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Hello friendly Forum dwellers,

I've been lurking for a week or so now, started doing some research around this whole e-cigarette and vaping stuff after I picked up the Raconteur supplement in the Times.

I'm from the US and just turned 30 and simultaneously hit another (far less hip-hip hooray) milestone, I had been smoking for 1/2 of my life. *sigh* In addition to that, the cost of cigarettes in the UK is just insane - I smoke(d) Marlies and at 8GBP a pack.... So yeah, I want rid.

My brother picked up a skycig starter pack in the same edition of the times - which I think is still a pretty good deal at just under 15 incl P&P. After I tried one of his I went and bought myself the same deal. I mean, the flavours aren't particularly great (actually they're kind of poor) and I find myself running out of juice (of the battery variety ) a bit too quickly for my liking, but at least it's introduced me to the stuff. I've had the gear now for the past 3 days and with the exception of a cheeky smoke when I was at a local pub poker game the other night I haven't bought any smokes.

Anyway - been reading up on various bits and paying particular attention to others' introductory posts. I've gone ahead and ordered myself some stuff from vapeescape: 2 900Mah vv passthrough batts as I spend most of my time in front of the computer doing work from home and a couple vision ego clear carts (as per maccafan's reccomendation in another thread). Got myself a sample pack of some juices from there as well and am looking forward to getting stuck in with these over the weekend (hopefully RM is in good form and these will arrive tomorrow).

Right - I also wanted to say a huge thank you to the already invaluable information that I've gleaned from lurking. There seems to be an abundance of really helpful and happy people on these boards and I look forward to getting involved! I did lurk at a few others, but this one certainly seems the most friendly and open to newbies, that I've seen.

A few side questions

Since I got the skycig kit, I've been 'chainvaping' a bit and have already emptied a few of the carts. Based on the fact that I smoked a pack a day - what kind of amounts of juice am I likely to be going through? Would be nice to have and idea on this as my financial brain loves to see the savings over analogues straight away (and of course this helps motivation as well).

I see a lot of people have remained vaping and kept it as a long term alternative to smoking. I was wondering if anybody had experience of using it as a NRT type solution? I guess the best way to do this would be to mix your own juices and progressively lower the effective nicotine content? Anybody?

The carts that came with the skycig kit (there were two tobacco -likes which frankly were garbage, a cherry, menthol and vanilla) were not the best. Can someone provide some recommendations on a good tobacco, menthol, and possibly a coffee juice?

I think I've gone on long enough!

Thanks in Advance folks,
- commonsense


P.S. just looked at that in preview pane. WHOOPS! Apologies for the brain dump folks