I'm sure many have come here for the same reason, been hanging around for a while now but registered a little while back as I wanted to see what threads sparked my interest on my daily visit instead of doing random reads.
My story isn't really much different to some that I read, I came from smoking 30 - 40 smokes a day more and slightly up over the weekends which was probably 6 months ago now but kept buying the odd packet on a weekend which stopped I reckon 2 months ago and have become a full time vaper on my trusty Provari which doesn't leave my side very often.
For me it seemed a waste of money here in Australia a packet was costing me $22 or thereabouts for 30, money could be spent elsewhere, wasn't concerned about health I figure die happy and did actually enjoy it to be perfectly honest just the stale smell which I didn't like.
I had a bit of a rocky start having the ego which got me mildly interested but not the hit I was after, went to the taste vv which was a little better but then came along the Provari which I went through all sorts of tanks namely iclear 30s, protanks even a nautilus which was a dud out of the box so I went down the kayfun rda route and was a purchase I wished I done earlier as this was the exactly thing I needed to drop the smokes on the weekend all together. Since then a bit of stuffing around as my cotton wicks were gone in 2 days so recently went to the Nautilus and Nautilus Mini with BVC's and couldn't be happier (much better than the original dud I had where the firing pin wasn't aligned), I do have the Kayfun there as a 'something different' vape.
juice wise I'm getting a little more adventurous but appears I've taken a real liking to the desserts or cake flavours, went through the stage of MBV (can't stand it now even after months and months of steeping a chemical aftertaste which I just can't get used to), Nicoticket (some good and some not for me but there's something lately which has turned me off - Wakonda my fav without a doubt with CLS in a distant 2nd but to order 2 bottles with shipping costs to Australia it isn't worth it), had a pile rock up eventually from Five Pawns and Suicide Bunny which I'm liking a lot bar one which I don't like one bit.
So where to from here for me, DIY e-liquid of course
Have nic, PG / VG, syringes and getting concentrates as I see fit - the big problem there you see a recipe and think you beauty I'll jot that down for my arsenal but realise you don't have the required concentrate so back to the shopping cart again so will do a big buy really soon. Looking forward to it actually but start out with small batches and work my way up until I get more comfortable with working out percentages to try and combo's I like but skies the limit now.
In preparation for DIY have a Magma dripper and associated bits should be in the post tomorrow. Now I just have to eagerly await the Provari P3 release Already on the purchase list.
Well that's me, have spent a heck of a lot but worth it imho, feeling better and more lively which will certainly improve as time goes on, haven't even thought of buying a packet which is a great milestone in itself.
There's my long winded story, off to read the DIY section more and learn from other n00bs like myself
My story isn't really much different to some that I read, I came from smoking 30 - 40 smokes a day more and slightly up over the weekends which was probably 6 months ago now but kept buying the odd packet on a weekend which stopped I reckon 2 months ago and have become a full time vaper on my trusty Provari which doesn't leave my side very often.
For me it seemed a waste of money here in Australia a packet was costing me $22 or thereabouts for 30, money could be spent elsewhere, wasn't concerned about health I figure die happy and did actually enjoy it to be perfectly honest just the stale smell which I didn't like.
I had a bit of a rocky start having the ego which got me mildly interested but not the hit I was after, went to the taste vv which was a little better but then came along the Provari which I went through all sorts of tanks namely iclear 30s, protanks even a nautilus which was a dud out of the box so I went down the kayfun rda route and was a purchase I wished I done earlier as this was the exactly thing I needed to drop the smokes on the weekend all together. Since then a bit of stuffing around as my cotton wicks were gone in 2 days so recently went to the Nautilus and Nautilus Mini with BVC's and couldn't be happier (much better than the original dud I had where the firing pin wasn't aligned), I do have the Kayfun there as a 'something different' vape.
juice wise I'm getting a little more adventurous but appears I've taken a real liking to the desserts or cake flavours, went through the stage of MBV (can't stand it now even after months and months of steeping a chemical aftertaste which I just can't get used to), Nicoticket (some good and some not for me but there's something lately which has turned me off - Wakonda my fav without a doubt with CLS in a distant 2nd but to order 2 bottles with shipping costs to Australia it isn't worth it), had a pile rock up eventually from Five Pawns and Suicide Bunny which I'm liking a lot bar one which I don't like one bit.
So where to from here for me, DIY e-liquid of course
Have nic, PG / VG, syringes and getting concentrates as I see fit - the big problem there you see a recipe and think you beauty I'll jot that down for my arsenal but realise you don't have the required concentrate so back to the shopping cart again so will do a big buy really soon. Looking forward to it actually but start out with small batches and work my way up until I get more comfortable with working out percentages to try and combo's I like but skies the limit now.In preparation for DIY have a Magma dripper and associated bits should be in the post tomorrow. Now I just have to eagerly await the Provari P3 release
Already on the purchase list.Well that's me, have spent a heck of a lot but worth it imho, feeling better and more lively which will certainly improve as time goes on, haven't even thought of buying a packet which is a great milestone in itself.
There's my long winded story, off to read the DIY section more and learn from other n00bs like myself
