My e-Cigarette Experiences…

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Yes folks… 16 days since my departure from the use of analog (tobacco) cigarettes.  That’s about $144 ago, and I’m still working on my $150 starter kit.  Tomorrow at noon, I’ll have reached the point where my smoking habit would have cost what my starter kit did (with 43 Cartridges) and I still have 10 full cartridges left which I now estimate will last me about 8 or 9 days.  I’ve also placed my second order from my supplier (see link on the sidebar) for another 40 cartridges, or about 32 to 35 days based on my current usage, for a total cost of $90 CDN landed!  It works out to about $3 per day compared to $9, or a 67% savings over analogs.  And it’s healthier!  So what’s this about the Dressage show? 

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that I’m more than a little disappointed in Blu.  If you’ve seen their website today you know that they have opened their system to taking orders once again.  The downside is that they are actually warning clients that they are looking at 4 to 6 weeks to SHIP the order.  The upside is that will only reserve a one dollar pre-authorization on your credit card until they are able to ship your order.  Now… I appreciate the honesty here folks – really I do – but it just seems pointless at this stage to proceed.  I might be wrong – and hope I am – but I don’t see a bright future here. 

Further – by the time things are all smoothed out at Blu, and perhaps a few other sellers of e-cigs online in the US, the rest of the world will already be using the 3rd or 4th generation of e-cigs.  I’m finding that I really like the disposable cartridges.  But I do need to find something better than the E8.  I’m watching my short battery die already (yes I’ll be testing their Customer Service!) and I’m also finding that there is a slight taste of burning plastic when I hit the end of a cartridge.   So I’ll be trying something else for the next round.  More reading to do this week!  Stay tuned for what I buy and from where as we go further down the road to find the perfect solution for my needs.

Cheers!

Well, the month of July 2009 is nearly over, and so is my first week of being tobacco free!  It’s been a very easy week, and I’ve had my E8 close at hand and ready for use at a moments notice.  The first week has taught me a few things that I will share with you in this post, so be sure to read the whole thing to ensure that you get the most benefit from my findings so far.  Also, I have an update from our friend Glenn.  You may recall he is the one that was waiting for his Blu order – and actually received it 10 days ago.  Well…  I received an email from Glenn this morning, and I’ll share some of his thoughts with you as well.  So…

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OK… so nearly six hours in and I’m still on my first battery and my first cartridge.  I’ve gone about my day fairly normally except for the fact that I’m not stopping all activities to have a smoke when I crave.  And in doing this I’m already learning something VERY interesting to me.  It seems that I crave a smoke often, but I don’t give myself time to finish the whole thing.   This afternoon, at the office, I felt a craving and I answered it by taking a drag of my e-cig.  Then a second.  Then I was ready to put it away and move on.  I’d have had to stop working – go outside and walk 50 yards from the building, in the back, out of sight – then light up.  Pull a few hard drags off the analog and then snuff out 1/2 of the smoke and dash back into the office.  Even hastier and more wasteful on ugly weather days.  So I think I might actually end up saving even MORE than I had thought.  I’m nearly 6 hours into my vaping experience – no cravings for an analog and still on the first charge and cart!  I wonder how long this first one will go?  So far… I’m 12 analogs into the day.  Stay tuned! 

(NOTE:  Updates will be staggered but quite interesting this weekend as I am at a family function that includes some drinking – so it will be a REAL test of the stamina of the e-cig hardware and cartridges.)

Have a great – tobacco free – weekend!

It’s arrived!  My package from e-cig.com actually arrived!  Those sleek little black batteries and the several boxes of assorted cartridges are all intact and safe in their cute little case.  So far, and it’s only been an hour or so, I’m excited!  I’m getting good vapor and the included sample cartridges have a nice flavor.  Takes a few puffs to get used to it since I’m accustomed to menthol, but I actually find it slightly reminiscent of my duMaurier days.  So the journey is finally underway – and I will be keeping you all posted as I try and learn and experience the changes between smoking and vaping.  Oh… and if there are any local readers that smoke Number 7 Menthol, I just this morning bought a pack that I don’t think I’ll be needing, and the store won’t take them back (and it was only 1/2 hour!).

So my first thoughts…  I have one beef right away.  The kit comes with a short and long battery, and with the long battery attached the unit won’t fit in the little case they shipped it with.  Minor pain.  And the writing on the cartridge boxes that tells you the flavour is TINY!  So out came the sharpie and I’ve marked them so I know which box is which.

I was able to draw a few puffs right out of the box so far, and I’m actually even more impressed than I thought I might be.  They really do emulate a smoke well.  These are the e-cig.com E8 product, which features the disposable atomizer built right into the cartridge, so each new cartridge and flavour is also a new atomizer.  Nice if you like to switch around from menthol, to plain, to flu cured, to cherry (the mix I have for this order) and even nicer in that you don’t need to worry about having an atomizer fail while you’re waiting for a replacement to arrive in shipping.  I was planning to have 3 on hand just to make sure I didn’t suddenly find myself running to the store for analogs.

It’s way to early yet to say a lot more about these, but I will be tracking the life and use of the E8, as well as my desire for a smoke and will be certain to keep everyone posted.  I’m actually… for the first time in a very LONG time, having a puff while sitting at my computer!  Fun!

Cheers all!

Happy Vaping!

njw

I just checked the status of my shipment from e-cig.com and it shows that my package was released from Customs this afternoon – about 9 hours ago!  There is a SMALL chance that it could make it from Vancouver to me on Vancouver Island by tomorrow’s deliveries, but more likely next week now.  Still…  as long as it gets here, I’m a happy Vaper in just a few more days!  Still crossing everything – but if it DOES happen to show up tomorrow, I’ll be buying lottery tickets next door to my mail drop!