Hello all! After about 17 years of smoking, I bought my first e-cig about a week ago (the general 510 model) and at first I wasn't very impressed. I had no idea that there was so much to take into consideration- liquids, flavors, PG/VG, atomizers, cartomizers -and so when my starter kit arrived with a tobacco-flavored PG/VG mix at 11mg nic, I thought that was all I could ever get. And I didn't like it. After 2 puffs, I had a sore throat like I'd smoked 4 packs, I had body aches, a head aches and felt kind of nauseous. That's what got me to do a little research. I ordered samples of 2 VG-only & 1 low-PG from ECBlends in sweet flavors and decided in that first day that while the low-PG tasted better, my body clearly doesn't tolerate it well, but the VG only seems to agree with me just fine! Now I'm attempting to steep those 2 juices to see how much better they get. In the mean time, I have orders in with Velvet Vapors & another with Virgin Vapors. But that's not the exciting news.
I figured it would still take me some time to stop smoking, so I've been trying to vape every other time I'd normally smoke. I liked it, but I've missed the "chest hit." Last night, after 2 days of vaping (after the PG issues), I ran out of cigarettes & today 2 different stores were out of my brand (not an uncommon occurrence), so I was relying solely on my PV all day. This evening, I was out in the suburbs & saw my brand of cigarettes when i stopped for gas, so I grabbed 2 packs (as is my habit) and lit one in the car. Wow. I felt like I'd been punched in the chest! I smoke ultra-lights and it felt like I'd torn the filters off of a full-flavor cigarette! After 3 puffs, I chucked it out the window, the cigarettes are currently living in a ziploc baggie in my freezer to be donated to a friend.
I have to be honest, I didn't think I'd be done with analogs until I found a favorite flavor of juice and I definitely thought it would be more than 3 days!!! I'm so impressed that I just ordered a PV & some juice samples to give to my best friend for her birthday, I don't know what could be a higher complement.
Thanks to everyone here for being a wealth of information & giving me somewhere to say things like "Holy crap! I think I just smoked my last cigarette!"
I figured it would still take me some time to stop smoking, so I've been trying to vape every other time I'd normally smoke. I liked it, but I've missed the "chest hit." Last night, after 2 days of vaping (after the PG issues), I ran out of cigarettes & today 2 different stores were out of my brand (not an uncommon occurrence), so I was relying solely on my PV all day. This evening, I was out in the suburbs & saw my brand of cigarettes when i stopped for gas, so I grabbed 2 packs (as is my habit) and lit one in the car. Wow. I felt like I'd been punched in the chest! I smoke ultra-lights and it felt like I'd torn the filters off of a full-flavor cigarette! After 3 puffs, I chucked it out the window, the cigarettes are currently living in a ziploc baggie in my freezer to be donated to a friend.
I have to be honest, I didn't think I'd be done with analogs until I found a favorite flavor of juice and I definitely thought it would be more than 3 days!!! I'm so impressed that I just ordered a PV & some juice samples to give to my best friend for her birthday, I don't know what could be a higher complement.
Thanks to everyone here for being a wealth of information & giving me somewhere to say things like "Holy crap! I think I just smoked my last cigarette!"
