Electronic Cigarette

veronarona

minnie123 wrote: »

I really want to get it working because my boyfriend ..... has only smoked 15 cigarettes today instead of 30 so if it was working I think it would help him tremendously.

That's really good news, if only we can get the gear working properly we may not lose him

Watters, it sounds as though your carts are overfilled - although they do need to be quite wettish. Are you making sure you are tipping the LED end downwards and taking soft, long, puffs? Usually a few of them will use up the surplus juice. If virtually drinking the stuff was going to do harm, I'd be dead by now - but of course neat nicotine is a deadly poison, so don't substitute it for a cuppa

If you are still getting vape I don't think the atomiser can be dying.

It's a merry dance, I tell ya - but if you can put up with it, it works *eek* When I was first starting out and in the doldrums with nothing working properly, I used to say to myself "Don't be such a wimp, it's not killing you" sort of thing. Sometimes I realised I'd been puffing and chewing on a non-performing e-cig for hours. It was the realisation that if only the thing worked properly it could be my salvation that kept me going, sometimes.

We have 2 newbies in the group, one used a cart that lasted more than a day, the other used about 6 the first day, go figure :rolleyes: I wish a decent manufacturer would take them up and give us consistency.

veronarona

fish-in-a-woolly-hat

Hi -sorry I dashed off last night

With regard to filling the cartridges. Unbend a paperclip and poke the wadding so that the juice sinks into it properly. If it runs down the sides of the little wadding container then this is when you get it in your mouth!


Bear in mind that the carts and the batteries do not last anything like the time claimed by the manufacturers. I now have 10 batteries (8 that work well) - 5 atomisers and about 100 carts! (Though you don't need that many - as I bought 2 full 4081s - I got 50 with each). I also have 4 chargers!

Charge until the light goes green and then stop - BTW - there is no point leaving it longer - it is full at this point.


And if you are still getting a strong rubbery or metallic taste with a new atomiser - it sometimes helps to vape a strong flavour juice in it - like apple or one of the fruit ones (if you can bear the idea at all). Though the taste does pass off after a while.

Having said all that - there are still odd moments when you can't get a combination to work!

However - I am on day 109 cig free - and I didn't even intend to stop :eek:

I tried it to cut down a bit and partly out of curiosity! I was smoking 25-30 Richmond light a day - and had :eek: have smoked for 34 years.


Lastly - if no one has mentioned this - keep the cartridges - and wash them in warm water with a tiny tiny drop of washing up liquid - spread them on a piece of kitchen paper to dry thoroughly.

fish-in-a-woolly-hat

watters01 wrote: »

Ive had mine for just over a week now thought it was great at first but a couple of days ago it started going a bit funny - im getting a horrible liquid nictoine taste in my mouth and on my lips when i use it.(but still lots of vapour )- .

I think this is your battery not your atomiser - try a different battery - and make sure you have enough to keep changing it when you need to.

I'm afraid the 8 hour thing is a bit of a myth - and as they get older they work for less time. My original 2 (from November) only last half and hour or so each now - but when I started they were the only 2 I had!

Also try cleaning your atomisers - by blowing through from the "hole" end onto kitchen paper - or steaming - as in my other post.

I also stop the self-clean thing when it starts - it is a pain - it makes the e-cig taste horrible - runs the battery down and can overheat the atomiser.

When it starts to hiss like a snake - pull the cart off fast. Then unscrew the battery and allow the atomiser to cool before you use it again.

If you have more batteries than atomisers - it will self-clean too often anyway.:(

minnie123

fish-in-a-woolly-hat wrote: »

Hi -sorry I dashed off last night

With regard to filling the cartridges. Unbend a paperclip and poke the wadding so that the juice sinks into it properly. If it runs down the sides of the little wadding container then this is when you get it in your mouth!


Bear in mind that the carts and the batteries do not last anything like the time claimed by the manufacturers. I now have 10 batteries (8 that work well) - 5 atomisers and about 100 carts! (Though you don't need that many - as I bought 2 full 4081s - I got 50 with each). I also have 4 chargers!

Charge until the light goes green and then stop - BTW - there is no point leaving it longer - it is full at this point.


And if you are still getting a strong rubbery or metallic taste with a new atomiser - it sometimes helps to vape a strong flavour juice in it - like apple or one of the fruit ones (if you can bear the idea at all). Though the taste does pass off after a while.

Having said all that - there are still odd moments when you can't get a combination to work!

However - I am on day 109 cig free - and I didn't even intend to stop :eek:

I tried it to cut down a bit and partly out of curiosity! I was smoking 25-30 Richmond light a day - and had :eek: have smoked for 34 years.


Lastly - if no one has mentioned this - keep the cartridges - and wash them in warm water with a tiny tiny drop of washing up liquid - spread them on a piece of kitchen paper to dry thoroughly.

Thanks for all you advice - I am awaiting a new atomiser so I am really hoping it will work this time. When you say about cleaning the cartridges what about the wadding inside - do you clean that and then drip the juice into it or not. I was just going to drip the juice in when it went too dry?

Also another query is there anywhere you can get a load of different flavour cartridges mixed so you can try a few without buying a load. I have checked out a few websites but it's hard to now which ones are trustworthy.

veronarona

I don't think you can get mixed-flavour carts, it's better to go for juice.

www.e-cigs.co.uk

http://www.totallywicked-eliquid.co.uk/

www.oksmokey.com

The first and third of those do "free" P&P so it keeps it simple. Totally Wicked is highly regarded, they have had their juices lab-tested in this country.

There has been much discussion on the safety/not of propylene glycol, which is the ingredient that produces the "smoke" (vapour) - I was recently reliably informed that it is also contained in asthma vaporiser thingies, which is somewhat reassuring.

You can top up the carts without cleaning them for as long as they don't go brown. I use a pair of pointy tweezers to squidge the juice thru. When they do get dirty you can wash them in warm soapy water, blot them and leave to dry - they come up like new. It's actually a flat piece of gauzy stuff that's folded into 3 (concertina-style) to fit into the cart - well, that's what the ones I've washed look like.

I've deliberately not gone into too much "advanced" detail because we're just trying to get y'all started :eek:

By the way, I bought the Liquid Gold Extra-high from OK Smokey - it's inoffensive, but my taste-sense doesn't seem to have recovered from lifelong smoking yet. Some of you might like to get ultra-high (36mg is tops, I think) juice and dilute it with Vegetable Glycerine - reduces cost and increases vape

veronarona

watters01

veronarona wrote: »

That's really good news, if only we can get the gear working properly we may not lose him

Watters, it sounds as though your carts are overfilled - although they do need to be quite wettish. Are you making sure you are tipping the LED end downwards and taking soft, long, puffs? Usually a few of them will use up the surplus juice. If virtually drinking the stuff was going to do harm, I'd be dead by now - but of course neat nicotine is a deadly poison, so don't substitute it for a cuppa

If you are still getting vape I don't think the atomiser can be dying.

It's a merry dance, I tell ya - but if you can put up with it, it works *eek* When I was first starting out and in the doldrums with nothing working properly, I used to say to myself "Don't be such a wimp, it's not killing you" sort of thing. Sometimes I realised I'd been puffing and chewing on a non-performing e-cig for hours. It was the realisation that if only the thing worked properly it could be my salvation that kept me going, sometimes.

We have 2 newbies in the group, one used a cart that lasted more than a day, the other used about 6 the first day, go figure :rolleyes: I wish a decent manufacturer would take them up and give us consistency.

veronarona

Have taken your advice and holding the led end down - working great again.
Thanks :T

I would like to ask general oppinion about using the e-cig indoors - i have a small child and never smoked in the house and am just a bit unsure as to whether the vapour i am exhaling could be harmfull to her in any way ?

minnie123

I have been reading a lot about this and it says the vapour is totally harmless so it is safe to smoke indoors. Having said that however I have told my boyfriend he still has to go outside to use the e-cig when the baby is around because I don't want the baby to see the smoking action if you know what I mean. I say this because the reason I started smoking is because I grew up seeing my mum and dad doing it and I started off stealing her lovely coloured cigarettes to be like her.

When baby has gone to bed though we were using it indoors.

Would be interesting to hear other opinions on this.

Savvy_Sue

veronarona wrote: »

There has been much discussion on the safety/not of propylene glycol, which is the ingredient that produces the "smoke" (vapour) - I was recently reliably informed that it is also contained in asthma vaporiser thingies, which is somewhat reassuring.

watters01 wrote: »

I would like to ask general oppinion about using the e-cig indoors - i have a small child and never smoked in the house and am just a bit unsure as to whether the vapour i am exhaling could be harmfull to her in any way ?

Both these covered briefly in the article I mentioned here.

watters01

Thanks Sue - have read the article - from what i can gather the research suggests that the e-cig is "relativley" harmless to bystanders !(Im presuming this to mean it would not harm a random person who inhaled the vapour from an e-cig as they were passing by you )
But as all parents of small children will know they are rarely more than 2 feet away from you so would be inhaling the vapour on a regular basis. It also says that the e-cig contains substances that can become carcinogenic if a build up of the substances occurs in the body !!
Dont know about the rest of you but I will be taking my e-cig outside in the future.

Isaac-the-red

Watters, from all the info I have come across, the e-cig does not cause any passive smoking problems. Although it imitates real cigs so well, it doe's not burn so no carbon monoide or tar is released.

There is lots of info on the e-cig in this eBay group :-

http://groups.ebay.co.uk/clubforum.jspa?forumID=18000022089