Very overwhelmed over all of the e-cig options! When I began to look into them, I was not expecting them to be so in-depth. I have spent hours trying to sort through all this information, and have found myself a bit stumped. Mostly, there are plenty of kits that would allow a smoker to jump right in, get their nicotine fix, and figure stuff out as they go based on smoking habits... but what about a noobie who is looking for the best flavor experience without nicotine? For me, everything else is secondary to a setup that maximizes flavor, and I read that some models burn the flavor. There also seem to be specific parts needed to change flavors on the fly (the drip tips), and some seem to be less efficient/ more wasteful than others?
I need help choosing an e-cig kit to get me started, as I find my situation a bit unique. I don't care how big it is, what it looks like, etc. It's nice to have a decent battery, but in all honesty, it mostly is to help anxiety related oral fixation habits while at the computer. So, I will pretty much always be next to a power source. Don't care about how much vapor it puts out, and I can figure out how to use a manual inhaler just fine. I would like to not spend too much on the unit, as I also need money for a large assortment of flavors to try. I am having trouble finding sampler packs from the good vapor places as well. If it tastes ....ty, I am going to go eat the real thing instead, which is something I am hoping to help curb. Where are some good places to find good sampler packs? So far, I found
Build Your Own Fun Pack but would like to try other packs from others as well.
Well, the point of vaping is, in the main, for smokers to switch to a safer way of obtaining nicotine. So there's not a lot of "support" for non-smokers. In fact, the community here is generally quite opposed to non-smokers doing anything with vaping. Myself more or less included.
Though if you're talking 0 nic and 0 nic
only, well, okay. However, keep in mind that nobody knows the long term effects of vaporizing and inhaling PG and VG (the base liquids that hold the flavoring and/or nicotine). For that matter, nobody knows the long term effects of vaporizing and inhaling the flavorings.
So you
are taking a gamble with your health. A gamble that you will not know the "odds" or possible consequences of for many years ("vaping" is pretty new, there are studies starting but there are no long term studies because there is no "long term" to have been studied). With smokers, it's betting that vaping is far less toxic than tobacco smoke. A bet I think is safe (I'm taking that bet myself).
But a non-smoker? What risks are there to you even with the 0 nicotine liquids?
We don't know.
Nobody does. Not yet. And like a lot of things, the "long term" effects may not be known until it's too late to go back and "not start".
That in mind, since you say, "...it mostly is to help anxiety related oral fixation habits...", I find myself being ambivalent. Anxiety and oral fixations... that's a possible smoking habit right there. So, maybe, 0 nicotine vaping might actually work in your case? I don't know. I ain't no doctor. But I can see your point.
One thing, though, I don't, personally, buy the idea that vaping would help with an "oral fixation" that has to do with food. I've never seen any indication that tasting and smelling flavors reduces urges to eat. If anything, they tend to
trigger them. I mean, who hasn't experienced the extra hunger pangs when walking into a house where dinner is being prepared? Think about holidays like Thanksgiving. I know when I smell my sister-in-law's cooking on walking into the house, I get ten times more hungry (well, she's a great cook!
).
And far as anxiety, vaping won't do squat about that. I have what remains of an anxiety disorder (survived two historic... no, seriously, historic... level disasters). Vaping don't do
squat for it. I have to (sometimes) take something the doc prescribes to deal with that.
So you could end up wasting your time and money and not getting anywhere.
All that preambling done, one of the better, basic, starting kits is this one:
[url]http://www.myvaporstore.com/Vision_Spinner_Joye_Ego_C_Twist_Combo_p/vvs-c.htm[/URL]. Good, basic set up, easy to use. And there are many, many vendors out there with 0 nicotine liquids. Tons of flavor options.
Just be careful. Nicotine is a highly addictive substance. It's why I vape. I can't quit nicotine. I've tried. Oh gawd have I tried. Before I found vaping, I had resigned myself to whatever health consequences smoking would cause because I had given up on quitting. Too many miserable, horrible, awful failures.
Get mixed up with it, it can easily be a one way trip. It can be your "pal" for good.
So watch your ordering. There are tons of 0 nic liquids but, generally, the vendors are serving ex-smokers who are addicted to nicotine. They're not all that "oriented" toward non-smoker vapers. That's not the "market" here.
But, honestly, I don't think vaping will do anything at all for anxiety. I wish it did. The only anxiety I can say it's helped me with is one of the bad disasters I got through was an unreal wildfire event in the Austin area in '11. One in which two of the around six (!) fires joined up and tried to take out my little suburb (ripping by my house within about two miles of me). The only aspect of vaping that helps with that is I developed a bit of a fire phobia after that. So I got a bit weird about making sure every cigarette .... in the house was dead, dead, cold, cold before I could so much as go to the grocery store.
Vaping ain't fire so I'm a bit less rattled about leaving the house.
(Still catch myself going back to the house to check to be absolutely sure I put my cigarette out only to realize half way back to the door that I don't do that stuff anymore)
