My e-Cigarette Experiences…

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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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Yes…  over 100 hours have passed now since my last analog!  I’ve dealt with excess heat, family driving me insane, work issues and a few other matters of somewhat higher than normal stress levels, and still I don’t even feel like I need a cigarette.  So do e-cigs work?  MOST DEFINITELY YES!  I’m quite sure that since Friday noon when I started with m E8 I would have burned about $45, and I’m only down 7 cartridges in 4 1/2 days.  And this first few days have been a little better stress test than would be normal for me, so I’m pretty sure that 10 of these cartridges will last me around a week.  So that’s 8 packs (40 cartridges) per month at a total cost of around $60 – or about a week’s worth of tobacco!  Net expected savings – try $180+ per month – or more than $2,000 per year.  Not bad!

The one area that I’m finding the E8 weak is the flavouring.  I have to admit that I don’t really get the flavours at all.  I can’t tell you if I’m smoking menthol, cherry or flu-cured most of the time, as they all taste somewhat the same.  There’s a hint of tobacco taste in each cartridge, and they are all a little sweeter than I’m accustomed to, so it’s really hard to tell the difference.  Mind you, I’ve been working on the samples that were not labeled, and on a few of the ones in boxes but I may also have mixed them up during use.  So I have to pay more attention to which ones I’m actually using for a few days to see if I can get the flavours down.  But still…  cherry should be an easy one?!  There have been some times when puffing on a cherry cartridge that I’ve gotten a hint of that old Cherry Cavendish I used to smoke in my pipe so long ago.  Maybe the nicotine strength has some play in that part as well…  Still some learning to do, and I will of course share my education with you all here.

That’s all for now… I need to get out of my hotbox office (we hit 35 C today!) and into something cool – like a beer or 3!

G’night!