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Hi and welcome Arron,

By the sound of things you will be away during the 2 month stage where many of us go through quite dramatic changes to our taste buds. Consequently the best advice would be to stock up on many spare clearomisers and a great variety of juice flavours, especially some menthol just in case your buds refuse to respond to anything else. In the meantime, lots of experimentation with small juice samplers will give you an idea of what flavours to stockpile in advance.

Finally, many thanks for keeping us all safer, and please, please do NOT plug your charger anywhere near that big red button.

Hi Ben & welcome to AAEC,

My own experiences are pretty much identical to many other vapers. I smoked for 30 years and had wanted to quit for at least 10 of those. I had tried patches, gum, mints & inhalators but failed miserably every time.

I tried vaping and have never touched a ciggie since, giving-up really was very easy for me.

The only difficulty I faced was at the 2 month period when I found myself craving tobacco flavoured juice instead of my usual fruity ones. Thankfully this difficult stage only lasted a week and soon passed after realising those tobacco juices tasted like sh*t in comparison.

After 5 months I still enjoy the act of vaping but I'm finding that the nicotine is no longer that important to me. I'm currently vaping my first freebie bottle, namely some "Chocolate" flavoured juice from Health-E-Vape, it's only 4mg but its doing the job very nicely. In terms of health, I really do feel fantastic for giving-up the stinkies, and my wife is certainly appreciating the better smelling version of me. Finally for the cherry on top, I've saved over £1000 in 5 months!!

Unfortunately big business, the EU, Governments and the world & his wife seem to have it in for vapers, so I now feel I have a duty to spread the word to other smokers before its too late.

I would also suggest pressing the button 5 times - I know it sounds obvious but it caught me out once before.

Welcome & congratulations Richie, you'll find vaping far easier than rolling your own, and hopefully far more tasty as well.

Although the transition to vaping can be quite easy I would recommend following other members experiences to prepare yourself for the various stages some of us have gone through. For example dramatic changes to taste buds and possibly even tobacco cravings after a couple of months, thankfully these stages are quite short lived and relatively minor compared to all the positive benefits.

I've noticed that juices from particular vendors have a habit of turning black in a clearo (possible due to food colourants or flavourings) , additionally some citrus flavours have the habit of frosting a clearo in a similar fashion to dishwashers frosting glasses. I now tend to avoid artificially coloured juices but can't resist my citrus juice.

For cleaning I soak my clearos overnight in a glass water with a denture tablet, it always brings them up shiny again :-)

Hi intelicide,

What, you haven't discovered vaping in the bath yet?, you haven't lived!!

Just don't drop it.