Vaping mistakes new vapers make
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Oh there are many! And maybe making mistakes is not just for beginners lol.
1. At first - making a bad choice with starter kit. While suffering from withdrawal symptoms from cigarettes, you get vaping device that sometimes work, sometimes does't work - and while giving poor vapour you end up sucking it so hard, that you have liquid in your mouth.
2. So, you get tired of that. You buy a little bit more expensive device, and possible other stuff that you need with it. Of course that has to be "that brand new chinese device that everybody are talking about". Version 1.0. Not some device that has been in market for six months (version 2.1, version 4.0).... no, it has to be brand new that nobody has not even properly tested or reviewed.
3. Tired of that, you end up with rebuildable atomizers and advanced pv's made by modmakers around the world. There goes your savings and mental health. You have equipment worth of hundreds of dollars/euros, and you STILL get sometimes poor vapour and flavour. During all this time with vaping by the way, you have bought dozens of cans e-liquid that tastes like dirty old socks and stuck your cartos and coils.
You just wanted to quit smoking!
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Ok, that was really the worst case scenario (or was it?)
1. At first - making a bad choice with starter kit. While suffering from withdrawal symptoms from cigarettes, you get vaping device that sometimes work, sometimes does't work - and while giving poor vapour you end up sucking it so hard, that you have liquid in your mouth.
2. So, you get tired of that. You buy a little bit more expensive device, and possible other stuff that you need with it. Of course that has to be "that brand new chinese device that everybody are talking about". Version 1.0. Not some device that has been in market for six months (version 2.1, version 4.0).... no, it has to be brand new that nobody has not even properly tested or reviewed.
3. Tired of that, you end up with rebuildable atomizers and advanced pv's made by modmakers around the world. There goes your savings and mental health. You have equipment worth of hundreds of dollars/euros, and you STILL get sometimes poor vapour and flavour. During all this time with vaping by the way, you have bought dozens of cans e-liquid that tastes like dirty old socks and stuck your cartos and coils.
You just wanted to quit smoking!
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Ok, that was really the worst case scenario (or was it?)
My biggest mistake so far: I'm a nerd. I HAVE to get technical about everything.
I can't just buy a computer from Walmart and replace it when it quits - I've got to custom build it, push it to the limit, diagnose & repair it, and upgrade it constantly.
I can't just buy a car and drive it til it quits and replace it - It's gotta have upgraded suspension, computer tune, 2 different sets of wheels & tires for different seasons, all fluids are regularly replaced regardless of if it's even necessary and must conform to certain standards and brands, aftermarket everything, and nobody maintains, diagnoses, or fixes it but me.
I can't just buy a kitchen knife set, use it, and buy a new set in a few years when I'm sick of having dull knives - I've got to spend months researching metallurgy, knife-making, and sharpening techniques, have a bunch of knives of different steel compositions and rockwell hardness, more months of researching "edge theory", spend hundreds on sharpening and stropping equipment to keep them all in top shape, and eventually decide that I need to build my own forge and woodworking shop to make my own knives (in progress).
Same goes for vaping. I couldn't just buy the cheap-o disposable ecigs from the gas station like everyone else and eventually quit. I just had to be a nerd about it. Researched batteries, cartos/tanks, liquids, vendors, mods, volt/ohms/amps combinations, etc. Now vaping is just like any other hobby instead of a way to QUIT. That's my mistake.
I am my own worst enemy, and I suspect that a lot of you out there are in the same boat
I can't just buy a computer from Walmart and replace it when it quits - I've got to custom build it, push it to the limit, diagnose & repair it, and upgrade it constantly.
I can't just buy a car and drive it til it quits and replace it - It's gotta have upgraded suspension, computer tune, 2 different sets of wheels & tires for different seasons, all fluids are regularly replaced regardless of if it's even necessary and must conform to certain standards and brands, aftermarket everything, and nobody maintains, diagnoses, or fixes it but me.
I can't just buy a kitchen knife set, use it, and buy a new set in a few years when I'm sick of having dull knives - I've got to spend months researching metallurgy, knife-making, and sharpening techniques, have a bunch of knives of different steel compositions and rockwell hardness, more months of researching "edge theory", spend hundreds on sharpening and stropping equipment to keep them all in top shape, and eventually decide that I need to build my own forge and woodworking shop to make my own knives (in progress).
Same goes for vaping. I couldn't just buy the cheap-o disposable ecigs from the gas station like everyone else and eventually quit. I just had to be a nerd about it. Researched batteries, cartos/tanks, liquids, vendors, mods, volt/ohms/amps combinations, etc. Now vaping is just like any other hobby instead of a way to QUIT. That's my mistake.
I am my own worst enemy, and I suspect that a lot of you out there are in the same boat
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Also agree with "over-vaping". I used to smoke a cig, put it in the ashtray, and then not think about it for a while. Normal, but when I first started vaping, it was like instinct to keep feeling my pocket for my PV every 10-20 minutes knowing I was no longer carrying my cigs around. Every chance I got I'd pull it out and drag on it like a drowning man with a straw. Especially at work. Probably explains all my first cartos being burnt.
Pace it. Act natural. Slow, even drags. Not drowning man drags.
Also getting new blank clearomizers, filling, and vaping immediately. Letting a carto/clearo dry up thinking the liquid left in the wick was enough to keep it running for a few more drags. Burnt wicks
Pace it. Act natural. Slow, even drags. Not drowning man drags.
Also getting new blank clearomizers, filling, and vaping immediately. Letting a carto/clearo dry up thinking the liquid left in the wick was enough to keep it running for a few more drags. Burnt wicks
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My biggest mistake so far: I'm a nerd. I HAVE to get technical about everything.
I can't just buy a computer from Walmart and replace it when it quits - I've got to custom build it, push it to the limit, diagnose & repair it, and upgrade it constantly.
I can't just buy a car and drive it til it quits and replace it - It's gotta have upgraded suspension, computer tune, 2 different sets of wheels & tires for different seasons, all fluids are regularly replaced regardless of if it's even necessary and must conform to certain standards and brands, aftermarket everything, and nobody maintains, diagnoses, or fixes it but me.
I can't just buy a kitchen knife set, use it, and buy a new set in a few years when I'm sick of having dull knives - I've got to spend months researching metallurgy, knife-making, and sharpening techniques, have a bunch of knives of different steel compositions and rockwell hardness, more months of researching "edge theory", spend hundreds on sharpening and stropping equipment to keep them all in top shape, and eventually decide that I need to build my own forge and woodworking shop to make my own knives (in progress).
Same goes for vaping. I couldn't just buy the cheap-o disposable ecigs from the gas station like everyone else and eventually quit. I just had to be a nerd about it. Researched batteries, cartos/tanks, liquids, vendors, mods, volt/ohms/amps combinations, etc. Now vaping is just like any other hobby instead of a way to QUIT. That's my mistake.
I am my own worst enemy, and I suspect that a lot of you out there are in the same boat
You sure your not talking about me ?
I built my computer case out of steel in the shop. Build all my computers. Wifes, her families, her friends lol.
Buy a swingset for my daughter ? hell no ! Researched and built a playhouse swingset monstrosity.
1973 firebird I got as shell. Built from ground up.
wanted some nice headphones. So I researched and modified a set to my likeing. Built all new cables. Built 2 headphone amps. 1 tube form.
Needed a computer desk when we got our house. I built a full cabinet/custom countertop system with hanging cabinets and shelves.
Im could keep going but you get the point haha
On the kitchen knives. Get a Lansky sharpening kit
lolIm still waiting on my first orders. I have been researching making my own mods already and havent even started vaping yet...
Your post hits soo much home for me its crazy.
Bad thing for me is I have access to a lathe and mill machine at work. Along with plasma cutter. mig welder and torch.
To the OP. This is a wonderful idea for noobs. I've been vaping for over 3 or so months. Just IMHO the biggest mistake I made was setting a goal for myself. I placed expectations levels way to high for me to meet. I was a 3 pack a day smoker, and thought I had found the cure all. In no time (like the first 24hrs), I was down to 8-10 analogs per day. The best suggestion I can ever make is that if you want or crave an analog then just do it and get it over with. It's no big deal. I suffer from severe COPD to the point I have been transported by Ambulance to the ER because I was unresponsive. Since I started vaping(start date is in my sig), I've made dramatic improvements in my health. To this day if I want a analog, I'll smoke it. For me it's not the ones I smoke that count it's the ones I didn't smoke that count the most.
First, my bad decision was Blue (in my opinion) i like how its small, and simple. But it wasn't strong enough
^This. I quit an 18-year pack-a-day habit 11 days ago, and I still get uncontrollable urges every couple of days for the taste of a "real" cigarette.
So I have one. And it's nasty. Doesn't "taste" anything like the way I remember it... the way I *want* it to. Back to vaping.
I know that soon, the nastiness of the actual taste will win out over the urge for the taste that I wish it was, and I'll be 100% done with analogs. Until then, I'm not going to beat myself up over it....I'm OK with not winning the Cold Turkey Award.
Exactly. Five cigs in 11 days sounds a whole lot better than 220.
Oh there are many! And maybe making mistakes is not just for beginners lol.
1. At first - making a bad choice with starter kit. While suffering from withdrawal symptoms from cigarettes, you get vaping device that sometimes work, sometimes does't work - and while giving poor vapour you end up sucking it so hard, that you have liquid in your mouth.
2. So, you get tired of that. You buy a little bit more expensive device, and possible other stuff that you need with it. Of course that has to be "that brand new chinese device that everybody are talking about". Version 1.0. Not some device that has been in market for six months (version 2.1, version 4.0).... no, it has to be brand new that nobody has not even properly tested or reviewed.
3. Tired of that, you end up with rebuildable atomizers and advanced pv's made by modmakers around the world. There goes your savings and mental health. You have equipment worth of hundreds of dollars/euros, and you STILL get sometimes poor vapour and flavour. During all this time with vaping by the way, you have bought dozens of cans e-liquid that tastes like dirty old socks and stuck your cartos and coils.
You just wanted to quit smoking!
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Ok, that was really the worst case scenario (or was it?)
Or enter lots of contests. I can't afford to buy an ego out alone the fancy mods I use. Yet I have an iHybrid, and a GG Stealth because of contests here on ECF.
You sure your not talking about me ?
I built my computer case out of steel in the shop. Build all my computers. Wifes, her families, her friends lol.
Buy a swingset for my daughter ? hell no ! Researched and built a playhouse swingset monstrosity.
1973 firebird I got as shell. Built from ground up.
wanted some nice headphones. So I researched and modified a set to my likeing. Built all new cables. Built 2 headphone amps. 1 tube form.
Needed a computer desk when we got our house. I built a full cabinet/custom countertop system with hanging cabinets and shelves.
Im could keep going but you get the point haha
On the kitchen knives. Get a Lansky sharpening kit
Im still waiting on my first orders. I have been researching making my own mods already and havent even started vaping yet...
Your post hits soo much home for me its crazy.
Bad thing for me is I have access to a lathe and mill machine at work. Along with plasma cutter. mig welder and torch.
His and your post describe me to an incredible accuracy: built, not bought. We are DIYers at heart. I didn't buy a new expensive off road truck when I could build my 1991 Suburban bigger, better, and for less money. My friends joke that I drive THROUGH the mountains, not over them.
My WRX was loud until I stripped it down to bare metal and put 200 pounds of sound deadener in it.
Beer tasted bad and cost too much so I made my own. No dinky pot on the stove. Four 10 gallon kettles, three-tier brew stand, 8 kegs, and built my own kegerator to fit and dispense every keg.
The GTX 295 video card was too long for the computer case until the cutting wheel came out.
Reference-level ear-bleed $5000 speakers forced me to build my own entertainment center with integrated fans and thermal switch.
I don't apologize for wanting the biggest, newest, best stuff available. I research the balls off of everything that crosses my mind and make an informed decision before buying. That's why my first device was a VV APV with big tanks and rebuildable atomizers. I love every minute of it.
I've been vaping for a little over 3 weeks now. It seemed when I got my first PV I was off of analogs for good and haven't had one since. But in the past few days I've been having wicked cravings for an analog. Almost to the point of hitting the quick mart on the way home last night to buy a pack knowing full well I still have supplies at home for rolling my own, which I did for the past two years because of the costs of analogs. I'm still fighting the urge to get my machine out and make one or two to either, a) satisfy the craving or b) remind myself of the negative aspects of analogs. Probably A
I would hate to break my streak of being analog free, but I think I'm gonna have to have an analog or two. I think that maybe I started at too low of a nic level, 6mg. I'm vaping constantly so I've placed my next order with a nic level of 12 to see if that doesn't knock out the cravings.
Like most of the newbs out there, I'm still figuring this vaping thing out. But I have learned the few basic lessons of vaping:
1. back up your back ups and have back ups for those
2. keep plenty of juice around and always have an order in the mail
3. read the reviews before buying anything and go on you tube and watch the vids, they have helped me immensely!
Bleh, gonna go roll that analog just to get that darn monkey off my back.
But I will give myself props for going over 3 weeks without one 
I've been vaping for a little over 3 weeks now. It seemed when I got my first PV I was off of analogs for good and haven't had one since. But in the past few days I've been having wicked cravings for an analog. Almost to the point of hitting the quick mart on the way home last night to buy a pack knowing full well I still have supplies at home for rolling my own, which I did for the past two years because of the costs of analogs. I'm still fighting the urge to get my machine out and make one or two to either, a) satisfy the craving or b) remind myself of the negative aspects of analogs. Probably A
I think that maybe I started at too low of a nic level, 6mg. I'm vaping constantly so I've placed my next order with a nic level of 12 to see if that doesn't knock out the cravings.
Like most of the newbs out there, I'm still figuring this vaping thing out. But I have learned the few basic lessons of vaping:
1. back up your back ups and have back ups for those
2. keep plenty of juice around and always have an order in the mail
3. read the reviews before buying anything and go on you tube and watch the vids, they have helped me immensely!
Bleh, gonna go roll that analog just to get that darn monkey off my back.
Don't ever, ever beat yourslef up of you stumble. My signature says a lot about the way I really am. For those who can stop from day one, I congratulate and salute you. For those who stumble, we get back up and try again. It get easier as time goes on. Congrats on going over 3 weeks.
Don't ever, ever beat yourslef up of you stumble. My signature says a lot about the way I really am. For those who can stop from day one, I congratulate and salute you. For those who stumble, we get back up and try again. It get easier as time goes on. Congrats on going over 3 weeks.
Thanks! And I'm not beating myself up...much
It was almost more trouble than it was worth to roll the analogs. I had to get my box that I had stashed in our storage room and unpack the machine. Then once I had 2 rolled I forgot that I don't have any lighters. My wife is still on the analogs and she has them all. So I had to search around to see if there was one in our junk drawer or just laying around. There wasn't. I thought I might still have one in the console of my van. So I had to dress up to go look (had to put on heavy coat because it's snowing right now). Nope, no lighter there. We've never had matches around the house and our stove is electronic. We don't have a toaster (which I'm sure some ex analog smokers have also used in the past when you can't find a light ) Then I remembered that I have one of those lighters I use to start my grill. You know the ones that are like 8 inches long. So then I had to go find the box with the grill stuff in it and hope that lighter was there and had butane in it, it did. So I lit up the analog, satisfying the first few seconds then my lungs were like "WTH???" and I immediately got a headache. But now I smell horrible and heading to the shower, brushing my teeth, twice, and changing clothes. Hopefully this cured any future cravings!! And the one big thing that I noticed as other posters have said, it didn't taste like I expected it to or as I remembered it. BLEH!!OK, reset and back to my PV. Gotta put in a really tasty juice!!
My early mistakes were not having a spare atty and battery. One Saturday night I broke my atty and had to wait until Monday before the local vape shop was open. Ouch, almost went and got a pack of analogs! I held out using 7-11 bought e-cigs at $11 a pop.
I've only been vaping since the 5th and, thanks to many discussions with the friends that converted me, the only mistake I've made is not buying enough juice. Knowing how I am I bought plenty of batts and cartos. I did step up to a pair of vivi Novak after a week for my fav juices while at work though. My wife and analog using friends think I'm nuts for buying so much so fast but I don't want any excuses to go back to analogs this 3rd go around of getting off them. So far I can say that, unlike the other times, I have NO desire to go back. I enjoy vaping WAY to much. Reading threads like this early on and before my initial buys had a huge impact on my thinking and expectations. It's great to know I'm not alone in my thinking and tinkering obbsessions.
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