Hi all,
New to the forums, been vaping for a few weeks - it's quickly become an expensive hobby! It appears I can't contribute until I have a few posts under my belt, so I though I would bore you all with my story so far.
I was a smoker for around 22 years, not quite a pack-a-day, usually around 12-15 a day. Honestly, despite nagging thoughts at the back of my head about my long-term health, I did enjoy smoking and wasn't looking to give it up. I'm a self-confessed stimulant junkie and nicotine a vice I enjoyed having. That was until my 6-year old boy wouldn't give his old man a hug one day because my "smoke smell" made him feel sick. Ouch. Shot through the heart. I love my kids more than anything else in this life and this was the kick up the .... I needed to get off the stinkers.
I'd attempted giving up a few times before, but never lasted more than a couple of days, but recently I'd seen these cigalike things, and bought a couple of the "equivalent to 40 cigs" 10-motives. Well, despite being incredibly unsatisfactory and bland, for the first time in 22 years I found I was able to use them to keep my nic-levels in check for about a week. I was however going through 1 "40 cigs" e-cig a day though and couldn't keep up with the expense. So I started looking online for a rechargable, refillable type device, and stumbled across this huge community of "vapers". I was instantly drawn in and impulse-bought some ego battery and some CE4 clearomizers along with some juice. I was hooked.
This was the beginning of an expensive, but thoroughly enjoyable 3 week journey to where I am now, with the beginning of a collection in front of me that consists of multiple ego-type batteries, a few random coloured clearomisers that will likely never get used, a couple of Kanger PT2's with some spare heads and glass tubes etc.. a load of drip tips, a Vamo V5 as my first VW/VW device, an Aspire Nautilus (wish I knew about this thing a few weeks ago!) and today I took receipt of my first little RDA (with wicking and coil material) and built my first few crappy coils (took about 3m of kanthal before I nailed it!). I also have around 20 bottles of various juices, and my desk is littered with a blowtorch, tweezers, cotton wool tools, chargers and other spare things like beauty rings, plinths and stands.
These past few weeks have been eye-opening, bewildering, fun, sometimes frustrating and unsatisfying (kit failures and vape tongue nearly made me reach for the tobacco again) but I am head-over-heels in love with vaping, and after trying dripping for the first time today, I fell in love all over again! I haven't touched a stinker in 25 days, and I'm bloody loving it. I'm still a nicotine addict of course, I'm not fooling myself or anyone else, but I'm getting my fix in a much healthier, more pleasurable way, and having little to no effect on the people around me. Besides, in 3 weeks I've already managed to get down from 24mg to 12mg, so setting myself a target of 6 for the end of the year!
My kids are happy I don't smell of smoke, and my wife is happy for my health and has been incredibly supportive of my new hobby - as well as forgiving of my many expensive dead-ends and mistakes. In fact, despite not being a smoker herself for nearly 10 years now, she actually got some 0nic juice because she loves the smell, tastes and experience so much, and I set her up with a little ego twist and CE6.
While typing this I'm dripping some Vapology Cappuccino in my new RDA, on my VAMO V5 (on my own coil and wick which I am shamelessly proud of!) and its the most relaxed I've felt in weeks.
So that's my story, apologies for being overly-long, and I look forward to talking with you all further and being an active contributor to ECF.
New to the forums, been vaping for a few weeks - it's quickly become an expensive hobby! It appears I can't contribute until I have a few posts under my belt, so I though I would bore you all with my story so far.
I was a smoker for around 22 years, not quite a pack-a-day, usually around 12-15 a day. Honestly, despite nagging thoughts at the back of my head about my long-term health, I did enjoy smoking and wasn't looking to give it up. I'm a self-confessed stimulant junkie and nicotine a vice I enjoyed having. That was until my 6-year old boy wouldn't give his old man a hug one day because my "smoke smell" made him feel sick. Ouch. Shot through the heart. I love my kids more than anything else in this life and this was the kick up the .... I needed to get off the stinkers.
I'd attempted giving up a few times before, but never lasted more than a couple of days, but recently I'd seen these cigalike things, and bought a couple of the "equivalent to 40 cigs" 10-motives. Well, despite being incredibly unsatisfactory and bland, for the first time in 22 years I found I was able to use them to keep my nic-levels in check for about a week. I was however going through 1 "40 cigs" e-cig a day though and couldn't keep up with the expense. So I started looking online for a rechargable, refillable type device, and stumbled across this huge community of "vapers". I was instantly drawn in and impulse-bought some ego battery and some CE4 clearomizers along with some juice. I was hooked.
This was the beginning of an expensive, but thoroughly enjoyable 3 week journey to where I am now, with the beginning of a collection in front of me that consists of multiple ego-type batteries, a few random coloured clearomisers that will likely never get used, a couple of Kanger PT2's with some spare heads and glass tubes etc.. a load of drip tips, a Vamo V5 as my first VW/VW device, an Aspire Nautilus (wish I knew about this thing a few weeks ago!) and today I took receipt of my first little RDA (with wicking and coil material) and built my first few crappy coils (took about 3m of kanthal before I nailed it!). I also have around 20 bottles of various juices, and my desk is littered with a blowtorch, tweezers, cotton wool tools, chargers and other spare things like beauty rings, plinths and stands.
These past few weeks have been eye-opening, bewildering, fun, sometimes frustrating and unsatisfying (kit failures and vape tongue nearly made me reach for the tobacco again) but I am head-over-heels in love with vaping, and after trying dripping for the first time today, I fell in love all over again! I haven't touched a stinker in 25 days, and I'm bloody loving it. I'm still a nicotine addict of course, I'm not fooling myself or anyone else, but I'm getting my fix in a much healthier, more pleasurable way, and having little to no effect on the people around me. Besides, in 3 weeks I've already managed to get down from 24mg to 12mg, so setting myself a target of 6 for the end of the year!
My kids are happy I don't smell of smoke, and my wife is happy for my health and has been incredibly supportive of my new hobby - as well as forgiving of my many expensive dead-ends and mistakes. In fact, despite not being a smoker herself for nearly 10 years now, she actually got some 0nic juice because she loves the smell, tastes and experience so much, and I set her up with a little ego twist and CE6.
While typing this I'm dripping some Vapology Cappuccino in my new RDA, on my VAMO V5 (on my own coil and wick which I am shamelessly proud of!) and its the most relaxed I've felt in weeks.
So that's my story, apologies for being overly-long, and I look forward to talking with you all further and being an active contributor to ECF.
Great story. One the ways where "think of the children" makes sense.
