Hi to everyone. Just so happy because next friday I´ll be 6 months vaping (zero analogs). I used to smoke 2 and a half packs of Marlboro reds per day and 2 or 3 cuban cigars per week for more than 20 years (I started very young). I´ve tried everything from nicotine gums and patches to hypnosis and the only thing that has really work for me is vaping. Started at 36 mg, right now I´m using 12 mg in some cases and 0 mg mostly. I´ve gain some weight though, but hey, I rather be a healthy chubby than a dying skeleton. Cheers to all of you.
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Greetings Tocho from Mobile, Alabama. Good to see you here... I haven't gained or lost weight, but I have reduced my blood pressure from 148/90 to 118/70 over the past year-plus of vaping!
Welcome to the ECF forum, and congrats on stopping the smokes. It sounds like you are doing great with vaping. Vape strong, vape proud, my friend.
Welcome to ECF.
From 36 to 0 is quite impressive.
From 2 and a half packs of Marlboro reds per day and 2 or 3 cuban cigars per week for more than 20 years to none is awesome.
Well done.
From 36 to 0 is quite impressive.
From 2 and a half packs of Marlboro reds per day and 2 or 3 cuban cigars per week for more than 20 years to none is awesome.
Well done.
Welcome tocho's !
I think you are doing awesome !
Your story is the same as mine....less the 2-3 Cubans and more the number of years with Reds.
Vapping is wonderful !
No more smelly clothes and cars, yellow fingers and burn holes.
We all wish you- The Best !
I think you are doing awesome !
Your story is the same as mine....less the 2-3 Cubans and more the number of years with Reds.
Vapping is wonderful !
No more smelly clothes and cars, yellow fingers and burn holes.
We all wish you- The Best !
Thank you all for your kind words. Even though I´m not totally nicotine free (I still use 12 mg when I get the cravings for), I´m commited to quit nicotine completely, but not vaping. Actually I´m kind of hooked on all of this vaping stuff, plus there are some people here that I´m trying to convince to change to e cigs.
Mike36609 Glad to hear of your improving health, in my case, my red cell blood count diminished, but I´m naturally hemoconcentrated. But right now I can take a walk for three hours steady with no fatigue (in my smoking days I couldn´t go for more than 20 minutes).
Baditude I like that, Vape proud, vape strong, so I should.
Miamimom63 thanks so much.
Duckysbooboo also thank you. By the way, great looking dog, is it a Bichon?
Neilswift Thank you, as I already said I´m not nicotine free yet, but hopefully I will be soon
DJ Rickrak Thanks, and your right no more smelly clothes, cars, yellow fingers, teeth stains, etc
This vaping experience has been great so far,
Again thank you all
Baditude I like that, Vape proud, vape strong, so I should.
Miamimom63 thanks so much.
Duckysbooboo also thank you. By the way, great looking dog, is it a Bichon?
Neilswift Thank you, as I already said I´m not nicotine free yet, but hopefully I will be soon
DJ Rickrak Thanks, and your right no more smelly clothes, cars, yellow fingers, teeth stains, etc
This vaping experience has been great so far,
Again thank you all
Olha Tocho
I live in Mexico , Ajijic area . What part of Mexico and wheir do you get supplys?
I live in Mexico , Ajijic area . What part of Mexico and wheir do you get supplys?
Hola wanttoknow1 I´m from Tapachula Chiapas. I get my supplies from Provaping (Roberto), Tuhos (Ricksy) and Steamlife (Alfredo). So your from Ajijic, do you get your supplies in GDL? I haven´t try importing anything whether from china o anyplace else. Have you?
Bienvenido Tocho.
I am impressed with your progress from cigs & cigars to low nic vaping. You are setting an example for the rest of us.
I have been vaping mostly 24 mg nic for almost a year now. Maybe it is time for me to think about lowering it down a little.
Keep coming back. We look forward to seeing you here.
I am impressed with your progress from cigs & cigars to low nic vaping. You are setting an example for the rest of us.
I have been vaping mostly 24 mg nic for almost a year now. Maybe it is time for me to think about lowering it down a little.
Keep coming back. We look forward to seeing you here.
Greetings and welcome to the forum. Congratulations on you decision to vape and dump cigarettes.
I too am very impressed that you have gone so low in nic. That is really great and you should be proud. I currently am struggling to drop down to 8 mgs. And it's hard, and I've been vaping a lot longer.
No I have not tried to import anything. A friend of mine took a package to T.J. and was told nicotine was illegal to bring in. So he walked through airport kind of funny.
And last week a friend flying back from L.A. when x rayed her carry on suit case they asked her if she had anything other than 1 e-cig and charger.
I ‘am in states now and was going to try and bring a couple of vision twist, empty cartos and tips back.
I have juice with me hope they do not take it. Would like to start to mix my own flavors.
so any way we can help each other would be go.
Bullette the cowdog Muchas gracias
PKJ Thanks, actually that´s how I started vaping. When the battery of my first kit was charged, I smoked my last cigarrette, took what was left of that pack put it in a bag, together with 8 packs that I´ve already had, and dumped it to the trash.
Miamimom63 Thanks, and yes I´m proud but better yet, my kids are extremely proud of me. And I know it´s really hard to lower your nic level. I started lowering mine 3 months ago, and each time I lowered I putted up some weight. So in the last 3 months I have gained 12 KILOGRAMS (AROUND 26 POUNDS) and my normal weight for the last 20 plus years has been 69 kilograms (around 152 pounds), but right now I´m focused on getting to zero nic, then I will deal with my overweight.
Reserveheads Thanks and good luck to you too.
PKJ Thanks, actually that´s how I started vaping. When the battery of my first kit was charged, I smoked my last cigarrette, took what was left of that pack put it in a bag, together with 8 packs that I´ve already had, and dumped it to the trash.
Miamimom63 Thanks, and yes I´m proud but better yet, my kids are extremely proud of me. And I know it´s really hard to lower your nic level. I started lowering mine 3 months ago, and each time I lowered I putted up some weight. So in the last 3 months I have gained 12 KILOGRAMS (AROUND 26 POUNDS) and my normal weight for the last 20 plus years has been 69 kilograms (around 152 pounds), but right now I´m focused on getting to zero nic, then I will deal with my overweight.
Reserveheads Thanks and good luck to you too.
To Bullette the cowdog, Miamimom63 and to any of you that would like to read this. This is how I have been lowering my nic level.
I mainly use 2 setups. My main setup is an 18650 with a vivi tank or a genesis rba. My secondary setup is an 18350 with a dripper rba. In my main setup I reduce drastically the nic level, and in my secondary setup just keep the nic level Im using. By drastically, I mean it. I went from 36 mg to 18 mg then to 6 mg and finally zero. My seconday setup I reduced it more slowly, but I use it a lot less. You see, I´m a really heavy vaper, around 10 ml per day (I crush almost 3 18650 per day) But at least right only 1 to 1.5 ml of those have nic.
I have my main setup with me at all times, but not my dripper.
Around 2 months ago, I started missing my cigars (I just opened my humidor and sniffed at them) so I decided to make an extract.
After steeping some partagas cigars in pg for more than a month, since last week, i use a third setup. An 18500 with a geenie at 1 ohm. The flavor its great (no throat hit though). That I use just the way I used to smoke cigars (just 2 o 3 time per week, at night in the garden of my house).
Well thanks for reading, and I hope this help a bit
I mainly use 2 setups. My main setup is an 18650 with a vivi tank or a genesis rba. My secondary setup is an 18350 with a dripper rba. In my main setup I reduce drastically the nic level, and in my secondary setup just keep the nic level Im using. By drastically, I mean it. I went from 36 mg to 18 mg then to 6 mg and finally zero. My seconday setup I reduced it more slowly, but I use it a lot less. You see, I´m a really heavy vaper, around 10 ml per day (I crush almost 3 18650 per day) But at least right only 1 to 1.5 ml of those have nic.
I have my main setup with me at all times, but not my dripper.
Around 2 months ago, I started missing my cigars (I just opened my humidor and sniffed at them) so I decided to make an extract.
After steeping some partagas cigars in pg for more than a month, since last week, i use a third setup. An 18500 with a geenie at 1 ohm. The flavor its great (no throat hit though). That I use just the way I used to smoke cigars (just 2 o 3 time per week, at night in the garden of my house).
Well thanks for reading, and I hope this help a bit
wanttoknow1 Hola de nuevo.
Yes its very difficult for us vapers here in Mexico thanks to our goverment and their greedy and ridiculous laws (you see, here in Mexico the laws are made to protect the politicians and their interests instead of the people´s). Just bring anything you said, and if the custom officer wants to take it away defend yourself, afterall the COFEPRIS (which is like the FDA) says that its illegal to advertise and sell anything related to e cigs, but says nothing about owning or using it. They might take your nic juice away because, according to the actual laws, you need a special permission to import it. If I was you, I would try to smuggle a nic base (just hide it really well) and buy flavors (they cannot take them away). PG, VG or even PEG USP grade, you can get it here, that is if your gonna mix your own juice. If so, here in Mexico you can get certain flavors, but no tobacco ones, so if your into tobacco get mainly those. You can get menthol or vainillin crystal but at least I haven´t been able to find ethyl maltol or liquid sucralose.
So if I can help you in anyway just let me know. Ohh and by the way, I also mix some of my juices
Yes its very difficult for us vapers here in Mexico thanks to our goverment and their greedy and ridiculous laws (you see, here in Mexico the laws are made to protect the politicians and their interests instead of the people´s). Just bring anything you said, and if the custom officer wants to take it away defend yourself, afterall the COFEPRIS (which is like the FDA) says that its illegal to advertise and sell anything related to e cigs, but says nothing about owning or using it. They might take your nic juice away because, according to the actual laws, you need a special permission to import it. If I was you, I would try to smuggle a nic base (just hide it really well) and buy flavors (they cannot take them away). PG, VG or even PEG USP grade, you can get it here, that is if your gonna mix your own juice. If so, here in Mexico you can get certain flavors, but no tobacco ones, so if your into tobacco get mainly those. You can get menthol or vainillin crystal but at least I haven´t been able to find ethyl maltol or liquid sucralose.
So if I can help you in anyway just let me know. Ohh and by the way, I also mix some of my juices
Tocho, you come across as a very well informed person willing to go the extra mile to help fellow vapers.
I applaud your enthusiasm, the time you take responding to each individual, the detail you go to responding and your overall happy demeanour.
I would love a few Tequilas in your neck of the woods with you
Good luck with the weigh issue and your constant battle with your Government.
Top man.
I applaud your enthusiasm, the time you take responding to each individual, the detail you go to responding and your overall happy demeanour.
I would love a few Tequilas in your neck of the woods with you
Good luck with the weigh issue and your constant battle with your Government.
Top man.
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