Vape with Hard Puff Limits & Time Scheduling

[guises.boater]

I’m trying to find a refillable device (mod/pod mod) that offers advanced usage controls - specifically regarding puff limits .

Most mods have a simple puff counter that just counts up to 9999, but I am looking for a device that allows me to set a “hard limit” that actually stops the device from firing after a certain number of puffs.

Ideally, I am looking for a setup that can:

1. Set a Hard Cap: Stop firing after X puffs.
2. Auto-Reset: Automatically reset the counter/limit after a set time (e.g., every 2 hours or every 24 hours).
3. Schedule Usage: Allow more puffs during certain times of the day (e.g., evenings) and fewer/zero puffs during others (e.g., work hours).

I’m open to older hardware if I can find it, or tinkering with software if necessary.
I’m just trying to manage my intake more strictly without relying solely on willpower!

Thanks in advance for any tips or direction!


Health Perspective.

I’m really disappointed that no matter how hard I search for such device - there’s nothing like this out there.
In the whole industry nobody seems interested in mitigating the harmful impact of high doses of nicotine?
Nicotine is very dangerous over long time in the way it constantly keeps blood pressure elevated which harms the elasticity of our blood vessels and can be direct cause of all kind of diseases.
Average blood pressure is one of the key factors when it comes to longevity.

That’s why in my opinion limiting nicotine exposure in certain times of the day (before bed , before/after GYM, stressful hours) and otherwise keeping nicotine levels steady throughout the day can have tremendous impact on our health and who knows how many years of precious life this single feature can save us.

 

[Izan]

Hi and Welcome,

My approach involved multiple identical devices with varying levels of nicotine.

If I need a ¨fix¨, I use the high nicotine device.
When I am vaping mindlessly, I choose ¨0¨nicotine.
And I would use a medium nicotine level if I am being social or enjoying a vape, after a meal perhaps.

Use stickers or vape bands or different colored pods/batteries to differentiate the units.


IMO, Don´t wait. I`m sure you have defeated challenges like this before. You can do it again.
¨Hack¨yourself and work around market/product limitations.


Cheers
I

 

[guises.boater]

@Izan thank you this is very cool advice.
Sadly even with different nic-level vapes I could be heavily abusing even the lowest nic-level vape.

But it's still the best workaround I've seen!

 

[Storm52]

There is also discipline.

 

[ShowMeTwice]

As Izan and Storm clearly stated........ the Mind is very powerful.

Failure to use ones Mind = total laziness.

"Intellectual laziness has nothing to do with a lack of intelligence. It's a refusal to use it. More like the death of curiosity."

 

[retired1]

@Izan thank you this is very cool advice.
Sadly even with different nic-level vapes I could be heavily abusing even the lowest nic-level vape.

But it's still the best workaround I've seen!

Do you drink coffee? Sodas? Caffeine has similar effects on your body that nicotine does. Both are addictive, however I do think whatever you're reading is over blowing the effects of nicotine. This is what some want you to believe and they're perfectly willing to hype up the negatives without looking at the entire picture.

 

[guises.boater]

Do you drink coffee? Sodas? Caffeine has similar effects on your body that nicotine does. Both are addictive, however I do think whatever you're reading is over blowing the effects of nicotine. This is what some want you to believe and they're perfectly willing to hype up the negatives without looking at the entire picture.

I clealy didn't mean to discuss the health aspect here.
I just want to keep blood pressure levels/heart rate lower throught the day because it's very important for longevity and that's a fact.
Coffee in the morning is bad in terms of elevated blood pressure, still it's off my system by noon. Rest of the day I would like to keep my blood pressure in check.
It was proven multiple times in studies (that I of course won't even bother to look up, sorry) that nicotine wrecks your sleep (increased resting heart rate) and has negative impact on GYM performance (bad bloodflow) - these are really primary things I would like to fix with setting puff limits in certain times of the day other than just keeping the levels as low as possible throught the day.

Discipline seems to be important here indeed,
Discipline is easily wrecked by different life factors and actually even because of bad sleep. Sleep is wrecked by nicotine - there's negative feedback loop Anyway, life puts us through different hardships and next time you know you're mindlessly sucking that thing again 24/7. Especially if work/lifestyle allows it.
I was just hoping to find a decent solution like I once found on mobile phones for Tiktok kind of habbits. All you need is a signal “No, you’re abusing this thing. Wait some time and try again…”.

 

[LuckyBlackCat]

If you know exactly how many puffs are going to get you by, you have better discipline than I do. There's some mods that will connect by Bluetooth to your phone, one of those may have something like what you are looking for, but I don't own any of them to say for certain. That Bluetooth feature always seemed pretty gimmicky to me.

 

[Aghayemachine]

I’m trying to find a refillable device (mod/pod mod) that offers advanced usage controls - specifically regarding puff limits .

Most mods have a simple puff counter that just counts up to 9999, but I am looking for a device that allows me to set a “hard limit” that actually stops the device from firing after a certain number of puffs.

Ideally, I am looking for a setup that can:

1. Set a Hard Cap: Stop firing after X puffs.
2. Auto-Reset: Automatically reset the counter/limit after a set time (e.g., every 2 hours or every 24 hours).
3. Schedule Usage: Allow more puffs during certain times of the day (e.g., evenings) and fewer/zero puffs during others (e.g., work hours).

I’m open to older hardware if I can find it, or tinkering with software if necessary.
I’m just trying to manage my intake more strictly without relying solely on willpower!

Thanks in advance for any tips or direction!


Health Perspective.

I’m really disappointed that no matter how hard I search for such device - there’s nothing like this out there.
In the whole industry nobody seems interested in mitigating the harmful impact of high doses of nicotine?
Nicotine is very dangerous over long time in the way it constantly keeps blood pressure elevated which harms the elasticity of our blood vessels and can be direct cause of all kind of diseases.
Average blood pressure is one of the key factors when it comes to longevity.

That’s why in my opinion limiting nicotine exposure in certain times of the day (before bed , before/after GYM, stressful hours) and otherwise keeping nicotine levels steady throughout the day can have tremendous impact on our health and who knows how many years of precious life this single feature can save us.

Hi

If i want to have such a device, i will go for a mosfet mod box, equipped with arduino nano or raspberry pie, and code it manually to my preference.
In my opinion, if market doesn’t have anything for you then it’s time to make one, maybe it will be your new business if you co-op with different brands.

 

[Tor R]

I doubt that a chipset will be that advanced.
Even on an evolv where we can go in and control a little how we want the mod to work, most of it is based on safety like battery cutoff, vape cutoff etc.
All of the vape gear is mostly safety based and not usage restrictions like you want.

 

[guises.boater]

Hi

If i want to have such a device, i will go for a mosfet mod box, equipped with arduino nano or raspberry pie, and code it manually to my preference.
In my opinion, if market doesn’t have anything for you then it’s time to make one, maybe it will be your new business if you co-op with different brands.

Yes that's a reasonable approach.
Mosfet mod box might be overkill though because those production ready mods really take into account a lot of stuff they you're gonna spend years developing.

But otherwise Arduino/RPI is very good idea even when it comes to production ready vapes. I mean most of those vapes have physical button that you can simulate by connecting in between via Arduino/RPI and sending signals right? This way you could power off/on the device.
And to actually count the puffs you could plug your current sensing wires in between pod and mod like shown in this project specifically this picture.

And regarding business - it could be, in ideal world. Not the world where major brands develop not only vapes, but also e-liquids and so they don't care about helping you consume less. I've spent so many time researching nicotine reduction systems and there were exactly 1 vape that accomplished it (Enevap) and what happened to them is they gave up because they understood that not so many folks are interested. Everybody is still under impression nicotine is safe for you and even me was thinking about it this way up until recently - there's no market in selling such devices.
So Enevap decided they could go other way - rebrand themselves into DitchPen and try to pursue marketing of their device as health device that you could buy in pharmacies and stuff - it's already 4 or something years that they are getting approvals from various institutions in Canada and UK.
And I agree with them, this format is the only way the product could be widely sold enough to meet decent profit margins. And I personally want nothing to do with health institutions xD.

Thank you for your message!

 

[guises.boater]

I doubt that a chipset will be that advanced.
Even on an evolv where we can go in and control a little how we want the mod to work, most of it is based on safety like battery cutoff, vape cutoff etc.
All of the vape gear is mostly safety based and not usage restrictions like you want.

There's really nothing advanced that chip should have other than knowing what time it is now.
There are lots chinese crap with big screens displaying current time - they're just all damn lazy/hesitant to go one little step further and write couple of lines of code to do simple logic as, again:

1. Set a Hard Cap: Stop firing after X puffs.
2. Auto-Reset: Automatically reset the counter/limit after a set time (e.g., every 2 hours or every 24 hours).
3. Schedule Usage: Allow more puffs during certain times of the day (e.g., evenings) and fewer/zero puffs during others (e.g., work hours).

I found one recently released "cutting-edge" device from SMOK that allows you to long-press main button and set how many puffs you want to do in current session until it cuts you off - that's at least something!
In same line-up they have almost identical device that does not have puff limit but knows the current time/date - it knows when it's new day to show you how many puffs you did yesterday.

Like COMMON folks isn't it obvious you just need to combine TIME and PUFF LIMIT capabilities and + stop this puff counting nonsense and make a tiny step forward to finally make a meaningful impact fo r those who care? It's almost like developers actually implementing stuff like this for years but when it comes to upper management they are like:

"HELL NAH remove that health BS from this thing - how we gonna make profit out of our e-liquid crap?"

 

[Aghayemachine]

Imagine the simple mosfet box mod, but the arduino is going to trigger the mosfet. This way you don’t need to get driver boards for your motherboard and use its original pinouts, basically, the more time you spend making your prototype it will be greater.
You can add heat sensors, one close to battery and one underneath the atomizer, instantly reading what is going on with device.
You can give it screen, based on the motherboard you can go up to full color lcds for that box mod!
the world of wonders is unlimited, maybe connect it to wifi and have an app specially to adjust all of the vape parameters.
You can also add another set of sensors, room temperature (intake temp) and humidity sensor, both of these affects the quality of vape.
Another idea, you can read heart beat at palms so you can even monitor your heart rate with the right sensor.

I enjoyed answering your questions.

 

[guises.boater]

Imagine the simple mosfet box mod, but the arduino is going to trigger the mosfet. This way you don’t need to get driver boards for your motherboard and use its original pinouts, basically, the more time you spend making your prototype it will be greater.
You can add heat sensors, one close to battery and one underneath the atomizer, instantly reading what is going on with device.
You can give it screen, based on the motherboard you can go up to full color lcds for that box mod!
the world of wonders is unlimited, maybe connect it to wifi and have an app specially to adjust all of the vape parameters.
You can also add another set of sensors, room temperature (intake temp) and humidity sensor, both of these affects the quality of vape.
Another idea, you can read heart beat at palms so you can even monitor your heart rate with the right sensor.

I enjoyed answering your questions.

Yes this would be awesome. Unfortunately with so many cool ideas I want to do as side hustles I just can't afford to dive into all of this low-level stuff.
Hopefully someone else in future will see your message and will actually make something like this + open source it.

Anyway if this thread gets closed please-please anyone looking at this in future send me a DM right here on forum if you found a device that I was looking for or maybe similar.

 

[guises.boater]

In the meantime I decided to go with OG myevic firmware (ArcticFox prototype) and need someone to test the firmware I built just to see if it works at all or not.

It would be amazing if somebody could flash my firmware on actual supported device and let me know what's up.

Ready to flash firmware and info here.
It's bare bones myevic firmware, no nictoine reduction BS yet XD.

Devices I'm interested in:

• Joyetech
  • eVic VTC Mini
  • eVic VTC Dual
  • eVic VTwo Mini
  • eVic VTwo
  • eVic AIO
  • eVic Basic
  • eGrip II / Light
  • Cuboid
  • Cuboid Mini
  • Cuboid 200
• Wismec
  • Presa TC75W
  • Presa TC100W
  • Reuleaux RX75
  • Reuleaux RX200S
  • Reuleaux RX2/3
  • Reuleaux RXmini
  • Reuleaux RX300
  • Sinuous P228
• Others
  • Vaponaute La Petite Box

If everything will seem to be working I'll buy the device myself and continue with the least problematic part - implementing nicotine reduction feature + hopefully resurrecting the one and only myevic project.

Thank you all for attention!

 

[Aghayemachine]

There's really nothing advanced that chip should have other than knowing what time it is now.
There are lots chinese crap with big screens displaying current time - they're just all damn lazy/hesitant to go one little step further and write couple of lines of code to do simple logic as, again:

1. Set a Hard Cap: Stop firing after X puffs.
2. Auto-Reset: Automatically reset the counter/limit after a set time (e.g., every 2 hours or every 24 hours).
3. Schedule Usage: Allow more puffs during certain times of the day (e.g., evenings) and fewer/zero puffs during others (e.g., work hours).

I found one recently released "cutting-edge" device from SMOK that allows you to long-press main button and set how many puffs you want to do in current session until it cuts you off - that's at least something!
In same line-up they have almost identical device that does not have puff limit but knows the current time/date - it knows when it's new day to show you how many puffs you did yesterday.

Like COMMON folks isn't it obvious you just need to combine TIME and PUFF LIMIT capabilities and + stop this puff counting nonsense and make a tiny step forward to finally make a meaningful impact fo r those who care? It's almost like developers actually implementing stuff like this for years but when it comes to upper management they are li

In the meantime I decided to go with OG myevic firmware (ArcticFox prototype) and need someone to test the firmware I built just to see if it works at all or not.

It would be amazing if somebody could flash my firmware on actual supported device and let me know what's up.

Ready to flash firmware and info here.
It's bare bones myevic firmware, no nictoine reduction BS yet XD.

Devices I'm interested in:

• Joyetech
  • eVic VTC Mini
  • eVic VTC Dual
  • eVic VTwo Mini
  • eVic VTwo
  • eVic AIO
  • eVic Basic
  • eGrip II / Light
  • Cuboid
  • Cuboid Mini
  • Cuboid 200
• Wismec
  • Presa TC75W
  • Presa TC100W
  • Reuleaux RX75
  • Reuleaux RX200S
  • Reuleaux RX2/3
  • Reuleaux RXmini
  • Reuleaux RX300
  • Sinuous P228
• Others
  • Vaponaute La Petite Box

If everything will seem to be working I'll buy the device myself and continue with the least problematic part - implementing nicotine reduction feature + hopefully resurrecting the one and only myevic project.

Thank you all for attention!

Wow, nice job.
Im so interested in your project but i dont have access to any of these devices in the list.
Keep us informed, im also working on a project called theoremium, trying to get a pod like flavor out of rdta atomizer.