Noob question...how many who start with an 808 stay with an 808?

[Desperate2Quit]

Hey all. I just found this site and I've been reading for HOURS. I'm a 2 PAD smoker and have been for an appalling 19 years, AKA half my life. I don't want to make it an even twenty years. I've tried to quit via patches, gum, support groups, state programs, cold turkey (I refused to try Chantix after I saw what it did to my mother!) and nothing has worked for me. While here I have read story after story of people giving up smoking pretty much instantaneously and I can't wait until I post my "no analogs for a year" thread lol.

I haven't bought an ecig yet because I am seeking the advice of the experienced so I don't make the typical newbie mistakes. I don't have a big pile of money to shop with, though that will hopefully change once I'm no longer spending the ridiculous sum of $200 a month on coffin nails.

The two most recommended models seem to be the 808 and the 501, with the 501 coming out on top. The 501 seems a little too big for my tiny hands so I'm tending toward the 808. Also, I like the convenience of a pre-filled cartridge because I'm inherently lazy lol. How many of you started out with 808 and have stayed with 808? Or did most of you move to the 501 later?

Thanking you all in advance, and thanking you all for the sense of hope I am already feeling after reading here for 4 hours straight!

 

[Serpent67]

I started about one month ago vaping an ego T. All was great till the cartridges started leaking and leaking alot. I bought boge 510 1.5 ohm cartomizers to fit my batteries, some juice and away I went.

I also got a boge 510 atomizer for direct dripping.

I vaped happily till a couple weeks ago when I stepped up to the big mods and gave my ego to my brothers GF and got them into vaping now too.

My mods now still utilize 510 connections, so I am partial to those and reluctant to try others.

I think 510 would be fine for you depending on chosen size of your battery

You can quit cigarettes by vaping but you might go thru some trials and errors with equipment till you find the gear that works for you.

You will get all the help you need from here, so don't be afraid to ask

 

[Desperate2Quit]

D'oh! I meant to type 510 and typed 501 instead. Noob mistake number one lol!

Thanks for the tips Serpent. I really do like the idea of cartomizers better than the tank option.

 

[CCC]

I went with an 808 kind of ecig when i first quit smoking and it definatly did the trick. 2 weeks into vaping i upgraded to a 510 model and haven't looked back. There is a learning curve at the beginning which is just something you have to go through, no amount of reading will give you the experience of actually trying it for yourself.

Pre filled cartos have their place and some are pretty good, however i think vapers desire more control over what they are vaping and really filling your own cartos is easy peasy and takes up less time than going to the shop to buy a pack of ciggs.

Lots of people who are just about to transition think that vaping will be just like smoking, it isn't, there are new habbits that get formed with vaping, the way you drag on a PV is new, the flavours are new and the way you purchase the stuff you need is new.

Congratulations on making the decision to quit smoking.

 

[kabonk]

I have an 808 a volt auto battery it's my I'm playing a video game PV, it's not a bad PV considering that my daily PVs are vv mods it's probably a good place to start and it might do the trick for you a kits only about $45 and some of the prefilled cartos are pretty good though prefilled could get expensive

 

[OTW2000]

I started just over a month ago with the Volt 808 automatic and am very happy with it. It feels like a cigarette to me, just a little heavier and I don't have to push a button. I also figured I would just buy pre-filled cartos but I realized dripping is so much more economical. You just have to be careful how you do it.

 

[Desperate2Quit]

I'm thinking I definitely want to go manual because in addition to being inherently lazy I'm also paralytically clumsy and I can just imagine how many batteries I'd fry by dripping an automatic lol. Once I get a sense of the economics of vaping I probably will go to dripping and filling myself, but starting with a cartomizer will shorten the learning curve for me I think.

 

[micksf]

I too started with an 808, great move off the analogs. I think for a lot of people you need that cig-look and feel of that type of a battery to feel comfortable to start off, but you will probably realize after a while that the looks of the device are surpassed by other priorities such as battery life. Knowing now what I know, I wish someone would have told me to move up to what I have now, which is a ego-style battery. Now my 808's sit in a drawer.

Do whatever feels right to help you move off the cigs, but just know your needs will probably change, for the better, later on. Of course mod (bigger batteries with even more options) users are probably laughing at me knowing that my egos will be sitting next to my 808's in another month.

 

[Serpent67]

Glad to help. I actually vaped for the first time about 6 months ago with one of the tobacco store cigarette lookalike auto prefilled cartirdge jobies and failed miserably.

Tasted like crap with not enogh vaper and actually made me want a marb red even more. I would toot on both, it was crazy.

I hit the ego T, cheated a couple times till I found my preferred vape nectar and have not looked back since.

Once you break yourself of analogs actually trying one after awhile will make you wretch, they are so nasty.

When you get your magic juices and a dependable system, you will wished you had them years ago.

Best system to quit smoking yet.

 

[GreyLion]

Welcome to ECF from one noob to another!

Like you, I read intensively and was trepidatious about making a mistake in beginning, for fear that I'd screw up the whole process and fail. The tech is quickly changing and the choices seem endless. My experience is that it's a learning process and you just gotta start wherever you are and be prepared to change as you learn more, and money isn't wasted, just invested in learning how to do something that will save you more later on.

I started at the end of November with an 808 kit from Vapor4Life. (Might choose a Volt right now if I was starting.) Moved to a Go-Go with an LCD display almost immediately, because a). it's a gorgeous toy, b). has battery life long enough that I can use it all day without it running down, and c). the cartomizer is much larger, so I'm not having to refill often. Honest, you should immediately start refilling -- it's so much easier than you think -- you can learn how to do it in two minutes -- and soooo much cheaper, and you can easily vary tastes by mixing different juices, so you don't get bored. I did start with the prefilled cartos from V4L from the kit, because I had the same trepidation you do about learning curve, but those were the last ones.

That said, I still hit off my 808's for a different-tasting/feeling vape of the same juices I put in my Go-Go. And I'm increasingly using the 808 pass-through for chain-vaping at night. Uh, switching back and forth between that and the Gog-Go throughout the evening, of course. The pass-through was useless until I got an AC-to-USB adapter, because a computer USB port doesn't feed it the amps it needs. With the AC adapter, it rocks hard.

So, no wasted hardware! Most prefilled cartos are refillable, too, so trying them out isn't a mistake. Just gotta realize that you'll keep evolving.

 

[Shilo]

I started with an 808 by Volt and moved onto 510 box mods within 4 weeks time. I highly recommend Maximum Vapors if anyone does consider a box mod- excellent service and mods- great guy. Sale going right now on VV and 5 volt. I wish I had used the box mods right from the start. I spent too much money in the first 6 weeks very common thing to do.

 

[micksf]

I too started with an 808, .

btw, I purchased mine from Halo. I'm sure other have had good success with other places but had really good customer service and answered all my noob questions without any issue. And some of their juices are still in my go to vapes - Tibecca and Torque.

 

[Desperate2Quit]

How many of you guys are weaning yourselves down? Since I'm such a heavy smoker I'll probably start with 24 mg, then go to 18, then 11, and so forth to the magic 0, by which point I will hopefully not need an ecig. I've been doing that with analogs but unfortunately the analog companies don't make an ultra-ultra-ultra light lol. (Probably because they don't ever want you to quit!) I started with Marlboro reds like everybody else here probably did but have worked my way down to ultra-lights over my sad little smoking career.

 

[micksf]

How many of you guys are weaning yourselves down?

I smoked American Spirit Yellow (light) and I started vaping at 18mg/ml, now down to 12mg for all day vape with power boosts of 15mg of another juice when I need it. Totally satisfied.

 

[Serpent67]

I'm at 18 mg nic now. I will never stop vaping. Smoking too deeply imbedded in my family dna to ever be nic free. If I can get to 12 or less I would be happy.

24 made me nic OD and I couldn't take it.

 

[Shilo]

The prefilled will get old fast you will have to buy juice and blank cartomizers almost immediately as the prefilleds only last a little bit. Do not buy into the prefilled equals one pack of cigs. If you vape hardcore you will be lucky to get one day out of a prefilled if you vape less you'll get 3 days tops. That can get very expensive.

 

[GreyLion]

Started at 24, quickly moved to 18, now mixing EcoPure and various flavors at around 10. But I have no desire at all to go to zero. My brain loves nicotine...

And I'm vaping a lot more than I used to smoke. Feels good, getting that hit and smoothly maintaining nic levels without being sick.

 

[micksf]

The prefilled will get old fast you will have to buy juice and blank cartomizers almost immediately as the prefilleds only last a little bit. Do not buy into the prefilled equals one pack of cigs. If you vape hardcore you will be lucky to get one day out of a prefilled if you vape less you'll get 3 days tops. That can get very expensive.

agree with Shilo. Filling is not as complicated as it may seem and it gives a much better vape, and way cheaper.

 

[Shilo]

Oh and PS I think you meant 808 and a 510. The 510 is more compatible and widely used in many mods, ecigs. Plus the cartomizers are cheaper than the 808's.

 

[Desperate2Quit]

I know I meant 510 instead of 501. I already called myself out on that lol.

I figure on initially needing 10 cartomizers a week, which at $22 week might seem expensive but it's still a heckuva lot cheaper than the $50 a week I currently spend on coffin nails. Once I get the hang of ecigs I'll be back to bug you all about how to refill and be really cheap lol!