Yes I still Smoke Cigarettes and I am addicted to the smoking habit - support and chat thread.

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Watts rule.



If you switch the Zmax to VW, you don't have to do the math, because the device does it for you. It will set the voltages based on resistance of the head being used. Regardless, if you stay below 8 - 8.5 watts you can vape safely on just about any coil, as long as it isn't some crazy sub-ohm deal.



It may be different on the I-taste, but on zmax/vamo, it will remember the settings you pick for voltage, and wattage, but one overrides the other depending on which mode you put it in, VV or VW. They won't use both settings at the same time.

DIY Question: I have a juice I really like, but I want more flavor. I ordered the flavoring concentrate from the vendor. Can anyone suggest how much flavoring to add to a premixed bottle of 30ml or so to kick up the flavor a bit?

Most vendors mix at 15% most DIY people that like a lot of flavor mix at 20% so I'd say add 5% ;)
 

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Wow, we have a lot of knowledge wrapped in this thread! I hope lots of people benefit from it.

Going to sleep soon, have to take girlies to dentists tomorrow, then beg daycare to pick up the route to dd's school again. Wow!! I had no idea I was as oblivious as I am, just assuming the world will change to accomodate my needs. Have to figure something out for sure!

Will talk to y'all tomorrow, have a good night everyone!
 

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I switched to a different eVod just to set this out. at 6 watts it's perfect. I think that burnt taste I got on the first big hit contaminated the flavor of the juice I had left in the first eVod.

I'm guessing there is a rubber grommet on the evod heads, (like the ones on the protank heads) if it gets too hot and melts/burns it's going to taste really nasty no matter what juice is put in it.

I wonder if a few vape tricks might convince him your not smoking. There's one using liter bottles about 1/3 filled with water. In one bottle it's filled with vapor and the cap is put back on. The other is filled with smoke and the cap is put back on. Wait until they settle. The bottle with vapor is clean water. The bottle with smoke has dirty tobacco water in it.

When I get questions about vaping from friends/family they usually don't believe that it is harmless because of all the crap tied to smoking tobacco. (not gonna started on that rant) I will take a puff on a cigarette and blow it out through a napkin/paper towel. It leaves nasty brown stuff. I then vape and blow that through and it leaves clear water, which quickly dries to nothing. It has changed a lot of minds. I've done that at restaurants with smoking sections to campaign for vaping in the non-smoking areas with quite a bit of success.
 

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I'm guessing there is a rubber grommet on the evod heads, (like the ones on the protank heads) if it gets too hot and melts/burns it's going to taste really nasty no matter what juice is put in it.

When I get questions about vaping from friends/family they usually don't believe that it is harmless because of all the crap tied to smoking tobacco. (not gonna started on that rant) I will take a puff on a cigarette and blow it out through a napkin/paper towel. It leaves nasty brown stuff. I then vape and blow that through and it leaves clear water, which quickly dries to nothing. It has changed a lot of minds. I've done that at restaurants with smoking sections to campaign for vaping in the non-smoking areas with quite a bit of success.

That's should give him something he can see. Just need to find a smoker to do the cigarette one. If I do it, I am afraid I'll smoke the whole cigarette and I don't want to tempt fate at this early stage. Easy, cheap and doable. Sounds good to me. Yoohoo, I need a smoker over here for a minute! :D
 

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I am a smoker/vaper..... Background: I used to smoke 3+PAD, now around a pack to a pack and 1/2, I want to slowly cut my smoking down, I read the first 30 pages of this thread and felt like I found what I was looking for. I am so addicted to smoking it's crazy. I have enough different devices to know it isn't that. (doesn't stop me from looking at the new stuff, but my wallet has moths coming out and nothing much else) I have different delivery systems as well. I have enough horrible juice to last a life time. I have two or three decent ones. I have juices from 12mg to 24mg. I can't seem to figure out why I am still rolling the cigarettes. My life is extremely stressful and I have a list of health issues. My roommate and best friend is disabled. He had a brain injury years ago and has severe anger issues. So, I reach for that crutch way too often. I am an insomniac, sleep when I can, I am disabled as well, so, I am unemployed.

In November, I started to vape, a whim while shopping in the drugstore. I bought a disposable and two days later a Blu kit. I went online and purchased another kit from V2. I am really broke but wanted this so badly, I was willing to let bills go so I could continue to improve my experience. Then a 808 ego style from Volt, followed by a couple of twists from Altsmoke. I got a Vamo after that. I quit smoking for 3 months. I was very happy. In February, I flew to New York for a family function. Someone, passing by my seat sneezed on me and within 24 hours I got sick. I could not vape, I don't know why, I would feel like I was coughing my lungs out, but damm it, I could smoke. So, now here I am, just need the help of a few friendly vapors that won't say it's all my fault. I do feel guilty, I know I shouldn't. Or at least that I am trying or I would have just walked away from all of this.

I can't buy anything right now, I am too strapped, waiting on disability to do my hearing. My roommate is helping me on his very meager check. Just wanted to say that it was great reading the first 30 pages, and the last 15. I intend to continue reading from the beginning. Maybe something along the line will click for me.

Thanks to all of you that posted and "came out" so to speak. I thought I was the only one that had this experience. I was the failure. I know that I am not a failure but a work in progress. Sometimes this is frustrating and sends me off to roll another. Sorry if this is long or poorly written, my eyes aren't that great and I don't type as well as I used to.
 

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Hi Karen.

Welcome, welcome, welcome. You have found us. There are no guarantees in here, as there are not in the rest of life either. We can give you support and answer questions and a place to vent with people going through their own journey with vaping. I am fairly new here, just got passed my 30 day smoke free point and still rely on my friends here for much. When you smoked for 45 years it becomes a part of your life and the first thing you think to do in many given situations. But you already know that, that is why you found us. Hang around, keep reading and do what you can for now. There is no character defect in not being able to just vape and not smoke. Some of us intend to keep smoking some. I intend to never smoke again, but I can never say never, life happens.

It is good that you have your Vamo and several delivery devices so you do not need to spend a lot of money on an initial setup. I am sure with talking with us and even just in telling your story and conversations here, you will find suggestions that will help you on your path to where you want to be.

We are a chatty and friendly group and ask and answer many questions all the time. And will post links for each other. I am a horrible searcher on ECF, it is so big. A few of the others here are magicians at finding the right links. Again, I am glad you found us. Stick around and ask questions. Don't be shy. We aren't. We will help you find a path that will be comfortable for you.
 

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    So, now here I am, just need the help of a few friendly vapors that won't say it's all my fault. I do feel guilty, I know I shouldn't. Or at least that I am trying or I would have just walked away from all of this.

    Thanks to all of you that posted and "came out" so to speak. I thought I was the only one that had this experience. I was the failure. I know that I am not a failure but a work in progress. Sometimes this is frustrating and sends me off to roll another. Sorry if this is long or poorly written, my eyes aren't that great and I don't type as well as I used to.
    It's definitly not your "fault" & you are not a "failure"; you have a lot of company here so stick around and welcome to the NutHouse:)
     

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    I am a smoker/vaper..... Background: I used to smoke 3+PAD, now around a pack to a pack and 1/2, I want to slowly cut my smoking down, I read the first 30 pages of this thread and felt like I found what I was looking for. I am so addicted to smoking it's crazy. I have enough different devices to know it isn't that. (doesn't stop me from looking at the new stuff, but my wallet has moths coming out and nothing much else) I have different delivery systems as well. I have enough horrible juice to last a life time. I have two or three decent ones. I have juices from 12mg to 24mg. I can't seem to figure out why I am still rolling the cigarettes. My life is extremely stressful and I have a list of health issues. My roommate and best friend is disabled. He had a brain injury years ago and has severe anger issues. So, I reach for that crutch way too often. I am an insomniac, sleep when I can, I am disabled as well, so, I am unemployed.

    In November, I started to vape, a whim while shopping in the drugstore. I bought a disposable and two days later a Blu kit. I went online and purchased another kit from V2. I am really broke but wanted this so badly, I was willing to let bills go so I could continue to improve my experience. Then a 808 ego style from Volt, followed by a couple of twists from Altsmoke. I got a Vamo after that. I quit smoking for 3 months. I was very happy. In February, I flew to New York for a family function. Someone, passing by my seat sneezed on me and within 24 hours I got sick. I could not vape, I don't know why, I would feel like I was coughing my lungs out, but damm it, I could smoke. So, now here I am, just need the help of a few friendly vapors that won't say it's all my fault. I do feel guilty, I know I shouldn't. Or at least that I am trying or I would have just walked away from all of this.

    I can't buy anything right now, I am too strapped, waiting on disability to do my hearing. My roommate is helping me on his very meager check. Just wanted to say that it was great reading the first 30 pages, and the last 15. I intend to continue reading from the beginning. Maybe something along the line will click for me.

    Thanks to all of you that posted and "came out" so to speak. I thought I was the only one that had this experience. I was the failure. I know that I am not a failure but a work in progress. Sometimes this is frustrating and sends me off to roll another. Sorry if this is long or poorly written, my eyes aren't that great and I don't type as well as I used to.

    Welcome Karen! This is a great group! You'll like it here.
     

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    If I did not have the banner from the beginning I would have kept having a cigarette here and there and would not be where I am now. For me, the banner was/is my way to reward myself and pat myself on the back. It is also one of my main reasons to not smoke that "one" cigarette when I really want it. But that is me. It works for me. I have to set physical limits on myself or I tend to go wild. I am not good with self control. Plus I am stubborn. I will be damned if I am going to wreck my perfect record for a stupid cigarette! And it does work for me. All I could think about for the 3 days leading up to my 30 days was cigarettes. I did not want one physically but I could not get my mind off them. When I woke up on day 30 and saw that number there, I stopped thinking about them, like magic! Hasn't bothered me since. Oh, and I have an opened pack in a dresser drawer so I could have one whenever I want. That works for me too.

    Shari you have motivated me to do the banner! It is going to be extra motivation to not pick up that cig and smoke so I don't mess up my count. I don't know how you can have a open pack and not smoke, you are one strong woman!!
     

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    And I can see it is quite an impressive banner and very pretty numbers, my girl. Now start putting that money saved into a jar so in a month or two you can buy yourself a new pretty/shiney toy!

    Shari you have motivated me to do the banner! It is going to be extra motivation to not pick up that cig and smoke so I don't mess up my count. I don't know how you can have a open pack and not smoke, you are one strong woman!!
     

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    The open pack of cigarettes in the drawer of the dresser is like a security blanket a child has. Once they outgrow it, it is still kept, sometimes for years. When I had no cigarettes in the house, the cravings would put me in the car at 3am to run to the convenience store to buy a pack and I would chain smoke. With the cigarettes there in the drawer, my cravings don't seem as bad because if I choose to have a cigarette, they are there. While I am thinking about it, I am not frantic to go get a pack so I can think my way out of the craving. If that makes any sense to you. I know me pretty well, and I am a lot older than you. It works for me. If you are not making 3am runs to the store and you don't think it would work for you, I would not chance it.

    Different things work for different people. I tried the no ciggies in the house. It made me a crazed woman and made me panic. Therefore, crazed run to the store, and then chain smoking and then shameful feelings and beating myself up. I did that two times and saw a pattern so I stuck a pack in a drawer. I got as close to holding a ciggie in my right hand and vaping with my left for over 20 minutes or a half hour a couple of times in that first 10 days. I always put the cigarette back in the pack. If it was not for this thread and my great friends here, it would have been another smoke and beating myself up repeatedly.

    Good for you on the banner and your 4 days.
     

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    I am a smoker/vaper..... Background: I used to smoke 3+PAD, now around a pack to a pack and 1/2, I want to slowly cut my smoking down, I read the first 30 pages of this thread and felt like I found what I was looking for. I am so addicted to smoking it's crazy. I have enough different devices to know it isn't that. (doesn't stop me from looking at the new stuff, but my wallet has moths coming out and nothing much else) I have different delivery systems as well. I have enough horrible juice to last a life time. I have two or three decent ones. I have juices from 12mg to 24mg. I can't seem to figure out why I am still rolling the cigarettes. My life is extremely stressful and I have a list of health issues. My roommate and best friend is disabled. He had a brain injury years ago and has severe anger issues. So, I reach for that crutch way too often. I am an insomniac, sleep when I can, I am disabled as well, so, I am unemployed.

    In November, I started to vape, a whim while shopping in the drugstore. I bought a disposable and two days later a Blu kit. I went online and purchased another kit from V2. I am really broke but wanted this so badly, I was willing to let bills go so I could continue to improve my experience. Then a 808 ego style from Volt, followed by a couple of twists from Altsmoke. I got a Vamo after that. I quit smoking for 3 months. I was very happy. In February, I flew to New York for a family function. Someone, passing by my seat sneezed on me and within 24 hours I got sick. I could not vape, I don't know why, I would feel like I was coughing my lungs out, but damm it, I could smoke. So, now here I am, just need the help of a few friendly vapors that won't say it's all my fault. I do feel guilty, I know I shouldn't. Or at least that I am trying or I would have just walked away from all of this.

    I can't buy anything right now, I am too strapped, waiting on disability to do my hearing. My roommate is helping me on his very meager check. Just wanted to say that it was great reading the first 30 pages, and the last 15. I intend to continue reading from the beginning. Maybe something along the line will click for me.

    Thanks to all of you that posted and "came out" so to speak. I thought I was the only one that had this experience. I was the failure. I know that I am not a failure but a work in progress. Sometimes this is frustrating and sends me off to roll another. Sorry if this is long or poorly written, my eyes aren't that great and I don't type as well as I used to.

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