So our six month anniversary for e-cigs came up two days ago, and I have to say I feel great! Living in a smoke free home is pretty awesome. I don't wake up with that ashtray taste in my mouth, and there are times that I can put down my PV for a while. I have been slowly pushing down the nic...
This has been a VERY good week for me DIY-wise. I developed a couple of new flavors that have made it in my 'Keepers' book. I can't thank the people that have helped me learn DIY from the vendors I shop for the flavors from to the kind folks that are members here on ECF. Y'all are the best...
One of my very worst fears about quitting smoking has come true, but not for the normal reason.
Putting down cigarettes is the best thing I have done for myself since - well, let me think here... Okay, so I can't think of anything truly better for myself I have ever done. Hands down, quitting...
It has been five months now since I started vaping and leaving analogs behind. It's been a good five months, too. My breathing is to levels it has not been since I was a teen, and i found I can sing and exert myself without panting and puffing. My singing voice is not as scratchy or tortured...
:cry: I feel so guilty. For the past week I have had HUGE analog cravings. I don't know why. My stress level was high, but then again it usually is. And I finally gave in and bummed an analog off my mother tonight. She warned me they were not 'fresh'. I don't think it would have mattered if they...
It's official. Colds suck big time. I have not been able to taste any of my vapes since Christmas Day. I can feel menthol (and yes it DOES help a little), but that's about it. I had to dedicate one of my cartos to the menthol. I know I ought to go ahead and mix an unflavored juice just for times...
Here we are only two weeks from Christmas. Where did 2010 go?!
I've been working all week... Five days down, and only two to go. That's why I have been largely silent, even to those I have been regularly talking to/messaging. These long weeks drag on me by Thursday...
Had to do some DIY last...
A couple of nights ago I mixed a 30 ml bottle of my very favorite juice. I gave it 24 hours to sit, something I did not allow the original 10 ml to do before trying it. The original was sweet and good and awesome from first vape and right on through over a week later. I was so excited. I could...
I mixed up a few bottles of DIY juice a little over a week ago and made a note to myself: set a specific time each week to DIY. As I was reorganizing my cabinet the other night, I realized something wonderful: I have enough juice to last quite a long while even without DIYing for a time. My mom...
I have a lot to be thankful for. In fact, if I made a list of all of the things I am thankful for, I would not be able to post it without writing a book. However, since this is my vaping blog, I am going to focus on the things I am thankful for in this arena.
I am thankful...
... for not...
Tonight, I happily vaped my own DIY pineapple juice in an E2 carto on iVape's Aloha 'Lani' mod. I have my Ego travel kit packed with four other cartos, each a different flavor (cappucino, vanilla bean dream, lemony cotton candy, and strawnana kiwi cream), two bottles of backup liquid (watermelon...
So my order from Gourmet Vapor FINALLY came in today. I was so happy to see that box! Well packaged, pretty plastic bottles, but no dropper tips... will figure that out later. Not that I have finished my second bottle of nic juice yet. I forgot in my excitement one key factor that made me have...
There are only a few drawbacks I have found with E2s. One is the fact that they just can't be cleaned. There is no successful way I have found around this. Not that it matters much, because when they go dry, it does not take long for a new flavor that is introduced to the carto to come to the...
I had my first encounter today with someone whose view has been skewed by media coverage on the e-cig.
I stopped in at my local CVS to buy some nail decals to decorate my batteries and cartos with, since I wanted something unique and easy to tell my cartos apart at a glance. When I went to the...
The evolution of my taste intrigues me. I started out vaping nothing but fruit flavors, with a chocolatey candy flavor thrown in here or there for good measure. I quickly found the latter to be pretty unappealing for all-day vaping. I mean, they are good for brief treats, but that is it. I found...
So much for sleeping the night through.
DIY has actually been fairly far from my mind for a while. Tonight, however, I decided to try revisiting my failed attempt at making a decent cappuccino one more time before completely throwing in the towel. I looked over my first recipe and the remix...
I have been alternating my nic level between 18 and 24 since I started vaping. I ramped it up to 24 mg when I felt like that certain something was missing and I was going through analog withdrawal. The 24 mg doesn't seem to be hurting me, but it may be a good idea to drop the nic a level and...
It seems that DIY is not going to be as simple or straight forward as I thought. Having to cater to the needs of three different vapers does not, in my opinion, make things any easier.
One prefers more vg, while one wants a lot less. One gets heartburn from the vg and another likes to vape at...
I thought that I was completely and forever ruined for using my 510 again after using my eGo and my new Aloha mod. I was wrong! Since I started ordering cartos, I have always ordered the 510 LR cartos. I had never ordered the regular 510 cartos before, until my last major order.
I tried the...
I started vaping just over a month ago. A lot has happened in a month. Most markedly, I have not had an analog in three days now. Not that I was smoking more than one a day, but that single analog was staining what would have otherwise been perfect happiness with myself... Today, I feel a whole...