Old e-cigs

[Rosencrantz]

Hi All

I'm looking into the history of e-cigs. The oldest reference to an e-cig I've managed to find is this: . Has anyone smoked one, or does anyone have any information about them? What were they like?

Thanks

Andrew

 

[Katmar]

Hi Andrew and welcome to the forum. I started out with a Smoke Tip (very similar to the Ruyan.) It is what got me to quit smoking after 40 some years, so it was AWESOME for me. Would be interesting to hear from some older vapers and what they used...

 

[Rosencrantz]

Thanks Katmar. Was that a cigar or cigarette? Cigars don't seem very popular - I can't really figure out why.

 

[disallowedword]

Hey Andrew, welcome to the forum!
Did you happen to see this?

I remember seeing something about this on our black and white tv when I was a kid. The adults would bust up laughing because us kids had our candy cigarettes, and they actually looked more like the real thing, I wonder if anyone kept on vaping in the early days? If so, it would be interesting to see some health records or cause of death and compare them with the smokers of that era.

 

[Katmar]

Thanks Katmar. Was that a cigar or cigarette? Cigars don't seem very popular - I can't really figure out why.

It was an e cig. No cigar...

 

[Rosencrantz]

Hey Andrew, welcome to the forum!
Did you happen to see this?
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I remember seeing something about this on our black and white tv when I was a kid. The adults would bust up laughing because us kids had our candy cigarettes, and they actually looked more like the real thing, I wonder if anyone kept on vaping in the early days? If so, it would be interesting to see some health records or cause of death and compare them with the smokers of that era.

Interesting - someone managed to track down Herbert Gilbert in 2013 and interview him: An Interview with The Inventor of the Electronic Cigarette

 

[Susan~S]

I've been vaping 9 years. Here's what my first kit looked like ($100). Ordered directly from China.

 

[ckquatt]

Here's mine from 2009. Really bad, but it got me thinking about ecigs being a viable quitting option.

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[Alien Traveler]

May I ask a question also?
Who invented refillable tank? And RTA?

 

[Rosencrantz]

I've been vaping 9 years. Here's what my first kit looked like ($100). Ordered directly from China.
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Hi Susan. Do you know who made it and what it was called?

 

[Chakris]

Hi All

I'm looking into the history of e-cigs. The oldest reference to an e-cig I've managed to find is this: . Has anyone smoked one, or does anyone have any information about them? What were they like?

Thanks

Andrew

Interesting, I don't see any vapor from those at all. I just watched a video that said there was an e-cig as far back as 1963 but never made it big in the market.

EDIT: Looks like @disallowedword beat me to it.

 

[Hans Wermhat]

My first one wasn't until last August, but it was something like this. 300 mAh, 1.5 ml capacity. Didn't wick for . First disposable tank/coil lasted 4 days. It was awful. Sadly though, some folks are still puffin on these things and they are still popular with noobs.

 

[sonicbomb]

I started out with one of these back in summer 2010. It was horrible but it got me off the cancer sticks. Stuck with them for nearly a year untill I discovered egos and tanks, then onto RDAs.

 

[WindyCityJoe]

Welcome @Rosencrantz

 

[disallowedword]

The ones that looked like cigarettes were pretty frustrating for me, the first few hits were not to bad then they progressively got weaker. My next ecig was the joyetech 510's,


Had to run a 6 bay charger to keep things going, and learned to drip because of the poor ejuice delivery. Had to carry the delicate ecig to work in a metal cigar tube, lol.
I quit analogs for 3 yrs but finally gave into the desire to smoke an analog when having a beer.

We got it made now! I didn’t even cut back this time, I just quit analogs cold, picked up a mod with a EVOD2 and some ejuice.
This is a great thread, thank you OP and everyone for all the great reading material, keep if coming!

 

[Thrasher]

Heres my first experience.
Around 08-09

 

[r77r7r]

I quit analogs for 3 yrs but finally gave into the desire to smoke an analog when having a beer.

It seems inebriation is a most common cause of falling off the wagon.

 

[KxWxSHx]

Nice.. i started with JANTY way back.. bought it all the way from france..

 

[disallowedword]

It seems inebriation is a most common cause of falling off the wagon.

Haha, yup! When I quit analogs I have to leave beer alone, hard liquor is not quite so bad, but beer BAD

 

[sonicbomb]

Theres a chemical/psycological synergy going on with nicotine and alcohol. Smoking or vaping doesn't make me want to drink, but drinking REALLY makes me want to vape or smoke when I did that.