First day vaping thoughts

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Well I finally got my eGo today, but its very clear I'm a noob when it comes to this. I bought it from Litecigusa, but had a couple questions, (big surprise.) Does anyone happen to know what the PG/VG mixes they use are? The vapor is fine, but I'm getting almost no TH. Another thing, is it wierd to basically chain vape for 8 hours straight when you start? I really havent gone a half hour without vaping. I'm using mostly 16mg strength that I picked out, but have no idea what the prefilled carts are. Should I move up to 24-30 if I'm vaping this consistently?
I'm not exactly sure how to tell when I need to start refilling yet, is it when flavor starts going or it starts tasting burned? I bought some Mega-cartos also, but the search button doesn't work for me so I just looked on youtube for advice. Is ~30 drops about right for filling blanks? And do I only fill it in the hole where the battery goes, or thru the mouthhole too? I don't know what each drop amounts to in puffs, but I started losing flavor in one of my cartos, so I added ~7 more, but it started leaking out at the battery, so maybe I messed up.
Well onto actual toughts about vaping. I like it to an extent. Right now its messes and I don't ever seem satisfied. I feel like I WANT a normal cig, but don't NEED one. Is it strange to do old habits that don't make sense? Like I never smoke inside, so I've felt the need to go outside for a 'smoke break' and vape every few hours (as opposed to ~every hour with cigs.) Since I do love to test things, I decided to drink a little too, to see if vaping would be enough. Sadly I don't think it is, probally the lack of TH again.
On the brighter side of things, I did show it off to a few people at work, only one of them tried it though. He really liked it. A few of them had heard of E-cigs, but like I was before I started researching, they were pretty sceptical of them actually working good enough to stop smoking.

Anyways, heres a link if anyone wants to know what Cartos I'm talking about, and has advice. 5pack of Joye EGO MEGA Blank Cartomizer

Thanks for all the help you guys have given and keep giving.

 

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Hi and welcome to ECF. I'll try to answer what I can in the order you asked.
Litecigusa.net has Dekang and Americano brands that are 100% PG. They got a new line recently called High Caliber, they're 70% PG, 30% VG.
I think most of us chain vape at first, it does tend to slow down after a while though. When I first started I vaped 16 constantly, I moved to 24 and I started vaping less so it may be that you need a higher nic level.
With prefilled cart's its hard to know what you've got.
You need to top off your cart when it starts changing flavor, just add a few drops until the filler looks moist.
When I filled my first Mega carto it took about 60 drops, like a quarter of a 10ml bottle.
You can fill through the hole in the battery end, just drip into it letting the juice go through the hole, works for me.
I didn't like the Mega carto's because they didn't seem to wick juice fast enough to keep up with me so they start tasting burned even when full, but some people like them.
Some people keep up their old routine, go outside to vape because that's where they smoked.
If you're not getting TH, try another juice. Some have more than others.

Next time you order get a drip tip and give that a try, they're only a few $$ and they're great. 3 drops and you're good to go, takes about 5 seconds to top off and no more buying cart's. If I wasn't clear or you have more questions just ask and someone will get back to you.

 

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To refill cartos, you can use a syringe to put your liquid mixture into the clear rubber condom (that's on both ends of a carto when you buy it) and then slowly push the carto into the condom, either mouth end or threaded end, but I prefer the mouth end of the carto. When the liquid shows up at the top of the threaded end, it should be full, but I wait a few seconds to make sure the filter inside is quite saturated. Then pull it out of the condom, wipe it off, put empty condoms on both ends, and then store the filled cartos threaded end down somewhere.

Earlier today, I found a nice little piece of wood in my shed, 12" long x 2 3/4" wide x 5/8" deep, and I drilled two rows of 13 holes each (using a wood drill bit - drilled without going all the way through) to store my filled cartos. There's enough space between the two rows to place labels, so I can keep notes on what's in the cartos.