Hello from New Member -Recently New Vaporer!

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Besides simply saying "Hello to all of you at E-Cigarette Forum!" I wanted to say I am glad to see there are forums of this type. After contemplating looking into electronic cigarettes as the substitute to replace or reduce the use of tobacco products thus breaking a long time "Bad Habit" just to get the menthol not even the nicotin which seems to have little bearing but that menthol recently a friend and I started trying out a few disposables for one brand while I dug a bit deeper when learning a contact was starting up a new eliquids business.

I won't be mentioning which new brand that is but may discuss the Pros and Cons found with some brands as well as with certain flavors of eliquids as well as brands of ecigs themselves over time. Of course on this forum I would be the "newbie" rather then staff on a totally different type of forum. So you will have to bear with me at times when not having the exact answer on something while I still continue to do further research into this subject area.

Over time I plan to be trying out a few more brands of electronic cigarettes when finding ones that are cost effective as well as satisfactory. Unfortunately some brands do not offer refilable or blank cartimizers while their vapor level has been found to better then others at times for the same size or close enough to the same size battery i Having gone from a 3 pack a day smoker while working long hours years back on night shift to under a half pack in the last few years one thing I learned is that too large a battery like a Vamo GUN with a 2250 mah battery is overkill for me and some others now getting into ecigs.

The Smoketek Vamo as well as the Bloog 650mah battery new will vape fine with certain menthol and a few other flavors for brief periods while the smaller 180-250mah batteries both manual and automatic seem to be the preferred. USB passthrough batteries one 5v model are also being tried out for those more frequent puffs while sitting in front of the pc. A few flavors with the sweet tooth in mind will suffice there while the menthol actually was found to help when having a hay fever or other allergy attack over lighting up real tobacco. The health costs as well as costs for any tobacco products that tend to be laccd with some 599 out of the 4000 known pollutants just isn't worth it! The ecig offers the menthol with or without micotin for far less money and certainly lowers the health risks!
 
You do realize menthol is a no-no for the lungs, don't you? It actually crystallizes in the lungs, damaging the lung tissue in the long run.

You may want to read here: Menthol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia or here: The menthol myth - Salon.com before making that assumption.

Oh and Night Hawk, welcome aboard, happy vaping! You have made very valid points. You will find a lot of variety and differences in quality in e-cigarettes / e-liquids, etc. It is part of growth, capitalism and growth of any industry. Good luck to you and enjoy every minute off of the traditional cancer sticks.
 
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I appreciate the Welcome! :toast:

One thing I can't say is that menthol is any type of "no no" having smoked menthol for decades. But the feel with some like the brand I was smoking was like walking out in sub zero weather and taking a long deep breath! That frigid cold sensation is what you get when the brand was menthol strong.

The big difference with vaping on the other hand is not the lack of the same feeling with a good menthol flavor but the lack of smoke, arsenic!, carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide, amonia!, amd some 66 other cancer causers! A good reference on hundreds out of the thousands the tobacco industry uses can be looked at several sites like the one seen at Cigarette Ingredients - Chemicals in Cigarettes

Thanks for sharing the links about menthol and Menthol Ecalytus being an extract from plants that is ofter shipped by suppliers in crystal form not forming crystals in your lungs. Extracts from the natural menthol crystals are used in eliquids as well as in over the counter cold remedies since it has no know harmful effects besides sometimes making your mouth and throat a little dry. But that's why they use it in cough drops! Menthol is a favorite in the Hall's brand! Have you ever of anyone freezing their lungs sucking on a cough drop?

With electronic cigarettes, cigars, pipes and hookahs even to market an ever growing variety of devices in addition to the growing number of brands now seen it's a large contrast to the early and first ecigs as far as how things have come along. One of the things I look at when finding a new brand is what options they have for nicotin levels or none at all while nicotin is a stimulant itself similar in many ways to caffeine.

For some the option of none is best while for others a fast tolerance is developed over time where you can drink strong coffee all day long and still zone out in your easy chair! With nicotin I have been trying the eliquids with and without and not noticed any real distinction when it comes to no longer having the urge for tobacco or nicotin itself. The strongest hold to break was the "habit" of going out to light one up! Once you "break that habit" pschologically you can vape all day and never miss the tobacco! You can change the flavors of what you vape as well to break it up and not become boring over that usual nasty ash tray smell that would otherwise linger on!
 

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Welcome Night Hawk, I like the profile picture but might point out it is an eagle. I am sure you can find a nice hawk picture.
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Thanks again! people As for the avatar that was one someone made up for me but not really used much at all. A few others are presently in use on other sites that have a different look to each of those. Now I have to find someone that can make up a new one for ECF! :D

Gee how's the avatar looking now with a quick change? A little help from a free app called PaintNet to resize the photo you had there rotku. :)
 
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