I quit smoking with the help of Steel Jan and Smokeless Image a few years ago. Now with stress and quarantining I find I'm dying for a cigarette. So here I am. Couldn't help but notice everything has changed! I want to find something similar to my old Volts and clearimizers. Is it hopeless? Anyone?
I've been ordering from smokeless image since 2012 - the last few years, in bulk a couple times a year. I didn't know we lost them until today.
I prefer the automatic cigar size cig-a-like batteries without a button . like the X2 volt.
I really don't like box mods.. or the pod things.
Might anyone know where to find this kind of battery anymore?
thanks
I'm an Old-Timer on this site, quit smoking 11 years ago with the help of Smokeless Image and my pretty Volts. Now I've been sneaking hits off friend's cigarettes and my daughter's Juul.
I love the idea of the small, extra simple Juul. Can anyone tell me about similar brands, pros and cons, prices?
Weird to be back here, can I blame it on Covid?!
Thanks.
i quit smoking for about 3 months back in the carto tank days.
then they stopped making cartomizers. then all my juice vendors went out.
I've been struggling to find a replacement since. I've easily spent too much money on vaping. I"m getting tired of trying.
are these new pods similar to carto tanks?
I'm so lost.
I have lost interest in the clouds. I just want to stop my 30 year long smoking addiction. I miss my carto tanks. they worked for me. I'm frustrated. I'm tired. I'm lost.
Hi Folks
I read a good post informing me all about the different items, batteries , systems etc. for vaping when I first joined but cannot find it again. Help please.
I am looking for a supplier of the larger batteries for use with 808 cartridges .
I have a Volt 120mm unit at the moment but Smokeless Image have shut shop.
Thanks
Brian
I have been using SmokelessImage 950mAH for 8 years and now they've closed. I ask your help in finding a similar one. The market has changed so much since then.
I liked this ecig (see image) because it had re-fillable cartridges. I liked the size and it was a passthrough. I don't care about a lot of vapor. I tried clear cartomizers but they use too much oil, too much vapor, too strong and coughed from them.
I like cartridges because they seem to soften the hit. The ones from Smokeless Image were half the price of the ones I've found since. They sold 5 for $5.95. Ones I've found are 5 for $9.95-$10.95. Are there other choices to filter besides cartridges and cartomizers?
Can you recommend an ecig that could replace? I need a passthrough system. Any suggestions about changing the system based on above would be appreciated. I am not an ecig fanatic by any means. I stopped smoking using them. Thanks!
I've been trying to get my dad to quit smoking for two years now. He wanted to quit using an e-cig. However, he just can't seem to stick with it. He has been smoking for 30+ years. He smokes almost two packs a day.
I think the problem really is that he hasn't -tried-. As soon as he wants a real smoke, he lights one up. He only uses his e-cig is places he can't smoke.
He says he wants something that taste like tobacco. I've tried buying him numerous tobacco e-liquids. The closest was one from Ahlusion, but he still says it isn't like tobacco. He keeps saying he'll quit, but then he doesn't.
He has an ego with a mini protank, he seems fine with that. He isn't very amused by my mech mods and RTAs. lol.
I'm just lost as to what to do. A lot of people say to just stop telling him to do so and let him do it on his own. It is hard to just sit and watch him smoke though, esp when my mom had lung cancer just over a year ago (luckily, she did quit smoking with an e-cig and went into remission after radiation treatment). When I switched, I had only just started to smoke again (I smoked 3 years, quit, then started smoking again for about 4 months, then to an e-cig). I didn't like tobacco flavors when I started and almost immediately went to fruit flavors. He's tried those too, doesn't have much interest in them.
So my question to you ex long term smokers, what helped you make the switch? I feel like I just can't relate to smoking 30 something years.
Because it has a coil? Because it has a tank that contains VG or PG? Because the user expels vapor that looks like smoke ? Because it has a battery? Because the tank holds liquid that contains nicotine? What if the tank does not contain nicotine? Is it still an E-Cig?
These are my burning questions for tonight while watching Modern Marvels on H2 (History Channel 2)
That and I really need to know what exactly constitutes an E-cig. I've been tobacco free, smoke free for almost two years. Vaping exclusively. I'm close to zero nicotine now. Will I still be an E-cig user when I go to zero? Obviously yes, but why ?
I really dig vaping a million times more then I dug smoking. I hated smoking. Just did it for 40 years 'cause I couldn't get off the stinkies til I discovered E-cig (24 mg/ml when I first quit smoking) almost two years ago. Still can't believe I've been smoke free for so long.
Hope you weigh in on the subject of "What constitutes an E-Cig ?"
Little confused here...so I've got this piece of equipment with the up and down arrows locked at say 4.8 Volts. I notice that sometimes even with the button locked Ill pull it out of my pocket and see that the volts have changed to 4.7 or even 4.6.
So naturally I try and change it back to 4.8 and it reads "locked"
How is this changing with the lock feature enabled?
I smoked my last cigarette at 8:05am on May 5, 2014 . I didn't know then if it would really be the day I finally quit, but I told myself to really try to go 24 hours without smoking, a goal I had never achieved. And I made it! So then I told myself, if I could go a day, I could truly make it.
I started smoking at a very young age, and smoked 35 years. I made numerous attempts to quit going back to my college years. I tried cold turkey, cutting back, the patch, gum, a nicotine inhaler, Wellbutrin and Chantix. No matter what, I couldn't break that 24 hour goal. I would go through ashtrays and light up every disgusting butt for 1 or 2 nasty drags.
My last few years of smoking I was under a PAD, but only due to financial reasons. I just wouldn't let myself have more than 1 cigarette per hour, but I certainly smoked the heck out of each one. The filter would be collapsed by the time I was finished.
Thank you, ECF. I was so clueless when I started vaping. I didn't know which was 510 and which was ego threading on my batteries. I didn't know an atomizer from a clearomizer. I didn't know what rebuildables were, or that the ones I saw online were clones. I kept googling different things, and kept ending up here to read. Finally after 3 months of lurking, I joined.
The journey has been amazing! The technology changes alone in the 14 months I've been vaping are mind boggling. And I've met some truly kind and generous folks here, from those who give their time all day to help others, to those who give hardware and juice to those in a financial crunch. Thank you, all
History. I'm 66, smoked for more than 30 years, quit when I had a small heart attack at about 47-49 years old. BP issues requiring meds and other health issues.
About last August 2019 I had a bunch of stress come up and handled it badly. I started on mild cigars and moved to medium strong. Got in a situation where I couldn't smoke a stogie, so bummed a cigarette. That morphed into smoking more than a carton and stogies.
I knew they'd kill me so I picked up a Juul 3%, not enough moved to 5%.
Moved on to a Vinci x and 50 salt.
Have been mixing and dropping the salt and was to 25ish. Was getting a lot of choking white phlegm every morn. Vaping mostly tobacco with very little flavor. 70-30 was better than 50-50 for muscus/phlegm problem.
The purpose of vaping was to avoid analogs and eventually quit all nicotine.
I'm into the second day today. Piece of nicorette gum in one cheek and a nicorette lozenge in the other. Both 2mg. Consult your doctor on doubling up patches, gum etc.
Withdrawal wasn't bad so far at all. Don't know if vape nic absorbs different or not. It's different than quitting analogs somehow for me anyway.
Anyhow, passing it on for anyone thinking of going down the path of being nic free again. I was off everything for 15+ years and for my heart and health am going there again.
I do have to say though that vaping definitely kept me 100% off analogs once I switched. And didn't palpitate or sense any issues from it, other than a 20 count BP rise.
I vaped lightly, 100-150 2-3 second puffs per day. I still have the equipment and juice if I fail, but so far it's going well.
Dave