@shaunnadan , Thank you for the advice, I'll definitely make a better choice 
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Hey there I quit smoking a month a go and am not looking back one minute... My friends started vaping 2-3 years ago esigs...Chinese copies and then last year the real stuff. Since the start they where hounding me to stop ciggies and swich.
Unfortunately due to every time I took a puff I almost died.. The sweet (cheap) stuff did not accomedate with me at all...
So 2 months ago I decided to try again started to slow down the ciggies and researching looking at pen tipes, mods, the odd hammer and old steam engine....
When I saw the Pico I fell inlove and my friend suggessted we pop in the local shop and check it out. As I was looking f9r somthing small (ciggi packet) size the pico was the right fit. I picked it up an lo and behold it was perfect.
Carlos sked me about my smoking habits and suggested which tobacco flavour and strength I should go for. After setup the fun started. The pico was comfortable light and easy to start off with as it will do what I want and need atleast for the next 2 years.
At Vapecon I decided I should check out the dripper thing and found a Velocity V2. The match of the V2 and the Pico is awesome but dont take my word for it....check out how happy is my setup
Chears
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Unfortunately due to every time I took a puff I almost died.. The sweet (cheap) stuff did not accomedate with me at all...
So 2 months ago I decided to try again started to slow down the ciggies and researching looking at pen tipes, mods, the odd hammer and old steam engine....
When I saw the Pico I fell inlove and my friend suggessted we pop in the local shop and check it out. As I was looking f9r somthing small (ciggi packet) size the pico was the right fit. I picked it up an lo and behold it was perfect.
Carlos sked me about my smoking habits and suggested which tobacco flavour and strength I should go for. After setup the fun started. The pico was comfortable light and easy to start off with as it will do what I want and need atleast for the next 2 years.
At Vapecon I decided I should check out the dripper thing and found a Velocity V2. The match of the V2 and the Pico is awesome but dont take my word for it....check out how happy is my setup
Chears
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After egos I graduated to a Kangertech Kbox and a mello subtank ,boy I thought I was the Bee's knees.Now as the proud owner of 15 or so mods of various types my vapeing journey happily continues.Have fun on yours!
A match made in heaven!Hey there I quit smoking a month a go and am not looking back one minute... My friends started vaping 2-3 years ago esigs...Chinese copies and then last year the real stuff. Since the start they where hounding me to stop ciggies and swich.
Unfortunately due to every time I took a puff I almost died.. The sweet (cheap) stuff did not accomedate with me at all...
So 2 months ago I decided to try again started to slow down the ciggies and researching looking at pen tipes, mods, the odd hammer and old steam engine....
When I saw the Pico I fell inlove and my friend suggessted we pop in the local shop and check it out. As I was looking f9r somthing small (ciggi packet) size the pico was the right fit. I picked it up an lo and behold it was perfect.
Carlos sked me about my smoking habits and suggested which tobacco flavour and strength I should go for. After setup the fun started. The pico was comfortable light and easy to start off with as it will do what I want and need atleast for the next 2 years.
At Vapecon I decided I should check out the dripper thing and found a Velocity V2. The match of the V2 and the Pico is awesome but dont take my word for it....check out how happy is my setup
Chears
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It's amazing how similar our stories are. Quite uncanny actually. I think Twisp is like the Ford XR3 in the eighties. Almost every one had one.
Yes I agree, the Pico and the Velocity RDA are a perfect match. I have paired the same with a vertical build. Awesome! I love dripping while alone.
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Yes I agree, the Pico and the Velocity RDA are a perfect match. I have paired the same with a vertical build. Awesome! I love dripping while alone.
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Started out with a cheap CE4 knockoff,then got a itaste bmp 2.0 with a naitilus tank from a bud.From there I went for an IPV D2 with a subtank mini.From there I got the Pico mod with the Goblin mini.The gobbie is currently broken (cracked glass) so I'm using the Pico with the subtank mini and rba coils until month end.
Must say vaping is so much more fun since I started building coils and going DIY.
Saving up for a 200w mod and a dripper or two,haven't owned an RDA of my own as of yet (as shameful as that is)
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Must say vaping is so much more fun since I started building coils and going DIY.
Saving up for a 200w mod and a dripper or two,haven't owned an RDA of my own as of yet (as shameful as that is)
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I had been on 40 a day for some years and decided to get a green smoke (i think it was called) in 2014. Not knowing any better, I convinced myself this was good stuff and continued to vape on it for a month or so. And then it was put away and forgotten. Early 2015 I got a cheap clearomizer somewhere and tried again. Lasted for about a month as well if I recall correctly. Back to 40s stinkies a day! Then late 2015 I got myself a twisp, thinking that its the creme de le creme of e-cigs and that it will certainly be the thing to get me of cigarettes. I was wrong. Back to good ol' Marlboro Gold.
April this year, I had just finished a cigarette and walked back into the office and for some reason (divine intervention?) my sense of smell that I had lost 10 years ago briefly returned and I was gifted with a quick whiff of what I smelled like. I was disgusted. Utterly disgusted at what I smelled like, with my inability to stop smoking and with having made the choice to become a smoker in the first place 16 years ago.
A week or so later, a colleague of mine attended a training seminar and came back telling me about the vapers he had met and the impressive clouds they were blowing. Having been a twisper himself and finally giving up smoking all together, he noted that if he had known that there were alternatives to twisps he would certainly have bought something else.
So I googled that night. And was amazed. And intrigued. And giddy with optimism. At something like 2am that morning, I pull the trigger in a Kanger Topbox Mini and 3 bottles of juice.
The rest is history. I had my last stinkie that week. Took me about a month before i got myself my first RDA and made my first coil. Another month to buy an RX200s and DIY juice supplies. I have not looked back and seeing that I took delivery of a Pharaoh and Serpent Mini today, I am definitely not stopping anytime soon. I passed my Kanger to my sister who also desperately wants to quit smoking. She went from great skepticism to asking me about technical things in a week. Another life turned around by one Kanger Topbox.
April this year, I had just finished a cigarette and walked back into the office and for some reason (divine intervention?) my sense of smell that I had lost 10 years ago briefly returned and I was gifted with a quick whiff of what I smelled like. I was disgusted. Utterly disgusted at what I smelled like, with my inability to stop smoking and with having made the choice to become a smoker in the first place 16 years ago.
A week or so later, a colleague of mine attended a training seminar and came back telling me about the vapers he had met and the impressive clouds they were blowing. Having been a twisper himself and finally giving up smoking all together, he noted that if he had known that there were alternatives to twisps he would certainly have bought something else.
So I googled that night. And was amazed. And intrigued. And giddy with optimism. At something like 2am that morning, I pull the trigger in a Kanger Topbox Mini and 3 bottles of juice.
The rest is history. I had my last stinkie that week. Took me about a month before i got myself my first RDA and made my first coil. Another month to buy an RX200s and DIY juice supplies. I have not looked back and seeing that I took delivery of a Pharaoh and Serpent Mini today, I am definitely not stopping anytime soon. I passed my Kanger to my sister who also desperately wants to quit smoking. She went from great skepticism to asking me about technical things in a week. Another life turned around by one Kanger Topbox.
If you think the full-sized Velocity is a good fit with the Pico, try the Mini! I got one on sale at Vaper's Corner for R199 and it is ace with the Pico. Often we equate quality with cost but I'm getting as good a vape off my Mini as I am off tanks that cost three times as much.
I got my eleaf ijust s today and it gets very hot on the mouth piece when I smoke. Am I doing something wrong? Also, it makes me cough a lot. Please help!!
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Hi Ronell,
The exact same thing happened to me. You are not doing anything wrong, just keep on going.
When I started I also coughed a lot. I think it is your lungs not being used to inhaling vapor in stead of smoke. I also cough when I go into a sauna. The moist air. It got a lot better after 3 to 5 days and was almost completely gone after 7 to 10 days. Please drink lots of water as vaping can dry your air passages and that can also make you cough.
In the beginning the temp of the vapor was also difficult to get used too. It was way too hot for me. It even felt like it was burning my lips and I also thought I was doing something wrong. I went to a 1.o ohm coil, reduced the watts to 25W and opened the airflow all the way. I know it is not recommended for the period when you are trying to restrict airflow to simulate the cigarette but it helped me. Higher resistance coils take longer to heat up.
I know it is not possible to adjust the power of the iJust, but maybe just going to a higher resistance coil and playing with the airflow.
I hope this helps.
Strongs
Hi @Vaponaut12 and belated welcome to the forum
Great thread you started
My starter experience was with the Green Smoke cigalike and the Twisp Clearo in Oct13. The Green Smoke wasnt bad but not enough. The Twisp Clearo got me off stinkies in 9 days. My cigarette intake declined rapidly from 25 a day to 15 to 10 to 5 to 1. I was having so much fun trying out all the Twisp liquids that on the 9th day I didnt need to have a cigarette. Could not believe it. But I was vaping those Clearos like there was no tomorrow! I had several going at once. Enjoyed the mixing of the different liquids and found the ones I liked.
Then a few months later after finding this forum and doing some research of about 10 devices available locally at that time
I got the Kanger mini protank 2. Then from there it was a few more similar tanks and then rebuildables. Then it gripped me like nothing else and I was hooked. Spent the next year trying so many devices and learning a lot about building coils and dicovering new juices.Am still learning and discovering. What a journey, what an experience. Never ends....
My vaping life started out with a Kanger Tech Evod. I absolutely loved the device. It gave me two years of solid service, it fell a thousand times and never gave up on me. Battery lasted just as long and never seemed to lose its life. Always was interested in a bigger device which could produce more clouds but the box mods were just out of my budget.
After two years on the EVOD, the Joytech Ego AIO was launched and it was my first vape purchase online. Unfortunately I HATED the Ego AIO, always gave me a dry hit. It was as temperamental as my wife and seemed like I had to tip toe around the AIO just so that it won’t give me a dry hit.
A month after purchasing the AIO an Uncle of mine gave me his Eleaf iStick Pico with the Melo III tank and I felt like I was in Vape heaven. The idea of building my own coils intrigued me so got a crius tank for my Pico. However leaking became an issue with the crius. So currently I’m running a TVF8 Baby beast on my Pico and I am LOVING it. I haven’t even tried out the Quad coil as yet, however I feel like I’m going to be looking for a new mod soon to be able to run the Quad Coil at the optimum wattage.
After two years on the EVOD, the Joytech Ego AIO was launched and it was my first vape purchase online. Unfortunately I HATED the Ego AIO, always gave me a dry hit. It was as temperamental as my wife and seemed like I had to tip toe around the AIO just so that it won’t give me a dry hit.
A month after purchasing the AIO an Uncle of mine gave me his Eleaf iStick Pico with the Melo III tank and I felt like I was in Vape heaven. The idea of building my own coils intrigued me so got a crius tank for my Pico. However leaking became an issue with the crius. So currently I’m running a TVF8 Baby beast on my Pico and I am LOVING it. I haven’t even tried out the Quad coil as yet, however I feel like I’m going to be looking for a new mod soon to be able to run the Quad Coil at the optimum wattage.
My vaping life started out with a Kanger Tech Evod. I absolutely loved the device. It gave me two years of solid service, it fell a thousand times and never gave up on me. Battery lasted just as long and never seemed to lose its life. Always was interested in a bigger device which could produce more clouds but the box mods were just out of my budget.
After two years on the EVOD, the Joytech Ego AIO was launched and it was my first vape purchase online. Unfortunately I HATED the Ego AIO, always gave me a dry hit. It was as temperamental as my wife and seemed like I had to tip toe around the AIO just so that it won’t give me a dry hit.
A month after purchasing the AIO an Uncle of mine gave me his Eleaf iStick Pico with the Melo III tank and I felt like I was in Vape heaven. The idea of building my own coils intrigued me so got a crius tank for my Pico. However leaking became an issue with the crius. So currently I’m running a TVF8 Baby beast on my Pico and I am LOVING it. I haven’t even tried out the Quad coil as yet, however I feel like I’m going to be looking for a new mod soon to be able to run the Quad Coil at the optimum wattage.
Welcome to the forum @cassimk
Big respect for that little soldier, the humble yet mighty Evod!
2 years of service is impressive
With the right juice that little Evod is a nimble yet delightful little flavour machine
I seldom leave the house without mine
Hey @Ronell, How are you?
I used to have the same issue with my iJust2
It's perfectly normal to use your new toy frequently, in fact too frequently, I made the same mistake! Try taking longer breaks between your drags as this allows the heat to dissipate better. I normally wait 15 - 30 seconds between each drag to allow the device and drip tip to cool down. If this doesn't work just wait a bit longer. Luckily it's not lit like a cigarette so you don't have to keep dragging...As for the coughing, it's perfectly normal, use that airflow control band to restrict airflow or else your taking direct lung hits which (initially) is quite a lot to handle. I took DTLs like a noob champion after 3 days... Took me a while to get used to it. As @SAVaper stated try a higher ohm coil, P(Watts) = V(Voltage)^2/ R(Resistance), therefore a higher ohm coil while reduce the wattage, correct me if i'm wrong, but i'm sure this will make it easier to handle?
Don't give up, it'll get better, trust me i know!
Happy Vaping
Thank You so much for the warm welcome!
I'm glad you're off the stinkies!
I know what you mean when you say it grips you, I've only been vaping for a few weeks now and i'm already doing research on my next possible setup!
The Pico actually looks quite tempting, with the melo 3 tank!
What would you suggest?
Happy Vaping!
Yup this is exactly my story the way you started... Greensmoke->Chinese Ego -> Twisp - > Something proper
The Pico with Melo 3 Mini tank is a fantastic setup indeed.
I like it because its small and compact.
The Melo 3 Mini gives a good vape with the supplied coil but I think the vape is better with the 0.6 ohm ceramic CCell coil, which I tried recently and it gives great flavour.
The Melo 3 Mini (for me) is not really aimed at mouth to lung vaping (like we smoked cigarettes) but more for a restricted lung hit.
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