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Right on and welcome to VT!!!

I have one, Tams, & I don't know how I ever got along without it tbh. It doesn't take up much space on the table either. Mine fits the Reo, Zenesis, Poldiac, Silver Bullet, plus drip tips along the back row and then either more mods or tanks along the front (as well as batteries, whatever I need to). When I lay my Zenesis standard down on it's side, my Zenesis is longer than the stand is wide. It holds an amazing amount of daily gear that you don't want to knock over. Plus it's beautiful to boot. When my ship comes in, I'm going to commision one with a hinged dust cover for the ones I don't vape daily (like my Zenesis), and keep this one for my dailies. It's so worth the investment!

That is way awesome, Mark!! I want one!! Except half the size, or my hubby will freak when my OCD tries to fill every nook and cranny. Oh, and it would need a hinged dust cover, because living in the mountains is super dusty. Your client is one lucky bum!!

Welcome to VT!! I would have been lost without finding the forums first. Way cool.

Welcome to VT!!! Whatcha vaping?

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.

Latest incoming. Temon D-16 rebuildable atomizer from MMVapors and ... my very first ever Provari! Mini Provari V2 at that!! Thanks to BluCavvy for pricing the MP so affordably!!!! What a way to start the day eh.

Welcome to VaporTalk, Joe!! Congrats on your switch over from smoking, you've made an awesome choice. Hang in there, those 4 or 5 hanger-onners are the challenging ones. The trick is to challenge one at a time as you're ready, & to celebrate the ones you haven't smoked, not the ones you did. We're all different on our progress and goals, yet we all similar challenges from time to time. You've come to the right place for help and inspiration. Lots of great people here. Oh, and like the others said, your tastebuds will change often. Like it, hate it, love it, ... one just never knows what our tastebuds are going to be doing. Like Kitsune said, try a different flavor every day, or fill several different ecigs up with different flavors so you can rotate them. My tastebuds like to go bland now and then too, and rotating the flavors is what I've found that works the best for me too.

Good idea for those who enjoy the cinnamon or citrus flavors. I hope the heads can be tweaked/borrowed or otherwise made to work nicely. Worth keeping an eye on.

Welcome to VaporTalk, Bill!! Congrats on switching over to vaping, you've made a right good choice. Come on in and make yourself at home. Glad you could join us.

Welcome to VaporTalk, JVape Joe. I hope your tongue heals fast, that's no fun being without tastebuds.

http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm354560.htm?source=govdelivery Another opportunity to tell FDA your experiences with NRT and/or other FDA approved drugs to treat "tobacco dependence", the benefits of e-cigarettes, and urging the agency to truthfully inform consumers of the dismal success rates of FDA approved drugs, and to stop touting them as the only effective ways to quit smoking. WANTED: Consumers to Report Problems Copied/Pasted from a thread started by Bill GodShall over at ECF FDA wants NRT consumers to report its ineffectiveness, wants Chantix users to report adverse side effects

Scott's review!!

Welcome to VaporTalk!! I'm looking forward to seeing your gear.

Welcome to VaporTalk, Ladybug!! You've definitely found a very nice home here. You'll meet lots of fantastic people as they pop in now and then. I'm looking forward to your posts.

Welcome to VaporTalk, RichardMartin! You've come to the right place, there are lots of good friendly and knowledgeable people here to help you get started on the right foot. While vaping will not cure you, unfortunately, it will still help you to recover from being a smoker and your body will begin the healing process that the ex-smoker experiences. Vaping is instrumental in helping us to quit smoking because of many reasons such as: 1. Nicotine delivery, which helps our bodies to not spaz out when it's going through the weaning process from all the other toxic ingredients we're addicted and accustomed to. 2. Hand to mouth habit is still in tact, which helps to reduce anxiety attacks from cigarette withdrawls. 3. Flavor. The flavors keep us interested in trying new flavors, or even in taking the next draw instead of reaching for a cigarette. After a short time, our tastebuds begin healing to the point that our bodies will reject the flavor of the tobacco cigarette in favor of a burst of flavor from the electronic cigarette. It's a win win. There are more reasons, of course, but those are the most important. Just relax and let nature take it's course once you begin your vaping experience. An eGo type of battery with a Viva Nova type of e-liquid delivery system is a great way to get started. The eGo Spinner has an ooomph dial. You can have it set at mild, or go on through the higher volts up to 4.8volts and back down again. The Vision Spinner is the same thing, except with easier to read numbers on the dial. The Viva Nova, and the ProTank are very popular delivery systems. I would pick up both of them, and see for yourself which one is right for you. One might have a tight draw, one might be a light airy draw. (they're both great for different times of the day). Good luck, and I hope your symptoms will be no more once you stop the toxins entering your system!

Welcome to VT, Katz. It's nice to meet another rebuildable user. I like all the ohms myself, it depends on the time of the day. Sometimes I like instant vapor (o.8OHM) and sometimes I like to chill out and have a nice long relaxing draw (2.4 on up). With good batteries and mods, the world is ours for the taking it however we like it. Which rebuildables do you have and like?

Sweeeeeet!!! Especially about how quick and easy it was to recoil. You got it down.

+1 Rixter. Same here.

yep, the little white end caps pop right out. I use a table fork, some use a pushpin, others use tweezers. Whatever is handy. They can be pushed back in after refilling, (tilt it like a beer so you don't get juice down the middle. if you do get juice down the middle, just blow out the excess). OR they can be replaced with a mouthpiece called a Drip Tip of your color, size, material and shape style choice, available at many vendors. This is what most of us do, because the Drip Tip is so much easier to pop on and off, plus when the right shape for your lips is found, is much more comfortable to vape on. Ming Whistle Vase yadayaada Stainless Steel Acrylic Teflon Glass Delrin yaadaayaaadaaa (too many choices to list them all, due to faulty memory. Feel free to delete the yaaayaaadaa's and replace with other choices

Very true guys!! Our tastebuds are so individualized and so ever changing, that the word "subjective" honestly isn't strong or fitting enough. Newbies don't understand this, of course, and I was one of them once upon a time. I mean, come on, it's either good or it's not. WRONG. It's usually both lol. Good today, awful in 3 months, then visa-versa, and then visa-versa again & again! Perfumey taste? I never ever dealt with perfumey tastes my first year of vaping, but during my second year I tasted quite a few! Come to find out, those are the ones that need to steep for a few weeks to a few years... depends on how my tastebuds are reacting lol... I used to love recommending juices, and not I cower. I cower, because I can't handle it when someone knocks a juice I am/was/ madly in love with and recommended to them. I get defensive lol. Especially when they refuse to let it steep to try again later. Dont' they understand??? Don't they get it?? They're missing out on the best ever by being so quick to toss. I'm being downright, SILLY!!!!! I know!!! But, none-the-less, Silly Are I. and then, I go and do the same thing.... with a new to me brand or flavor that to me is OMGAWFUL.... :facepalm:

lol no problem! Glad to help!! Be sure to pick up a Blunt End/edge/point type of syringe. If you can't find one, you can blunt it yourself with sandpaper. To be honest, most juices just take right over. I always just add new juice. Sometimes I have to hit the button for a vapor cleaning, but usually it just settles in and I'm none the wiser. Just make sure the tank is empty, of course, before refilling. Until you have the syringe, you can just vape til it's gone, then hold it upside down and press the button until the excess vapor from the wick itself stops. (burn all the excess out of the wick). REfill with new juice, and you're good to go. (or, remove the wick, wash, dry, reinsert, rePrime, good to go)

Ha! I have some good news for you CE. You don't have to tear it down to change your juice. Using your syringe, suck out the juice. (helps to have an empty bottle on hand, but if there's not much juice left, just dispose it). Fill the syringe with distilled/filtered water and shoot it in there. Slurp it out, repeat. I like to next shoot it with Vodka/Everclear. The Vodka dries fast. Slurp it alllllllll out. Dry your wick. (the excess liquid will burn off your wick, cleaning your wick. Your wick slurped it as you filled your tank with each cleansing). Refill with new juice. Your good to go. Some folks like to take the wick out and give the coils a good cleaning too. If you wrapped your coils just right, your wick is easy to remove and replace because the coils are not too tight. (tight coils will slow the wicking too and sometimes short when they dig in which causes metallic flavor). If they're too tight, you will have to rebuild, but after lots of practice it becomes faster and easier to do. (minus the bad hair days). One two three and a hooey! You can remove your wick and rinse it directly under the faucet, roll dry on paper towel, reTorch and then reinsert after you burn & blow the crud off your coils. I think PBusardo does the Syringe method in one of his AHA! videos. (DID)

Sweeeeet!!! Those coils are lookin' good.!! When you're hot you're hot. LOL, I feel the excitement in your post too. It takes me back to my first coil and wick & how it felt to make something so foreign to me come to life. I love it. There's no feeling that can compete with self-reliance of our vaping.

First off, Congrats for switching (mostly) over to vaping! I agree with the great advice the others gave you and have only a few other things to share. You might not be getting enough nicotine, as suggested, and I would seriously picking up a stronger dosage. Many of us, in fact, use several different mods, with several different mg levels in them. For instance, when you have to go hours between vapes, a 36mg in one of your setups will help you get through those dreaded hours. I have to use 50/50 vg/pg mix or else the TH is too strong in mostly PG version. Everyone is different. If your 36pg is too strong, then pick up some 36mg VG and mix until you find your comfort spot. (90/10, 80/20, 70/30, etc). Devote this one to break times and so forth where you can't vape like you wish to. Meanwhile, In another setup, use your 11mg for the steady vaping sessions. You can improve the hit by improving your vaping gear. For instance, if you are vaping a good but gentle Joye 510 or 808, I would save that for night time use when you're relaxing and chilling and pick up a Vision Spinner for typical day usage. The gentle batterys give you approx 3.2--3.7v of power, but the Spinner can go from 3.7 -- 4.8v of power which really helps. The draws we take are also shorter with these. With the gentle batteries we have to take long slow draws (great during chilling time), because the juice takes longer to heat up. With the Vision Spinner type of battery we can take short draws because the battery is able to heat the juice quicker. It's the difference between low and high heat on your stove when you're trying to boil water. Those 4 or 5 cigs that won't leave you are the challenging ones. You'll have to challenge yourself to omit one of them at a time and super celebrate when you finally do it. The hardest one for me was the bedtime one. Even though I had gone all day without a smoke, I couldn't bear the thought of not having a cig for such an overnight length of time. Many a night I stayed wide awake vaping, on purpose, just so I wouldn't have to have that nitey cig. I roll my eyes at myself, but that was me. I accepted me and I challenged me eventually. And when I finally went to bed, without my nitey cig, I awoke in the morning with the flavor of Apples dancing on my tongue. Wow. The first one in the morning was suddenly replaced by more of that wonderful apple flavor that only my apple ejuice provided. I accidentally killed 2 birds with one challenge. You'll get there. It's a matter of finding the right, for you, setup and juice. You have the "want to", now it's just a matter of the "can do". In the meantime, count all the cigs you have NOT smoked... yeh... pretty darn sweet. But I know it can be sweeter, just don't give up yet. Best of luck to you!