A minor preface before we begin the review:
There are many ongoing threads where dissatisfied opinions are accepted, welcomed, and defended. This time-lapse review will be Bloog-positive. These will be my opinions and experiences.
30 days. 8 hours. 40 minutes.
314 analogs blissfully averted.
Those analogs would have cost me $123, and tomorrow, my entire current vaping investment will have payed itself off (I invested about $60 in DIY products.)
There is a half-pack of my ex-favorite analogs sitting on my porch. Those analogs are 30 days, etc. old. Those analogs have been exposed to a month's worth of WA's indirect moisture by the hands of snow, rain, and fog. They probably still wouldn't qualify for the WORST .... I've attempted to smoke when I was on the tobacco CRAVE.
I am currently able to take my Bloogs onto the very same porch, vape in the LITERAL fresh air, and not even NOTICE that half-pack. Under the CRAVE, any time spent outside was spent with my eyes to the ground, scoping out gutters and corners for any smoke-able .... to be found. Too many days I lived like a hound dog with a withdrawal headache.
I'm through with that lifestyle.
Bloog Responsible Opinions:
Batteries: As an initial vaper, each charged battery lasted what felt like forever. In the beginning I was easily able to have both charged for the start of each day, and have two different flavors plugged in, with the third on standby. Everything lasted about a day-and-a-half to two full days.
Since then, I've settled into a different routine. I focus on one batt/carto at a time. When a batt fizzles, I switch out for the fully charged one. I haven't kept close attention, but these days, I occasionally surprise myself by having drained a full batt before noon. Even with my occasional oversight, and not throwing a drained batt to charge immediately, I have yet to be drawn to an analog due to the lack of a charge.
Cartos: I presently have 20 of them. All were ordered pre-filled. I may be extremely lucky by some accounts, but all of them have PERFORMED beautifully, out of the pack. There is exactly nothing to complain about any of my cartos from the minute I put one on the batt, to the minute they began to taste empty. Zero complaints. Pure positive.
USB Charger: There will come a day when I need that wall adapter. I haven't yet, because the USB is absolute convenience. Plug it into the laptop? No prob. Charge time? It's a zero-issue if I am bothered to put it in overnight (though I'm just OCD enough that I try to be there once it turns green...).
In the beginning, I had a few moments when one batt wasn't fully charged before the other died. In retrospect, it would have been the simplest thing to play a little piggy-back batt-switching to keep the vape on, but it never turned out SO LONG that I really, seriously thought about grabbing one of those analogs.
Product Endurance: My batts have dropped a few times. Not an issue. The worse my batts have suffered are miniscule scratches from being in the same pocket as my keys. A personal oversight. Then again, I consider my valued properties in all the same way. If it hasn't been scuffed to hell, then I haven't liked it enough to use it on a regular basis. Only a collector who rarely touches their items can expect a product to never experience wear and tear. As a consumer, I'm pleased that my product still produces despite the wear.
My cartos, oh dear... As a newb, I cleaned the majority of my cartos once the lot was vaped empty. They've all kept ticking despite my inexperience. I've currently been refilling ONE carto for over two weeks. My only issue at this point has been a comparatively airy vape to a pre-filled. It's not un-vapable, but as soon as I consider it to be, I might finally try my hand at a carto disassembly.
Opinions of Bloog products that are actually personal issues:
Flavors: RY4? Once it's sold as a liquid, this will be the majority of all my future vaping purchases.
Menthol? Very Marb-Smooths. Happened to coincide with my fave ex-analogs. A month later, I'm menthol'd out.
Red? Somehow potent and smooth at the same time. It was a little throat-aggravating, but not enough that I couldn't vape the whole pack with ease.
Cherry? ... I can barely vape this. Considering my two current refill cartos are labeled Cherry: I'm pretty confident it's not the cartos, but the flavoring. Something in the flavor sets off mild stages of my asthma. It's not deadly, but it's still taken two weeks to get through that second carto.
Personal Health: 10 years of smoking is a pretty large gap for me to expect I'll feel the same way I used to before I started analogs. I poisoned the best years of my what was supposed to be my "prime". I do have to say, though, that my improvements have been pretty rote: no stench, no coughing, less severe asthma, a little extra energy, better overall breathing. NO CRAVINGS. I can slot my desire to vape on the same level as my desire to eat, instead of a brain-consuming hunt for a hit.
Dangerous Ground, My Bloog CS experience:
To be truthful, I have yet to receive a response from CS. I am awaiting my code so I can benefit from sending interested parties to order from Bloog. Yes, I am still confident enough in my product experiences to refer my friends and family to Bloog. I have also been fully-read on this sub-forum, and a Bloog customer PRIOR to the CNY black-out. I have incredible patience, and will happily wait until the issues that are greater than my own are resolved. It's also still the weekend, so I'm expecting a wait, anyhow.
EDIT: I suppose I should also put the update here, for new readers, as well. I received my CS email response on the very next full business day after sending my email.
Overall:
I have only positive things to say about Bloog. The few negatives are more than outweighed by the many positives, and I can tolerate them well enough not to complain about them.
There are many ongoing threads where dissatisfied opinions are accepted, welcomed, and defended. This time-lapse review will be Bloog-positive. These will be my opinions and experiences.
30 days. 8 hours. 40 minutes.
314 analogs blissfully averted.
Those analogs would have cost me $123, and tomorrow, my entire current vaping investment will have payed itself off (I invested about $60 in DIY products.)
There is a half-pack of my ex-favorite analogs sitting on my porch. Those analogs are 30 days, etc. old. Those analogs have been exposed to a month's worth of WA's indirect moisture by the hands of snow, rain, and fog. They probably still wouldn't qualify for the WORST .... I've attempted to smoke when I was on the tobacco CRAVE.
I am currently able to take my Bloogs onto the very same porch, vape in the LITERAL fresh air, and not even NOTICE that half-pack. Under the CRAVE, any time spent outside was spent with my eyes to the ground, scoping out gutters and corners for any smoke-able .... to be found. Too many days I lived like a hound dog with a withdrawal headache.
I'm through with that lifestyle.
Bloog Responsible Opinions:
Batteries: As an initial vaper, each charged battery lasted what felt like forever. In the beginning I was easily able to have both charged for the start of each day, and have two different flavors plugged in, with the third on standby. Everything lasted about a day-and-a-half to two full days.
Since then, I've settled into a different routine. I focus on one batt/carto at a time. When a batt fizzles, I switch out for the fully charged one. I haven't kept close attention, but these days, I occasionally surprise myself by having drained a full batt before noon. Even with my occasional oversight, and not throwing a drained batt to charge immediately, I have yet to be drawn to an analog due to the lack of a charge.
Cartos: I presently have 20 of them. All were ordered pre-filled. I may be extremely lucky by some accounts, but all of them have PERFORMED beautifully, out of the pack. There is exactly nothing to complain about any of my cartos from the minute I put one on the batt, to the minute they began to taste empty. Zero complaints. Pure positive.
USB Charger: There will come a day when I need that wall adapter. I haven't yet, because the USB is absolute convenience. Plug it into the laptop? No prob. Charge time? It's a zero-issue if I am bothered to put it in overnight (though I'm just OCD enough that I try to be there once it turns green...).
In the beginning, I had a few moments when one batt wasn't fully charged before the other died. In retrospect, it would have been the simplest thing to play a little piggy-back batt-switching to keep the vape on, but it never turned out SO LONG that I really, seriously thought about grabbing one of those analogs.
Product Endurance: My batts have dropped a few times. Not an issue. The worse my batts have suffered are miniscule scratches from being in the same pocket as my keys. A personal oversight. Then again, I consider my valued properties in all the same way. If it hasn't been scuffed to hell, then I haven't liked it enough to use it on a regular basis. Only a collector who rarely touches their items can expect a product to never experience wear and tear. As a consumer, I'm pleased that my product still produces despite the wear.
My cartos, oh dear... As a newb, I cleaned the majority of my cartos once the lot was vaped empty. They've all kept ticking despite my inexperience. I've currently been refilling ONE carto for over two weeks. My only issue at this point has been a comparatively airy vape to a pre-filled. It's not un-vapable, but as soon as I consider it to be, I might finally try my hand at a carto disassembly.
Opinions of Bloog products that are actually personal issues:
Flavors: RY4? Once it's sold as a liquid, this will be the majority of all my future vaping purchases.
Menthol? Very Marb-Smooths. Happened to coincide with my fave ex-analogs. A month later, I'm menthol'd out.
Red? Somehow potent and smooth at the same time. It was a little throat-aggravating, but not enough that I couldn't vape the whole pack with ease.
Cherry? ... I can barely vape this. Considering my two current refill cartos are labeled Cherry: I'm pretty confident it's not the cartos, but the flavoring. Something in the flavor sets off mild stages of my asthma. It's not deadly, but it's still taken two weeks to get through that second carto.
Personal Health: 10 years of smoking is a pretty large gap for me to expect I'll feel the same way I used to before I started analogs. I poisoned the best years of my what was supposed to be my "prime". I do have to say, though, that my improvements have been pretty rote: no stench, no coughing, less severe asthma, a little extra energy, better overall breathing. NO CRAVINGS. I can slot my desire to vape on the same level as my desire to eat, instead of a brain-consuming hunt for a hit.
Dangerous Ground, My Bloog CS experience:
To be truthful, I have yet to receive a response from CS. I am awaiting my code so I can benefit from sending interested parties to order from Bloog. Yes, I am still confident enough in my product experiences to refer my friends and family to Bloog. I have also been fully-read on this sub-forum, and a Bloog customer PRIOR to the CNY black-out. I have incredible patience, and will happily wait until the issues that are greater than my own are resolved. It's also still the weekend, so I'm expecting a wait, anyhow.
EDIT: I suppose I should also put the update here, for new readers, as well. I received my CS email response on the very next full business day after sending my email.
Overall:
I have only positive things to say about Bloog. The few negatives are more than outweighed by the many positives, and I can tolerate them well enough not to complain about them.
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. Do you plan on trying any of the other flavors?
