My new ego

[asmith8]

This is my first time here and thought I'd say hi.

My boyfriend and I switched about 2 weeks ago. I've got the ego. He's got the joye510. I am really enjoying the ego. I've gone from 20-25 cigarettes a day to about 5 or 6 - and I'm not miserable! I take it to work and it lasts all day (although I always take a back up just in case).

Anyways, since I just started up, I thought I would join and see what's going on here. I'm sure everyone here has information that I'll definitely need...

So...hi.
Ali

 

[grandmato5]

Congrats on your success so far and welcome !

 

[chimney55]

Hi Ali,

I JUST started using the joye510 a few days ago after having a 1-3 PAD habit for about 37 years. I got the "medium" nicotine because I was being "conservative" since I'd smoked menthol lights for the past 20 or so years. I've cut down TREMENDOUSLY, but I'm still using the analogs--maybe 1/2 PAD. Maybe since my "brand" doesn't really have the "tobacco" flavor. I dunno. I'm still waiting for the "gross taste" when smoking that everyone says will come after vaping. So far, they don't seem too nasty. Maybe when I get some more juices that I've ordered....and at higher nicotine levels...

(I also ordered an eGo battery that I'm waiting to receive.)

 

[asmith8]

To be honest, I don't think the smoking tastes gross either...although I am more aware of the taste of a cigarette...

I will say that when we picked out juices, I only wanted the tobacco flavors...however, I've quickly changed my mind. I love my jolly ranchers...and my waffles...

I'm at medium nicotine levels too - I might try the higher levels to see if that will help me cut down further...Good luck!

 

[dms_photo]

I just started a few weeks ago as well. My wife and I got an ego kit and we both like it quite a bit. I still smoke a few cloves a day, but plan to drop them completely once I find a juice I can be comfortable with all day.

 

[saraj63]

Hi Ali,
Just wanted to give you my story as encouragement. I was a 2 1/2 pack a day smoker, started at 15 and I'm now 47. My best friend sat here one day while visiting toking the crap out of her passthru and it smelled goooood. So she had some extra stuff as we all do and she left here: 1 cartomizer, 1/2 of a 5 ounce bottle of e-juice and a cartomizer (808). I started puffing on it and found I didn't miss the cigarettle like I thought. For some reason that first week I still would kill about 5 cigs in the morning but I made a conscious effort to stop that and I did.

I've been analog free since March and it is now October so I think I've got it beat. But don't leave home without it.....lol.

My problem was the spending. I wanted to try everyone out there, and there are lots of them. I gave some away and quit the spending and then my best friend lost her job and now that I'm not buying the expensive nasty analogs I can afford to help her out on her e-cigs, we always use coupons to help us out.

NOW, my daughter is trying it, she's poor so I bought her the started kit, let her go through and taste my flavors and sent her out the door with some basics to keep her going til the starter kit and juices I ordered for her come.

If I could give one piece of advice its this: PAY IT FORWARD . Most of us learned by using someone elses, somebody showed it to use, how to use it, etc. Give that help back to someone else. I have also given 3-cigs to 2 old high school buddies that I saw when I went home for a funeral, my step daughter and my cousin. I also email them plenty of links and advice them to turn to you tube for steps to show them anything they need to know.

Good luck Ali, you'll make it I know but just to make sure I'll say a prayer for you a few nights and days for God to guide you through and help you. God bless!

 

[breaktru]

This is my first time here and thought I'd say hi.

My boyfriend and I switched about 2 weeks ago. I've got the ego. He's got the joye510. I am really enjoying the ego. I've gone from 20-25 cigarettes a day to about 5 or 6 - and I'm not miserable! I take it to work and it lasts all day (although I always take a back up just in case).

Anyways, since I just started up, I thought I would join and see what's going on here. I'm sure everyone here has information that I'll definitely need...

So...hi.
Ali

Just stick with it and you'll be off those nasty cigs before you know it. You made a wise decision with the eGo. Much longer battery life than your boy friends 510. Get your self a Mega Atty with a Meg Cartridge and I guarantee you won't have the need to smoke any more.

 

[wiredreams]

I really agree with getting a Mega Atty and cart for the ego.The taste and vapor over the regular 510 atty is greatly improved.

 

[breaktru]

I really agree with getting a Mega Atty and cart for the ego.The taste and vapor over the regular 510 atty is greatly improved.

It's like buying a new and better PV

 

[Luvs5rugrats]

I should be getting my eGo tomorrow! I'm excited. I use a 510 now and it's good but the batteries are driving me crazy and I use our passthrough most of the time, but I don't like being tethered.

Hi Ali,

I'm still waiting for the "gross taste" when smoking that everyone says will come after vaping. So far, they don't seem too nasty. Maybe when I get some more juices that I've ordered....and at higher nicotine levels...

(I also ordered an eGo battery that I'm waiting to receive.)

I think you need to either cut down significantly to a couple ciggs a day or stop smoking completely for a few days to really understand how bad they taste. My husband went from 1-2 packs down to 1/2 pack and thought I was crazy that I thought they tasted bad. He's down to 4 ciggs per day now (two on his ride to work and 2 on his ride home) and is starting to taste a difference with them, especially when he goes all day without one. He is liking the tastes of his vaping more than smoking more and more each day. I ceased tobacco the day I got my juices in the mail and I actually tried to smoke last week (stressed and mad) and it was so vile to me, I couldn't even inhale it. That was at the 3-week mark without one.

 

[asmith8]

thanks to everyone for all the positive thoughts. i really hope i can do this! thanks for the support!

 

[goose0512]

Which in your opinion is better?? I like my eGo better than my 510 but the 510 is a little easier to use in the public and around other people.

 

[asmith8]

I actually prefer my ego...I don't think the 510 feels enough like a smoke to warrant having the shape of a smoke...does that make sense? I also like the fact that my ego doesn't light up on the end (our 510 lights up blue at the bottom)....I've been in several situations where I use it and no one even notices. And I really like that if I forget to charge it, it isn't dead - which I think is HUGE for me...ego all the way!

 

[SuZamme]

Welcome to ECF and the Wonderful World of Vaping.

I have 510's and eGo's. In my world, there are different flavors I prefer to vape on each of them.
The suggestions for the mega atty/mega cart are right on, although I also use cartomizers and regular attys, too.
As you continue to vape and try different flavors AND your tastebuds recover from the "stinkies", you will be overjoyed at getting to keep "the act of smoking" and enjoy a whole world of flavors like you never were able to do before.
You both have excellent PV's and are doing great! Taking them to work is HUGE!!!!
Be patient with yourself, read everything on ECF about people's journeys in vaping, and take pride in the fact that you have already avoided probably 280 analogs (at least a carton, right?) and it has only been 2 weeks.