Greetings!
Been smoking analog cigs for 36 years; mostly light/ultralight; close to 2 packs a day unless I'm spending time in places where I can't smoke, and that's relatively rare. I've only made one serious effort to quit a bunch of years ago using patches and it didn't last much more than a week. I did find that using nicotine gum in those few places where I couldn't smoke for extended periods (airplanes, trade-show halls, etc) took the edge off, but it it didn't make me not want a cigarette as soon as I could possibly have one.
Recently I've met run into a few people who had switched to vaping so I started googling "e-cigs" and a few similar terms. I almost made the mistake of buying the most widely known/advertised cig-a-like kit, but a bit more reading convinced me that was not the way to to go. Instead I ordered up a Halo Triton starter kit, which showed up at my office yesterday just before we all went to lunch. I opened it up, stuck a battery in the charger and went to lunch. When I we got back, I was determined not to have an analog, so I filled up a tank with one of the juices in the tobacco-flavored sample pack (Tribeca) and started puffing on it. Well, it takes some getting used to, but the bottom line is, I didn't have an analog until after 6:00pm, and I wasn't miserable or cranky (which I surely would have been without nicotine). I think I had two more analogs over the course of the evening. When I woke up this morning, I started puffing on my Triton instead of having an analog first thing and it was OK, but not entirely satisfying, so I did end up having two more analogs before noon, but much to my surprise, I haven't had any in the 6+ hours since then and don't really want one now.
This morning I filled up my spare tank with a different flavor, figuring I should try some of the others. I picked Turkish Tobacco more-or-less at random. I decided I like it much better than Tribeca, so the remainder of the Tribeca in the first tank got rinsed out, the tank dried, and re-filled with Midnight Apple. OK, I like it better than Tribeca, but not as much as Turkish, so that tank got rinsed and is drying again, getting ready to try another flavor from the sample pack. In the meanwhile, I've ordered another tank, the 900 mAh VV battery (I made the mistake of ordering the 400s with the starter kit) and a 30 ml bottle of Turkish, because I'm HOOKED and I don't wanna run out!
Am I really off analogs this quick? Too soon to be sure. I've had 5 or 6 in the last 30+ hours, and none in the last 6+. That's close to 90% fewer that I would have normally have had. I'm not forbidding myself from having one if I really want it -- I suspect that's psychologically important because we tend to want that which we cannot have even more.
OK after all that, I do have a dumb n00b question: Is there some level (short of empty) at which the Triton tanks should be refilled? I know not to fill them completely full, so I only go about 90%. How low can they be allowed to go before refilling them?
Oh, and why the heck doesn't Halo make a bloody clip (like you'd find on a pen) to keep these things from falling out of your shirt pocket?
Been smoking analog cigs for 36 years; mostly light/ultralight; close to 2 packs a day unless I'm spending time in places where I can't smoke, and that's relatively rare. I've only made one serious effort to quit a bunch of years ago using patches and it didn't last much more than a week. I did find that using nicotine gum in those few places where I couldn't smoke for extended periods (airplanes, trade-show halls, etc) took the edge off, but it it didn't make me not want a cigarette as soon as I could possibly have one.
Recently I've met run into a few people who had switched to vaping so I started googling "e-cigs" and a few similar terms. I almost made the mistake of buying the most widely known/advertised cig-a-like kit, but a bit more reading convinced me that was not the way to to go. Instead I ordered up a Halo Triton starter kit, which showed up at my office yesterday just before we all went to lunch. I opened it up, stuck a battery in the charger and went to lunch. When I we got back, I was determined not to have an analog, so I filled up a tank with one of the juices in the tobacco-flavored sample pack (Tribeca) and started puffing on it. Well, it takes some getting used to, but the bottom line is, I didn't have an analog until after 6:00pm, and I wasn't miserable or cranky (which I surely would have been without nicotine). I think I had two more analogs over the course of the evening. When I woke up this morning, I started puffing on my Triton instead of having an analog first thing and it was OK, but not entirely satisfying, so I did end up having two more analogs before noon, but much to my surprise, I haven't had any in the 6+ hours since then and don't really want one now.
This morning I filled up my spare tank with a different flavor, figuring I should try some of the others. I picked Turkish Tobacco more-or-less at random. I decided I like it much better than Tribeca, so the remainder of the Tribeca in the first tank got rinsed out, the tank dried, and re-filled with Midnight Apple. OK, I like it better than Tribeca, but not as much as Turkish, so that tank got rinsed and is drying again, getting ready to try another flavor from the sample pack. In the meanwhile, I've ordered another tank, the 900 mAh VV battery (I made the mistake of ordering the 400s with the starter kit) and a 30 ml bottle of Turkish, because I'm HOOKED and I don't wanna run out!
Am I really off analogs this quick? Too soon to be sure. I've had 5 or 6 in the last 30+ hours, and none in the last 6+. That's close to 90% fewer that I would have normally have had. I'm not forbidding myself from having one if I really want it -- I suspect that's psychologically important because we tend to want that which we cannot have even more.
OK after all that, I do have a dumb n00b question: Is there some level (short of empty) at which the Triton tanks should be refilled? I know not to fill them completely full, so I only go about 90%. How low can they be allowed to go before refilling them?
Oh, and why the heck doesn't Halo make a bloody clip (like you'd find on a pen) to keep these things from falling out of your shirt pocket?
