Starting out with vaping – geek style. I’ve done it – I’ve decided to forgo most of the 4000 nasty chemicals in my usual nicotine delivery system and bought into the whole e-cigarette / e-shisha thing.
And it’s right and proper.
I’m two days in. I’m a geek, so these things need doing properly – I spent a three long evenings researching the whole scene. I ended up plumping for the current Ferrari of e-shishas – the Innokin iTaste SVD iClear30 with a Protank 3 bottom coil cartomiser (batteries NOT included).
Which I would NOT recommend to anyone starting out with vaping!
If your reading this for a quick, simple recommendation I can give you that – don’t f#!k about, get the eGo starter kit, available from pretty much everywhere. Me Mum has one and it rocks – this seems to be the one to get at the time of press. It produces better results than my supervape screw together DIY hybrids, *almost* all of the time. There, job done.
Now, if you’re still reading, you are either a fellow geek or very bored. I’ll try not to disappoint…
Again, this is the noobs perspective – I’m two days in. For the record, I’m a very, very heavy smoker who has given up all hope of ever being anything short of a nicotine junkie. I’ve tried abstinence more than once, the most successful time involving a month of cold turkey hell, followed by a year of no smoking tobacco denial. It sucked. Once an addict, always an addict. Unless you’re part of that lucky minority for whom weekend smoking is both practical and non-habit forming (I hate you) you’re in the same boat as the rest of us.
So, resigned to my fate, I tried patches (patchy), National Health Service inhalers (repugnant) and self denial (a river in Africa), all in unsuccessful attempts to come to terms with my addiction.
None worked.
Sooo. I literally sucked it up. Gave up giving up. Until me Mum came down with emphysema. Seeing loved ones unable to breathe puts another perspective on the habits one can usually put at arms length with a flippant comment or two. But bless her cottons, me Mum, ever practical, found a way around the problem – Vaping baby! Nicely done Mum, she was the first to show me how far the tech had evolved.
So I bought my Innokin iTaste SVD iClear30 with a Protank 3 bottom coil (read Ferrari of it’s class) and am happy with it. Except when I have to fill the bugger up and it spills most of it’s ‘e-juice’ all over my hands. Or when I put a small battery on it and can’t get that satisfying, self harming bite at the back of the throat with each and every lug. But when it works… ahhh…. Plumes of ‘smoke’… Cravings gone… Smugness at ‘smoking’ indoors… sold.
Tomorrow brings another day. Have I smoked a fag since I first screwed those lovely, shiny machined parts together? Yep, had half of one this morning. Was alright, but the after breakfast fag I chose was electronic. Have I been down the pub yet and given it the true test, pint in hand? Yep. I got through two packs of spicy nuts that, combined with said e-fag-ferrari left me very much not wanting to go outside and brave the great British winter. No combustible carcinogens required. So far…