Hello fellow vapors,
I've been lurking around the forums for a while, but finally decided to join in!
I smoked for 15 years; abobut 10 years consistent, and off and on for the latter 5 ("quit" several times, sometimes a few weeks, sometimes a few months, but always started back up again). I tried different e-cigs a few times, starting with some cheap chinese 3 piece cig-a-like that worked good at first but didn't last very long. Then I went back to smoking, eventually trying the "blu-cig", which again worked very good at first, but just didn't cut it after a while. Went back to smoking, eventually trying herbal cigarettes (honeyrose brand, non-nicotine/non-tobacco) as a somewhat healthier alternative; They tasted good and satisfied the oral fixation aspect of the smoking habbit, but the lack of nicotine always left me craving a real cigarette.
I eventually did quit smoking [regular] cigarettes completely about 3 years ago after a friend at work introduced me to snus pouch tobacco. I tried it out and liked it. On a daily basis it easily replaced smoking for me as it satisfied both the oral fixation and nicotine addiction; the only time I really wanted to smoke was at social settings around other smokers, but I dealt with that craving by taking a pack of herbal cigs with me when I went out (didn't always need them, but I always had them "just in case", so i would not smoke a regular tobacco cigarette). At first a 15-pouch tin would last me a few days, but as time went on I was going through about 20-25 pouches per day. The tins originally sold for about $4 each, which I could deal with, then the state of Tax-achusetts implemented a crazy tobacco tax increase which brought the price up to $9 per tin overnight! It was now costing me $90+ per week to snus! This was just too much...
I started looking into e-cigs again to see if they had gotten any better from my past [bad] experiences with them. I did some googling, and started seeing all kinds of great stuff; mods, cartos, tanks, clearos, rebuildables, etc. and couldn't believe how much the industry has expanded in recent years. I bought an Ego-T/Vivi-Nova starter set on eBay; I filled the nova up with some old Johnson Creek "Tundra" e-liquid that I had sitting around and was very impressed with the vape quality compared to what I had tried in the past. I didn't use the Ego for very long but it was a good starting point for me.
Long story short; About a month in and I already have 3 mods, 10 batteries, 11 clearos, 2 gennys, 2 drip attys, and 2 tank cartos... with more goodies on the way! I am as addicted to hobbies as I was to smoking, so getting into this new hobby was unavoidable for me. Being an avid do-it-yourselfer, anything I buy has to be rebuildable (whether inteneded or not). I am also making my own e-liquid as well (and now have quite a collection of flavor concentrates to boot!)
I have gained some good experience so far and look forward to contributing to the forums!
-Chris (FuFa)
I've been lurking around the forums for a while, but finally decided to join in!
I smoked for 15 years; abobut 10 years consistent, and off and on for the latter 5 ("quit" several times, sometimes a few weeks, sometimes a few months, but always started back up again). I tried different e-cigs a few times, starting with some cheap chinese 3 piece cig-a-like that worked good at first but didn't last very long. Then I went back to smoking, eventually trying the "blu-cig", which again worked very good at first, but just didn't cut it after a while. Went back to smoking, eventually trying herbal cigarettes (honeyrose brand, non-nicotine/non-tobacco) as a somewhat healthier alternative; They tasted good and satisfied the oral fixation aspect of the smoking habbit, but the lack of nicotine always left me craving a real cigarette.
I eventually did quit smoking [regular] cigarettes completely about 3 years ago after a friend at work introduced me to snus pouch tobacco. I tried it out and liked it. On a daily basis it easily replaced smoking for me as it satisfied both the oral fixation and nicotine addiction; the only time I really wanted to smoke was at social settings around other smokers, but I dealt with that craving by taking a pack of herbal cigs with me when I went out (didn't always need them, but I always had them "just in case", so i would not smoke a regular tobacco cigarette). At first a 15-pouch tin would last me a few days, but as time went on I was going through about 20-25 pouches per day. The tins originally sold for about $4 each, which I could deal with, then the state of Tax-achusetts implemented a crazy tobacco tax increase which brought the price up to $9 per tin overnight! It was now costing me $90+ per week to snus! This was just too much...
I started looking into e-cigs again to see if they had gotten any better from my past [bad] experiences with them. I did some googling, and started seeing all kinds of great stuff; mods, cartos, tanks, clearos, rebuildables, etc. and couldn't believe how much the industry has expanded in recent years. I bought an Ego-T/Vivi-Nova starter set on eBay; I filled the nova up with some old Johnson Creek "Tundra" e-liquid that I had sitting around and was very impressed with the vape quality compared to what I had tried in the past. I didn't use the Ego for very long but it was a good starting point for me.
Long story short; About a month in and I already have 3 mods, 10 batteries, 11 clearos, 2 gennys, 2 drip attys, and 2 tank cartos... with more goodies on the way! I am as addicted to hobbies as I was to smoking, so getting into this new hobby was unavoidable for me. Being an avid do-it-yourselfer, anything I buy has to be rebuildable (whether inteneded or not). I am also making my own e-liquid as well (and now have quite a collection of flavor concentrates to boot!)
I have gained some good experience so far and look forward to contributing to the forums!
-Chris (FuFa)
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