What a day

[Mr_Phil]

Hi everyone. Here is a story (true) that might help someone else. mods, if this isn't the appropriate forum, I trust your judgement to put it where it belongs.

Think of the Beatles song that goes "Woke up, got outta bed, dragged a comb across my head, found my way downstairs and hadda cup, Looking up I noticed I was late...."

That was the beginning. I dashed out and totally forgot my ecig kit. I had one smoke built and it was in my pocket. I figured it out on the way to work.

At work I took a hit and the battery started the superquick blinking that told me it was dying. Oh great. No kit and the smoke won't last the day. I just made a payment on prime real estate in stress city.

Too shorten the story, I was jonesing hard and bummed a smoke.

It was awful. This was a marlboro red. It was the wrong size since I am used to a 4081. It had no heft. The flavor was off and left a NAS-T taste in my mouth. The odor was foul. And it was about as satisfying as having an ash tray scraped over the teeth with a rancid bath water rince. No satisfaction.

Lessons learned.

• Leave a spare kit in the car.
• buy or build a passthru for use in car and house.
• Don't bother bumming a Marlboro Red.
• Despite doubts, you either get nicotine with e-cigs or the psych effect is far stronger than analogs. The MR eased the obvious crave but wasn't the total package any longer.
• I am truly a non-smoker now. A nicotine addict to be sure, but I can live with that.

Hope this helps anyone with doubts.

I'm Phil and I approved this message

 

[metapuff]

what strength liquid do you use?
i'm using between 16mg and 24mg and feel the craving is way reduced from
cigarettes.

 

[pianoguy]

I keep spare batteries and cartos at work, in my car and in my jacket pocket. I vowed early on that I wasn't ever going to find myself empty-handed. I concur about the nasty Marlboros, too - I tried one after about 3 months of vaping, and couldn't believe how rotten it tasted, especially after having smoked thousands of packs of them. A good lesson learned ;-)

 

[quasimod]

"Just to see", I tried to take a drag from a Marlboro Light 100 a couple of months ago, and couldn't even fill my mouth with that horrible-tasting stuff! No way I could have inhaled it (shudder). It's hard to describe how happy that made me.

 

[Mr_Phil]

what strength liquid do you use?
i'm using between 16mg and 24mg and feel the craving is way reduced from
cigarettes.

I've used between 24 and 48. Likely i will drop the dose to the 24 range. My hi-nic formula doesn't seem to produce much vapor.

 

[Shortstuff116]

Who is it that has that logo "Don't leave home without it."?

 

[msroulette]

Who is it that has that logo "Don't leave home without it."?

American Express

 

[ladyh]

HAPPY to HEAR your analog was HORRIBLE....have a better day tomorrow.

 

[Mr_Phil]

Who is it that has that logo "Don't leave home without it."?

Like the pretty lady said, "American Express". Believe me, I am on that boat now.

 

[rosesense]

Many of us had to learn lessons the hard way, myself included. Now I am paranoid so overbuy/overstock. I am beginning to be confident enough to let some of it go. I will always have back ups for my back ups though.

 

[quasimod]

/.../ overbuy/overstock. /.../

My strategy exactly, and it's saved me from being in more than one jam. I also have more than one PV option, and that has been a lifesaver, too!

 

[Belhade]

I bought a PCC specifically to keep in the car, and at the very least leave a battery in it and a bottle of Marlboro juice in the armrest. Sometimes I'll keep an extra cart and/or atty in the PCC and occasionally leave another battery in the console. I feel good now that I have enough gear to keep in the car as backup.

 

[dee5]

Your PV's need to be more like a Visa---"It's everywhere you want to be"

 

[Mr_Phil]

Dee, I like your visa idea. American Express is sooooooo upper crust LOL. BTW, your avatar pic looks like you just won the lottery. Whatcha gonna spend the money on?

In all seriousness, I see a USB passthru being built by end of weekend and a spare bottle of juice in the glove box.

 

[msroulette]

I made the mistake of running out of supplies my second week of vaping. I refused to go to analogs again, and paid 30.00 for 15ml of juice at the smoke anywhere kiosk at the mall. THAT will not happen again! I am severely overstocked on juice now, and I keep a PT in my truck. I also have 9 KR808 batteries, carry my PCC, and now I carry my mod which has a 24 hr battery life!

 

[funguy]

After a week of vaping I bummed a smoke from a coworker (when my mini battery died) and got the NAS-T, ashtray dumped in the mouth taste. They were marb menthol lights, what I used to smoke. Then I bought an eGo, I don't have to worry about the battery anymore.

I'd never been so happy about tasting something gross. That's when I realized I don't want cigarettes ever again.

 

[Yankee802]

Now I'm all about backups, but has anyone thought it through with regard to batteries in the car? I mean in the summer, when it can get above 100 degrees in the car, is it WISE to have a potential source of explosion in your vehicle? It's for this very reason I don't keep ecigs in my vehicle. Now a PT (without battery) makes sense.

 

[msroulette]

Now I'm all about backups, but has anyone thought it through with regard to batteries in the car? I mean in the summer, when it can get above 100 degrees in the car, is it WISE to have a potential source of explosion in your vehicle? It's for this very reason I don't keep ecigs in my vehicle. Now a PT (without battery) makes sense.

Well, since I am a female, and it is quite OK for me to carry a purse...my batts and PCC stay with me all the time, the only thing that stays in my truck is my PT. And, I do leave it plugged into the lighter adaptor, but only because that gets no electric current when the key isn't turned in the ignition

 

[sl1pg8r]

I have a sense of how you feel. I keep a backup PV, atty, liquid, charger in my owrk bag at all times. And as far as going back to ananlogs? I want to qualify this by saying when i smoked, i LOVED to smoke. Now... analogs smell like well, absolutely AWEFUL. I can't imagine smoking a real cigarette. I'd guess it would be like eating a nic juice soaked turd. Hope you never have a e-fail again. I'll burn a candle for you.

- slip

 

[Nyxie]

Yes cigs are so nasty!
Last yr when I started I had issues with batteries. I finally got so frustrated that I smoked after 3 weeks because I couldnt keep batts charged. It was nasty but my nic addiction didn't care that the cigs were nasty. Unfortunately I got use to them again after a couple of days. I fell off the vaping wagon for a while and came back as soon as I could afford more decent batteries , lots of them. It took longer the second time to quit cigs, so now I have 8 kr808 batts, 2 eGo batts, a couple PT's and an Indulgence on the way. I have a mini lab I carry in my purse, a medium size lab for weekends away and the drawer full of stuff at home.
I am now at 23 days with no cig and I don't plan on falling off the wagon any more.