So, I heard about Esmoking a couple of weeks ago from a friend. Decided it sounded interesting enough to give it a try. I'm 29 years old, and have been smoking for 11 years, about 1 pack a day of Turkish Jades (I was so sad when they discontinued them) Using Camel Crush for the last year 
My first Ecig was a Ruyan Jazz Disposable (menthol flavor) My analogs are Menthol, and I figured, why not try out a disposable before dumping cash into a permanent kit?
I was very impressed with the Jazz. It had a fantastic throat hit, and zero vapor when I exhaled. Not entirely sure the second part is a positive, I'm sort of used to seeing smoke when I exhale.
Jazz impressed me enough to try purchasing the real thing. Bought me an M401 from ruyandirect. I also ordered the Ultra-High Turkish Blend E-juice, and the High Mint E-juice. This is simply because of not doing my research. I assumed that these devices were the sort of thing where you start out at the max nicotine level, and then try to cut down to low or no nic. I also made the incorrect assumption that the Turkish Blend would taste like a real analog.
Started nursing my Jazz while finishing off my supply of analogs. My M401 arrived in less than a week, which was a pleasant surprise. (Never did wind up using up my Jazz, it's still sitting in my drawer as an emergency backup)
Opened up my M401 box, popped in one of the carts in the starter kit, screwed in the battery and took some drags. Of course this was also a mistake, since you are supposed to charge the batteries for 10 hours before use... Oops! Also, the smoke tasted like roasted yak vomit.
Tore open one of my fresh empty carts, pulled out the stopper, and dumped about 5 drops of Turkish, and 3 drops of Mint in there. The goal being to make a light-menthol flavored smoke. Took a drag and got a big mouthful of juice. Bleagh.
Later that day, figured out how to refill JUST the reservoir, and not the whole mouthpiece. Woot!
Smoked my last analog 3 days ago, and haven't wanted one the tiniest bit since. In fact, the though of smoking one makes me a little bit ill right now.
I have now had my M401 for 3 days, and have learned a few things.
1. Gee, you can pop the reservoir section out with a Paperclip. Yay! I don't have to drink Nic juice every time I try to refill!
2. Long, slow, LARGE drags give the best throat hit. Think about twice the size of drag you would take on an analog.
3. Turkish Blend does taste like tobacco, just not BURNT tobacco. If you've ever sucked on an analog that wasn't lit, and it has that sort of sickly sweet flavor?? Yea, that's Turkish Blend.
4. Straight Mint is awesome.
5. I should have started with a MUCH lower nic dosage. I'm using what I have right now, but I have given myself a few bouts of nausea from overdosing so far.
6. E-smoking may turn out to be cheaper than analogs, but I didn't understand the true costs when I started. I assumed that you bought the equipment one time, and your only recurring cost was the juice. After reading these forums, it looks like I'm probably going to be replacing at least one atomizer+battery every month or so. If you are reading this, and thinking about getting started, here's what I'm in so far.
M401 Starter pack, with 2 ejuice refills, and 10 empty carts: $55.00
4 replacement atomizers: $28.00
4 replacement batteries: $40.00
Each refill bottle of juice costs about $20-30, depending on where you buy it. Still have no idea how long each will last, but after 3 days, my mint is maybe 1/10th of the way gone. So about $1.00 a day on juice alone.
That's slightly over $100.00 in startup costs, plus about $30.00 a month to refill.
There's very little point in writing all of this, but I'm bored, and I thought some other new e-smokers would enjoy reading my silly mistakes. I'll probably continue this saga with my experiences with the Johnson Creek Sampler Pack I ordered tonight, along with any other stupid mistakes I make in the next week or so.
My first Ecig was a Ruyan Jazz Disposable (menthol flavor) My analogs are Menthol, and I figured, why not try out a disposable before dumping cash into a permanent kit?
I was very impressed with the Jazz. It had a fantastic throat hit, and zero vapor when I exhaled. Not entirely sure the second part is a positive, I'm sort of used to seeing smoke when I exhale.
Jazz impressed me enough to try purchasing the real thing. Bought me an M401 from ruyandirect. I also ordered the Ultra-High Turkish Blend E-juice, and the High Mint E-juice. This is simply because of not doing my research. I assumed that these devices were the sort of thing where you start out at the max nicotine level, and then try to cut down to low or no nic. I also made the incorrect assumption that the Turkish Blend would taste like a real analog.
Started nursing my Jazz while finishing off my supply of analogs. My M401 arrived in less than a week, which was a pleasant surprise. (Never did wind up using up my Jazz, it's still sitting in my drawer as an emergency backup)
Opened up my M401 box, popped in one of the carts in the starter kit, screwed in the battery and took some drags. Of course this was also a mistake, since you are supposed to charge the batteries for 10 hours before use... Oops! Also, the smoke tasted like roasted yak vomit.
Tore open one of my fresh empty carts, pulled out the stopper, and dumped about 5 drops of Turkish, and 3 drops of Mint in there. The goal being to make a light-menthol flavored smoke. Took a drag and got a big mouthful of juice. Bleagh.
Later that day, figured out how to refill JUST the reservoir, and not the whole mouthpiece. Woot!
Smoked my last analog 3 days ago, and haven't wanted one the tiniest bit since. In fact, the though of smoking one makes me a little bit ill right now.
I have now had my M401 for 3 days, and have learned a few things.
1. Gee, you can pop the reservoir section out with a Paperclip. Yay! I don't have to drink Nic juice every time I try to refill!
2. Long, slow, LARGE drags give the best throat hit. Think about twice the size of drag you would take on an analog.
3. Turkish Blend does taste like tobacco, just not BURNT tobacco. If you've ever sucked on an analog that wasn't lit, and it has that sort of sickly sweet flavor?? Yea, that's Turkish Blend.
4. Straight Mint is awesome.
5. I should have started with a MUCH lower nic dosage. I'm using what I have right now, but I have given myself a few bouts of nausea from overdosing so far.
6. E-smoking may turn out to be cheaper than analogs, but I didn't understand the true costs when I started. I assumed that you bought the equipment one time, and your only recurring cost was the juice. After reading these forums, it looks like I'm probably going to be replacing at least one atomizer+battery every month or so. If you are reading this, and thinking about getting started, here's what I'm in so far.
M401 Starter pack, with 2 ejuice refills, and 10 empty carts: $55.00
4 replacement atomizers: $28.00
4 replacement batteries: $40.00
Each refill bottle of juice costs about $20-30, depending on where you buy it. Still have no idea how long each will last, but after 3 days, my mint is maybe 1/10th of the way gone. So about $1.00 a day on juice alone.
That's slightly over $100.00 in startup costs, plus about $30.00 a month to refill.
There's very little point in writing all of this, but I'm bored, and I thought some other new e-smokers would enjoy reading my silly mistakes. I'll probably continue this saga with my experiences with the Johnson Creek Sampler Pack I ordered tonight, along with any other stupid mistakes I make in the next week or so.
I think you and I approached this (and possibly other things in life) in a similar fashion. Test the waters to see if it's for us, try to learn as much about it, then make the plunge and when we make the plunge, we go all in.
