General thoughts on vaping and vaping hardware

[paul3000]

I'd say vaping could be used as a quit smoking and nicotine and vaping method, but you would have to plan it, starting at the equivalent or bit less nicotine strength to your current cig habit and staging a reduction in nicotine down to 0 nicotine e-juices. So don't go for the high strength nicotine juices unless you are a big cigarette smoker already.

However with all the amazing flavours it is actually very pleasant, and seems at least a harm reduction method, and I am not craving cigarettes at all, still got the nicotine and hand to mouth and inhaling/exhaling kind of smoke, physical and psychological addictions covered.

Just trying an A7 atomiser

One negative point about the A7's or positive, depending, they have a hole right through centre to battery terminal, so if you overfill you can get leakage down into battery, and probably bit of condensate as well.

Using A7 on the eGo-T upgrade, or standard eGo-C pen type battery, the 510 thread seals on the battery terminal post so easy to wipe off the blob of juice on just centre of battery with kitchen towel , but on something like the Lambo with a probe terminal more difficult to clean, so myself I would not use the lambo with an A7. However on a positive note, the A7 is suitable for a bottom feeder type battery mod apparently because of that hole allowing juice to be squeezed up through it from below.

Also as the A7 body gets warm I think it evaporates juice quite quickly too, got to experiment with wick length, someone on the net did an oval coil in 28awg and loads of bamboo threads, looks the way to go, get lots of juice in the wick away from the body.

The Vivi nova works well on the lambo as long as you only very gently tighten it. otherwise it seals up the air intake. But as this has large surface area exposed to air I think it uses quite a lot of juice.

Yet to build the AGA-T2 which uses a top hole for air draw, which seems better.

The CE2's seem to me the most efficient in terms of minimal juice use, good vapour, and moderate sized reservoir. But the Vision CE2 rebuildable centre post was recessed meaning quite a tight draw unless screwed in with a wobbly fit on standard pen type batteries. The CE2's need the centre post protruding for the ego-c/ego-t type batteries to make sure you do not seal up the air hole/intake route. I think the reason the CE2's are so efficient is that there is minimal surface area exposed to air so minimal evaporation and they are actually quite well sealed inside as well due to tip screwing down onto seal.

The PG does dry my throat a bit I would say, (had a nasty sore throat one morning for a short while just a few days in, after a heavy vaping session) just got some VG juice so I'll get back to you on that.

Oh, yeah, and a whole new use for ashtrays, storing components of dismantled atomisers, and quenching ss wick LOL

[paul3000]

The cotton gauze rolled, wicks like it is drinking through a straw, similar with the undyed 100% bamboo yarn (which adds a bit of a sweet flavour) and as well as having done too many turns on the coil, I made the wick too thick under the ss under coils and it overpowers the coil capacity for heating, so few more experiments required, (wire thickness may have some effects I have not noticed yet, got some .18 now as well) and then I'll post what I think is the A7 optimal coil/wick design, the ss wrap under the coil does protect the wick quite well.

A7 atomiser is great for tasting new flavours as it has smallish reservoir. Wish I'd used it rather than the T2 to sample the HS impulse.

[lobeydosser]

<<< I'd say vaping could be used as a quit smoking >>>

I have already tried a number of far cheaper methods of stopping smoking and indeed a number of these were free through the NHS.

Stopping smoking is not a problem. I have stopped smoking on numerous occasions.

It is staying stopped that is the problem and many of us have found this impossible.

Vaping as a tobacco alternative is Manna from heaven for us and the very idea that we can continue to get our nicotine fix but in a safer form is just heavenly.

But the idea of going out and buying all sorts of fancy (and expensive) vaping gear in order to stop smoking when the local chemist will give me a stop smoking kit for free, well I'm sorry, but you have lost me here.

[paul3000]

yeah, but you already answered your own question, it is more than nicotine addiction, as I said in OP, it is the exhaling smoke/steam like a drag-on, and the hand to mouth and suckling type psychological addictions.

someone on another thread already said the trad methods do not work for many, I agree with that.

and, quit smoking not free round here, in old england you got to pay for prescription, you jocks got it easy LOL

and vaping not expensive if you get an ego-ce starter kit, 40 quid or so inc. some juice.

[lobeydosser]

Yes Paul, but, for me, quitting smoking was the easy part. It is staying stopped that I cannot manage.

Over the past 15 years I have stopped a number of times and been "nic free" for 3 months, 6 months and the last time, 18 months.
But always some bloomin' crisis happened that I could not face without a real fag.
Oh it was always just one, or maybe a couple, or a packet, just to see me through that problem and then I would chuck them again.
Aye, Right!!!

It never was just a few.

E-cigs really are the answer to my prayers. Now I no longer have to go through the withdrawels, the pills, gum, patches, whatever. Nor do I have the nagging doubt of wondering what I will do when the next crisis comes along.

I was on 40 a day when I was smoking. Now I'm on about 4ml of 24mg and feel quite relaxed yet off the fags and enjoying life. If a crisis does come up, I have some 30mg & 36mg juice made up and ready for instant use.

My doctor says that because I'm vaping, I have stopped smoking.
Personally I don't think it is quite as clear cut as that, but that is only my opinion.
But at the end of the day, I have no intention of cutting down the juice strength I use and I will continue vaping for as long as I am allowed to.