Greetings and salutations!
The day before yesterday i walked into my local smoke shop,
plunked down $45,
and walked away from a 40-year habit.
Just like that, i don't smoke!
That's a miracle any way you slice it.
I should say that it's not quite that simple but of course
you all know that and i see that most of you know
that nothing ever can be.
But i should also say, by way of introduction
and perhaps to encourage some understanding if i sometimes seem
less than together,
i've got issues...
named issues; "diagnoses", and bags full of euphemisms as well.
It's not an excuse. Just an acknowledgment,
and maybe an explanation in advance
in the event that i don't make any sense.
So anyway i'm reading with extra interest the threads regarding
the correlation of smoking with mental illness,
and the other psychoactive chemicals, of which i am suddenly depriving myself.
I owe my delicate sanity to a delicate balance,
and now i've deliberately upset my equilibrium, but,
that's OK and it's a good thing,
and actually as S.O. points out, (after observing me at an entire day's research
into e-cigs, nicotine, and MAOI compounds in cigarette smoke, etc.),
there is indeed such a thing as Too Much Information
and sometimes it's better to set aside the intellectual analysis and
to forgo the invention of self-fulfilling prophecies and hypochondria,
and just see what happens.
It's all good so long as nobody gets hurt.
And to that end i wonder if someone around here is more than passing familiar
with the Envy e-cig and its idiosyncrasies?
I didn't actually expect to buy it so suddenly,
but having done so it puts me in sort of a pickle.
I'm rather stuck with it since it's the only one available locally
and i've already promised me, "never again" so i have to make it work.
I'm not sure where it fits in the continuum, and therefore what to expect of it,
but the biggest problem i'm having is inconsistency.
Sometimes i'll get a good puff of vapor and a nice throat hit,
other times i just.. won't.
I was told at the shop that each cartridge was roughly == 3 packs of smokes,
but then the website says one,
and i've been through six of them in approximately 24 waking hours.
This is clearly unsustainable a $10/pkg 5,
but in order to ensure i've always got a charged battery
i've got to go back into town and buy another starter kit,
which commits me all the more to this particular cig, at least for a while.
When i pulled the ...cotton-like substance... out of one of the carts,
it was very oily and strong.
So i'm wondering if maybe that particular one wasn't "empty" as such
and maybe because of the general inconsistency,
i'm getting confused between depleted cartidge issues and battery issues.
I think that my questions are...
1.) How exactly does the liquid get depleted? Is it a uniform process,
more or less, over the entire surface area of the cottony stuff,
or should i expect less vapor as the liquid "retreats" away from the atomizer?
2.) Do these batteries produce until they die, more or less,
or do they get progressively less effective?
I know that i definitely have a battery and/or charger problem because
it's recommended to charge for three hours
but the charger indicator will show full charge in 10 minutes
after the battery has blinked and died.
It doesn't help to unplug the charger and plug it back in,
still charges in <10 mins.
So i'm sorta wanting to theorize that perhaps i'm depleting my carts
by sucking away with a less-than optimal battery,
thereby drying up the liquid without appeasing the Nicotine Demon.
Anyway all that said, and said some more,
i will endeavor to be more succinct in the future and lest my point be lost,
i mostly just meant to say
"hello".
And thanks for being here.
- Joe
The day before yesterday i walked into my local smoke shop,
plunked down $45,
and walked away from a 40-year habit.
Just like that, i don't smoke!
That's a miracle any way you slice it.
I should say that it's not quite that simple but of course
you all know that and i see that most of you know
that nothing ever can be.
But i should also say, by way of introduction
and perhaps to encourage some understanding if i sometimes seem
less than together,
i've got issues...
named issues; "diagnoses", and bags full of euphemisms as well.
It's not an excuse. Just an acknowledgment,
and maybe an explanation in advance
in the event that i don't make any sense.
So anyway i'm reading with extra interest the threads regarding
the correlation of smoking with mental illness,
and the other psychoactive chemicals, of which i am suddenly depriving myself.
I owe my delicate sanity to a delicate balance,
and now i've deliberately upset my equilibrium, but,
that's OK and it's a good thing,
and actually as S.O. points out, (after observing me at an entire day's research
into e-cigs, nicotine, and MAOI compounds in cigarette smoke, etc.),
there is indeed such a thing as Too Much Information
and sometimes it's better to set aside the intellectual analysis and
to forgo the invention of self-fulfilling prophecies and hypochondria,
and just see what happens.
It's all good so long as nobody gets hurt.
And to that end i wonder if someone around here is more than passing familiar
with the Envy e-cig and its idiosyncrasies?
I didn't actually expect to buy it so suddenly,
but having done so it puts me in sort of a pickle.
I'm rather stuck with it since it's the only one available locally
and i've already promised me, "never again" so i have to make it work.
I'm not sure where it fits in the continuum, and therefore what to expect of it,
but the biggest problem i'm having is inconsistency.
Sometimes i'll get a good puff of vapor and a nice throat hit,
other times i just.. won't.
I was told at the shop that each cartridge was roughly == 3 packs of smokes,
but then the website says one,
and i've been through six of them in approximately 24 waking hours.
This is clearly unsustainable a $10/pkg 5,
but in order to ensure i've always got a charged battery
i've got to go back into town and buy another starter kit,
which commits me all the more to this particular cig, at least for a while.
When i pulled the ...cotton-like substance... out of one of the carts,
it was very oily and strong.
So i'm wondering if maybe that particular one wasn't "empty" as such
and maybe because of the general inconsistency,
i'm getting confused between depleted cartidge issues and battery issues.
I think that my questions are...
1.) How exactly does the liquid get depleted? Is it a uniform process,
more or less, over the entire surface area of the cottony stuff,
or should i expect less vapor as the liquid "retreats" away from the atomizer?
2.) Do these batteries produce until they die, more or less,
or do they get progressively less effective?
I know that i definitely have a battery and/or charger problem because
it's recommended to charge for three hours
but the charger indicator will show full charge in 10 minutes
after the battery has blinked and died.
It doesn't help to unplug the charger and plug it back in,
still charges in <10 mins.
So i'm sorta wanting to theorize that perhaps i'm depleting my carts
by sucking away with a less-than optimal battery,
thereby drying up the liquid without appeasing the Nicotine Demon.
Anyway all that said, and said some more,
i will endeavor to be more succinct in the future and lest my point be lost,
i mostly just meant to say
"hello".
And thanks for being here.
- Joe
