the first 2 weeks
- My Long term experience
- About me as a smoker before this estog
- Summary/Opinion
I know my biggest curiosity when preparing to buy an estog is where to buy it. I went with ECM because others carrying the 901 had pretty shipping fees I did not intend to pay and a reasonable price for prefills (have since moved to filling myself).
They had/still have atm a deal in which the 901 starter kit costs 30$ (free shipping) coming with all you need as a beginner except a spare atomizer which is easily added for 9$. I also ordered their relatively cheap case, and a carton of pre-filled carts.
ECM processed my order in 2 days. The estimated shipping time I beleive was 7-20 days (didn't say business or otherwise). I got it in 6 days which was pretty nice seeing as I was nervous about having it delayed being shipped overseas.
On top of that their customer service seemed pretty good to me. 2 of my friends also ordered the same order as me and I contacted ECM to fix the two following things. 1 accidentally ordered the wrong carts and they fixed his order without having to delay the order. The other got a malfunctioning battery and they replaced it for free in his next cart order.
2. First two weeks
Everything worked great in the beginning. I read the manual and knew I had to smoke off the primer, the batteries charged nicely and lasted a reasonable time.
The prefills seemed like a waste because they were losing vapor quantity well before they were cashed. I'd recommend getting a set of carts to try it, and save all your old ones. That's what I've done and it's worked out great for me. There are more advanced and efficient methods, but this is the easiest.
3. After the first two weeks
Well my first problem was an atomizer which mostly stopped working. I say mostly because it was more faultering at first, working great sometimes, not another. I boiled it, blew dry it, and it returned to working functionality... for a while.
Eventually both of my atomizers became like this. It's not all that frustrating, usually one of the two works when the other doesn't, I play with it, clean it, and it works. I get my estog most of the time and it's definitely as much as I need for my first entry into e-cigs.
One other problem I have is the 'glue' holding the battery to it's component which screws into the atomizer weakened. It's kinda scary because I have to be careful screwing and unscrewing it because now I've seen all too well that there are two tiny wires attaching the battery and the wrong twist could easily break them. Other than that it still works, just kinda janky.
4. Me before 901
Before the 901 I smoked about 5-6 regular cigarettes a day. An entire pack by the end of a night of drinking.
5. Summary
For one I have to say, I easily smoke much more often now. Pretty much half of the day I smoke. Didn't mean to, it just became that way. As such I switched to lower nicotine levels, although I'd easily guess I'm still getting much more nicotine in total.
As of 2 weeks after only smoking the e-cig... I officially couldn't smoke cigarettes enjoyably. I tried smoking one and the taste was so bad it made me wonder how I ever started. I assume it is because my taste buds grew back, but I don't know for sure. I don't want to sound like an e-cig elitist, but I literally did go from loving the taste of cigarettes to not being able to take a drag without regretting it.
I would recommend my process (both ECM and the 901) for someone new to e-stogs and trying to determine if it's for them, but I'd expect to move onto something a little less generic and possibly higher quality soon enough. The 901 is suction switched so its comfortable, I enjoy the mouth piece because its flattened so you can easily hold it in your teeth.
My troubles with failures might also be because I take it everywhere. I ordered the case but it is pretty useless imo because it doesn't fit in there without unscrewing it. It holds spare carts, bats, and atomizers but it still just wasn't for me. There's probably better cases though.
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I hope this was helpful, I'm more than open to whatever questions anyone has.
Cheers,
Robert
