New to everything

[bmbarbou]

Hey everyone,

Bryan from North Carolina. I am giving up chewing tobacco as of today and usually go through about a can a day. Dont know what that is equal to as far as packs of cigarettes. I do have a couple of questions though. Everyone has the "I quit" such and such days ago. How do I do that. Also, for a setup I got an eleaf iStick battery with a nautilus mini. I am having a hard problem with the 3 options that are available to it being the option for the amount of "air" that can be used, and the wattage/voltage to use. I just started out with the basic apple juice of 16 mg but I tried somebody elses Dragonberry out and loved it. Looking for juices that are similar or knowledge as to what kind it might be? Hope everyone is having a great day and look forward to hearing yall's quiting stories as well.

Bryan

 

[DingerCPA]

Welcome Bryan!

I don't have the iStick, but I do have the Nautilus Mini. I see readings all over the board as to what settings to use. However, when the day is done, the "right" setting is when it works best for you. I haven't taken mine over 12W, and I usually use the largest or 2nd largest airholes. I also vape 60p/40v juices (depends on how my mixes work out ) Start with lower settings and work your way up. You might find using the 2nd smallest airhole works well at one volt/watt setting, and using the larger airholes work better at different volts/watts. Might also depend on your juice too. Some might tend to burn at higher settings - you just have to figure that on your own....

You will have to play a bit to see what works best for you. Finding flavors is also an experience. I was a menthol cigarette smoker, but I really don't vape anything tobacco. I'm into vanillas/custards/fruits/mints/desserts (not all at once!) Start with smaller bottles and even different pg/vg ratios and different nic levels until you start to dial in on what you like. Even so, what you like now may change over time.

Re: the banner, I think you need 15 posts before the setting is accessible in your profile. Once you get enough posts in and you find one that you like, you typically can click on it, and then copy/paste into your signature settings.

Welcome, and good luck!

 

[Night Hawk]

Hello there! bmbarbou

Hey Bryan I run two iSticks here with a Nautilus Mini on top of each. Once you press the fire button three times not five you will be changing from the wattage or voltage mode it is in to the other. You can tell right away with a fast look at the display along the side which will show the mode in larger digits. The opposite mode will be seen in the backgroud so to speak in the reduced size.

Generally the easier way to find the ideal setting for each flavor is to start at a lower setting like 5-7watts in the Watts mod until you find the place of comfort. The Mini ttank will handle upto the 20watt max of the battery so no worry if you bring it up to try it up high while the ideal is often cooler for those just starting out down around the 5, 6, 7 watt area.

Now for the air flow controller on the base of the tank itself the hole size depends mostly on how high you have either the voltage or wattage set in order to see the adequate amount of cooler air drawn in. The higher you go then the size matters. When set low the smallest or second is usually the choice while when stepping things up you turn to the next largest if not largest depending on how you find the vape. Too much air means quite a bit less flavor and too little often ends with a hot vape where you get the burn feeling in the back of the throat called the "throat hit" by most.

 

[Robino1]

Welcome!

 

[Rsunderl]

Hi Bryan and welcome to ECF!

You need 15 posts to have a signature, but once you have those, Here's a thread that explains how to add one of those "I Quit" signatures:
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/blogs/planofman/6027-how-add-signature-banner-your-ecf-signature.html

Happy Vaping!

 

[Frenchfry1942]

Welcome Bryan! When I switched, I just worked to get my nic needs. If you start at 18 or 24mg, just use it when you have the urge. If you find that it is glued to your mouth, go up a step. If you don't seem to reach for it, but once every 4 days , you can step down.


Lots of info here and good people. Again welcome

 

[Hitmetwice]

Hey Bryan, welcome and congrats on giving vaping a go.
I've never chewed tobacco so don't know but a lot of folks use a product called snus.
Don't know much about it either other than one puts a pinch between their gums and
cheek for a nic fix.

Swedish snus may be something you may want to add to your arsenal if vaping
doesn't tick all the boxes for you right away.
Smokeless tobacco

 

[Hoodlumj78]

Well I used to chew and switched to smoking and had a hard time. I feel like I got more Nicotine when chewing. Don't be surprised if the next few days are rough. For the air holes I would just play with them and I'm not familiar with your battery but if you can adjust it play with the settings until you get what you think is the best taste.

For flavors try different brands of e-liquid. My local store flavors are not that strong and actually some of the e juice you can get at the gas station taste a lot better. My wife's best friend had some liquid and the flavor like exploded in your mouth it was so good. I'm sure she had the nautilus mini too but unfortunately I struggle finding good e juice and what she bought the store is over an hour drive away. I'm actually planning on making my own e liquid since I can't buy good liquid locally.

 

[Night Hawk]

Eat a few tomatoes or some eggplant! Those are also loaded with nicotine. Actually during the first six months of vaping I was still smoking but had declined to only 3 packs a week on my own as well as having already reached the 0% nic in vapor before even putting the halt on lighting up!

Quitting chewing on one thing may lead to chewing on something else where some veggie or fresh fruit might fill the initial gap. You have to change the taste buds. Smoking and turning to vapor is a different process change taking place there where you are in the habit of inhaling smoke being changed to inhaling vapor. If you never smoked previously vaping will a totally new type of habit. One reference that can provide some comparisons to look over is seen at Chewing Tobacco VS Cigarettes

 

[sevrage]

egos are a great place to start and i always use kanger products for my tanks and coils

 

[Night Hawk]

My experiences with Kanger so far haven't gone well more like lead balloons! The T3s were throat burners not hitters with the Evods being an improvement but still lacking! The Aerotank Mini pair of and the Mega tanks leak like sives! The air flow controllers are another joke to be had since it you don't get it just in the right spot NADA! You get nothing! Aspire surpasses them in leaps and bounds.

 

[Rat2chat2]

to ecf Bryan. Nice to meet you and so glad that you are here. A big congrats on giving vaping a go and I think it is a great decision to get of the chewing tobacco. While you are trying to find flavors that make your taste buds dance, might as well get the on sale. Here is a thread that I use to use all the time to find good ones.

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/pay-forward-pif/418767-deals-steals-280.html

Look forward to reading more about you. Good luck to you. Have fun and make yourself at home.

 

[Anemephistus]

I smoked, then I chewed then I smoked again. I vaped but getting the stuff was really hard by internet order so I smoked some to. My signature counter is a conservative estimate and I think I stopped smoking about six months earlier completely but I can't recall so I gave it a wide margin. Once I got a shop in town that was it, I switched. My story about switching is on my profile, it was brutal for me but I did it.

My wife switched some time ago too, I suggest if you are having trouble with settings for your rig you check out an aspire dbc tank. They are cheap and they work without having anything you have to adjust or mess with. Set it to 3.7 volts and vape the bejesus out of it! She uses them and is very satisfied. I love how frenchfry1942 put the nicotine content thing, it's on point.

My buddy that switched from chew (all he had ever used) to vaping had trouble getting enough nicotine without hurting his throat. Hows that issue going for you? If you solved it so far, how did you do it?

Hang in there, we made it, you will too. It's rough for some, easy for others but I believe it';s the right choice!

 

[Night Hawk]

The key to success is best put as "Mind Set"! Once you get past all the hype about nicotine being so additive and allowing the "element" to control you you can turn around and control the element instead! Big Pharma did the largest part after Big T was called out for spiking things to make cigs more additive by enhancing the nicotine effect with other additives in hyping things even further when they saw the big opening to make billions selling patches, gums, lozenges, inhalers, and CHANTRIX to add to the list of things that don't work like much else they sell to profit on human misery by getting people hooked on their lies!

Do you see the Catch 22 form of irony in all that?! They get you coming and going first with being hooked by Big T and then Big Pharma taking over on the flip side and why "Nicotine Therapy" is actually nothing more then a giant $$$ maker! Only with chew over smoke you haven't been exposed to all the other crud as far as toxins, carcinogens, chemical additives like enhancers, arsenic, cadmium, and a real lung killer Tar and of course carbon monoxide from the smoke itself. Tongue and mouth cancers are the more common but far less likely seen for those that chew.

 

[bmbarbou]

Thanks guys, its only tough for me because of the habit. I have been lucky enough to only do it for 9 years now so that should be a bonus somewhere. However, the nicotine content is very high in chewing tobacco, I find it to be a habit rather than an addiction. I have not had any withdrawls, I just have to find a substitute to do in the truck or watching tv or something like that. And thank yall for the advice hopefully I can just move to the 0 mg and have the flavor to vape on as a substitute.

 

[Night Hawk]

At first you may want to try this idea out by going for two bottles preferrably small in size of each of the initial flavors. One will be 0% nicotine while the other will be the highest level. It can help to have two tanks or two batteries with a tank on each for this. Once you get the urge for the habit you try vaping the high nic ejuice to see if that helps with the urge. Note the level of nicotine absorbed from vapor is far less then you would get from smoke or chew. This is why the 24mg or 36mg if found is where you start for the subsititute.

The other with 0% nicotine present is compare how the flavor tastes when no nic is present until you get accustomed to vaping and find out where your preferences are going to end up with. Here have started off with prefills at 24 and then down to 18 it was after I finally got into a Vamo with regular eGo threaded not 808 threaded 1.6ml clearomizers I went for the 0% nic and the one thing noticed wasn't the lack of nicotine but the slight improvement of the flavors since there was simply more flavoring in the ejuice percentage wise.

That should satisfy both worlds rather then leaps and bounds into 0% and then still the want for the old habit returns. Once you start finding the "favorites" you will then find yourself weaned off of tobacco. But it can take some time so expect that. I gave up 35+yrs. of smoking in a day's time by simply getting to the point where I could set a date and did it! Right then the state made that even easier by spiking the cig tax another $1.50 per pack! Bringing carton prices how I was buying from $74 to just a wee bit under $100 since no one wanted to go over the $10 mark. $9.94, $9.96, $9.98 but not $10 or higher since the gas stations didn't want to end losing all their business n competition with each other.

 

[bmbarbou]

See that is where our states defer. I was detered from the product due to price. Luckily I did grow up in a tobacco state on a tobacco farm so prices are still like 4.50 a pack here and 2.25 for a can of tobacco. 10 dollars is an outrageous price.

 

[Night Hawk]

That's simply up here in MA. Go to the Big Apple namely NYC and pay $12-$15 a pack there! The $1.50 a pack was the largest since inititially there a $1 tax imposed and later raised up $0.50 and now that was doubled in the latest move now almost a full 2yrs. ago. Once they jacked the prices up the end result wasn't to see more people simply quite but more convenience store and gas stations getting robbed instead mostly by the people without the means acting out of desperation showing the inadequate thinking that would be a deterrent?

West Virginia wanted a total ban on ecigs not too long ago since that is also in the middle of the tobacco country. Petitions were signed to keep that from becoming the law there. You can see where that wouldn't have gone over too well with the Big T elements bringing in their own brands!

 

[greenmonster714]

Welcome! Your in the right place. I quit chewing tobacco as soon as I hit a vape. I too chewed about 1can a day so I started out with the 18mg nicotine. I plan on starting the DIY juice and will be backing it down as I make more. Congratulations with your decision to stop tobacco. See ya on the Boards.