Mistakes you have made as a newbie or a veteran of vaping.

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PeterKay

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Granted im no expert and i did make the transition from the atty included with the Swag80w to the Wasp Nano rta but i like it.

coils i got for free from the owner of the vape shop but my ohm reader says 0.19ohm,no idea what type they are thou.

But my first build sucked,broke one coil trying to fit it in and this is the pic of my second try:

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Here it is sitting on top of my SWAG 80w:

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I like the atty,the Wasp gives me some nice flavour and good cloud production.
Minimal leakage and i think its my fault,i may have forced the ring that controls the airflow when i tried to take it apart to rewick it.

I wouldn't take my advice thou,i have only tried out like 2 or 3 different attys while people here have done so in the hundreds...so there is that.
I did try the drip version but meh..to tiresome to be dripping all the time,i prefer a tank,you fill it and ready to go.

Thanks. Might give the Wasp a shot.

I feel the same, dripping is definitely not for me. I was even annoyed having to refill my TFV12 Prince tank because it first arrived with 2ml glass so I had to refill every hour or two.
 

stols001

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My husband smokes. So, cigarettes are freely available to me at any/all times. I am fairly sure have a couple black American Spirit tobacco packs around (one I am SURE of.) I don't toss cigarettes because when I am enough of a stress smoker, I am going to like, smoke, regardless. It's cheaper than buying a new pack every time and that's my favorite brand.

Although, given the amount of time I have NOT been smoking lately, I probably SHOULD toss them they get so old, they get gross. Although, this is also another effective deterrent so IDK.

But if I am going to smoke I will. Shocked quite frankly I did not smoke this time around after being ill. I know they say reduce smoking when sick but I always used to INCREASE it. I know.

So it's been a long time but when I really am going to smoke A cigarette (it's not ever usually more than one and I sometimes put it out halfway) there is no force on heaven or earth which will stop me.

Although I SHOULD pitch the B&H they were foul to begin with and I live in AZ with no garage. They did look kind of lethal, etc. Although, if I were about to be hauled off to jail by a cop or something I might smoke one while they were writing up the paperwork or whatever. Probably.

This is how it is.

Anna
 

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So it's been a long time but when I really am going to smoke A cigarette (it's not ever usually more than one and I sometimes put it out halfway) there is no force on heaven or earth which will stop me.

Yup. Bottom line is harm reduction, and you're doing fine. :thumb:
 

PeterKay

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My husband smokes. So, cigarettes are freely available to me at any/all times. I am fairly sure have a couple black American Spirit tobacco packs around (one I am SURE of.) I don't toss cigarettes because when I am enough of a stress smoker, I am going to like, smoke, regardless. It's cheaper than buying a new pack every time and that's my favorite brand.

Although, given the amount of time I have NOT been smoking lately, I probably SHOULD toss them they get so old, they get gross. Although, this is also another effective deterrent so IDK.

But if I am going to smoke I will. Shocked quite frankly I did not smoke this time around after being ill. I know they say reduce smoking when sick but I always used to INCREASE it. I know.

So it's been a long time but when I really am going to smoke A cigarette (it's not ever usually more than one and I sometimes put it out halfway) there is no force on heaven or earth which will stop me.

Although I SHOULD pitch the B&H they were foul to begin with and I live in AZ with no garage. They did look kind of lethal, etc. Although, if I were about to be hauled off to jail by a cop or something I might smoke one while they were writing up the paperwork or whatever. Probably.

This is how it is.

Anna

Well you know your own limits it seems. I know mne as well, I know for a fact that an "emergency" tobacco or cigarette stash has never survived a full day when I was giving up in the past. I have it- I smoke it lol. A trip to a shop is better for me because it gives me enough time to talk myself out of it :D
 

stols001

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Early on I had a few catastrophic days falling of the wagon like smoking 10 cigarettes at my first vaping concert. They were kind of unpleasant that they were good in a way.

Compared to how I used to smoke, (3 ppd day) a cigarette every 6 months or less (I am finding I can endure more and more stress) is not a big deal to me.

It becomes a HUGE deal if I start thinking about them like, "I can smoke one every night before bed."

I am trying to think when the last one was, I think it might have been after the house flooded and I saw the video. I took the husband outside and we drank apple cider and smoked, and toasted each other on how crappy our life could get. LOL.

Anna
 

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Early on I had a few catastrophic days falling of the wagon like smoking 10 cigarettes at my first vaping concert. They were kind of unpleasant that they were good in a way.

Compared to how I used to smoke, (3 ppd day) a cigarette every 6 months or less (I am finding I can endure more and more stress) is not a big deal to me.

It becomes a HUGE deal if I start thinking about them like, "I can smoke one every night before bed."

I am trying to think when the last one was, I think it might have been after the house flooded and I saw the video. I took the husband outside and we drank apple cider and smoked, and toasted each other on how crappy our life could get. LOL.

Anna

This just reminds me of a story from many years ago when i lived in Canada.
We came back home and discovered they had robbed us,mom was going thru each room saying out loud ''OMG they took (insert item) while me and my pops were sitting on the staircase.

Funny thing is that on our way home we bought a bucket of KFC,so we were both sitting on the staircase eating chicken without a care in the world while my mom was running around and freaking out.

Just thinking about it cracks me up :)
 

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My biggest mistake,
chasing the newest, latest greatest, best ever, game changing ( insert anything vape related you can think of here ).
When I have gotten a flavour I didn't quite like I usually mix it with another for example peach :cry: with strawberry :thumb: I end up been able to vape the original since it improves the overall flavour. Might not work for everything but just an idea.
 

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My very first huge mistake in vaping was when I first came to this forum.

I had been vaping using an ego battery and ce4, and was sick of the never ending replacement of the ce4... it was getting annoying, quite frankly.

Although in my defense, I hadn't understood anything about coils then either.. lol... regardless of the fact I was constantly replacing the ce4's.. haha

So when I came there was a great big giveaway contest, a forum wide ECF sponsored Smok X-Cube 2, 160 watt two battery monstrosity kit with a TF4 tank and I was among the winners.

So I won another smaller forum vendor contest about that same time where I won a 75 dollar gift certificate for one of the vape shops too. That got me the batteries and charger as well as some ejuice too..

So here I am all set with a serious trade up from my little ego battery...

And then I vaped it... hahaha... 40 watts of power with a TF4 DL tank, my first exposure to real vaping which left me coughing my head off so hard I nearly peed my pants... lol...

Thank God I wasn't in public for that experience! Hahaha

At any rate, I cleaned up the tf4 and removed the batteries and neatly repackaged everything and set it aside, now happy enough with my little ego with my leaky ce4 tank...

Lol... you know, all I needed was a aspire nautilus or some other mtl tank and the mod would have been good since it went down as low as I would have needed it... but I had yet to understand interchangeable tanks and power levels..

So I gave up on anything but the ego.. Hahaha took another year and another contest win to open my eyes with greater understanding..


Ohhh I did lol at this (and many others in this thread) but this one in particular, can just imagine the visual ! Something similar happened to me many years ago. At that time I vaped all day my beloved pro varies, vivi novas on top, cartomisers (oh how I loved those, prepunched holes and my nifty wee fill funnel thingy etc) and here in NZ not many folks vaped then. I had a few boxy mods, MVP's with their internal batts etc. Anyway one day I had reason to require a plumber to come out and 1st thing I noticed he had this huge box mod, the thing had a massive drip tip, a bore the size of Africa on it. He said he needed something from his van and left the mod on the bench.I looked at it, yeah/nah I couldn't could I? In the words of Oscar Wild I can resist anything except temptation! I quickly decided he looked clean enough, no cold sores or anything so yep I did it.Holy mother of Gawd, thought I was going to die, what I know now as DL high wattage vaping with some god awful juice that burnt my mouth and throat, and I couldn't stop coughing, ran to my bedroom barely breathing. Great thick clouds wafting everywhere and me still coughing and gasping for breath in my room. Anyway I didn't say anything (awkward) and he continued his work under my bench for quite a long while until the silence was suddenly & dramatically broken by a MASSIVE, HUGE, LONG Fart
 
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For me it was being too hesitant to start mixing and rebuilding. I discovered I only need one flavor mixed at 1% and eliminating drop in coils makes stockpiling far simpler. Except for buying vape toys I want but don't need annual cost of supplies is almost certainly less than $50 a year. Smoking a carton a week, almost 6 years ago, cost me $3,000 a year. If you offered me free cigarettes and immunity from health issues I wouldn't stop vaping in favor of smoking. Cigarettes are obsolete.
 

Reysntow

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My biggest mistake,
chasing the newest, latest greatest, best ever, game changing ( insert anything vape related you can think of here ).
In my early days of mixing I managed to spill a full bottle of that flavor in my lap. It actually BURNED my skin. Never did vape the stuff. After living through what felt like a bad sunburn for a week from skin contact I just decided I didn't want the stuff in my lungs.
 

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In my early days of mixing I managed to spill a full bottle of that flavor in my lap. It actually BURNED my skin. Never did vape the stuff. After living through what felt like a bad sunburn for a week from skin contact I just decided I didn't want the stuff in my lungs.

Note to self: wear clothes when mixing.
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Note to self: wear clothes when mixing.
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It's summer here,way way to hot,professional Mixoligist like myself either wear an apron or nothing at all.
 

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i tend to vape my tv remote controll every so often
i don't know how you guys order juices
that sometimes taste ok.
most of what i bot i used to fertilize my garden.
finally, i just bot stuff to make unflavored.
that's pretty good,
so good i ended up mixing some flavors i enjoy.
 
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