Vaping-Schmaping! It's all about the gadgets!

[Eddie.Willers]

Well, I thought that as a noob I could stir the pot a little here...

I have been reading about vapers who have amassed considerable amounts of juice, carts, PV's etc as they wish to try everything and acquire lots of shiny toys...all of which is perfectly understandable and acceptable to me.

What other 'acquisition disorders' do the folk here have? What other things do you collect with the same fervour as vaping hardware?

 

[Stosh]

I used to carry or store disposable cigarette lighters, needed extras at work, in my car, various locations at home, spare in my pocket.... As far as my juice addiction, used to need to stop and buy more if I found I ONLY had one spare pack of smokes, (less than a single day's supply)

Keep telling myself, this is a hobby, not an addiction, this is a hobby not an.......

 

[Eddie.Willers]

...Keep telling myself, this is a hobby, not an addiction, this is a hobby not an.......

LOL!
That's exactly the kind of attitude I can see myself taking!

 

[wv2win]

For most, it's not collecting but trying to find a PV that best simulates the "inhaled feel" of smoking with the most consistency. The PV that has come pretty close for me is the new Darwin from nhaler. I only have 3 PV's. Use to have 4 but sold one once I found the Darwin.

 

[Stownz]

Acquisition disorder?

 

[Eddie.Willers]

Ye gods, Stownz! That's some serious kit you have there!

I contribute to fora about traditional wet-shaving (that is, using a straight razor or a Double-Edge blade - anything but cartridges!) and I know a lot of the folk there joke about their "AD's" for soap, scents, blades, brushes etc.

Looks like I have stumbled across another forum where these things are celebrated!

 

[Stownz]

Never really know if something is great until you try it right? With all the hype out there, there is really only one way to find out. Maybe there is a MOD that will blow your mind, or a carto that will rock your sox? The goal is to be smoke free, and the cost doesn't really matter anymore.

Should see the vaping partys at my house, haha. Every carto, from every manufacturer. Every atty and every tank made. I get to spend the money, everyone else gets to try before they buy. LOL

 

[mohawkx]

This is not true for everyone. The only reason I vape is to replace my addiction to cigarettes. I wasn't on a mission to find the ultimate vaping experience as far as taste, th and vapor I just wanted something that would be at least as good as the taste of a cigarette, satisfy my addiction to nicotine and provide for the psychological addiction of "hand to mouth". Which, when you think about it is not setting the bar very high. I'm not a fiddler or collector by nature. I got lucky and did my research on ECF and before I'd collected a bunch of gadgets that sorta worked for me I found a PV that holds a charge for two full days of vaping and a carto that holds enough juice for a full day's nicotine fix. Now when I go out for the day I take one device in my shirt pocket and I've shed myself of a pack of smokes, a spare pack of smokes, a lighter and an ashtry.

The e-cig industry is in it's infantcy right now and unregulated. This causes manufacturing to use what is called "the spaghetti approach". Throw everything at the public wall and see what sticks. Rapid advances in the evolution of the e-cigs are happening and there are new devices out there that provide for one device to cover all day smoking satisfaction.

I predict that in ten years the majority of tobacco company's sales will be e-cigs. You will buy a device that looks like a pack of cigarettes but is actually a pcc with two 1500 mah batteries that look like cigarettes and 5 prefilled cartos that will equal a couple packs of smokes. You will buy refill cartos of your favorite brand. It will be highly regulated by the FDA and taxed by state and local government. Mixing your own juice will be an anomaly. Enjoy your toys and juices for right now, as we are living in the golden age of unregulated, anything goes, vaping.

 

[gandrfab]

I found a PV that holds a charge for two full days of vaping and a carto that holds enough juice for a full day's nicotine fix.

May I ask what you are using?

 

[Eddie.Willers]

... Enjoy your toys and juices for right now, as we are living in the golden age of unregulated, anything goes, vaping.

Nothing like a healthy dose of pessemism...

 

[classwife]

Nothing like a healthy dose of pessemism...

Unfortunately...this isn't pessimism....changes are coming and they are going to be hard ones to accept.
Right now is the "golden age".
Once the government figures out the way to get a hold of this, we are going to be regulated and taxed !

But for now...oh pretty shiney new toys !!!

 

[mohawkx]

May I ask what you are using?

I use a Gogo system available from Cigeasy and Nhaler. cigeasy has some but will sell out very soon. Nhaler will be getting more soon as they sold out rapidly. The gogo comes with 2-1300mah batteries a charger and 5 3ml cartos that use a horizontal heating element. The cartos come blank or refilled and can be used over and over again and clean up nicely under hot running tap water. The kit cost 60 bucks. I bought a riva lite kit with attys from Liberty flights for 30 bucks and some 1.2ml cartos mostly for testing juices with as the 3ml carts on the gogo are too much to fill just for testing. There is a thread in the ego-type forum that has gone 190 pages based on the gogo and is worth a read or at least a scan for those interested. My total investment in e-cigs is less than 100.00. 60 for the gogo and 30 for the riva-lite. I'm never out of nicotine anywhere I go no matter for how long I'm gone and I don't carry around a bag full of "works" to achieve this.
As I stated, I'm not interested in the very best taste or the very best vapor or the very best throat hit. I just wanted something that would replace the two packs of cigarettes I always used to carry around with me everywhere I went. The gogo does this job very well and users rate the gogo efficiency at producing taste, vapor and TH between 8.5to9 on a scale of 1 to 10.

 

[Andyhrn]

Unfortunately...this isn't pessimism....changes are coming and they are going to be hard ones to accept.
Right now is the "golden age".
Once the government figures out the way to get a hold of this, we are going to be regulated and taxed !

But for now...oh pretty shiney new toys !!!

Are there any verifiable statistic how many e-cig users (may be just average)? The government will not do anything unless it would became a noticeable numbers. And the government could just give kick-back on taxes (tax relief) to tobacco companies or states and bring the price on analogs to 3$ level. The whole e-cig industry will collapse (remember it won't pick up in past until analogs went up in price).
Besides that some ethnic groups (Hispanics and Asians) usually using their local distribution net where they can get a much cheaper native analog cigarettes.

 

[Sugar_and_Spice]

Have to differ with you. I don't know of one member willing to go back to analogs...Why would we knowingly go back to something that has proven to be so unhealthy? Not me. ThanKyouverymuch. No matter how cheape they might make them.
sas

 

[mohawkx]

Are there any verifiable statistic how many e-cig users (may be just average)? The government will not do anything unless it would became a noticeable numbers. And the government could just give kick-back on taxes (tax relief) to tobacco companies or states and bring the price on analogs to 3$ level. The whole e-cig industry will collapse (remember it won't pick up in past until analogs went up in price).
Besides that some ethnic groups (Hispanics and Asians) usually using their local distribution net where they can get a much cheaper native analog cigarettes.

Major cigarette manufacturers, FDA and the chinese hardware manufacturers are, as we speak, formulating a master plan to incorporate e-cigs into the mainstrean smoking public. From a cigarette company's point of view the savings in production and distribution costs are enormous for them. Each faction wants a piece of that pie. Cigarette cos want lower production costs with a higher profit margin and government wants more tax revenue without a price increase. E-cigs provide that dynamic for both parties. Not to mention the fact that e-cigs are perceived to be much safer than analogs and will increase the cigarette company's customer base.

 

[Sugar_and_Spice]

Could you please post your source of info?

thanks

sas

 

[classwife]

Electronic Cigarette News
Campaigning

These forums and sub forums will give you insight as to what is happening with e-cigs.

Also the Canadian Forum
Also the UK Forum

 

[Andyhrn]

Have to differ with you. I don't know of one member willing to go back to analogs...Why would we knowingly go back to something that has proven to be so unhealthy? Not me. ThanKyouverymuch. No matter how cheape they might make them.
sas

So why they just didn't quit,like some people, when the price of analogs was low?
It's all "money talk".
The members of the forums it's not a statistic numbers. Therefore you can't vouch for every member of this forum, can you?
I just describe a possible scenario thats it.

 

[Sugar_and_Spice]

I don't know about you, but I tried every available method to try and quit. Nothing else works..period. So you don't sound like a smoker or vaper. are you? How long have you smoked....how many cigs per day? If you can quit without ecigs, more power to you. Many, many others can't and could not.
You could poll the members if you like.....

 

[Andyhrn]

I don't know about you, but I tried every available method to try and quit. Nothing else works..period. So you don't sound like a smoker or vaper. are you? How long have you smoked....how many cigs per day? If you can quit without ecigs, more power to you. Many, many others can't and could not.
You could poll the members if you like.....

Been smoking for 23 years pack a day (and still doing this occasionally but not a pack a day of course). Vaping (the pure chemicals kind of smoking in my point of view) for 3 month.
The same like you I tried most of "quit smoking" methods and even attend "quit smoking" sessions/seminars.