Oh man, when i first started i can remember it. moved out on my own at 19 years old, got into smoking, drinking, partying all day every day. it started with a pack a week, then a pack a day. As I got older the partying and drinking died down, but the smoking habit stayed. I smoked in the house, and had my own 'smoke room' which was basically my PC room. I started buying 2 packs a day, then cartons worth of Camel Menthols and Newport Shorts. From 23-25 I was a 2 pack a day smoker. Those two years were the worst, I always felt like I had something in my throat and would constantly be forcing myself to cough to 'clear my throat' [smokers cough]. After smoking in my smoking room for so long, I decided to clean it as the stench started to disgust me and linger out into the hallway everytime I opened the door. The walls were thick with tar, they changed the whitewalls to a yellowy creamish color. The stench soaked into the wood, the spattered white ceiling was grey, I had to throw away the twin bed in the room as the smell would not come out of the mattress. This made me think, if the walls are covered with that much gunk from my smoke, imagine what my lungs were filled with.
At first I started smoking to be cool, its what people were doing at parties, college, while socializing. Then I learned it got the edge off before tests, and before I knew it I was smoking a cigarette for breakfast on the way to class to get me calm and chainsmoking before tests. Then before I knew it I had a smoke in my hand walking to class, walking out of class, during breaks, on the drive to the store, whenever I was in my car, I would light up that cigarette. People would raise their windows while I smoked at a stoplight, people would take the long walk around to avoid my cigarette smoke during breaks, my nieces and newphews would ask me if I was smoking after I gave them a hug. I wanted to quit, i had to quit, people started avoiding me, my health was declining, I've had strep throat twice and I lost a good 20lbs each time because It was so painful to eat or drink for weeks. Even after the strep throat passed, I had headaches, I woke up coughing up a storm everyday.
I forget exactly how I got into vaping, but I ended up signing up to a small forum with a small community who was very helpful. I started with a stick-style joyetech battery with those replaceable atomizers. Good god those were a horrible vape. They lasted me a few minutes, puffing, tryign to vape that little sucker like a real cigarette. The blue LED light at the end (LOL) just dissapearing letting me know the battery was out, and having to recharge it on a AC wall adaptor, and wait. Wait for that sucker to charge so I could get my fix. But I was weak and smoked between charges. It wasn't satisfying at all. Then I bought an eGo Passthrough and moved on to 306 dripping atomizers. They had a greater impact. Drip a little juice and vape it. God forbid you get a dry hit because a mouthful of dryhit vapor was the most disgusting horrible thing you would ever get in your mouth. It felt like taking a computer and chewing on it. I would overdrip just to prevent those nasty nasty dry hits, but it would create a mess and just leak all over my desk and my hands. It was terrible, but it was better than those stick style batteries that never last. I picked up a Silver Bullet, for the battery life and I was good for a while, holding this giant mod with a tiny 306 atomizer on the tip I felt like a goof. The battery lasted a day or two so that was the best, but the vape was still horrible, burnt cotton tasting cartomizers, metal tasting atomizers, how on earth do people keep vaping?
I was addicted. It got me. Took me by the clutches and told me I was never going back. Never going back to cigarettes. My journey for the holy grail of vapes began.
come 2012-2013, my daily setup are two 650mah ego batteries, with a vivi nova tank. I completely ignored the vape scene because I was set I told myself. During early 2014 my ego batteries started to die, and I had a short relapse. An abundance of stress and a lack of reliable vape gear led me back to smoking maybe a pack a week. It was different. I couldn't light a cigarette. The inhale made me gag. My body was telling me it was poison and telling me not to smoke it but I forced myself to. Taking 1-2 second drags, then gagging. Yes I'm back my old friend, the joys of smoking. Spitting up gagging and putting toxins into my body. Is this what smoking is? Is this how i started? Against my bodies on own wishes, telling me not to do it, my mental fortitude is what forced me into smoking in the first place?
I did not want to go down that road again, I went online and started to search for vaping gear. Read across forums and learned about mech mods, Variable wattage devices, rebuildable atomizers, new clearomizer tanks. Good lord look at all this new stuff, look at how far vaping has gone. Where have the stick style batteries gone? Where are my tried and true ego batteries? The 306 atomizers and the disposable clearomizers? Where is the vaping I grew up with and love, the disgusting taste of metal, the horrible smell of burnt cotton. What has vaping turned into?
I'm not going back to smoking, I don't want to die young. After reading about new products and new gear, I decided to go all in. I ordered myself a DNA30 device and a Kanger Aerotank. GOOD GOD, the vapor was great and no chemical or cotton or electrical tastes? YES. Then I bought a RDA some wire and cotton. Oh lord, its like that first hit of a 306 atty, over, and over, and over, and over again, wait AND its rebuildable? You mean I dont have to buy a new 306 atty after it burns out? YES PLEASE. So I bought another RDA.... then another RDA.... and another... then some cotton... and some wire... and some more wire... then some different gauges of wire... and another new mod.... oh is a dna40 coming out? got to get me one of those, oh another version of the RDA I love? lets get one of those.... some of these....
oh and I need some of that...
I'm addicted to something new, something healthier, more satisfying, and more enjoyable than smoking. I'm a vaper.
There have been many people who have answered my questions and lead me into the right direction when I fell off the path. Thank you everyone.
2011-2012 gear:
two egos, an OG silver bullet, two mini volt batteries
mass amounts of cartomizers, those OG clearomizers, and i believe us ancient people called them '306 atomizers' ?
some 5volt greenies, and my first stock of DIY ejuice stuff.
sorry if that was a horrible read, i just felt like typing.
At first I started smoking to be cool, its what people were doing at parties, college, while socializing. Then I learned it got the edge off before tests, and before I knew it I was smoking a cigarette for breakfast on the way to class to get me calm and chainsmoking before tests. Then before I knew it I had a smoke in my hand walking to class, walking out of class, during breaks, on the drive to the store, whenever I was in my car, I would light up that cigarette. People would raise their windows while I smoked at a stoplight, people would take the long walk around to avoid my cigarette smoke during breaks, my nieces and newphews would ask me if I was smoking after I gave them a hug. I wanted to quit, i had to quit, people started avoiding me, my health was declining, I've had strep throat twice and I lost a good 20lbs each time because It was so painful to eat or drink for weeks. Even after the strep throat passed, I had headaches, I woke up coughing up a storm everyday.
I forget exactly how I got into vaping, but I ended up signing up to a small forum with a small community who was very helpful. I started with a stick-style joyetech battery with those replaceable atomizers. Good god those were a horrible vape. They lasted me a few minutes, puffing, tryign to vape that little sucker like a real cigarette. The blue LED light at the end (LOL) just dissapearing letting me know the battery was out, and having to recharge it on a AC wall adaptor, and wait. Wait for that sucker to charge so I could get my fix. But I was weak and smoked between charges. It wasn't satisfying at all. Then I bought an eGo Passthrough and moved on to 306 dripping atomizers. They had a greater impact. Drip a little juice and vape it. God forbid you get a dry hit because a mouthful of dryhit vapor was the most disgusting horrible thing you would ever get in your mouth. It felt like taking a computer and chewing on it. I would overdrip just to prevent those nasty nasty dry hits, but it would create a mess and just leak all over my desk and my hands. It was terrible, but it was better than those stick style batteries that never last. I picked up a Silver Bullet, for the battery life and I was good for a while, holding this giant mod with a tiny 306 atomizer on the tip I felt like a goof. The battery lasted a day or two so that was the best, but the vape was still horrible, burnt cotton tasting cartomizers, metal tasting atomizers, how on earth do people keep vaping?
I was addicted. It got me. Took me by the clutches and told me I was never going back. Never going back to cigarettes. My journey for the holy grail of vapes began.
come 2012-2013, my daily setup are two 650mah ego batteries, with a vivi nova tank. I completely ignored the vape scene because I was set I told myself. During early 2014 my ego batteries started to die, and I had a short relapse. An abundance of stress and a lack of reliable vape gear led me back to smoking maybe a pack a week. It was different. I couldn't light a cigarette. The inhale made me gag. My body was telling me it was poison and telling me not to smoke it but I forced myself to. Taking 1-2 second drags, then gagging. Yes I'm back my old friend, the joys of smoking. Spitting up gagging and putting toxins into my body. Is this what smoking is? Is this how i started? Against my bodies on own wishes, telling me not to do it, my mental fortitude is what forced me into smoking in the first place?
I did not want to go down that road again, I went online and started to search for vaping gear. Read across forums and learned about mech mods, Variable wattage devices, rebuildable atomizers, new clearomizer tanks. Good lord look at all this new stuff, look at how far vaping has gone. Where have the stick style batteries gone? Where are my tried and true ego batteries? The 306 atomizers and the disposable clearomizers? Where is the vaping I grew up with and love, the disgusting taste of metal, the horrible smell of burnt cotton. What has vaping turned into?
I'm not going back to smoking, I don't want to die young. After reading about new products and new gear, I decided to go all in. I ordered myself a DNA30 device and a Kanger Aerotank. GOOD GOD, the vapor was great and no chemical or cotton or electrical tastes? YES. Then I bought a RDA some wire and cotton. Oh lord, its like that first hit of a 306 atty, over, and over, and over, and over again, wait AND its rebuildable? You mean I dont have to buy a new 306 atty after it burns out? YES PLEASE. So I bought another RDA.... then another RDA.... and another... then some cotton... and some wire... and some more wire... then some different gauges of wire... and another new mod.... oh is a dna40 coming out? got to get me one of those, oh another version of the RDA I love? lets get one of those.... some of these....
oh and I need some of that...
I'm addicted to something new, something healthier, more satisfying, and more enjoyable than smoking. I'm a vaper.
There have been many people who have answered my questions and lead me into the right direction when I fell off the path. Thank you everyone.
2011-2012 gear:
two egos, an OG silver bullet, two mini volt batteries
mass amounts of cartomizers, those OG clearomizers, and i believe us ancient people called them '306 atomizers' ?
some 5volt greenies, and my first stock of DIY ejuice stuff.
sorry if that was a horrible read, i just felt like typing.
