Hey everybody!
I'm Dave aka BlueYak. I've been lurking for awhile now, and finally broke down and decided to make the first post. I'm sure it's nothing you haven't heard a hundred (thousand) times before, but here's my spiel.
My story: I started smoking when I was twelve years old. I'm now thirty-two. Of those twenty years of smoking, fifteen of them were spent "quitting." Suffice it to say, the traditional methods didn't work for me.
I was first turned onto the idea of vaping by those Blu ads with Stephen Dorff. Up until that, a PV was just something my pothead college friends had - not something I had any interest in. A PV for nicotine was something of a revelation.
But... the Blu looked terrible. Looks terrible. I started smoking to be cool, and apparently there is still enough of that image conscious twelve year old in me that I couldn't bring myself to carry around a cheap looking black plastic tube with a blue LED. I'd look like a complete ....ing tool, and I'm not paying 80 bucks to look like a tool. So I put it off.
Then, one day in a tobacco shop, I saw a display of eCigs. All sorts of shapes and sizes, batteries and tanks and clearomizers and all sorts of things that I didn't know the name of. It was just what I needed. I could get the benefit of vaping (which I'd never tried, but appreciated the idea) without looking like a poseur. So I bought an eGo-C starter kit and a cheap DCT - now I just look like the kind of guy who goes to sci-fi conventions (which I am).
That was two months ago. I haven't completely given up the hard stuff, but I'm down to two packs a month instead of two packs a day. Good progress, imo.
My Setup: eGo-c battery with a no brand name DCT made out of plexiglass (I think).
My Perspective: After two months of vaping, here are the pros and cons I've discovered.
Pros:
-I'm smoking fewer analogs, which I chose to believe is healthier
-No more huddling outside in doorways, hunched against the wind and rain around a dying ember like a Ukrainian dock worker in Brighton Bay. Ok, possibly I'm exaggerating the inconvenience of stepping outside to light up, but I really like be able to vape indoors.
-My PV looks really cool.
-My PV separates into three distinct components. This probably isn't important to most people, but it allows me to take it apart and reassemble it a few times a night. This repetitive manual behavior mimics that of smoking roll-ups and makes the transition form analogs easier.
-The flavors. I've found some excellent caramels, vanillas, and a truly beautiful tobacco-anise-clove-tea mixture a coworker of mine makes.
-My sense of smell is coming back.
Neutral:
-I'm spending about the same amount of money
Cons:
-Vaping isn't self-delimiting. When I smoke an analog, I'm done when the tobacco is burnt up. If I vaped until the tank was empty, I'd have a horrible nicotine rush - and blow through cash faster than I make it. This could be easily solved by incorporating a simple timer (555 IC per exemple) into the PV circuitry that cuts it off after 5-7 minutes and then has to be manually reset to vape again. I may build a box mod with one of these when I get a little free time.
-The flavors. This may be a fault of insufficient research on my part, but here's the rub: I smoke Gauloises Caporal or Luckies. I haven't found a juice that comes even close to tasting like that. Even the best tobacco flavor tastes like Marlboro's or Camel's. Give me a juice that tastes unfiltered, and I'll never smoke an analog again. I'll even throw out the half-pack sitting on my porch.
-If I walk off and leave a pack of smokes on the bar, I'm out five bucks. If I walk off and leave my PV, I'm out fifty.
-My sense of smell is coming back, and now I really just how truly awful all my smoky clothing smells.
TL;DR: Name's Dave. New to vaping. Love it but haven't totally switched from analogs. Nice ta meetcha.
I'm Dave aka BlueYak. I've been lurking for awhile now, and finally broke down and decided to make the first post. I'm sure it's nothing you haven't heard a hundred (thousand) times before, but here's my spiel.
My story: I started smoking when I was twelve years old. I'm now thirty-two. Of those twenty years of smoking, fifteen of them were spent "quitting." Suffice it to say, the traditional methods didn't work for me.
I was first turned onto the idea of vaping by those Blu ads with Stephen Dorff. Up until that, a PV was just something my pothead college friends had - not something I had any interest in. A PV for nicotine was something of a revelation.
But... the Blu looked terrible. Looks terrible. I started smoking to be cool, and apparently there is still enough of that image conscious twelve year old in me that I couldn't bring myself to carry around a cheap looking black plastic tube with a blue LED. I'd look like a complete ....ing tool, and I'm not paying 80 bucks to look like a tool. So I put it off.
Then, one day in a tobacco shop, I saw a display of eCigs. All sorts of shapes and sizes, batteries and tanks and clearomizers and all sorts of things that I didn't know the name of. It was just what I needed. I could get the benefit of vaping (which I'd never tried, but appreciated the idea) without looking like a poseur. So I bought an eGo-C starter kit and a cheap DCT - now I just look like the kind of guy who goes to sci-fi conventions (which I am).
That was two months ago. I haven't completely given up the hard stuff, but I'm down to two packs a month instead of two packs a day. Good progress, imo.
My Setup: eGo-c battery with a no brand name DCT made out of plexiglass (I think).
My Perspective: After two months of vaping, here are the pros and cons I've discovered.
Pros:
-I'm smoking fewer analogs, which I chose to believe is healthier
-No more huddling outside in doorways, hunched against the wind and rain around a dying ember like a Ukrainian dock worker in Brighton Bay. Ok, possibly I'm exaggerating the inconvenience of stepping outside to light up, but I really like be able to vape indoors.
-My PV looks really cool.
-My PV separates into three distinct components. This probably isn't important to most people, but it allows me to take it apart and reassemble it a few times a night. This repetitive manual behavior mimics that of smoking roll-ups and makes the transition form analogs easier.
-The flavors. I've found some excellent caramels, vanillas, and a truly beautiful tobacco-anise-clove-tea mixture a coworker of mine makes.
-My sense of smell is coming back.
Neutral:
-I'm spending about the same amount of money
Cons:
-Vaping isn't self-delimiting. When I smoke an analog, I'm done when the tobacco is burnt up. If I vaped until the tank was empty, I'd have a horrible nicotine rush - and blow through cash faster than I make it. This could be easily solved by incorporating a simple timer (555 IC per exemple) into the PV circuitry that cuts it off after 5-7 minutes and then has to be manually reset to vape again. I may build a box mod with one of these when I get a little free time.
-The flavors. This may be a fault of insufficient research on my part, but here's the rub: I smoke Gauloises Caporal or Luckies. I haven't found a juice that comes even close to tasting like that. Even the best tobacco flavor tastes like Marlboro's or Camel's. Give me a juice that tastes unfiltered, and I'll never smoke an analog again. I'll even throw out the half-pack sitting on my porch.
-If I walk off and leave a pack of smokes on the bar, I'm out five bucks. If I walk off and leave my PV, I'm out fifty.
-My sense of smell is coming back, and now I really just how truly awful all my smoky clothing smells.
TL;DR: Name's Dave. New to vaping. Love it but haven't totally switched from analogs. Nice ta meetcha.
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