If you had it to do over again....

[jklotz]

Help us newbies out! For those just getting into this, if you had it to do over again, what would you have done differently?

Personally, I'd have avoided buying all that juice online to try out, and have only spent money on the ones I tried and KNEW I liked at the B&M.

 

[thebanik]

I would have skipped my first 100$ kit of cigalikes and its cartridges.

 

[Cranky99]

I would have skipped my first 100$ kit of cigalikes and its cartridges.

This! Exactly.

As far as juice buying online...I don't think I'd undo that. There are so many juices I never could have tried. My local stores only carry a few of the better brands and at the time I started (the first time, over a year ago), they carried none. I've spent too much money online but in the end, I found juices that keep me happy and were good enough to get me through the initial cravings when I quit.

 

[flowerpots]

I would still have invested in the cigalike KR808 because I can't find the exact same flavors from juice as I can from those cartomizers. Plus, the cigalikes are perfect for stealth vaping. YMMV

I would still have tried the hundreds of juices I bought because now I know what I like and what I don't. And I can better help others find their juice niche having tried so many. Some flavors that I thought I would not like, it turned out I love, while some I thought would be my go-to juice just fizzled.

I would have gone to a B&M right away though, to sample flavors and to get quicker guidance on some things. I had to do a lot of research on my own.

I would have invested in sample packs instead of 10mls of 30 juices at a time.

I would not change much actually It's all part of the vaping experience and journey.

 

[Completely Average]

I would have skipped my first 100$ kit of cigalikes and its cartridges.

^^^ That.

And I never would have wasted the money on buying two iTaste SVDs that both failed to last 4 months.

 

[Cirrusx1]

Agree with skipping the cigalikes! That and getting gouged on the crappy blister pack kit from the first B&M I walked into.

 

[AndriaD]

I would have bought my Sigelei Zmax v3 flat-top first, instead of the darn cigalike, and bought the Kayfun next. If the thing had been here all along, I would have learned to build coils a LOT sooner!

Andria

 

[donesmokin]

Gone straight to VV/VW devices.

 

[Hijack]

Would not have bought my first cig-a-like which I threw in the bin after 4 hours, and caused me to carry on smoking for another year because I thought vaping tasted really bad.

Would have gone straight to something like an MPV 2 $35-40 instead of getting an eGo starter kit $35-40,and going through all that hassle with small battery capacity. Only at that time I think MPV's were about $60-70.

That's the only things I'd have done different. All the stuff like choosing my first flavours and trying my first tank upgrade was done at my very good local vape shop, so it was a try before you buy situation .

 

[pt91]

I wouldn't change a thing. Guess I was lucky in my timings.

 

[jonhall2]

i have to say i would not have done one cotton pickin' thing different. i wouldn't take back the hundreds spent on disposables. they helped me cut back and see if it was a viable alternative. all the while i studied vaping. i don't live anywhere near a b&m but the grocery had njoy for $10ea. online $6. i didn't see a pv until we went home last thanksgiving. there i found a b&m and tasted some juice. bought 3 ego twist, clearomizers, and a few juices for my wife and myself. i wouldn't take back buying online practically every juice they make or a clearomizer for each one. not the lab equipment, the ultrasonic cleaner, the magnetic stirrer, the atomizers, the kayfuns, the kanger tanks, the vamos, the nememis, the kick v2, and the last bottle of castle long from five pawns because i cloned it. better than the original. smoke is hell. vapor is heavenly. no regrets. happy vaping y'all

 

[Grimwald]

Everything I tried helped me learn and grow. The 808 cigalikes right thru the bigger mods, the cartos right thru the larger tanks. Much of what I use today wasn't even available 2 years ago when I started.

The one thing I would have done differently is not stocking up on things (especially juices) before I really found the "right" thing. It's so exciting when you finally kick the smoking habit, and your tastes and preferences change so quickly at the beginning, that you typically end up with a cabinet full of stuff gathering dust. But that cabinet full of stuff still helped me find my go to devices and flavors.

 

[djsvapour]

I would have skipped my first 100$ kit of cigalikes and its cartridges.

Yes. I would have avoided my first $300+ on these products.

Then, another $100 on Joyetech "revolutionary atomizer and cartridge system"

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(and then $150 on a Joyetech EVIC.)

 

[Frenchfry1942]

I prepared before switching. Back-ups and studying. It worked well...as my sig says.

 

[ironmunky]

I would have looked for a local shop sooner, didn't even know they existed until a month ago. I also would have kept vaping and not gone on a three year analog binder.

 

[serenity21899]

I would have skipped the cigalikes and the Genny's. The rest of my choices were necessary to figure out what I liked and didn't like. I have not bought much juice online as my local vape shop makes really good stuff.

 

[John_2x]

Buying an Innokin vv v3 for retail price at a local vape shop. I could have done so much better for $70.

 

[skoony]

started much,much earlier.

mike

 

[cbrite]

I would have skipped my first 100$ kit of cigalikes and its cartridges.

Yes, me, too. Although they did get me through the first couple of weeks and even though they didn't taste so great, the nicotine did its job. Compared to what came later though, OMG, what a waste. I passed mine along to the only friend I have who still smokes. I think she stopped using it after a few weeks and never wanted to explore other options, which is too bad.

 

[Jasen]

I would have done a bit more research and learned more about devices and juice and not been vaping "their" cig-a-like dirty gym sock juice, which was a bit of a turn off to vaping in the beginning.