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If anyone has been misled I apologise to them.
Since it was facile to research the title you gave by looking on wikipedia I don't see how it's damaging to discuss it in public.
Anyhow, I won't trouble you further.

Hello and welcome schminkle
From wikipedia
The book The Civilizing Process written by German sociologist Norbert Elias is an influential work in sociology and Elias' most important work. It was first published in 1939 in German as Über den Prozeß der Zivilisation. Because of World War II it was virtually ignored, but gained popularity when it was republished in 1969 and translated into English. Covering European history from roughly 800 AD to1900 AD, It is the first formal analysis and theory of civilization. The Civilizing Process is today regarded as the founding work of Figurational Sociology.

The first volume, The History of Manners, traces the historical developments of the European habitus, or "second nature," the particular individual psychic structures molded by social attitudes. Elias traced how post-medieval European standards regarding violence, sexual behaviour, bodily functions, table manners and forms of speech were gradually transformed by increasing thresholds of shame and repugnance, working outward from a nucleus in court etiquette. The internalized "self-restraint" imposed by increasingly complex networks of social connections developed the "psychological" self-perceptions that Freud recognized as the "super-ego."

The second volume, State Formation and Civilization, looks into the causes of these processes and finds them in the increasingly centralized Early Modern state and the increasingly differentiated and interconnected web of society.


Volume 2 sounds like a barrel of laughs.

Make it your pet project to minimise long-term vaping costs within reason, and assess all purchases on the grounds of their likely effect on your weekly expenditure and waste. You can shell out for big items, but you need a reason beyond 'ooo shiny!' or 'ooo new!'.

I'm at about a tenner a week, purely on juice, and hope not to buy any new hardware for at least a year.

If I thought it was worth saving more I'd mix my own juice, but Jason gets all the money I do squeeze from my miserly grasp through his merciless exploitation of Griz's genius.

I'm also Stage 2 btw.

I hope you enjoyed my worthy and entirely humourless response.

Stardusts are worth a try, I think. I haven't used anything else since I got hold of one (months ago) and it's not hugely expensive to try one out.

But all the options are more technical than cigarettes in one way or another. Cartos do work, but can be temperamental. I'm sure you could get them to work once you get a filling and topping up routine working. As others said above, a simple drip tip makes cartos more comfortable to use, and you have to make sure they aren't flooded in the central tube, usually by blowing the excess out when you fill or top up. There are many videos.

But mostly, well done on the progress so far and I hope it continues.

Welcome,

Flat drip tips are often called whistle tips. That may help if you're looking them up.

You don't need to concentrate too much on low resistance. It's the combination of applied voltage and resistance that determines the 'strength' of a vaping device. You can simulate a lower resistance coil by applying a higher voltage, for instance. This is where variable voltage devices such as lava tubes come in. There are many VV options, but generally it's more convenient to vary the voltage to to your requirements and just use a more standard resistance coil.

It's harder to advise on things like cartos/tanks/clearos, since your preference will be a matter of personal taste, so it's worth trying out a few different formats before you settle down to your preferred option.Use a fairly standard power coupling eg ego/510 to start with, so you can swap between them without too much penalty.

It's tempting to think you can buy the perfect kit first time, but a certain amount of experimentation is inevitable (and fun) in my view. Same with juices. Experiment, because your tastes are your own.

womble Baby screwdriver for me, it is a PITA though.

Patience Skywalker, feel the force.