@Auntie Mame, I joined CASAA about two months ago. I have only been vaping now for about 4 months. I think that CASAA has done some great things and I continue to donate to them because I believe that E-cigarettes may save many people lives who have tried just about everything else to quit smoking. I grew up in Southern California and most of my friends were smoking about the time they were 16; I was no exception.
I have tried off and on for the past 10 years to quit smoking. Patches, hypnotism, cold turkey, gum... One day I walked in to what I perceived to be a discount tobacco shop. It turned out to be what I refer to as a head shop; ....s, pipes; devices for smoking .......... I had not seen such paraphernalia for years. As I was looking around a young salesman came up to me smoking a variable voltage mod that frankly I had no idea of what it was. Inquiring of him, he explained to me that it was similar to an e-cigarette and went on to explained how it worked.
After spending about 20 minutes talking with the salesman, I left the store with a medium priced variable wattage device, a couple of Aspire tanks, a battery charger and some 24mg juice in lieu of the carton of cigarettes I entered the store for. I did not really take to vaping right away because it just did not feel the same to me. After a couple of days, I had ruined both of the cheap Aspire tanks I bought by putting the mod in my pockets which caused the tank to separate from the base. Frustrated I went back to the store and ended up purchasing and Itazte SVG with a Nautilus tank.
I vaped the SVG for about three weeks and was pretty much hooked on the vaping and happy that I had only smoked a few cigarettes in that time period. One day, I walked in to a store specifically for vaping in the town I live in, College Station, Texas. The shop I visited sold many different brands of juices and authentic mechanical mods. I was mesmerized by the mechanical mods because I had never seen one before. I fell in love with a Chi Megan (first run) and about 400.00 dollars later, I left the store with my first mechanical mod and a Tugboat RDA.
Over the past four months, I have bought several more mods as seen below:
The above is just a picture of my favorites, as I have spent well over $40,000 buying just about every authentic mod and RDA I can find. A couple of weeks ago, I started building my own coils for my drippers and have become very good at it. I have well over 200 mods now and each one as its own RDA. On the 8th of this month I have tickets to go to my first vape convention that is being held in Houston, Texas.
I have traded my addiction to tobacco in favor of collecting mechanical mods. I have not smoked a single cigarette in over 3 months now and I am vaping juice at 0-3mg nicotine. Most people would probably say that I have gone off the deep end with collecting mods, and would probably be right in saying so. All I can say is that every penny I spend on mods, rdas, tanks, batteries, coil wire, cotton, donations to pro-e-cig groups and juice, is money the tobacco industry and the outrageous government tobacco taxing will not be getting any more.
@ EVERYONE
My main purpose for mentioning the mechanical mods is that I know a lot of people including myself who have tried e-cigarettes and gave up on them very shortly after having started using them. Vaping with a hard hitting variable voltage device really helped me to quit because I really needed something that would deliver the same kind of punch as a regular cigarette. Mechanical mods just takes it to the next level. I highly suggest to anyone out there who has tried e-cigarettes and did not like them, to give a variable voltage device a try. Do not go cheap. Do not be afraid to spend around 100-150 dollars to buy a good hard hitting device. There are many good ones, but I highly suggest these Itazte SVG. PM me, if you need some help with choosing your device.
