Finally on a vaping-related message board. I've been a heavy smoker (a pack a day, is that a 'heavy' smoker? I don't know. Heavier than I wanted to be, though) since I was 19 -- just turned 37 on the 7th of this month. I had tried a couple different substitutes for cigarettes; mainly Swedish snus (Swedish Match Lab Series #02 and Northerner Boost) and a couple different e-Cigs -- but not good e-Cigs.
My first was a Red Dragon -- it came with only 2 prefilled cartridges. One of them didn't work at all, dead in the box. The other tasted like... well, I never could identify what it tasted like, exactly, but it tasted bad. No throat hit, little vapor, and I would have preferred no flavor to whatever it was that thing tasted like.
My second e-Cig was one a former roommate got me from a convenience store down on the corner. As you might expect, that was no better. The battery ended up dying after a week of normal use.
Currently, I have a Blu starter kit -- the older model, not the "smart pack." Just a regular ol' "dumb pack."
The battery life is atrociously wimpy, but at least it works. I've recently dipped my toe in the DIY scene by -- hold onto your shorts, folks -- refilling the Blu carts when they die. A friend of mine, to whom I gave the second Blu battery and the USB charger, bought a sampler pack of Halo e-juices. In trade for the battery and charger, he kicked down to me the HX3 and Captain Jack samples, and I've been happily vaping on those for a few days now. Far and away, this has been the best, most effective vaping I've experienced so far, but I don't plan to quit here.
Money permitting (which probably won't be for a while, since I'm a starving writer) I'll be upgrading my PV to an Ovale eGo-C and diving into Halo juices at the 30ml level with Bella Valente and HX3, since I've heard nothing but good about the former and know the latter to be awesome.
My first was a Red Dragon -- it came with only 2 prefilled cartridges. One of them didn't work at all, dead in the box. The other tasted like... well, I never could identify what it tasted like, exactly, but it tasted bad. No throat hit, little vapor, and I would have preferred no flavor to whatever it was that thing tasted like.
My second e-Cig was one a former roommate got me from a convenience store down on the corner. As you might expect, that was no better. The battery ended up dying after a week of normal use.
Currently, I have a Blu starter kit -- the older model, not the "smart pack." Just a regular ol' "dumb pack."
The battery life is atrociously wimpy, but at least it works. I've recently dipped my toe in the DIY scene by -- hold onto your shorts, folks -- refilling the Blu carts when they die. A friend of mine, to whom I gave the second Blu battery and the USB charger, bought a sampler pack of Halo e-juices. In trade for the battery and charger, he kicked down to me the HX3 and Captain Jack samples, and I've been happily vaping on those for a few days now. Far and away, this has been the best, most effective vaping I've experienced so far, but I don't plan to quit here.Money permitting (which probably won't be for a while, since I'm a starving writer) I'll be upgrading my PV to an Ovale eGo-C and diving into Halo juices at the 30ml level with Bella Valente and HX3, since I've heard nothing but good about the former and know the latter to be awesome.
That's not a complaint, though; quite the contrary. I sort of forced myself into that so that I would have no choice but to quit smoking. I figured there was no other way I could do it.
