Totally new. Need help with simple low-cost setup.

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hellov

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Thank you guys for all your suggestions. I will be using this kit to ween myself off of nicotine. That is why I don't want to buy the most expensive, high tech kit out there. Also, I am into photography and camera gear is really expensive. I don't need another hobby right now to lighten my wallet.

The last time I "quit" smoking, I had quit for a good 8 months cold turkey. I don't know why I returned to smoking...I was doing so well. But from what I recall, I was hit pretty hard with withdrawal symptoms for the first 2 or 3 months. The worst was the anxiety and insomnia.

I can see other NRT methods such as lozenges or nicotine gum to be superior to vaping because it also gets rid of my physical (inhaling vapor) and psychological (thinking I need to inhale something) habits, while vaping can't do that for me. However, I have tried those methods but wasn't determined enough to get past the psychological habit of inhaling smoke. I guess vaping is the next best thing.

I smoke an average of 12 or 13 cigarettes a day, maybe more when I am under stress. I have read that people vape about 3ml a day. That means a 30ml bottle should last me about 8 to 10 days. Taking that into account, I purchased 30ml of 18mg nicotine, 30ml of 12mg, and 30ml of 6mg. That means within 2 weeks, I should have weened myself down to 6mg, and within a month I could choose to not smoke anything at all if my heart desires.

My ultimate goal is to ween myself down to 0mg nicotine tape within two months of heavy use, then vape on and off whenever I want a good throat hit (which is one of the top reasons I liked to smoke). That is why I think this cheaper kit will work. Thank you guys for referring me to myvaporstore. They were amazingly quick, and even responded to all my emails within an hour.
 
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I can see other NRT methods such as lozenges or nicotine gum to be superior to vaping because it also gets rid of my physical (inhaling vapor) and psychological (thinking I need to inhale something) habits, while vaping can't do that for me. However, I have tried those methods but wasn't determined enough to get past the psychological habit of inhaling smoke. I guess vaping is the next best thing.

Well, since those have a failure rate around 90%, I'm not sure they're "superior" to anything.

When the TV ads say, "double your chances of quitting", they mean, "to maybe 12%".

No, I am not kidding around here. The average quit rate in the US is 6%. The best any "cessation" product has ever shown is 12% over a six month (or less) period. Pharma doesn't care for longer term studies because the numbers go down after that. Some long term studies show using NRT reduces your chance of staying quit.

The highest long term success rate in quitting nicotine--if that is what you want to do--is called: "cold turkey". People who go "cold turkey" and make it are the least likely to go back to smoking. I mean, of whatever part of that 6% are the ones who go cold turkey.

Of course, the around three thousand people on Chantix that killed themselves have a quit rate of 100%. So there is that. Suicide is one way to quit and not risk starting again.

I'm sorry but this is the reality we live with. The best way to quit is never start. Nicotine appears to be highly addictive for a segment of the population and our quit rates are tiny. You may be one of the lucky ones who escapes nicotine for good but you also may not.

The point of this "vaping" thing is harm reduction. I do not believe I am capable of ever quitting nicotine. I've tried. I've tried everything. Except Chantix. That stuff scares the crap outta me (not the suicides so much as the psychotic breaks which Pfizer still denies happens). Vaping is a safer way to get the nicotine I probably cannot ever quit. My screw up was decades ago and time travel hasn't been invented.

Gum and such superior? Not in my experience. I quit several times on the gum. Lot of good that did me. It never lasted more than a few months. If I had started the gum instead of vaping, I'd be back to smoking by now. I know that as sure as I know the sun rises in the East.

If you are one of the lucky ones who can break with nicotine, great. More power to you. But what if you aren't? Switching to vaping doesn't end your nic addiction but it does end the repeated inhaling of smoke containing at least 4,000 chemicals (identified so far) of which over 50 are known to cause cancer.

And, anyway, you're just getting started out. You need time to get settled into the whole vaping thing and find the juices you like and that work for you and all the rest. It's a bit of an adjustment. Not a drastic one but there's a settling in period. I say worry about whether you can or want or will or whatever quit nicotine later on. You're just starting out on quitting the 3,999 other chemicals in tobacco smoke...
 

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Starter Kits - eGo-C Twist - Vaporz Haven

This Seems to be what you are looking For....I am about to pull the Trigger on one Myself. While it does not come with 2 Batteries which I would like it does have the choice of "tanks" and they have a decent selection of e-juice IMO...From what I red thus Far I am torn between the t3s or the iclear30...I would love to hear what anyone else has to say about the Kit...
 

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Starter Kits - eGo-C Twist - Vaporz Haven

This Seems to be what you are looking For....I am about to pull the Trigger on one Myself. While it does not come with 2 Batteries which I would like it does have the choice of "tanks" and they have a decent selection of e-juice IMO...From what I red thus Far I am torn between the t3s or the iclear30...I would love to hear what anyone else has to say about the Kit...

iClear30 would not look right on an Ego IMO. You'll want 2 batteries.
As someone already mentioned, if you don't mind waiting a couple weeks, try Fasttech. You could get 2 1100mah twists, 2 tanks, and 2 chargers for under $40 shipped. Get some extra replacement heads and save the rest of your money for juice.
 
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