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I've been reading this fabulous thread and drooling at the delicious recipes! Thanks be to Frogster (and everyone else) for supplying so much information on the dark arts of mixing. I wasn't intending to get into this, but whoops, I had a little PayPal accident and now have 21 CCW, 3 TPA and 1 DV flavours, Vape Wizard, 200ml 54mg nic juice, 100ml VG and 200ml PG, along with a variety of syringes etc on their way to me. I can't find anyone who has Ethyl Maltol in stock though, anyone know where I can get some?

Want to start with Bananas & Cream, Coconut Honey & Hazelnut and Skwoddy's Rhubarb Crumble, yum!

Local paper today had an interesting set of numbers regarding Stoptober. Notts has a population slightly in excess of 1 million, as of 2006. 21% of that 1 million smoke (no statistics as to how many ciggies per day/week/year makes a person count as a "smoker" so we have to assume it includes the casual pack per year smoker as well as the 3 packs per day smoker). So let's say a conservative figure of 150 thousand or so pack + per day smokers. A grand total of 243 Notts residents pledged to stop smoking in October. That's under 0.2% of the smoking population. And as we already know even mentored quitters using NRT have a failure rate of over 90%, we can confidently guess that the Stoptober effort in my county at least will be successful for fewer than 0.02% of its pack+ per day smoking residents. Maybe 6 or 7 people out of that 243 will succeed in quitting for good.

According to this www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/268000-pledge-to-quit-smoking-for-stoptober-8229016.html Stoptober cost £5.7 million and 268,000 people signed up for it. So £21.27 per quitter. If 5% of them actually quit (unlikely to be more than 2-3% in actuality, but let's be generous) that's 13,400 fewer smokers at a cost of £425.37 each. There are 8 million smokers in the UK, so Stoptober may (at a generous estimate) reduce that number by 0.17%

Seems like a waste of time and money to me, when giving everyone who pledged to quit an eGo kit (the £19.99 Stoptober one from E Cig Wizard was a pretty good deal) would have cost less money and had a far higher success rate. Conservative estimate based on some of the ecig research I've read - 69,000 fewer smokers at a cost of £5.36m, or £77.64 per quitter. And that's at retail rates, not wholesale.

Edited to add: Hubby and I quit smoking and took up vaping instead on 28th September. The two of us by ourselves represent roughly a third of the smokers in Notts who will actually quit for Stoptober.

Hi Lobey, I have a fair amount of the lower-end kit too, and I've discovered that VV (at least on a Twist) doesn't give me anything extra than a few different ohm options on an standard eGo bettery already gives me. I'm not interested in LT (hate those plastic caps) or Provari (ugly thing) - and why would I want to pay so much more for higher voltage VV when it doesn't really do anything extra for me? Long lasting and easily replaceable batteries do interest me though, so I'm going the tinkerer route and building my own PVs. I have a tin mod, a box mod, a torch mod and a pipe mod already in the works, none of them are going to cost much and all of them will use easily-available rechargable batteries. If, later on, I fancy giving VV another go, I can use the skills gained on these 3.7V mods to build a 5V VV version, to my own design (well, limited by the materials and tools I have) and for far less money than a LT.

So maybe, as you are a tinkerer too, making your own mods as well as your own juice will help?

Hi Dave. I've been researching modding pipes for a while, found this video:

I won't be using the same pipe as I'd rather work with wood, and I can't find a supplier for the empty ego tube over here (it's a US vid) but I don't think it's a necessary item. All the electronics etc are available from Liberty Flights, this particular mod uses ego electronics and puts the button near the base of the stem (which I prefer) rather than on the bowl. If you need direct links to the parts, here they are:
eGo connector: www.liberty-flights.co.uk/product.asp?id=36
eGo button & electronics: www.liberty-flights.co.uk/product.asp?id=122

Costs about £5 for both. To get the curved stem, you can get a knucklehead drip tip from E Cig Wizard for about £3, or a VH Sax tank (tank with a curved mouthpiece) from Vapour Hut (http://vapourhut.com/vh-sax) for £4. The tanks apparently have issues with the mouthpiece not being particularly strong (going by a review here, I haven't tried one myself yet) but it certainly looks the part. I'm considering giving mine (if I use one) a paint job to make match the pipe better.

Please let us know how you get on. I'm suffering from cash-flow-itis at the moment and won't be able to order my stuff for a while, so in the meantime I'd really like to see how others do!

Edited for clarity.

Hello and welcome from another sleep-deprived (for the same reasons) newbie!

Thank you everyone!

To andylec: I wasn't ready to quit til about a month ago - maybe your wife just isn't ready yet? And I'd bet the more she gets nagged, the more she'll dig her heels in. Maybe tempting her with the right flavour will help her cut down a bit, and you never know, eventually she might just decide for herself what we already know - that vaping is sooo much better than smoking in every way. Good luck!

To astralsteph: the chocolate cream was from Easy Liquid, which is sadly closed now (at least in this country). There are other chocolate cream liquids available although I haven't tried them. Liberty Flights does one.

To FirinBlanks: you are not wrong! So far we've spent twice the amount on e-cig stuff as we would have on baccy and associated stuff (papers etc) in the same amount of time. Break even day is somewhere in November, but only if I don't spend any more... like that's gonna happen!