I had my Kissbox (v. 3.0) now for about a week.. Following are my impressions until now. Because this is my first e-cigarette, it would be nice if someone could tell me if that's normal or if I have a broken part
The vapor seams not to be much. I heard that it should be great compared to other e-cigs, but I'm only getting half of the smoke volume I get from regular cigs. It seems to "degrade" too - After some smoking, the vapor gets less and less, until it reaches about a quarter of the smoke volume of a real cig. I first thought it's the battery, changed it, no improvement. Then I tought it's the cartridge, pulled it out but it was still quite wet.. I still changed the catridge, just to be sure, and got the normal smoke volume back, but it diddn't last very long and soon I was back at the quarter volume. On the other hand, it seems to last quite long.. I smoke(d) a pack a day and now I alternate between real and e-cigs. I got the Kissbox tuesday evening (AFAIR) and I'm still using the second cartridge (but on the weekend, I nearly only used real cigs, so that makes it about 3.5 days with one cartridge used for about 50% and another one still in use).
I tried two different cartridges until now.. One out of an light broun pack without any notice which taste it might be (high) and one out of a dark brown pack with adhesive tape on it which had "RY4" written on it, I assume that's Ruyan No 4 (medium).
The light brown cartridge feeled just like air. I could
sense a really, really light taste of something minty, but it was way too light for me - I wouldn't even be sure that I sensed it if I diddn't get a bit liquid on my first try (I think I drew too strong.. Like I'm used to from normal cigs). Also, I diddn't feel the vapor. As I said, it feeled just like air and if I diddn't exhale a bit vapor which I could see with my eyes, I wouldn't be able to tell the difference. I also got no nic-hit at all. Sure, the craving for a cig went away, but only for a short time. Impression: Not impressed.
The Ruyan No 4 was better. I feeled it hitting my throat and it made the craving go away for longer (which is quite weird, because it was a medium cartridge and the other one's a high one..). The Taste is slightly stronger, but it's nowhere near tobacco in my opinion (but I don't know if RY4 is supposed to taste like tobacco). It's also a bit too sweet. I prefer the taste over the one from the other cartridge, but I don't really like it either.
Then.. I got the dry throath which many complayned about (much drinking doesn't help.. I usually drink about 3 litres a day, probably more now because it's so fsking hot) but I diddn't think much of it. But at the same time, my right ear started to hurt (about the same way it would if I had an infection, but it nearly went away now, so I doubt that was it). This could have many other causes and it could just be a coincidence (sp?) that it happened at the same time, though.
One thing I would wish is that the
batteries were marked (with '1' and '2') because I keep confusing them with each other so I never know which one is the fully loaded and which one isn't. This may not be a problem for many, but I carry it around disassembled, so this is a bit of an issue for me.
I will probably keep alterating between normal- and e-cigs, and maybe try the liquid from freesmoke (initially I diddn't want to use liquid because of the risks of it (if it gets on your hand or something like that) but after tasting those cartridges, I'm not so sure anymore). The taste of some of the other cartridges or some sort of liquid might convince me to go from half-e-smoking to full-e-smoking
PS: I tend to be a bit too much negative when I review something - everyone in the process of deciding which e-cig to buy should also read what other people said.