New to vaping and loving it
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welcome and congrats! You'll love vapeing. This is the best place for help, support and anything else you can think of. You started with a wonderful kit. Check this forum for all liquid talk
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Good luck and don't be afraid to ask questions!
General E-Liquid Discussion - E-Cigarette Forum
Good luck and don't be afraid to ask questions!
Wow, so many tips to give, so little time.
At this point, the tips I would like to give you might not mean anything to you.
So I'll go with some very basic but important tips...
1) If you start getting nauseous or feeling slightly headachy, the nicotine strength in your juice is most likely too high for you.
2) Propylene glycol (PG) is a humectant, and will dry you out, so make sure to keep hydrated to help avoid a sore throat or other dehydration types of issues
3) If you have an automatic battery, realize it can be tempermental and you need to learn to use it well to get consistent results. A better suggestion in my opinion would be to get a manual battery.
4) Know the difference between flooded atomizers and dry atomizers by reading the below...
Dry atomizers, flooded atomizers, and wicking
Basically, you want to keep your atomizer happy with plenty of juice, but not too much as to flood it.
A good sign that it's flooded is that it gets a little harder to draw on and you get little or no vapor.
Flooding it, however, won't hurt it at all, and you can just blow out the extra juice.
Letting it get too dry, on the other hand, is not good for the atomizer supposedly.
But regardless of whether it is bad for the atomizer or not, you still don't want to do it.
You can tell it is too dry when it starts to taste like crap.
A nasty sort of burnt plastic type of taste.
One reason it might get too dry is if you burn through the juice faster than it can wick up more.
That is why people experiment with different kinds of filler materials to use in their cartridges.
If you take only a drag or two every now and then, you should be fine.
But if you use these like a cigarette, the wicking process will have trouble keeping up.
There are ways to deal with this, and people have different methods that work better for them.
And of course, when the cartridge is running low on juice, it needs topping off for this reason.
E Liquid reviews (the first FOUR pages at least, dont jsut hit the first page, it moves fast) is a good place to get juice ideas. There ae many many good juice suppliers out there, and your quest for your faves will be long (trust me..lol) but hopefully fun and tasty. You can see from my sig line which ones I like, but really I have juices from a bunch of places, most of which have been very nice. The ones in my sig tend to be faves though. SO many flavors! I enjoy everything from tobacco flavors to fried spiced apple, from atomic cinnacide and butter rum to blueberry cheesecake and lime freezepop!
As for tips: always have spare attys, and enough juice to last if a disaster should strike (like you lose one, or spill one, or something).
As for tips: always have spare attys, and enough juice to last if a disaster should strike (like you lose one, or spill one, or something).
Definitely picked a good starter. We had several failed attempts at good ecigs before we were pointed in the direction of the 510. I started straight with the juice, my b/f started with the prefilled. He drips onto those as well.
Also, I was a menthol smoker and was determined to find a perfectly tasting menthol flavor. Didn't happen. (nothing is going to taste like an analog [burnt leaves and chemicals]) So I branched out. Now I'm loving maple, tiramisu, grape, cotton candy...I obviously have a sweet tooth I didn't know about.
So I guess a bit of advice would be to sample flavors, DIY flavorshack (sorry if I'm promoting in the wrong area) has tons and tons of flavors in 6mL bottles that you can start out with to see what you like.
Happy vaping.
Also, I was a menthol smoker and was determined to find a perfectly tasting menthol flavor. Didn't happen. (nothing is going to taste like an analog [burnt leaves and chemicals
]) So I branched out. Now I'm loving maple, tiramisu, grape, cotton candy...I obviously have a sweet tooth I didn't know about. So I guess a bit of advice would be to sample flavors, DIY flavorshack (sorry if I'm promoting in the wrong area) has tons and tons of flavors in 6mL bottles that you can start out with to see what you like.
Happy vaping.
Welcome to vaping. I will add a note regarding flavors. The people I know that switched to vaping that had smoked menthols have liked many of the numerous flavors. The non-menthol smokers have stayed with the tabacco flavors. I'm not sure if that iws always the case but with everyone I know it has been.
i would say for you to def buy juice and fill your own carts or even just drip, its easy and cheaper than buying carts all the time
Maybe there is a pattern there, but it doesn't fit me.
I hated menthols, and I did start out with tobacco type flavors.
I was stuck on RY4 and 555 for awhile.
But now I also use the following flavors, probably more than the tobacco type ones...
--Caramel Popcorn
--Butterfinger
--Dulce De Leche
--Cafe Mocha
--Caramel Apple
--Chocolate Covered Cherry
--German Chocolate Cake
--Mint Chocolate Chip
I am seriously going to have to budget for this I see! lol I have read and gone to several sites and in just a few days I have bought about 12 different flavors! I bought the small sizes to get a taste of it and now I know what I am really liking and what I don't care for out of the few so far. I will be checking into more! Love the ideas from you guys! Thanks!
Fairly new to vaping. Started with a ejoy and quickly upgraded to a screwdriver. Love the new toy. Down to 5 analogs a day already.
Yeah... but then, I thought I'd gone completely insane my first 2 weeks with the trial-size juices and spare equipment, until I realized I'd only really spent a month's analog-cigarette money on it.
So naturally, I promptly spent another month's, just on juice.
Then I had to go get a calculator-sig to figure out when I'd break even so I know when I can shell out for a GG. I think of it as my anti-analog carrot...
Definitely the way to go.
My experience was this: my last analog cigarette was 2 hours before FedEx showed up with my Volcano kit. I never decided to quit smoking. I never tried to quit smoking. I just kept myself so bedazzled with a dozen new flavors to try that an analog sounded boring and unimaginative by comparison. Other people have found that phasing out analogs over time works better for them, keeping a few smoking rituals (like firsties, or lasties, or cloves) to phase out last, or have replaced analogs entirely with a combination of vaping and another smokeless nicotine source. You didn't say what schedule you're aiming for, but the try-everything approach has worked instantly for me and two of my friends now. We didn't quit smoking, we just got distracted. (I may have subconsciously stolen that from someone's sig - I can't find it now, but it's too well-worded not to use. Apologies for the lack of attribution.)
Try everything, and if you start to panic at the number of $20 and $30 purchases of trial-size juice, just remind yourself that you're really only spending 2-4 days' cigarette money. If you get 2-4 days' "stretch" of your analog supply out of the flavors you like, then it's a financial zero-sum equation with health benefits.
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