This is a good thread.
Like most people, I started off frustrated when I purchased my little m410 pv or whatever the model was called, then trying vanilla 510s.
Still was frustrating so I bought lots of DIY flavors, PG and VG bottles and some 100mg/ml nic juice from the States. Mixing was fun for a while but it soon turned out to be a pain constantly making new and crappy tasting flavours and trying to make them all as close to 36mg as I could, all the while being horribly paranoid about spilling my 100mg/ml death liquid on myself or my desk.
Around that time, when they came out I made the investment in an EGO and some LR atties, which seemed like the best mass produced "heavy" option for vaping at the time. I stopped bothering with DIY mixing new flavours or buying any other juice than good old reliable Dekang stuff at the time too. It's kept me happy enough now for well over a year, and after I picked up my drip tip a few months after the EGO came out I was even happier.
Atties still annoy me, what, with some dying randomly after a week or less, and others just not burning juice well enough after a short while, but each LR atty only costs around the same as a pack of smokes, so I dont feel like I've wasted money even when I get a dud or two and they die early (on average now I go through around 5 LR atties every 2-3 months). I've been happy with my EGO batteries too. After 3 months or so of use they stopped blinking when they were out of charge, then they've been slowly lasting shorter times between charges ever since. But after around 18 months of using them all 4 of my original batterries still work, although they only vape properly for a couple hours now before needing a charge.
Another thing that I think has helped me has been keeping a pack of my old cigarettes around. Once every few months when my atties are annoying me or life gets frustrating, I light up an old stale Peter Jackson. I find they taste absolutely disgusting, and dont give me any magic nic hit that I'm not getting from my EGO. After a few drags I usually say to myself "ok this is horrible" and then I find when I take my next hit off my EGO it tastes a lot better
Once the next great mass produced e-cig or atty comes out I might switch up from my EGO/LR setup, but I'm pretty content for now and I just ordered a couple more EGO batterries to replace my half dead ones.
I haven't had an analog since I failed a job interview in June, and I still have the same pack of cigarettes in my car that I bought in March 2010
