Hi everyone and thank you so much for the welcomes and advice! Vapoor what would you suggest now remember I am a HEAVEY HEAVY SMOKER lol I am a gadget junkie and I am not scared of something with a little power to it hmmm... I wonder if I said that right? lol
Well, one heavy smoker (pack and half to two a day) to another, the Blu certainly won't cut it. It'll help but only some. Their version of "high" nicotine is not so high.
I'm going to a tank system and my Blu kit is going to a friend who I suggested try the disposables. I referred to the Blu as "training wheels".
Gets you started but you won't stay with it once you start to learn.
Myself, I don't know the eGo well but I know I read a lot of good things about it around here.
The thing I wish I'd learned before I bought more than just disposables was what the nicotine levels mean. Especially because what Blu calls "high" isn't. It's more "medium". At least if you get into their kits. The disposables run 20-24mg for "Classic Tobacco" and 17-24 for "Magnificent Menthol" (the one I tried first).
But their cartomizers for the kit, the "high" is 13-16mg. Bit sneaky I would say. The disposables get you going and then you got to buy tons and tons of their cartos.
Anyway. Everybody else seems to do it in 6mg increments. From 0mg (no nicotine) to 24mg (high) with some offering 36mg (really high). It's also expressed as a percentage for bottled liquids. But it's just moving a decimal point. A 2.4% liquid corresponds to a 24mg cartomizer (more or less).
So if the "Classic Tobacco" Blu disposable is helping you, that corresponds to roughly a 2.4% e-liquid or 24mg cartridge/carto/whatever.
Since my experience was I dropped from 1.5 to 2 PAD down to maybe 3 regular cigs a day on the disposable but with the goofy Blu kit have snuck back *up* a bit (still, no higher than 5 cigs in a day, for me, that's still a "win")... I'm ordering samples of 24mg (2.4%) strength e-liquids (okay, some are 1.8% or 18mg but they're a flavor I wanna try
).
I started noticing that I seem to want a "real one" like I was trying to get a "jolt" of nicotine then could coast along on vaping for hours. Then need a "jolt" again. I figure I'm not getting quite the level of nicotine I'm used to. Blu's cartos are 13-16mg (or 1.3% to 1.6%) which is kinda low. More for a pack a day or less smoker (and the friend I'm passing the Blu kit on to is a half pack a day smoker, he'll probably do better on it than I did).
So my rule now is not to go below 1.8% or 18mg and preferably get 2.4% (24mg). See if that knocks out the rest of the urge to "have a real one". I don't get that urge much and it's not that strong. At least not for long periods of time. It's usually a problem first thing in the morning then after lunch.
Anyway, we'll see.
Oh and I've only been at this about two weeks so I'm still pretty new myself. There are many far, far more experienced folk about who know a thousand times more than I do. So take this as a fellow newbie's early experiences and double check with the experts. Like Vapoor who I've learned a ton from...
