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Marius_Kingsley

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While I would generally agree with you on that, nicotine is highly addictive for most, even in small doses. If the OP were to go from, say, one or two cigarettes every few weeks, to one a night, they're going to get hooked 99% of the time. I think a simple 510/808-style cigalike with refillable cartos and 0mg nicotine is better in the long run, and will still work out cheaper, as even at one cigarette's worth of puffs in a night, or more, a 30ml bottle of juice should last the better part of a month, maybe even longer, I know I could burn two cartos (1ml/ea) in a night, but I'm a heavy vaper..so if they're really only taking a few drags here and there, a 30ml could last up to three or four months in a proper glass bottle. Also DIYing nic-free juices is incredibly easy, as much as I shouldn't say it for risk of being yelled at, I'm helping a friend of mine get into zero-nic vaping to satisfy an oral fixation similar to my own, and she's already able to DIY pretty good mixes that even I enjoy after only a day or two, I just split her bottles and add nicotine to half for myself.

I was a pack/day smoker, and a 30 ml bottle lasts me nearly a month. And if the OP were smoking 1 cigarette/day, my response would be completely different. But if someone is smoking 1-4 cigarettes a month, they're not doing any real damage to themselves. And if they buy any e-cig starter kit, it would take over a year to pay for itself. As opposed to someone like me, whose starter kit + juice paid for itself in less than two weeks. I spent over $100 in July, and I'm still nearly $50 in the black vs. smoking.

For someone like the OP, I fear that vaping would become more than social, and significantly more expensive as a result.

The following is not trolling, just the result of extensive research:

The effects of vaping have not been fully researched. While I believe without reservation that it is less harmful that regular smoking, we do not know the long-term effects of using PG/VG as inhalants. We DO know that someone who smokes as little as the OP does is more likely to die WITH cancer, rather than FROM cancer. So with the known health effects of smoking, and the unknown health effects of vaping, I would still recommend that the OP just smokes 1-4 cigarettes per month.

"The devil you know..."
 
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I hear what you are saying, but I respectfully disagree. The OP is looking for an experience. And that experience occasionally involved a smoke. Still wants the experience - but without all the things he rightfully cited - like the smell of cigarette smoke getting into clothes and what not. Vaping, as an "excuse" to get out of the house instead of smoking? Why not!

My biggest fear is for casual/social smokers to end up gadget happy like me. That stuff is expensive.
 

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Wonder what they are gonna think when they come back and find all this? (They are coming back? Right?)

Basic stuff actually does work for some people. :shock: There - I said it. I know one member who started herself and her husband on a single Joy nobox kit. It actually worked and got them both off butts in short order. They did eventually upgrade. But for only $35.00? For them it was money well spent. (Totally hung up on that "must look like a cigarette" thing. Has since got over that.)

I do get really annoyed at $5.00 lowest-of-the-low China kits getting rebranded by ripoff sites as $189.99 "value" items - and then selling them for at least $75.00. At least a Joyetech 510 kit from an honest vendor doesn't comes with a "bend over" free bonus gift in the markup.
 
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Wonder what they are gonna think when they come back and find all this? (They are coming back? Right?)

Basic stuff actually does work form some people. :shock: There - I said it. I know one member who started herself and her husband on a single Joy nobox kit. It actually worked and got them both off butts in short order. They did eventually upgrade. But for only $35.00? For them it was money well spent. (Totally hung up on that "must look like a cigarette" thing. Has since got over that.)

I do get really annoyed at $5.00 lowest-of-the-low China kits getting rebranded by ripoff sites as $189.99 "value" items - and then selling them for at least $75.00. At least a Joyetech 510 kit from an honest vendor doesn't comes with a "bend over" free bonus gift in the markup.

I started with a "can't even find it with a google search" kit. It totally hooked me. :)
 

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Wonder what they are gonna think when they come back and find all this? (They are coming back? Right?)

Basic stuff actually does work for some people. :shock: There - I said it.

PMSL
wonder how many forumites are sitting out there with the 'tourettes' ready to burst out from them

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WOW guys I wasn't expecting this many replies in so little time! Thanks!

For some reason I can't reply with google chrome, anyone knows why?

Thanks for all the tips, I've been looking at the links and I discarded the discardable ecigs (pun intended) like the ehookahs and shisha ones. I found eRoll to be quite expensive although very nice. Halo G6 seems to have a nice price and looks amazing but can I get it in the UK or Europe?

I also found these two links on my own but I'm not sure if they're good/trustworthy:
V2 Cigs Economy Starter Kit - V2Cigs UK
PRIME 1 E Cigarette kit - Electronic cigarette shop | AIR e Cigs

Until now (and if those two above prove to be bad) I'm more inclined to go for the Vape Escape ones, the PCC sounds very nice to have since I can charge my ecigs anywhere up to 6 times which for me is enough since in a nightclub I won't smoke more than 3. However, it comes with 5 menthol cartomizers with 18mg nicotine and I'd rather have 6mg. As for buying 5 extra cherry cartomizers, I can't seem to be able to chose the dosage, all it says is it is filled with 1ml of liquid.

Thanks!
 

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My biggest fear is for casual/social smokers to end up gadget happy like me. That stuff is expensive.

Basic stuff actually does work for some people. :shock: There - I said it.

This. I was an ex-smoker (full-time anyway) who really missed the action of smoking when I first found vaping. I started with a Volt auto cigalike and 0mg nic. I still only use 0mg nic (don't even like low nic in my juice) months later and still love my little Volts. That said, I do have a couple of mods, but I don't have $100 in all three of them and my Volts probably get the most use since they are for driving and out and about. I have two and I only have to charge them on weekends. The batteries in my mods I change about once a month, lol.

Now juices and cartos for the Volt (since I dedicate one to each juice), we won't discuss. I have WAY too many juices that I love and "need" in my rotation. Then again, cartos are cheap and a 10ml bottle of juice lasts me FOREVER. :D
 

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WOW guys I wasn't expecting this many replies in so little time! Thanks!

For some reason I can't reply with google chrome, anyone knows why?

Thanks for all the tips, I've been looking at the links and I discarded the discardable ecigs (pun intended) like the ehookahs and shisha ones. I found eRoll to be quite expensive although very nice. Halo G6 seems to have a nice price and looks amazing but can I get it in the UK or Europe?

I also found these two links on my own but I'm not sure if they're good/trustworthy:
V2 Cigs Economy Starter Kit - V2Cigs UK
PRIME 1 E Cigarette kit - Electronic cigarette shop | AIR e Cigs

Until now (and if those two above prove to be bad) I'm more inclined to go for the Vape Escape ones, the PCC sounds very nice to have since I can charge my ecigs anywhere up to 6 times which for me is enough since in a nightclub I won't smoke more than 3. However, it comes with 5 menthol cartomizers with 18mg nicotine and I'd rather have 6mg. As for buying 5 extra cherry cartomizers, I can't seem to be able to chose the dosage, all it says is it is filled with 1ml of liquid.

Thanks!
I didn't even notice the supplied cartos with the kit were tobacco or menthol options only :blush:
You could contact Jason (the owner of Vape Escape) and ask politely if he'd swap out the supplied PCC cartos with cherry ones-they are very customer focused - if you dont ask you dont get ;)
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Contact Us : Vape Escape

as regards the 18mg strength-a filled carto will last a regular vaper half or a full day-once the juice is gone you can 'top-up' the carto again and again with a lower nic juice ;) (bought seperately of course-and 18mg you will hardly notice anyway)-
when buying replacement cartos get the empty ones and fill them yourself.
This will be a bit of a faff at first-but quickly learned :)


8mg-near enough ?
http://www.vapeescape.co.uk/E-Liquids/10ml-Bottles/Cherry-10ml.html :D
 
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The absolute best e cig that I have found after 4 years and tons of money and experimentation with all things new is this simple solution. Buy a Fling disposable from White Cloud. It is perfect for you, offering many flavors and many strengths. Right now, you can get a pack of 10 for $29.99. You can mix flavors in the package, and 10 will last you a very long time. I can use a single Fling all day and the battery will still be working. For someone like you, that one Fling will last much longer. They really are the best, and I have pretty much stopped using my rechargeables. At. under $3 apiece, there is no better e cig IMO
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I didn't even notice the supplied cartos with the kit were tobacco or menthol options only :blush:
You could contact Jason (the owner of Vape Escape) and ask politely if he'd swap out the supplied PCC cartos with cherry ones-they are very customer focused - if you dont ask you dont get ;)
here
Contact Us : Vape Escape

as regards the 18mg strength-a filled carto will last a regular vaper half or a full day-once the juice is gone you can 'top-up' the carto again and again with a lower nic juice ;) (bought seperately of course-and 18mg you will hardly notice anyway)-
when buying replacement cartos get the empty ones and fill them yourself.
This will be a bit of a faff at first-but quickly learned :)


8mg-near enough ?
Cherry 10ml [VE46] - £4.95 : Vape Escape :D

Yes 8mg would be enough. So if cartos are refillable, when do I need a new carto?
 
I can get 2-3 weeks out of a carto, then it starts to taste funky
however a cart that contains ejuice and is left around not being used regular will also taste funky

So if I get blank cartos and only fill them as I use them, the ones without ejuice could be the replacements, right? So I might ask them for a kit with cherry prefilled cartos and after some months I'll buy blanks and a bottle of ejuice to fill them.
 

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So if I get blank cartos and only fill them as I use them, the ones without ejuice could be the replacements, right? So I might ask them for a kit with cherry prefilled cartos and after some months I'll buy blanks and a bottle of ejuice to fill them.


Yep, easy as that
What I would do if they wont swap out the cartos would be to order the tobacco ones (no one in vape world has ever replicated a tobacco cigarette flavour-take my word for it ) they will taste better than you expect (kind of lightly sweet aromatic tobacco-ish flavour which is quite mild), buy a bottle of the cherry, add a couple or 3 drops before using it, and the cherry will infuse the carto, and before the day is out you will only taste the cherry-job done-and thats it :)
 
Yep, easy as that
What I would do if they wont swap out the cartos would be to order the tobacco ones (no one in vape world has ever replicated a tobacco cigarette flavour-take my word for it ) they will taste better than you expect (kind of lightly sweet aromatic tobacco-ish flavour which is quite mild), buy a bottle of the cherry, add a couple or 3 drops before using it, and the cherry will infuse the carto, and before the day is out you will only taste the cherry-job done-and thats it :)

Best tip ever! Great idea!
 
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