Hello, wonderful forum, glad to meet you all.

[Foster]

High, Yes I am Foster. I am a new member, but I've been reading a bit here and there for a month or so.

I am proud to say I no longer use chewing tobacco or smoke cigs! Being that I have been addicted to both for well over 20 yrs, That is a huge step in the right direction for me.

Probably tried to quit both over a hundred times using meds, patches, gum, lozenges and any other form of nic I could find. Nothing took.

Now... I vape. And I love it! Strange, but within less than a month, just the smell of real cigs bothers me and smoking one or being in an enclosed area with smokers brings on an instant headache.

I started using the disposable type e-cigs (blu,njoy,greenspirit,cig2O etc..) but found that I was killing batteries or getting duds half the time. Some with dead batts right from the first puff.

Being an electronics tech, I couldn't help but dismantle every one to see just what was going on inside. lol

What I was finding was dead batteries with plenty of e-liquid still in the filler material.

That's when I realized... There has to be a better way to go. Disposables at $10 a piece were sucking my wallet dry and not able to fullfill my need for nicotine.

I currently use a Cig2O kit. I have 2 batteries with usb chargers and one wall charger that broke the first time I used it. It left the prongs in the socket it was plugged in when I removed it from the outlet. Junk!

After some reading I believe theses cartomizers are the 808's? I need to find a good source for quality blanks.

I have been re-filling my old carto's with an e-liquid purchased locally for $10. 12ml-16mg by Imperial Hookah. I would like to DIY or find a better supplier for e-liquid too. Vanilla is my fave so far.

Any suggestions, links, tips, reviews of what you like and don't like (brands/cartos/liquid/batts/etc..) would be appreciated.

[Aquatroy]

Welcome to VT, all you need to get started down the right path. Look around and most of your questions are already answered in another area...enjoy!

[IMEDICx90]

if you like vanilla Johnson Creek makes this great flavor called Vanda and its fantastic!!!!!!!

I prefer the Kanger products and vv mods over a normal manual push button setup. If you are looking for a nice clearo i recommend the kanger T3S or the T2 also named the eGo 2.4ml CC longwick clearomizer.

hope this helps you! also remember to buy extra coils for the replacements incase you pop a coil and it becomes a brick.

and welcome to the forum!

[Viper Ron]

Smokeless Image has 808 stuff

[kitsune]

Welcome !! glad you have made the switch. not much help with 808 stuff. we do have a nice DIY section of the forum if you want to go down that path.

have you checked out the marketplace attached to the forum....quite a few vendors, might find some 808 stuff there. and plenty of liquids.

[Foster]

Thanks to all of you for your advise/ input. I will be checking out all the info you have mentioned.

Still a bit overwhelmed by the sheer amount of info and products available. Gonna take a while to read and sort through the forum. Pretty active site! I like that.

As all of you are, I am looking for the most bang for the buck when it comes to vaping.

I don't mind spending a bit of cash to get a quality product.

Ain't scared of doing a bit of work to maintain, rebuild, clean and keep my unit up and running.

thanks again for the welcome friends, I better get to reading.