Hi. I've been reading here for about a week and I'm totally overwhelmed by all the options. There isn't a bricks and mortar store I can reach to check things out irl, so I'm hoping that if I write about my situation someone will be able to help point me to a good setup. I smoked heavily- 3 packs a day most days- for 30 years. I quit in 2004 because I hated the smell, didn't much like the taste and was sick of the slavery, never being able to enjoy going anywhere if I couldn't smoke, not being able to sit through a movie or dinner, etc. Quitting cigarettes was amazingly easy, using nicotine replacement. I got very depressed and felt horrible though if I dropped the nicotine. With my doctor's approval I came to terms with not worrying about using nicotine, and had six years cigarette free with lozenges. Ironically during those years I developed a severe refractory ulcerative colitis- one of the only diseases *more* common in non-smokers!- and after a year spent mostly in the hospital had my large intestine removed and my GI system rebuilt. Usually that's a cure but it turned out that for me uc was just the first manifestation of what I know now is a hereditary autoimmune disorder. Instead of being all better following the surgery I developed one illness after another. I went from being the only female lifting 100 lbs all day every day in a meat plant to being barely able to carry my purse to the car. My life had always been challenging but became..well.. beyond stressful. Two years ago, after my neighbors started a fire which destroyed my apartment I started smoking again.
Now, I'm adjusting to my surprising life changes and things should be relatively okay, but I have recently been diagnosed with (no surprise I guess, I earned it) COPD. I am bright enough to know that I can *not* smoke. I don't have a big issue with the nicotine as I can get it from the lozenges..but the past couple of months without cigarettes I've felt so lost; I miss the ritual, the hand and mouth activity. Dinner doesn't seem right, coffee doesn't seem right, video gaming which is my passion isn't complete, without smoking. I do realize that it would surely be best that I not inhale anything but the reality is that with an above average IQ I am sneaking out of my apartment smoking Newport Lights and vaping definitely can't be as harmful for me. My pulmonologist mentioned
e-cigs and so here I am. I managed to get a couple of disposable menthol Njoys from a convenience store and they aren't the worst thing in the world; in fact I like the taste and the feel in my hand-but they are kind of hard to drag on and I am sure there's a better choice in many ways! I am on disability now and don't go very far very often so battery life isn't crucial for me. I don't need them to look like cigarettes- in fact I'd probably like something silver or pink or so on. I do think I need something fairly slender, I have issues with nerve damage in my hands and don't imagine a fat-cigar size would work well for me. I'm not super cheap but I definitely don't have a money tree either, so I would like something that's a good value and not an overpriced disposable. I don't want to get into something proprietary, as I don't know what flavors will end up being good for me or how pg/vg might affect me. I'd prefer a manual battery ..I think. I can afford to spend up to 150$ but I *can't* afford to spend it foolishly..and I am so confused now. I've looked at SI's Volt, then Bloog..and the variable voltage of the twist sounds like a great idea-but they look massively fat in pictures..then I saw an ego-dual-coil-tank kit that looked good..but maybe that's heavy and fat.. I'm also lost about what some vendors are actually selling..is the Vapor King Xl a KR808d? etc
At this point the more I read the further I get from knowing what to order or where to order it from. If anyone wise and kind makes sense of this and could point me to a good starting set-up given, I would be so grateful! Thank you =)
Now, I'm adjusting to my surprising life changes and things should be relatively okay, but I have recently been diagnosed with (no surprise I guess, I earned it) COPD. I am bright enough to know that I can *not* smoke. I don't have a big issue with the nicotine as I can get it from the lozenges..but the past couple of months without cigarettes I've felt so lost; I miss the ritual, the hand and mouth activity. Dinner doesn't seem right, coffee doesn't seem right, video gaming which is my passion isn't complete, without smoking. I do realize that it would surely be best that I not inhale anything but the reality is that with an above average IQ I am sneaking out of my apartment smoking Newport Lights and vaping definitely can't be as harmful for me. My pulmonologist mentioned
e-cigs and so here I am. I managed to get a couple of disposable menthol Njoys from a convenience store and they aren't the worst thing in the world; in fact I like the taste and the feel in my hand-but they are kind of hard to drag on and I am sure there's a better choice in many ways! I am on disability now and don't go very far very often so battery life isn't crucial for me. I don't need them to look like cigarettes- in fact I'd probably like something silver or pink or so on. I do think I need something fairly slender, I have issues with nerve damage in my hands and don't imagine a fat-cigar size would work well for me. I'm not super cheap but I definitely don't have a money tree either, so I would like something that's a good value and not an overpriced disposable. I don't want to get into something proprietary, as I don't know what flavors will end up being good for me or how pg/vg might affect me. I'd prefer a manual battery ..I think. I can afford to spend up to 150$ but I *can't* afford to spend it foolishly..and I am so confused now. I've looked at SI's Volt, then Bloog..and the variable voltage of the twist sounds like a great idea-but they look massively fat in pictures..then I saw an ego-dual-coil-tank kit that looked good..but maybe that's heavy and fat.. I'm also lost about what some vendors are actually selling..is the Vapor King Xl a KR808d? etc
At this point the more I read the further I get from knowing what to order or where to order it from. If anyone wise and kind makes sense of this and could point me to a good starting set-up given, I would be so grateful! Thank you =)
