By now, you've probably realized two challenge-bearing truths about that Juust Right! puff:
1) It's harder to achieve consistently than you thought it would be
2) One Juust Right! puff does not fit all cartomizers
Overcoming the challenge of that first truth may not be easy, but at least it comes with an ancient, simple, and foolproof formula for success - practice.
Truth 2's challenge gets a little more complicated. The puff that's Juust Right! for wowboy is not necessarily the puff that's Juust Right! for chocolate.
Because throat hit goes up with the nicotine number, even the same flavor by the same company can have as many Juust Right! puffs as it has nicotine strength options.
The good news, at least for some of us, is that zero nicotine anything may mean zero throat hit, therefore zero cough, so we don't have to worry about a Juust Right! puff. Some of us may not get a throat hit from some flavors, regardless of nicotine strength. Others may not get one from any flavor unless it's least an 11.
But anything that does give us a throat hit is going to insist on having its very own Juust Right! puff.
When we consider the dozens of cartomizer flavors available, each one with its own little array of nicotine strength options, development and mastery of all those Juust Right! puffs can be a daunting prospect.
Here's how we'll un-daunt it:
To maximize our tobacco cigarette reduction and minimize problems with our nicotine level, we know we'll need to get several different nicotine strengths of our initial go-to flavor.
Let's suppose that the flavor we've chosen as our initial go-to is Acme's Jamocha-Gooseberry CigarPipe Deluxe, available in 0, 4, 11, 18, 24, and 36, and that we get a throat hit from everything but 0.
(If you and/or your Smart Shaman have determined, based your individual tobacco consumption practices, that you aren't likely to need 36, needn't bother with 4, etc, subtract those, but for our example, we're going to assume that you're getting everything but 0).
Soon, there you'll sit, surrounded by 5 little packages of cartomizers, all Acme's Jamocha-Gooseberry CigarPipe Deluxe flavor, each with a different nicotine level, meaning you'll need to find, and learn to consistently achieve, 5 different Juust Right! puffs.
The lazy person's For me, the easiest way to accomplish this is by assigning mantras. Sometimes, old ways are best.
So pick a cartomizer, note the number on it, put it on your electric hookah-doodle, and puff.
As soon as you begin the puff, chant to yourself, "One elephant, two elephant."
If you didn't get a throat hit, puff again, and add an elephant. If you coughed, rest a minute, puff again and subtract an elephant.
If you don't get a throat hit from two elephants, try Kuala Lampur. Or pink elephant. If you're still not getting a throat hit, chant "One hippopotamus, two hippopotamus."
(If you get as far as "One Parangaracutirmicuaro, two Parangaracutirmicuaro" with something, and still aren't getting a throat hit, toss it over there in the zero pile and don't worry about a mantra for that one).
Of course, your mantras don't have to be fun jungle animals or cities of the world.
You can use popular pharmaceuticals (One Prilosec, two Prilosec), designers (One Versace, two Versace). Those of you with an affinity for numbers may prefer using ordinals and cardinals and logarithmic hummingbirds - you get the idea. It's about syllables. When you find the Juust Right! Puff Mantra for a particular flavor-nicotine combination, write it down.
If your vision and finger skills are agreeable, writing it down on the cartomizer too (2 elephant) would be a bonus, but for most of us, the idea of being able to read ANY word, much less one with 3 or 4 syllables written small enough to fit on something not quite 2 inches long will have bestow the gift of hearty laughter, which Science has decreed provides the same cardiovascular benefit as those horrid exercises, so you're welcome.
You may find that a particular mantra will work for more than one flavornic combo.
There's nothing fundamentally wrong with chanting "One Helsinki, two Helsinki" while puffing Acme's Jamocha-Gooseberry CigarPipe Deluxe in either 8 or 11.
If your memory, cognitive and assorted similar brain functions are consistently firing 100% of their neurons 100% of the time, and you're not taking any medication that could impact that, go for it.
For most of us, however, the mantra can also function as a Fiendly Helper Elf - just like having brown labels on chocolate cartomizers and yellow labels on pineapple ones.
I need all the Friendly Helper Elves I can get, so my plan is to train my neurons to associate "One Bratislava, two Bratislava" with RY-4 18, and "One Hippopotamus, two Hippopotamus, three Hippopotamus" with Pineapple 8.
(I'm also working on a Label Enhancement System, and will bring you the latest on this breaking story as it develops)
Eyes on The Prize Summary: Our goal is the development of practical strategies that will result in a sustainable reduction in the number of tobacco cigarettes we smoke every day. Any and everything that's going to make that easier for us, we're going to do it.
1) It's harder to achieve consistently than you thought it would be
2) One Juust Right! puff does not fit all cartomizers
Overcoming the challenge of that first truth may not be easy, but at least it comes with an ancient, simple, and foolproof formula for success - practice.
Truth 2's challenge gets a little more complicated. The puff that's Juust Right! for wowboy is not necessarily the puff that's Juust Right! for chocolate.
Because throat hit goes up with the nicotine number, even the same flavor by the same company can have as many Juust Right! puffs as it has nicotine strength options.
The good news, at least for some of us, is that zero nicotine anything may mean zero throat hit, therefore zero cough, so we don't have to worry about a Juust Right! puff. Some of us may not get a throat hit from some flavors, regardless of nicotine strength. Others may not get one from any flavor unless it's least an 11.
But anything that does give us a throat hit is going to insist on having its very own Juust Right! puff.
When we consider the dozens of cartomizer flavors available, each one with its own little array of nicotine strength options, development and mastery of all those Juust Right! puffs can be a daunting prospect.
Here's how we'll un-daunt it:
To maximize our tobacco cigarette reduction and minimize problems with our nicotine level, we know we'll need to get several different nicotine strengths of our initial go-to flavor.
Let's suppose that the flavor we've chosen as our initial go-to is Acme's Jamocha-Gooseberry CigarPipe Deluxe, available in 0, 4, 11, 18, 24, and 36, and that we get a throat hit from everything but 0.
(If you and/or your Smart Shaman have determined, based your individual tobacco consumption practices, that you aren't likely to need 36, needn't bother with 4, etc, subtract those, but for our example, we're going to assume that you're getting everything but 0).
Soon, there you'll sit, surrounded by 5 little packages of cartomizers, all Acme's Jamocha-Gooseberry CigarPipe Deluxe flavor, each with a different nicotine level, meaning you'll need to find, and learn to consistently achieve, 5 different Juust Right! puffs.
So pick a cartomizer, note the number on it, put it on your electric hookah-doodle, and puff.
As soon as you begin the puff, chant to yourself, "One elephant, two elephant."
If you didn't get a throat hit, puff again, and add an elephant. If you coughed, rest a minute, puff again and subtract an elephant.
If you don't get a throat hit from two elephants, try Kuala Lampur. Or pink elephant. If you're still not getting a throat hit, chant "One hippopotamus, two hippopotamus."
(If you get as far as "One Parangaracutirmicuaro, two Parangaracutirmicuaro" with something, and still aren't getting a throat hit, toss it over there in the zero pile and don't worry about a mantra for that one).
Of course, your mantras don't have to be fun jungle animals or cities of the world.
You can use popular pharmaceuticals (One Prilosec, two Prilosec), designers (One Versace, two Versace). Those of you with an affinity for numbers may prefer using ordinals and cardinals and logarithmic hummingbirds - you get the idea. It's about syllables. When you find the Juust Right! Puff Mantra for a particular flavor-nicotine combination, write it down.
If your vision and finger skills are agreeable, writing it down on the cartomizer too (2 elephant) would be a bonus, but for most of us, the idea of being able to read ANY word, much less one with 3 or 4 syllables written small enough to fit on something not quite 2 inches long will have bestow the gift of hearty laughter, which Science has decreed provides the same cardiovascular benefit as those horrid exercises, so you're welcome.
You may find that a particular mantra will work for more than one flavornic combo.
There's nothing fundamentally wrong with chanting "One Helsinki, two Helsinki" while puffing Acme's Jamocha-Gooseberry CigarPipe Deluxe in either 8 or 11.
If your memory, cognitive and assorted similar brain functions are consistently firing 100% of their neurons 100% of the time, and you're not taking any medication that could impact that, go for it.
For most of us, however, the mantra can also function as a Fiendly Helper Elf - just like having brown labels on chocolate cartomizers and yellow labels on pineapple ones.
I need all the Friendly Helper Elves I can get, so my plan is to train my neurons to associate "One Bratislava, two Bratislava" with RY-4 18, and "One Hippopotamus, two Hippopotamus, three Hippopotamus" with Pineapple 8.
(I'm also working on a Label Enhancement System, and will bring you the latest on this breaking story as it develops)
Eyes on The Prize Summary: Our goal is the development of practical strategies that will result in a sustainable reduction in the number of tobacco cigarettes we smoke every day. Any and everything that's going to make that easier for us, we're going to do it.
