My vaping progression ... what's yours?

[Thayamax]

I started with a KR808 and cartos....back to smoking.

Next was the eGo 650 and Evods....back to smoking.

Third attempt was a sigelei Zmax and Protank. I was a dual user for 4 months. I added an eRoll for those times around smokers at work....quit smoking.

I progressed to higher wattage and dived into Kayfuns and rebuilding. Ditched the Kayfuns for sub-ohm tanks and lastly moved to temperature control. My go-to now is VT75 and VT133 dna and Aromamizer Supreme.

I'm now waiting for my first squonk mod to be delivered. What a ride!

 

[Tommy-Chi]

Sigelei 75W box mod (1 mod) > Sigelei 150W box mod (1) > Scotts Moda Unregulated (1) & MVC Raotor Unregulated (1) > Sigelei 213 (2) & Fuchai 213 (4) > Wismec RX200S (2 and I will be buying around 8 more).


Truth be told, I'm stocking up. Will also be buying ProVari (2) and Wismec Vicino (2) at least.

 

[mostlyclassics]

I was lucky: I found ECF before I ever touched a cig-a-like.

My first hardware was cartos on eGos with increasingly larger batteries. I quit unintentionally on this hardware. My original purpose investigating vaping was for use in bars and such.

I tried carto-tanks, but the mess got to me, so I went back to cartos. At this point, I tried Reos (and still have two of them. plus parts for my vapemageddon stash). Plus I experimented with a bunch of the primitive, but expensive, stuff available in 2012.

Eventually, I discovered Vision Vivi Novas and the Vamo V2. During the first scare in 2014, I learned to recoil and rewick the Vision Vivi Novas, but I was mighty uncomfortable about the Vamos' tendency to have their fire buttons die. So I tried a ProVari, and I've been using ProVaris ever since.

Then I met the Aspire Nautilus tank, and have been perfectly happy with those on ProVaris. I have enough of both (with recoiling Nautilus heads) in the stash to last until I take my dirt nap.

 

[BreSha6869]

I was lucky that my local B&M folks are good and when I went I for the first time, they talked me out of anything like an eGo and sold me a iStick 40 and Nautilus Mini.

Glad they did as I quit smoking on the spot. I used that for a bit and "graduated" to a Kanger Subox kit (which I still love). Then a couple of RX200's and my first mech to play around with, then I went hardcore and bought a bunch of sale Provaris, a Snow Wolf and a SX Mini M Series. I still have everything except the RX200's as they were too bulky.

I have gone back to mecHS for a lot of my vaping lately and over the last month I have bought more than a few expensive authentics and a bunch of Fasttech clones.

Haven't even thought about having a smoke since my first vape and that was after over 30 years of smoking.

 

[Tom Waznis]

i just watched a vaping documentary that showed that I followed a very typical progression. From left to right is mine, and I didn't fully quit until I got to the Endura, second from the right. I was wondering how many other vapers followed a typical progression?


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About what I did. Only buying 0.3% nic now but I vape a lot. Added back an Ego One tank recently. Good flavor and no messing around.

 

[RoseJ]

I was lucky: I found ECF before I ever touched a cig-a-like.

I actually did too, but ECF was too much for me back then. I knew that I wanted to know more about e-cigs, but ECF was like a whole new language that just confused me and scared me. Too many choices to make about too many things that I knew nothing about. I fell on the cigalikes option because it was easy and somewhat familiar. Hence the slow progression.

 

[sofarsogood]

camel filters
Puff brand pen style
Nautilus mini, Vision spinner 2
Aspire Atlantis, istick 50
Nautilus mini, istick 50
Tugboat RDA, istick 50
SV RDA, VTC mini or Pico

The last line is what I'm stockpiling. I'm sure I could Vape the rest of my days on that. My vape is good enough.

 

[1Wanna5ing]

I started with halo triton kit and switched to ego because the thread pattern halo used was not easy to buy locally. I went to vision spinner with nautilus mini then Provari with regular size nautilus (I quit with it and still use it) I was curious to try dropping and mech mods and when I'm at home I drip and tinker with rba and building and on the go I use a rebuildable tank and currently a sigelei variable mod box. I like to buy shiny things so I have more than I care to admit but I haven't smoke in almost 2 years it's all good!

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[JimZet]

eCab V2 > Kangertech NEBOX 60 > Wismec RX200 > Wismec RX200S + SMOK H-Priv 220

The RX200S and H-Priv bought in same time

 

[subwayaznm]

LOL what a journey. Disposables, Ego Twist/Cartos, iStick/Kanger, Provari OG/Aspire Naut, Hana Modz Dna30/Kabuki, Vapor Shark Dna 30/Kayfun m2.1, Vapor Shark Dna 40r/Kayfun v4, SX Mini/Tilemahos V2+

LOL I don't know about saving much money as yet, but Vaping sure has prolonged my life.

 

[Drb328]

All over the board for me. Started on an evod kit then on mechs and kayfuns and drippers. After that regulated stuff skyrocketed in popularity ended up using an mvp2 then vaporshark 30 and 40s, jumped to a snow wolf and other high wattage stuff. Now a days it's all coolfire 4 and a serpent mini if I want to act cloudbros, but more often than not a provari mini And a kayfun lite.

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[Spacewaffle]

Disposables
Eleaf Ijust 1 kit
Eleaf Istick50w w/ Kangertech sub tank mini.
Snowwolf 200W w/Horizon tech Arctic tank. plus many many RDAs. Velocity being one of favs to this day.
Wismec reuleaux 200w w/Geek vape Eagle tank currently

Few more in betweens not worth mentioning.

 

[DingerCPA]

Started with a volcano magma kit in 2010. Battery was insufficient and cartridges didn't seem to last very long. The LED was kewl tho. Smoking was so much easier.

Tried again a year later. Loaded up on nastay cartridges. Battery still sucked. Smoking was so much easier.

Went for a volcano inferno and bottled juice. Hmmmm getting somewhere now. Spinners, VV3s, MVP2s and evod tanks - quit smoking 29 months ago today.

Jumped to a ZMAX V3 and a Vamo V6 that fall. Nautilus tanks (with the awful V1 heads). Tried a couple of kayfuns, but failed wicking 101 on those things.

Now I have bits of everything.... RDAs, RTAs, subtanks, ProTank 2s, TC, squonkers, Provari, mech mods, 30W, 50W, 75W, 200W. Just need to figure out how to rebuild a Nauti head, and I could be self-sufficient with everything I own.

Yeah, smoking is a lot easier, but sure isn't as much fun!

 

[smokinGAVIN]

I went the other way around. I started with dual coil gennys and drippers with box mods chucking clouds. Thats what got me off the stinkies. Slowly I started lowering my wattage and going single coil. I am now starting to enjoy mouth to lung. I will probably end up tootie puffing before christmas.

 

[smokin95]

My progression has been pretty simple and boring lol.

Cig a likes, evod+ego, protank minis+ego twist (90% of my vape time), now KFL+provari with no intention to upgrade in the future. Really there only reason I upgrade from my ego twist was durability in the long run

 

[schismz]

2009: blu! OMFG! -> went from 2.5 PAD down to 5-10 cigs a day.
2010: Super T, GG, ProVape 1 -> Quit smoking.
2011-2015: Too many devices to count because Sh!nY! is good! Mostly idled out with many ProVari P3s.
2015-now: More ProVari P3s, SX Mini this, that, the other thing (waiting on the G+SpiderWebs), ProVari Radius, many mechs, many devices I wouldn't have stockpiled except for that whole entire FDA deeming thing (DNA 75s, DNA 200s, HΩ Wrecker gets a special award for being a really cool chip, inside what's probably the ugliest mod I've ever purchased); and at present mostly idled out with Dicodes (Dani Extreme V2+, Dani Box, Dicodes #6, Dani V3 whenever they release it next week, and waiting on the dual 18650 Dani Box which prolly won't show up 'til 2017).

Attys: too many to count. Currently on: Kayfun 5, Kayfun Mini v3s, Serpent Minis, Rose V3, Squape R & Xs, Goblin Nano v2+v3, Merlin, and Kabuki P3 tanks w/nautilus coils. Loaded up for Vapocalypse w/ Kayfun 5s, 3s, and Serpent Minis (so I guess those 3, are my current personal azimuth of vaping gear, since I have enough tanks and spare parts for a small mountain of those attys and can keep going for 10-15 years with what I've got). I haven't quite decided if Eden Mods Rose v3 is the Greatest Thing That's Ever Existed, or a great big <shrug + manufactured excitement generated by limited runs and scarcity>. I guess I should figure it out in the next day or two before no more 4Ml versions are ever made and all available stock is gone forever. Probably 15 minutes after this event, I'll deeply regret not buying 6 of 'em while I still could ;-)

Things I've totally missed out on for the most part: $600-$1500 limited-run, endless waiting list, box mods made by some guy in his basement, which feature super-exciting plastic+wood aesthetics, wrapped around the same DNA boards and switches, that every other high-end DNA board is also attached to, and cost $100-$200 for the same thing. I'm used to paying around $250-$350 for a high-end mod, but I guess that stabwood + plastic, powered by DNA chips, with a 1300% markup, just doesn't do it for me. Dunno, I get the appeal of over-priced shiny metal battery holders, but whatever receptors in my brain should light up and get all excited by plastic+wood box mods, seem to be totally MIA for me. The only thing I get out of all of it is, "who are you people, and why are you waiting in line to pay $1500 for this ugly POS?" Ehh, beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it's hard to define art and all that. ;-)

 

[Schlinky]

I'm coming up on 2 years in a couple of weeks. I started out with a Vamo/Nautilus and quickly moved on to an SVD 2/STM combo. I tentatively dipped my toe in the TC waters with an EVic mini and in the last week got a C1D2/Merlin which is by far the best kit I've ever used. Very happy with my progression, who knows what I'll be using this time next year!

 

[GeorgeS]

Humm..... like most but I'm regressing...

Blu ->
eGo/Aspire K1 ->
Vamo/Nautilus ->
SXminiM/Lemo2 (TC mode) ->
(to many mods and tanks to list, then 'deeming') ->

Currently vaping on a EVOD and EMOW to compliment single and dual coil RTA's.

 

[sofarsogood]

from cigs to:
Puff brand vape pen
Nautilus mini and Vision Spinner 2
Atlantis and IPV 2s
Nautilus mini and iStick 50w
SV rda on various TC mods

It's likely I'll use the SV rda exclusively for the rest of my days regardless of the fda and I don't want power going past 400 degress and 30 max watts firing a 1.3 ohm coil. I don't understand the appeal of tanks. Dripping takes me 10 seconds 15 times a day. Twice a week dry burning and rewicking takes 5 minutes. I can control leaking on the SV with a tall slip ring. It's small and very good at flavor. It's natively MTL, not a cloud machine. The only drawback I see is it's slightly fiddly to build until you get used to it.

 

[Kittyariel]

Newport 100s in a box to Blu ,ego ,a hot pink mod my son bought me,4 innokin mvps,Coolfire 4 plus,Vaporesso Target Pro . I do not plan on buying any more closed systems because of the potential ban