Wrong Weatherwax

Good point and its why I encourage the higher priced Cisco spec low resistance atomizers. The reason is that they are built with a much thicker coil (as well as several other design features) that help to extend the life of the common LR atomizer. I can usually get about three weeks from these in comparison to a standard LR. Now if you don't mind spending the money for a .357 Atomizer (around $20 - 25) I've had those last me between 3 - 6 months each. They are based on Cisco spec 306 LR atomizer in a 510 shell but they have a dense metal mesh packing around them which keeps the coil from remaining hot once the electricity stops.

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cala

Thanks for this thread, I just went out and got a couple of eGo-C's for my partner & I today, and I discovered that a custom liquid mixing place is only a few miles away from our new apartment! Out with the old stinky cigarette habit, in with a new tech geekery habit. Flavour of the day: unflavored so far, but I'm gonna try the Hot Cinnamon Candy & the Bananas Foster this week.

Wrong Weatherwax

Bananas Foster is my bane. A couple of years back I got this awesome Bananas Foster flavor from a maker as part of a contest. The business went under and since then I've been trying to make a really good approximation. Still no, after all this time. I swear the maker must have had a pact with the e-Devil.

Galen McGinnis

After spending a couple weeks checking out the forums and reviews.
I woke up this morning to find only 2 smokes to my name. Decision time, try the patches one lat time? or try thr vapeing route?

Decision: Ordered. egoC 1000 kit, some juices and a kanger thing-a-ma-bob.

Oh some guy trying to channel Siggy.

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cala

Well, as soon as I get a chance to try this local maker's goods and vouch for it, I'll give some reviews. TastyVapor.us is their site. I'm not business-related or shilling for them, yet - though if they make stuff as yummy as it sounds I'll be tooting their horn for a while. Their new warehouse apparently has a storefront where you can try their standards and custom-order, and they'll brew things up while you wait, or you can order a will-call pickup too. I'm gonna try several of their starters first. I'm open to suggestions for flavors others have adored.

cala

Alright, I'm a week in now, and definitely a major vaping advocate. I can already taste & smell things better. On Wednesday I hauled down to Tasty Vapor's storefront with a close friend & prior co-worker many of you know who worked on the community team, who has been considering quitting smokes too. We tried 5 of their flavors on-premises, and he ended up buying a starter kit- they sell the "Woo" mods which have nice big replaceable batteries & quite large cartos. I bought 5 flavors & they tossed in a new experimental flavor and a 10% discount for walk-in business. My 2 favorites (5/5 for flavor!) are the Atomic Cinnacide (cinnamon fireball, FAB!) and Geoff's Blend v2, which is like a blend of Juicy Fruit & cinnamon gum. Both of these flavors use a high concentration of natural cinnamon & clove flavors, so will Demolish a plastic clearomizer like the ones I got in my starter kit. I bought a half-dozen tiny skinny stainless (801-size? is that the right term?) cartomizers specifically to give each flavor a good try before committing to a large volume of any of them. The rest I have are artificial flavor based, and safer in the clearomizers. I have are Rainbow Sherbet (4/5), Peanut Butter Cookie (4.5/5), Bananas Foster (3.5/5), Banana Cream Pie (3/5). My buddy also got some Mahalo Oahu, which has a great fragrance but is only a 2.5/5 in flavor for both of us. The cookie & pie & foster flavors all have a quite thick, though pleasant strong butter flavor, and the pie crust accent is nicely malty. We met Geoff, the owner, and he's very proud that he & his team are trained professional "dessert chefs" as he phrased it, so their palates are definitely geared around dessert type flavors. I really liked talking to them about what different flavors & experiments work, how long they usually work on a flavor before releasing it commercially, and how the business will likely change over the next year as the FDA gears up for regulation. I happily recommend trying their flavors, just be aware they are *quite* strong, from my readings online it looks like they tend to over 15% of the eliquid being flavorings, which is a very "american" tendency, not unlike American beer palates tending toward the strongly flavored DIPAs versus the lighter UK ales - both are great, just very different styles. So my huge gratitude to all of you for the great links & advice. You've now helped 2 ex-Lindens (and counting! I'm still advocating!) quit cigarettes & find a fun new gadgety hobby.

Judas Shuffle

vaping with chove

Has a lavatube which I loove, but has a ggts golden greek on order one day it shall be mine oh yes

Gemini

I started vaping 2 weeks ago and I love it ! So much so that I keep giving myself a nic headache lol. I stopped smoking 18m ago but was feeling the urge to start again. I found these and have never even considered a cig again.

I have the Ego Twist with a Vivi Nova and use low nic liquid. I got tired of cartridges constantly leaking, and the taste of burned wadding/flooding with a DCT but the Vivi has been total perfection for me so far.

I get everything I need from either Liberty Flights E-Liquid - E Liquid UK - E Cig Liquid or Cloud 9 Cloud 9 Vaping - e-cigarettes, e-liquid & e-smoking supplies shop

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Rory Patrick

I love to see new Vaping fans

Changed my life for sure.

Galen McGinnis

Am I hooked?



You betcha.

A couple ego-c's with Kanger t2's.

A hockey puck finding as new use thanks to the old brace and bit.

One month yesterday since the complete change over from cigs. From about 3/4 of a pack a day to somewhere between 3-4 ml a day of juice.

A pile of juice, I seem to like the tobacco flavors the most. Cinnamon tasted like some old toothpaste I tried once (ultra brite? was marketed as "kissing toothpaste") it will last a few months.

Isabeau Imako

Close-Up? I still use that...

Galen McGinnis

That's the stuff. Not a good vape.

daniloseo

Thank god I quit smoking 6 months ago without any real problem

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Chalice Yao

The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary: World Health Organization Urges Countries to Ban Electronic Cigarettes Because They "Normalize" Smoking

That's right. The WHO is now telling countries to ban e-cigs because it 'normalizes' smoking of tobacco products. Let's ignore the fact that there is no tobacco, or smoke involved.

Let's also ignore the fact that all the vapers would probably return to smelly, burning normal cigs.

Sounds like the WHO is really thinking of our health.

Yep.

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Void

very disappointed with WHO's stance here... Conflation usually isn't their forte. worse they present no basis for harm of what they suggest banning, in effect say that "bicycles should be banned, because motorcycles are dangerous" or worse "motorcyles should be banned because car drivers don't pay attention to them". When you start displacing cause from effect, you cease to be engaging in science based positions and begin down the road of supporting opinions without regard to facts or results.

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Similar McMillan

We have a politician here who in response to a demand that e-cigarettes be banned remarked that it would then be about the first time something was banned before it had been proven harmful (i.e. with everything else, you need some heavy proof that it is harmful, and even then it can often take ages before anything is done).

There is something very odd going on with these calls for making it illegal.

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Void

There are some heavy political motivations involved based on the larger sources of the base products...

That said, I do agree with concerns about quality control, ingredients, and claims being made... most of the communities centered on e-cigs have some of the same questions, and we aren't getting as many answers as we should or as quickly.

Shiraz jacobus

Bit like here in Australia federal govt wants people to give up smoking and doing their damndest to make it more unattractive by bringing in plain olive green packaging by 2013 ,but at the same time they have made E Cigs llegal here and doesnt look like they will change their stance anytime soon !

cala

There's a new movement afoot here in the States, several liquid manufacturers are banding together to self-regulate their ingredients, purity, safety, etc. Already one manufacturer has discontinued their line of caffienated liquids because of their intention to join the org & follow the guidelines. It's a pretty interesting time as we wait for the other FDA shoe to drop.

AEMSA | American E-Liquid Manufacturing Standards Association

Sea Warcliffe

I would imagine that the tobacco lobby is not pleased about e-cigs...
On the other hand I am now over 2.5 months cigarette free.
And just realized that Ive been using the same atomizer in my eGo-C for over almost 2 months and still going strong. Is that normal?
Flavor of the month is cucumber melon and I still love it so.

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Marita

Sea , I have a few Atomizers going on over 4 months so far and still working like they did the first day , so I'd say 2 months is good.

I think the ones you hear about that only last a few days/weeks are those using the Variable Voltage setups and cranking the power up to a bajillion watts.

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Chalice Yao

Or they buy cheap low-quality clones of the original Janty/Joyetech eGo atomizers. God knows I had my Problems with those when I first started vaping and went for the cheapest eGo atomizers I could find.

Void

actually several of the tobacco barons are investing in e-cigs as a way to transition their business model... they can actually produce niccotine extracts as efficiently as cigarettes, and effectively more, since normally most of the nicotine is actually burnt off in burned tobacco.

cala

From my understanding, it's the pharmaceuticals lobby that's whispering in the US legislature's ear here, as e-cigarettes aren't under the thumb of "big medicine" and they compete with the (non-functional gum & patches) so they're being legislated out. Even the empowered anti-smoking lobby that normally is strongly behind any form of Harm Reduction is second-guessing e-cigarettes under the same false argument we see coming from the WHO. Scary stuff.

Similar McMillan

I suspect there's some of the same going on here in Denmark.
Here you can't buy liquid with nicotine because it's illegal to sell it (curiously, it's legal to import liquid from EU countries, but if you try to import from non-EU countries, it gets confiscated by customs).
However, you can freely buy gum, patches and inhalators with nicotine.