JohnnyFog

This is a great forum and I think there are a lot of great folks here who are passionate about vaping.  I started my 'journey' with vapor in mid December 2014 in an attempt to quit smoking.  I was very successful with my attempt.  On December 17, I smoked my last cigarette and switched completely to vapor.  Between now (March 29, 2015) and the time I started with vapor, I made the changes from 18mg nicotine e-juices all the way down to zero.  I have been for 3 days now with no vapor and no nicotine with ZERO withdrawal.  
 
I hope others make the attempt as well.
 
Cheers!
 
 

I'm almost done with the vapor  I have been vaping 1mg solutions for the last week and I'll finish my stock of that up in the next day or two.  I have 60ml of .5mg and 60ml of .25mg ready to go and then I'll vanish like the vapor we make...

This is a great forum and I think there are a lot of great folks here who are passionate about vaping.  I started my 'journey' with vapor in mid December 2014 in an attempt to quit smoking.  I was very successful with my attempt.  On December 17, I smoked my last cigarette and switched completely to vapor.  Between now (March 29, 2015) and the time I started with vapor, I made the changes from 18mg nicotine e-juices all the way down to zero.  I have been for 3 days now with no vapor and no nicotine with ZERO withdrawal.  
 
I hope others make the attempt as well.
 
Cheers!
 
 

This is a great forum and I think there are a lot of great folks here who are passionate about vaping.  I started my 'journey' with vapor in mid December 2014 in an attempt to quit smoking.  I was very successful with my attempt.  On December 17, I smoked my last cigarette and switched completely to vapor.  Between now (March 29, 2015) and the time I started with vapor, I made the changes from 18mg nicotine e-juices all the way down to zero.  I have been for 3 days now with no vapor and no nicotine with ZERO withdrawal.  
 
I hope others make the attempt as well.
 
Cheers!
 
 

This is a great forum and I think there are a lot of great folks here who are passionate about vaping.  I started my 'journey' with vapor in mid December 2014 in an attempt to quit smoking.  I was very successful with my attempt.  On December 17, I smoked my last cigarette and switched completely to vapor.  Between now (March 29, 2015) and the time I started with vapor, I made the changes from 18mg nicotine e-juices all the way down to zero.  I have been for 3 days now with no vapor and no nicotine with ZERO withdrawal.  
 
I hope others make the attempt as well.
 
Cheers!
 
 

This is a great forum and I think there are a lot of great folks here who are passionate about vaping.  I started my 'journey' with vapor in mid December 2014 in an attempt to quit smoking.  I was very successful with my attempt.  On December 17, I smoked my last cigarette and switched completely to vapor.  Between now (March 29, 2015) and the time I started with vapor, I made the changes from 18mg nicotine e-juices all the way down to zero.  I have been for 3 days now with no vapor and no nicotine with ZERO withdrawal.  
 
I hope others make the attempt as well.
 
Cheers!
 
 

I switched over to .25mg solution on Friday.  I think this will be my last few days of vapor...

Interesting... I would have never though of that. I already have a stir plate that I use for making yeast starters for my homemade beer and I'm gonna have to give this a try!

I just loaded my Nautilus tank with the last of my 1mg solution.  I cleaned out my other Nautilus tank and put a new coil in it.  I'll be switching to .5mg solution later tonight or tomorrow.  
 
This has been a fun journey though.  I smoked my last regular cigarette on December 18th and started vaping 100% with 18mg solutions.  I have cut from 18 to 15 to 12 to 10 to 9 to 8 to 6 to 5 to 4 to 3 to 1 and now to .5 and headed to .25.  Not bad for 3 months.  I have suffered practically NO withdrawal symptoms except for when I first made the switch from tobacco to vapor and those symptoms were minor.  I'm guessing I'll be off the vapor within about two more weeks...

A while back, I purchased some 6mg to use in my RDA that was the same flavor I normally put in my RTA's.
Now 6 is what I'm using for everything.

My goal is to completely quit vaping also.

Want to be completely free from batteries, juice, RTA's, RDA's, etc.

Just want to walk out of the house without wondering, in the back of my mind, if I have enough stuff 'just in case'...

My girlfriend's dad has been smoking for the better part of 50 years. Not only a long time smoker but he smokes those "Santa Fe" little cigars/cigarillos or whatever they are called. Just hardcore stuff. 1.5 to 2 packs a day... He suffers from COPD. He gets out of breath very easily and it takes him a while to recover when he gets worked up. He's not on permanent oxygen but he's probably not far from it. Last week he was out shopping with us and after dinner, the walk from the restaurant door to the car got him very out of breath and he was breathing heavy for at least 10 more minutes after the 2 minute walk to the car.

After we dropped her parents off at their house, I talked with my girlfriend about it and suggested that we try to get him on vapor instead of smoke. She said he'd never go for it because he'd never shell out the money for the equipment to get started because he's tight. He smokes those Santa Fe smokes because they cost less than $20 for a carton.

That being the case, I decided to buy him some gear to try out. I got him an eLeaf iStick like mine and a Nautilus tank. I got him a 30ml bottle of Space Jam "Eclipse" at 24mg to get him started. We dropped by his house about 430pm this afternoon and I showed him how to work it. He had seen me using mine before and was a bit curious about it. I showed him how to refill the tank, fix any 'gurgling' that might occur, showed him how to not get juice in the wrong places when he fills it, how to hook it to his phone charger at night to charge the battery and got him puffing on it before I left. Since I'm making my own e-juices, I think he's interested in making it work for him since I told him he could essentially smoke for free because I'd keep him in the juices. I also discussed with him how I have switched from analogs to vapor and worked my way down the nicotine chain from 18mg liquids to 4mg liquids in just 2 months time. He knows I'm breathing and feeling better because I have started dieting and exercising again, which includes running that I could never do when I was smoking with 'smoke.'

We called my gf's mom about 9pm to see how it was going. She said he hadn't smoked an analog since he started puffing vapor and he would have normally had 10 or more during that time.

I'm hoping this will be a success story!

I'm currently down from 18mg where I started in December and using homemade 4mg recipes. I'm finishing off a 60ml bottle of a 4mg recipe I recently made. I'll be making my next two 60ml batches at 3mg. I'll go down to 2ml after than and then to 1ml hopefully. When I get down to 1ml, I plan to see if I can go for 24 hours without vaping without any jonesing

Coming down this far has greatly reduced my 'desire' for the nicotine. I can get up in the morning now and not go straight for my vaporizer.

He smoked 4 or 5 little cigars today. He's still vaping the Space Jam Eclipse and he's not too keen on the flavor of it I don't think. I am going to put him on something else in the next couple days... 4 or 5 is still better than 25-30 so progress is being made

My girlfriend's dad has been smoking for the better part of 50 years. Not only a long time smoker but he smokes those "Santa Fe" little cigars/cigarillos or whatever they are called. Just hardcore stuff. 1.5 to 2 packs a day... He suffers from COPD. He gets out of breath very easily and it takes him a while to recover when he gets worked up. He's not on permanent oxygen but he's probably not far from it. Last week he was out shopping with us and after dinner, the walk from the restaurant door to the car got him very out of breath and he was breathing heavy for at least 10 more minutes after the 2 minute walk to the car.

After we dropped her parents off at their house, I talked with my girlfriend about it and suggested that we try to get him on vapor instead of smoke. She said he'd never go for it because he'd never shell out the money for the equipment to get started because he's tight. He smokes those Santa Fe smokes because they cost less than $20 for a carton.

That being the case, I decided to buy him some gear to try out. I got him an eLeaf iStick like mine and a Nautilus tank. I got him a 30ml bottle of Space Jam "Eclipse" at 24mg to get him started. We dropped by his house about 430pm this afternoon and I showed him how to work it. He had seen me using mine before and was a bit curious about it. I showed him how to refill the tank, fix any 'gurgling' that might occur, showed him how to not get juice in the wrong places when he fills it, how to hook it to his phone charger at night to charge the battery and got him puffing on it before I left. Since I'm making my own e-juices, I think he's interested in making it work for him since I told him he could essentially smoke for free because I'd keep him in the juices. I also discussed with him how I have switched from analogs to vapor and worked my way down the nicotine chain from 18mg liquids to 4mg liquids in just 2 months time. He knows I'm breathing and feeling better because I have started dieting and exercising again, which includes running that I could never do when I was smoking with 'smoke.'

We called my gf's mom about 9pm to see how it was going. She said he hadn't smoked an analog since he started puffing vapor and he would have normally had 10 or more during that time.

I'm hoping this will be a success story!

My girlfriend's dad has been smoking for the better part of 50 years. Not only a long time smoker but he smokes those "Santa Fe" little cigars/cigarillos or whatever they are called. Just hardcore stuff. 1.5 to 2 packs a day... He suffers from COPD. He gets out of breath very easily and it takes him a while to recover when he gets worked up. He's not on permanent oxygen but he's probably not far from it. Last week he was out shopping with us and after dinner, the walk from the restaurant door to the car got him very out of breath and he was breathing heavy for at least 10 more minutes after the 2 minute walk to the car.

After we dropped her parents off at their house, I talked with my girlfriend about it and suggested that we try to get him on vapor instead of smoke. She said he'd never go for it because he'd never shell out the money for the equipment to get started because he's tight. He smokes those Santa Fe smokes because they cost less than $20 for a carton.

That being the case, I decided to buy him some gear to try out. I got him an eLeaf iStick like mine and a Nautilus tank. I got him a 30ml bottle of Space Jam "Eclipse" at 24mg to get him started. We dropped by his house about 430pm this afternoon and I showed him how to work it. He had seen me using mine before and was a bit curious about it. I showed him how to refill the tank, fix any 'gurgling' that might occur, showed him how to not get juice in the wrong places when he fills it, how to hook it to his phone charger at night to charge the battery and got him puffing on it before I left. Since I'm making my own e-juices, I think he's interested in making it work for him since I told him he could essentially smoke for free because I'd keep him in the juices. I also discussed with him how I have switched from analogs to vapor and worked my way down the nicotine chain from 18mg liquids to 4mg liquids in just 2 months time. He knows I'm breathing and feeling better because I have started dieting and exercising again, which includes running that I could never do when I was smoking with 'smoke.'

We called my gf's mom about 9pm to see how it was going. She said he hadn't smoked an analog since he started puffing vapor and he would have normally had 10 or more during that time.

I'm hoping this will be a success story!

My girlfriend's dad has been smoking for the better part of 50 years. Not only a long time smoker but he smokes those "Santa Fe" little cigars/cigarillos or whatever they are called. Just hardcore stuff. 1.5 to 2 packs a day... He suffers from COPD. He gets out of breath very easily and it takes him a while to recover when he gets worked up. He's not on permanent oxygen but he's probably not far from it. Last week he was out shopping with us and after dinner, the walk from the restaurant door to the car got him very out of breath and he was breathing heavy for at least 10 more minutes after the 2 minute walk to the car.

After we dropped her parents off at their house, I talked with my girlfriend about it and suggested that we try to get him on vapor instead of smoke. She said he'd never go for it because he'd never shell out the money for the equipment to get started because he's tight. He smokes those Santa Fe smokes because they cost less than $20 for a carton.

That being the case, I decided to buy him some gear to try out. I got him an eLeaf iStick like mine and a Nautilus tank. I got him a 30ml bottle of Space Jam "Eclipse" at 24mg to get him started. We dropped by his house about 430pm this afternoon and I showed him how to work it. He had seen me using mine before and was a bit curious about it. I showed him how to refill the tank, fix any 'gurgling' that might occur, showed him how to not get juice in the wrong places when he fills it, how to hook it to his phone charger at night to charge the battery and got him puffing on it before I left. Since I'm making my own e-juices, I think he's interested in making it work for him since I told him he could essentially smoke for free because I'd keep him in the juices. I also discussed with him how I have switched from analogs to vapor and worked my way down the nicotine chain from 18mg liquids to 4mg liquids in just 2 months time. He knows I'm breathing and feeling better because I have started dieting and exercising again, which includes running that I could never do when I was smoking with 'smoke.'

We called my gf's mom about 9pm to see how it was going. She said he hadn't smoked an analog since he started puffing vapor and he would have normally had 10 or more during that time.

I'm hoping this will be a success story!

I just hope he can stick with it. I know it may take him some time to make the transition because it did for me. Hopefully he'll be successful... I'll update as it progresses

I just hope he can stick with it. I know it may take him some time to make the transition because it did for me. Hopefully he'll be successful... I'll update as it progresses

It's intended purpose is making candy and flavoring food. This is what I use https://shop.perfumersapprentice.com/p-6678-french-vanilla-flavor.aspx

My stuff came in yesterday and I mixed up my first batch of e-juice last night. Since I like Suicide Bunny's Sucker Punch, I decided to try to make something that resembled that recipe. I made a 10ml batch with these ingredients:

4.2ml 36mg Nicotine Juice (50/50)
.8ml Propylene Glycol
2.9ml Vegetable Glycerine
1.2ml Dragonfruit flavoring
.6ml Barvarian Cream flavoring
.2ml Amaretto flavoring
.1ml (2 drops) Sweetener

Targeting a 15mg/ml concentration of nicotine in this batch...

I mixed this up really well and let it sit overnight. This morning I cleaned a Nautilus Mini tank and put a new coil in it. I loaded up the e-juice and let it sit in the tank for 30 minutes or so to saturate the coil.

I'm really stoked with the flavor of this! As for matching the Sucker Punch, it's fairly close. I may need to back off the Barvarian Cream just a tad and add a little more dragonfruit, but I'm calling my first attempt at this a success! I can't wait to try this again with some of the other flavors I bought! I also need to go find some 1ml syringes so I can make sure my measurements are more accurate. I have some 3ml and some 10ml syringes and they worked really well for this recipe...

My dream job is called, "retirement."

Next time change your mix to 40/60 and see if that helps.

Oh, and the baked onion bacon wrapped? Yeah, I'm trying that one out this weekend.

I work full time as an x-ray tech at a local hospital, but my sideline career has surpassed my day job in terms of income during the last year. I have been lucky enough to turn a hobby into a real money maker.

I work for Kamado Joe grills out of Duluth, GA. I'm their Social Media manager and I also make cooking videos for their YouTube channel. I put out about one video per week. Here's a sample of this extremely fun job:



I started out running a YouTube channel called Man Cave Meals where I simply cooked on various grills and smokers I have. I got noticed by Kamado Joe and they offered to supply me with some of their ceramic kamado grills to use on my channel. The response they got from my videos was excellent and they have since contracted me to do this exclusively for them.

I hope each of you have a job/career that you love as much as I love mine

My stuff came in yesterday and I mixed up my first batch of e-juice last night. Since I like Suicide Bunny's Sucker Punch, I decided to try to make something that resembled that recipe. I made a 10ml batch with these ingredients:

4.2ml 36mg Nicotine Juice (50/50)
.8ml Propylene Glycol
2.9ml Vegetable Glycerine
1.2ml Dragonfruit flavoring
.6ml Barvarian Cream flavoring
.2ml Amaretto flavoring
.1ml (2 drops) Sweetener

Targeting a 15mg/ml concentration of nicotine in this batch...

I mixed this up really well and let it sit overnight. This morning I cleaned a Nautilus Mini tank and put a new coil in it. I loaded up the e-juice and let it sit in the tank for 30 minutes or so to saturate the coil.

I'm really stoked with the flavor of this! As for matching the Sucker Punch, it's fairly close. I may need to back off the Barvarian Cream just a tad and add a little more dragonfruit, but I'm calling my first attempt at this a success! I can't wait to try this again with some of the other flavors I bought! I also need to go find some 1ml syringes so I can make sure my measurements are more accurate. I have some 3ml and some 10ml syringes and they worked really well for this recipe...