Hi All,
wanted to add a bit of a guide here for products in the UK market and my experiences from my very first starter kit that was bought about 6 weeks ago.
Initially, I really wanted to quit smoking, but after all my attempts through my GP - just couldn't be bothered to make the effort to find and register with a stop-smoking clinic again. I'd noticed people smoking these weird things hanging round their necks and when I was at a carboot sale I noticed them for sale - so plucked up the courage to go and ask about them.
To my surprise a starter kit was about £8.00 and the liquids were £2.50 each in the iBreathe range.
To my disappointment, there weren't any I could try. But for such a low output of money I decided to chance it and give them a go.
I was pleasantly surprised and over a week or two weaned myself completely off my 30 Marlboro Lights a day.
I was really enjoying this ecig but found myself moving back to cigarettes and panicking when the battery ran out, I was left without my nicotine fix.
At the next carboot sale, I bought an extra battery. It worked fine, I had my second small 900mA battery and on my third carboot visit I bought another 900mA.
Unfortuntaely and much to my distress, it didn't work!! After trawling YouTube videos I managed to find a video that showed how to take my battery appart. I did so and found a loose wire.
I tried to resolder it, which was very tricky - unfortunately the heat from my soldering iron was so extreme it melted all of the other solder joints, and this is how it ended up.
By this time I was back to smoking my full amount of normal cigarettes for a couple of weeks. Upon realising my frustration at how much nicer eCigs are than real cigarettes, I endeavoured to by a better model.
Upon speaking to a new Vendor at an outdoor market, I discovered that the wicks inside the eliquid tank and the coil only last, from what I was told about 1-3 weeks depending upon how much you use it!! That would explain my gradual return to normal fags. I eventually bought an 1100mA battery that worked, because I tested my tank on it at the market - something I recommend to anyone buying spare batteries.
Right.. I need several batteries, and multiple cheap tanks that cost me about £2.50 per tank.
I also ventured onto a fruit flavoured eLiquid. I bought a Banana and a Strawberry in medium strengths (18mg) and absolutely loved them.
It wasnt until after Id bought my new tanks that I noticed one of them didn't work for very long. Upon closer inspection I noticed that the wicks were different from one tank to the next. Some had 2 strands per side of the coil, others had 3 or 4 and they were also different lengths, some very short - some right to the bottom of the tank.
Eventually I saw a much better, totally different model that was more expensive, and I told better. The liquid pours in from the bottom so the wick is continually soaked in liquid, and the coil was replaceable at a cost of £2.50 meaning it would be cheap to change every couple of weeks. The other added bonus was the even bigger 1300mA battery.
Unfortunately I experience leakage and gurgling of the liquids in all of the above tanks.
Another downfall with the bottom filling tanks was that when unscrewing it from the battery to refill, you could easily and accidentally be unscrewing the bottom end cap/coil from the actual tank - allowing the eLiquid inside to flood out everywhere.
After a few weeks on this new tank and battery - I finally decided to visit a shop I knew of in Wellington/Tamworth that sold only e-Cigs. The ones with the LED dispalys that looked really huge and expensive and I thought cost about £60.. I was ready to make the investment.
~Jon
wanted to add a bit of a guide here for products in the UK market and my experiences from my very first starter kit that was bought about 6 weeks ago.
Initially, I really wanted to quit smoking, but after all my attempts through my GP - just couldn't be bothered to make the effort to find and register with a stop-smoking clinic again. I'd noticed people smoking these weird things hanging round their necks and when I was at a carboot sale I noticed them for sale - so plucked up the courage to go and ask about them.
To my surprise a starter kit was about £8.00 and the liquids were £2.50 each in the iBreathe range.
To my disappointment, there weren't any I could try. But for such a low output of money I decided to chance it and give them a go.
I was pleasantly surprised and over a week or two weaned myself completely off my 30 Marlboro Lights a day.
I was really enjoying this ecig but found myself moving back to cigarettes and panicking when the battery ran out, I was left without my nicotine fix.
At the next carboot sale, I bought an extra battery. It worked fine, I had my second small 900mA battery and on my third carboot visit I bought another 900mA.
Unfortuntaely and much to my distress, it didn't work!! After trawling YouTube videos I managed to find a video that showed how to take my battery appart. I did so and found a loose wire.
I tried to resolder it, which was very tricky - unfortunately the heat from my soldering iron was so extreme it melted all of the other solder joints, and this is how it ended up.
By this time I was back to smoking my full amount of normal cigarettes for a couple of weeks. Upon realising my frustration at how much nicer eCigs are than real cigarettes, I endeavoured to by a better model.
Upon speaking to a new Vendor at an outdoor market, I discovered that the wicks inside the eliquid tank and the coil only last, from what I was told about 1-3 weeks depending upon how much you use it!! That would explain my gradual return to normal fags. I eventually bought an 1100mA battery that worked, because I tested my tank on it at the market - something I recommend to anyone buying spare batteries.
Right.. I need several batteries, and multiple cheap tanks that cost me about £2.50 per tank.
I also ventured onto a fruit flavoured eLiquid. I bought a Banana and a Strawberry in medium strengths (18mg) and absolutely loved them.
It wasnt until after Id bought my new tanks that I noticed one of them didn't work for very long. Upon closer inspection I noticed that the wicks were different from one tank to the next. Some had 2 strands per side of the coil, others had 3 or 4 and they were also different lengths, some very short - some right to the bottom of the tank.
Eventually I saw a much better, totally different model that was more expensive, and I told better. The liquid pours in from the bottom so the wick is continually soaked in liquid, and the coil was replaceable at a cost of £2.50 meaning it would be cheap to change every couple of weeks. The other added bonus was the even bigger 1300mA battery.
Unfortunately I experience leakage and gurgling of the liquids in all of the above tanks.
Another downfall with the bottom filling tanks was that when unscrewing it from the battery to refill, you could easily and accidentally be unscrewing the bottom end cap/coil from the actual tank - allowing the eLiquid inside to flood out everywhere.
After a few weeks on this new tank and battery - I finally decided to visit a shop I knew of in Wellington/Tamworth that sold only e-Cigs. The ones with the LED dispalys that looked really huge and expensive and I thought cost about £60.. I was ready to make the investment.
~Jon
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