What was your first? Battery, Liquid, Atty, etc...

[Nicadmus]

Thought it would be interesting to see what road people may have taken to get to where they are today. I am relatively new to vaping, but already feel like I've improved my experience greatly since I started. I've listed a few of my "firsts" below, but feel free to add or subtract any other "firsts" of your own.

First Set-Up: E-Cigs Brand Starter Kit - Cost over $100 dollars and I used it for about a week. Yikes!

First e-liquid: "Tobacco" Flavor. That's it. Just tobacco. I actually found it okay, but only until I tried my second ever liquid.

First Upgrade: Ego C Twist

First Attachment (non-cartridge): Kanger T2

First Time vaping in Public (outside of "smoking areas"): The mall, but only within about five feet of the kiosk I purchased the Ego Twist from. Yeah, I'm a daredevil!

First E-Liquid Vendor: Mt. Baker Vapor

First E-Cigarette Forum: ECF. Nailed that one!

First Clearomizer Destroyed By User Error: An iClear 30. Forgot about the citrus aspect of my Ruby Red Grapefruit liquid and cracked my iClear about an hour after I bought it.

What were some of your firsts?

 

[myep0nine]

first set up: ego starter kit that cost bout 60 at the local B&M

First eliq: full flavor menthol tobacco. wasnt the bizz.

first upgrade: a new clearo for the ego. first big one was moving fro the starter kit to a provari.

first attachment: see above

first time vaping in public: in the club after seeing other people vaping

first juice vendor: the local B&M. after that was MBV.

first forum: ECF

First clearo destroyed: the ego clearo from my starter kit. the tip broke off from the stem. it was a dark day hahaha.

 

[Vapoor eyes er]

First Setup: Megalodon Mech Mod- Don still fires A1 but the Trustfire batts and charger died 4 months later.
First juice: from a B&M near the cottage- $30 for an under filled 30 ml bottle of RY4.
Juice: Tobaccos from Jugheads= excellent. Within 1 month I began DIY juice.
Next Setup- Kgo, JoyTech eGo and SD Keyring.
Received a Provari as a gift.
Next Twists and Spinners.
Next a Vamo.
Use the Vamo at home or on long road trips and the Spinners for out and about.
Along the way have also temporarily traded PVs with friends so I've been able to experience many diff PVs.
First clearo was the long wick stardust. Now using Vision Mini Vivi Nova.
Within 5 minutes of receiving my first PV fried 2 cartos because not first filled properly. Since then really no issues with any type of delivery system- cartos, carto+ tank, clearos, etc.

 

[Chrissie]

My first e-cig was a super mini RN4081 ciggie lookalike with an atomiser & prefilled cartridges - there were so few alternatives coming up to 5 years ago. Especially here in the UK.

How times have changed

 

[StarDose]

First setup 510 starter kit
First juice tobacco and a nasty vanilla
First upgrade ego twist
First attachment Stardust v2
First public vape smoke break time at work.
First vendor canvape
First and only forum ecf
Next upgrade this weekend innokin svd

 

[gangstafish]

1)e-go starter kit
2)essence liquid gold juice
3)smoktech sidewinder
4)vivi nova tank
5)First outside smoke in starbucks
6)Provari
7) still using essence juice from local vendor. juicy fruit/liquid gold

 

[basylica]

First Set-Up: White Cloud 3 kit

First E-Liquid: Menthol carts from WC

First Upgrade: Vision Spinner 1300 mah

First Attachment (non-cartridge): vivi mini + c4 types

First Time Vaping in Public (outside of "smoking areas"): Movie theatre and mall

First E-Liquid Vendor: Alice in vapeland

First E-Cigarette Forum: ECF

First Clearomizer Destroyed By User Error: c4 - either mystic mandalime cracked, or I twerked it funny. had crack running around the base and slightly into body causing the clearo to "sweat" juice. Also second c4 that i somehow pulled body off bottom while trying to unscrew it. LOL!

 

[albcig]

1)first ecig: ego-t starter kit ( leaking from day 3 )
2)first liquid: general tobacco liquid 18mg ( came with the kit )
3)device upgrade: some noname VV ego like after around 1 to 1.5 years of using ego non VV batteries
4)atomizer upgrade: noname clearomizers to stop the leaking problems
5)vaping in public: since havin the first kit
6)liquid suplier: chinese liquid
7)forum: ECF

vaping was very different 2 years ago. most of the things i got were overpriced dubious chinese products

 

[aintdunn]

First Set-Up: E-Cigs Brand Starter Kit - Overpriced BLU kit, gave up vaping for a year, then an overpriced Apollo Ego Kit

First E-Liquid: BLU tobacco, then Apollo tobacco...until I figured out that I have a PG intolerance

First Upgrade: Vamo V2, 1 puff and I regretted every dollar spent on the other crap

First Attachment (non-cartridge): CE4 Clearo, still use them occasionally

First Time Vaping in Public (outside of "smoking areas"): Kmart - A snoopy shelf stocked followed me for 10 minutes until I confronted her and asked if she wanted a hit or something, lol

First E-Liquid Vendor: AVE Juice - Bobas Bounty....hmmmmm....

First E-Cigarette Forum: ECF and only ECF. Why look elsewhere

First Clearomizer Destroyed By User Error: Never happened accidently but I smashed a fake Vivi Nova out of anger. I think everyone knows why.

 

[DavidOck]

First setup: 650 ego starter, with CE5
First liquid: Vapor Alley (I think... it's been a while...) Turkish Gold
First Upgrade: Vision Spinner 1300 (followed by a couple more of them, then an MVP)
First nonstarter kit attachment: More CE5s, Vivi Nano, mini Vivi, Vivi Nova, carto tanks, T3, Evod, ProTank
First Time in Public: hospital waiting room (and everything turned out ok)
First liquid vendor: Gourmet Vapor
First E-Cig forum: ECF
First clearo destroyed: Vivi Nano, dropped and did NOT land flat!

 

[Sheila Michele 1971]

First Set-Up: ego-t (I think it was a 650) with Starburst clearomizers <---Too funny to remove and correct to Stardust.

First E-Liquid: A horrible store brand Tobacco in too high a mg

First Upgrade: Ego Twist and VAMO2

First Attachment: Other than the clearos that came with my kit, I splurged on an Elegance carto tank

First Time Vaping in Public (outside of "smoking areas"): In the mall walking from the vape store and that night going out to dinner and vaping while waiting for my dinner.

First E-Liquid Vendor: Mt. Baker Vapor

First E-Cigarette Forum: ECF. (first and only)

First Clearomizer Destroyed By User Error: Tried to take apart a Starburst clearo that obviously could not be taken apart.

 

[Paraflier]

I started out with the Modern Vapor whole starter set... 510, PCC, 3 silver (with blue tips, thank you very much lol) button batteries, as well as an "inhale to activate" one.

Didn't like how I could never tell when the juice was almost out till it was too late. Lol.

Now I have a "Hot Vaperz" blister pack clone, (CE5) and it does the job great.

I'll run it into the ground, then upgrade to something more substantial.

 

[Ton Umali]

E-go starter kit
510 LR
Ry4
= >

"Come to where the vapor is"

 

[midnight.fairy]

First kit-ego t

First juice-cocunut from my local vape store 18 nic level

First upgrade-ego c twist with vivi nova tank

First vendor-vaporifics (my local vape store....ready to try some online stores!)

First forum-ecf

First time vaping in public-applebees in the non smoking section!

 

[AlbinoSnail]

First set up: eGo C Twist w/Kanger T4
First juice: Blueberry Honeysuckle
First vendor: Vaporessence (after trolling around forums and reviews)
First forum: ECF

Looking forward to upgrading!

 

[msc1223]

started with the Joye 510 for maybe a month, then the Riva back in spring of '11. first juice was USA Mix from Vixen Vapors

 

[GLBrocks]

First Setup: Joye 510 Manual Kit
First Liquid: USA Mix 24mg
First Upgrade: Silver Bullet with Cartomisers
First nonstarter kit attachment: ViVi Nova Tanks and a Kanger Protank
First time in public: My car or out with friends
First Liquid Vendor: iVape
First Forum: ECF
First Destroyed Device: Low Res Cartomizer @ 6v by mistake on SB

 

[Anesthesized]

First and current battery: Ego VV V2
First tank: Ego CE5+
First juices: Totally Wicked Cappucino and TW "red"
First upgrade came in the mail today, a nice shiny Kanger protank!
And what I learned after loading up my new Kanger and vaping out of it....equipment matters!
First thing I destroyed was a brand new CE6 when I loaded it with a "not safe for polycarbonate" juice and watched the outer tank completely disintegrate in a matter of seconds!
That experience is what led to the protank purchase so all's well that ends well, I guess!

 

[Durzo Blint]

First set up: eGo knockoff. About $60.
First ejuice: Vanilla. Not good.
First upgrade: 2.4ml Cart and a Joyetech Upgrade battery
First attachment: Pro Tank was the first real one
First time vaping in public: Walmart. Didn't even seem to get noticed.

 

[lordy]

First setup: Tornado Tank starter kit
First e-liquid: 36mg(!) Red Label Tobacco
First e-cig Forum: (There may be a theme appearing here - not going to mention so as not to promote the vendor)
First clearo: CE2s
First upgrade: Tornado Mega

Bear in mind this was 2.5 years ago!