Hey! :) Another newbie with questions....

[WonkyFox]

Hi y'all,
Wanted to break my lurker silence and make a post & say hello & a wee thanks for all the info everyone's been piling into these forums, they've been a huge help.

I started vaping on Christmas day....
I wasn't actually intending on giving up smoking... at all.
I didn't think I was ready to... I've been smoking for 26 yrs or so... quite often chain smoking. (I smoked rollies, so hard to keep track of how many, but a 50g pouch would last 3-4 days)

I had more of a "I'm gonna start vaping" attitude.... rather than a give up smoking mentality, so I blithely picked the day where I'd be stressed out with cooking, and squiffy drunk by the evening... (which is normally the kind of day I would smoke a LOT)... (so *not* a day you would choose to stop smoking, if you had any sense)

Well, as it turned out... I like vaping rather a lot more than smoking!

I had one roll-up cig on Boxing day, coz the vape pen was charging... and it was horrid.
I mean... really horrid.
I didn't think that'd happen after 24 hrs, but it gave me a dirty head rush & queasy stomach that I don't think I had felt since I first started smoking.... I'm presuming it was the carbon monoxide?
Either way... I haven't had even the teeniest urge to smoke since.
Vaping seems to be ticking all the addiction urges, but with nicer flavours... To me, its like discovering a Willie Wonka Everlasting Gobstopper, with nicotine.... awesome!!
Wish to feck I'd started vaping sooner!!


But cheers for all the informative posts in here... they've especially been helpful finding juices I like... I'm sure I'll be posting questions about box mods and tanks soon enough. I'm currently using an Aspire pockex and finding it a nice starting point. I can mtl and dtl on it, but am wanting something that gives better flavour, coz some of the juices I've bought I really don't think its bringing out the best in them. (Manabush.... Druid's Brew.... there are flavour notes I am just not finding on the pockex .... at all... some of them taste downright weird to me, like Two Arrows.... I love rhubarb, I even eat rhubarb raw... on the pockex its tasting like someone stirred a glass of water with a stick of rhubarb and forgot to give me the biscuity part... and I seriously doubt its the liquids fault)

Am eyeballing the Eleaf iStick Power 80W... and also the N-vape Midi Pro tanks coz they look simple & cost effective to re-wick and the reviews seem v positive.
I'd like a versatile mod where I can switch tanks for dtl/mtl coz I enjoy both... and I'd like to be able to vape DTL at 3mg or 6mg as there's more variety juices and easier on the pocket...
At the moment I'm finding 12mg MTL on the pockex to be harsh but hits my craving, but 6mg juices on it seem to be much, much nicer to vape, taste much better, but at that strength I'm chain vaping between dtl/mtl to satisfy cravings, I'm just not getting enough vapour from it, I don't think.

Does that iStick sound like a good starting place?
Does anyone use it with the N-vape clearomizer?
Any recommendations for a sub-ohm tank option for it?
Ah bloomin' newbie with loads of questions... sorry

 

[Arawn1975!]

Firstly welcome to the forums! And secondly you’ve come to the right place with questions so sit down get comfy and be prepared for anything! Lol

 

[BULLDOG1964]

and to the planet.

 

[Richard Winter]

Welcome to the planet. Congrats on switching to vaping. Will take a while to settle down and find your ideal mod tank juice etc
I have a couple of the eleaf ipower 80 mods, I really like them.
Ask away........really helpful guys and girls on here.

 

[MrDJ]

Hi Wonky and welcome to the planet.
Great intro by the way. Wish more would spend the time like you did.
We usually get, hi. Where the free shit.
Think you will fit in just fine in this madhouse family.

 

[Mitz]

Welcome to the forum @WonkyFox and congratulations on giving up the cancer sticks. It's a hell of an achievement when you consider what you are up against and how many billions of £££s have been spent by Big Tobacco to make tobacco as addictive and hard to stop as possible.

 

[WonkyFox]

... there's free shit?! Oooh, where's that at?
lol j/k
I worked out how much I spending on tobacco in a month, and then went and blew that amount on juice... figuring that it's money well spent to find what works for me,... From that little spree I think I've got enough juice to last me 6 mths but I can't seem to stop looking at juice deals...
Next month's budget I think I should be blowing on some kit & try really really hard not to even look at any juices...

 

[Arawn1975!]

... there's free shit?! Oooh, where's that at?
lol j/k
I worked out how much I spending on tobacco in a month, and then went and blew that amount on juice... figuring that it's money well spent to find what works for me,... From that little spree I think I've got enough juice to last me 6 mths but I can't seem to stop looking at juice deals...
Next month's budget I think I should be blowing on some kit & try really really hard not to even look at any juices...

You’ll be buying high end mods and juices to keep up with what you were spending on smoking!

 

[KytanDale]

@WonkyFox , one of the main challenges is to see if you can settle for mtl or dtl . if you want both then is going to be a fun ride. The next step is to get a mod or 2 . i have a single batt for mtl and a dual batt for when I want some clouds. it also depends what you want to carry with you. I now moved back to mtl , after years of dtl . As tanks , I would go to rebuildables from the start, a bit of learning curve but well worth. A kayfun lite 2019 clone and you are set for mtl. As a tank for dtl.. this is going to be endless but people here will advise.

 

[WonkyFox]

You’ll be buying high end mods and juices to keep up with what you were spending on smoking!

Which is a super way of making it all sound completely logical and sensible to my other half... "Honey I'd have burned this in tobacco in a fortnight..."
You should have seen his face when the Apothecary style shelf unit for housing e-liquids turned up...
"Oh shit... she's getting seriously into this... what next?"
The last time I got seriously into something, I went from having a deep interest in wildlife to having two rescue foxes come live with us...
(hence the avatar, lol)