I am really looking forward to getting an Ecig, but I'm a little cautious to flavored juices and I was just thinking about using standard tobacco flavoring because I want the switch to be as easy as possible. I was wondering if there was any suggestions to flavors I should try first. What was your first flavor and did it make any difference to the switch from smoking?
If you are worried about the health effects of flavored juice (if that's what you meant) then you should know Tobacco juices are still flavored juices. An unflavored juice would just be straight PG and/or VG with nicotine.
As far as Tobacco flavors, I've tried dozens and dozens, I'd say at LEAST 50 different Tobacco juices, and I have only found one that gets anywhere close to the taste of a real cigarette, and that's the Njoy King juice. The bad news is that the Njoy King is an overpriced disposable, and Njoy does not sell the juice separately.
All the other Tobacco juices tasted like Soy sauce, waffles, maple syrup, coffee, chocolate, almonds, dark fruits, peanut butter, rubber, etc. In other words, Tobacco juices can taste like anything and everything, and I find very few of them good. So don't get a Tobacco juice expecting it to taste like a cigarette, it wont.
Your best bet is to somehow try as many juices as possible, as cheaply as possible, until you find something you like. If you have a local store go in and sample as many as possible. If you don't have a local store, look around online for retailers that offer sample packs. Many of the more popular juice shops offer decent deals on 3ml sample packs so you an try a lot of juice without spending too much money, and without buying a big bottle of juice only to find out that you don't like it.
Personally I really like the Tobaccos from Heather's Heavenly Vapes. Sluge and Dark Horse are my favorite. They don't taste like a cigarette, but they do taste a lot like cigar and/or pipe Tobacco. HHV uses real extracted Tobacco for flavor, which is fairly unique compared to other Tobacco juices. They aren't the only ones that do that by any means, but it's not terribly common. I also like Dekang's Desert Ship that has a nutty flavor with hints of Tobacco.
Other people really like Boba's Bounty, I've never tried it but heard it described as like graham crackers, sweet tobacco, and many other things. It has quite a loyal following of vapers though.
Whatever you choose your best bet is to try as many juices as possible, and to buy the smallest available bottle until you know you like the juice. I'd also suggest having a few dripping atomizers around for tasting juices, you'll get the best flavor out of them, and it's incredibly quick and easy to switch flavors. Then once you find a juice you like proceed to fill your carto, clearo, tank, etc.