Hello from Orange County CA

[anavidfan]

Welcome!!!!! fellow orange count-ian. Many good shop suggestions. If you get a chance to get out to Laguna Beach, E-cig City is also a great place to go. It can get a bit crowded in there depending on what time of the day or week you go.

THe owner is a great guy and his son and daughter work there and are very patient and take their time to not only sell but teach. I like the range of ages that go there. You see young , older and even older folks like myself They let you sample juices and like I said no "attitude" from those behind the counter. Some places have sold real new people devices above their capacity and set up rebuild able atomizers to those who have never built their own , sending them out with 0.4 resistance atties without educating them on battery safety or importance of ohm readers etc. THey go off with potential pipe bombs.

One of the places is mentioned above for sure has done that many times. Maybe its not the whole staff but if you own a store you should be instructing your employees not to do things like that.

Good luck with your decision to quit and start something much better for you. Just take it slow, watch how to's on youtube. Dont let anyone talk you into something that will only frustrate you. If anyone starts to make comments like " Oh dont use cartos, or this or that , you can only really vape if you use this or that......... If they do they are not there to help you , but to help themselves make a sale.

 

[laloin]

I believe E-cig city opened a new store in Mission viejo. I haven't been, on the intersection of crown valley, and margarette. Good luck getting passed the congestion on the 5 overpass. Get busy anytime of day

 

[derichio02]

Thanks Gale! I'm going strong on day six! I'm sure you'll be right behind me!

 

[galechicago]

Katya and anavidfan-- Glad to meet you, my Orange County neighbors!

Wow, lots of great recommendations for E-Cig City. I'll have to go there. (Hopefully I can break my unlucky streak in Laguna Beach... I always get a parking ticket when I go there. Super-efficient parking ticket system!)

derichio--Day SIX!!! Congratulations! You are doing very, very well. Now you can put one of those "Days since quitting and money saved" counters at the bottom of your posts. Good luck and good karma to you!

*****
Warning: Following is a very boring progress report (But VERY EXCITING TO ME!)
I started using my BLU and my NJOYS on Thursday; still going for an analog here and there, but forcing myself to walk downstairs and STAND on front porch while smoking, not very comfortable. The e-Cigs I can sit at my patio table in the sun, and enjoy in leisure, so that encourages me. My first BLU is still going strong, so bought some more. Forget the NJOYS.

On Friday, I smoked 10 analogs, along with the e-cigs. Not bad.
*****SATURDAY was a breakthrough for me: FIVE Marlboros all day!!!! (along with e-cigs.)*****
Sunday (today) might be just as good: it's 8pm, and I've only had 4 Marlboros (along with e-cigs.)

The last time I only had 5 cigarettes in one day was in the mid-1980s, I think! This might just work for me. As kooky as it seems!

 

[HoseGarden]

I believe E-cig city opened a new store in Mission viejo. I haven't been, on the intersection of crown valley, and margarette. Good luck getting passed the congestion on the 5 overpass. Get busy anytime of day

lol of course because there's no better place to grow a smoking/vaping business than a block down from a city college

 

[Lajes]

Galechicago,

Glad to meet another newbie like myself -- I had to smile because your questions are the same as mine. I quit smoking after 27 years of Marlboro Lights back in July and then used ecigs to keep from starting again. I too used Njoys -- they are okay if you are desperate . . . . . Right now I vape Logics (which are a lot like Blu) and they have kept me from smoking for 6 months . . .

Good Luck!!!

 

[glointhedark]

Welcome to ECF, and congrats on your progress in quitting the analogs. The Blus kept my daughter and me from going back to smoking after being smoke free for 7-8 years, so yeah, they do help alot. Got us through a very stressful move from Ohio to Northern California about a year and a half ago. When we started getting duds in their pre-filled cartomizers (2 or 3 per 5 pack sometimes), we switched to another brand that looked like tobacco cigarettes (cigalikes), and just started ordering juice online and refilling the cartomizers ourselves. We were very happy with the automatic batteries and the flavors available online. A big plus was that we could customize our nicotine levels and pg (propylene glycol) and vg (vegetable glycerine) levels if we did not use the prefilled cartomizers. We just - 2 weeks ago - switched to Kanger Evod kits, mainly because some of the juices we liked really clogged the cartomizers, and at $1 to $2 per cartomizer, it was a little expensive to have to throw out an almost brand new cartomizer because the juice clogged it. We are really happy with the Evod kits. We can use the juices we like, and the "heads" - the part with the flavor wicks and coils - can be taken out and cleaned. You have made a very good choice to join ECF. There is a lot of good information available here, and plenty of good people who are only too willing to help you make an informed decision as to what equipment to get, nicotine levels, pg/vg levels, etc. I researched for quite a while here before deciding that the Evod kits might be the best for our use. If only we had known about ECF earlier, we might have gone straight to the Evods instead of sticking with the cigalikes as long as we did. In the long run, however, it is a win for us in that vaping has kept us off the analogs, and that is what counts.