Hello!
Morris, I think the advice you have received from these learned members is very valuable and a great place to start your journey. I too am looking to get off normal cigarettes ('analogues' as they are called here) and am also new to this.
My experience so far sounds very similar to yours. Around six months ago, I first came across e-cigs. I bought a 'mini' (also known as a 901), and it was OK for a couple of days, but I still stayed on analogues, as the results I got from my e-cig seemed to drop off.
Then I got a Super mini and some juice to top up the carts (36 mg - about the strongest you can get). When I first got this, I thought that the throat hit I got from it was great, and I stopped smoking completely. Over the next four weeks, I thought the throat hit was reducing. So, I started looking through the internet, and started dripping the fluid directly onto the atomiser. I also tried adding Glycerin to my liquid to give more vapour - it does give more vapour, but doesn't improve throat hit, which for me, as I think for you, is the main thing.
Then I decided that what I really needed was a '510' ot 'Titan', as lots of people had said good things about them (can you see a pattern forming here?
). Due to a technical problem (e.g. the charger didn't work) I really didn't get much of a chance to use the 510 (despite paying extra for next day postage, and receiving absolutely nothing when it was finally returned over a week later - not even the carts promised to cover my postage!! Grrrrrrr!!). So, I decided that e-cigs were probably not all they are cracked up to be, and went back on the analogues.
But during this time, I read and read and read the posts on this forum. I think (and I wait to be corrected by my fellow forum posters) that there is an inherrent problem with the batteries supplied with the majority of e-cigs. You can charge and discharge your batteries a few times, but after a fairly short period of time they don't seem to give the same sort of results that you used to get when your equipment is new.
So, I ended up buying yet another e-cig! And I think this is the key. You can try and try and try the cheaper models, but until you buy a more expensive model (such as a screwdriver, Jantystick, GG or Prodigy as mentioned below) you will keep on having the problem of the performance tailing off after a day or two. Decent batteries are a must for any would-be e-smoker.
Many of the premium manufacturers state that their devices are not intended for people who want to reduce their nicotine intake or stop smoking altogether. They are for people who want to stop inhaling the thousands of chemicals in normal smokes. But, if you started of with a high nicotine level (e.g 36 ml) and then over a period of time cut that down to zero, perhaps it could work. In fact, that is my goal, and I am working towards it.
I am still on the analogues as I have run out of fluid. I smoke around 15 'light' cigarettes a day, and have done for over 15 years. But when I get some more fluid in the next couple of days, I will switch back to e-cigs. I stopped smoking analogues for nearly 5 weeks and, honestly, it was easy!
Hope this helps and best of luck
John
