40 Years of Marlboros to being a fruit loop. Just a Rant

[old_geezer]

I'm 54 and smoked 1-2 pack a day for 40 years. I started vaping and got some tobacco flavors, and silly Icicle Apple almost by mistake. Holy crap, fruit tastes a lot better than burning brown poisonous weeds! I haven't given up yet. Still playing with Sweet Virginia and RY4 to keep me in the tobacco loop, but the fruit stuff tastes so good. fasttech Kiwi and Mango is like OMG better than tobacco. I started with MadVapes Icicle Apple 24mg, now down to 18MG Dekang and Hangsen stuff. Going for 12mg soon. My wife says my man cave smells great now. I'm going to start lying and telling my friends I'm smoking Grizzly Blood, when it's really Dekang Kiwi..
- Joe

 

[Rin13]

There are good tobacco vapes out there but they are hard to find. I find that NETs tend to be the best as they are made with actual tobacco, opposed to a chemical that just so happens to taste like tobacco. If you DIY, or are interested in it, there are several flavors that I (and my picky father) find to be good tobacco flavors.
Parliament from Vaping Zone as well as Real Cig are both good and highly rated for their realistic tobacco flavor. (Real Cig can also be used as an additive, so you can mix both)
As far as an actual juice, I personally haven't found a straight up tobacco I've liked. 15 foot falls from Alice in Vapeland is a tobacco flavor but with coconut and graham cracker notes. It's really good but not a straight up tobacco.

 

[mackman]

If you smoked Marlboro's as I did you should try some unflavored nic-just sayin'

 

[RogerWilco357]

If you like the ry4's and fruit types you should look at zeus juice they have some good stuff..

 

[rnln]

Hi Rin13,
Thanks for the recommendation. I looked into the website and found this for the real cig. Can you take a look to see what I found is the real Cig you recommended to Joe?
Real Cig Super Concentrated Flavor | Alcohol Based Flavoring - E Cig eGo, E juice, Mods, Cartomizers, Liquid Nicotine, DIY Flavorings

Another question I have is for the mixing %. I used to get flavor from Wizard Labs and mix 12.5%. On this web site, Vaping Zone is recommended 2.5%, a lot lower than what I use now with Wizard Labs. May I ask what % do you mix yours with?

I saw Vaping Zone has "SC-555 Super Concentrated Flavor". I ordered 555 flavor from Wizard Labs twice. The taste is nothing like cigarette at all. It more like pop corn. Have you tried this 555 from Vaping Zone? What would you say it's taste/smell like?

Thanks.

There are good tobacco vapes out there but they are hard to find. I find that NETs tend to be the best as they are made with actual tobacco, opposed to a chemical that just so happens to taste like tobacco. If you DIY, or are interested in it, there are several flavors that I (and my picky father) find to be good tobacco flavors.
Parliament from Vaping Zone as well as Real Cig are both good and highly rated for their realistic tobacco flavor. (Real Cig can also be used as an additive, so you can mix both)
As far as an actual juice, I personally haven't found a straight up tobacco I've liked. 15 foot falls from Alice in Vapeland is a tobacco flavor but with coconut and graham cracker notes. It's really good but not a straight up tobacco.

 

[rnln]

Rin13, Just ordered the 2 flavors you recommended, and the 555 from Vaping Zone. Let see how it is. Thanks.

 

[chanelvaps]

Mountain Oak Vapor's tobacco's are great. I like Pendragon and Southern Gentleman and Apache

I'm 54 and smoked 1-2 pack a day for 40 years. I started vaping and got some tobacco flavors, and silly Icicle Apple almost by mistake. Holy crap, fruit tastes a lot better than burning brown poisonous weeds! I haven't given up yet. Still playing with Sweet Virginia and RY4 to keep me in the tobacco loop, but the fruit stuff tastes so good. FastTech Kiwi and Mango is like OMG better than tobacco. I started with MadVapes Icicle Apple 24mg, now down to 18MG Dekang and Hangsen stuff. Going for 12mg soon. My wife says my man cave smells great now. I'm going to start lying and telling my friends I'm smoking Grizzly Blood, when it's really Dekang Kiwi..
- Joe

 

[Tarja]

When I first put down the analogue, I picked up a batch of tobacco cartomizers. I was given one in vanilla and berry as a bonus. I found that the tobacco ones were just nasty, but I really didn't mind the fruity ones or the vanilla ones.

I haven't looked back at a tobacco flavour yet...although I am strongly tempted to buy H1N1 once I make my next order. Which, knowing me, will probably be tomorrow

 

[gpjoe]

Same here. I smoked menthol cigs for 40 years, most recently Marboro Blues and initially went on a quest to find a juice to replace them. I finally gave up and went with some fruit flavors and never looked back. Now I vape a combination of fruit and bakery flavors and find those to be most satisfying. Some of my favs are Vape Dudes Blue Honey and Flavorz by Joe Cinna Rolls. I also like Nicoticket Grandma's Cinnamon Danish and Doodle. Really, the closest thing to menthol that I vape is probably Vape Dudes black licorice, which I like a lot.

If I want a tobacco vape I always go with River Bottom Fog Sauce Admiral's Pipe (I add a touch of vanilla) or Count Caramel. The River Bottom Fog Sauce juices are NETS (naturally extracted tobacco) and are the best I've tried.

 

[RobinBanks]

Why fight it? Maybe you're just full blown fruit. It's OK.

 

[rnln]

Rin13, thanks for your suggestion to old_geezer. I tried 2 tobacco flavors out of 3 I order from vaping zone, include the 555. They are much better than any tobacco flavors I have tried from other vendors. I will switch to Vaping Zone now.

Rin13, Just ordered the 2 flavors you recommended, and the 555 from Vaping Zone. Let see how it is. Thanks.

 

[Sgt.Rock]

If you smoked Marlboro's as I did you should try some unflavored nic-just sayin'

That's exactly what I do. I also smoked Marlboro (Red and then Light) for most of the 40-ish years I smoked cigs.

I have found that pure unadulterated, unflavored is perfect for me. I order 100 mg nic and mix to suit. Currently I'm vaping 25 PG/75 VG @12 mg with a "kicker" loaded with 18 mg for when I want a little more. I also have a tank loaded with some that I've added dissolved Menthol crystals to for a change of pace.

As a side benefit--coils last a L-O-O-N-G time

 

[sandman97289]

Being another Marlboro smoker for years I always have a tank of a tobacco based e-liquid always handy and generally my ADV. For me there are 3 tobacco based juices that I always come back to
vapetrik's Dorky Stud - Tastes like a creamy toasted high end pipe tobacco with hints of graham cracker
Nicoticket's H1N1 - The tobacco is subtle but this one keeps morphing with steep time and wattage. It has hints of nutmeg, cinnamon, marshmellow (at least to me)
Alice in Vapeland's 15 foot falls - Subtle tobacco but earthy tones.

I'm not a fan of straight up tobacco flavors and I prefer the more complex ones.

 

[anavidfan]

Im a tobacco lover also. I started with tobacco "flavors" as my taste buds became healed, those started to taste synthetic. Tried The Plume Room NET tobaccos and fell in love. Year later all those started to taste more fruit enhanced or too sweet.

My new favorite is a small one man operation found on FB. He brews his tobaccos from actual fine cigars and pipe tobaccos etc. WOW, is all I can say. The Burley so far is my favorite. Has an amazing smokiness, it for me at least, is the closest to smoking. I swear I thought someone was smoking in the house, not that cheap chemical cigarette smell, but like 20 years ago REAL tobacco leaves cigarettes. When cigarettes, good ones, used to have a deep earthy scnt or fragrance not yuck.

Prices are decent compared to some of the other boutique liquids that are simple a mix of premade flavors and put in a cool bottle with a cool label with cool names. Its hand made and filtered and blended. He is on FB.

 

[Merryhellion]

Any of nicoticket's tobacco flavors are excellent...this evening I'm rotation vaping h1n1 and radioactive in the same dripper. Simply succulent, when I've had a lousy day and just want not to even think about having a cig =)