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I'm glad you're finding enjoyment in your new-found vaping experience! It will quickly turn into a full replacement for analogs, and then into a "hobby", lol... You'll find yourself looking at all the new shiny stuff and wanting more and more... we call it "a bad case of shinyitus" But, in the long run, you'll spend less and less on vaping, and begin to reap the monetary rewards of vaping, too, which is keeping up with your (diminishing) Nicotine demands for FAR LESS MONEY than you EVER spent on analogs! I have been analog-free for nearly 3 years, and my annual vaping expenditure (I don't call it a budget any more) is just a couple hundred dollars now... mostly for supplies such as coils, wire, and DIY juice materials (Nicotine, VG, PG, and flavorings). Yeah, I still splurge on a new tank or MOD from time to time, but those are just rewards for being a non-smoker, and to replace aging or dead/dying/broken equipment. Hard to believe I use to spend my annual vaping "budget" in just 5-6 week's worth of analogs!

Hi @Walt sorry I just saw this.. I love my pico as @Tam said. It's my go to mod. The pico mod itself isn't the the cause of the choking problem, it's probably the tank/juice are you using on it? Though some of it can be an after effect of quitting analogs. I coughed for a couple of months while my body readjusted. If you're using the melo III that comes with the pico in the kit yes, it can have an airy draw. If you're enjoying your pen style vaporizer I'm assuming that you vape mouth to lung like when you smoked your analogs. It might remedy the melo if you can switch to a ming type drip tip and somewhat close your airflow valves on the base of the melo or you can try a tank like a nautilus mini that is more suited to that style of vaping. The melo III also has ECML coils you can get which are specifically for MTL vapers which might also help with the problem. I would try the ECML coil before buying a new tank though personally. The ECML coil is 0.75 ohm so you can vape at a lower wattage than the 0.3ohm which will be cooler and might make it better for you. Yes, the pico/melo combination is a sub ohm set up and if you have the 0.3ohm coil in it then anything over a 6mg nicotine juice would be harsh. I would think that if you used at least 70vg/30pg juice in a lower nicotine level you'd be happier with your set up. A higher VG has less of a throat hit than PG which can trigger coughing/choking too. Personally I use a 3mg 80vg/20pg juice and it's perfect for me. I quit analogs in May and after a while I switched from MTL to direct to lung so my suggestion is to hang on to your melo no matter what because you'll probably enjoy it more as your vaping style changes and it's great to have back ups.

Welcome to Vapor Talk! The Aspire Archon has TCR mode so you can use Kanthal and Nichrome in TC-mode, but dialing them in is kinda finicky because you have to know the Temperature Coefficient of Resistance (TCR) value of the wire you are using... Once you have that, you can put the MOD into TCR mode, key in the TCR value, and vape happy (once you dial in the temperature, that is). Length of wire, coil size, micro/macro coil, etc. will also affect the TCR value, but it should be minimal. Here are some TCR values I've used with success ... Ni200: "0600" [0.00600] (According to Steam-Engine.org) TitaniumGrade1: "0366" [0.00366] (According to Steam-Engine.org) SS316L: "0088" [0.000879] (According to Steam-Engine) SS317L: "0094" [0.00094] (According to Steam-Engine.org) Nichrome: 0.00040 (According to DJLsbVapes) Nichrome N60 (C): 0.000178 Nichrome N80 (A): 0.000112 Kanthal NiFe70: 0.0052 By no means assume these are absolute values! You'll need to play around with your MOD and the settings to fine-tune it, but these should give you a good starting point?

My favorites are the ones where I don't have to remove spammy links from the names of the eliquid flavors.

One more thing I would suggest for you is... if you chain vape (like chain smoking), get a 0 nic juice and switch to it an hour or so before bed time. This will help with the usual motions of smoking/vaping, but it will give you 0 nic so you can sleep better. Having multiple tanks with different nic levels for specific things will be helpful so you don't have to dump out your one tank of juice, change out a coil, etc.

@Edna can probably tell you more about the Pico and some suggestions on how to make it work for you (if I'm remembering correctly, she has one). Can you turn down the Pico? If you're choking, it sounds like you might need to turn down the watts/volts on the battery. Start low. Vape. If it's not doing anything for you, turn up a bit. Vape. Repeat until you either get a slight burnt taste or it gives you a harsh vape, turn down just a touch and that should be your sweet spot with that tank/coil/juice combination. With your pen-style battery, what tank are you using with it and what resistance in coil?

This is a tough nut to crack. No pun intended. I share the challenge many here express. I can't tell where my nicotine level as both too much and too little leave me feeling dizzy and buzzed. I have also noted how little I knew about exactly how I exhaled cigarettes. The second discovery is a gift. I can work on that. And then oh course, there's the brain. "Grab a ciggerette, that works". Lol, sorry, wrong answer. I have enough nerd in me to be intrigued with trying different juice recipes and building custom heating coils etc. There's a real "hobby" aspect to this that I look forward to. So many benefits!

Thank you so much again!!

Glad you got it working again.