Be polite and introduce yourself! (2018)

[Duneatick]

I am by no means a new member to this website, however most of you have probably never seen me post anything. With all the turmoil we are experiencing I felt compelled to tell you my story, and what ELR has done for me.

I was a two pack a day smoker for a long time. Fortunately for me I was able to quit smoking about 20 years ago. So why would I be on a vaping website you might ask. Well the love of my life Michele who has smoked from the age of 14 could not kick the habit.

It all started one day just before Christmas 2014. We picked up an eGo c-twist with a clearomizer tank. Bought a couple of bottles of juice, so BAM problem solved…right. Not so much, the thing leaked, spit back, it was just horrible. My wife was a good sport and tried to use it for a month or two, but wasn’t feeling it. Every time the thing failed she would go buy a new pack of cigarettes. It need to work every time without her needing to think about it. I decided to take it to a vape shop in town to find out what was wrong with it. Let me tell you I felt like the biggest dumb ass in the word. Not only did I not know the thing had a coil, but it was meant to be replaced. The guy was like “when was the last time you changed your coil?” um like never “how long you had it” 3 months was my answer. (pause for dramatic effect)

At that point I realized I had done my wife a great disservice. I was determined to learn more about vaping. Not only how it worked but why it worked. It is hard to under estimate how difficult it is to fine tune your vaping style and preferences when you do not vape. As you can imagine I went through a lot of different tanks, coils, mods. Before I picked up something new I would go straight to ELR to help me understand it a little better. The more I read the more I understood the process, and before long I hit upon the right combination of gear that worked for her vaping style.

So fast forward to today, with the knowledge I have gained from this site my wife Michele after smoking for more than 30 years has not picked up a cigarette for almost 3 years. I will never be able to express the joy in my heart I feel toward everyone on this site. You did not save my life, you saved my reason for living! Rebuilding coils, mixing e-juice, wicking, battery maintenance it truly is a labor of love.

[CarolinaVapen]

Thank you for sharing your story. I felt the same way when I started. I forget how daunting vaping can be when you know nothing about it.

[worm1]

Very beautiful story and even more so that it was all for the love of someone else. Out of curiosity, did u start to vape as well?

[Duneatick]

I do not vape regularly, only when trying new flavors on a simple single coil RDA

[Cathy4]

This is my first attempt at this forum aspect of this site. I have learned my lesson so far about DIY vape juice as my first batch came out smelling good but tasting not so good. i will try again with actually using recipes this time. Any good advice for this new to DIY vape juice making?

[worm1]

Welcome aboard! you can start here

Be polite and introduce yourself! (2018)

As a new member, please introduce yourself to the rest of the family This is the 2018 thread! The old thread had gotten a little big, so we got ourselves a new one!

sadly followed by lots and lots of reading

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to get ya started. Gl to you!

[CarolinaVapen]

Welcome @Cathy4

[Alisa]

Thank you so very much for that testimony, @Duneatick ! and welcome to ELR , @Cathy4

[Mark_Turner]

Welcome @Cathy4

[marsh8]

Hi, I’m a new vaper from Brisbane only been going 4 days but what a difference a few days makes. I smoked for 23 years at about 30 a day and I loved my ciggies. I’m a registered nurse and I work in the Ear Nose and Throat department, so I’ve seen a lot of damage caused by cigarettes. I’ve copped crap about smoking there for 10 years. What a surprise for everyone when I go back from holidays cigarette free!!!

[worm1]

Welcome aboard!

[woftam]

Welcome @cathy4 and @marsh8

[Mark_Turner]

Welcome @marsh8

[Dardy]

Hi everyone. New member Dardy coming at ya from Perth down here in Australia. How is everyone? Well I hope. Firstly, a special g’day to all the guys & gals in Aussie. Secondly, g’day to all the other wonderful people here at ELR. Yeah, I don’t know you but have been “lurking” for a good 9 months or so and it seems like I know you all anyway. Thought I’d take the next step in my DIY journey and sign up so I can make full use of flavor notes and recipes and especially so I can ask you all questions on all things “vape” to help me on my way.

Not a newbie as far as vaping goes but I absolutely am when it comes to DIY. Pretty average start to making my own juice I must admit and have made some mistakes as far as percentages go but slowly getting a feel for it. As many of you have advised others new to the DIY caper, it all takes time and sticking at it, mistakes and all, is a necessary step to getting better at it.

OK, a little background if I may. Started vaping MTL on Ego style pen @ 1.6ohms and found myself progressing (naturally I think) to vaping DL with average type box mods and tanks at 0.50-0.75 ohms. Currently on a Cool Fire 4 Plus and iStick 30 but also vape on iStick Basic, Joyetech AIO, Joyetech AIO Pro and Joyetech Cubox. Nothing fancy smancy but they do the trick. Then again, I have a funny feeling I may be updating my kit soon. Just feel something is lacking.

I’ve gone ahead and bought myself a couple of RDA clones (Velocity & Nipple style), some wire, cotton, ceramic tweezers etc etc etc and plan to do some simple single coil builds so I can taste test future concoctions. I also plan on rebuilding my stock coils for my Eleaf and Joyetech gear. Have researched on YouTube and elsewhere and seriously, it ain’t that hard. Just waiting on some non woven gauze (for the Eleaf coils) and I’m off and racing!

My juice tastes are pretty simple. I’m easily pleased if I can partake of some Strawberries & Cream, Energy Juice (Red Bull and Monster types), Banana Cream, Cinnamon Roll type vapes, Apple Pie, Coffee & Cream and of course, some Menthol. I have made up some recipes from here on ELR, some absolute disasters and some so-so. Started off mixing single flavors as I thought it would be easier but that’s not necessarily the case because as we all know, everyone’s taste is different, percentages will vary due to PG/VG mix and of course, the gear you’re vaping your juice on. Life can get too technical sometimes but gosh it’s fun ain’t it?

My current fave is a simple INW Strawberry Shisha standalone at 4% in a 50/50 PG/VG mix (sometimes 40/60). Then again I taste tested a Strawberry Shisha and Cheesecake mix tonight and after a 2 week steep, it’s sorta promising. Not much SB but definitely can taste the cheesecake so I’ve got some tweakin’ to do I think.

OK, reckon I should love and leave ya for now. Have made you spend far too much time reading this introduction. BTW, I’ve actually kissed the Blarney Stone in Ireland so that’s supposed to give me the “gift of the gab” and I’m wondering if that transfers over to the written word as well? Geez I can ramble on. Ask anyone who knows me and they’ll confirm same.

Thanks for listening and hope to catch up with some of you in the not too distant future. I’ll post something in the “How I Quit Smoking” thread soon as I’d love to help someone get off the stinkies or maybe just to reassure them it’s not as hard as they think or even encourage someone to hang on in and keep at it. Be warned though, it’ll be a marathon read. Get yourself a coffee, some cake and of course a vape and settle in for the night!

Cheers from Dardy!

[Mark_Turner]

Welcome @Dardy

[Lolly]

Great to have you un-lurking Dardy!

[CarolinaVapen]

Welcome @marsh8 and @Dardy

[woftam]

Welcome @Dardy good to have another Aussie on the forums.

[Dardy]

Thanks for the welcome! Still can’t remember how to show usernames so if someone could set me right that’d be great.

Thanks to Mark_Turner, Lolly, CarolinaVapen and fellow Aussie woftam for the welcome. Yeah, looking forward to “un-lurking” and getting involved.

As woftam will know, we have a slight time difference thing down here so only get to see replies and so on well after the rest of you are safely tucked up in bed. Sitting here at my desk in the office listening to some “Life in a Northern Town” (The Dream Academy) and “I Just Can’t Stop Loving You” (Michael Jackson with Siedah Garrett) on the internet and it’s just gone 6.20am (been here since 5.30am) and decided to have a quick peek and pretty chuffed with the replies I got. I’m all aquiver! I know I’ll get over it soon enough though. Thanks again guys, appreciate it.

Off I go and get stuck into checking emails. Have a great day and I’ll check in again after work. Questions are swimming through my noggin’ as I speak. I’m gonna have to write ‘em all down or else I’ll forget! Think I’ll make a coffee and have a listen to “We Built This City” (Starship). Cheers!

[Mark_Turner]

NP to tag an individual place the “@“ symbol before the name, like this.
@Dardy