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I have passed enough things around in my life it doesnt bother me at all to let someone take a draw off mine. They usually cough their heads off for some reason. That never happened to me when I started.

I have a fishing tackle box I keep all mu stuff in at home. It has steadily grown, and I keep it in the basement where it is cool. It contains all my liquids in the bottom and then all the accessories in the slotted drawers. Actually works great and I can keep my different stuff in different areas and when I go on an extended trip out of town or a boat trip down the river, the whole case goes with me.

My HH.357 2Ω Long Barrel Hybrid 510 Atomizer from Avid Vaper just arrived in today's mail. This is one that I've been anxiously awaiting because...well, because it's an HH.357 drip atty! I've been wanting to try one for over a year now...I just didn't want to spend over $25 (shipped) on a single atomizer, but after seeing that they weren't just a flash in the pan (here today, gone tomorrow) I decided that now was the time, so I bought one. I followed the instructions Avid Vaper provided on their product page to the tee, and I can tell you that this is the best performing atomizer I've ever tried. I've used quite a few different atties since I started vaping, but the taste of my juice is definitely better by far in this one than in any of the others. The taste and vapor production at 8 watts is on par with a well set up RBA. Now I see what all the hype was about. I've heard that these last a really long time, too...I'm hoping for at least six months with proper care. My last atty, an Empire Mods 1.5Ω Premium Bridge Free LR901, lasted about 7½ months, and cost $7.49 + shipping. It was a great performer, too...just not as good as the HH.357. The taste is pretty incredible. I still love my RBAs, but they have to be set up properly to really shine. If money's not a concern and you want the best vape you can get right out of the package, the HH.357 is what you want.

That's exactly where I plan on using mine. I'm not ready to let my better half know that I spent $45 on a battery. She just wouldn't understand.

You are going through nicotine detox. We all did. Its nothing more than that. If the liquid tasted good and all of a sudden doesnt its because as your tastebuds heal things taste differently. Your taste for liquids will change as well. Example when I first started all I wanted was a tobacco flavor. Now I only vape it because it goes good with whiskey lol. I never smoked a menthol cig in my life, and when I first tried Spearmint I thought it was vile. Now is is one of the three flavors I switch throughout the day. The whole "PG Allergy" thing gets overplayed as much as ADHD does in children. It is in things you encounter every day, if you were allergic you would most likely know before you started vaping. My taste for food has even changed. I never liked Hummus, now I can eat a tub of the stuff. Same for celery. Bot now that I can actually taste fast food, I tend to stay away from it lol. Its kind of amazing how badly smoking rapes your tastebuds and sense of smell. Another thing is you need to have a few flavors to switch between because you will get so used to the taste of one you wont taste it as well. I have also found only the 100% USA made liquids are never perfumey. I suggest Sweet-Vapes.com or Vape-Dudes.com and strongly advise you to stay away from Dekang isf you don't like the perfumey chemically taste.

Hi everyone, hope everyone's vapping well. Well it started 30 years ago behind my buddy's dad's shop. When my buddy came up to me and opened his hand and said, "you want to go smoke it" at first I said no but did it anyway. So started my 30 year love hate relationship with cigarettes. I really never felt any effects from smoking until I hit my 40's,I'm a lead singer in a band The Troubadours it got to the point I felt like I was going to pass out on the stage during the first few songs of a gig. I couldn't even walk to the mail box without being out of breath. Smoking was effecting every part of my life one of the most important things it was effecting was sex I didn't have the energy to. I'd be out of breath before it got started. I knew I had to quit but couldn't fine anything that could help me quit smoking. I tried everything from patches to the pill even the e cigs you buy at the stop and go store nothing worked. Even after watching friends and Family members take their last breath in the Hospital from the damage that smoking did to them. I remember leaving the hospital after my father-in-law died from complications brought on by smoking. My wife and I were walking to our car and the first thing we did was light a cigarette. I looked at her and said, "What the hell are we doing we have to quit" and she said," yes I don't want our kids to have to go through what we just had to". So a year went by still smoking. Then one night about 3 months ago around 2 in the morning I had to wake my wife and 3 kids 12,10,and 5 up to take me to the hospital cause I couldn't breath after test were run the doc came in and said everything looks ok but, and I thought I hate when a doctor says but anyway she said after looking at the x-rays and listen to your lungs your lungs sound like a 70 year old man and if you don't quit smoking you'll probably be dead by the time your 60. I've heard the doctors quit smoking routine for years but this time it hit me like a ton of bricks. We left the hospital and the next Friday I started vapping I have not touched or wanted a cigarette since. It is incredible how better I feel the first week I notice my voice was getting stronger the first gig we played I didn't feel like I was going to pass out on stage and now after a 9 weeks of vapping mom and daddy time is so much better actually everything is getting better praise GOD food taste better i've got a ton of energy I can smell better I'm not waking in the morning hacking my lungs up. vapping may or may not be a totally healthy thing to do but it's a 1000 times better then what I was doing before I found vapping. My wife and I are now in the process of opening a vape store here where we live in NC so we can spread the vape. Happy vapping everyone.

I'm like that with the Reacher novels. Once I pick them up nothing gets done, including sleep, til I'm done!

congratulations on quitting and welcome to vt. hey just an idea but i wonder if you hung a plaque or something in your soon to be store about you quitting if other people would read it and try vaping instead of dismissing it like most smoker's do, like i did until i tried a ego kit. my counter down below says the rest.

Oh man, I tell you one of the, if not 'the', best books I ever read was Creighton's 'Timeline'. Wow, did that take me to another place.

The "snap,crackle,pop" when you trigger the battery is a good sign. That means its cooking the juice and giving you vapor. The gurgling is more something you would get when you draw on the mouthpiece. Its like when you're at the end of your soda thru a straw. That's a leak and that needs to be fixed before continuing to vape. Pull it apart. Blow thru the mouthpiece into a napkin. Dab up the juice. Dab the top of your battery and try it again. But you mentioned the "snap crackle pop" diminishes as you vape. That tells me your vaping faster than the juice can wick. With the clearomizer you have (CE4 style), you may need to tip it to keep up juice flow. Also, it is my opinion that I get the best performance from the ce4 with a low resistance coil (1.8 ohm). You're probably going to start customizing your set up. You can pick juices that have a 60/40 pg/vg ratio. That should help juice flow. You can play around woth draw speed. How tou pull on the mouthpiece has a great deal to do with satisfying vapor. And dont be afraid to swap out coils. Thicker juices can gum up a coil pretty fast If I were you I would drop the CE4 and go straight to the Kanger T2. You will definitely notice an improvement in performance. For now, play around with what you have. You'll learn a lot.

Just arrived last night, and haven't set it up yet (hopefully will tonight), my new Nahual RBA and my new Stiff's Pipe Stem Drip Tip. For now it is on my Roller, but as soon as my Stiff Nutz Groove Pipe is here, it will go on it. Can't wait!! My magic wand. and here's the Stiff Nutz Groove Pipe, to give you an idea of the overall method to my madness.

this is my case so far when i leave. the wife has a black coin purse she uses for her gear/juices. for those that cant see the content 6 filled clearos some ce4 some ce6 1 510 boge carto 2 batteries 1 charger bunch of q tips

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Here it is. So far it's worth the $35, maybe even $50.

I never met a CE4 that didnt gurgle and leak a little.

Hehe I got a sticky (twss) lol

Welcome to VaporTalk! You've come to the right place. Many of us were chain smokers, or on our way to becoming chain smokers and know what you're facing. Switching over to vaping is the best decision I ever made. I tried everything else out there, and always had epic fails. The harder I tried to quit, the more anxiety I would feel, and the more I would smoke. A totally viscous cycle. During my first week of vaping, I discovered that I actually preferred vaping... the smell, the flavor, the vapor... everything positive was doubled. For me, there were the dreaded 5 that I had a hard time giving up, but when I was ready, I challenged those and those too went away. Tell us a little more about your habits, likes and dislikes. Menthol? Camels? Work at home? Work breaks only? Oh, and btw, I smoked for over 45 years and was almost up to 3 packs a day when I started vaping. (Camel filters and Marlboro reds). What helped me? eGo type of battery. Today the eGo Twist or the Vision Spinner are even better. Cartridge and Boge Carto's. Today, the Viva Nova v2 and the Kanger ProTank are even better. There are others too, of course, but these are the ones I'm most familiar with. Come on in, pull up a chair, grab a cookie, and get ready for the info that will change you into an ex-smoker once and for all. Welcome.

http://vimeo.com/42857970 Click the full screen icon before playing. A touching video about the Internet. Some people reject it, I personally embrace it. We're all family Forewarning: Little bit of language. Some questionable scenes.

I went to visit my dad today and he's been vaping a bit for two weeks or so. He's 72 and been a smoker for around 60 years so he's been weaning himself off of analogs. He bought a regular ego kit last year (batts, Atty, cartridge and cone). It lasted about 2 months and it wasn't working for him. He recently went to the Dr and got a clean bill of health except for the start of emphysema and high BP. So now he's all about it. This time he got an ego with CE5's kit and 100 mils of 0 nic juice. He's excited and can't wait to quit analogs. I'm so proud of him. He said he wants to be around another 20 years so he's go to do something to quit.

Heck I will have a sandwich in one hand and be baiting a hook with a minnow on the other one. Enough Makers Mark is bound to kill any bacteria haha.

i never hacked up a lung when i switched to vaping, i was just being kinda easy when i first started. but never took a drag and left a lung behind, i think my lungs patted me on the back and said "thank you brother"

I can't wait till payday. I'm going to add an iTaste v3 to my EDC. I've read so many great things about them.

That's like a little camera case! Love it. Here's an iTaste kit in an eGo case. Even the manual fits as long as the extra languages are torn out first. (love the battery charger!! can take it with you anywhere, provided your cell phone's charger is also an adapter).

CE4s just do that, I cant stand them (no offense to anyone that likes them). If I were you I would order some Kanger T2s (Ego CC longwick clearomizer is another name for it). They are the best TopWick clearo on the market in my opinion. They never flood, and are easy to fill. I mostly use the T3S now but still go back to my trusty T2s from time to time. I get my T2s from Veteran Vaper through the marketplace here and the T3S from Sweet-Vapes.com

I wonder if this has anything to do with the Nightly News blurb the other day. http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nightly-news/52558842#52558842 Oh, and did you hear the one about how Ohio's big pharma payroll helpers (ALA, AHS, blablabla) have decided to oppose the bill selling eCigs to minors, because of the taxes they'd lose. lol. Sad but true. E-cig bill called a ‘Trojan horse’ | The Columbus Dispatch So, by declaring eCigs Menthol to be bad, they can overly tax the citizens again, and by declaring they don't want to ban them from kids, they will make even more money as one by one the kids try them to see what all the fuss is about. Politics. Can't live with it, can't live without it.

Yes, larger air holes produce more vapor. You'll often lose flavor. It depends on where the air holes are placed. Every device is different. Some people prefer 2 tiny air holes instead of one large one. (some devices call for it, such as the uey wick attys). Increasing the VG levels helps with vapor production too (also reduces flavor, but adds sweetness).

Each vendor will have their own rates. The Marketplace is just a collection of the stores. Think of it as going to the mall. All different stores under a single roof. What the marketplace did was bring in a bunch of vendors to one site, rather than going to each vendor site seperately. If you order from different stores in different areas of the country, each store will have its own shipping. No way around it. If you went to Site 1 and ordered something, you would get a shipping charge. Now, you want something from Site 2 - who also has a shipping charge. You have to pay for shipping. It doesnt matter that it is going to the same place, it is coming from two different vendors.

Boring out more holes would make your Vivi Nova's draw more airy thereby diluting what you're calling 'lung hits'. In my experience upping voltage gives a harsher vape so you feel it more. Is that what you're wanting? If you do get into a variable voltage battery I'd suggest a Vision Spinner in either 900 or 1300 mAh.

Your battery should have a "protect " mode. If the atomizer is shorted your battery would shut down. Happened to me a couple times. You just have to connect the battery to the charger briefly to reset. I had a battery that was fully charged and an atomizer that was brand new but had a short. The battery triggered. I reset it by connecting it to the charger for a few seconds. It reset and had a full charge. Originally I thought it was the battery because it wouldn't turn on after it faulted. I reset it and it was fine. I have gotten a couple of bad atomizers right out of the box. And I've had a couple go bad very quickly.

Just ordered a couple. Weeee, new toy!

They don't work with 100% Vg! Boo!

Ooooooo..... I want one (or 5) Interesting that they have the same name but are completely different.... I think I like yours, Tam. Clear for me.

I've learned quite a few things from well written fiction, for instance currently reading 'Avenger' by Frederick Forsyth. A fiction novel which taught me that the bravest, the toughest, and the most fearless in Viet Nam wasn't the Green Berets, the SEALS, the Rangers, etc., but a elite group I knew of, but knew little about, the Tunnel Rats. What they would do is beyond my comprehension. Thank you Mr. Forsyth.

Kanger batts are under recalls, take them back and demand full refund....chomp...

I'll put it this way: I've got four mech mods with RBAs on 'em, and I re-coil EVOD and eGo clearos for myself and my wife. It took me a few months to use up the meter or so of wire I've bought since I started making coils, so I should be good for...I don't know...EVER!!! PS - The best part about RBAs is that once you have a proper coil made, it lasts for a really long time. I've yet to have an RBA coil pop once it was set up right. My first RBA, a UD AGA-T2, has been running on it's first (correctly made) coil since February or March...it's been so long that I don't really remember the exact date.

Welcome to the forum. We do not discuss "the herb". We are strictly an ecigs only type of forum.

I don't know which Clearomizer I have. The little instruction card left much to be desired, as far as such info is concerned. I am hoping, however, that the attached photo will offer a bit of clarification to any readers of this posting. One thing that I did find is that my kit is an eGo C-Twist, instead of (what I had thought was) an eGo Twist. Now, of course, it is possible that they are both one and the same. That, I don't know.

<--- add another 10 hr at best user that goes through at least 4-6mls a day.

Now *that* was sad!! Him for being a control freak, setting it up to push all the right buttons, video taping it for his own gain, ... (but I would have to!! What a weirdo she is!!!). Her for not seeking help to control her responses to a control freak. She needs meds, he needs a life.

Bump due to the large amount of starter kit questions lately and also to add the T3S has now joined the T2 as my clearomizer of choice. I will use them both, but love the T3S bottomcoil style. My liquid tastes the same from top to bottom, no wicks to keep wet on the top. Full comparison and review in E-Cig forum.

I would just politely pull over, open the door, put her on the curb, and drive away. I thought my wife was bad when we have to leave the lake earlier than 5 or 6 on Sunday after being out all weekend without touching dry ground. I feel lucky now lol.

Just got an iTaste VW v3.0 with 5 iclear 16's from FastTech.

2x 30ml bottles Druid's breath 12mg 70/30 from Greenman and 2 x smaller travel kits! Smaller 650mah batteries and clearo's with chargers and case. I know why they sent two chargers now. One of them didnt work! Nice padded case tho. I can fit my iTastevv/vw in it also!

That may be an advantage the Spinner has. I can tell when my standard Ego Batteries are getting close to dying and they drop off in performance some but the Spinner always maintains until the light blinks.

I used to read autobiographies and biographies when I was younger. I just wanted to know how successful people became that way. I took a little bit of knowledge out of everyone's books and tried to use it in my life. Funny thing was though that the spectrum of different personalities was crazy. I would read about, Bill Cosby, then Tupac, then Rush Limbaugh, then Dennis Rodman. You are right about the books becoming movies thing. I am a big fan of all of Max Barry's books and I just found out they made a movie out of his book, Syrup. If Hollywood would look to literature instead of old movies and t.v. Shows from the 80's as source material, the movies out right now would be ALOT better.

My current menagerie of eCigs. My fav, right now, is the CE4 clearomizer on the SmokeTek 1100mah VV battery with NW Vapors "Gummy Peach."

Here in kansas oklahoma we get 110 summers and st midnight its still high 90's. I thought it was common sense not to leave anything in a car in that kind of heat. The manufacturer should sue them for being stupid by leaving it in a hot *** car.

Why is it that anytime a person is wronged, either by their fault or another, their first instinct is "I'll sue them and make a killing!" The amount of $ that people sue for these days is crazy! http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977221219

It was a she her name was actually rose. And it was just the right timing. She ran track and I played football... I was on my way into the school and she was leaving and BAM! She was on the ground. I wasn't even sure what happened till someone else told me what had happened. And I didn't actually do anything by performing CPR but I didn't hurt anything either. The squad was already there for a sporting event and they watched it happen. Well not watched bc they couldn't stop it but they saw it happen and ran over right away. I was only doing CPR for like a minute or so but it felt like an hour!