Oh, and for those who don't remember Ruyan--or know nothing about it--enjoy!
I had to hunt down Truesmoker/Krakkan’s (sic?) posts to figure out when I started. So, 2009 (later than I thought) from him. I thought he was before Njoy in the mall kiosks. He lived close, so we would meet at the Walgreens parking lot (nothing sketchy sounding there lol!). Seems like he had cig colored ones before the black with different color leds on the end. My favorite was the last one, the Phoenix (black with a magenta dragon and a nifty case). I remember Johnsons Creek starting, because it was the first USA made juice I found (yay, no more iffy China yuck juice). I thought they came out in @2008??? Clearly, I can’t trust my memory... I do know the last stinky was 3/26/12.
I started with Johnson’s Creek. In time I determined they were ridiculously expensive and their flavors absolutely horrible.
And, now you understand why I’ve been hesitant about NETs. They destroyed the thought of tobacco for me. It tasted like leafy dirt they tried to mask with mint or fruit or something.I started with Johnson’s Creek. In time I determined they were ridiculously expensive and their flavors absolutely horrible.
I found juice I liked more than JC. After several months I decided to try my old JC again. OMG, I could not understand how I ever vaped that stuff. I remember doing a blend of TN Cured and Silverthorn. I was such a dweeb!
I know I ordered online before Truesmoker, but date? No idea. He was convenient because I could email him, and meet around the corner to pick it up. Somehow it seemed safer buying from an actual person. Heaven knows what was in the juice in those little end caps. I thought I was set when he got tiny bottles of juice so they could be refilled. Ah, memories from the dark, cobwebbed corners of my mind. Even a mediocre pod today beats the pants off what we started with!
I have been rather a downer in my attitude for a while now on how this is all going, but part of me clings to the fact that the tech has advanced, it's out there, and it's not really all that complicated.
We are indeed in weird times. I’m hesitant to believe there may be cooler heads in Washington, as most are filled with copious amounts of hot air!
Halo Triton eGo-style starter kit with a tobacco flavored juice sampler kit. That stuff got me from 40+ a day to one a day in four days in mid December of 2013. On day five I drove an hour though a snow storm to what was then the closest B&M, where I upgraded to some bigger "spinner" type batteries, Pro Tanks, and some non-tobacco juices. Boom -- I stopped smoking.
The early gear was flat out cruddy. It took me several years of going back and forth before the gear caught up to what actually worked for me.
After a black market kills scores of people and the politicians finally figure out they can make the govt a bundle of dough on vaping that cannot be made up with cigarettes.Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose...
After ten years, we're back to square one. But I'm with Enaud--I too believe that, in the words of Winston Churchill, "You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else." Maybe I'm being Pollyannish, but that's all I have left.
