Marlboro Red smoker needing help

[peep531]

Go to your local tobacco shops, many of them carry an assortment of e-cigarette brands and ask to try a sample. If you like one, you can buy an introductory kit for about $25. That way if you decide you want a different strength of flavor later, you still have a battery and a charger, and your not out a lot of cash.

Be sure to read the blog posts for new users, it will help you "learn" the right techniques for e-cigarettes and you'll have a better experience. That's how I got started, and have not smoked since. You can always go big later, but find your right "smoke flavor" first before buying lots of fancy hardware.

The brick and mortar retailers are eager for vaper's business, so they will gladly offer samples and discount prices.
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[DoctorD]

Hey Steve! I was a Marlboro Reds smoker for multiple years and figured I'd want to switch to a regular tobacco flavor when I made the jump to e-cigs as well, but it turned out I actually like experimenting with different flavors other than the classic tobacco! You might want to try a couple flavors that interest you as well. Just a suggestion, I thought I'd throw my two cents in, for what it's worth. Good luck!

 

[Steven_]

Good choices on the juice. You shouldn't have trouble with the bottles, just remember to tilt the protank 45 degrees when filling. Most MBV juices taste better after steeping

Ok, how long should i steep then, 7-10 days?

 

[mkbilbo]

Should i have ordered a needled bottle to fill my tanks or are the bottles from mtbakervapor.com easy to get the juice out of?

I sent them a email asking them if they can change my coil pack to 1.8 ohm, was told the 2.5 or more for the MODS, so hopefully i did the right thing here with everything i ordered, if not can just order something else lol

The needle tips are convenient but not necessary. In fact, given the way the Kanger is designed, probably kind of pointless. I use Visions that narrow at the top so with a needle tip, I can fill a little faster but don't get enough of a benefit to bother buying more. Use them on the juices I vape the most just so I can fill faster and get going a little bit quicker but it's just not that big a difference.

And for the Twist/Spinner/Winder batteries, I'd stick with about 2.4/2.5 ohms. With 1.8, you'd lose the high end of the voltage. Risk frying the juice and/or the coil head. It'd be extra hassle when you're just getting going. I wouldn't. I use 2.4 on Twists and like that I don't even have to bother looking at the voltage dial anymore (since I've been using them a while). Just turn the dial until I like the vape. Don't have to check a chart or something like that. When you first start using the basic variable voltage, you want to start at the low end of the voltage scale and move up carefully but after a while, it becomes second nature. So it's nice not to have to worry about ohms and volts and this and that. At least not a first. Later, if you care, you can move into the world o' mods and worry about Ohm's Law and all.

I order mostly from MBV lately. If you end up liking their liquids, you can save money getting unflavored nic juice and flavorings from them and mix flavors yourself. I do my "regular vapes" that way these days. Buy the plain nic juice here: DIY Supplies, flavors over this way: Flavors. Mix in a little bottle (like on the first page of DIY supplies), shake like a maniac, and you're pretty much set.

(I mean, there are much more sophisticated ways of doing liquids but it's kinda like cooking. You can do nice, sophisticated meals if you're into that or plain old "meat and potatoes" simple stuff if you're on a budget. Which I am right now and it's a tight one. Getting an ultrasound widget for steeping ain't in the cards or checking account right now. Later, yeah. Right now, not so much.)

Be sure to watch for their discount offers. They throw discount codes and such around. And like to toss free samples in your order. They run a nice shop MBV.

 

[mkbilbo]

Ok, how long should i steep then, 7-10 days?

Psst... don't tell the other kids because they'll make fun a me but I don't steep. I found it rarely makes a difference. For me anyway. As always, your mileage may vary.

It's a very subjective thing taste. I shake the daylights out of my MBV liquids but don't bother with steeping unless I don't care for the taste. Then I'll let them sit and steep then try again later. With no set "later" defined. Just whenever I think about it.

Taste is such a subjective thing, I don't know there are "hard and fast" rules on things like steeping. I've vaped MBV liquids the day they arrive and been happy. Can't tell much of a difference between shaking the bottle good and hard and steeping a few days. But that could be me.

What I picked up from the gurus around ECF (like Ocelot and Vapoor and others) is if you don't like a liquid, don't toss it. Put it away in a dark, cool place and let it steep. No set time just move on. Go back to it whenever you get round to it. You may find it's really great steeped a while. You may not.

Also, funny thing I've found in myself and reading around here is that when you get away from cigs, your sense of taste starts to recover and your preferences will change. I even changed the way I fix my coffee. Used to have to load up on the sweetener for one just to taste anything sweet. Had to back way, way off on that as my sense of taste came back.

And that'll also affect your taste in liquids in time. I had one I really liked at first. Bought a couple of big bottles. Then, one day, could not stand it. Shoved it in the back of the cabinet. A month or so later, ran across it, tried it again, liked it again.

Go figure.

My guess would be as your sense of taste recovers, you rediscover more subtle flavors in food and such. Sometimes, this is a good thing. Other times, not so much. And maybe it doesn't all recover at once so later you can end up liking the "new taste" of something that you stopped liking.

I can find very, very few hard and fast rules in vaping. Mostly it comes down to, "do you like it?" If "yes" vape on.