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DigiManTX

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Hey guys...

A little about me... Brian, 35, live in Texas (DFW area), divorced, 2 teenage girls, and a smoker... I smoked off and on during my teens and early/mid 20's, but not anything that could classify as "a pack a day" or anything like that... I smoked at bars when out with the fellas, parties, etc. I was a social smoker at best. Then... I got divorced... and up until recently was about a 1.5+ pk a day man... that is until i discovered the wonderful world of vaping... :D

A couple years ago I tried the whole e-cig thing and after spending about $200 on a setup, I lost interest as it was never satisfying me... fast forward to the past couple weeks... determined whatever I needed to do to quit smoking, it had to be done, no more excuses.

I started reading and found some info on e-cigs that was quite interesting. I read that a study showed that a person who was trying to quit smoking by using an e-cig that "looked" like an regular cig was less than 17% likely to quit... HOWEVER... it showed that if a person was to get equipment that looked nothing like a cig (everything to do with vaping, ie. silver bullet, vmax, provari, box mods, tanks, etc.), their chances of quitting greatly increased to over 51%. They determined that rather than just "trying to quit smoking", they just changed habits to vaping. Which ironically is what has happened to me. I went to a vape shop around me and starting asking questions and looking at different things. I settled on a Ego Twist, tank, some tobacco flavored juice, and then some fruity juice... Well after a few days of using the tobacco juice I quickly realized that I didn't want the tobacco flavor at all and have settled into the other juices... I figured my issue was the tobacco juice was where I went wrong the last time as it wasn't "cuttin the mustard"... So therefor if I want a tobacco flavor, I'll smoke a cig... Which equated to me smoking less than 10 cigs a day last week. This week I haven't even finished a pack so far. AND when I do I find it hard to even finish one completely. I imagine I will be done with them altogether in the next couple weeks.

Needless to say... my girlfriend has taken notice and now wants in on the action... So yesterday I ordered a silver bullet setup with a kick (as I'm looking for something to fit better in my hands), and she wants the twist... LOL

I think that's prolly enough for now... :p
 

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Good luck, beware the Kicked SB with a Vivi Nova. GrimmGreen blew up two SB's with it for some reason. It fried the safety spring and the battery both times. Pretty expensive! The video is in my blog The Vaper's Handbook (link to it is in my signature).

LOL... yeah... know about the vivi nova story... I think I have inadvertently watched every video GrimmGreen and PBusardo have on youtube...
 

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Here is some info you may find useful. P2seQ.jpgView attachment 139793
Here are links to useful info.
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/new-members-forum/7300-newbies-guide-cleaning-your-atomizer.html
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/general-e-smoking-discussion/81600-definitive-intercompatibility-list-please-help.htmlhttp://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/new-members-forum/21069-ecf-abbreviations-101-a.html
Hope this if of use to you.
Welcome to ECF from another DFW vaper.
 
Welcome Digi, I know exactly what you mean. As I have said before, it would be fine with me if I never tasted tobacco again. Or even smelled it for that matter. Really like grape and peach. As for myself, after 35 years of pad, I remain surprised that I have not picked one up since day one 12 weeks ago. Good luck and hang in there!
 

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DFWers, unite! What place did you go to? I haven't had a chance to look for any local places yet.

I ended up getting my bullet from Vaporescense. I ordered my kick from electronicstix (only place that seemed to have them in stock), as well as the 18490 batts, charger, and some other misc stuff. Where in the DFW area are you? Maybe we could get together and talk about vape stuffs some time... I'm more than likely about to start dyi'ing my own juice, and it would be nice to have someone to "taste test" with...
 

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Welcome Digi, I know exactly what you mean. As I have said before, it would be fine with me if I never tasted tobacco again. Or even smelled it for that matter. Really like grape and peach. As for myself, after 35 years of pad, I remain surprised that I have not picked one up since day one 12 weeks ago. Good luck and hang in there!

Yeah, I'm smoking about 5-6 analogs a day, but when I do I almost cringe after each one...
 
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