Hi there everyone. So I have been free of analoge cigs for 3 weeks. Here is my story.
The Begining
For the first 12 days, I was apsolutly free of everything becasuse I was ill with a bad flu and throat, so was not physically able to smoke. Lucky I guess. Thought, this was my chance to go completely free of cigs. I smoke cigs in the car so knew that as soon as I was drving, I would want a cig again so got into E-cigs.
Joined this forum before I purchased anything, and right off people were saying, Go for a 510, also the Ego or Riva 510.
Purchaing my first E-cig
So, went for a 510 and a Riva510 (Ego).
For a guy, this is a good choice. If you want something that resembles a real cig, go for a standard 510 (not one of those that actually look like a real cig, as they may look like them, but they are not very good at vaping)
The Riva, this is another level. It is awkward to hold, and heavy, but wow, really worth it. Battery life is all night and it is a more powerful device.
I also got a 510 with PCC kit, meaning I can charge the 510 while on the move. Totally wicked have a sale on that item right not (which I missed out on
).
Purchasing my first juices
As big a question as which e-cig to get will be, which e-liquids to get. As a newcomer, you have no idea what tastes good and what you will like. Real tastes do not equate to what you like with e-juices. If you like coca cola, does not mean you will like coca cola flavor vaping. So what did I go for.
1. Spirmint 0 nic
soothing on the neck, but little Throat Hit (TH), vaping this was ok, made me want a bit of a kick. So i would go alternate. One cig worth of vaping with this spirmint, then one with 11mg nic, then back to the spirmint.
2. Cigar 0 nic
More of a kick than the above, but treated the same way, where I go alternate cigar to 11mg nic.
3. Menthol 11mg - this is the nic choice. Nice TH, not like a real cig, but just about does for me.
Question - Why did I not go 0 nic all the way considering that I was cig free for 12 days. Honestly, becasue I could not find a good enough TH with 0 nic. It leaves me wanting the TH. BUT what I said to myself is, if I was going to go with nic, then to make it the lowest possible which is either 8 or 11mg. I would love more, like 26mg or even 18, but i'm not going to go there becasue what I really what is to go nic free after a while if I can.
Carts / attys or cartomisers
Next question is, I have my juice and I want to vape, so what to plug into the battery. You have a few choices.
Cartridges + Attomiser - Most would say this is where you get the best taste, and they are probebly right. Problem is, you can only drip a few drops on to the attomiser at one time. Basically you can get about 1 cig worth of vaping from the drops, then you have to open up, get juice out and drip, drip, drip. Now you could go for a drip tip. This means you drip right into the cartridge and it goes into the attomiser. Easier. Be carful not to get juice around the tip of the cart. Drip tip carts have to be purchased.
Cartomiser - This device has the cartridge and attomiser in one device. I have 2 different ones, one from Liberty flights, that is LR (Low resistance) it is of the small size. LR = more throat hit (I think)
So how much juice can it use. When you get one, it will come with 2 caps, covering the atty side and the mouth side. The mouth side has a larger cap. Fill up this cap 3/4 full. then take the cartomiser, the end which goes into the battery, and push it down into the cap. The juice will go into the cartomier. this is called the condom method. This is roughly how much juice is held, maybe a bit more. In conjunction with another e-cig on the go, this keeps me going most of the evening. Maybe 5-7 cigs worth. 4 at the lowest.
The other cartomiser I had was from Totally wicked, pre filled. This is a large sized one, 1/4 larger (or more) than the normal size. THIS IS THE BEST. Holds around 2mg of juice. Got this as 11mg menthol. Very nice, liked it a lot. Because they hold more juice, you can go an entire evening with one.
Tip - fill up the cartomisers when you go to bed, let the juice lie in there for a night.
Refilling a cartomiser - YES YOU CAN, I have refilled my 3 times and still working very well. Don't know how long it will go for but I will refil till it dies.
Fell off the wagon
So about 3 days into vaping. I still have 30 or so real cigs in the car. Marboro Lights. Don't know why but just really wanted a real cig, so sparked one up. WOW, Tasted horrible. Took 3 puffs and chucked it.
Now I have seen similar things on here before, and always thought, Nah, not me, if I am weak enough to go back onto real cigs, that would be real bad becasue I would love it. Now keep in mind, I had been clean for about 15 days. May not get this if you have one after 7 days, but 2 weeks clean, and maybe you will get this too.
What is important, if this happens to you is, don't have another one, or go through the bad taste. I did it once, and maybe in another week or 2 I will do it again, but it will be the same, horrible taste. However, if I forced myself to have a whole one, then smoke 5 in a go, yeah maybe the old days will return.
Maintenance
This is more time consuming than smoking real cigs. With real ones, you get it, light it and smoke it. With e-cigs, you have to keep filling up carts, and be prepared for leaks. Be aware, when you take off a cartomiser or cart and atty, some juice coming out. If you have nic in there, this is actually absorbed by the skin, not good.
Charging batteries. Got to do it.
I tell you what I purchased - A plastic tool / bits box. Small ish box with 10 or so compartments.
Health issues with e-cigs
Truth is, no one knows. So when you see the adverts that give you the vibe of, health cigs. Be careful. If you have it with nic - then nic is poison. as for the PG and VG. There are around 20 chemicals in an e-cig, now some would say, look at PG, it is in our foods. However, we are making it into vapor and breating it into our lungs. As no one has any clinical data, we don't actually know how much harm we are doing by vaping. Of course it is much better than real smoking, but not health issue free.
Conclusion
If real smoking was as safe as e-cigs, I think a lot of people would go for real cigs. However, there are some flavors with e-cigs that you can't get with real cigs. Like apple crumble. Tastes like you are eating the real desert lol.
TH - I can only talk about 8 - 11mg, and at that level, 75% of the TH that you would get from a real cig. Some say you can get more of a TH with e-cigs than you can with real cigs. I would not know.
Can you give up real cigs and go E-cigs. OF COURSE YOU CAN. Personally, I said to myself, it is nott going to be as good as real cigs, but, slap yourself in the face and deal with it, this is your health you're dealing with.
Hope this helps some newcomers. Feel free to correct any of the info above, I am no expert.
The Begining
For the first 12 days, I was apsolutly free of everything becasuse I was ill with a bad flu and throat, so was not physically able to smoke. Lucky I guess. Thought, this was my chance to go completely free of cigs. I smoke cigs in the car so knew that as soon as I was drving, I would want a cig again so got into E-cigs.
Joined this forum before I purchased anything, and right off people were saying, Go for a 510, also the Ego or Riva 510.
Purchaing my first E-cig
So, went for a 510 and a Riva510 (Ego).
For a guy, this is a good choice. If you want something that resembles a real cig, go for a standard 510 (not one of those that actually look like a real cig, as they may look like them, but they are not very good at vaping)
The Riva, this is another level. It is awkward to hold, and heavy, but wow, really worth it. Battery life is all night and it is a more powerful device.
I also got a 510 with PCC kit, meaning I can charge the 510 while on the move. Totally wicked have a sale on that item right not (which I missed out on
).Purchasing my first juices
As big a question as which e-cig to get will be, which e-liquids to get. As a newcomer, you have no idea what tastes good and what you will like. Real tastes do not equate to what you like with e-juices. If you like coca cola, does not mean you will like coca cola flavor vaping. So what did I go for.
1. Spirmint 0 nic
soothing on the neck, but little Throat Hit (TH), vaping this was ok, made me want a bit of a kick. So i would go alternate. One cig worth of vaping with this spirmint, then one with 11mg nic, then back to the spirmint.
2. Cigar 0 nic
More of a kick than the above, but treated the same way, where I go alternate cigar to 11mg nic.
3. Menthol 11mg - this is the nic choice. Nice TH, not like a real cig, but just about does for me.
Question - Why did I not go 0 nic all the way considering that I was cig free for 12 days. Honestly, becasue I could not find a good enough TH with 0 nic. It leaves me wanting the TH. BUT what I said to myself is, if I was going to go with nic, then to make it the lowest possible which is either 8 or 11mg. I would love more, like 26mg or even 18, but i'm not going to go there becasue what I really what is to go nic free after a while if I can.
Carts / attys or cartomisers
Next question is, I have my juice and I want to vape, so what to plug into the battery. You have a few choices.
Cartridges + Attomiser - Most would say this is where you get the best taste, and they are probebly right. Problem is, you can only drip a few drops on to the attomiser at one time. Basically you can get about 1 cig worth of vaping from the drops, then you have to open up, get juice out and drip, drip, drip. Now you could go for a drip tip. This means you drip right into the cartridge and it goes into the attomiser. Easier. Be carful not to get juice around the tip of the cart. Drip tip carts have to be purchased.
Cartomiser - This device has the cartridge and attomiser in one device. I have 2 different ones, one from Liberty flights, that is LR (Low resistance) it is of the small size. LR = more throat hit (I think)
So how much juice can it use. When you get one, it will come with 2 caps, covering the atty side and the mouth side. The mouth side has a larger cap. Fill up this cap 3/4 full. then take the cartomiser, the end which goes into the battery, and push it down into the cap. The juice will go into the cartomier. this is called the condom method. This is roughly how much juice is held, maybe a bit more. In conjunction with another e-cig on the go, this keeps me going most of the evening. Maybe 5-7 cigs worth. 4 at the lowest.
The other cartomiser I had was from Totally wicked, pre filled. This is a large sized one, 1/4 larger (or more) than the normal size. THIS IS THE BEST. Holds around 2mg of juice. Got this as 11mg menthol. Very nice, liked it a lot. Because they hold more juice, you can go an entire evening with one.
Tip - fill up the cartomisers when you go to bed, let the juice lie in there for a night.
Refilling a cartomiser - YES YOU CAN, I have refilled my 3 times and still working very well. Don't know how long it will go for but I will refil till it dies.
Fell off the wagon
So about 3 days into vaping. I still have 30 or so real cigs in the car. Marboro Lights. Don't know why but just really wanted a real cig, so sparked one up. WOW, Tasted horrible. Took 3 puffs and chucked it.
Now I have seen similar things on here before, and always thought, Nah, not me, if I am weak enough to go back onto real cigs, that would be real bad becasue I would love it. Now keep in mind, I had been clean for about 15 days. May not get this if you have one after 7 days, but 2 weeks clean, and maybe you will get this too.
What is important, if this happens to you is, don't have another one, or go through the bad taste. I did it once, and maybe in another week or 2 I will do it again, but it will be the same, horrible taste. However, if I forced myself to have a whole one, then smoke 5 in a go, yeah maybe the old days will return.
Maintenance
This is more time consuming than smoking real cigs. With real ones, you get it, light it and smoke it. With e-cigs, you have to keep filling up carts, and be prepared for leaks. Be aware, when you take off a cartomiser or cart and atty, some juice coming out. If you have nic in there, this is actually absorbed by the skin, not good.
Charging batteries. Got to do it.
I tell you what I purchased - A plastic tool / bits box. Small ish box with 10 or so compartments.
Health issues with e-cigs
Truth is, no one knows. So when you see the adverts that give you the vibe of, health cigs. Be careful. If you have it with nic - then nic is poison. as for the PG and VG. There are around 20 chemicals in an e-cig, now some would say, look at PG, it is in our foods. However, we are making it into vapor and breating it into our lungs. As no one has any clinical data, we don't actually know how much harm we are doing by vaping. Of course it is much better than real smoking, but not health issue free.
Conclusion
If real smoking was as safe as e-cigs, I think a lot of people would go for real cigs. However, there are some flavors with e-cigs that you can't get with real cigs. Like apple crumble. Tastes like you are eating the real desert lol.
TH - I can only talk about 8 - 11mg, and at that level, 75% of the TH that you would get from a real cig. Some say you can get more of a TH with e-cigs than you can with real cigs. I would not know.
Can you give up real cigs and go E-cigs. OF COURSE YOU CAN. Personally, I said to myself, it is nott going to be as good as real cigs, but, slap yourself in the face and deal with it, this is your health you're dealing with.
Hope this helps some newcomers. Feel free to correct any of the info above, I am no expert.
