juliery

Cinnamon roll is my NEW favorite!!!! OMG freaking AWESOME. Question on your TH....what device are you using??? Are you using 5 volts or more, like a PT or mod? Because I order medium TH and have NO problem with it on a PT and other 5 volt devices. Not so much on ego type or other wimpy 3.7 volt device. I am done with all that stuff. I have never even known what TH WAS using any of those batteries....throat rawness and soreness with too much nic, yes, but not that smoking TH feeling. But with just the med level at 5 volts I had no problem. I was using a prototype 8.4 volt device, with MY carto, filled with MY normal liquid at the vapers meet on the 12th and OMG.. TONS of vapor and TH.....so a lot of that has to do with voltage.....and a hint....ethyl alcohol is what makes the TH in the liquid....so you can add it yourself. You can achieve this by adding a drop or two of everclear to your liquid....it is the ethanol content that increases TH.......but it will reduce vapor production. But you can add it yourself....I did it just to see since I have it anyway to clean cartos with....definitely works, no taste difference or anything...I just added a drop to a carto....HOLY smokes...or holy TH

I vape all the time....for a year now, well okay, over a year. BUT I have vaped the same nic the whole time 16-18. Since I don't have any kind of problem that nic would interfere with I am not trying to reduce or eliminate it. Heck, I chewed nic gum for years trying to stop smoking....ummmm it didn't work...I smoked less, but never really QUIT. But with vaping I ONLY vape, so I am not smoking. It was the smoke I was trying to eliminate since inhaling SMOKE is not good for anyone's airways, plus all the carcinogens. Personally I am no more concerned about nicotine consumption than I am about caffeine consumption. I run a SUPER low BP, so no worries there. PLUS it is a proven fact that smokers have far less incidence of alzheimers and parkinsons.....they are evening using nicotine inhalers and patches in studies and some clinical settings with those patients....my mother in law being one of them....she has Parkinson's, never smoked. My friend's mom has alzheimer's, also never smoked now being treated with nic patch....it is being shown to have positive effects in cognitive function. SO by using nic I could very well be HELPING my brain. Nicotine in and of itself is not a bad thing. Smoking is bad because of all the chemicals and poisons they put into tobacco PLUS the fact that it is SMOKE....just like in a fire most people succumb to smoke inhalation, far before any flames get to them. Our lungs/airways need oxygen, not smoke. Anyway, personally, I am not concerned about vaping too much.....I have vaped and gotten that lightheaded feeling, same as I did with smoking too much. Then you stop for a few minutes....if you pay attention to your body, you will know IF and when you are vaping, smoking, drinking, eating, etc too much. Other than that, I wouldn't stress over it.....heck, stressing is probably far worse than vaping ever could be in terms of your health!!! Enjoy and be happy you are no longer smoking!!!

I have noticed that sometimes you can use so much flavoring that it is overkill...you literally kill the flavor by having too much. It is like when you bake....if you add twice as much rum and vanilla extract it doesn't make a cake MORE vanilla or MORE rum....it just ruins it. Nina, Sharon and I have noticed this with certain flavors and getting double and triple shots....some are fine, others it just kills the flavor. Like that saying....sometimes you can have too much of a good thing. More is NOT always better. Sometimes too much just destroys it....seems weird, but you really can have so much flavor that your taste buds just can't taste it at all and it tastes like nothing. I have had it both ways....flavors that taste GREAT on my lip/tongue but taste like nothing or yuck vaping....then others that don't smell or taste like much but vape them and they are GREAT. Lots of trial and error for sure!!!

I vape around 15ml a day.....anything I have gotten from VR I have gotten in 2 days...BUT it entirely depends where you live...I live in a small suburb of Chicago and get it from CA in 2 days. BUT Nina lives in Spokane and it takes hers 3-4 days...BUT that is because hers is going to a MUCH bigger post office, so the delay is at her end. My PO serves a really small area. Normally VR gets your stuff out within a day of you ordering, sometimes 2 days if they have a ton of orders. Last package I had I got it before the PO had ever updated the tracking....so that doesn't mean too much. A 3ml, bottle is just like to test a flavor, nothing that would last most people beyond a few hours...or to carry in your pocket for topping off. Good luck....just use the RY4 till it gets there....you can do it!!! I was just talking to Sharon this morning and we were laughing because I said I think it is funny how picky we all are about flavors when for YEARS we smoked BURNING TOBACCO!!!! I think ALL of us can remember when we first started smoking....IT DID NOT taste good to most of us....we FORCED ourselves to smoke anyway, for whatever reason. Anyway, it is pretty funny I think how picky we got SO fast about flavors given what we were doing before....some of us for a few decades!! By the way I am not a fan of any RY4 flavor either.....I have ordered it from many places thinking I must just be getting bad RY4, since sooooooo many people seem to love it. I have reached the conclusion I simply don't like it....nor do I like caramel or any other super sweet flavor...Just isn't my thing. VR is good with the spicy flavors...nutty flavors and DARK fruits....their grape and blueberry are phenomenal. Cherry Cola and grape my husband's faves. My faves are Pumpkin Spice, Pumpkiccino, Cinnamon Roll, Coffee, the "nut" flavors. SO it really just depends on your taste buds. It takes a lot of experimenting around for most people to find what they like as far as flavors.....and often it changes. I used to vape all the fruit flavors....not my favorite anymore. Anyway, good luck and have fun playing. YOu will NOT like every flavor, even ones everyone else seems to. You will buy a lot of flavors you won't like at all. That is kind of part of the process.

you just take the cap off and toss on a drip tip...and drip into the filler every hour....beats the hell out of direct dripping every few minutes. I have never used a syringe, waste of time. I don't DROP like drop by drop, I just squeeze the bottle so it is more like a stream of liquid till the filler is wet again. The condom method is too messy, too much waste with all that you wipe away from the bottom. I did that when we FIRST started refilling and there is just no way to know when it is filled until it comes out the top cap and then it is overfilled and just makes a mess and gives you a mouthful of juice.

I only use cartos since I started over a year ago. If you pop that hard cap off you can use a drip tip, but make sure it is this type..... http://www.alvinecigs.com/Transparent-Drip-Tip-Joye510-DSE901-Kr808-p/transparent510drip.htm because the hole isn't just a super narrow straight shot....you don't want the liquid going into the middle part. I use these drip tips all the time, which by the way that is the best price I have found for those particular ones, and the liquid runs down the sides right into the filler. Then you can fill it the first time initially, top fill is MUCH better than using the cart condom method, and then you can top off as needed. The reason top filling is better is you can SEE when the filler is wet but not overfilled. Each carto holds a different amount of liquid and you can only see that it is filled once it comes out the top and then it is overfilled. Plus you have to clean off all the extra fluid from the bottom...just too much waste. Another reason to take off the cap is the drag and air flow is much better because you aren't sucking it through a teeny hole. You get way more vapor and much better TH as a result. I have been rotating the same group of cartos for a year, and only about 11 have died.....(just had one die last week).....you can totally boil them clean, soak in everclear, boil again till alcohol is out, let them dry and they are as good as new. I don't now if you are on FB or not, but if you are you can add me to your friends if you like, and I have a photo album which details my cleaning method which other people are using with great success. I did a LOT of research, because I didn't want to just soak them in hot water, that does NOTHING to kill any kind of bacteria or other things that can exist in a damp environment. Anyway, my husband and I won't ever need to buy another carto, we have more than we could even use in a lifetime, LOL. Anyway, if you are interested in a simple but effective cleaning method and saving yourself a boatload of money, my FB is facebook.com/juliery

I have heard a lot of good things about heaven's gifts, but it is only worthwhile if you are ordering a lot of merchandise at once to justify the $25+ shipping, and waiting weeks to get your merchandise. Waiting is not something I am good at, LOL. My husband ordered some electronic thing for his PSP from some Chinese vendor and they said it would take 4 weeks, yeah, try almost 10 weeks, and GOD forbid your package gets snagged in customs.....you will likely get it, but it takes way longer and it is all opened and torn apart. For a first post that does seem like an odd thing to say....usually people do more of an introduction.

I actually got a worse dry mouth from smoking, I find I drink far less fluid than I did when smoking. I do however get a raw throat feeling if I go above 18 mg nic. Actually it is a good idea to drink water during the night anyway if you happen to wake up, even if you don't have dry mouth. Just good for your body...not so much that you are running to the toilet, but just a little. My parents have ALWAYS drank water during the night, neither ever smoked and they don't vape, or have dry mouth...it is just good for your kidneys, but many other things, even your skin.

See a dr, a symptom like that has nothing to do with vaping, no more than it would have had anything to do with smoking if you were still smoking. Everything in an e cig is all stuff you have been putting in your body all along in many different ways......NOW you are actually putting over 4000 LESS chemicals and poisons in your body. At any rate you could have a pinched nerve or a disc problem or any number of other causes, either way it needs to be addressed.

Here is a really easy to understand general explanation of electrical related terms....oh and mah is milliamp hours....anyway, here this should help as a general explanation...has NOTHING to do with e cig, but easy to understand and get the idea....the ohms have to do with resistance....anyway..... http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/energy/question501.htm

mah has nothing to do with the cartos or any of that....mah concerns the battery, and has to do with the length of time you go between charges....the higher the mah, the longer the battery lasts before you need to recharge. Of course this is also VERY dependent on your usage. Like to a lot of people a 750mah is a decent number, some people say an ego lasts them 8 hours....well my 750mah batteries, which are like a riva but with an 808 fitting only last me 4 hours because I am a heavy vaper. BUT my 280mah batteries, the cig style stick ones only lasted like 30-45 mins. The voltage he is talking about is another matter entirely.....either one he is talking about would be fine on an ego....all the normal batts, stick style and ego type are 3.7 volts. You don't get into the higher voltage, like what he is talking about unless you have a mod like he has. The voltage is the power at which the battery operates...the strengh of the battery........mah is an indicator of the longevity of the battery between charges.

I am SO glad I got an XL case from V4L when they still had them. I had to retrofit it to hold my 750mah batts. What I did was I took the foam insert that my batts came in and cut it to fit inside the case, so it holds my batts exactly how they should be....well it is the foam from their starter kit, so it should fit them, right?? Anyway in the top inside of the case it holds 8 cartos, then on the bottom I can hold my batts and there is an extra spot where I can keep my drip tips and bottle of juice. I like it because it is a hard case, so nothing gets squished or buttons pushed in when in my purse. My usb turbo charger and PT I just leave in the car when I am no longer in the car, then when I return home I just grab that stuff real quick. The case was only $10 when I bought it and I REALLY wish they still sold them. I would buy another if they had them.....I would gut that one though. Awwwwwwww, well all this insanity will be okay once I have my mod and only have to carry the extra set of charged batteries with me instead of these weak 3.7 volt batteries. I will be soooooooooooooooooooooooooo relieved. I love cartos, I don't use anything but cartos. I have a lifetime supply of them (for real).....I will leave the leftovers to my children when I die, I am sure they will be grateful, LOL.

I always get medium TH on mine and it is good for me. I don't care for a lot of TH, to me I care more about the flavor. I used to always have a hoarse voice when smoking and I am glad that is gone, although it took a long time. How is the cheesecake flavor part? I have been afraid to try any of the "cheesecake" flavors since that would be basically cream cheese....I just can't imagine vaping cheesecake. I can't imagine an imitation cheese of any cheese?? How is that taste? I know their blueberry is supposed to be really good......Nina said it is great. Their grape is OUTSTANDING. I sent Nina some, she got it yesterday and she couldn't believe it was just regular strength...it is a VERY strong flavor, but in a good way....she said she gives it a +10, LOL. So I want to know more about the cheesecake part of it....does it really taste cream cheesy or what??????? Do you recommend the blueberry cheesecake....see that is another thing, I detest fruit on cheesecake in real life, and I ONLY like cream cheesecake, not the french whipped type cheesecake, so I am VERY picky about cheesecake even in real life.....so I am kinda scared of ordering any cheesecake. So would you order the blueberry cheesecake again or what is it like??????????? I know, I am weird, LOL.

I have not heard anything bad about Jolly's mods. If you look on youtube there are vids with various people reviewing different types. I hope I get mine soon, and the PTs.....I know this PT has to be ready to bite the dust. I have a back up one though, but they all die within a few weeks. I have no problem filling cartos, I only use cartos, will not drip every few puffs and mess with attys and all that stuff. I was a heavy smoker and no way could I be dripping, I would have NO life at all except dripping. I use a drip tip on my carto and top it off every 45 mins to hour and I am good.....BUT you have to use a drip tip that is shaped a certain way. I got these drip tips for only $2.50 each, others are selling the same ones for anywhere from a buck to twice as much more.... http://www.alvinecigs.com/Transparent-Drip-Tip-Joye510-DSE901-Kr808-p/transparent510drip.htm The way they are shaped if you run the liquid down the inside of them it runs right into the filler on a carto. A lot of drip tips are made for actual dripping onto an atty, so they just have a straight hole down the middle, which you do NOT want with a cart or carto...you want the liquid in the filler. Anyway, I have had GREAT success with that. I don't flood or overfill, nor run my cartos dry.....after a few months of vaping I realized the taste the precedes the dry burnt taste, so now I know when to top off, without using so much liquid that I flood it. There is definitely a learning curve, and you really have to be observant with whatever method you are using. Anyway, do not get frustrated, just take BIG DEEP breath, and keep trying. I never ever thought I would quit smoking after nearly 3 packs a day for 30 years....I didn't even want to quit. My husband bought our starter kit. If you use a PT on a wall adapter, they do not ALL work with PTs, nor do the car chargers, but I got mine at Vapor Kings, $10 each, best money I ever spent....then you are vaping at 5 volts and that is MUCH better than using a 3.7 volt battery.....can't wait to get my mods and PT from Jolly,then I will be set for sure!!! Anyway, good luck and DO NOT give up!!! Your future health is worth the pain and aggravation of getting through this. I wish this had existed years ago so I wouldn't have smoked so long. Good luck! If there is ANYTHING I can do to help you, feel free to write me a message.

In the 6ish weeks since I joined it seems pretty steady....of course I don't know how that compares to 6, 12, 18 mos ago.

I don't think you would notice is between 16 and 24 mg....now if you vaped 36 mg and compared it to 6 mg that might be a different story. But I know you cannot tell any difference between 12, 16 and 18.....I used those three all the time depending on what I have been forced to choose from when I ordered from vendors who don't make their own liquid. I didn't notice anything different in that little of a difference in MG....I think you would have to have two of the exact same liquid, side by side, one at each extreme in order to see if there was any difference. Plus it depends how sensitive your taste buds are.

sorry, I hope someone can help you. I only use cartos....thankfully never had that problem...Good luck!

That is great!!!!!!

NO kidding...me too. I can't just forget. No matter what it is. Like I just ordered 35 empty bottles this morning....20 3ml and 15 6ml....because I am always sending liquid to people and need small bottles. I am tracking it...SO nutty because I am NOT out of small bottle and like come on, they are EMPTY bottles, LOL. I also ordered 3 more bottles of liquid from VR....coffee, which I tried at the meet last week....so I already know I will love that, grape because my husband is tearing through his grape, and cinnamon roll because it sounded good. I know it will be here Monday.....Tuesday at the latest, but I won't forget. I will sit around tracking and waiting for the mailman like a freak. I HATE waiting. I would love to know how to "forget" and just be surprised!!!

When I smoked I NEVER coughed or hacked or had to clear my throat...>NOTHING....30 years of smoking, no cough. BUT when I started vaping I was coughing like a crazy maniac, tons of phlegm. All that moisture of vaping was loosening up the garbage that was in my lungs that I didn't even know what there. I talked to my doctor about it, he TOTALLY supports my vaping and he said that the vapor was loosening up stuff that wasn't ever loose enough to cough up. So after a few weeks of that, I was fine. It is amazing how fast you start getting healthy. Congrats.

OH good, I am so glad they are replacing them for you right away. That is why you need so many back ups....you don't know which of them are bad....so it isn't a bad idea to use them all, then just clean them. Otherwise if you discover in a year from now the stuff is bad you are screwed. I have boiled and soaked some of these cartos more than a dozen times and they are still working JUST fine. On one of those "dr vapor" (or whatever his name is) he says that he has heard of people who have boiled and refilled cartos over 300 times! Plus the boiling is VERY important for the removal of any kind of germs/bacteria. Hot water and rinsing doesn't kill anything and I certainly wouldn't want to be vaping any kind of mold or bacteria, gross. It doesn't take long for mold spores to grow, and bacteria growth, and on a wet material it happens fast. But using my method, I am confident it works fine. I probably do go overboard on the cleaning but I want to MAKE SURE they are clean. I figured I took the most aggressive approach of all the tips on cleaning I found and combined them into one process which SOUNDS far more time consuming and complicated than it is. Sure, you can rinse a weakish flavor out of a carto...especially if you are going to refill with a similar flavor or the same flavor, BUT that will not kill anything that could be in there, and my concern is having them actually BE clean, not just taste and look clean. Plus the boiling is really the only thing that gets all the burnt liquid really out of there....the bubbling water pushes a lot of **** and yuck out....especially when I was first vaping and getting the cartos to that burnt taste frequently. I found out from tearing them apart and doing tons of research on the materials and what their melting/burning temps were that it is ONLY liquid being burnt. The attys and wires don't get anywhere near the temp needed to melt, let alone burn the materials inside the carto. HOWEVER they can burn the liquid when there is not enough in there or too much liquid where it keeps reheating the same stuff over and over. Boiling them totally gets rid of any burnt stuff in there. Sure, when I do 75 at once, I will usually kill one, but big deal. Better to sacrifice ONE to have 74 of them totally clean.

that's what I said....I am sending her some bav cream.....that was exactly my thought also.....that is definitely sweet!

I wanna see you under the influence....I can't even imagine that!!! LOL

sounds fine for what you do.....are you friends with Paul on FB? He has built all our computers and we have all kinds of stuff....there may be something you can use. He does music production/mixing work on his, has several harddrives, etc....all kinds of huge programs, same as you with the browser with a million tabs open. I think I told you how he has so many blocks across the screen he has two monitors that function as one giant one. Anyway, we have all kinds of stuff here....especially since you are using an older system. Seriously.....write him a message...copy and paste everything you just wrote. He is really good at that stuff. He fixes computers for just about everyone we know and has built several for our friends. Anyway, I know he would be happy to give you any advice, or help if you need it. If you aren't already friends with him on FB, just go on my profile and request him. He is totally cool....aside from bugging me about his mod, LOL. He is so tired of these idiot batteries, well so am I for that matter, but I always use my PT. Dreading Sunday, gotta go to my grandson's bday party and use that stupid 750mah 3.7 volt piece of you know what...it just isn't strong enough, I hate the lack of power after using the 5 v's on the PT with this outlet adapter. I love FF with chrome....best browser for sure. I hate using IE....I can't figure out anything on it.

I don't see why you can't boil them like any other carto. I wouldn't just run mine with hot water. In ANYthing containing liquid you can have the growth of bacteria...especially since you do put your mouth on it. I have been boiling the same cartos for a year....I wouldn't think it would matter. A carto is a carto.