I also started with cigalikes. I also wanted an experience as close to smoking a cigarette as possible and was reluctant and self-conscious to be carrying a huge mod around with me, but quickly moved up. First to the Halo Triton, and then the istick with nautilus Minis and then various box mods with subohm tanks. In hindsight if I had just went into box mods I could have saved a considerable amount of money by cutting out all those incremental steps that I took, but it was all a valuable learning experience.