Finaly free after 38 years of Smoking
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Welcome to the forum and congrats on the vaping. I have not used the glass eVOD's yet but have long loved the others. So easy to use, maintain and rebuild if you decide to get into that part of the hobby. Good luck to you and I look forward to reading future posts about how well you are doing. 
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Congrats on quitting. I smoked for 36 years. I like my KangerTech Evod, but I didn't realize they made one with glass. I also am using a Mini Protank II, which I really like and it is made of glass.
I have two T3S tanks, and they seem to leak for a variety of reasons, and both of them you can figure out pretty quick from the gurgle. The first leak I had was due to a bad o-ring on a base, the smaller one that's right next to where the coil screws in wouldn't lay flat on its ridge; I bought a new base and that fixed that. That leak shows up *around* the battery contact.
The other way is if the coil itself is wet, either from too much juice, flooding, or if you've rinsed it out and it's not dry yet; then, if you take the tank off just as soon as you hear the gurgle, you'll see a drop of moisture right on top of the battery contact; either e-juice if it's flooded, or water if it's from rinsing. I've gotten the watery one a couple times, and today, the juice flood, because I dry-burned the coil and put in some new flavor wicks, and primed it with too much juice. So I guess I'll dry burn it again.
Also, and you might have figured this one out already, but it wigged me out BUT GOOD the very first night I owned it -- when you unscrew the base to refill, the coil can come unscrewed, so you need to make sure it's tightened before you put the base back on. This can cause anything from a leak via the coil, to the battery not even registering that a tank is present, and so not firing when you press the button. My iTaste vv3 was showing "non" instead of the resistance of the atomizer as it should be showing.
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Hello Eugene! Welcome. I was a 32yr smoker and am now off 17 month. i hope it works for you like it did for me.
LOL!! I already told my husband that next winter I will DEFINITELY need a new pair of gloves! Suede holds odors like nobody's business, and I didn't quit until Feb 28, the winter was nearly over!!
Andria
I've tried the Hangsen's Virginia, and after about a week or ten days of "steeping" (aging, airing), it's really good. Mild, smooth, a very very faint sweetness to it, but rich, not cloying. It's not my regular Virginia, but it does very well in a pinch.
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Mini protank 2.
You can see for yourself that it's glass when you dissassemble it.
There's supposed to be glass evods, but the original evods were plastic; the good thing with the evod is the protective metal jacket.
The dual coil is really more a matter of the replaceable atomizer coil itself, not the tank; people who have dual coils may end up rebuilding them to single coil just because it's easier to put one coil in that tiny space than to try to fit two coils in there without the help of santa's little elves.
The other major glass tank is the Aspire series.
Both the miniprotanks and the evods use the eGo threads which is much better for a tank than the small and widely popular 510 thread, which is really more suited to carto/cigalike size cartridge systems (the ones that resemble a cigarette filter).
Keep in mind that your taste buds are still changing/improving, and flavours that you like NOW you may not like next week. It happened with me: I started with tobacco flavours but very quickly got tired of them and changed to non-tobacco. I also started at 24mg nic, stepped down to 18 and just this week bought 30ml of 12.
Congrats on quitting! I also got my daughter to quit through vaping, but my wife will take some time!
I buy 100% PG 24mg eliquid and dilute it with glycerin from the pharmacy.
Also, when I started I found it exceedingly helpfull to have at least 2 tanks, 1 with the 24mg liquid that I might take an occassional puff from, but my main tank was 0 or low nicotine strength.
Congrats. Stay away from Kanger products. All they do is leak and gurgle. Try out a carto-tank or cartomizers.
Hey Whizgig, congrats on making the switch! Looks like you've already got some good advice on hardware, I'll chime in on the juice:
For (non-menthol) tobacco flavors, my picks are Hangsen's RY4 and Desert Ship. If you want a real, honest-to-goodness non-sweet tobacco flavor, you'll probably want to try the Hangsen RY1 as well.
Hangsen makes the absolute best tobacco flavors out there, in my opinion. Tough to go wrong with them.
For (non-menthol) tobacco flavors, my picks are Hangsen's RY4 and Desert Ship. If you want a real, honest-to-goodness non-sweet tobacco flavor, you'll probably want to try the Hangsen RY1 as well.
Hangsen makes the absolute best tobacco flavors out there, in my opinion. Tough to go wrong with them.
Thank you all for your advice and well wishes I will try the Hangsen brand for my next order from HC I ordered the HC Red brand which should be here on Monday or Tuesday so I hope they are ok and I ended up getting the Aspire ET-S Glass Clearomiser for the moment.
Again thanks everyone all of the info has been very helpful.
Again thanks everyone all of the info has been very helpful.
G'day Whizgig and welcome to ECF. Congrats and good luck with giving up the smokes!
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