Tale of a Noob

[SonjaWi]

Yesterday my E-cigarette kit was finally here in the mail! I came home from work at 8:30 pm and went to work.

1. Unpack the goods. Realize that 3 ml, 5 ml and 10 ml of E-juice bottles are rather on the small side.

2. Unpack the E-cigarette set. Read the chinese-english manual. Realize that this manual ain't helping you. Decide to figure it out on your own.

3. Screw the battery into the charger. Wonder why the light is still blue though the battery should not be fully charged. Figure out after 10 minutes that you need to screw the battery tighter to actually get the red light and have it charging.

4. Realize you have two manual batteries. How did they work again? Watch 15 youtube videos about how to use manual batteries.

5. Decide to fill your first empty cartomizer. Get your blunt syringe ready for it, after having watched 3 youtube videos about syringe filling. Try to get the e-liquid to the 1 ml mark. Realize that you do something wrong because you can only pull up half a ml. Try to get that half ml in your cartomizer without punching holes in the filling. Get about half of the half ml in the cartomizer. Try to put the rest of the liquid back in the e-liquid bottle. Get a vacuum between the bottle and the needle, and when pulling the needle out, detach the needle and spray e-juice over your face, hands, and your cashmere pullover. Soak the pullover in cold water, wash hands and face, and decide to simply drip the rest of the liquid in. Clean cartomizer.

6. After the battery is fully charged, attach the cartomizer to the battery. Cartomizer has settled for about an hour and should be good without burning. Put e-cigarette to lips and realize you had some e-juice on the mouthpiece...eeew. Finally depress the manual button, and try to take a puff. Hm. small vapor. Play around a bit and realize pressing the button first, then waiting a second, and then puffing actually works better. Enjoy the taste of your first choice E-liquid, Nuport by Dekang. Realize it does not taste anything like Newports.

7. Have a fight with your husband because you are all cranky and in a weird mood but can't quite figure out why. Continue said moodswings throughout the day, though you vape as you would usually smoke. Realize late in the afternoon that the first e-liquid you chose had 0 nicotine in it....which explains the weird mood swings *facepalm*.

8. Fill a cartomizer with cool menthol e-liquid 12 mg and relax and enjoy .

Edited January 26, 2013 by SonjaWi

[Mark]

LOL--Thanks for sharing, makes me remember my noob days.

[mcquinn]

So it went pretty smooth then?

[Jeffb]

Great story!

[Uma]

Thanks for the laugh! I can so relate...

[mse12]

Good times. Too bad the 0 nic didn't have a placebo effect on you, that would've been cool. Glad it's working good now!

[CascadianExotics]

That's awesome!! Glad to hear everything is going well for you so far. :p

[Viper Ron]

You'll be a pro before you know it

[nana]

LOL - Great story!! Thanks for sharing it. Yep, that's how it goes in the beginning. Actually, it can go that way even after 3 years of vaping.

[CASEACE79]

It gets easier and we all get those days sometimes. Especially if you're into rebuildable atomizers like I am. Forget to take the battery out of your mod while building a coil and accidentally hit the button while holding the wire. Yep been there I hate to admit more than once. Lol!

[Vaping702]

Sounds almost like my when my first kit arrived about 3 months ago now, I still am always doing things I later realize i shouldn't have done. If at first you don't suceed, try try try again