Are YOU a Tootle Puffer??

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Spidey2011

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Or just keep up while you're gone with a smart phone... apparently this new software they're switching to is more flexible for use with mobile devices. Or, you can pick up a tablet pretty cheaply nowadays. I just got a new laptop, and I'm downright flabbergasted at how great a PC I was able to get, for so little $$$.

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Tapatalk is awesome! :D

I'm thinking about getting another one of those Ego T's for myself. So I can be a tootle puffer again too. Lol
 
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Or just keep up while you're gone with a smart phone... apparently this new software they're switching to is more flexible for use with mobile devices. Or, you can pick up a tablet pretty cheaply nowadays. I just got a new laptop, and I'm downright flabbergasted at how great a PC I was able to get, for so little $$$.

Andria

Might not be such a good idea as I will be driving cross country from the southeast to the pacific northwest :)
 

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Amazon has kindle on sale today for $79. But I agree it's a good idea to have a backup device. I think my phone can do more than my computer anymore. However, I think the only thing missed was 30-40 pages of rebuilding ...

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Amazon has kindle on sale today for $79. But I agree it's a good idea to have a backup device. I think my phone can do more than my computer anymore. However, I think the only thing missed was 30-40 pages of rebuilding ...

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Between my Galaxy S5 phone, laptop and tablet I would have the electronic devices covered. Youse guis are missing the point though. I can either stay caught up with these threads and miss everything my bride has planned for us to stop and see ALL along the way or enjoy visiting the world's largest ball of yarn and keep peace and relationship intact! :lol:
 

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It's my firm opinion that people who love one another don't stand in the way of their darling's happiness. My husband's coin collecting hobby totally escapes me as to why he finds it so fascinating; spending $20 for a quarter just about blows my mind. And he has no idea why I'm so PC-addicted, and made so happy by spendings hours daily in a chair with my eyes glued to a screen and fingers busily tappety-tappety-tapping... But we love each other, so we just say "yes, dear" about the other's fascination. :D

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Well ya gotta take a potty break SOMETIMES. :D And eat... and sleep... etc. ;)

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You do realize even now at home, just taking a "potty break" means coming back to 5 new pages on this thread to catch up on! :lol:
Would prove to be a nightmare to stay up-to-date traveling, I guess I could give up sleep! :vapor:
 

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You do realize even now at home, just taking a "potty break" means coming back to 5 new pages on this thread to catch up on! :lol:
Would prove to be a nightmare to stay up-to-date traveling, I guess I could give up sleep! :vapor:

Try living in a different timezone. I wait for you all to go to bed so I can catchup in peace. (Like that's not really happening) doesn't anybody sleep anymore.
 

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STOP!

Why is it that every thread in every forum evolves into wicking and rebuilding! This is not a conversion thread. This is not a thread where one has to defend their choice not to rebuild. There are thousands of threads on ECF for such talk. This looses 90% of tootie puffers including me for no other reason than it's B-O-R-I-N-G. Move on. Please.


I couldn't agree with you more. Most vapers don't want to rebuild, spend days/weeks combing forums or agonize over new purchases. Finding decent e-liquid one likes is time consuming and expensive enough. Most (potential) vapers just want to NOT SMOKE. I haven't seen any actual "numbers". But I'd bet that at least 50% of smokers who try vaping continue to smoke to some degree because of a disappointing vaping experience.

Most tootle puffers who turn to rebuilding realize that much of the inexpensive gear that's been available for the last two years is garbage. They find that basic fiddling (like rewicking a stock EVOD head with cotton) provides a much superior and enjoyable vape that is more likely to help them abandon the analogs. This has been the way of vaping for many years. It has only been very recently that one could find a very fine and reliable vape, off the shelf, for around $60. First the Nautlius mini landed, followed by the iStick. This combo should be enough to allow most smokers to quit.

One might think the entire journey for tootle puffers would have ended with the Naughty-Mini/iStick combo. Yet here we are, months after their release, comparing notes, digging deeper, searching for "more & better" and encouraging each other to stay clear of analogs. As a complete noob, had I not seen posts in "general discussion" threads that talked about rebuilding and linking to the appropriate threads, I might never have realized that I could improve the mediocre performance of my early gear. I'd probably still be smoking. I could have posted full tutorials, complete with photos, diagrams and anecdotal data. But I didn't. There are many other great threads on ECF that already cover the topics. I simply offered my notes and linked to an excellent thread should people want to investigate it further. I also remember reading posts full of misinformation, bad advice and downright dangerous suggestions. Remember that forums are only as good as their posters.

There are many times more lurkers in these forums than participants. I lurked for six weeks before I even joined. I try to keep those passive readers in mind when I post. I actually try to be helpful. I try to emulate those who helped me in my journey, like JeremyR, MacTechVpr, Katya and Katdarling. These members, along with many others who are active in their threads, have made a significant impact on my life and well-being. Have I liked every post that I've read? Has everyone liked all of my posts? Certainly not. Personally, I just skip the posts that are of no/little interest to me. It's part of being a community. Feedback tells me that I'm being somewhat relevant to many in the community. When what I have to offer stops being relevant, I'll stop posting.

I hesitate to respectfully add that the attitude that leads one to write, "This looses 90% of tootie puffers including me for no other reason than it's B-O-R-I-N-G. Move on. Please.", is overly simplistic, inaccurate and the same sentiment that tells noobs and others who are struggling to move on and stick with cigarettes.


I hope everyone is enjoying their tootle-puffing. It's a great time to be a vaper! :vapor:
 

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I couldn't agree with you more. Most vapers don't want to rebuild, spend days/weeks combing forums or agonize over new purchases. Finding decent e-liquid one likes is time consuming and expensive enough. Most (potential) vapers just want to NOT SMOKE. I haven't seen any actual "numbers". But I'd bet that at least 50% of smokers who try vaping continue to smoke to some degree because of a disappointing vaping experience.

Most tootle puffers who turn to rebuilding realize that much of the inexpensive gear that's been available for the last two years is garbage. They find that basic fiddling (like rewicking a stock EVOD head with cotton) provides a much superior and enjoyable vape that is more likely to help them abandon the analogs. This has been the way of vaping for many years. It has only been very recently that one could find a very fine and reliable vape, off the shelf, for around $60. First the Nautlius mini landed, followed by the iStick. This combo should be enough to allow most smokers to quit.

One might think the entire journey for tootle puffers would have ended with the Naughty-Mini/iStick combo. Yet here we are, months after their release, comparing notes, digging deeper, searching for "more & better" and encouraging each other to stay clear of analogs. As a complete noob, had I not seen posts in "general discussion" threads that talked about rebuilding and linking to the appropriate threads, I might never have realized that I could improve the mediocre performance of my early gear. I'd probably still be smoking. I could have posted full tutorials, complete with photos, diagrams and anecdotal data. But I didn't. There are many other great threads on ECF that already cover the topics. I simply offered my notes and linked to an excellent thread should people want to investigate it further. I also remember reading posts full of misinformation, bad advice and downright dangerous suggestions. Remember that forums are only as good as their posters.

There are many times more lurkers in these forums than participants. I lurked for six weeks before I even joined. I try to keep those passive readers in mind when I post. I actually try to be helpful. I try to emulate those who helped me in my journey, like JeremyR, MacTechVpr, Katya and Katdarling. These members, along with many others who are active in their threads, have made a significant impact on my life and well-being. Have I liked every post that I've read? Has everyone liked all of my posts? Certainly not. Personally, I just skip the posts that are of no/little interest to me. It's part of being a community. Feedback tells me that I'm being somewhat relevant to many in the community. When what I have to offer stops being relevant, I'll stop posting.

I hesitate to respectfully add that the attitude that leads one to write, "This looses 90% of tootie puffers including me for no other reason than it's B-O-R-I-N-G. Move on. Please.", is overly simplistic, inaccurate and the same sentiment that tells noobs and others who are struggling to move on and stick with cigarettes.


I hope everyone is enjoying their tootle-puffing. It's a great time to be a vaper! :vapor:

That post Sir/Madam deserves more than just a like. I always wanted vaping to be simple, fuss free and mess free. It's not.... And I have toyed around with more complex but I still come back to how I was vaping a couple of years ago. So in a nutshell to me tootle puffing is keeping it simple. ;)
 
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We all have our own likes and dislikes, our own unique vape styles. No tootle puffer is the same, just as no blume plumer is the same. If someone posts something full of technical detail that you find boring.... Just remember it's boring to you, some of us nerds like that kind of stuff :p
In the end, we need to lighten up, puff the tootle, plume the blume but vape on!
Sent with one hand, the other is busy vaping.
 

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I couldn't agree with you more. Most vapers don't want to rebuild, spend days/weeks combing forums or agonize over new purchases. Finding decent e-liquid one likes is time consuming and expensive enough. Most (potential) vapers just want to NOT SMOKE. I haven't seen any actual "numbers". But I'd bet that at least 50% of smokers who try vaping continue to smoke to some degree because of a disappointing vaping experience.

Most tootle puffers who turn to rebuilding realize that much of the inexpensive gear that's been available for the last two years is garbage. They find that basic fiddling (like rewicking a stock EVOD head with cotton) provides a much superior and enjoyable vape that is more likely to help them abandon the analogs. This has been the way of vaping for many years. It has only been very recently that one could find a very fine and reliable vape, off the shelf, for around $60. First the Nautlius mini landed, followed by the iStick. This combo should be enough to allow most smokers to quit.

One might think the entire journey for tootle puffers would have ended with the Naughty-Mini/iStick combo. Yet here we are, months after their release, comparing notes, digging deeper, searching for "more & better" and encouraging each other to stay clear of analogs. As a complete noob, had I not seen posts in "general discussion" threads that talked about rebuilding and linking to the appropriate threads, I might never have realized that I could improve the mediocre performance of my early gear. I'd probably still be smoking. I could have posted full tutorials, complete with photos, diagrams and anecdotal data. But I didn't. There are many other great threads on ECF that already cover the topics. I simply offered my notes and linked to an excellent thread should people want to investigate it further. I also remember reading posts full of misinformation, bad advice and downright dangerous suggestions. Remember that forums are only as good as their posters.

There are many times more lurkers in these forums than participants. I lurked for six weeks before I even joined. I try to keep those passive readers in mind when I post. I actually try to be helpful. I try to emulate those who helped me in my journey, like JeremyR, MacTechVpr, Katya and Katdarling. These members, along with many others who are active in their threads, have made a significant impact on my life and well-being. Have I liked every post that I've read? Has everyone liked all of my posts? Certainly not. Personally, I just skip the posts that are of no/little interest to me. It's part of being a community. Feedback tells me that I'm being somewhat relevant to many in the community. When what I have to offer stops being relevant, I'll stop posting.

I hesitate to respectfully add that the attitude that leads one to write, "This looses 90% of tootie puffers including me for no other reason than it's B-O-R-I-N-G. Move on. Please.", is overly simplistic, inaccurate and the same sentiment that tells noobs and others who are struggling to move on and stick with cigarettes.


I hope everyone is enjoying their tootle-puffing. It's a great time to be a vaper! :vapor:

Youse guis need to listen to this guy here /\ He is wise beyond his years! And I only say that cause he is still a youngin. :)
 

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no No NO that's not what he meant. Toodle puffing is all incompassing of many varied vapers and styles, pretty much anything short of fire breathing! :lol:

But it's been the dominate conversation, not unlike sub-ohms and mechs. That is exclusive. There are a sizeable number that don't continue to smoke even using spinners and evods. Many never need to progress on. I doubt if most rebuild. The point was not to exclude anyone just beause they didn't sub-ohm because there's tons of other threads that exist on that and it tended to dominate the conversation. Well it appears rebuilding does the same.
 
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