I'm currently on day 16 of vaping, and it has been a bit over eight and a half days since I last smoked. Still going great. This is a collection of random thoughts on my experience so far.
Main topics have been highlighted so that people can skip to the parts they care about.
As already mentioned, I started using
snus on the day I quit smoking to ease withdrawal from all of the non-nicotine stuff in cigarettes. I peaked at 3 packets a day on the 6th and 7th, but it has tapered down to 1 a day for the last few days. Yesterday and today, the snus just did not feel good at all. I felt sick and got the hiccups this morning as I was taking it out (while driving) after only 15 minutes of it being in. I expect that I won't want any tomorrow.
I haven't actually been keeping careful track, but I seem to be vaping between 2 and 3 ml per day, and my juices are from 25 to 40 mg/ml.
100mg per day seems like a good round estimate of my consumption. That seems a bit excessive, but it actually lines up pretty well with DVap's theory
here, considering that I was smoking 2 packs a day, to the .....
I seem to like the
feel even when I don't really need more nicotine. There are times when I'll be chain vaping, and I start to feel a bit light headed from the nicotine, but I have to keep going until I get lucky draw that feels just right in the throat and chest.
In light of these last two points, I'm planning to start cutting my liquids down. I like ECOpure Menthol at 25mg/ml by itself, and I use 40mg/ml unflavored to make my own
flavors, mostly with Tasty Puffs until I find something better. My favorites so far are root beer, cherry root beer, cherry root beer with a dash of menthol, watermelon and Mr. Bubble. Grape never seems to turn out very well, and Joosy Froot tastes great a couple of times a day, but it seems to lose all effect if I try to chain it.
I started with two 30ml bottles of 40mg/ml unflavored, one in
VG and one in
PG, so that I could get a handle on the different properties before making a larger and more efficient purchase. So far, I'm leaning very heavily towards PG all the way. It gives better (more) feeling on the way in, works better in my carts, and, contrary to every other post about it that I've seen on these forums, PG seems to give me better vapor than VG.
My inner math nerd made me calculate the
cost per mg for all the different sizes and strengths on MFS and it looks like a half liter of 60mg/ml is the current king at 0.007132 cents per mg of nicotine. For reference, I paid double that per mg for my 40mg/ml stuff. I know I could get even better from that place in China selling 99% nicotine, but I'm also going to factor in the ease of handling. 60mg/ml (or even 100mg/ml) fluid should safe enough for me to handle carefully without any special precautions.
I ordered a bunch of atomizers from
china (heaven-gifts) on the 3rd, and it looks like the post office tried to deliver today while I was out. That is using the fast shipping option, but 7 working days is still a lot quicker than I was expecting.
The new atomizers are in a rainbow of colors. I plan to dedicate specific colors to specific flavors so that I'm not always mixing flavors when I change carts. Not that I've really had many problems with that, other than the JC sampler that didn't agree with me and lingered.
I've had
zero atomizer problems so far. I have three from the PureSmoke starter and refill kits I started with, and two from my 510 kit. The 510 atomizers have each been cleaned once along the way, in everclear. I just popped them in because I had the tub open after cleaning carts and filling materials, and not because I felt they needed it. I also didn't blow them out when I started, and I've never primed them. Then again, I had effectively no senses of taste or smell when I got the first ones, now that I'm starting to taste and smell again I may need to blow out the new ones I'm getting.
I'm also getting a set of battery threads in the order. I figured I'd end up making a mod sooner or later, and I already have some ideas. One idea is one that I haven't seen posted anywhere, but then again I haven't looked very hard either. I'm hoping it is because no one else has thought of it yet rather than it being a bad idea. Time will tell, I guess.
Holy crap, this turned into a huge rambling post. In the spirit of helping fellow noobs, I'm going to highlight some keywords to help people find the paragraphs that might be useful to them and skip the rest. But if you are reading this part, you probably already wasted your time reading the whole thing.
