Vaping mistakes new vapers make

[gijills]

Welcome to the newcomers. Hang out here shed your preconcieved notions and roll with it. I have no plans on quitting anything but smoking!!
I am vaping a mix of 12 and 18 mg juice. Also find some of the local FB vape groups in FL we have sunshine state and central fl and space coast vapers. You probally have some of them near you also.

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[patkin]

Biggest mistake I made was buying too many tobacco liquids. They are absolutely horrid... the ones I got anyway. I finally stumbled on a tobacco mimic.. well I've heard it is anyway and love it. I never intended to stop smoking but only cut down from two packs a day and the consequences of that. I've been up for ten hours now and have smoked one... well, not fully as it tasted soooo bad. As for vaping, I don't intend to quit that and will probably just vape zero nic when all desire for nic leaves... I'm in step-down.

 

[J.R. Bob Dobbs]

if my original post was mistaken for a recipe, im sorry. Its just how it worked form e when i started vaping with the intent to quit.

yes i plan to quit vaping at some point, no i haven't got there yet...i keep finding awesome flavors !

but in all reality what many of you have said is spot on, you quit when your ready nothing is gonna change that. I put that info in the bottom of my post for one reason. it worked for me. Much like family share cooking recipes you cant do something if you dont have a plan. I offered up MY plan so that others had a baseline for what may work for them should the plan to quit.

keep these tips coming people! this thread is really taking off!

 

[orbach]

Another mistake is to dismiss a juice because the initial few vapes do not taste good. I received 5 flavors with my starter kit, 3 fruity ones and 2 tobacco ones. I started with two of the fruity ones. Then cleaned the stardust and filled with Rampage, a tobacco one. Well, at first I thought, this sux, and switched back to the fruity one. Occasionally went back to the Rampage, until about half way through a 1.6ml Stardust, it started to taste quite nice. Then I tried it with my morning coffee and I really liked it. Now I find I am almost out of this Rampage while I have plenty of all the others, so the Rampage has become my favorite. Now the problem may have had to do with having cleaned the stardust and filling with Rampage while it was still wet, but I don't think so as I could tell it was vaping true after about 6-7 pulls.

So gives your juices a chance, they may grow on you.

PS. Have been off cigarettes now for 4 days. Lit up a cig this morning only to put it out after a couple of drags because it tasted so bad.

 

[mrsgruffy]

Thankyou.. this is great advice

 

[J.R. Bob Dobbs]

i know we havent seen all the possible mistakes/ suggestions yet. lets keep em comming folks!

 

[provoking]

Not having a Spare battery and atty's are mistakes I made early on too. Also a spare charger and ways to charge it in a car. Cleaning of your attys and battery contacts are other mistakes made. I also fried a battery early on because I wanted the TH and used higher voltage than I should so I exceeded the batteries current limit and fried the controller in a battery.

Completely agree. Gotta keep plenty of spares around both at home, car, work, etc. If you travel, always always have plenty of spares. Better to pack and not need them than to run out. You just cant go to the convenience store and pick this stuff up. However, if you are in a pinch head to Walgreens - they have BLU disposables which are a bit pricey but do the trick when desperate.

 

[orbach]

Yesterday I discovered another mistake newbies make (I've been vaping now for 8 days) and that is over tightening the cartos/clearos on your battery. I just received my first pack of Flux Phoenix and on one of them the post got pushed in a bit. It works fine on my Joyetech eGo 1000mah Pass-Through but cannot make contact on my new SLB eGo-V True VV Pass Through. Apparently the positive connection on the SLB battery has a slightly larger diameter than the Joytech and does not fit into the little cylinder of the clearo to reach its recessed contact.

I was wondering why I had leaking problems with my 2 Stardusts I received with my starter kit and I think it is because of over tightening them on the battery also.

Tighten the devices on your battery to the point where they make contact and no further!

 

[Rachy_B]

There's some really awesome advice here! In regards to the OP, this is advice I'm trying myself as it happens!

When I first got back on the e-cig, using 18mg Virginia, I cut down from 20 to 10 analogues on the first day. Over a week or so I cut it to 5, then 2 a day.

Soon, I was on 1 analogue a day but was really struggling to kick it! Thanks to advice from this forum, I bought a bottle of 24mg Virginia for first thing on a morning and I've been cig free for 25 days and 14 hours (I have an app- I'm not counting!).

A week ago, with a massive hangover, I really didn't fancy 24mg so I stuck with my 18mg...and I haven't touched the 24mg at any time of day since!

What's even better is that I'm seriously considering going down to 11mg. I started using 11mg at night but found that I'd fill up my cart and fall asleep before using it so first thing on a morning, I was using 11mg and not wanting to murder anybody! Guys, I'm not even 4 weeks in and I'm cutting down my nicotine unconsciously! I'm thinking about buying more lower nicotine strengths for when I feel totally ready although, as was my excuse with analogues, I have so much nicotine still to use!

I came onto e-cigs to cut down my cigarettes slowly, get onto the e-cig full time and very gradually reduce my nicotine over a prolonged period of time. Now, I'm concerned that I'm rushing it as there's 11 and a half years of habit to break here, but it shouldn't be this easy, right? I'm learning so much about myself and my own addiction. Sometimes I wonder how much of my addiction is chemical and how much of it is a comfort blanket? Don't get me wrong, slow and steady wins the race but for the first time in 11 and a half years, I'm winning! This is the longest time I've been analogue free in the entire time I smoked! In all my previous attempts, I never even got to the stage of cutting down the nic in my gum/patches whatever, and here I am!

So anyway, yeah, with regards to the OP, taking that advice at my own pace is working!

As for mistakes I made: listening to the haters would come top! Surround yourself with supportive people! This is a double-edged sword though... my 'friends' have now convinced me to go....JOGGING!!!! I don't even walk anywhere!

The second mistake I made was giving up on e-cigs because I clearly didn't have the right set-up. I started on the Ego-T but also bought a 510-T out of curiosity. I hated atomisers so moved onto cartomisers with my Ego-T but found them cumbersome, heavy and a bit ugly. If I'd only thought to use the cartomiser with the 510...and if I'd known/thought to buy a PCC I could be on my 1 year anniversary by now! Weirdly, a downgrade worked for me!

P.S. Can you sense the joy?! Lol!x

 

[twisted1]

Not researching posts to the level that I researched tools.

I'm not looking for the perfect vape, tool, or juice. Just something that I can effectively use to eliminate my cigarette addiction.
Having said this, all is trial and error for me.
I'm on the right track and am enjoying the ride.

 

[BlkWolfMidnight]

When I quit...Mistakes
Yup, didn't have a spare battery, that ended in no so much good for me. I found that changing up your daily routene was bad mojo, I still ended up going outside to "Smoke" and subsituted my ecig for the real one...eventually that changed to inside in the mornings.
Didn't wash all my clothing items at first....found out just how much the cig smell had gotten in to all my clothing, bed and sheets when I washed them.
Too high Nic stuff..yup, serious headaches from vaping longer then an analog, the analog is also a timmer in a sense, with vaping you can go until the battery runs out.
Learning to Draw...this is def. a learned technique, long and slow is the key to success as stated previously.
Not Joining the ECF...yah, should have joined in a forum or group, when I started the ECF wasn't even in existance. Now a days I direct people to ECF that are new..everyone needs a support group.
Not wanting to quit...this was a big one, and why I fell back to analogs for a bit. You need that drive to quit, as mentioned before this isn't a solution just the road to get you there to the end point. I still vape because I enjoy it, not because I have to .

Thats about it, two thumbs up to everyone that made that swap to vaping. You'll rock and are awesome to have kicked the ash. Vape on fellow vapers, vape on .

 

[Vale55rie]

I started sitting at the computer checking emails, vapin and drinking my coffee. Helped wonders

 

[Chuckq4yoo]

I don't tend to quit vaping, i'm glad that I haven't smoked a cigarette for almost 3 months now. It just that with vaping, there are so much possibilities. Now a days, its more for fun and without most side effects of cigarettes. You get to do smoke tricks, try many different flavors, and actually help out other friends that are currently still smoking analogs to transition to vaping (if they choose to do so) while hanging out.

 

[tryptamino]

I always over fill the atomizer

 

[TroyHoot]

Thanks for this thread. Good advice for us just starting out.

 

[tj99959]

IMO, their not making mistakes .... their just learning how not to make a light bulb.

 

[aesarius]

Try to not overfill the atomizer you use for dripping. 3-4 drops in enough. If not, you will be wiping eLiquid off your MOD!

 

[J.R. Bob Dobbs]

totally agree, the equipment matters greatly.

another tip i havent seen and realized today was, when using cartomizers with a rn4081, or i would think any battery, DO NOT FILL CARTOS WHILE ATTACHED TO BATTERY! the liquid CAN drip down the draw tube into the battery. sticky liquid + battery can be fatal for your batterys!

I love my RN4081, but i recently found this little gem that may be a perfect upgrade for me sincei dont like the monster sixe of those big honkin ego's

eGo Mini Battery 350mAh - NettMix Custom Vapes
combined with this...

CE4+, CE4 Clearomizer, Vision, Stardust, Turbo, ego clearomizer, eGo clear carto, CE4 plus
small, yet powerful and i wont be refilling cartos every other hour !
2 batterys a charger and 2 clearomizers will come to about the same price as a starter kit with the huge battery.

 

[smaldo]

vaping mistakes for newb:
thinking you have to buy the greatest and latest to start and will only invest once because you spend so much on it
wrong, you will end up buying more and more, so start as cheap as possible, then progress from there. dont go APV and RBA from the start, find out which juice you like, what wattage, what type of wicking etc etc. then spend big for the proper gear that suits you

 

[magee99]

Still new to vaping, but I find that I vape as much as I would have smoked. The only difference may be having a few more puffs now because I am never sure when to end.