Ok, before I start, thanks to everyone here. You've all been so quick to answer my questions and offer advice. This is an awesome and welcoming community. Now, for the breakdown...
Got my 510 manual kit yesterday around 12:30/12:45pm. Unpacked it, everything was there, including the little promo flashlight from MadVapes. Made sure everything was charged and loaded a pre-filled cart into one of my units. Hated it. The USA mix just tasted nasty. Having been forewarned about the primer, I expected an off taste, but this was just downright nasty. For me, this was not a good flavor at all. Switched to a blank cart that I'd loaded with the Desert Ship juice that I bought with the kit. Now we're talking, much better flavor, off-taste from the primer was there but it didn't alter the flavor enough to bother me, and it has since gone away.
Aside from the flavor, there was a problem for me at first. I knew I was going to have to inhale slowly, as this was a new medium. I knew that I'd have to adjust my draw strength, because I pack my traditional cigs hard, and I do mean HARD. Most of the time, I have at least 1/4in of empty tube at the end of the cigs when I'm done. However, despite all my compensation, I still was not prepared for the throat hit. WOW, just WOW! The first three draws on the 510 had me coughing so bad that my daughter was looking at me like I'd grown another head, and laughing her little 18 year old behind off!
I decided to make a tactical retreat at this point so as not to overdo things and discourage myself, and came back about 45 minutes later after my lungs had recovered a bit. Slowed down my inhale a bit more, reduced the length of my draw to about half a mouthful, and all was well. Little bit harsh, but nothing nearly as bad as those first three.
As I sit here now, and write this post, I'm looking at the remnants of what will likely be my next-to-last only because cigs are $6/pack here in detroit, and with money being scarce, I simply cannot afford to waste the money that has already been spent. So, I sit here and look at the drawer containing the last unopened pack of analogs that I have, and know that it will be my last, and will likely still be unfinished when Monday rolls around. Since opening my 510 kit, I've smoked six analogs in a span of time that would normally have seen me burning through twice that, if not a bit more... depending on how heavy my video gaming is at night. I'm a World of Warcraft player, and my heaviest smoking has always been when I'm in the middle of a dungeon with 10-25 of my online friends, stomping the daylights out of the unsuspecting raid bosses. By the time I go to sleep in a few hours, my analog habit will have been reduced effectively by half in my first day of vaping.
In closing this little narrative, I can say that the TH has become no problem at all, now that my draw habit and lungs have adapted to the new medium, and I am thoroughly enjoying my purchase of the 510 kit from MadVapes. Also, I have yet to change batteries. Given that I have heard much about the short life of these batteries, I must say that I am thoroughly impressed. I expected to be working on my third charge by now.
Hope you all enjoyed the tale of my intro to vaping. See you on the boards!
Edit: For those of you who might have missed my earlier threads, my base analog habit (Pre vaping) is a pack a day, and the nic level of the Desert Ship juice I purchased is 24mg.
Got my 510 manual kit yesterday around 12:30/12:45pm. Unpacked it, everything was there, including the little promo flashlight from MadVapes. Made sure everything was charged and loaded a pre-filled cart into one of my units. Hated it. The USA mix just tasted nasty. Having been forewarned about the primer, I expected an off taste, but this was just downright nasty. For me, this was not a good flavor at all. Switched to a blank cart that I'd loaded with the Desert Ship juice that I bought with the kit. Now we're talking, much better flavor, off-taste from the primer was there but it didn't alter the flavor enough to bother me, and it has since gone away.
Aside from the flavor, there was a problem for me at first. I knew I was going to have to inhale slowly, as this was a new medium. I knew that I'd have to adjust my draw strength, because I pack my traditional cigs hard, and I do mean HARD. Most of the time, I have at least 1/4in of empty tube at the end of the cigs when I'm done. However, despite all my compensation, I still was not prepared for the throat hit. WOW, just WOW! The first three draws on the 510 had me coughing so bad that my daughter was looking at me like I'd grown another head, and laughing her little 18 year old behind off!
I decided to make a tactical retreat at this point so as not to overdo things and discourage myself, and came back about 45 minutes later after my lungs had recovered a bit. Slowed down my inhale a bit more, reduced the length of my draw to about half a mouthful, and all was well. Little bit harsh, but nothing nearly as bad as those first three.
As I sit here now, and write this post, I'm looking at the remnants of what will likely be my next-to-last only because cigs are $6/pack here in detroit, and with money being scarce, I simply cannot afford to waste the money that has already been spent. So, I sit here and look at the drawer containing the last unopened pack of analogs that I have, and know that it will be my last, and will likely still be unfinished when Monday rolls around. Since opening my 510 kit, I've smoked six analogs in a span of time that would normally have seen me burning through twice that, if not a bit more... depending on how heavy my video gaming is at night. I'm a World of Warcraft player, and my heaviest smoking has always been when I'm in the middle of a dungeon with 10-25 of my online friends, stomping the daylights out of the unsuspecting raid bosses. By the time I go to sleep in a few hours, my analog habit will have been reduced effectively by half in my first day of vaping.
In closing this little narrative, I can say that the TH has become no problem at all, now that my draw habit and lungs have adapted to the new medium, and I am thoroughly enjoying my purchase of the 510 kit from MadVapes. Also, I have yet to change batteries. Given that I have heard much about the short life of these batteries, I must say that I am thoroughly impressed. I expected to be working on my third charge by now.
Hope you all enjoyed the tale of my intro to vaping. See you on the boards!
Edit: For those of you who might have missed my earlier threads, my base analog habit (Pre vaping) is a pack a day, and the nic level of the Desert Ship juice I purchased is 24mg.
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