Am I on the right track? (Hello, smelly liquids, newbie DIY mixing and forum questions).

[Tor]

Bradder,
Many thanks once again for your advice and insight. Much appreciated.
I'll make sure to drink plenty of water and continue vaping the stuff I have for the next days or for how long it takes to find out if it agrees with me. When I feel sure that this is the way to go, I'll order the mentioned stuff from FA.
Even if vaping does work out for me in the end, it has gotten me more conscious about my smoking and desire to end it some way or the other. Even the reduction from smoking a pack a day to one every 3-4 days I feel is a big step in the right direction. With vaping it doesn't feel like a big sacrifice.

 

[Tor]

So I finally pulled the trigger on an order at FA:

Heaven Juice 36 mg Ice Blade
15 x Pipettes - Polythene 3 ml
20 x bottles LDPE dropper - 5 ml
Propylene glycole USP

MTS Vape Wizard flavor
Bitter Wizard flavor

Anise flavor
Banana flavor
Brandy flavor
Cherry, black flavor
Cocoa flavor
Coffe espresso flavor
Cream fresh flavor
Licorice flavor
Menthol artic flavor
Tobacco flavor Dark Vapure
Tobacco flavor Latakia
Watermelon flavor
Whisky flavor

I have some VG already, but think I will avoid it or use very low amounts. I think there is something with VG that doesn't agree with me.

Looking forward to recieving all this stuff

 

[Bradder]

Congratulations... you're going to love it.

 

[Tor]

An update after about 2 months now.

First of all I made some discoveries about flavors I absolutely don't like:
Anise, Cocoa, Coffee, Whiskey, Watermelon and black cherry. The first 4 simply doesn't become me and the watermelon I find artificial tasting. The black cherry has a completely misguiding name in my opinion, at least it lead me to believe it was a sort of natural tasting cherries. However, the Italian name Amarena reveals that it is truely a short of picked cheries. I tasted real Amarena before, but didn't make the connection. From taste they are quite close with a bit fermented taste. Good on desserts, but not in my PV



Also I don't like the effect of MTS and bitter wizard. Even a small amount of BW (like a drop in 5 ml) gives me heartburn. And the MTS kills any flavor when used in the same order of scale. So these flavors, additives are all retired.

Like I've seen a lot of other write, I find menthol best even though I am (am as in still am) a non menthol smoker. Unfortunately switching to vaping has not been possible for me yet. But I did decrease my smoking substantially at times, and the vaping has been a great substitute at times when smoking was not possible or practical. One week I smoked only one pack of cigarettes (vs. one a day).

Unfortunately I had a bad run with my atomizers a few weeks ago and they all started to taste like burned dead animal at the same time, filling me with such disgust that I almost gave up on vaping. I managed to clean out one of them and since ordered some new ones.
This evening I tried one of the old ones that have been lying around since I cleaned it and it still tastes like $h!t. It's like it doesn't get fluid enough and that the fluid is burning instead of being vaporized. It's an eGo-T modified with a aluminum mesh instead of fabric. Maybe I will take it apart and have a look. It worked before it went bad.

Since I found that the "dark" flavors above didn't become me I ordered some new ones from FA:
3 new tobacco:
- 7 leaves (just mixed a batch at 2% with 14mg and 20% VG), quite a nice taste and very different from Dark Vapure. Lighter and a bit more sweetness to it.
- Shade
- Mellow sunset

Two fruit:
- Pear
- Citrus mix

And:
- Apple pie
- Tiramisu
- Hazelnut

Any advice (percentages) with the non-tobacco is appreciated. FA says 2% for the Hazelnut and 3% for Tiramisu, but doesn't give advice on the other ones.

Thanks for reading.