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TL;DR Version 3.0 located at the bottom along with the question
My dad has smoked for as long as I can remember. I have photos of him from after work in his bright orange shirt (complete with breast pocket for keeping Winston brand cigarettes) and Fruit of the Loom grey sweatpants from before I was even born. I'm 26 now, and my dad has smoked for over 30 years (possibly a lot more).
He lives about 6 hours away, and is retired with a custom build automotive garage that is bigger than his house. We meet up every time he is back in the area, and usually get dinner.
I recently (for the holidays) decided to get him an innokin endura t18 kit, as I liked the performance on it, and the great review by Phil Busardo (pbusardo) as a great starter device. He is a master mechanic with 30+ professional years in the industry, and has a licence to drive anything with a combustion, or electric engine. Choosing a color wasn't hard. I got chrome. He likes chrome.
I showed him how to fill it, and explained a bit about the tank, and battery, and the coils. We went outside, and I screwed the tank onto my mod and gave it a couple of low power pulls to make sure it was wicked. It worked well. So I put it back on the Endura battery, took a quick pull on that (12mg is now a lot for me) and handed it over to him...
He took a drag, and instantly started coughing. I asked what he was feeling, and he said "it feels like I'm inhaling pipe tobacco"
I asked for it back, and I took another pull, this time inhaling with a MtL technique, and it was surprisingly smooth. No throat hit, no burn... Asked him to try it again, same result. He was good about it though, took another hit after the 2, this time slow, and gentle. He was able to handle that. I explained that as much as it may feel like it, this is not a cigarette. It may take some time to adjust to the difference.
TL;DR
I got my dad the Innokin Endura T18, and he was having trouble using it. I tried to give him some good advice and made it VERY clear that I would spend every penny I had to my name to get him something that would work for him. Was there a stiff learning curve coming from years upon years of smoking, then going to vaping? I didn't smoke for nearly as many years as he did, so the transition for me was quite easy.
Thank you all so much for any positive input. I'm worried he may be turned off from vaping despite having used Blu disposables occasionally.
TL;DR Version 3.0 located at the bottom along with the question
My dad has smoked for as long as I can remember. I have photos of him from after work in his bright orange shirt (complete with breast pocket for keeping Winston brand cigarettes) and Fruit of the Loom grey sweatpants from before I was even born. I'm 26 now, and my dad has smoked for over 30 years (possibly a lot more).
He lives about 6 hours away, and is retired with a custom build automotive garage that is bigger than his house. We meet up every time he is back in the area, and usually get dinner.
I recently (for the holidays) decided to get him an innokin endura t18 kit, as I liked the performance on it, and the great review by Phil Busardo (pbusardo) as a great starter device. He is a master mechanic with 30+ professional years in the industry, and has a licence to drive anything with a combustion, or electric engine. Choosing a color wasn't hard. I got chrome. He likes chrome.
I showed him how to fill it, and explained a bit about the tank, and battery, and the coils. We went outside, and I screwed the tank onto my mod and gave it a couple of low power pulls to make sure it was wicked. It worked well. So I put it back on the Endura battery, took a quick pull on that (12mg is now a lot for me) and handed it over to him...
He took a drag, and instantly started coughing. I asked what he was feeling, and he said "it feels like I'm inhaling pipe tobacco"
I asked for it back, and I took another pull, this time inhaling with a MtL technique, and it was surprisingly smooth. No throat hit, no burn... Asked him to try it again, same result. He was good about it though, took another hit after the 2, this time slow, and gentle. He was able to handle that. I explained that as much as it may feel like it, this is not a cigarette. It may take some time to adjust to the difference.
TL;DR
I got my dad the Innokin Endura T18, and he was having trouble using it. I tried to give him some good advice and made it VERY clear that I would spend every penny I had to my name to get him something that would work for him. Was there a stiff learning curve coming from years upon years of smoking, then going to vaping? I didn't smoke for nearly as many years as he did, so the transition for me was quite easy.
Thank you all so much for any positive input. I'm worried he may be turned off from vaping despite having used Blu disposables occasionally.