So, last year I was on a job site and saw a guy I knew from a long time ago. He was a few pack a day smoker and I thought, A smoking buddy! Ask him if he wants to go have a smoke and off we go. I take out my Camels and he takes out a contraption I had never seen before and he tell me he quit smoking 2 years ago, from two packs a day to zero overnight and never went back. And so began my mostly sad vaping journey.
Marched off that weekend to a store and bought an eGo with customizers and, by an amazing stroke of luck, an ejuice that I thought tasted just awesome. Threw my ciggerates away and just vaped. I was very pleased. Then I went back to the store to get more of the awesome juice and it was gone. Madly tried various juices and all were garbage to me. I was back on cigarettes in 24 hours.
Six months ago my wife pushed me to give it another go, so I bought a Vision Spinner and some ProTank 3s from a local shop on their recommendation and luckily found a Vanilla flavor that I found tolerable. But then the equipment problems began. Not enough draw, inconsistent taste, coil failures, etc... Lasted maybe a week and was back to cigarettes. The one thing about a cigarette, even if I am in northern Afghanistan or southern Argentina, the delivery device is the same and the taste is almost the same.
Now six months later still, I am back with a mission to try one last time to work through these issues. Taste is a tough one, and I realize that it might take some time to get to a juice that will allow me to throw the cowboy killers in the trash for good. But that is the second step. First is finding a delivery system that actually works. The catalyst for this was meeting a guy on a job site that was vaping and his advice for better taste and simpler delivery was to drip or mechanical bottom feed. He said that he had had all the same issues that I was having and that all his mechanical problems vanished when he went to the thing he was holding, a wood box with a hole cut in it to squeeze a bottle that somehow delivered the juice. Cannot recall the brand, but he called it a mechanical bottom feeder. He also said, Google ECF Forum, just do that, like now.
So here I am, member of ECF for about an hour, starting to sift through vast information. I hope it proves fruitful this time with the knowledge that a huge community I had not known existed can provide. As for now, still smoking, yearning to be done with it but unwilling to let go of a habit that has gripped me for so long. Pointers to what areas of the forum I might begin with appreciated.
/salute
Marched off that weekend to a store and bought an eGo with customizers and, by an amazing stroke of luck, an ejuice that I thought tasted just awesome. Threw my ciggerates away and just vaped. I was very pleased. Then I went back to the store to get more of the awesome juice and it was gone. Madly tried various juices and all were garbage to me. I was back on cigarettes in 24 hours.
Six months ago my wife pushed me to give it another go, so I bought a Vision Spinner and some ProTank 3s from a local shop on their recommendation and luckily found a Vanilla flavor that I found tolerable. But then the equipment problems began. Not enough draw, inconsistent taste, coil failures, etc... Lasted maybe a week and was back to cigarettes. The one thing about a cigarette, even if I am in northern Afghanistan or southern Argentina, the delivery device is the same and the taste is almost the same.
Now six months later still, I am back with a mission to try one last time to work through these issues. Taste is a tough one, and I realize that it might take some time to get to a juice that will allow me to throw the cowboy killers in the trash for good. But that is the second step. First is finding a delivery system that actually works. The catalyst for this was meeting a guy on a job site that was vaping and his advice for better taste and simpler delivery was to drip or mechanical bottom feed. He said that he had had all the same issues that I was having and that all his mechanical problems vanished when he went to the thing he was holding, a wood box with a hole cut in it to squeeze a bottle that somehow delivered the juice. Cannot recall the brand, but he called it a mechanical bottom feeder. He also said, Google ECF Forum, just do that, like now.
So here I am, member of ECF for about an hour, starting to sift through vast information. I hope it proves fruitful this time with the knowledge that a huge community I had not known existed can provide. As for now, still smoking, yearning to be done with it but unwilling to let go of a habit that has gripped me for so long. Pointers to what areas of the forum I might begin with appreciated.
/salute
