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03-06-2011, 06:48 PM
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#1 | | The Seditionist Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Clearwater, FL
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| As I'm just about to hit my 2 year vaping mark I thought I'd jot down a little bit of what I've learned.
1. You are over vaping. Even if you think your not, you are. Over vaping is the leading cause of death of an atomizer.
2. Always try a dry burn first. It's quick and you know right away if it worked.
3. A blow dryer will dry an atty really fast.
4. We have ALL lost them before. Have a good cry then move on.
5. Juice burns like the dickens if you get it in your eye. Even the smallest amount.
6. Spare parts are a way of life...don't bitch, it's still cheaper then real cigs.
So how is everyone doing? I see we have new moderators. I better watch what I say around here now....
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#2 | | Couldnt take it anymore Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Mod impersonation carries a stiff penalty YKWYA
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| Great advice. I know all about #5 BTDT
About the last one...why, nobody else does 
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03-06-2011, 06:52 PM
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#3 | | Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: TN.
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| Glad to see you back VV.
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03-06-2011, 06:55 PM
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#4 | | Couldnt take it anymore Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Mod impersonation carries a stiff penalty YKWYA
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| See ?!!!! LOL
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03-06-2011, 06:59 PM
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#5 | | Darth Vaper Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Leftern Mass
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| Sure fire way to get a nic-fix...
1. Drop your "E-Z Refill tool"
2. Try to stop it like you stop all falling things from hitting the floor...jam you legs together...
3. Jab the filling end into your left thigh...
4. Hit the plunger with your right thigh...
5. Sit back and enjoy the ride!!!
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03-06-2011, 07:02 PM
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#6 | | Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: TN.
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| 36 mg I presume?
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03-06-2011, 07:03 PM
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#7 | | Couldnt take it anymore Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Mod impersonation carries a stiff penalty YKWYA
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| Id be happy...it was just my thigh
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03-06-2011, 07:19 PM
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#8 | | Darth Vaper Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Leftern Mass
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Originally Posted by Kevin  36 mg I presume? | Is there anything else? Except the 48mG non-flavored I have!
__________________ Do you mind if I STEAM?!
"well, you see Steam, we never had a rule about it because we didn't think anybody would ever DO it!"
I'm one lab accident away from being a supervillan. I knew that ahole wasn't from jersey...
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03-06-2011, 07:37 PM
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#9 | | Vapeatron Grammar Hammer Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Holding up a lamp post.
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| Actually, I've been wondering about the whole cost issue. If you were to buy an eGo kit, you'd be starting off with some pretty nice training wheels; but how much would you be spending on cigarettes in perspective to how much you currently spend on juice and supplies? I keep seeing those "I have saved 'X' amount of money" banners and I just can't help but think how inaccurate that is. I know you are spending a decent amount of what you would be spending, but how much is the difference, and in whose court?
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03-06-2011, 08:31 PM
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#10 | | Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: In Your Dreams
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| jam you legs together...
And here I sit, three kids later. That trick doesn't work for everything you are trying to prevent, Steam..... | |
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03-06-2011, 08:32 PM
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#11 | | Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: In Your Dreams
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Originally Posted by Dhileas Actually, I've been wondering about the whole cost issue. If you were to buy an eGo kit, you'd be starting off with some pretty nice training wheels; but how much would you be spending on cigarettes in perspective to how much you currently spend on juice and supplies? I keep seeing those "I have saved 'X' amount of money" banners and I just can't help but think how inaccurate that is. I know you are spending a decent amount of what you would be spending, but how much is the difference, and in whose court? | Amen! I've spent a fortune in my quest! | |
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03-06-2011, 09:00 PM
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#12 | | Couldnt take it anymore Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Mod impersonation carries a stiff penalty YKWYA
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| Well, I look at it this way. Even if I spent the same as I spent on analogs I AM still way ahead just for the health reasons, even though I know I haven't spent anywhere near that much
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03-06-2011, 09:09 PM
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#13 | | Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Alabama
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Originally Posted by Dhileas Actually, I've been wondering about the whole cost issue. If you were to buy an eGo kit, you'd be starting off with some pretty nice training wheels; but how much would you be spending on cigarettes in perspective to how much you currently spend on juice and supplies? I keep seeing those "I have saved 'X' amount of money" banners and I just can't help but think how inaccurate that is. I know you are spending a decent amount of what you would be spending, but how much is the difference, and in whose court? | So far I have spent in the 60 to 70 dollar range. I have cut my smoking in half so i am ahead by a few dollars. and now that i have the carto's 2 extra auto bats and several samples of eliquid I know my costs will even out. I love my 510 and the liquid i have from liberty but i am now looking for something with a diff taste. I know when i find the right eliquid I will have to get some at 24 mg or higher to replace the nic level I am used to but so far so good I think.
though I am not like some who quit when they first got their ecigs. I am still kinda proud that i have cut down and not killed my family.... | |
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03-06-2011, 09:14 PM
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#14 | | Darth Vaper Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Leftern Mass
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Originally Posted by Rose jam you legs together...
And here I sit, three kids later. That trick doesn't work for everything you are trying to prevent, Steam..... | You're supposed to jam them together BEFORE...er, never mind...
__________________ Do you mind if I STEAM?!
"well, you see Steam, we never had a rule about it because we didn't think anybody would ever DO it!"
I'm one lab accident away from being a supervillan. I knew that ahole wasn't from jersey...
Now will you all please leave while Dr Berger and I make out the Death Certificates! | |
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03-06-2011, 09:18 PM
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#15 | | Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: In Your Dreams
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Originally Posted by Steampunk You're supposed to jam them together BEFORE...er, never mind... | I did for a little while  | |
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03-07-2011, 01:48 AM
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#16 | | Gangsta Chimp Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Joplin, MO - USA
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| I used to smoke 3 packs per day. That's ~21 packs per week. There's no question in my mind about saving money! I could spend $100 every week and be ahead. Now that I know what I need for vaping, I might drop a couple hundred bucks every other month, and half that is for atomizers. I mix most of my own juice, and my $4 batteries last for months at a time (usually).
I haven't bought a pack of cigarettes in like 15 months. Wow. | |
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03-07-2011, 08:02 AM
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#17 | | Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Arkansas
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Originally Posted by Steampunk Sure fire way to get a nic-fix...
1. Drop your "E-Z Refill tool"
2. Try to stop it like you stop all falling things from hitting the floor...jam you legs together...
3. Jab the filling end into your left thigh...
4. Hit the plunger with your right thigh...
5. Sit back and enjoy the ride!!! | I was showing how to refill carts to one of our wholesalers. I was using the horse needle when it slipped out of my hands and stuck into my big toe. Instantly there was the taste of menthol, and a nice little tattoo after that I still have to this day | |
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03-07-2011, 08:40 AM
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#18 | | Maverick Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: MICHIGAN
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Originally Posted by quasimod I used to smoke 3 packs per day. That's ~21 packs per week. There's no question in my mind about saving money! I could spend $100 every week and be ahead. Now that I know what I need for vaping, I might drop a couple hundred bucks every other month, and half that is for atomizers. I mix most of my own juice, and my $4 batteries last for months at a time (usually).
I haven't bought a pack of cigarettes in like 15 months. Wow. | 15 months for me as well. I used natural golden tobacco and rolled in machine prior to vaping. About 25.00 per week. Vaping would be the same
For the OP......Congrats on 2 years and nice observations/advice. | |
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03-07-2011, 09:17 AM
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#19 | | I like it hot and wet! Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Tonganoxie, KS
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| I was smoking a carton a week of Marlboro's at about $45 a week, $180 a month, $2350 a year. I now spend about $30 every two weeks on vaping, sometimes a little more, sometimes less, but about $30. I still have the occasional analog, I go through about a pack every two weeks at $5 a pack. So figure $17.50 a week, $70 a month, $910 a year . . . I'm saving big. And I don't have to spend that thirty every two weeks, usually I'm just getting new flavors, or trying a new technology . . . .with analogs, if I didn't spend that $40 a week, I was going to be hell to live with. With my personal vaporizers, I have enough stuff to buy nothing for a month or two if I have to, if we are tight on cash.
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#20 | | Darth Vaper Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Leftern Mass
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Originally Posted by HiRezL I was smoking a carton a week of Marlboro's at about $45 a week, $180 a month, $2350 a year. I now spend about $30 every two weeks on vaping, sometimes a little more, sometimes less, but about $30. I still have the occasional analog, I go through about a pack every two weeks at $5 a pack. So figure $17.50 a week, $70 a month, $910 a year . . . I'm saving big. And I don't have to spend that thirty every two weeks, usually I'm just getting new flavors, or trying a new technology . . . .with analogs, if I didn't spend that $40 a week, I was going to be hell to live with. With my personal vaporizers, I have enough stuff to buy nothing for a month or two if I have to, if we are tight on cash. | Likewise. I was rolling my own using a machine and tubes; when I first started doing that it was about $0.70 a pack. Then the Feds increased tobacco taxes, and the state did likewise. I think they used the same algorithm they used to determine the "street value" of drugs when they levied the tax, because I paid $20 a pund, and when I went to get another pound 2 weeks later it was $75!!!!
NH is a stone's trow, so it was $36 for 12 oz, and packs locally were $8.75. Now it costs me about $0.65 a day to vape. But, I have been smoking more...4-7 cigs a day... 
__________________ Do you mind if I STEAM?!
"well, you see Steam, we never had a rule about it because we didn't think anybody would ever DO it!"
I'm one lab accident away from being a supervillan. I knew that ahole wasn't from jersey...
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03-07-2011, 04:21 PM
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#21 | | Couldnt take it anymore Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Mod impersonation carries a stiff penalty YKWYA
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Originally Posted by LeCig I was showing how to refill carts to one of our wholesalers. I was using the horse needle when it slipped out of my hands and stuck into my big toe. Instantly there was the taste of menthol, and a nice little tattoo after that I still have to this day | You doing demonstrations in flip flops Mike?....
I wish I had that job...
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03-07-2011, 05:06 PM
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#22 | | Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Arkansas
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Originally Posted by berger You doing demonstrations in flip flops Mike?....
I wish I had that job... | Actually had my NBs on ... it couldn't have been more perfect of a drop  | |
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#23 | | Gangsta Chimp Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Joplin, MO - USA
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Originally Posted by LeCig Actually had my NBs on ... it couldn't have been more perfect of a drop | NB's?
Perfect drop, heheh: Finagles Law states that the perversity of the universe tends towards the maximum. I once droped an ice cube while digging a handful from the freezer, and an edge landed perfectly square on top of my (bare) big toe, and cut a 1" slice in the skin like a papercut. It only bled a couple of drops, but dang, how weird. An ice cube. I once rolled a Dodge Colt 3 times at 70 mph, no seatbelt, and the only blood I lost was a couple of drops from an almost identical cut on my forefinger (the rest of me hurt quite a bit more, though).
I'll probably die in a marshmallow accident, immediately after surviving a plane crash.
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#24 | | Couldnt take it anymore Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Mod impersonation carries a stiff penalty YKWYA
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Where you going to find a flying marshmallow?
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#25 | | Darth Vaper Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Leftern Mass
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Originally Posted by quasimod NB's?
Perfect drop, heheh: Finagles Law states that the perversity of the universe tends towards the maximum. I once droped an ice cube while digging a handful from the freezer, and an edge landed perfectly square on top of my (bare) big toe, and cut a 1" slice in the skin like a papercut. It only bled a couple of drops, but dang, how weird. An ice cube. I once rolled a Dodge Colt 3 times at 70 mph, no seatbelt, and the only blood I lost was a couple of drops from an almost identical cut on my forefinger (the rest of me hurt quite a bit more, though).
I'll probably die in a marshmallow accident, immediately after surviving a plane crash. | So. I'm not the only one weird snit happens to...
I took a day off from work one day because I threw my back out over the weekend. Took a sick day. I could have gone in but it was a 2 hour ride and just didn't feel like it.
When I went in the next day a friend told me I should have gone in...they were doing some construction work on another part of the building, above the electrical distribution center, and a guy dropped a rebar from 30 feet and it went directly into a dime sized hole in a transformer, pretty much shutting the place down. They sat in the cafeteria for two hours and then went home with full pay...
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