Figured I'd introduce myself - man, this paying your dues in a new forum is both a blessing and a curse at the same time 
I generally go by wizard or just plain old wiz - still in my first week vaping and have made just about every n00b mistake possible, but I'm getting better. I really like this place so far and wish I'd started reading before I got started - but I've got things mostly straightened out and if the spousal unit doesn't try to murder me when I spend another $60 or $70 getting things perfect I think we'll be just fine.
A little backstory. I have mild-to-moderate COPD and adult-onset asthma - issues for me started about two years ago when I started to run out of steam fairly easily. About a year and a half ago I went to my primary care doc who sent me in for a pulmonary function test and a cardiac stress test, diagnosed me with COPD, started me on Advair and told me to quit smoking.
Yeah, right. Except for one 15-month break I've been smoking for 38 years but we'll try. Over the next year and a half I tried to quit smoking probably ten times with almost no success. Chantix worked but turned me into an ax murderer (my doc had never heard of anybody having problems with mood swings on Chantix and now it's all over the TV) and it finally got to the point where I had to go off the meds or get a divorce. Yeah, it was that bad.
Anyway, about nine months ago I was still getting worse and my primary care doc said she'd done all she could do and referred me to a pulmonologist - who's actually a pretty great guy. He prescribed Nicotrol inhalers and I still have a couple thousand inhaler cartridges laying around the house - maybe some of you know they just ain't the same. He also switched me from Advair to Symbicort. The lung doc said he doesn't care if I have nicotine, he just doesn't want me smoking. I try to quit a few more times.
About four months ago my lungs take a dump on me and I end up in the ER where they seriously considered keeping me for awhile but I got them to send me home after a couple breathing treatments, a shot of steroids and scripts for oral steroids and antibiotics.
Fast forward to ten days ago - I have another episode and decide to try the local urgent care place instead of the ER. The urgent care place takes good care of me and the doc asks me if this has happened to me before. When I told him it had he asked me what I needed to get better - I tell him and he gives me a couple breathing treatments, a chest x-ray, some IM steroids and scripts for oral steroids and antibiotics.
Okay. Now I'm convinced this stuff's gonna kill me if I don't quit.
I look around the web, find a site that has e-cigs that look like analogs for a good price, read a lot of fake reviews and give them a credit card number. Toldja I made a lot of noob mistakes
So last Thursday around noon the mail comes with the n00b e-cig kit and I haven't had an analog since, even though the batteries don't last, I end up drilling a couple of the carts that they say can be refilled (but can't) and dripping through them even though the juice tastes like unwashed anus.
I find this forum the same day. Where were you guys before I ordered?
So I read and read and read. The very next day I log onto madvapes and put my own kit together with a couple of long 510 batteries, a box of cartomizers, a new 2 amp wall wart and two USB chargers plus a 30ml bottle of Dekang 555.
The stuff from madvapes came today and I was vaping with the new stuff ten minutes after I got the box open. Finally I understand what this is all about. This kit just *works* and I'm a heck of a lot happier than I was when I started this.
I still haven't got it completely right, though - as eGO batteries would have been the way to go but I'm a heck of a lot happier and I still haven't had an analog since I started vaping. Things are looking better, my lungs are beginning to function better and although I still get a bit of a twinge for an analog once in awhile vaping is working really well for me right now.
Well, that's about it. Sorry for being so wordy but it's goodtomeetcha all.
cheers -
-- wiz
I generally go by wizard or just plain old wiz - still in my first week vaping and have made just about every n00b mistake possible, but I'm getting better. I really like this place so far and wish I'd started reading before I got started - but I've got things mostly straightened out and if the spousal unit doesn't try to murder me when I spend another $60 or $70 getting things perfect I think we'll be just fine.
A little backstory. I have mild-to-moderate COPD and adult-onset asthma - issues for me started about two years ago when I started to run out of steam fairly easily. About a year and a half ago I went to my primary care doc who sent me in for a pulmonary function test and a cardiac stress test, diagnosed me with COPD, started me on Advair and told me to quit smoking.
Yeah, right. Except for one 15-month break I've been smoking for 38 years but we'll try. Over the next year and a half I tried to quit smoking probably ten times with almost no success. Chantix worked but turned me into an ax murderer (my doc had never heard of anybody having problems with mood swings on Chantix and now it's all over the TV) and it finally got to the point where I had to go off the meds or get a divorce. Yeah, it was that bad.
Anyway, about nine months ago I was still getting worse and my primary care doc said she'd done all she could do and referred me to a pulmonologist - who's actually a pretty great guy. He prescribed Nicotrol inhalers and I still have a couple thousand inhaler cartridges laying around the house - maybe some of you know they just ain't the same. He also switched me from Advair to Symbicort. The lung doc said he doesn't care if I have nicotine, he just doesn't want me smoking. I try to quit a few more times.
About four months ago my lungs take a dump on me and I end up in the ER where they seriously considered keeping me for awhile but I got them to send me home after a couple breathing treatments, a shot of steroids and scripts for oral steroids and antibiotics.
Fast forward to ten days ago - I have another episode and decide to try the local urgent care place instead of the ER. The urgent care place takes good care of me and the doc asks me if this has happened to me before. When I told him it had he asked me what I needed to get better - I tell him and he gives me a couple breathing treatments, a chest x-ray, some IM steroids and scripts for oral steroids and antibiotics.
Okay. Now I'm convinced this stuff's gonna kill me if I don't quit.
I look around the web, find a site that has e-cigs that look like analogs for a good price, read a lot of fake reviews and give them a credit card number. Toldja I made a lot of noob mistakes
So last Thursday around noon the mail comes with the n00b e-cig kit and I haven't had an analog since, even though the batteries don't last, I end up drilling a couple of the carts that they say can be refilled (but can't) and dripping through them even though the juice tastes like unwashed anus.
I find this forum the same day. Where were you guys before I ordered?
So I read and read and read. The very next day I log onto madvapes and put my own kit together with a couple of long 510 batteries, a box of cartomizers, a new 2 amp wall wart and two USB chargers plus a 30ml bottle of Dekang 555.
The stuff from madvapes came today and I was vaping with the new stuff ten minutes after I got the box open. Finally I understand what this is all about. This kit just *works* and I'm a heck of a lot happier than I was when I started this.
I still haven't got it completely right, though - as eGO batteries would have been the way to go but I'm a heck of a lot happier and I still haven't had an analog since I started vaping. Things are looking better, my lungs are beginning to function better and although I still get a bit of a twinge for an analog once in awhile vaping is working really well for me right now.
Well, that's about it. Sorry for being so wordy but it's goodtomeetcha all.
cheers -
-- wiz
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but she's vaping and feels so much better! I think mentally she also feels better. It's pretty depressing to keep doing something that you know is slowly killing you but you can't do anything about it. She just couldn't quit. I couldn't either and tried everything too. 
