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Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Friday, September 13, 2013
What You Need to Get Started-A SIMPLE Shopping List for the New Vaper
I'm going to make it really easy for you. Here's a shopping list:
First, you're going to need a battery and a charger.
First, you're going to need a battery and a charger.
Buy yourself at least TWO Smok Winders
Why Two? Because you don't want to get caught with a dead battery. If you have two of these, and you keep one charging while using the other one, you'll never be caught off guard.
Speaking of Charging, you're going to need at least one of these
USB Ego/Winder Charger
I keep one in my car and one connected to my laptop, and one of the batteries charging.
Second, you're going to need something to put juice in. I usually recommend these:
Kanger EVOD
These are stupid easy. Unscrew from the bottom, fill with juice, replace bottom base, and vape.
Pick up a box of replacement heads, too-they don't last forever.
All of the above comes from the same site, www.buckysbargainvaping.com
I am not affiliated with the site in any way other than being a customer. I've dealt personally with the owner, and I've purchased the exact same items I just recommended. The prices are about as cheap as you're going to find, and shipping is fast and free. Shop around if you like, but this is all you need to get started, with the exception of one little thing...
JUICE.
This part is hard. Everybody has different tastes. And juice comes in every goddamn flavor you can imagine. Seriously, every flavor you can possibly think of. Personally, I like the tobacco flavors. I know a lot of people who like the sweet, candy or dessert stuff. Unfortunately, there is no way I can recommend an across the board starter juice. All I can recommend is that you check out a few sites, order a few small bottles of whatever sounds interesting, and FIND YOUR VAPE! Once you find one or two flavors you like, you're golden.
Here are a few of my favorite Juice Vendors, in no particular order:
Backwoods Brew
Mr. Vape
Heather's Heavenly Vapes
...the list goes on and on and on. There's a flavor out there for everybody. It just takes time to find it.
As far as nicotine level goes, most people start out somewhere between 12-24 mg. Think of a Marlboro Medium cigarette as the benchmark, at about 18mg. If you like an Ultra Light, you're probably going to be okay wiith the lower nic level. Some people start at 18 and work their way down. I've stuck around the 18-24 mg range since I've started, and I've been good.
That's all you need to get started. A nice, portable, reliable setup. And you can thank me for suggesting the winder/twist style batteries instead of the "fixed" or unregulated batteries later. It's kind of a mouthful to explain, which I will do in a future post. For now, just trust me... ok?
Enjoy.
VS
Why Two? Because you don't want to get caught with a dead battery. If you have two of these, and you keep one charging while using the other one, you'll never be caught off guard.
Speaking of Charging, you're going to need at least one of these
USB Ego/Winder Charger
I keep one in my car and one connected to my laptop, and one of the batteries charging.
Second, you're going to need something to put juice in. I usually recommend these:
Kanger EVOD
These are stupid easy. Unscrew from the bottom, fill with juice, replace bottom base, and vape.
Pick up a box of replacement heads, too-they don't last forever.
All of the above comes from the same site, www.buckysbargainvaping.com
I am not affiliated with the site in any way other than being a customer. I've dealt personally with the owner, and I've purchased the exact same items I just recommended. The prices are about as cheap as you're going to find, and shipping is fast and free. Shop around if you like, but this is all you need to get started, with the exception of one little thing...
JUICE.
This part is hard. Everybody has different tastes. And juice comes in every goddamn flavor you can imagine. Seriously, every flavor you can possibly think of. Personally, I like the tobacco flavors. I know a lot of people who like the sweet, candy or dessert stuff. Unfortunately, there is no way I can recommend an across the board starter juice. All I can recommend is that you check out a few sites, order a few small bottles of whatever sounds interesting, and FIND YOUR VAPE! Once you find one or two flavors you like, you're golden.
Here are a few of my favorite Juice Vendors, in no particular order:
Backwoods Brew
Mr. Vape
Heather's Heavenly Vapes
...the list goes on and on and on. There's a flavor out there for everybody. It just takes time to find it.
As far as nicotine level goes, most people start out somewhere between 12-24 mg. Think of a Marlboro Medium cigarette as the benchmark, at about 18mg. If you like an Ultra Light, you're probably going to be okay wiith the lower nic level. Some people start at 18 and work their way down. I've stuck around the 18-24 mg range since I've started, and I've been good.
That's all you need to get started. A nice, portable, reliable setup. And you can thank me for suggesting the winder/twist style batteries instead of the "fixed" or unregulated batteries later. It's kind of a mouthful to explain, which I will do in a future post. For now, just trust me... ok?
Enjoy.
VS
MORE PROOF-E CIGARETTES AS GOOD AS PATCHES IN HELPING SMOKERS QUIT
I know it worked for me-I haven't had a real cigarette in over a year. Personal testimonials aside, we've got fucking SCIENCE on our side, Bitches!
NBC NEWS 9/7/13
Electronic cigarettes work about as well as nicotine patches in helping smokers kick the habit, researchers report. And e-cigarettes helped people smoke fewer cigarettes overall, even if they didn’t quit completely.
The study is the first major piece of research to show that the products, which deliver a nicotine mist using a cigarette-shaped pipe, can actually benefit smokers.
The findings, published in the Lancet medical journal, are not quite enough to make public health experts embrace e-cigarettes, which are not yet regulated and which are growing in popularity. But it’s enough to make them look more closely at whether there may be some benefit to them.
“You're trading one addiction for another addiction,” Dr. Cheryl Healton, president and CEO of the anti-tobacco Legacy Foundation, told NBC News. "(But) it may be that for some people, this will be a better way to quit, and there may be people who've tried other things and haven't been able to quit who will quit with this."
For the study, Chris Bullen of the University of Auckland in New Zealand and colleagues recruited 657 smokers who wanted to quit. They divided them into three groups, to get either 13 weeks’ supply of e-cigarettes, nicotine patches or placebo e-cigarettes that contained no nicotine.
After six months, 5.7 percent of the volunteers had managed to completely quit smoking. It was slightly more in the e-cigarette group, but not in a way that was statistically significant, Bullen reported.
It’s very difficult to quit smoking, but the e-cigarettes also appeared to have helped people cut back on real tobacco. Bullen’s team found that 57 percent of volunteers given real e-cigarettes were smoking half as many cigarettes a day as before, compared to 41 percent of those who got patches.
“While our results don’t show any clear-cut differences between e-cigarettes and patches in terms of quit success after six months, it certainly seems that e-cigarettes were more effective in helping smokers who didn’t quit to cut down,” Bullen said in a statement.
“It’s also interesting that the people who took part in our study seemed to be much more enthusiastic about e-cigarettes than patches, as evidenced by the far greater proportion of people in both of the e-cigarette groups who said they’d recommend them to family or friends, compared to patches.”
Healton said that was a provocative finding. “It does also suggest consumer acceptability of the product is higher,” she said.
U.S. health officials are very concerned about the rise in popularity of e-cigarettes. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Food and Drug Administration released a report on Thursday showing a doubling in the number of high school students who have tried them, to 10 percent.
More than 21 percent of adults have tried them at least once, but the CDC says they are addictive and may themselves be dangerous.
“We don’t know much about them,” says Dr. Tim McAfee, director of the CDC Office on Smoking and Health. But he says they could potentially be useful if tobacco companies would stop making products like cigarettes and make e-cigarettes instead – and if those e-cigarettes did indeed turn out to be less harmful than conventional cigarettes.
“Our nirvana is a world where nobody is dying from death and disease caused by tobacco,” McAfee told NBC News. “If you have a product that doesn’t kill people, that is where the money should be going, that is where the promotion, the marketing should be going.”
They are pricey - an e-cigarette product ranges from $10 to $120, depending on how many charges it provides. And there are dozens, if not hundreds, of brands. FDA says some appear to contain carcinogens, and there is some evidence that nicotine is not only addictive, but may itself damage health.
“They could have inherent dangers that are greater than using something like gum or the patch,” Healton said.
CDC says tobacco is the leading preventable cause of disease, disability, and death in the United States, killing 443,000 people a year.
Public health experts are desperate for ways to help people quit smoking, but it is hard. The American Cancer Society says only 4 percent to 7 percent of people manage to quit on any single given try. Drugs such as Chantix or Zyban can raise this rate to 25 percent.
There’s also counseling, nicotine gum and patches, hypnosis and acupuncture, and companies are working on anti-nicotine vaccines.
Erika Edwards contributed to this report.
Monday, June 17, 2013
Great Intro to E Cigs Videos-A Few MUST WATCH Clips
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Todd's Reviews are usually pretty advanced-he mainly focuses on high end mechanical mods (or their cheap Chinese knock offs as a side by side), rba's, wick and coil tutorials, etc. It's a real treat to have someone like him take you through the basics, and I think you'll find the information invaluable. The video is nearly an hour long-I know, you don't have time for that shit, right? If you can invest about 60 minutes of your busy day (even 15 minutes at a time, for Christ's sake-it's on YouTube-you can pause the damn thing and walk away), you won't be sorry. Not only is he extremely knowledgeable, he talks funny-he's a Scotsman.
Another GIANT in the e-cig culure is GrimmGreen. Nick is an awesome dude. He answers all of his viewer's questions- he has a SHITLOAD of them, and can probably monetize his channel, but he refuses to do so, because he feels like it would go against his moral grain, since he has a true passion for the e-cig world and everything about it, and he remains a "skeptical yet optanustuc "voice for those of us that vape, and gives it to you straight, with no b.s., and he's usually right on with his advice. Here's a great video for those of us that are looking to take the next step in vaping. Most of you I've spoken with are ready to take that next step and move on from your Twissts, Spinners, Winders, or whatever "stick" pv you are currently using to vape.
Now, I started with an Ego Twist, and I still own and use them quite often. In fact, I always carry at least one with me. Those of you that know me know that I am into this vaping shit on a practically comedic level-I've got a problem when it comes to buying things vape related. I'm always waiting for SOMETHING in the mail, and even though I shouldn't be doing it, I'm still ordering crap. Regardless, I want to take a second and say that all you will EVER need to vape with is an Ego Twist or something similar, a charger, a decent cartomizer/clearomizer tank-I'm ALL about the Kanger ProTank these days (I have 4. Fuckin' 4 of them. And more replacement coils than I am aware of. I blame three things. My impulsive nature, the fact that I have memorized nmy debit card number, and Ambien. I swear to Christ that half the shit I receive was ordered after I went to sleep. I wake up in the middle of the night sometimes, and the next day I find order confirmations in my inbox that I have no recollection of having placed an order.
What can I say? It's a hobby for me now, but those 25 dollar batteries, a decent tank system, and some juice I enjoyed got me off cigarettes. I love them, and I will always recommend anybody wanting to vape get a simple setup like that to start off with. They are great, reliable, inexpensive batteries, and I use them all the time. Sometimes, carrying a tube mod with you isn't convenient. Sometimes the "Robot Cock" doesn't suit the occasion. I've always got a Twist ready. Even the most advanced vaper will usually have one or two of these batteries in their stash.
For those of us looking to step up from this nearly perfect system and see what the world of vaping has to offer, this is a great video to turn you on to the rest of the options. Mind you, this video was made a few months ago, and the world of e-cigs has grown tenfold. Still, I watch GrimmGreen's videos religiously, every Sunday. He's a cool guy, and he's helped me out a LOT personally. And we're Facebook buddys. We chat and stuff.
That's enough for today. I'm going to start posting more regularly, from a more personal point of view. I started this blog for a few of my friends who were all getting into e-cigs at the same time and coming to me with questions. I figured what better way to consolidate all the info they were seeking so it could be easily accessible, so they could all be pointed in the right direction.
And I don't think one of you fuckers has even looked at this goddamn blog!
Fuckers.
Todd's Reviews are usually pretty advanced-he mainly focuses on high end mechanical mods (or their cheap Chinese knock offs as a side by side), rba's, wick and coil tutorials, etc. It's a real treat to have someone like him take you through the basics, and I think you'll find the information invaluable. The video is nearly an hour long-I know, you don't have time for that shit, right? If you can invest about 60 minutes of your busy day (even 15 minutes at a time, for Christ's sake-it's on YouTube-you can pause the damn thing and walk away), you won't be sorry. Not only is he extremely knowledgeable, he talks funny-he's a Scotsman.
Another GIANT in the e-cig culure is GrimmGreen. Nick is an awesome dude. He answers all of his viewer's questions- he has a SHITLOAD of them, and can probably monetize his channel, but he refuses to do so, because he feels like it would go against his moral grain, since he has a true passion for the e-cig world and everything about it, and he remains a "skeptical yet optanustuc "voice for those of us that vape, and gives it to you straight, with no b.s., and he's usually right on with his advice. Here's a great video for those of us that are looking to take the next step in vaping. Most of you I've spoken with are ready to take that next step and move on from your Twissts, Spinners, Winders, or whatever "stick" pv you are currently using to vape.
Now, I started with an Ego Twist, and I still own and use them quite often. In fact, I always carry at least one with me. Those of you that know me know that I am into this vaping shit on a practically comedic level-I've got a problem when it comes to buying things vape related. I'm always waiting for SOMETHING in the mail, and even though I shouldn't be doing it, I'm still ordering crap. Regardless, I want to take a second and say that all you will EVER need to vape with is an Ego Twist or something similar, a charger, a decent cartomizer/clearomizer tank-I'm ALL about the Kanger ProTank these days (I have 4. Fuckin' 4 of them. And more replacement coils than I am aware of. I blame three things. My impulsive nature, the fact that I have memorized nmy debit card number, and Ambien. I swear to Christ that half the shit I receive was ordered after I went to sleep. I wake up in the middle of the night sometimes, and the next day I find order confirmations in my inbox that I have no recollection of having placed an order.
What can I say? It's a hobby for me now, but those 25 dollar batteries, a decent tank system, and some juice I enjoyed got me off cigarettes. I love them, and I will always recommend anybody wanting to vape get a simple setup like that to start off with. They are great, reliable, inexpensive batteries, and I use them all the time. Sometimes, carrying a tube mod with you isn't convenient. Sometimes the "Robot Cock" doesn't suit the occasion. I've always got a Twist ready. Even the most advanced vaper will usually have one or two of these batteries in their stash.
For those of us looking to step up from this nearly perfect system and see what the world of vaping has to offer, this is a great video to turn you on to the rest of the options. Mind you, this video was made a few months ago, and the world of e-cigs has grown tenfold. Still, I watch GrimmGreen's videos religiously, every Sunday. He's a cool guy, and he's helped me out a LOT personally. And we're Facebook buddys. We chat and stuff.
That's enough for today. I'm going to start posting more regularly, from a more personal point of view. I started this blog for a few of my friends who were all getting into e-cigs at the same time and coming to me with questions. I figured what better way to consolidate all the info they were seeking so it could be easily accessible, so they could all be pointed in the right direction.
And I don't think one of you fuckers has even looked at this goddamn blog!
Fuckers.
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
E CIG NEWS- NJOY Snags Another Celeb Endorsement/Investor
Bruno Mars Invests in Electronic Cigarette Company
| 06/04/2013 - 09:29 |
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It seems Bruno Mars is trying his best to kick a bad habit. The 27-year-old singer is investing in NJOY, an electronic cigarette company, to help him quit smoking.
The "Locked Out of Heaven" star began using the product on Mother's Day as a gift to his mother, Bernadette Hernandez. "Day 1 E-Cig, gotta do it! This one's for you mom," he tweeted. Sadly, Bruno's mother passed away on Saturday, but it seems he's still keeping his promise of living tobacco-free. "I've been using NJOY Kings instead of cigarettes these days and I'm sticking to it," Bruno said in a press release. "I believe in the product and the company's mission."
NJOY electronic cigarettes are made to look and feel like the real thing. While many, like Bruno, have turned to this product for help to quit smoking, the World Health Organization said it does not consider the product to be a legitimate therapy for smokers. "WHO has no scientific evidence to confirm the product's safety and efficacy," stated Assistant Director-General of WHO's Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health Cluster, Dr Ala Alwan.
There may be no scientific evidence, but Bruno believes in it and will continue to endorse the brand.
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It seems Bruno Mars is trying his best to kick a bad habit. The 27-year-old singer is investing in NJOY, an electronic cigarette company, to help him quit smoking.
The "Locked Out of Heaven" star began using the product on Mother's Day as a gift to his mother, Bernadette Hernandez. "Day 1 E-Cig, gotta do it! This one's for you mom," he tweeted. Sadly, Bruno's mother passed away on Saturday, but it seems he's still keeping his promise of living tobacco-free. "I've been using NJOY Kings instead of cigarettes these days and I'm sticking to it," Bruno said in a press release. "I believe in the product and the company's mission."
NJOY electronic cigarettes are made to look and feel like the real thing. While many, like Bruno, have turned to this product for help to quit smoking, the World Health Organization said it does not consider the product to be a legitimate therapy for smokers. "WHO has no scientific evidence to confirm the product's safety and efficacy," stated Assistant Director-General of WHO's Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health Cluster, Dr Ala Alwan.
There may be no scientific evidence, but Bruno believes in it and will continue to endorse the brand.
Friday, May 3, 2013
Vaping Resources 101-Shit to Get You Started
Check out the following sites for reference, vaping supplies, e liquid, reviews, and all kinds of other shit.
A wealth of info, and the gateway
to the E Cig/Vaping community. Whether you’re just trying to quit smoking and
looking for beginner advice or a veteran, this is the starting point. There are
lots of vaping forums, but this one is the biggest and most comprehensive. Set
up an account (free) and look for me (sgenn99).
While I don’t like to get into
the politics of vaping and e-cig regulation, I recommend you become a member of
this organization. Regulation is coming, and there is strength in numbers-protect
your right to Vape!
Our local group that meets
monthly, with local vendors sponsoring the event. Sounds like a good time
Trusted Vendors and Suppliers
This list is in no particular
order of preference or anything. I have either personally dealt with them or
they come highly recommended by trusted sources. It is, and will remain, a work
in progress.
Vaping Gurus, Reviewers, and
People Who’s Videos are Worth Watching.
Again, another continuous work in
progress, in no particular order of preference. The following people have been
ESSENTIAL in educating, guiding, advising, and entertaining me.
www.grimmgreen.com Nick (grimmgreen) is
the man. This is the link to his page, where you can also follow him on all the
usual social media platforms. Weekly youtube reviews are not to be missed.
www.tasteyourjuice.com Phil Busardo
(pbusardo) is another fantastic reviewer of e cigs, mods, juices, etc. Very
funny, honest, technical, and in depth.
www.e-cig-reviews.com Scott (igetcha69)
is probably one of the most trusted reviewers in the e-cig world. He’s British,
so he talks funny. Great guy as well.
Of course, you can always leave a comment here, and email me with any questions. Check back later for reviews, news, and updates. Thanks for checking out my little corner of the 'net.
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