E-Cigs
by Techievampire on Oct.14, 2009, under Special
Having an Aunt who while visiting in England bought one, to use on the plane back home, telling me she liked hers I decided to try one. If you don’t know what one is I’ll try and describe it. Mine is a little bigger than a real cig, it’s black, and it has a blue LED light at the end. (They use blue lights so people won’t freak out and think they’re real cigs in bars, etc) It’s made up of a battery, atomizer, and a cartridge. The cartridge contains batting that you place drops of juice on… nicotine or flavored (you can get coffee, chocolate, grape, the list is endless). The wet batting is heated up in the atomizer and vapor is created. That’s what you exhale when you take a drag. Vapor. It’s called “vaping”. Although they aren’t called a stop-smoking aid a lot of people are using it for that. The only thing in it is nicotine. No tar or other crap and chemicals so it’s a really clean taste. You can really tell the difference if you smoke a reg (or analog as they call it) cig after trying it. Analogs taste heavier or dirtier.
The basic kit I bought was around $40. With all the accessories I bought it ended up being around $120. (Extra batteries, cartridges, etc) The juice can go from $10 to $30 bucks a bottle. I got a charger for the car and a really cool USB pass thru that you connect to your computer so you don’t have to worry about a battery!
I have 6 packs of regular cigs left. When I get down to one, keeping it to hold off the “oh my god I don’t have any cigs” panic, I’m going to go strictly with the ecig.
I have one problem. I can’t figure out what to do with it when I’m not taking a drag. I guess put it down on something. It’s not like you need an ashtray! lol
So I’ll be reporting on my experience with it. IF I can quit smoking with it I will have given up my two vices… Dr Pepper AND cigarettes.
October 14th, 2009 on 7:36 pm
Best of luck, I know you can do it, I went from 4-1/2 packs of Marlboros to zero in one day, cold turkey. That was Thanksgiving of ‘87, just watch the diet once you get off the blighters. I found that taking a few very deep breaths at every craving pain helped a bunch. I have a big button from my crew, labeled “Grouchy Bastard”, all of them hated me for a couple of weeks, I was not a pleasant boss to be around. Hang in there it’s those first three days that are the worst.:)