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Thank you for sharing a very interesting article. I must admit, I had never heard of Q10 before. The most telling comment he makes is that high cholesterol does NOT cause heart attacks ... yet our GP's say we must take cholesterol reducing statins at any cost to prevent strokes and heart attacks. Personally I prefer to believe this man because all the side effects he mentions are spot on. I love his comment that, in his opinion, NOBODY should be taking statins, instantly made me feel better about listening to my own body and going against my doc's advice. 

My doctor put me on Antorvastatin when my cholesterol result was rather too high. If I remember rightly it was 7.2 instead of 5 or under as it's meant to be. The first few weeks on the statins were a nightmare, disturbed sleep, all sorts of aches and pains but the worst thing was they killed my appetite. I had to force myself to eat, really didn't enjoy the food at all and could only eat small amounts. I also had horrible stomach problems. My appetite gradually improved somewhat but the stomach problems stayed and over the next year I lost about 3 stone. Admittedly I was slightly overweight to begin with, but I ended up a stone underweight. I mentioned the problems to my doctor who didn't seem unduly concerned. Her attitude was, the side effects are a bit of a pain but won't kill you, whereas a stroke or heart attack could.
After a year my cholesterol was down to 4 something but as soon as I stopped the statins it started to creep back up and my doctor wanted me to go back on them again. I said I'm sorry but no way am I going back to all those problems again. It took several months of being statin free to get my old enjoyment of meals back, most of the aches and pains gone and the stomach problems much better.
No-one wants to have a stroke or heart attack but for side effects outweighed the benefits and experts are not even certain that they prevent strokes and heart attacks anyway.
I prefer to eat smaller portions, cut out or reduce things that are bad and hope for the best. Not everyone is the same, some people seem to have no bad side effects at all but in my case I was just wasting away and I wasn't willing to continue like that. I feel and look so much better without the statins.
Good luck with whatever you decide.

So true, although I would have to add one to the Best Doctors In The World list -

7 - A sense of humour.

Ah yes there are definitely big savings and the overseas companies also still sell some of the older batteries/mods that are hard to find here. I'm as keen as anyone else to try the new shinys but I've never stopped using my older ones that I bought a couple of years ago, like the Vamo and the VTR. Most of you probably wouldn't be seen dead using them now, but I'm a creature of habit. When either of those packs up I will most likely end up buying from somewhere like Fasttech.

I think it depends on how much you vape, plus certain liquids seem to make me thirstier than others. I'm not a very heavy vaper. I always drink at least 4 cups of tea a day and in addition to that, I keep a glass of water on hand and have 4 or 5 mouthfuls about 5 times each day. Most of the juice I use is 6mg and high PG. I've noticed anything "thicker" like treacle or toffee tends to make me drink slightly more water but as with everything it's best to listen to your own body and drink accordingly.

What I did was - started off on medium strength .... after a couple of days, mixed medium with low ..... after another couple of days, just used Low ... now I'm on mostly zero nic, no higher than 6mg mixed in and that's only to use up the juices I have that are 6mg. 
I'm sure it was the actual habit of smoking that I was addicted to more than the nicotine.