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Hi Addict. Welcome to the forum. I just browsed through the thread and wanted to reply as your experience is so similar to mine (as well as so many others I'm sure). The advice you have had is fantastic (I only wish I had been so foresighted and found this forum when I started vaping). These are only my opinions and thoughts, and I apologies in advance if I am teaching you to suck eggs.

Once you start vaping you will either find the ego type PV (personal vapouriser) suits you fine and stick to it or you will become obsessive and pationate about everything ecig and build up a fine collection of Mods (anything non standard, usually involving a separate battery that is charged then put into the part you hold in your hand). Needless to say I am now gaining quite a collection of mods. Eagerly awaiting my 14500 Sandart Cube that Daz from Safercigs is dispatching in the morning

If you become the latter (and you will know within a month or so) and really want to make vaping a hobby, them my advice, if you can afford it, would be to go straight for the Provari at that point. I am hard on my PV's. I chain vape, drop them often and use very low ohms when the batteries probably can't really handle it. I started buying cheaper mods and tbh I wasted a lot of money as they all broke fairly quickly. My Provari (bought 2nd hand on a forum for £100) seems to take all the abuse I give it without hardly a scratch.

Anyway the second piece of advice I would give is to visit Scott's website (he is something of a local vaping celebrity) www.e-cig-reviews.com/. He has many, many reviews on all kinds of vaping devices and also tutorials. You might like to watch the YouTube story of guy called Shawn in Canada who kept a video diary from the week before he moved onto ecigs for about 2 years. Much has changed technologically in the 3 years since he made the videos but his story helped me alot. www.zeecigs.com

Thirdly, and a few have mentioned this already, get several strengths of eliquid and plenty of it (at least 60 ml), as during the first week or so you might want to change strength based on how you are feeling, and you don't want to do what I did which was panic buy almost daily for the first 3 weeks. You have to be like a cub scout now and always "be prepared" as you cannot nip down to the local shop if you run out of anything (although increasingly i see ecigs in shops these days). I think that I must have spent £400 in my first month and £300 of this was unnecessary.

Finally there are lots of different types of batteries (the bit you hold that supplies the power) and atomisers (the thing that screws ino the end of the thing you hold and heats up the eliquid until it becomes vapour), and they all produce slightly differing results, so don't be afraid to try different types of atomisers to find the one that suits you best - a cartomiser and vivi nova is a great starting point. Once you have done this you only need to find your "all day vape" (favourite eliquid) and you will be in vaping nirvana

Good luck and enjoy your journey