Hi everybody! So, I have been vaping for quite some time now, but never seem to get around to posting on ECF. It is a slow Friday at work, with not much to do, so I would like to take this time to reintroduce myself to the ECF community, and give a kind of timeline to my vaping adventures. (Note: I know that vaping is a ridiculously subjective matter and that not everybody will agree with the choices that I have made in products. This is just a record of one individual's path through the vaping world. Also, I have owned other tanks/atomizers than the ones that I have listed, but these are the ones that I have used for daily use.)
First off, my name is Bryce. I live in Minnesota in the Twin Cities metro area and have been smoke-free since 07/21/12. My first real introduction to vaping was when I purchased a Sidesho cigalike kit from Modern Vapor. At that time, I was not aware of the existence of mods, or even eGos, and was recommended their website from a friend of the family. This kit did the job well enough to get me off of cigarettes, but it was a huge hassle, and I really hated having to order everything online.
I used the Modern Vapor setup until October of 2012 when my a friend of mine found the website for Vermillion River e-Juice and noticed that they had a storefront in the town that I was currently living. I stopped in one night (hoping to find stuff for my Sidesho) and left with an eGo-C Twist with a DCT (and an education). After using that, I was hooked. The overwhelming lack of hassle, the vapor and flavor that was so much better than anything I was used to, there was just no going back.
I used this setup for a couple of months as I delved a bit deeper into the world of vaping, and at that time, there was one brand name that I kept seeing repeated over and over again......
...yup, ProVari.
I used only my ProVari with carto-tanks for about six months, eventually picking up a ProVari Mini.
And a Smok SID, because it was cheap.
But the time inevitably came in Fall of 2013 for me to spread my wings and start playing around with rebuildables. I started out with a Smok RSST, then a Pyrex RSST.
In Spring of 2014, I bought my first Kayfun (HCigar clone), and then moved on to a Kayfun Lite+ Nano (ehPro).
I had been happy as a clam with my ProVaris for almost two years, and had no desire to use anything else, until one evening last fall I walked into my local B&M and saw a tiny little box mod sitting on the shelf. I figured it had to be some kind of cheap POS gimmick that was maybe on par with an eGo. Imagine my surprise when I found out that it was actually a 20W box mod with a 2200mah battery! It was, you guessed it, the eLeaf iStick!
I bought one for my girlfriend, and one for myself. I fell in love with not only the device, but wattage vaping as well. Somehow a $50 device was able to shelve two $165 ProVaris. It was all happy times and sunshine for me until my girlfriend managed to break her iStick after only about a month. Now, seeing as how it was part of her Christmas gift from me, and I'm a good boyfriend, I gave her my eLeaf (which was still perfect). Needless to say, I needed something else ASAP. Which led me to this:
The Pioneer4You IPV-Mini. This was the first device that I had owned that could fire sub-ohm, and I wanted to take advantage of that, which drew me straight to the Aspire Atlantis.
Honestly, I just wanted to take a break from rebuilding for a while, and I really like the open airflow of the Atlantis.
This setup worked great for me, but truth be told, I had my eye on a different device. Since I had spent a fair amount of money on vaping devices in just a few short months, I decided that before I could get anything more, I had to sell something off. So it was with a heavy heart that I made the decision to put my beloved and trusty ProVaris up for sale. They sat in the case of my local B&M for about a month, until I got the call that my Mini had sold, and for the price that I wanted. That was all the push I needed, I drove down the next day and pulled the trigger on the mod that I really wanted. The Vaporshark rDNA-40.
I am sure that in the future I will change directions, but for now, this setup works just perfectly for me. I may or may not start posting more here, but I just wanted to throw this out there for anyone who was interested. Happy Vaping!
First off, my name is Bryce. I live in Minnesota in the Twin Cities metro area and have been smoke-free since 07/21/12. My first real introduction to vaping was when I purchased a Sidesho cigalike kit from Modern Vapor. At that time, I was not aware of the existence of mods, or even eGos, and was recommended their website from a friend of the family. This kit did the job well enough to get me off of cigarettes, but it was a huge hassle, and I really hated having to order everything online.
I used the Modern Vapor setup until October of 2012 when my a friend of mine found the website for Vermillion River e-Juice and noticed that they had a storefront in the town that I was currently living. I stopped in one night (hoping to find stuff for my Sidesho) and left with an eGo-C Twist with a DCT (and an education). After using that, I was hooked. The overwhelming lack of hassle, the vapor and flavor that was so much better than anything I was used to, there was just no going back.
I used this setup for a couple of months as I delved a bit deeper into the world of vaping, and at that time, there was one brand name that I kept seeing repeated over and over again......
...yup, ProVari.
I used only my ProVari with carto-tanks for about six months, eventually picking up a ProVari Mini.
And a Smok SID, because it was cheap.
But the time inevitably came in Fall of 2013 for me to spread my wings and start playing around with rebuildables. I started out with a Smok RSST, then a Pyrex RSST.
In Spring of 2014, I bought my first Kayfun (HCigar clone), and then moved on to a Kayfun Lite+ Nano (ehPro).
I had been happy as a clam with my ProVaris for almost two years, and had no desire to use anything else, until one evening last fall I walked into my local B&M and saw a tiny little box mod sitting on the shelf. I figured it had to be some kind of cheap POS gimmick that was maybe on par with an eGo. Imagine my surprise when I found out that it was actually a 20W box mod with a 2200mah battery! It was, you guessed it, the eLeaf iStick!
I bought one for my girlfriend, and one for myself. I fell in love with not only the device, but wattage vaping as well. Somehow a $50 device was able to shelve two $165 ProVaris. It was all happy times and sunshine for me until my girlfriend managed to break her iStick after only about a month. Now, seeing as how it was part of her Christmas gift from me, and I'm a good boyfriend, I gave her my eLeaf (which was still perfect). Needless to say, I needed something else ASAP. Which led me to this:
The Pioneer4You IPV-Mini. This was the first device that I had owned that could fire sub-ohm, and I wanted to take advantage of that, which drew me straight to the Aspire Atlantis.
Honestly, I just wanted to take a break from rebuilding for a while, and I really like the open airflow of the Atlantis.
This setup worked great for me, but truth be told, I had my eye on a different device. Since I had spent a fair amount of money on vaping devices in just a few short months, I decided that before I could get anything more, I had to sell something off. So it was with a heavy heart that I made the decision to put my beloved and trusty ProVaris up for sale. They sat in the case of my local B&M for about a month, until I got the call that my Mini had sold, and for the price that I wanted. That was all the push I needed, I drove down the next day and pulled the trigger on the mod that I really wanted. The Vaporshark rDNA-40.
I am sure that in the future I will change directions, but for now, this setup works just perfectly for me. I may or may not start posting more here, but I just wanted to throw this out there for anyone who was interested. Happy Vaping!
