New to vaping and could use some help

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djsvapour

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PS. Building coils & wicks isn't necessarily - I agree. Sure, there are minor reliability and QC controls but they are much more rare than people make out. User error is more common. Only last week I was given a $35 ecig which supposedly 'didn't work' and the atomizers were 'hit and miss'. I just had to service it. I like it so I bought 2 packs of coils.
 

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The vape industry likes to say all sorts. A device that works with 6mg will work with 12mg or 24mg. These people just want to sell more liquid.
6mg is enough for most at higher power. If you're off cigs for 2 months you are mostly free from cig chemicals so now is a good time to drop strength anyway.
It was actually on a site I was buying the atomizer heads for my Vape that I read it. It wasn't so much that the Vape couldn't handle it. It was just a recommendation to use 6mg or lower with that kind of atomizer. I'm not very up one ohms and such so I don't know what the difference is. I had planned on going down from the 12mg I'm using now to 6mg when I buy more anyway. I plan to slow taper of on the nicotine content until I'm down to 0mg and then work on getting stopped using it period. I'll keep it around just in case something happens that makes me really want to smoke again so I can keep from doing it but so far my plan on how to quit is working.
 

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I admire your plan and clear thinking @Custos :)
I try to make a plan for this kind of thing. The bigger thing is being able to follow through with it, lol. I'm doing well so far, but the nicotine content in the juice I'm using now pretty well matches what my cigarette habit was. We'll have to see how well things go when I decrease the nicotine level. My goal is to be quit by the end of the year. Not too lofty of a goal since I had been smoking for about 24 years but it's the effort that goes into accomplishing it that really matters. Plus, if I get fully quit sooner then it will make me feel even better about it, lol.
 
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It just seems like it would require me to make an investment into something I hopefully won't be using for too long. My whole reason for Vaping is to quit smoking. Once I get off the nicotine completely with the Vape then I don't plan to even use that any more so I wouldn't want to try to learn to build the coils for something I don't plan to be doing for very long.
Welcome and glad you joined. I use deep well RDA's. Deep wells are like mini tanks and give the best taste available. Deep wells can be cleaned/new wicked in a minute and be ready for a new juice for the lowest cost.As to portability, air holes (rubber slip rings) and drip tips can be quickly sealed/unsealed to insure no leakage.
I had the same idea as you. I now vape zero nicotine. The only problem is that I like vaping and mixing new flavors so much, I'm hooked.
Might like to read:
Drip Vaping: Your Guide to Dripping e-Juice | Vape-Resource.com
2015: The Art of the Drip - A Dripping Primer | Spinfuel VAPE
(7) Information Resources for Your First RBA | E-Cigarette Forum
What is an Atomizer? E-Cig Terminology Simplified
Wrapping Building Coils 101 For Beginners
 

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Welcome and glad you joined. I use deep well RDA's. Deep wells are like mini tanks and give the best taste available. Deep wells can be cleaned/new wicked in a minute and be ready for a new juice for the lowest cost.As to portability, air holes (rubber slip rings) and drip tips can be quickly sealed/unsealed to insure no leakage.
I had the same idea as you. I now vape zero nicotine. The only problem is that I like vaping and mixing new flavors so much, I'm hooked.
Might like to read:
Drip Vaping: Your Guide to Dripping e-Juice | Vape-Resource.com
2015: The Art of the Drip - A Dripping Primer | Spinfuel VAPE
(7) Information Resources for Your First RBA | E-Cigarette Forum
What is an Atomizer? E-Cig Terminology Simplified
Wrapping Building Coils 101 For Beginners
Thanks. I'll look into this stuff. It looks interesting. I don't think I'll continue to vape once I hit my goal. I really only did it to quit smoking and with my being on a fixed income I don't really want to have the continued expense of buying all the things I would need to continue vaping. I'll probably just keep the unit I have now for times when I get the craving or the urge to smoke again. Hopefully I will be able to fight off the urge or craving but the unit I have now will be enough to help if it does happen.
 

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When I started, no one mentioned back ups. I wasn't on ECF, but I was very adamant about no cigs, and my quote below says it all in a statement.

But, I wanted extra tanks to have different flavors always available and coils and two additional batteries, one for the car. Having said spare everything forthe car is what did it. No way was I going to work with just one system. I am always near the car so I stole a Tupperware container from my wife and started filling it. That made me think of a spare mod.

So, whenever I bought a new mod, it was better than my old mod and my old mod became a back-up.

Spares are very good. I never had to feel the pressure to stop and buy cigs.

If you are limited on money, get something just have a spare for now.

Have no mercy and WIN!
 

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When I started, no one mentioned back ups. I wasn't on ECF, but I was very adamant about no cigs, and my quote below says it all in a statement.

But, I wanted extra tanks to have different flavors always available and coils and two additional batteries, one for the car. Having said spare everything forthe car is what did it. No way was I going to work with just one system. I am always near the car so I stole a Tupperware container from my wife and started filling it. That made me think of a spare mod.

So, whenever I bought a new mod, it was better than my old mod and my old mod became a back-up.

Spares are very good. I never had to feel the pressure to stop and buy cigs.

If you are limited on money, get something just have a spare for now.

Have no mercy and WIN!
I actually just came across a little vape that I had forgotten I bought a while back. It's not really very good since it's one of those ones you can buy at a gas station but it will probably do the job of working as a backup for now. I had to charge it up and test it to make sure it still worked but it seems to be working just fine still. Looks like I won't really have to go out and buy a new one now, lol. If I can be successful and actually get fully quit then I don't plan on ever going back. Even in the short time since I've had a cigarette I can tell a difference in my everyday life. I don't get short winded as easily any more being a big one. Something like that is the motivation that keeps me from going back to it. Plus, I was recently out with my mother's husband to have a few drinks and when he came back in from having a cigarette I could smell how badly I used to smell when I did that. I have a pretty strong sense of smell and that is something I would never want to smell like again.
 

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So, whenever I bought a new mod, it was better than my old mod and my old mod became a back-up.

Spares are very good. I never had to feel the pressure to stop and buy cigs.

If you are limited on money, get something just have a spare for now.

Have no mercy and WIN!

You are just fabulous at this @Frenchfry1942
My hat off to you... again... :)
 
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