Long post, phrases in bold are my main questions in case you don't want to go through this wall of text
Hello ECF, I've been lurking for about a month, a post here and there, most of the time reading up on the vast amounts of information (never thought there would be so much to learn about vaping, it's overwhelming) So um, I may or may not get bashed for this, but I am a non-smoker. I tried them, I hated them. Whenever I was out with a couple of friends they'd go buy a pack and smoke it in the park or something next to me and the smell just killed me. Of course peer pressure and all that crap, they kept telling me to try it. So to just shut them up about it, I tried one, and as expected, I took a drag, threw it away and told them the exact same thing I told them before, it's awful. At work (mind you my job was at the airport so the smoking rules were as strict as they get) I saw a worker with a mini-battery ecig and I was puzzled by it. Researched about it and looked interesting. I don't know why, I just kept reading up on it and just decided to give it a try. I bought a v2 Standard kit from v2cigs.
Long story short, after a lot of back and forth and a couple of returns as I quickly rushed upgrading from device to device and a ton of juices, I ended up with a Provari, an Ego as backup, about 18 juices, 8 clearos and 4 dripping attys. 90% of my juices are 0 nicotine. One of my orders got delayed and I found a retail store but they didn't have 0 nic, the lowest was 6 mg. I said screw it and bought a 6ml of halo malibu. Being a non smoker, even that tiny amount of nicotine gave me a nasty throat hit and overall made the whole experience worse than I expected. Thankfully, 2 days after I got my 0 nic juices that I ordered and all went well. It's a hobby to me, and I know that long term effects are still unknown, and that so far according to the studies that have been published it seems to be fairly harmless. I always say though, that I can't imagine it being nearly as bad as analogs, not even remotely close.
I'm a tech guy I love tinkering with gadgets and whatnot, and I have a very impulsive personality when I get into something I like. (Wonder why I ended up with 18 bottles of juice?
) I'm pretty much set in terms of juice delivery systems, also the Provari is more than enough for a VV PV and the only thing I have yet to tinker with is a mech mod but that'll come in the future, no interest in sub-ohm vaping at the moment. Also I'm very happy that I got my dad to mostly quit smoking cigars. He's been a smoker for over 20 years and I bought him an Ego kit with 3 bottles of juice, specifically one that is supposed to taste like one of his favorite cigars. Since then he's barely touched analogs.
So yeah that's kind of my brief story. Now unto the questions. I just recently got my first dripping bridgeless attys and I was just blown away by the crisp clear flavor, vapor and throat hit even with 0 nic juice. I was vaping Legendary juice from Mountain Oak Vapors and it was like I had just eaten a bowl of chopped bananas covered in chocolate. Mouth watering. So I'm pretty much dripping whenever I can instead of using clearos/tanks. I bought 2 attys from Empire Mods, LR501 1.5 ohms bridgeless (the long ones) and just bought 2 more from AvidVapers (not the hh.357, most of them are out of stock), one was a sealed 1.5 ohms bridgeless cisco atty and a regular 2.5 ohms bridgeless atty. I will eventually get into RBAs, so I'll take any info. I couldn't find a lot of up-to-date info on dripping attys so if you guys could give me some tips as to where to get good quality dripping attys I'll be really thankful.
And lastly juices. I'm addicted to trying juices. I can't get enough of the vast amount of flavors there are. So far I've tried the following suppliers:
Halo, Mountain Oak Vapor, Virgin Vapor, Guilty Pleasures, VaporShark (local retail store), Izzyvapors (another local retail store), and just recently made 2 custom orders from GourmetVapor. Halo was excellent, and so was Mountain Oak Vapor, Virgin Vapor I only ordered a 6ml Banana Foster 100% vg and the vapor production and flavor left a lot to be desired. Even my high PG juices were throwing the same or even more vapor than that one. I'll give them another try though since they seem highly praised. Any suggestions of good juice vendors is welcome.
That's about it. Very nice joining this community, I've found its members to be quite helpful with each other and that is fairly rare these days. Even though my perspective and approach to vaping is way different than a smoker's(I consider it almost entirely a hobby), I'm very happy to see the sheer amount of people achieving to quit analogs via ecigs. Nice to meet you all, vape on!
Hello ECF, I've been lurking for about a month, a post here and there, most of the time reading up on the vast amounts of information (never thought there would be so much to learn about vaping, it's overwhelming) So um, I may or may not get bashed for this, but I am a non-smoker. I tried them, I hated them. Whenever I was out with a couple of friends they'd go buy a pack and smoke it in the park or something next to me and the smell just killed me. Of course peer pressure and all that crap, they kept telling me to try it. So to just shut them up about it, I tried one, and as expected, I took a drag, threw it away and told them the exact same thing I told them before, it's awful. At work (mind you my job was at the airport so the smoking rules were as strict as they get
) I saw a worker with a mini-battery ecig and I was puzzled by it. Researched about it and looked interesting. I don't know why, I just kept reading up on it and just decided to give it a try. I bought a v2 Standard kit from v2cigs. Long story short, after a lot of back and forth and a couple of returns as I quickly rushed upgrading from device to device and a ton of juices, I ended up with a Provari, an Ego as backup, about 18 juices, 8 clearos and 4 dripping attys. 90% of my juices are 0 nicotine. One of my orders got delayed and I found a retail store but they didn't have 0 nic, the lowest was 6 mg. I said screw it and bought a 6ml of halo malibu. Being a non smoker, even that tiny amount of nicotine gave me a nasty throat hit and overall made the whole experience worse than I expected. Thankfully, 2 days after I got my 0 nic juices that I ordered and all went well. It's a hobby to me, and I know that long term effects are still unknown, and that so far according to the studies that have been published it seems to be fairly harmless. I always say though, that I can't imagine it being nearly as bad as analogs, not even remotely close.
I'm a tech guy I love tinkering with gadgets and whatnot, and I have a very impulsive personality when I get into something I like. (Wonder why I ended up with 18 bottles of juice?
) I'm pretty much set in terms of juice delivery systems, also the Provari is more than enough for a VV PV and the only thing I have yet to tinker with is a mech mod but that'll come in the future, no interest in sub-ohm vaping at the moment. Also I'm very happy that I got my dad to mostly quit smoking cigars. He's been a smoker for over 20 years and I bought him an Ego kit with 3 bottles of juice, specifically one that is supposed to taste like one of his favorite cigars. Since then he's barely touched analogs. So yeah that's kind of my brief story. Now unto the questions. I just recently got my first dripping bridgeless attys and I was just blown away by the crisp clear flavor, vapor and throat hit even with 0 nic juice. I was vaping Legendary juice from Mountain Oak Vapors and it was like I had just eaten a bowl of chopped bananas covered in chocolate. Mouth watering. So I'm pretty much dripping whenever I can instead of using clearos/tanks. I bought 2 attys from Empire Mods, LR501 1.5 ohms bridgeless (the long ones) and just bought 2 more from AvidVapers (not the hh.357, most of them are out of stock), one was a sealed 1.5 ohms bridgeless cisco atty and a regular 2.5 ohms bridgeless atty. I will eventually get into RBAs, so I'll take any info. I couldn't find a lot of up-to-date info on dripping attys so if you guys could give me some tips as to where to get good quality dripping attys I'll be really thankful.
And lastly juices. I'm addicted to trying juices. I can't get enough of the vast amount of flavors there are. So far I've tried the following suppliers:
Halo, Mountain Oak Vapor, Virgin Vapor, Guilty Pleasures, VaporShark (local retail store), Izzyvapors (another local retail store), and just recently made 2 custom orders from GourmetVapor. Halo was excellent, and so was Mountain Oak Vapor, Virgin Vapor I only ordered a 6ml Banana Foster 100% vg and the vapor production and flavor left a lot to be desired. Even my high PG juices were throwing the same or even more vapor than that one. I'll give them another try though since they seem highly praised. Any suggestions of good juice vendors is welcome.
That's about it. Very nice joining this community, I've found its members to be quite helpful with each other and that is fairly rare these days. Even though my perspective and approach to vaping is way different than a smoker's(I consider it almost entirely a hobby), I'm very happy to see the sheer amount of people achieving to quit analogs via ecigs. Nice to meet you all, vape on!
