jus got my bloog maxxfusion, feel sick, nicotine od pobably

[nocturn4l3030]

This is good info to know, I only ordered my PV yesterday (hopefully it will arrive today!) so knowing what to look out for at first is a good thing. I'm probably in a slightly different boat than most people here in that I quit 3 years ago, but recently have started going out again and find I cannot resist smoking while at a pub/club and was looking into alternatives... there is another ulterior motive but I won't go into that right now :s

Based on the advice in this thread I think I will start with the lowest strength cart and see how that goes... I was planning on starting on the strongest.

glad this helped out somebody.. i wish what i experienced upon nobody lol

 

[nocturn4l3030]

just look for the "sticky" how-to videos. basically for pre-filled cartos, just take off the top cap (from the mouthpiece) and drip a few drops onto the filler. (be careful not to overfill, once the filler is moist stop).

tried my bloog again today and yea.. it's definitely just too strong. I'm going to try the vg thing tonite. do you think 2 drops will be enough? or is it just a experiment thing? thanks for the tip, i'll post back here and let you guys know if this helps

 

[nocturn4l3030]

I started vaping with a Bloog one month ago. I was also having difficulty trying to figure out how to get it to hit like a cigarette. I felt like I was sucking my lungs out, the muscles in my neck actually hurt from sucking so hard. I was kinda disappointed with it, so much that I bought a GoGo one week into it. The GoGo is a manual battery and it was much easier to hit, but I didn't want to give up on the Bloogs so I kept trying with it. About a week after I bought the GoGo I put it down and now all I use is the Bloog. The key is slow steady drawls, like you're sucking soda through a straw, but you only want a sip of soda, not a mouthful. Sucking like you've got a milkshake is actually counter productive and you'll end up less satisfied.

As far as adding VG to a Bloog carto, that's probably not going to give you the experience you're looking for. You can order some blank cartos and fill your own with a mix of PG/VG juice. I find that an 80/20 PG/VG ratio works really well in the Bloog cartos. I was a pack and a half a day lights smoker and I chain vape 6mg juice. There's not much TH at 6mg, so 11mg might be better for you if you want TH. You can always set the pre filled cartos you purchased aside, for those times when you're having a serious nic fit. Like when you first wake up in the morning. Then switch to a lower nic level for chain vaping. Once you finish a pre filled carto, you can set it aside to refill with your own juice.

haha glad i'm not the only one that was hitting it wrong.. but i believe i got it down now

trying out the 6mg ones right now... still paranoid and figure starting at the lowest will be best. i can always return the extra carts i order if i feel 6mg is too light

 

[nocturn4l3030]

I'm so glad you're starting to get the hang of it. It really is different than inhaling cigarettes. I, too, hyperventilated when I started. The drinking straw analogy is good - think soda not milkshake. Also, the buzz takes a minute to kick in, not seconds like a cigarette. If I remember right, it is one of the 3,997 chemicals in cigarettes that rips the cilia in your lungs open to get the nicotine in faster - ammonia, fiberglass, I don't remember.
Moral is, be patient before you milkshake the thing dry. The nicotine will get in and you will be satisfied.
Bloog cartomizers are easy to refill. Find a juice vendor on this site and buy some flavors you like. There are 3 things to consider: nicotine mg levels, PG for satisfying harsh throat hit needs, VG levels for stronger flavor and thicker creamier vapor.
Sticking with pre filled cartomizers leaves most of us wanting. Also, it gets expensive and limits you to the flavors they have.

definitely gonna have to try out the whole juice thing once i find a good mg lvl for the nicotine i want, so much to research though sometimes i don't know where to even start! lol

so for now i'm going to

1) get some vg add a couple drops in and see if it helps dilute my current 16mg that's still giving me a slight headache after trying again today.

2) ordered a bunch of 6mg and one 5pack of 11mg.. should be able to find out what nicotine lvl is good for me then hopefully

3) then try this whole juice thing u guys are talking about


QUESTION
for the juice... can I empty out one of my cartomizers with the reverse <something> method and then use my juices for that? (as opposed to buying blank cartomizers). And is there a point where my cartomizer will go bad?

 

[MustangSallie]

I've been using some of my cartomizers for over three weeks. They will all eventually go bad as I understand it, but you can clean them and reuse them many times over. It's not worth the bother to me to clean them. I tried it, mostly unsuccessfully, a few times. I just keep one carto per flavor, or like flavor and toss it when it stops hitting right. So that goes for any of your pre-filled, yes you can clean them out and use your new juices in them.

 

[MustangSallie]

This is good info to know, I only ordered my PV yesterday (hopefully it will arrive today!) so knowing what to look out for at first is a good thing. I'm probably in a slightly different boat than most people here in that I quit 3 years ago, but recently have started going out again and find I cannot resist smoking while at a pub/club and was looking into alternatives... there is another ulterior motive but I won't go into that right now :s

Based on the advice in this thread I think I will start with the lowest strength cart and see how that goes... I was planning on starting on the strongest.

You might not be as unusual as you think. I smoked for twenty years, then quit completely for five. At the beginning of this year I started smoking again. I could probably quit cold turkey again if I really put my mind to it, but I am finding the vaping so enjoyable and it gives me everything I missed about smoking and so far nothing that I hated. If there's two if us in this thread, I wouldn't be surprised if there aren't a bunch more on this forum.

 

[Green Mtn Vpr]

Gotta go with the rest...sounds like you just over did it. Give it a go again as soon as you feel better and just hit the Bloog a couple puffs when the cravings hit...dont power hit 20 drags like you would have in a sitting on an analog. Order a lower strength too...I vary nic based on how bad cravings are and/or if I'm doing a lot of vaping (as I enjoy the hell out of some of the flavors). I was a 3/4pk a day Marb Ultra smoker and I use 11/12mg mostly...16 sometimes, and 6 others if that gives you any reference.

Find some flavors you like, keep them in supply, use it just as you need, look to the forums for help/questions, and whatever you do dont give up and go back to analogs!!! You will be fine!

 

[nocturn4l3030]

I've been using some of my cartomizers for over three weeks. They will all eventually go bad as I understand it, but you can clean them and reuse them many times over. It's not worth the bother to me to clean them. I tried it, mostly unsuccessfully, a few times. I just keep one carto per flavor, or like flavor and toss it when it stops hitting right. So that goes for any of your pre-filled, yes you can clean them out and use your new juices in them.

ah thanks for the info.. so just to clarify.... if I'm going to refill a cart, i should only use the same flavor in there correct? and i shouldn't use a different flavor unless i completely clean it out?

 

[nocturn4l3030]

Gotta go with the rest...sounds like you just over did it. Give it a go again as soon as you feel better and just hit the Bloog a couple puffs when the cravings hit...dont power hit 20 drags like you would have in a sitting on an analog. Order a lower strength too...I vary nic based on how bad cravings are and/or if I'm doing a lot of vaping (as I enjoy the hell out of some of the flavors). I was a 3/4pk a day Marb Ultra smoker and I use 11/12mg mostly...16 sometimes, and 6 others if that gives you any reference.

Find some flavors you like, keep them in supply, use it just as you need, look to the forums for help/questions, and whatever you do dont give up and go back to analogs!!! You will be fine!

dag 3/4pk a day and only smoking 11/12mg .. so i totally overdid myself lol besides the nicotine addiction.. i think it's the smoke i find enjoyable.. and i actually found the TH of a 16 a little too much so i'm hoping the 6mg's I ordered will be okay.. i figure if they're too light, at least I won't get a headache and move up to a higher mg level again if needed

 

[nocturn4l3030]

UPDATE:

So I tried the VG thing... I took out the drip tip(?) and squeezed a good 8 or so drops into what looks like a filter-type thing..

maybe I didn't wait long enough.. and maybe because I had a cigarette just before.. but i still felt slightly nauseated.. bleh.

Just gonna smoke my analogs until I get the 6mg carts in the mail.

thx for all the info and help guys

 

[MustangSallie]

ah thanks for the info.. so just to clarify.... if I'm going to refill a cart, i should only use the same flavor in there correct? and i shouldn't use a different flavor unless i completely clean it out?

That will probably give you the best flavor overall from your cartos, yes. Some flavors never come out completely as I understand, like cinnamon. I use black licorice and I can't imagine too many flavors blending with that successfully. But other more mild flavors could probably be overpowered by something stronger and so the old flavor will eventually not be tasted once you've used the new one long enough. i.e. You had a carto with honeydew and you want to switch to blueberry, that would probably work without cleaning the carto completely before the switch, but your first couple of top offs with the blueberry might taste a bit "off" (although not necessarily bad) before it completely took over the carto. But mixing flavors like going from one similar tobacco flavor to another, or in my case going from cherry to mixed berry, probably no problem switching there at all.

 

[MustangSallie]

UPDATE:

So I tried the VG thing... I took out the drip tip(?) and squeezed a good 8 or so drops into what looks like a filter-type thing..

maybe I didn't wait long enough.. and maybe because I had a cigarette just before.. but i still felt slightly nauseated.. bleh.

Just gonna smoke my analogs until I get the 6mg carts in the mail.

thx for all the info and help guys

The problem with that method is that you're still vaping mostly if not exclusively 16mg. The VG is thicker then PG and it's probably all sitting at the top of the cartomizer and not mixing in with the PG liquid that was still in there. The atomizer is at the bottom of the carto and what's being vaporized is the PV juice at the bottom. (AFAIK)