A Decade Of Vaping - Do You Remember When?

[niczgreat]

I began vaping 3 months before I found the ECF Forum. So as of this month I've been vaping 9 years. Oops thought I began in 2008.

I remember:

I was cruising the internet and ran across this new fangled device called the ECIG. I'll never forget the first one I bought which was a cigalike device. I was vaping as fast as the battery would recharge. But I never looked back. I have 3 children and wanted harm reduction. In the past 10 years I haven't smoked a single cigarette.

Back then forget about buying in a Brick and Mortar store. They didn't exist. This meant that there was at least a 3-7 day lead time from when you ordered your vape stuff until when it arrived. So you had to always be stocked up so you'd never run out.

The devices were way overpriced and extremely unreliable. Then came the Provari. The first quality regulated device.

Quality control meant that the vendor would send out a $100.00 + APV and you the user would be the guinea pig.

Then industry has come a long way.

 

[WillyZee]

 

[Burnie]

This make me think of this thread, it has been a long journey.

I remember back in the day...

 

[beckah54]

Amazing we quit tobacco using them but we did.

 

[Belhade]

Ahh yeah, 510 cigalikes with cartridges. Absorbing more nic through my fingertips than from vaping.

 

[AzPlumber]

Ahh yeah, 510 cigalikes with cartridges. Absorbing more nic through my fingertips than from vaping.

The Joye 510 was the cream of the crop and a big step up from the RN4081 I started with.

 

[evan le'garde]

The industry has cast aside the cig-a-like !. Shame it didn't evolve into a rebuildable. There is still room for improvement. For example, the old Protank coils could be rebuilt without having to use screws, they were just held in with a rubber grommit. I'm pretty confident that a 401 type atomizer could be redesigned to allow for a user to rebuild it. I realise, that to some people a rebuildable 401 type atomizer wouldn't be worth rebuilding, but i'd disagree.

Is the cig-a-like industry still alive ?.

I don't think it is. Even those supermarkets who used to sell cig-a-likes are now selling "Ego" kits instead.

It's the form factor of the cig-a-like which i like, plus it's a practical size, regardless of how many you might have in your breast pocket.

Bring back the cig-a-like, make it rebuildable for all of those vapers who enjoy the satisfaction which they get from D.I.Y coils.

 

[Skunk!]

I remember wanting one of these so bad.

Ended up getting one of these.

 

[sonicbomb]

I started in 2010 with a cigalike. The frustration was immense, but I stuck with it for a year and a half through shear determination not to smoke again.

1. remove the cotton from the cartridge with a paper clip
2. drip two to three drops on the cotton and reinsert
3. reassemble and mop up spilled juice
4. take a test puff and get a mouthful of 28mg
5. take a puff get a tiny bit of vapor
6. wait for 2 minutes for the overheat protection timer to expire
7. take another tiny puff
8. repeat entire process.

 

[alvitae]

Back in '08 I think I seen my uncle puff on a tube with a light on the end. He told me what it was. I asked him how to get one. Getting one was like a drug deal He gave me the number of a guy I had to call out of the blue. Who them told me how to get my hands on a dse 901 kit. Then it was using the Lipton tea bags, stuffing them in the cigarillo tips as wicking. Using one bottle of juice a month. Now that bottle lasts two days. Times have changed

 

[Eskie]

As someone who started vaping less than 3 years ago, my deepest thanks to all you early adopters who blazed a path for the rest of us to benefit from and taking one for the team.

 

[rabernet]

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Ended up getting one of these.
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Ha! I had both of those back in the day!

 

[englishmick]

I first picked up some cigalikes in 08 I think. Those kiosks had just started appearing in malls. I needed to quit smoking for 3 months for some surgery. The kiosk closed down soon after that and I found some on-line. They were called E-Lite Elite, came from Chicago. They had a glowing red light on the end. I was getting emails from them until 2 or 3 years ago, still had some points accumulated, but they aren't around any more. Spent a fortune on them, you needed a bag full just to get through the day. I really wish I had kept one for the memories.

 

[YKruss]

I started with M401 and keep going and going and going without looking back.

Salute to all who stick to their guns!

 

[Upinsmoke]

 

[Steve Parry]

Bought an Njoy Npro at a truck stop back in 2009. Don't miss it. I didn't quit smoking until 2012 though. Don't miss those either.

 

[Baditude]

I began vaping 3 months before I found the ECF Forum. So as of this month I've been vaping 9 years.

Back then forget about buying in a Brick and Mortar store. They didn't exist.

Grats to you, Tom, for 10 years tobacco-free!!

I remember a thread you started that became one of my favorites. It was a discussion of the effect of the different board chipsets used in regulated mods and did some provide a "smoother" vape than others.

The Rattlesnake Effect- Why the Cheapo VV [Exception Itaste MVP] Don't Vape the Same as a Provari or DNA20D
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I remember when the first vape shop in Ohio opened up in 2012. I drove 2 hours to buy a 14500 battery for my mech (that they didn't have in stock), but I didn't really care. I was so excited to go to a real vape shop. I got to talk "vape stuff" with the owner of the store for about three hours, and got to see and talk with other vapers as they visited the store, and see what gear they were using. Although I lived in a large city, I didn't personally know any real-life vapers other than those on ECF. I tried my first variable voltage mod that day, and a month later I purchased my first Provari. That was a gamechanger.

Quick question: Were you vaping when the FDA had US Customs seize vape products? Do you remember what year that happened?

 

[Burnie]

Quick question: Were you vaping when the FDA had US Customs seize vape products? Do you remember what year that happened?

iirc it was the latter part of 2009 (or the first of 2010), old age affects memory, so I could be wrong. There was a lot of chatter about it here on the board back then.

 

[niczgreat]

Grats to you, Tom, for 10 years tobacco-free!!

I remember a thread you started that became one of my favorites. It was a discussion of the effect of the different board chipsets used in regulated mods and did some provide a "smoother" vape than others.

The Rattlesnake Effect- Why the Cheapo VV [Exception Itaste MVP] Don't Vape the Same as a Provari or DNA20D
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A trip down memory lane. The old Rattlesnake effect. Now a mute point. All the devices have filters and vape smoothly.

Can't remember the FDA Embargo do remember Fluval and the E-cigar which only lasted me a week.

 

[Baditude]

The old Rattlesnake effect. Now a mute point. All the devices have filters and vape smoothly.

I might argue with that. My current DNA mod seems to provide a smoother vape than my RX200 and Segelei Fuschai 213 Plus. Some China manufacturers are still skimping with their circuit boards IMHO.

But that is admittedly a subjective observation. I know for a fact that the DNA device is more battery efficient than the other two.