My choice is official = I'm quitting vaping. I've spent over $200 on devices that taste like a burning cigarette filter. $200 is about $2,000 in my world.
But that's not the point. The point is, I believe vaping is unhealthy. You see, every single time your coil makes even the slightest sizzling or popping noise, that isn't juice frying or combusting, it's your wick. The silica wick. Wicks are made out of virtually the same stuff as cigarette filters; it's why when they burn, they taste the same. Don't believe me that this is happening every time your e-cig makes a good old healthy frying pan sound? Switch to a very soft, non-nicotine flavor like Chocolate Mint, something with barely even any taste to it. Try non-flavored PG or VG even. Any single time the wick makes a sound, you will GAG (and possibly throw up, for those with weak stomachs) with what is REALLY coming into our bodies and mouths = it's impossible to taste the continuously burning wick with heavy flavors like tobacco and blueberry and all such (though I can because I know the taste.)
Don't believe me? Look up the thread on this very forum where a scientist proved that there is fiberglass/silica particles in the vapor that we inhale. These particles shoot off the wick when the wick is combusted; the combustion is what makes the sound of your good old frying pan e-cig.
The good news is that with proper suction, your e-cig doesn't have to be this way. I successfully used primer puffs to load my CE4's wick with enough juice that my clearomizer wasn't making a single sound (usually) and my near-tasteless, mostly just flavorless-PG juice with a bit of mint, tasted great for the most part. If I let a normal old sizzle puff happen though under any circomstance, I almost puked. It got rancid and horrid like a Newport Filter. Horribly unhealthy.
Your vaping devices are supposed to keep the wicks wetter than almost any of them do. Please, everyone, for your health, try an extremely light tasting juice, preferably a very weak mint or menthol, to see what I'm talking about. Blu users will already testify on this with their menthol cartos! I've been called crazy and everything under the sun simply because I can taste what many can't seem to! (I'm a super taster btw - someone certified to be able to taste millions of chemicals and properties that most people do not, around %5 of people have this ability.) But it's there!
Actually, I'll keep vaping if somewhere starts building pre-wrapped-in-mesh wicks. Seems to me an extremely healthy way of doing it. I have a design myself that floating around in my head of a vaping device that actually could do away with wicks, if I could work out the exact properties. I've never once trusted these nasty wicks and all they do is eat my money and spit out something I could virtually get by smoking the filter of a cigarette.
But that's not the point. The point is, I believe vaping is unhealthy. You see, every single time your coil makes even the slightest sizzling or popping noise, that isn't juice frying or combusting, it's your wick. The silica wick. Wicks are made out of virtually the same stuff as cigarette filters; it's why when they burn, they taste the same. Don't believe me that this is happening every time your e-cig makes a good old healthy frying pan sound? Switch to a very soft, non-nicotine flavor like Chocolate Mint, something with barely even any taste to it. Try non-flavored PG or VG even. Any single time the wick makes a sound, you will GAG (and possibly throw up, for those with weak stomachs) with what is REALLY coming into our bodies and mouths = it's impossible to taste the continuously burning wick with heavy flavors like tobacco and blueberry and all such (though I can because I know the taste.)
Don't believe me? Look up the thread on this very forum where a scientist proved that there is fiberglass/silica particles in the vapor that we inhale. These particles shoot off the wick when the wick is combusted; the combustion is what makes the sound of your good old frying pan e-cig.
The good news is that with proper suction, your e-cig doesn't have to be this way. I successfully used primer puffs to load my CE4's wick with enough juice that my clearomizer wasn't making a single sound (usually) and my near-tasteless, mostly just flavorless-PG juice with a bit of mint, tasted great for the most part. If I let a normal old sizzle puff happen though under any circomstance, I almost puked. It got rancid and horrid like a Newport Filter. Horribly unhealthy.
Your vaping devices are supposed to keep the wicks wetter than almost any of them do. Please, everyone, for your health, try an extremely light tasting juice, preferably a very weak mint or menthol, to see what I'm talking about. Blu users will already testify on this with their menthol cartos! I've been called crazy and everything under the sun simply because I can taste what many can't seem to! (I'm a super taster btw - someone certified to be able to taste millions of chemicals and properties that most people do not, around %5 of people have this ability.) But it's there!
Actually, I'll keep vaping if somewhere starts building pre-wrapped-in-mesh wicks. Seems to me an extremely healthy way of doing it. I have a design myself that floating around in my head of a vaping device that actually could do away with wicks, if I could work out the exact properties. I've never once trusted these nasty wicks and all they do is eat my money and spit out something I could virtually get by smoking the filter of a cigarette.
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