Important Notice: This page describes my journey from smoking into vaping. It is by no means meant as an encouragement to start vaping (or smoking for that matter)! If you don’t smoke, don’t start vaping! But if you do smoke, you may want to consider vaping as a potentially less hazardous alternative (please include the obvious disclaimers here; I recommend that you smoke nor vape!).
With that out of the way…
I started smoking cigarettes and rolled tobacco at the age of fourteen (or so), so at around 1980. I managed to quit smoking between 1988 and 1990, but restarted smoking in 1990 while performing my mandatory military service, and did so until August 15th 2018, on which day I switched to vaping, after a visit to the Puff Store in Delft (Choorstraat). I visited that store merely out of interest, to figure out what vaping was all about, and what it could mean to me.
When I left the store, I had turned green due to a Nicotine overdose, since we (the fantastic lady at the store and me) were trying to figure out the required level of nicotine and the proper means of vaping it. Yet I left the store with a vaping package that seemed to work well to keep me from smoking; apart from a single evening of smoking one or two days later due to the fact that I had actually completely forgotten about my vaping. Thus, I managed to switch to vaping from smoking completely.
Currently [20220828], I’m mostly on 50/50 PG/VG and 8 mg/ml nicotine concentration. Although, on a good couple of days, I can dig 6 mg/ml quite well. Going even lower in nic for multiple days typically “does not make me feel very well”… I usually mix down myself from 20mg/ml nic shots; the math for this is simple enough…
Added flavors I use are mostly (ripe) fruits with menthol/mint, just ripe fruits, just menthol or just no flavor at all.
I vape Direct-to-Lung [checked 20220828] with almost unconstrained air flow [checked 20220828] but very limited power; usually at 15~20W of so.
Unfortunately, I rarely (can) take the time for steeping [checked 20220828], so I’m often faced with somewhat raw/rough/underdeveloped tastes. But it keeps me from smoking nonetheless…