I've been lurking, reading, and learning for about a month now, and decided it was time to post. I wanted to share my experience making the switch for others read. Perhaps it will make a difference for someone else switching. I'll never go back to analogs, and if I do, someone smack me please.
I'm having a garage sale one day in your average suburbia America, and my neighbor comes over. He says, "here hit this." I thought he was handing me a pen. "What is it?" I said. "I know you smoke cigarettes dude, this is an e-cig, try it." "Okay sure." So being the hot-boxing smoker that I was, I took a long, slow, four-second drag off of what I now realize was an eGo/dual-coil carto/super-juice setup. "Damn that was good, and real!" I said. My Dad, who was a very heavy smoker, tried it too. He went to the local vape shop and bought us both eGos that very day.
I received some good advice to get started, which was to go with a high nicotine level, and if you feel like a real cigarette, have one. Don't stress over it. In hindsight I still agree with that. I had been stressing myself out for months, if not years, over "needing to quit this time." I was only perpetuating the vicious circle. I did my research on the health and medical basics, and decided I wanted to commit to e-cigs. So I took my eGo, a mediocre carto, and Camel 36mg juice and started vaping.
For the first couple of days I still had urges for an analog, particularly in the morning. So I had one or two. But I vaped most of the day, and never had more than a few. This alone was a huge relief! I used to have this half-brained goal of getting myself down to just a few cigs a day, and then in one shot I was there, stress-free.
Throughout the first week I still burned up an analog here and there. I mean, I just bought a $50 carton of Camel Lights! They were sitting there, staring at me. This was a good thing actually. With each analog I had, vapor tasted better and better. I slowly became aware that I liked e-cigs more. How was this even possible? Cigarettes had been the bane of my existence for so many years. Now they were meaningless to me. Then I hit the problematic/experimentation phase.
I tried most of the eGo/510 setups out there. The standard 510 atty and dripping, the CE2 clearos, the mega, the T, and so on. Most of which I was lucky enough to be able to borrow from my neighbor. I liked various aspects of them all. Like the lack of a throat hit on the CE2s when I first woke up. The 510 atty and dripping to sample all the flavors and huge clouds. A carto or two for the office, and so on... But one thing that was missing for me was something that still felt and looked more like an analog. A "social" e-cig, if you will.
So I did my due diligence and watched the youtube reviews, dug through ECF, etc. and settled on the Bloog for a number of reasons. Good reviews, cool looks, close proximity for shipping...good enough for me. Today its my go-to e-cig, but I did have one issue with it which I saw other posts on here. As always results will vary, but for me, the Bloog is very picky about the juice you put in it.
I bought some Bloog blank cartos and two great flavors from a certain vendor "in the woods." I had already tried these juices from my neighbor. "What could be better than them in a Bloog?" I thought. Then I vaped it.
I was able to get about 5-10 decent drags, and then all of a sudden it would dry hit and/or taste that burnt atty taste. "Is it full?" "Did I let it sit long enough?" "Did I fill it right?" I went through a whole series of experiments to figure this out. Bloogs worked great with the pre-filled cartos. I wanted these flavors.
I filled exact measured amounts. I let it sit and watched the clock. One was clear and one was dark. The condom fill. The spin. I even did the math on mixing the various PG/VG ratios of juices I had with similar flavors thinking it was a VG thing after reading Bloogs are mostly PG. (1ml 90/10 = .8ml 100pg + .2ml 50/50, for example) Five cartos later these two juices still don't hit in a Bloog. The experiment is still in progress actually, as soon as I get my .... to the store and get some distilled water or everclear, I will try again. What I am quite sure of at this point though, is that viscosity matters. My 50/50 PureCig hits like a champ, because it's thin. I now have my "standard viscosity test," which is nothing more than pulling the juice through a very small needle/syringe and gauging the resistance, or how hard you have to pull up on the plunger. Thin juice hits like a 6ft .... in a Bloog. Thick juice doesn't wick fast enough for me (see "hot-boxer" above), and kills the draw. I'm sure someone has a contradictory tale, but this is what works for me.
I'm now getting settled into a pattern. My eGo is my thick juice, at home, heavy vaping, hard hitting PV. My Bloog is my "everyday vape," social, go-to, convenient PV. I haven't had an analog since the first week, and sold that carton of Camel Lights (for more juice!). My Dad has stuck with them as well.
I'm so thankful that my neighbor shared his e-cig with me. Smoking has already taken a number of my family and friends from this world, and is still damaging our lives in ways barely quantifiable.
I am in control of my nicotine addiction now. Not the tobacco companies. Not the FDA. I can choose a zero mg, a 36mg, or anywhere in between and vape it all I want. I'm already backing down from my initial 36mg to 24mg, and intend to continue.
Thanks.
I'm having a garage sale one day in your average suburbia America, and my neighbor comes over. He says, "here hit this." I thought he was handing me a pen. "What is it?" I said. "I know you smoke cigarettes dude, this is an e-cig, try it." "Okay sure." So being the hot-boxing smoker that I was, I took a long, slow, four-second drag off of what I now realize was an eGo/dual-coil carto/super-juice setup. "Damn that was good, and real!" I said. My Dad, who was a very heavy smoker, tried it too. He went to the local vape shop and bought us both eGos that very day.
I received some good advice to get started, which was to go with a high nicotine level, and if you feel like a real cigarette, have one. Don't stress over it. In hindsight I still agree with that. I had been stressing myself out for months, if not years, over "needing to quit this time." I was only perpetuating the vicious circle. I did my research on the health and medical basics, and decided I wanted to commit to e-cigs. So I took my eGo, a mediocre carto, and Camel 36mg juice and started vaping.
For the first couple of days I still had urges for an analog, particularly in the morning. So I had one or two. But I vaped most of the day, and never had more than a few. This alone was a huge relief! I used to have this half-brained goal of getting myself down to just a few cigs a day, and then in one shot I was there, stress-free.
Throughout the first week I still burned up an analog here and there. I mean, I just bought a $50 carton of Camel Lights! They were sitting there, staring at me. This was a good thing actually. With each analog I had, vapor tasted better and better. I slowly became aware that I liked e-cigs more. How was this even possible? Cigarettes had been the bane of my existence for so many years. Now they were meaningless to me. Then I hit the problematic/experimentation phase.
I tried most of the eGo/510 setups out there. The standard 510 atty and dripping, the CE2 clearos, the mega, the T, and so on. Most of which I was lucky enough to be able to borrow from my neighbor. I liked various aspects of them all. Like the lack of a throat hit on the CE2s when I first woke up. The 510 atty and dripping to sample all the flavors and huge clouds. A carto or two for the office, and so on... But one thing that was missing for me was something that still felt and looked more like an analog. A "social" e-cig, if you will.
So I did my due diligence and watched the youtube reviews, dug through ECF, etc. and settled on the Bloog for a number of reasons. Good reviews, cool looks, close proximity for shipping...good enough for me. Today its my go-to e-cig, but I did have one issue with it which I saw other posts on here. As always results will vary, but for me, the Bloog is very picky about the juice you put in it.
I bought some Bloog blank cartos and two great flavors from a certain vendor "in the woods." I had already tried these juices from my neighbor. "What could be better than them in a Bloog?" I thought. Then I vaped it.
I was able to get about 5-10 decent drags, and then all of a sudden it would dry hit and/or taste that burnt atty taste. "Is it full?" "Did I let it sit long enough?" "Did I fill it right?" I went through a whole series of experiments to figure this out. Bloogs worked great with the pre-filled cartos. I wanted these flavors.
I filled exact measured amounts. I let it sit and watched the clock. One was clear and one was dark. The condom fill. The spin. I even did the math on mixing the various PG/VG ratios of juices I had with similar flavors thinking it was a VG thing after reading Bloogs are mostly PG. (1ml 90/10 = .8ml 100pg + .2ml 50/50, for example) Five cartos later these two juices still don't hit in a Bloog. The experiment is still in progress actually, as soon as I get my .... to the store and get some distilled water or everclear, I will try again. What I am quite sure of at this point though, is that viscosity matters. My 50/50 PureCig hits like a champ, because it's thin. I now have my "standard viscosity test," which is nothing more than pulling the juice through a very small needle/syringe and gauging the resistance, or how hard you have to pull up on the plunger. Thin juice hits like a 6ft .... in a Bloog. Thick juice doesn't wick fast enough for me (see "hot-boxer" above), and kills the draw. I'm sure someone has a contradictory tale, but this is what works for me.
I'm now getting settled into a pattern. My eGo is my thick juice, at home, heavy vaping, hard hitting PV. My Bloog is my "everyday vape," social, go-to, convenient PV. I haven't had an analog since the first week, and sold that carton of Camel Lights (for more juice!). My Dad has stuck with them as well.
I'm so thankful that my neighbor shared his e-cig with me. Smoking has already taken a number of my family and friends from this world, and is still damaging our lives in ways barely quantifiable.
I am in control of my nicotine addiction now. Not the tobacco companies. Not the FDA. I can choose a zero mg, a 36mg, or anywhere in between and vape it all I want. I'm already backing down from my initial 36mg to 24mg, and intend to continue.
Thanks.
