Well another week and still no cigarettes. Feeling good about that. Still get occassional thoughts about having one, but have no real desire to follow through. I am not willing to go and buy a pack just to have one smoke. The thought of back pedaling repulses me. And I am not about to bum a smoke off anyone. I always hated people bumming off me and always refused to do the same, but thats just me.
Had a lot of thoughts during the week that I was going to post about, but escapes me now.
My big thing right now, and I posted a thread in the forums about it is my nic consumption.
I went with a lower nic, 6mg, and apparently it's not doing me too well. I keep vaping on it but it doesn't seem to fulfill me. Been almost chain vaping some days.
That was something else that's been bugging me lately too. Seems I crank up the pv and just going non stop. I did have a day or two that I let up on it, mainly because I was occupied with other things I had to take care of at home. Guess I need to distract myself just as I did with cigarettes.
I'm coming to realize that I am still in my infancy of smoking cessation, so despite the enthusiasm I first felt, I still have some hurdles to overcome.
I ordered some Backwoods Brew due to glowing reviews. Juice is a little thicker than the PG stuff I first had. In my PM's with him Dkrom (brewer of this juice) states he makes his Brew with a 70%-30% ratio of PG/VG.
He will make your order to whatever mg level of nic you desire. I chose 6mg of nic in an effort to drop my levels.
He ships fast, communicates fast, uses nice bottles, great price, and has a custom label that looks good too. I have no complaints on the product itself. I think I should have gone with 8-12mg, but thats a personal issue.
The taste of BWB juice is nice, better than the generic stuff I had. Once I got the hang of adjusting my cart to the new juice it vaped well and I could really taste the flavor (cherry soda). I placed another order for just cherry @ 6mg, with a request for extra flavor. Should be here in a few days.
Adjusting the carts, yeah been having some issues with my cartridges.
After messing around for a few days I came to realize that I was overfilling them. I have been using the method described here
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/cartridge-mods/79418-highping-cart-mod-simple-gets.html
Thing is I didn't realize that you have to adjust your filler to the juice, same size will not work for all juices due to their consistency being different, some thicker, some thinner. of course it is mentioned in the thread but I guess it just didn't sink in.
I was flooding alot, actually got juice in my mouth out of the cart. Never ocurred during my first week, but it did with the BWB juice, because it is a little thicker than what I had. Its nothing to do with the juice, just my methods.
Finally figured out to use less juice and it is working out great. The flavor really started coming out after I got the cart issue straight. Is much more enjoyable now.
I and many others reccomend this juice. Not getting so much of the "510 gurgle" sound and its vaping smooth.
And have some patience. I also discovered that I need to refill carts and let them set for awhile. They seem to work a whole lot better if they sit and soak up for an hour at the very least.So now I fill at least two carts so one can sit over night. It really helps.
I tried cartomizers for the first time. Wish I hadn't. Wish I had used the money for more carts. You can read about it here at the thread i posted
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/general-e-smoking-discussion/108605-not-liking-these-cartos.html
Also thanks to the generosity of HotVapes.com, I am now the owner of a in line PT. Only really used it once. Will post about it after getting more use out of it.
Last issue (been a week of issues for me!) is my batteries. Seems one of them is not lasting as long as it used to. I could be wrong, maybe it just seems not to last as long. Will have to keep an eye on it and see where it leads. I always keep in mind all the info on ECF about attys and batts only lasting weeks so it is something I keep constant watch over.
Cleaned my attys for the first time. Just a soaking in very hot water, then set out to dry followed by a dry burn. I blow on the bridge after each dry burn to cool faster. Did not seem to cause damage and they did taste better afterwards.
Bought a big bag of WalMart polyfill. Been doing some trading in the PIF social group. What an awesome group of people. Visit there and join if you get a chance. So I also got some more juice coming in, hopefully by end of the week, and higher nic content too.
I'm going to try and post more often rather than having these epic Tom Clancy novel size blog entries. We'll see how it goes.
Had a lot of thoughts during the week that I was going to post about, but escapes me now.
My big thing right now, and I posted a thread in the forums about it is my nic consumption.
I went with a lower nic, 6mg, and apparently it's not doing me too well. I keep vaping on it but it doesn't seem to fulfill me. Been almost chain vaping some days.
That was something else that's been bugging me lately too. Seems I crank up the pv and just going non stop. I did have a day or two that I let up on it, mainly because I was occupied with other things I had to take care of at home. Guess I need to distract myself just as I did with cigarettes.
I'm coming to realize that I am still in my infancy of smoking cessation, so despite the enthusiasm I first felt, I still have some hurdles to overcome.
I ordered some Backwoods Brew due to glowing reviews. Juice is a little thicker than the PG stuff I first had. In my PM's with him Dkrom (brewer of this juice) states he makes his Brew with a 70%-30% ratio of PG/VG.
He will make your order to whatever mg level of nic you desire. I chose 6mg of nic in an effort to drop my levels.
He ships fast, communicates fast, uses nice bottles, great price, and has a custom label that looks good too. I have no complaints on the product itself. I think I should have gone with 8-12mg, but thats a personal issue.
The taste of BWB juice is nice, better than the generic stuff I had. Once I got the hang of adjusting my cart to the new juice it vaped well and I could really taste the flavor (cherry soda). I placed another order for just cherry @ 6mg, with a request for extra flavor. Should be here in a few days.
Adjusting the carts, yeah been having some issues with my cartridges.
After messing around for a few days I came to realize that I was overfilling them. I have been using the method described here
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/cartridge-mods/79418-highping-cart-mod-simple-gets.html
Thing is I didn't realize that you have to adjust your filler to the juice, same size will not work for all juices due to their consistency being different, some thicker, some thinner. of course it is mentioned in the thread but I guess it just didn't sink in.
I was flooding alot, actually got juice in my mouth out of the cart. Never ocurred during my first week, but it did with the BWB juice, because it is a little thicker than what I had. Its nothing to do with the juice, just my methods.
Finally figured out to use less juice and it is working out great. The flavor really started coming out after I got the cart issue straight. Is much more enjoyable now.
I and many others reccomend this juice. Not getting so much of the "510 gurgle" sound and its vaping smooth.
And have some patience. I also discovered that I need to refill carts and let them set for awhile. They seem to work a whole lot better if they sit and soak up for an hour at the very least.So now I fill at least two carts so one can sit over night. It really helps.
I tried cartomizers for the first time. Wish I hadn't. Wish I had used the money for more carts. You can read about it here at the thread i posted
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/general-e-smoking-discussion/108605-not-liking-these-cartos.html
Also thanks to the generosity of HotVapes.com, I am now the owner of a in line PT. Only really used it once. Will post about it after getting more use out of it.
Last issue (been a week of issues for me!) is my batteries. Seems one of them is not lasting as long as it used to. I could be wrong, maybe it just seems not to last as long. Will have to keep an eye on it and see where it leads. I always keep in mind all the info on ECF about attys and batts only lasting weeks so it is something I keep constant watch over.
Cleaned my attys for the first time. Just a soaking in very hot water, then set out to dry followed by a dry burn. I blow on the bridge after each dry burn to cool faster. Did not seem to cause damage and they did taste better afterwards.
Bought a big bag of WalMart polyfill. Been doing some trading in the PIF social group. What an awesome group of people. Visit there and join if you get a chance. So I also got some more juice coming in, hopefully by end of the week, and higher nic content too.
I'm going to try and post more often rather than having these epic Tom Clancy novel size blog entries. We'll see how it goes.
