Long story short Ive been smoking since I was 13 years old (almost 30 now). I have just about every bad symptom you have heard of (wheezing during a deep breath, hard hacking with phlem all day and night...god forbid I step into a steamy bathroom, I almost throw up I cough so hard, days where I can actually feel my lungs moving and my ribs hurting, etc) I also have a very long term girlfriend (we have been together since we were kids) and she hates the smell of smoke and constantly reminds me of how much I smoke. The problem is, I like smoking. I like the taste (I have read enough to know you guys will think I am crazy for saying that lol) I love the feeling of the smoke rolling down my throat, filling my lungs, and then that soothing satisfying exhale. Beyond being horribly addicted to the actual nicotine and because I have smoked more than half my life, I also associate everything I do with smoking which is why, even with gum/patches, I cant quit. I drive smoking, I go to the bathroom smoking. I know how long I have been on break at work by how many cigs I smoke (2 cigs lit from each other is a 15 minute break, a cig, a sandwich and 2 more cigs is a 30 minute lunch) I play video games with a lit cig between my fingers, I watch TV with a cig... its endless. That is going to be one of the big problems for me. Breaking the association I have with EVERYTHING and smoking. With a PV perhaps that will be a bit easier than without anything except nicotine
Right now I roll my own cigs and am smoking around 2 packs a day. Some days a little more, some days a lot more. I finish off a pound of tobacco in roughly 16 days. If I do buy a pack, I smoke Newport 100's but because they are so "mellow" I end up polishing off the pack in 2 or 3 hours. The tobacco I buy (Called The Good Stuff pipe tobacco) is a very rough smoke. I then use Tops menthol papers. Depending on my mood, I rip the filter off for a more satisfying harsher puff. Here is another issue though. I buy the tobacco online for 13 dollars a pound (no tax) in bulk, and a carton of papers is roughly 3 dollars from a local smoke shop. In total, I am spending around 40-50 dollars a month smoking. I really cant spend much more than that on a reoccurring basis (I do know the first "set up hit" is going to be much more than that, but 30 days down the road, I cant be spending more than 40-50 dollars to keep puffing a month)
Now that we have the background out of the way, Ill move on to the present. Over the last week I have bought 2 disposable e-cigs. An Encore menthol and a Blu menthol disposable. The Encore was pretty mellow, but if I puffed hard and long, sort of like a deep draw from a hooka I could get a semi satisfying feeling. The taste was kind of nice, a mint, not an actual menthol taste. Toward the end, the best way I can describe it would be... the smoke tasted like how electronics smell when they burn out. My girl said my exhale went from a mint air freshener to what she described as a battery burning. I do know though that this was most likely due to either, the disposable being "dead" or because I was taking such frequent deep puffs, I burned it out. However in a sign of hope, during my 15-18 hours with it, I smoked around 1 pack of actual cigs which was a first in probably 5 years.
The Blu however... I didnt puff more than 20 times before it got thrown away. First the vapor is so light it felt like I was smoking an ultra light Virginia Slim. It had zero feeling going down my throat, nothing in my lungs, etc. If I puffed hard and long like on the Encore, I instantly started hacking. Couldnt even inhale it all, just hard coughing. At first I thought I grabbed a normal tobacco Blu, but it was menthol. The smoke, when I could inhale it, always had this chemical acid-y taste to it with a faint undertone of...coffee?
Now, like I said Ive been doing plenty of reading on these forums. I feel like I have an ok basis for what I want and what I dont. I also have tons of stuff I just dont understand, and some terms I dont quite get, but thats for other posts. Lots of learning left for me
I am pretty sure I want a variable voltage battery. I know I want a clearomizer for ease of frequent fill-ups. On the note of the clearomizer, I am not too worried about the "lack of full flavor" when compared to something like an atomizer because while I dont know what "dripping" is, I do know that sounds like something I dont want to be doing every hour, or trying to do in the cold, outside, on a 15 minute break at work. I have also heard you guys talk highly about ViVi Nova tanks (which I am pretty sure are Clearomizers?) and while I dont want to go insane with the budget (trying to keep the actual vape piece around 100 before juices) I do want quality (or at least as much as I can get in my budget range)
On this note, I have come across this kit (2 Ego twist VV batteries with 2 ViVi Nova tanks, and 5 extra heads)
eGo-C Twist w/ CE5 Ultimate Starter Kit
Big question #1... Ohms. What do they mean? Do I want the 1.8 Ohm tanks, or do I want the 2.8 Ohm tanks? And why... what exactly do the Ohms mean for a Vape? I have a vague memory of Ohms testing car electricity looking for a short circuit but that was years ago, and even if I did remember, I doubt that would apply here.
Second question... With this kit, basically all I need for say, the foreseeable future would be a never ending supply of a tasty juice? Im not missing anything vital except a passthrough? (which I will be buying for sure though I cant seem to find one on that site for the Twist's... and now that I think about that, I would lose the VV functionality of the Twist while using a pass through wouldnt I?)
Would something like this work with the ViVi tanks?
Mini eGo Variable Voltage Passthrough - MyFreedomSmokes.com
Im sure there will be lots of more questions to be asked as the thread develops but this, just like my theory to life at this moment is, 1 step at a time and above all else, thank you in advance for those who respond
Right now I roll my own cigs and am smoking around 2 packs a day. Some days a little more, some days a lot more. I finish off a pound of tobacco in roughly 16 days. If I do buy a pack, I smoke Newport 100's but because they are so "mellow" I end up polishing off the pack in 2 or 3 hours. The tobacco I buy (Called The Good Stuff pipe tobacco) is a very rough smoke. I then use Tops menthol papers. Depending on my mood, I rip the filter off for a more satisfying harsher puff. Here is another issue though. I buy the tobacco online for 13 dollars a pound (no tax) in bulk, and a carton of papers is roughly 3 dollars from a local smoke shop. In total, I am spending around 40-50 dollars a month smoking. I really cant spend much more than that on a reoccurring basis (I do know the first "set up hit" is going to be much more than that, but 30 days down the road, I cant be spending more than 40-50 dollars to keep puffing a month)
Now that we have the background out of the way, Ill move on to the present. Over the last week I have bought 2 disposable e-cigs. An Encore menthol and a Blu menthol disposable. The Encore was pretty mellow, but if I puffed hard and long, sort of like a deep draw from a hooka I could get a semi satisfying feeling. The taste was kind of nice, a mint, not an actual menthol taste. Toward the end, the best way I can describe it would be... the smoke tasted like how electronics smell when they burn out. My girl said my exhale went from a mint air freshener to what she described as a battery burning. I do know though that this was most likely due to either, the disposable being "dead" or because I was taking such frequent deep puffs, I burned it out. However in a sign of hope, during my 15-18 hours with it, I smoked around 1 pack of actual cigs which was a first in probably 5 years.
The Blu however... I didnt puff more than 20 times before it got thrown away. First the vapor is so light it felt like I was smoking an ultra light Virginia Slim. It had zero feeling going down my throat, nothing in my lungs, etc. If I puffed hard and long like on the Encore, I instantly started hacking. Couldnt even inhale it all, just hard coughing. At first I thought I grabbed a normal tobacco Blu, but it was menthol. The smoke, when I could inhale it, always had this chemical acid-y taste to it with a faint undertone of...coffee?
Now, like I said Ive been doing plenty of reading on these forums. I feel like I have an ok basis for what I want and what I dont. I also have tons of stuff I just dont understand, and some terms I dont quite get, but thats for other posts. Lots of learning left for me
I am pretty sure I want a variable voltage battery. I know I want a clearomizer for ease of frequent fill-ups. On the note of the clearomizer, I am not too worried about the "lack of full flavor" when compared to something like an atomizer because while I dont know what "dripping" is, I do know that sounds like something I dont want to be doing every hour, or trying to do in the cold, outside, on a 15 minute break at work. I have also heard you guys talk highly about ViVi Nova tanks (which I am pretty sure are Clearomizers?) and while I dont want to go insane with the budget (trying to keep the actual vape piece around 100 before juices) I do want quality (or at least as much as I can get in my budget range)
On this note, I have come across this kit (2 Ego twist VV batteries with 2 ViVi Nova tanks, and 5 extra heads)
eGo-C Twist w/ CE5 Ultimate Starter Kit
Big question #1... Ohms. What do they mean? Do I want the 1.8 Ohm tanks, or do I want the 2.8 Ohm tanks? And why... what exactly do the Ohms mean for a Vape? I have a vague memory of Ohms testing car electricity looking for a short circuit but that was years ago, and even if I did remember, I doubt that would apply here.
Second question... With this kit, basically all I need for say, the foreseeable future would be a never ending supply of a tasty juice? Im not missing anything vital except a passthrough? (which I will be buying for sure though I cant seem to find one on that site for the Twist's... and now that I think about that, I would lose the VV functionality of the Twist while using a pass through wouldnt I?)
Would something like this work with the ViVi tanks?
Mini eGo Variable Voltage Passthrough - MyFreedomSmokes.com
Im sure there will be lots of more questions to be asked as the thread develops but this, just like my theory to life at this moment is, 1 step at a time
and above all else, thank you in advance for those who respond
! Your back-story's just like mine (2 PAD, ages 12-30, mainly hand-rolled -UGH). You've really done your research, and have found great starting-points. I did find that I needed more of a punch, as a heavy smoker, and found the Vamo could provide that. It's really a nice price for what you get, I think. I'm not gonna link, cause you can shop around for the best deal of the moment. Of course, then, I also saved my pennies for a long while to get a Reo VV Grand 
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