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Some people prefer the TH others like myself don't, I prefer smooth & flavoursome, clouds are an extra, and because of that I need to have my nic content as low as possible (3mg), try closing the AF up as much as you can on the subtank, it might help when using a subohm tank, or try normal tanks like the iClears, Aerotanks etc

I like the smooth & flavoursome to - I dont quite know why, but the kabuki gives a much stronger TH and a lot more vapour than the nautilus using the same heads. The AF contoller is much neater to. Its allen key controlled and once you get it right it stays put. As you say, i find the subtank best with the least airflow. Like Trish said its just too powerful with the 0.5 heads in and im not too keen on it even with the 1.2s. I'm not a big fan of these great big wide drip tips either so you can fill your lungs! i didnt do that when i was a smoker and i dont want to do it now ;)

I think i may have to buy a stash of nicotine and cartos actually. I reckon 1 litre of 72mg would last me 4 years (more if i cut down during that time) and i would probably need around 500 cartos for 4 years so thats about £1000ish, but aside from batteries / flavours & PG/VG which is all low cost i would be ok for a good long time.
 

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It would help if we had some firm idea on what to expect, and when any such changes would be implemented. 'They' surely can't be ignorant of the number of people who have managed to stop smoking tobacco without any government intervention!
I use a mix of .3mg and .6mg now, so on average, it's .4 mostly. It's possible that I'd cope with whatever it is they decide to make available, but in any case, I've more than enough of everything to last well over a year.
I don't want to go back to smoking either - I developed colitis a couple of months ago, and have since read that some people find it improves a lot if they smoke a few cigarettes each day, but I'm not prepared to do that. People seem to find various things that help for a while, and then don't anymore, so it's not worth it. Interesting though that people with a propensity towards something like colitis, can find they develop it for the first time after giving up smoking!

That's my worry at the moment - just not being sure what is going to happen. It looks like only prefilled (non-refillable cartos or similar) and bottle of juice no larger than 10ml although i see no point at all in that. Why sell 200 packs of analogs but limit eliquid bottles to 10ml? The big thing for me would be loss of flavours (wont someone please think of the children!) - I have a son who is 5, and if when he is 14, 15, 16 whatever he decides to try smoking i really hope its an ecig and not an analog. Besides, sheesha has been around in this country for years with a huge variety of flavours and they arent talking about banning that and sheesha is more harmful than analogs if you do it regularly.

We all know that the regulations in whatever form they take are NOT in the interests of public health. It's all about money and to a small extent down to a bunch of people with little or no true knowledge of the extent of the benefits ecigs can bring. Having said all that, i have signed dozens of petitions now - i hope one of them gained a truly significant number of signatures, but there seem to have been so many that i think the vaping community may have shot itself in the foot. Respect to those that have made the effort though, and fingers crossed for some common sense from our Govt. for a change!
 
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I like the smooth & flavoursome to - I dont quite know why, but the kabuki gives a much stronger TH and a lot more vapour than the nautilus using the same heads. The AF contoller is much neater to. Its allen key controlled and once you get it right it stays put. As you say, i find the subtank best with the least airflow. Like Trish said its just too powerful with the 0.5 heads in and im not too keen on it even with the 1.2s. I'm not a big fan of these great big wide drip tips either so you can fill your lungs! i didnt do that when i was a smoker and i dont want to do it now ;)
I don't like anything with a larger airflow, and my Subtanks are the first version with only one AFC. I got two Subox's with the second version tanks but don't like the two AFC's and they tend to gurgle.
I use the airflows at the smallest settings.
First thing I do with anything having a wider drip tip is discard it and fit an alternative. The ones on the eMOW's are ideal for me, but I do have some other narrow ones from FT.
That Kabuki is costly!

I think i may have to buy a stash of nicotine and cartos actually. I reckon 1 litre of 72mg would last me 4 years (more if i cut down during that time) and i would probably need around 500 cartos for 4 years so thats about £1000ish, but aside from batteries / flavours & PG/VG which is all low cost i would be ok for a good long time.
I've been buying coils a few boxes at a time, and bottles of nicotine fairly regularly. I'd rather have too much in the little freezer than run out. I also have plenty of new MOW and Evod tanks plus a few Subtanks and one or two Nautilus mini's. There's also a number of mods in the box too.

That's my worry at the moment - just not being sure what is going to happen. It looks like only prefilled (non-refillable cartos or similar) and bottle of juice no larger than 10ml although i see no point at all in that. Why sell 200 packs of analogs but limit eliquid bottles to 10ml? The big thing for me would be loss of flavours (wont someone please think of the children!) - I have a son who is 5, and if when he is 14, 15, 16 whatever he decides to try smoking i really hope its an ecig and not an analog. Besides, sheesha has been around in this country for years with a huge variety of flavours and they arent talking about banning that and sheesha is more harmful than analogs if you do it regularly.
They can't stop flavourings and VG/PG being sold, nor the batteries such as 18650's, so as long as I have enough of the rest, I should be OK for a good long time ...and seeing I stopped a 35 per day smoking habit in 2 weeks by using the cig size ones with GreenSmoke or V2 cartridges, I reckon I can use them again if necessary as long as there are Max VG ones around.

We all know that the regulations in whatever form they take are NOT in the interests of public health. It's all about money and to a small extent down to a bunch of people with little or no true knowledge of the extent of the benefits ecigs can bring. Having said all that, i have signed dozens of petitions now - i hope one of them gained a truly significant number of signatures, but there seem to have been so many that i think the vaping community may have shot itself in the foot. Respect to those that have made the effort though, and fingers crossed for some common sense from our Govt. for a change!
Governments have plenty of statistical evidence now (including dropping figures of newly presented smoking related diseases), and if they can ignore all that in favour of 'those that line their pockets' then we can only sit back and watch ...if they cared what the people they supposedly work for think, they'd have held their hands up and halted any such decisions, or promised to put a hold on heavy legislation for another 5 years to see if we all start to die off first!
We are but pawns in a huge game of politics, finance and muscle flexing! Heck, we don't even have a health minister who knows the first thing about medicine!
 
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I received a replacement order from chefs. So far I've tried the donut King and queen of puddings. The latter is fantastic. The former has a word artificial sweetener which is a shame as otherwise it tastes pretty true to food. I believe if I mix a very small amount of feghali caramel in it will wash away that artificial taste. It may also just need a by more steeping.

I need to see if they do qop in concentrate. I definitely could do with half a liter of that stuff.

I ended up finding s mark bugs gem atomizer. It really brought out the flavors (as does the hurricane clone and authentic tai fun gt2) of the eco vape marathon milkshake. In some atomizers it tastes heavily if owners and seems missing something. In the mentioned units it is fantastic

Chefs was nice enough to include two concentrates for me and send the replacement via tracked and signed. It arrived very quickly and their customer support was excellent.

I've been trying to gain support from Smokerstore with some issues I'm having and they are the worst company I've dealt with in Vaping. I will never do business with them again. They make vapenw seem good. (They're awful)

Thanks for all the help through the thread finding flavors. I have a fair bit more to try from chefs but I may go ahead and order the one concentrate now

I've managed to find four go to flavors outside the ones I had settled on before which is really helping me stay off the analogs.

The mark bugs gem is a very very special tank. It brings out flavor like crazy. The tai fun gt2 is close. It's a flavor tank. Not for direct lung inhales. But every aspect of the design contribute to the amazing concentrate of flavor. The inner chamber is the tightest I've ever seen. And it's a tiny tank.

For those seeking the ultimate in flavor is highly recommend it. Hard to find and expensive. But worth it at the end.

As for the e cig Armageddon. We will see if it ever happens. No plan on sticking up on flavoring a and nicotine. They can only really regulate nicotine. Everything else could be be sold for a dual purpose. Whether it's a tank or juice.


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Is it common for chefs to run out of stock on concentrates? Seems like they don't have much in stock? Is it usually difficult to order them ( should I buy a few bottles of qop at a time?) it looks like based on the mix rate each 30 ml bittle creates 150ml of finalized juice. Also they don't state the base that I can find. Is the concentrate 100% pg?
 
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I received a replacement order from chefs. So far I've tried the donut King and queen of puddings. The latter is fantastic. The former has a word artificial sweetener which is a shame as otherwise it tastes pretty true to food. I believe if I mix a very small amount of feghali caramel in it will wash away that artificial taste. It may also just need a by more steeping.
I hadn't known your order had gone astray, but glad you got a replacement sent quickly!
QOP is lovely, and although I haven't tried the concentrate yet, have no doubt it'll taste as good.
As for the Doughnut, I always buy 100ml .3mg and 100ml .6mg together and mix them, and usually replace the two bottles once down to roughly 100ml total of mixed. It'll be well steeped by the time I use it.
I don't use sugar with anything, but can't say I've found anything with an artificial taste about it.

I need to see if they do qop in concentrate. I definitely could do with half a liter of that stuff.
Yes, they do concentrate in 30ml bottles.

Chefs was nice enough to include two concentrates for me and send the replacement via tracked and signed. It arrived very quickly and their customer support was excellent.

As for the e cig Armageddon. We will see if it ever happens. No plan on sticking up on flavoring a and nicotine. They can only really regulate nicotine. Everything else could be be sold for a dual purpose. Whether it's a tank or juice.
I've stocked up on a number of items, including nicotine as it's one of the items that could be difficult to get eventually - it lasts a long time in a freezer.

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Is it common for chefs to run out of stock on concentrates? Seems like they don't have much in stock? Is it usually difficult to order them ( should I buy a few bottles of qop at a time?) it looks like based on the mix rate each 30 ml bittle creates 150ml of finalized juice. Also they don't state the base that I can find. Is the concentrate 100% pg?
Not usually, but they've been changing their concentrates page for their own blend versions, and are perhaps waiting for some flavourings to arrive too. They are popular too, so perhaps run out on occasion.
Not 100% sure what the concentrates base is, but think it'll be at least partially PG.
 
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I tried the virtual doughnuts. I don't think they're for me. Spotted dick and custard is unique. Thought not terribly true to food I think it's one that will grow on me.

They included two 10ml concentrates for me. Spotted dick and a pink spot flavor I can't seem to get any info on. I think it's called posset or something like that. That was nice of them

For this next order I made it very simple as they were out of most stuff. I bought 120 of 70/30 11 and 120 of 79/30 0. I will eventually just mix my own nicotine base but I'm running short on time before surgery. I bought the last lemon coconut cake they had in stock. I was hoping to grab two but one will work for now.

I'm hoping to be able to buy one more and four queen of puddings. Then get some local supplies. Their premixed nicotine base is very reasonably priced though. So long as it's not awful there's not much to gain by mixing my own in small quantities.

I fired off an email enquiring about stick and expected time frames and such. I'm sure they'll have some kind of idea

I received my surgery date for the first one so is like to be stocked for at least three months. I did get half a liter of marathon milkshake juice. That's tiff is DELICIOUS

Oh and a lot of juice is missing from their site. Or I don't know where it's meant to be. I cannot even find premixed queen of puddings. I was going to just buy a big bottle of it when I saw the concentrates were out. But it looks like it's off their page.

I went to their eliquid category and then selected chefs vapors. Not there.
 
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I tried the virtual doughnuts. I don't think they're for me. Spotted dick and custard is unique. Thought not terribly true to food I think it's one that will grow on me.

They included two 10ml concentrates for me. Spotted dick and a pink spot flavor I can't seem to get any info on. I think it's called posset or something like that. That was nice of them
Virtual Doughnuts is nice, and I prefer the raspberry one, but still think Donut King is the best one :)
It's a while since I had Spotted Dick, but it used to be a favourite of Terry's. As for the Pink Spot one - the only thing called Posset was one of the Chefs Blends range that they stopped doing a few months ago (It was a creamy lemon one). Your Pink Spot must be something else?

I fired off an email enquiring about stick and expected time frames and such. I'm sure they'll have some kind of idea
They likely will :)

I received my surgery date for the first one so is like to be stocked for at least three months. I did get half a liter of marathon milkshake juice. That's tiff is DELICIOUS

Oh and a lot of juice is missing from their site. Or I don't know where it's meant to be. I cannot even find premixed queen of puddings. I was going to just buy a big bottle of it when I saw the concentrates were out. But it looks like it's off their page.

I went to their eliquid category and then selected chefs vapors. Not there.
Yes, some are missing, and I think they are waiting for flavouring stock, so until they get it and make some, it'll be a case of waiting - as you say, they may have an idea of when that's likely to be :)
 

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I'm sure it's the one you're taking about. Chefs provided and labeled but titled pink spot posset
 
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I'm sure it's the one you're taking about. Chefs provided and labeled but titled pink spot posset
Fancy that!
When we all bought Posset, it was in the Chefs Blends range. Rather nice too, but for me at least, the Lemon Coconut Cream Cake had the edge when it comes to lemon cream ones :)

Pink Spot don't have anything on their site with that name either.
 

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Yah that's what I saw too. Wasn't on chef or there.

The lemon coconut and qop are my favorite by a landslide so far. Both absolutely wonderful. The vapor Pimp lemon custard I get is very close to the coconut lemon cake. With the latter being a bit better. I wanted to buy 60ml of concentrate but I bought their last lemon cake apparently as it sits.
 
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Yah that's what I saw too. Wasn't on chef or there.

The lemon coconut and qop are my favorite by a landslide so far. Both absolutely wonderful. The vapor Pimp lemon custard I get is very close to the coconut lemon cake. With the latter being a bit better. I wanted to buy 60ml of concentrate but I bought their last lemon cake apparently as it sits.
It'll be back :)
Off to bed now ...nite! :sleep:
 
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