The journey started out alright, well damned good actually. But within a week, vaping ignorance shot me straight to hell.
To start off I got a good kit and juice that made me say, "Damn that's good." KGO and some banana pudding juice. Immediately, I was a non-smoker and a new vaper who was going to save a ton of money. Go ahead and laugh with me on that. Save money hahahaha.
First thing that happens is I run out of juice, and I was already low on cash. I assumed I could buy some locally, and I did... but it was over $1.00 per ml. Emergency averted but now I'm poorer then ever. Ten bucks for 10ml, which gives me roughly three days to get something in the mail.
Online, I order the cheapest "American made" that I can find, 30ml of a single note banana juice (impossible to F-up a one flavor juice, I assumed.) I need this to last me a while. Three days later it arrives. I'm stoked for some good banana vaping. Nope. It had no flavor ... at all. And I'm almost certain it had much much less nicotine than the 24mg I ordered. (When I got an 18mg nic juice later and I vaped it, it gave me a pretty good buzz. That makes me think I had zero nicotine in my system from vaping the "24mg" juice.)
Now my cartomizers are wearing out. I only had the initial five. But hey, not a problem. I'll just boil them like I've seen on youtube.
I won't go into the gritty but exciting details of boiling cartos. Just know not all things go as planned. So what to do. Analogs? or do I keep vaping a carto that was cashed a couple days ago?
I don't want to smoke! So I keep vaping this worn out carto and I make a new order. Clearomizer 1.8 ohms, five replacement heads, five LR cartos, and some more juice. Now vaping the worn out carto was pretty bad but survivable -- if I didn't drag too deep I could avoid most of the burnt taste. I was, however, very happy when the new stuff arrived.
Here I get a little respite on the journey through hell. (Thank you carolina vapes.) The clearo was and remains good. The cartos are good. The Ry4 I got was nice and flavorful. That gave me a whole week where I didn't need to vape the "flavorless no-nicotine banana 24mg nic juice."
That wasn't going to be the end though. Got my first canker sore, aka oral ulcer. It went away pretty fast - two days tops. Then bam, three more canker sores, two of them on my tongue. Amazing pain. I'm waking up in the middle of the night with the driest throat I've ever had and ...... every five minutes from drinkin what seems like an ocean of water. How can I drink so much and be so dry?
Those cankers go away, but the hell journey isn't finished with me. I've got two more coming.
(The story is going way too long, wrap it homie). I order some more juice. I order more of the stuff that made me say, "Damn that's good." I get two samplers so I've got five new juices to try.
They all taste like crap, even the one I used to like. Why? I dunno... I think I need standard resistance cartos for this juice. I need one of everything! And a VV battery! And one hundred juices.
What's the point? Vaping is not easy like I thought on day one. What's easy is going to the corner store and getting a pack of camels. It took me one month to figure out I'm clueless and hopefully in another month maybe, I'll be vaping easy.
(and If anyone has a SR carto, throw it towards Nebraska!)
Edit: I really didn't mean to write a book. Thanks for reading it.
To start off I got a good kit and juice that made me say, "Damn that's good." KGO and some banana pudding juice. Immediately, I was a non-smoker and a new vaper who was going to save a ton of money. Go ahead and laugh with me on that. Save money hahahaha.
First thing that happens is I run out of juice, and I was already low on cash. I assumed I could buy some locally, and I did... but it was over $1.00 per ml. Emergency averted but now I'm poorer then ever. Ten bucks for 10ml, which gives me roughly three days to get something in the mail.
Online, I order the cheapest "American made" that I can find, 30ml of a single note banana juice (impossible to F-up a one flavor juice, I assumed.) I need this to last me a while. Three days later it arrives. I'm stoked for some good banana vaping. Nope. It had no flavor ... at all. And I'm almost certain it had much much less nicotine than the 24mg I ordered. (When I got an 18mg nic juice later and I vaped it, it gave me a pretty good buzz. That makes me think I had zero nicotine in my system from vaping the "24mg" juice.)
Now my cartomizers are wearing out. I only had the initial five. But hey, not a problem. I'll just boil them like I've seen on youtube.
I won't go into the gritty but exciting details of boiling cartos. Just know not all things go as planned. So what to do. Analogs? or do I keep vaping a carto that was cashed a couple days ago?I don't want to smoke! So I keep vaping this worn out carto and I make a new order. Clearomizer 1.8 ohms, five replacement heads, five LR cartos, and some more juice. Now vaping the worn out carto was pretty bad but survivable -- if I didn't drag too deep I could avoid most of the burnt taste. I was, however, very happy when the new stuff arrived.
Here I get a little respite on the journey through hell. (Thank you carolina vapes.) The clearo was and remains good. The cartos are good. The Ry4 I got was nice and flavorful. That gave me a whole week where I didn't need to vape the "flavorless no-nicotine banana 24mg nic juice."
That wasn't going to be the end though. Got my first canker sore, aka oral ulcer. It went away pretty fast - two days tops. Then bam, three more canker sores, two of them on my tongue. Amazing pain. I'm waking up in the middle of the night with the driest throat I've ever had and ...... every five minutes from drinkin what seems like an ocean of water. How can I drink so much and be so dry?
Those cankers go away, but the hell journey isn't finished with me. I've got two more coming.
(The story is going way too long, wrap it homie). I order some more juice. I order more of the stuff that made me say, "Damn that's good." I get two samplers so I've got five new juices to try.
They all taste like crap, even the one I used to like. Why? I dunno... I think I need standard resistance cartos for this juice. I need one of everything! And a VV battery! And one hundred juices.
What's the point? Vaping is not easy like I thought on day one. What's easy is going to the corner store and getting a pack of camels. It took me one month to figure out I'm clueless and hopefully in another month maybe, I'll be vaping easy.
(and If anyone has a SR carto, throw it towards Nebraska!)
Edit: I really didn't mean to write a book. Thanks for reading it.
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Good luck to you and you are doing one thing very, very right by drinking a lot of water!
