About every other day or so I take a tissue, napkin, or paper towel and twist it into a small point. Then I gently put it down into the atty and twist it so that the paper product of choice (or PPOC, just made that up now)fills up the inside of the atty. Then I just leave it sit that way for about 15 minutes and when I pull the PPOC out, I am amazed at how much juice comes out. What I also learned today is that a fellow vaper friend of mine also will press the button without vaping just a few times for a few seconds to burn the excess liquid out of the bottom, on top of the PPOC method. You just have to be careful not to blow the atty out if you overheat it. And just to be clear, I read the tissue twist method here from someone else, I just don't remember who so I can't give the appropriate credit. I've never had any luck using vodka or any other method that soaks the atty, it never works again for me after that, so I don't bother. My current atty has been fine for at least a month, maybe longer.