Congrats on quitting smoking!!

And about the taste of analog cigs, u r not alone. Many ex-smokers (myself included...former 2 to 3 packs a day habit) have the same experience. I can't tahan even 2 puffs of tobacco any more, and if I smell 2nd hand smoke...it is disgusting to my nose.

I have a group of vaping kaki who are all ex-smokers. We are from different races but are brothers in vape, strongly supporting each other in staying away forever from tobacco. Every so often, one bro will bring in someone who wants to quit smoking and we will share what we know. We also taste-test each other's DIY juices and give honest constructive criticism. If u can get a similar group together, it can be rather beneficial and fun!

I now vape 0mg (most of the time) and 3mg juices (when I feel the need). Suggest you bring down the nicotine levels in a gradual fashion eg from 6mg to 5, then 4 then 3. My goal is to be permanently 100% zero nic, and after that the next stage is to be zero vape if possible. I do love the feel of vaping though, and will probably miss it a lot.

You can buy menthol crystals (dissolve in PG) and mix in your juice with a cooling agent/Koolada to your taste. It really accentuates fruit flavors. Next week when fresh supplies arrive, I'm gonna try it with Irish coffee

I mix my own juices. It's much cheaper, and I can adjust the nic levels to what I want...or leave out nic entirely.

When I smoked, I had the proverbial smoker's cough. After 4 days of 100% no ciggy, no more cough till today (unless I get a burnt hit ) I'm a very happy tobacco-free chap!:D And kudos to u for helping others stop smoking!!

Yeah I too used those e-cigs 2009-2011. Refilled my own carts and back then the flavors sucked donkey butt while the nic content was always way too high. Batt life was pathetic too. How things have changed eh? It's like going from Win 3.11 to Win 7

When I used to buy juices, I also noticed the inconsistencies in nic levels...much variances in local juices. Maybe they've improved the consistency nowadays? Be kind to yourself....mix yr own juices and u will get a much more consistent vape. You'll also save money and know that the juice was mixed in hygienic conditions. The bonus is that you'll be able to regulate and adjust yr nicotine levels VERY precisely so that you get what u need.

Now I feel like vaping a KFC-flavored juice

Congrats on freedom from tobacco and welcome!

I'm always very happy to see another ex-smoker. You'll find that your sense of smell will also be sharper, and that contributes to a more sensitive sense of taste. BTW, I think you meant CO (carbon monoxide); CO2 is carbon dioxide...and yes without ciggys, you'll be breathing a whole lot less of that stuff.

Stay away from cigs and vape on bro!

If I were you, I'd forget about the aluminium foil.
A few mm short? If it was like 0.5 to 0.75mm short, I could suggest (at your own risk) buying a heat sink that has a floating center pin which could possibly bridge the gap. Dunno if it's worth your time and money to take the Velocity mini to a machine shop and ask them to fit it with a longer center pin, or extend the current pin to make contact...that could be expensive. Anyways, it's a great excuse to get a shiny new mod that's spring loaded

If you're referring to the shaft of the blue screwdriver, the ones I have are 2mm in diameter.

That's a very good reason to buy a nice new tank/dripper...most come with a free blue screwdriver

Yesterday I played with several HCigar mods (new stock at friend's shop)...they're lovely but too expensive for me...I could build a new PC for the price of one of those However the good feel and quality is there. At home I use a more modest IPV4s, and when moving about I use an even more humble Evic VTC mini because it's tinier and easier to pocket. Both are spring-loaded but the IPV4s' spring has greater travel. Both have been problem-free so far and are used daily. If the Evic VTC mini interests u, do google for problems with that model; I want u to be aware of what some unfortunate users encountered. The IPV D2 is also very popular.

I suggest you watch reviews in youtube and then go to a physical shop to feel the mods in yr hand. Remember you will be lifting and lowering the mod many times...so u may want a lighter one which is light and comfy to hold/operate. Try to avoid the mods with built-in battery; I think it's mandatory now to remove batteries before boarding a plane, thanks to that idiot in the Malindo incident.

Most of the time I am on normal mode. This is my carry-about mod and i switch from tank to dripper and back again several times thru the day; am loth to go thru the TC process when I'm running here and there. So far I only have Ti coils in one dripper, no issues with TC so far. I screw in the atty at room temperature, select the temp and it works, plain and simple. No anemic whisps of vape, no over-firing.

However if you Google "Evic mini temperature control problems", you'll see many ppl had their share of woes and frustrations with it. I dunno if there were bad units that escaped QC. I also wonder about the quality of coils they put in...were their Ni or Ti wires really up to snuff? Did they get hoodwinked into buying something that was less than actual good Ni or Ti?

I had spoken to 4 different vape shop chaps before buying it. 2 of them I know and trust (and their advice has never led me down a bad road), the other 2 were strangers. All 4 said there was no problem with that model, and they had sold many.
Anyways, I'll use it for a month and if nothing goes wrong, I'll get another unit solely for permanent TC use with my fav dripper, unless something smaller and comfy comes along! I really like this little mod...just wish it had wattage memory settings.

2 thumbs up to the Master Coiler!!

Am glad for u....and happy to hear that I'm not the only one in this country with a problem-free unit!

Take a look at the Snubnose. I bought one some time ago on the recommendation of a vape shop owner. He said the flavors produced by this little thing is intense...and he was right. I believe it's the successor to the Derringer. I don't own a Lowpro, but I believe the Snubnose is less fiddly to build on.

Other tiny drippers are the Mikro RDA (postless deck) made by a Philippine company...I forgot the name, and the Nectar Nano ...I also forgot the maker's name but I think it's Russian. Try searching for them on youtube.

Egads...guardian cotton? Keep it for non-vaping uses.

Get organic unbleached cotton. My crap phone camera can't capture the colors accurately, but the cotton you want is off-white/light beige because it's unbleached.

I watched the video, and can only agree with the reviewer on two aspects: yes cotton balls are very fiddly to work with, and there is indeed some minimal flavor creep (but that goes away after 2 or 3 tokes).

Seeing how he handled (fumbled with) the stuff, I dare say he was mainly a cotton pad user. I started out with boiling cotton balls and even tried dental cotton before which I begged from my dentist. Guess I should state that I use cotton pads most times in tank attys for the convenience and speed, and I have no vested interest in any brand of cotton.

While flavor is very subjective, I find that any RDA I have produces better flavor with Kendo when compared with Muji or Koh Gen Do pads, and is slower to gunk up as well. Dripping DIY ejuice even after a week, the cotton is still in good shape. I don't know how Kendo will fare with local juices, but I suspect that the over-sweetened gloop will gunk up any wick pretty fast.

I still prefer to write using a very old Parker fountain pen...the kind where one has to dip the nib into a bottle of ink and refill by pumping the bladder. Call me an antiquated old fart, and I may agree with you. But that ink-filling ritual together with the feel of the nib's friction against the paper is more satisfying to me than the convenience and smooth glide of any roller-ball gel ink pen.

What has my Parker pen got to do with vaping? Well, the ritual of patiently fashioning that ball of cotton into a good wick (and using a messy inconvenient fountain pen) harkens me back to a time when the world moved at a slower pace; a world where life was simpler. I find it very soothing, yea mayhaps even therapeutic to sit down and slowly work with a ball of cotton or two. Sometimes half the fun of any journey is getting there, and my journey to arrive at a satisfying vape is most enjoyable indeed

Suggest you get a small pack of Muji and Koh Gen Do to try and compare first, before committing to larger quantity of any one brand.

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I had 6 pcs LG HG2's in battery boxes in my hand luggage on Airasia last week, no probs. The 2 mods I brought along had no batteries in them.

BTW, you may wanna empty yr tanks before boarding. Lower air pressure in the cabin may cause leakage if there's still juice in them.

The above is from http://shop.vapesourcela.com/faq/ and I encourage you to read that page...it'll answer most, if not all of yr new vaper questions. Welcome to the world of vaping!!

If buying local flavor @ pasar malam makes u a poorfag, I guess I'm a super-duper poorfag because I mix my own juices kat dapur

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Another new vtc teal/cyan/aqua mini owner...welcome!
I'm waiting for my Smok TFV4 and dual coil rba to arrive, then I'll slap it on this mod to troll several vaping kaki who are anally OCD about overhangs. I'm seriously gonna drive them nuts!!

BTW low-profile drippers look rather good on it.

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LOL! Am glad to see you don't mind overhangs too! My TVF4 with 2 coil rba is en route and soon will be sitting atop the vtc mini. How do u find that tank's performance?

No idea how Madhouz Crest's aroma is like, but u have good taste in mods and tanks...so it MUST be good

I have no fancy packaging, but my juices smell pretty aromatic right now...am letting this batch of trial concoctions breathe a bit. The one in the amber glass bottle is my new fav...it has a light touch from 8 flavors including 3 tobaccos and 2 types of coffee...smells like the atmosphere of a tobacconist's shop!

Aaah u r indeed a flavor connoisseur! At this rate, I'm gonna have to buy some commercial juices and try to clone their feel and taste if I can I think you'll appreciate the "clean" taste of Ti coils...at the right wattage for a particular juice, they really allow the more subtle nuances of flavor to be revealed. ...but please do read up on safely using such a metal first.

Right now I'm vaping on a black cherry/vanilla/cream/tobaccos mix, using 1 dripper with nichrome, and another with Ti. The Ti coils win hands down when it comes to putting across the flavors. Earlier on I had let a few vaping kaki try the same juice on the same coil setups, and they could detect crisper and more pronounced flavor notes from the Ti coils. Only one guy failed to detect the difference...and he's the only one of us who's still smoking. I haven't played with SS yet...will definitely have to compare it with Ti. Time to do the fasttech fandango again for a coil of SS I guess

Hmmm..so the TFV4 leaks a bit eh? I hope it's just a case of wicking problem. Tell u what...when I get mine, I'll be masochistic and wick it with material from a cotton ball not a nice neatly cut sheet, and see what happens. I'll let u know how the dual rba performs...on Ti! I don't feel like using kanthal anymore..damn I'm getting spoiled. If ppl tell u that they quit cigs and vape instead to save money, DON'T BELIEVE THEM! I've been spending way too much for too long on unnecessary shiny new toys, flavors, additives and ancillary thingamabobs.

I don't really intend to get into the ejuice biz..but who knows eh? For now I'm just contented mixing the stuff for my own consumption. But if our paths should ever cross, I'd be happy to pass u a bottle of my current fav effort


Woohooo! Macro coils! I want I want I want!