I've had about a week's worth of experience with the xhaleO2. I live in Bakersfield, CA where they do sell these at 2 of the 7-11's that I know of. My girlfriend comes over one morning with a $20 kit for me and she's already puffing on hers. She's a 20 year, pack and a half a day Marlboro Light smoker and has emotionally exhausted many attempts to quit. After picking up the xhale from 7-11, she is interested in quitting again and hasn't smoked a single cigarette all week. I'm personally shocked and delighted.
I understand those that say the lesser quality of the device won't satisfy people and will turn them off to e-cigs. I disagree and here's my reason why. Most people in the United States have absolutely no clue what an e-cigarette is. Most people who smoke hate the fact that they feel like they're stuck forever because nothing fulfills that craving. Even by just having the xhale in stores, this educates people that these devices actually exist. Now most come to the logical conclusion that if there is one version of this device here, that there's probably all kinds of other devices and information elsewhere that they can find. This leads all these new consumers to the internet, and honestly, it leads them to ECF. It must be recognized that even though brands like SE might be crap, there are plenty of new vaping consumers and ECF contributers every day because people learned these devices existed.
Onto the Xhale... My girlfriend's $20 kit works great to me. I am less experienced, but I know what I enjoy. With hers, the TH is light and smooth, but you certainly feel what you're vaping. The vapor production is a little less than what I see from the penstyle Youtube reviews. I haven't experienced liquids yet, but I've never had a flavored cigarette that matched up to what she purchased. The regular and mint carts were fine and not very strong, but the e-hookah strawberry/blueberry carts were amazingly flavorful (the "e-cig" and "e-hookah" are the exact same thing... I guess they just wanted to market nic and non-nic completely separate... we use e-hookah carts on the e-cig to identical results as the regular).
My personal experience with my kit was a bit worse. After pulling it out and putting the device together, my atomizer busted after 10 minutes of use. The light came on signifying that I was dragging on it, but the atty wasn't getting hot at all. I called xhale from the website and she told me to head to 7-11 and exchange it. Problem is that I don't have a car to get to the 7-11 she bought it from and she wanted to just buy me a new one instead of exchanging it. I figured "ah well, I'll then have two batteries and some extra carts so one will be ready at all times". The new one worked great at first, but over time, using it started to feel like I was sucking a rock through a straw and my vapor production just absolutely tanked. I went through about 7-8 carts thinking they were the problem and I probably wasted a lot of good juice in them, too. I took out the atty, put it in hot water, and dried it out. I put the e-cig back together and through on a new cart. The atty didn't even get hot for the first two drags and then the third drag was the miraculous drag. The "this is the reason I vape" drag. For the next half hour, using the xhale was great. The only thing I noticed was that during each good drag, the atty would make a sizzling kind of sound up to the point it cooled, of course. Everything was good, straight vaping for an hour and the sizzling stopped. The vapor production declined and the "rock through straw" effect got worse. The device hasn't failed on completely yet. I can feel the atty getting nice and hot during each drag, but the results are abysmal. I had just cleaned the atty a few hours ago and I'm attempted to do so again. Am I somehow flooding the atty from the carts that they give me? I do move the device around a lot (like I did my cigs), but I haven't hit it hard on anything at all to break it. Oh well, $20 lessons and hopefully the device will work as a good dripping backup.
Because of the xhale, though, I found ECF and went on a learning binge for a few days. I have $35 Joye 510 kit coming in the mail from Health Cabin with 10ml of their coffee 18mg nic, I think. I also ordered a PCC for it from e-smokeytreats. I'm interested in making my own carts and I need to pickup some filling online somewhere (anyone know any good cheap sites?). I also want to get into trying all these liquids at a decent price, too.
Either way, until my Joye 510 gets here, I'll be using the xhale. I just wish I could figure out what the problem is with mine. I told my girlfriend I was going to steal her batteries and atty till my Joye comes in.
Oh, and I'll give her review seeing as she's the real smoker out of the both of us trying to quit. Her personal feelings is that she really likes the xhale. 1. She definitely recognizes the nicotine she is receiving. For her morning with coffee smoke, now vape, she takes 5 or 6 good drags and gets that craving satisfied. For the smoking action, she loves what it does, but her main problem with it is that she doesn't feel like the hit is hard enough at all. That is the only thing that has her still craving her real cigarettes. I told her about all these other e-cigs I learned about and that I ordered a Joye 510. She's sure that we just have a lesser brand of e-cig and that she's going to try out the 510 as soon as it gets here and she'll order one if she likes it. Are there any online vendors that give out "refer-a-friend" discounts/free samples? I'm always looking to save
And if anyone doesn't mind answering, what's the financially logical way to order your e-liquids? Buy a bunch at once? Get a lot of something strong and cut it down? Thanks for any responses!
I understand those that say the lesser quality of the device won't satisfy people and will turn them off to e-cigs. I disagree and here's my reason why. Most people in the United States have absolutely no clue what an e-cigarette is. Most people who smoke hate the fact that they feel like they're stuck forever because nothing fulfills that craving. Even by just having the xhale in stores, this educates people that these devices actually exist. Now most come to the logical conclusion that if there is one version of this device here, that there's probably all kinds of other devices and information elsewhere that they can find. This leads all these new consumers to the internet, and honestly, it leads them to ECF. It must be recognized that even though brands like SE might be crap, there are plenty of new vaping consumers and ECF contributers every day because people learned these devices existed.
Onto the Xhale... My girlfriend's $20 kit works great to me. I am less experienced, but I know what I enjoy. With hers, the TH is light and smooth, but you certainly feel what you're vaping. The vapor production is a little less than what I see from the penstyle Youtube reviews. I haven't experienced liquids yet, but I've never had a flavored cigarette that matched up to what she purchased. The regular and mint carts were fine and not very strong, but the e-hookah strawberry/blueberry carts were amazingly flavorful (the "e-cig" and "e-hookah" are the exact same thing... I guess they just wanted to market nic and non-nic completely separate... we use e-hookah carts on the e-cig to identical results as the regular).
My personal experience with my kit was a bit worse. After pulling it out and putting the device together, my atomizer busted after 10 minutes of use. The light came on signifying that I was dragging on it, but the atty wasn't getting hot at all. I called xhale from the website and she told me to head to 7-11 and exchange it. Problem is that I don't have a car to get to the 7-11 she bought it from and she wanted to just buy me a new one instead of exchanging it. I figured "ah well, I'll then have two batteries and some extra carts so one will be ready at all times". The new one worked great at first, but over time, using it started to feel like I was sucking a rock through a straw and my vapor production just absolutely tanked. I went through about 7-8 carts thinking they were the problem and I probably wasted a lot of good juice in them, too. I took out the atty, put it in hot water, and dried it out. I put the e-cig back together and through on a new cart. The atty didn't even get hot for the first two drags and then the third drag was the miraculous drag. The "this is the reason I vape" drag. For the next half hour, using the xhale was great. The only thing I noticed was that during each good drag, the atty would make a sizzling kind of sound up to the point it cooled, of course. Everything was good, straight vaping for an hour and the sizzling stopped. The vapor production declined and the "rock through straw" effect got worse. The device hasn't failed on completely yet. I can feel the atty getting nice and hot during each drag, but the results are abysmal. I had just cleaned the atty a few hours ago and I'm attempted to do so again. Am I somehow flooding the atty from the carts that they give me? I do move the device around a lot (like I did my cigs), but I haven't hit it hard on anything at all to break it. Oh well, $20 lessons and hopefully the device will work as a good dripping backup.
Because of the xhale, though, I found ECF and went on a learning binge for a few days. I have $35 Joye 510 kit coming in the mail from Health Cabin with 10ml of their coffee 18mg nic, I think. I also ordered a PCC for it from e-smokeytreats. I'm interested in making my own carts and I need to pickup some filling online somewhere (anyone know any good cheap sites?). I also want to get into trying all these liquids at a decent price, too.
Either way, until my Joye 510 gets here, I'll be using the xhale. I just wish I could figure out what the problem is with mine. I told my girlfriend I was going to steal her batteries and atty till my Joye comes in.
Oh, and I'll give her review seeing as she's the real smoker out of the both of us trying to quit. Her personal feelings is that she really likes the xhale. 1. She definitely recognizes the nicotine she is receiving. For her morning with coffee smoke, now vape, she takes 5 or 6 good drags and gets that craving satisfied. For the smoking action, she loves what it does, but her main problem with it is that she doesn't feel like the hit is hard enough at all. That is the only thing that has her still craving her real cigarettes. I told her about all these other e-cigs I learned about and that I ordered a Joye 510. She's sure that we just have a lesser brand of e-cig and that she's going to try out the 510 as soon as it gets here and she'll order one if she likes it. Are there any online vendors that give out "refer-a-friend" discounts/free samples? I'm always looking to save
And if anyone doesn't mind answering, what's the financially logical way to order your e-liquids? Buy a bunch at once? Get a lot of something strong and cut it down? Thanks for any responses!
