*Further details below (if needed, or can help, to answer original question). Thank you!!!
I was smoking cigarettes for approx. 25 years, but was never actually a really heavy smoker. I typically ranged between 0-2 cigarettes a day, unless I was out partying, or extremely stressed out, but never really more than a pack a week, if even that… However, I was never really able to quit, even though I wanted to. I had also tried the patch and gums before, but even at the lowest strength, those ended up making me feel extremely sick, supposedly because it was a too high nicotine content for me all at once...(?).
Then, a few years back (when vaping was still brand new), my friend got really into vaping and I was sooo interested!!! Especially because I had always been one those smokers that actually extremely detested, not only the smell (& taste) of smoking cigarettes, but the messiness of it all, as well as hating to have to walk thru random parking lots & hide in between cars in order to have a smoke without anybody seeing me, and just overall pretty much everything else about smoking... except for the overwhelming need that I would get when really yearning for a cigarette.
But, as alluring as the whole idea of vaping was, because it eliminated a lot of these other negative factors I had hated so much about smoking, it just always seemed SOOO complicated!!! My friend spent so much time having to run around town to 3 or 4+ different shops in order to just get a flavor he wanted, then the whole taking apart & putting back together the device, cleaning it, dealing with messy liquids, and doing all this stuff with cotton & wiring, etc., and all the other stuff involved… I just could not deal with all that.
So, when the e-cig disposable things came along (like “blu”, etc.), I tried almost all of them, but they were all horrible because they would either barely work, or run out of battery almost immed., tasted awful, or have a myriad of other problems, on top of the fact that they would never give me any kind of real satisfaction...
Then about a year & a half ago, I got turned onto JUUL. At first I thought it was great, and on the PRO side of things, it did pretty much get me off cigarettes almost completely. However, there were a ton of things I didn’t like about it as well… First off, I can EASILY go through at least 1, or even 2 JUUL pods (at 5.0% nic. strength, which is “supposedly” equivalent to a pack of cigarettes each!?), in 1 DAY when I am studying or working! Coming from 25 years of barely smoking a ½-1 pack a week, that’s extremely disconcerting!!! Also, there were always major leakage problems on their pods, which was totally gross & messy, not only in my mouth & on my lips, but in my pockets & purses as well. Not to mention the waste of money that incurred from all those leaky pods, which were sometimes even leaking and cracking prior to even opening their blister pack. Anyways, these were just a few things, and I could write a whole full article series on their other problematic issues, but again, their 1 big win was pretty much just at least helping to convert me off of actual cigarettes.
However, I have now gone through the huge supply of JUUL pods I had previously purchased, and definitely want to make the switch to something else… I have been doing a TON of research on the matter for several months, but it has been extremely difficult because there are not only a million different opinions on each & every aspect of everything (from all of the hundreds of different devices, to wattages, to ohm’s, to coils, to juice & flavors, to PG/VG %, freebase vs. nic salts, to nicotine percentages/mg, etc…!!!), but even trying to just get some real, true, concrete info. on basic specifications & facts, seems to be almost impossible... IT IS JUST TOO CRAZY!!!
So, again, if any of you here that have more experience & familiarity with all this stuff, can possibly PLEASE help me, I would be sooo beyond grateful!!!
Oh, and also, just to clarify things to make it easier:
Re. Flavors = I am not looking for all those crazy flavors, or any of that… All I want is the MOST INTENSE, MINTY, MENTHOL, ICY, etc. liquid/e-juice possible (I think nic-SALTS liquid???)… No other flavors of tobacco or fruity stuff, etc., just straight MINTY/MENTHOL in the strongest, purest, coolest, most extreme form possible!!! ;P
THANK YOU ALL AGAIN!!!
xoxo!