More Flavours, More Juice.

[lobeydosser]

Being retired, I don't have any set patterns to my days and so some days I will be doing the same thing, out and about all day and perhaps part of the evening too, while on others days when the weather is a bit poorly, I will be stuck in the house, pottering about and perhaps doing paperwork and the like.

Now on the days when I am out and about, I tend to stick to my home brew tobacco flavour and only change to my home brew Menthol for an hour before bed.

Whereas if I am pottering about the house and close to my flavours tray, I will chop and change flavours all day.

What I am finding is that with the all day tobacco flavour, I use far less e-juice and indeed seem to only vape when I "need to" rather than when I am indoors and tend to almost chain vape until I get fed up with one flavour, change to another and start chain vaping again.

With the tobacco flavour, I know roughly how much I am using per day (2ml to 3ml), but because I am chopping and changing flavours on an indoors day, I have no idea how much I am using, but by the end of such a day, I know I have vaped more than I should have.

If there was ever a need for me to just have 2 flavours of e-juice, I would be quite content with my tobacco and my menthol, after all, that is all I had when I was smoking for nearly 50 years.

So wonderful as some flavours are, I can see me, in the future, cutting back my flavours to just a few that really give me a mouth watering buzz and keeping them for special occasions.
For the rest of my time I will stick to my tobacco/menthol basics, keep a better control on how much I am vaping, but have the occasional wild fling of exotic vaping and dam the expense.
 

[Blownupdolly]

I am much like you Lobey, although I didn't voluntarily retire, I do have days indoors often due to my spinal pain. I find myself chain vaping all day. I vape very little when driving and out and about. As I am very new to mixing, I am yet to find out what my favourites will be, but I know I am a creature of habit, hence I have only needed my GVC for the last 7mths!
I have a feeling a lot of my concoctions will be used for Mr Dolly and daughter!

[Sandra (aka Chillax)]

I only vape tobacco flavours 90% of the time, but get urges now and again for a different flavour, usually, I will only vape that for a few draws then back to my baccy flavours again, but I do enjoy having the choice and like going through them when I am in the mood.

[Perpetua]

I've just counted up and I've 12 different flavours on the go, which I flit between during the course of the day.

Having that number on the go stops me getting bored with a flavour and for my taste buds to get ' tuned in ' . . . I hated the taste of cigarettes anyway, despite smoking 40/50 a day and would always be sucking a sweet of some description to get rid of the taste in my mouth.

I chain smoked, now I chain vape.

My vaping habits don't bother me in the slightest, nor do I care how much eliquid I use, I'm not smoking cigarettes and haven't had one in over 3 years now. Nothing short of a miracle for me,

Whatever works for you, is a winner for me Lobey. 

[kernowman]

I think we all tried the different flavours when we started out first,but it didn't take me long to settle on a tobacco of my choice and that is Hangsens RY4.
As a matter of fact I don't really think it resembles the taste of tobacco as far as I can remember.But who cares,it has kept me off the weeds now for 14 months so i'm happy with it,plus the fact it's saved me hundreds of pounds.

[Bluefish]

I generally use about 4 differant flavours at a time, at the moment I must have at least another ten that recently, i've not tried yet, hey they will steeped though.

[dragon]

I currently have 7 clearos on the go with a different flavour in each. I never got on with tobacco flavours and wasted a ton of dosh in the beginning trying to find one I did like. It took a while to start thinking outside the box and try some fruit etc flavours. I like to swap flavours on whim, to me vaping is ..... idk .. a luxury? When I am at home I am never more than a few meters from a pack of stinkies. (hubby still struggles slightly, if he knows he can't have a stinky he starts to crave them, weirdly, having cigs around keeps him off them) I maintain my love of vaping deliberately. I still get days when I remember the satisfaction I used to get from analogues, and am tempted to try. Keeping my vapes interesting makes it effortless to resist

I chain vape at home, so I mix my own to about 0.6% nic. I tried upping it to make me vape less, but I just made myself ill lol I tried messing about with 0nic for a few weeks, and having one clearo with nic in for the cravings. Unfortunately my mind still remembers stinkies as a source of nic, so instead of remembering to go to the nic clearo, I fell off the wagon (I had 2 cigs in a week, which to me is appalling. Just shows how my thinking HAS changed)

I vape 5/6 ml a day. Admittedly my clearos are rather thirsty (if I used my evods at home I am sure it would be less) That's fine with me, and home brew at 0.6% doesn't exactly break the bank (buying dozens of new flavours does that rofl)

To me, vaping is a lifestyle choice, and a far more constructive one than smoking

Hubby and I used to discuss quitting smoking, but we were never in that "ok I have the will power to stop this week" place at the same time. Neither of us had the will power to stop while the other was wafting clouds of smoke around. Finding a way to quit so effortlessly is a miracle, and I like to hold on to the magic

[lobeydosser]

I think I was very lucky with vaping flavours when I first started.

By that time I was into Menthol Cigarettes and one of the first e-juices I tried was Jacvapour's Menthol. Unfortunately they are in dispute with Pay Pal now and I cannot get anymore of it, but I have since found a Menthol flavouring that I like and can make my own.

I also tried a number of tobacco samples from Paradise Vape and again hit on one (Royal) that exactly matched the cigarettes I used to smoke so again I was up and running with an all day vape.
Also here I have found a company selling the flavouring and again I now make my own.

I am still searching for fruity flavours that I like.
Watermelon, Cantaloupe Melon and Apple flavours seem to come over well as e-juices but some of the rest are a joke. So the search goes on.

In the last 15 years, I have stopped smoking many times. Sometimes a few months, sometimes a year and the last time 18 months.
But I could never "stay stopped" and now I have given up trying.
Vaping, for me, is an alternative type of smoking. It is a way of getting away from the dangers of smoking cigarettes but without losing the reason for smoking.
My doctor has written on my Medical Records that I am no longer a Smoker and that is his prerogative, however my opinion of that is mixed.
I am still sticking something in my mouth for the extraction of nicotine and whether we call that smoking or vaping is hypothetical.

As Dragon says, Vaping is a lifestyle choice, however if it is to be a permanent lifestyle choice, there are decisions that I have to make today that will directly affect whether I am still vaping this time next year and the years thereafter.
That involves laying by a stock of all the chemicals and flavourings that I will need in the coming years.
It also means learning a great deal about repairing and maintaining the PVs and Attys that I will need to continue my vaping journey.
And finally, I need to curtail my buying of every juice that sounds nice and concentrate only on e-juices that fall within the category of those that I could attempt to reproduce myself.

[Super-Shiny]

I myself could not bear the thought for just a couple of juices, i get bored very quickly and i have 8-10 juices swapping back and forth through the day, it keeps things less boring for me, but that's just me.

That's why i went for mixing my own, costs a lot less in the long run and now i can pick and choose what i want in my juice, could not afford buying pre-made juices with my love a different taste every hour habit