Things I wish I knew when I started
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Things I've learned:
1. Drink tons of water. vaping will dehydrate you.
2. If you work a desk job buy a passthru.
3. Fill your own carts. It saves money.
4. Just because someone else loves a flavor doesn't mean you will or that your taste is off. Taste is subjective. Order from reputable companies but order what YOU will like.
5. Read, read, read.
6. Don't set yourself up to fail. If you are like me, if you buy cigs you will smoke them. One day make a decision and try to stick with it but don't beat yourself up if you mess up. You fall down, you get back up again.
7. Order well in advance.
8. Find a juice company close to where you live.
9. Stay connected to the community of vapers.
10. If you feel the urge to smoke, take a DEEP breath and remember you couldn't do that before you started vaping. That helps me.
11. Order extra everything, batteries, chargers, carts, whatever.
12. Never persume you got this thing licked. It may take a while but we can do it. The minute I was feeling a little on my high horse I started craving a cig pretty badly.
13. Order lower nic juice for when you want to vape like crazy. Sometimes we just like the act of smoking. I figure it better to do it with 6 or 0 nic than 12 or 18. JMO
That's all I've learned so far but I am sure I will continue to learn a lot more. Good luck everyone!
1. Drink tons of water. vaping will dehydrate you.
2. If you work a desk job buy a passthru.
3. Fill your own carts. It saves money.
4. Just because someone else loves a flavor doesn't mean you will or that your taste is off. Taste is subjective. Order from reputable companies but order what YOU will like.
5. Read, read, read.
6. Don't set yourself up to fail. If you are like me, if you buy cigs you will smoke them. One day make a decision and try to stick with it but don't beat yourself up if you mess up. You fall down, you get back up again.
7. Order well in advance.
8. Find a juice company close to where you live.
9. Stay connected to the community of vapers.
10. If you feel the urge to smoke, take a DEEP breath and remember you couldn't do that before you started vaping. That helps me.
11. Order extra everything, batteries, chargers, carts, whatever.
12. Never persume you got this thing licked. It may take a while but we can do it. The minute I was feeling a little on my high horse I started craving a cig pretty badly.
13. Order lower nic juice for when you want to vape like crazy. Sometimes we just like the act of smoking. I figure it better to do it with 6 or 0 nic than 12 or 18. JMO
That's all I've learned so far but I am sure I will continue to learn a lot more. Good luck everyone!
I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with this comment. This is a case of one person's preference being projected as if it would be everyone's preference if they only tried it.
I've owned a VV device and it was not for me. I vape the same juice every day and it's perfect at 3.7v with an LR atty. I have no need or desire for VV.
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I wrote a thread a while back explaining all this should you become curious as to what it all means.
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...e-wanted-know-plus-bit-electronic-theory.html
You can buy any strength. Because it's unflavored, you'll only be mixing a portion of it. The rest of the juice will consist of plain PG and/or VG, and flavoring. You'd use a calculator such as this one to find the correct amount of each part to mix. eJuice Recipe Calculator
The benefit of buying unflavored juice with higher nic content is that it's cheaper in the long run. I typically buy 48mg because the math divides nicely to 24mg, 18mg, 12mg, or 6mg making measurements easier.
I am struggling to understand why so many people say this.
I only use one atomizer, and I change flavors at least three times each day, sometimes a lot more.
I do sometimes use atomic cinnacide, clove, and pizza, all of which stick in the atomizer a lot longer than any of my other juices.
And yes, I always blow out the atomizer real good before switching to a new flavor after using one of those.
But it really doesn't take me more than a dozen or so drags before the new flavor replaces the old flavor.
I guess it's like dry burns.
I'll never understand why anyone has a problem doing dry burns.
I've done plenty of dry burns, all the while using only one single atomizer the whole time, and I've never had any problem whatsoever.
Strange world we live in, huh?
No, but the higher the mg, the less you'll need to use to bump up the nic level, and the less it will dilute the flavor. I said 60mg because it's easily available and it doesn't scare me as much as, say 100mg.
After a dozen or so drags, the cinnamon is no longer overpowering, but is still there -- for several carts. Besides, I don't want to have to wait a dozen drags to taste the new flavor.
The only atty cleaning procedure I've found that mostly (but not entirely) gets rid of the cinnamon is time-consuming. Just blowing out and doing dry burns isn't nearly good enough.
Devoting an atty to it is technically about convenience for me, but if I didn't do it then I'd either never or always vape the cinnamon.
My clove atomizer is the only one that I can still tell what used to be in it just by taking it from the storage box and smelling it....and it's been 6 months since I tried clove, used it a couple of times for some other flavor and tried to dry burn the clove out of it several times. It looks like the rest of my atomizers and they're all mixed together in the box, but it's just for clove flavor now, which is too bad because I decided I didn't like the clove flavor. Maybe if I mix it with something sweet like marshmallow?? (which I also didn't like but thought it might mix well)
I am struggling to understand why so many people say this.
I only use one atomizer, and I change flavors at least three times each day, sometimes a lot more..........
I guess it's like dry burns.
I'll never understand why anyone has a problem doing dry burns...........
Strange world we live in, huh?
I've changed flavors 3 times an hour, never had a problem with left over flavor, and much
of what I'll vape is extra-strength.
Dry burns though, I've had a problem, (OOOHH, look at the pretty red colo...POP..%@&$)
I'm just too old and uncoordinated to get it right.
I've found it's easier to do a "wet burn" , drip 6-8 drops pure VG or PG
(yes it's flooded, we're cleaning not vaping
) THEN fire it up like you're doing a dry burn to heat the VG - PG good and warm, blow it out and
add your normal juice and
For me it's a little more forgiving.
Thanks for the laugh Stosh!!
I just started out and that was my first experience with dry burn on a 510 atty. POP!
Thankfully I purchased a 5 pack to go with my fledgling starter kit.
It truly is helpful to have multiple atties when your starting out. I've got all my atties wet with different flavors as I try to figure out initially what I like. Plus puffing a schmorgasboard is alot of fun. I highly recommend it to the other noobs like me.
I agree! One of my strong menthols did mine in for a few days! Well I see I quoted the wrong post! Must be all the snow here in Illinois getting to my brain!
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As for keeping carts seperate, I went to the local smoke shop and bought those little ziplock bags and wrote the flavor on a small piece of paper and sealed the cart and the paper in the bag. Kinda o.c.d. but it does the trick, and this way I don't have to keep cleaning out the cart or worry about mixing flavors. This was the easiest way I could think of to keep my carts separate. Would be a little expensive for cartys though but for carts its not that bad to have 1 dedicated for each juice and 2 for my favorites.
Dry burns? Oh my head is spinning...LOL All these new terms and just when I thought I was catching on you throw another one at me...LOLOL
Yeah, "dry burns" are another thing that you don't actually have to worry about unless you want to. It's one of the "fiddly things" I was talking about.
Dry burns are an atty cleaning method outlined in this post. In my opinion, soaking attys in alcohol overnight is nearly as effective and much less risky in terms of accidentally ruining an atomizer. I've lost more than a few to dry burns, but none to alcohol soaks.
This is probably the best piece of advice. I learned the hard way last week when I first started vaping on a cartomizer and had a mouth full of burned nastiness because it wasn't ready... lol
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