Welcome, Jaylah! Reading your post, I felt like I was reading something I might have written a couple months ago; I was so aggravated by all the fiddling and fussing and "buy this, buy that, you really gotta rebuild your coils, etc etc etc"... but I'd been off the cigarettes a little while by then, and really didn't want to go back. So I finally came to a couple of understandings: 1, yes, cigarettes are very easy; easy to use, and easy to die from; you don't have to make any special effort, those cells will mutate all by themselves into cancer without you needing to do anything but keep smoking. 2, if I really wanted to STAY off cigarettes, it behooved me to quit worrying about how much effort it all was, and learn to do it in a way that decreased my irritation level.
I totally understand not wanting to rebuild coils; I fought against it for quite a while, but finally my curiosity got the better of me, and I just *tried* it. It's not really hard, but it really can be aggravating, irritating, and frustrating -- I'm extremely clumsy, so it's kind of a "keystone kops" adventure watching me try to build a coil, attach it, and then wick it. It's worth all the irritation, but I do totally understand not wanting to get into it.
But, there is a way you can get most of the benefit of rebuilding, without needing to go "all in" -- just rewick the coils you have with organic cotton. I really, REALLY thought all that "organic" business was a whole lot of hooey, but it makes an unbelievable difference in the taste, and the whole vape experience. You can buy a bag of organic cotton balls at Walgreens for about $2.99; there are 80 cotton balls in it, and I can make wicks for probably 10-20 coils per ball, so it's really very economical.
I tried the silica that comes in the 'stock' coils; I've tried ekowool, which is really just a fancy kind of silica; I've tried 100% cotton yarn -- but NONE of them give the same quality and intensity of flavor as the organic cotton. I have a couple of Mini Protank II
tanks, which at first I found completely underwhelming in terms of taste -- but now I wick them with organic cotton, and get *almost* as good flavor as I get from my rebuildable kayfuns; not as good throat hit, the kayfun is top-notch on throat hit, but the flavor itself -- organic cotton, and the type of
tank you use it in is really not that important.
However, it must be noted that those small bottom-coil
tanks are well-known for leaking -- liquid, gravity, etc -- if you use enough wick to prevent leaking, you usually get dry hit/burnt taste; if you use a small enough amount of wick to get good taste, then it leaks. Catch-22. I still get the leaks from the Mini PT IIs, I just take the tank off now and then and mop it up -- there are some juices I use so little of, it makes no sense to put into a big tank like a kayfun, so I put them into the mini PT II and just deal with it.
Just remember: cigarettes = easy, dying from cigarettes = easy; using a whole new technology to avoid dying from cigarettes = takes a bit more effort.
Good luck, and again, welcome! It really does get easier, and even less aggravating.
Andria
This is what I use like I have around $75 in the vv vw and $15 in the aero tank. It does all I want. But thats me so much of vaping has to do with personal preference. Look dont worry what the thing looks like who really cares anyway. Ive seen people looking at me trying to figure out what the heck im doing or what that thing is lol. The main thing is your doing something to better your health. No one here can tell you what you need thats something you have to figure out. Id recommend maybe of you have some friends that vape or if theres a vape shop around some of them will let you try different set ups to see what you like. Or use the live chat everyone in there is very helpful and will do what they can to help you. Hey they are even there to give you support when your wanting to go to the store and buy a pack of smokes.
