jmanning.
I'm on pretty much the same quit-day as you - although I've been experimenting with e cigs for a while now.
By far the best (that is, the most successful) method I have found is... KISS (keep is simple, stupid!). In other words, don't bother with carts or cartomizers, button-pushing or the endless complex rituals of e-cigging. The closest equivalent to real smoking for me is something I call 'Bare-Backing'... that is - arming yourself with a trusty 'exposed atty' ecig (the auto M401 is my workhorse of choice). Strip out all the padding etc from the mouthpiece 'filter' and trim it way back so the atty bridge is as close as possible to the mouth-end (double the size of the hole as well) and then just accept that each 'smoke' requires a dousing of the atty. This simply involves pulling off the filter (holding it in your teeth is optional), jabbing the atty into a 5ml bottle of your favourite
juice and inverting... the whole process takes half-a-second and you can literally do it with your eyes closed (or walking down the street whilst watching the world go by). You get a ciggy's worth of
vaping per soak, it is always consistent, and the whole manoeuvre feels very similar to rolling up a handmade, priming a pipe or simply pulling out and lighting an analogue.
As an (ex) smoker, I don't get all this stuff about non-stop drip-feeds, super-long carts and ever-lasting batteries etc. Smoking was never about any of that for me - and I can see how the focus on it might put many people off trying ecigs.
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