Saying hello from Manchester

[Ellen81]

Hi all,
thought I should introduce myself. This morning I had the idea that I would find out these electronic cigarettes were all about. I had never even heard of vaping! I've had a long and interesting day researching online. See I've had this dilemma of being a heavy smoker for 10 years, losing my grandma and my mum to smoking and yet I still couldn't quit. The problem was I love smoking, if only there was a healthier way to smoke....having been and bought some nicolites this afternoon and not touched the remainder of my pack of analogs since, I'm amazed! I consider myself fairly tech savvy, now I feel like I've been living under a rock! I love the taste of vaping and even after a huge meal this evening, I wanted to vape not to smoke! It seems like a huge and fascinating, albeit confusing world of vaping but I'm defintely looking forward to the ride. Thanks for this great forum, I've found the info here very helpful

Ellen

 

[Vapoor eyes er]

Hi Ellen and welcome to ECF. Congrats on quitting. Chrissie, a highly regarded ECF member, also lives in the UK and has some great links for vendors.
Cheers and Happy Vaping

 

[Chrissie]

Hello & welcome Ellen

If you like the nicolites, you will love an ego or Riva even more

Here is that list of UK vendors that Vapoor eyes er is referring to -

http://allaboute-cigarettes.proboar...lay&board=newmembers&thread=1148&page=1#23191

 

[Ellen81]

Thanks for the welcome, battery just died on it, can't say I like the fact that it just stopped working like that, without any real warning, not great if I was out and about, don't want to get into buying spares for nicolites as I can see me moving to another brand anyway. I just initially went with some I could buy in the supermarket to try it out. Seems like this is all a learning curve

 

[ChuckTG]

Congratulations and welcome. I am new also and have found myself spending much more time on these forums than I would like my employer to know

 

[PittBoss]

Hello and welcome to ECF, Ellen! Good to hear you are giving up the ciggies and moving on to bigger and better things.

 

[Cowboy Cru]

Welcome to ECF! I agree, I feel like I went back to school learning some of this! But it's fun too! You'll love it!

-CC-my avatar is Uranus

 

[lotsoffish]

I agree Cowboy. All this "learning" and experimenting is just what somebody needs especially during the first couple weeks off the real cigarettes. It keeps a person occupied and focused on vaping INSTEAD of sitting around thinking about smoking.

 

[Smile n' shine]

I completely agree with Lotsoffish. Learning, support and a new focus does help, after quitting.

Welcome Ellen81! Try not to get overwhelmed with information, it can be fun searching for the perfect set up

Ask all the questions you need to, the folks here are great for support.

 

[brummyjon]

Hi Ellen... a fellow newbie Brit here!

Congrats on quitting. I too started on Nicolites, from my local shop. At just under £7, I just thought 'why not?' After a day or two smoking AND vaping, I never got round to buying a replacement pack of ciggies (and as any smoker knows, you ALWAYS get round to replacing your ciggies!).

I got myself an Innokin AIO (all in one) kit, and I love it. It is enough like a cigarette to get round all the psychological stuff, and very covenient, with the charging box and everything. I went for the black 'cig' with blue LED, rather than the white with orange 'filter' as I guessed it would be easier to vape in public without dirty looks...

 

[brummyjon]

By the way, Ellen, I should add that I don't expect to remain wedded to the Innokin AIO forever, as my tastes develop. There are just too many models out there not to want to try out a few different ones. I just found the transition very very easy...

 

[chunkmeister]

Welcome! Hope you enjoy the forums.

 

[Ellen81]

Good morning all, when I got up this morning, being a heavy smoker I need an intense nicotine hit in the morning. I was debating whether to have an analog first. I decided to vape instead, but was worried that my cartomiser may be low, just for the psychological benefit I put a new cartomiser on, so that I knew I was defintely getting maximum nicotine and now the desire for the analog has passed. I had one analog last night when my battery died and it was nasty. So hopefully I can get through the day just vaping and my few analogs will be left untouched. For now at least I'm vaping purely to keep myself off the analogs, but the fact that I could tie in quitting smoking with an exciting new hobby in the future defintely appeals to me

 

[rallie_art]

I wish you goodluck as I am too will be undergoing the same direction.

 

[wavey]

Hi from Heywood England i too love vaping i now make my own eliquid through research saving even more money keep up the good work if you need any assistance/advice just give me a shout.

 

[gnatx]

Hello and welcome to ecf

 

[simonmpower]

Hi and welcome Ellen. Congratulations on your new life choice. Its not unusual to feel a bit bemused at first with the whole vaping thing and also with the learning curves required with different devices but stick with it and you will get there. Especially now your on this forum.

 

[daisybelle]

Welcome Ellen. I'm from the UK too. There are many of us around.

I agree with Chrissie about an ego. I bought one sceptically purely cause I hated cartos and the ego has me truly hooked. Got a cute pink batt from totally wicked e-liq and health cabin have some good stuff if you can wait.

Liquid wise I love paradise vapes I owe them for becoming a true vaper as much as the ego.

Welcome again. Have fun and happy vaping!

 

[nansc]

Hi Ellen and welcome to the forum.