New to vaping and to this forum. One question.

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anmael

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Hi everybody, my name is Tommaso, im italian but i live in CA since a couple of year. In italy smoking is incredibly common, and coming from a family of heavy smokers, i started with cigs when i was 13. I rapidly settled on 1 pack per day and smoked that much for 10 years. I barely had a couple of attempts to quit that did not last long. Never thought about quitting again. Then 1 week ago, coming back from a vacation with my recently wedded wife ( :) ), i stopped by a gas station and they were offering a 21st century e-cig for 20 bucks. I bought it, i tried it, and in the last 3 days i smoked 6 cigs instead of 20 on the first day, 4 on the second and 1/3 today (i threw it away after 2-3 puffs because i came to like the e-cig taste more, and the effects on the throath are pretty much the same).
So...all this to say: it seems impossible o.o i never even thought that i wanted to quit and now all of a sudden it seems so easy to do it that i don't see why i shouldn't! So after researching in this forum (that is amazing btw!) i ordered on LF a riva 510 special edition (the one that come with atomizers). This mainly because even though i like the 21st century, the battery doesn't last long, the cartomizers are extremely expensive and i am super curious of trying new tastes...
Now my question is: with the riva and some e-liquids i also bought some smoke-tech cartomizers (they seem handier than atomyzers+cartridges), will i be able to use them on the riva 510? or that one can be used only with atomyzers? because i saw that the riva comes with atomyzers cones but should i buy cartomizers cones? (if yes, where can i find them?) or it's mainly an aestethic choice?
Sorry the post was a bit long, and the grammar, i am still not too used to type in english.
Again congratulation for the forum, it has been very helpful and informative, seems that people here really know what they are talking about (opposed to me that only get half of the vaper-related terminlogy that you guys use :D )
 

Spazmelda

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Welcome to ECF and congratulations on your recently wedded bliss :)

The Riva gets high marks around here as an excellent starter PV. You should be able to use cartomizers or atomizers with it, as long as they are 510 threaded. I'm not sure about the cone question, but I think the Riva cone will work for both cartomizers and atomizers.
 

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Welcome anmael! Glad that ecigs are working out for you and have got you off of analogs. I am not KGO/Riva owner myself, but its fairly similar to the eGo which I do use from time to time. You can use any atomizer/cartomizer or tank that has a 510 connector. As far as the cone for the cartomizers, its mostly an aethetic choice, although the cone does help out with liquid leaking out of the bottom of an atomizer which from my experience isn't much of a problem with cartomizers.

I didn't abbreviate any of the terms for you, but if you are having trouble understanding some of the terms or abbreviations, you might check out The Definitions of Vaping to help you understand the terms and what we are talking about.

Happy Vaping!
 
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