Hi Y'all...
I've been smoking since I was 17, I'm now 38 going on 39, and I smoke around 2-3 packs a day; sometimes more, sometimes less. I'm a full-time college student, I'm unemployed, and living with my boyfriend who was hit pretty hard with layoffs and a string of crappy jobs. A couple of years ago my boyfriend and I bought those Smoke 51's; I hated them. The juice that came with them made me ill, my atty kept drying out, the filler kept drying out and sticking to the atty, and the throat hit was non-existent. Immediately after nixing the Smoke 51's, I tried the Vapor Kings by Vapor 4 Life... The battery life sucked, had little success with refilling cartos to save money, and their e-juice made me sick. My boyfriend, the smug ....... that he is, had no problem with either setup; so I made him refill a gazillion cartos for me before he left for work, and we bought some more batteries because the V4L batteries didn't have much life. Even with several batteries, we were still having to smoke because the batteries didn't last long; we were smoking 3-4 packs then, and I was vaping almost constantly. He nixed the e-cigs altogether, and it was just too easy for me to go back to smoking. About the time we decided to give it another go, he was laid off, and we didn't have the funds to experiment with different setups that would work for me.
A year ago, I decided to get a 510 adapter for my kr808 batteries, a drip tip, and atomizers. This setup worked pretty well for me, except for the fact that the high vg content of the e-juice I was using kept gunking up the attys, and the batteries started dying on me. Shortly after that, my boyfriend was laid off, and we didn't put in that order for 510 batteries and attys that I was going to send for.
Now my boyfriend has a pretty steady job, and a recent job opportunity in a non-smoking environment made me realize that many companies are going non-smoking and that employers in "at-will employment" states are not afraid to fire people for smoking while they are away on their lunch breaks (in at-will states, they don't have to give you a reason at all); so we want to give it another go. My boyfriend thinks the Smoke 51's are great, and he has stubbornly refused to give the less expensive, and better quality, 510's a go (goody on him
). However, I don't have to go with the Smoke 51's and I'm thinking of going with a Riva-T because the starter kits are economical, they have good battery life, I can use LR attys on them for vapor, they give decent throat hit according to reviews, and I don't have to worry about burning that filler material found in cartos. My main concern is how well my attys are going to hold up to 60vg/40pg ratio or at least a 50/50 ratio because I get sick from anything over 50% pg, and I'm unwilling to give up the RY4 I loved from Freedom Smokes USA.
I will state this for the record... I am not mechanically inclined; meaning that I can easily screw up assembling one of those bookshelves you get from Wal-Mart, so the Ego-C is probably not the best choice for me, and it's a bit more expensive than the Riva-T. At this point, I am not going for the Twist because I won't change the voltage, and it's a bit more expensive than the Riva-T. I am willing to buy vodka to clean my attys, but I doubt I will be getting a jewelry cleaner or some such machine to clean my attys anytime soon. That being said, do y'all think that the Riva-T will meet my needs, while allowing me to "expand" to greater and better things in the future if I so desire?
I've been smoking since I was 17, I'm now 38 going on 39, and I smoke around 2-3 packs a day; sometimes more, sometimes less. I'm a full-time college student, I'm unemployed, and living with my boyfriend who was hit pretty hard with layoffs and a string of crappy jobs. A couple of years ago my boyfriend and I bought those Smoke 51's; I hated them. The juice that came with them made me ill, my atty kept drying out, the filler kept drying out and sticking to the atty, and the throat hit was non-existent. Immediately after nixing the Smoke 51's, I tried the Vapor Kings by Vapor 4 Life... The battery life sucked, had little success with refilling cartos to save money, and their e-juice made me sick. My boyfriend, the smug ....... that he is, had no problem with either setup; so I made him refill a gazillion cartos for me before he left for work, and we bought some more batteries because the V4L batteries didn't have much life. Even with several batteries, we were still having to smoke because the batteries didn't last long; we were smoking 3-4 packs then, and I was vaping almost constantly. He nixed the e-cigs altogether, and it was just too easy for me to go back to smoking. About the time we decided to give it another go, he was laid off, and we didn't have the funds to experiment with different setups that would work for me.
A year ago, I decided to get a 510 adapter for my kr808 batteries, a drip tip, and atomizers. This setup worked pretty well for me, except for the fact that the high vg content of the e-juice I was using kept gunking up the attys, and the batteries started dying on me. Shortly after that, my boyfriend was laid off, and we didn't put in that order for 510 batteries and attys that I was going to send for.
Now my boyfriend has a pretty steady job, and a recent job opportunity in a non-smoking environment made me realize that many companies are going non-smoking and that employers in "at-will employment" states are not afraid to fire people for smoking while they are away on their lunch breaks (in at-will states, they don't have to give you a reason at all); so we want to give it another go. My boyfriend thinks the Smoke 51's are great, and he has stubbornly refused to give the less expensive, and better quality, 510's a go (goody on him
). However, I don't have to go with the Smoke 51's and I'm thinking of going with a Riva-T because the starter kits are economical, they have good battery life, I can use LR attys on them for vapor, they give decent throat hit according to reviews, and I don't have to worry about burning that filler material found in cartos. My main concern is how well my attys are going to hold up to 60vg/40pg ratio or at least a 50/50 ratio because I get sick from anything over 50% pg, and I'm unwilling to give up the RY4 I loved from Freedom Smokes USA.I will state this for the record... I am not mechanically inclined; meaning that I can easily screw up assembling one of those bookshelves you get from Wal-Mart, so the Ego-C is probably not the best choice for me, and it's a bit more expensive than the Riva-T. At this point, I am not going for the Twist because I won't change the voltage, and it's a bit more expensive than the Riva-T. I am willing to buy vodka to clean my attys, but I doubt I will be getting a jewelry cleaner or some such machine to clean my attys anytime soon. That being said, do y'all think that the Riva-T will meet my needs, while allowing me to "expand" to greater and better things in the future if I so desire?
I still haven't convinced him to go with a smaller 510. We won't even begin to discuss that crappy e-juice he likes. Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't the Riva and Ego compatible? I could, theoretically, use what we've saved from not buying cigarettes to spring for a twist battery to replace my Riva battery; especially considering that the price of the twist will eventually drop. 
