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Hello all,
I'm Shawn and I'm from Southern Maryland. I've been in the I.T. field for the last 10 years but into computers since the Commodore 64 and the Apple II series and I was an automotive and small engine mechanic before that for over 20 years. As a kid, I grew up around my uncle who is a mechanic, guitar player, electronics tech. and all around jack of all trades. So I decided to follow in his footsteps and I got into everything he was into. I'm the type of person who likes to dive head first into any cool hobby or interesting trade.
Now that the introduction is out of the way, I started vaping about a month and a half ago after smoking Marlboro Red's for the past 30 years. Since I have started vaping, I went from smoking a pack and a half of ciggs to maybe 4 a day and am continuing to ween myself completely off of them. (It's a proccess for me but I will quit smoking!)
I had quit a few times over the years but I always went back for some reason or another. (Insert Excuse here lol) And I tried those Blu "Cigalikes" and it just leaked e-juice everywhere. So I tried a generic gas station brand cigalike and it was horrible! So again, I went back to the ciggs and I swore off vaping after that. I had a friend who vaped the early Ego style pens and he tried to convince me to give vaping another try but I refused. Then a few months ago, I saw someone vaping on this really interesting looking device and the vapor smelled like donuts (Turned out to be an Eleaf iStick Pico) so I asked him about it and he explained what it was, how it worked and he told me about all the different types of e-juice, including the Loaded Glazed Donut e-juice he was vaping. So I decided to give vaping another try. I called around to a few local vape shops and the first shop wanted to sell me a mech mod as a "Starter Kit"! The next shop acted like I was a bother if I wasn't spending more than $200.00! So there again, I got discouraged. But I was sick of spending $14.00 a day for ciggs. So a few days later, I called the next local shop and they said they had no problems working with my initial budget of $40.00. I went in and not only were they super cool, but they treated my like family and they set me up with a Kanger Subvod Mega TC for $31.00 out the door including a free 6mg nic 30ml bottle of their house juice! I coughed and hacked for the first day or two, but I got the hang of it and now I'm hooked on this awesome life saving hobby! A week later, I went back and upgraded to an iStick 200w along with a free Buddha Zephyr RDA that was given to me by one of the shop employees. Which started me on my coil building journey that same week. Fast forward to today, and I've already built my first mod. A single 18650 with a mosfet for switch protection. It works great and was a lot of fun to build. I also have in my vape collection, a new Wismec Theorem, a Kanger RBA for my TopTank Mini (both were given to me by the awesome employees at my local vape shop) And I have a new Limitless RDTA Classic and one of the new Coil-Master V3 tool kits.
Since I started vaping, I feel a million times better, I have a ton of energy, I can taste things much better and my house now smells like a bakery / ice cream parlor instead of an old ash tray! And I'm down from 6mg nic to 3.
I had lurked around the forum for a while and so I decided to become a member and share this hobby with my fellow vaper's.
Cheers and happy vaping,
Shawn
I'm Shawn and I'm from Southern Maryland. I've been in the I.T. field for the last 10 years but into computers since the Commodore 64 and the Apple II series and I was an automotive and small engine mechanic before that for over 20 years. As a kid, I grew up around my uncle who is a mechanic, guitar player, electronics tech. and all around jack of all trades. So I decided to follow in his footsteps and I got into everything he was into. I'm the type of person who likes to dive head first into any cool hobby or interesting trade.
Now that the introduction is out of the way, I started vaping about a month and a half ago after smoking Marlboro Red's for the past 30 years. Since I have started vaping, I went from smoking a pack and a half of ciggs to maybe 4 a day and am continuing to ween myself completely off of them. (It's a proccess for me but I will quit smoking!)
I had quit a few times over the years but I always went back for some reason or another. (Insert Excuse here lol) And I tried those Blu "Cigalikes" and it just leaked e-juice everywhere. So I tried a generic gas station brand cigalike and it was horrible! So again, I went back to the ciggs and I swore off vaping after that. I had a friend who vaped the early Ego style pens and he tried to convince me to give vaping another try but I refused. Then a few months ago, I saw someone vaping on this really interesting looking device and the vapor smelled like donuts (Turned out to be an Eleaf iStick Pico) so I asked him about it and he explained what it was, how it worked and he told me about all the different types of e-juice, including the Loaded Glazed Donut e-juice he was vaping. So I decided to give vaping another try. I called around to a few local vape shops and the first shop wanted to sell me a mech mod as a "Starter Kit"! The next shop acted like I was a bother if I wasn't spending more than $200.00! So there again, I got discouraged. But I was sick of spending $14.00 a day for ciggs. So a few days later, I called the next local shop and they said they had no problems working with my initial budget of $40.00. I went in and not only were they super cool, but they treated my like family and they set me up with a Kanger Subvod Mega TC for $31.00 out the door including a free 6mg nic 30ml bottle of their house juice! I coughed and hacked for the first day or two, but I got the hang of it and now I'm hooked on this awesome life saving hobby! A week later, I went back and upgraded to an iStick 200w along with a free Buddha Zephyr RDA that was given to me by one of the shop employees. Which started me on my coil building journey that same week. Fast forward to today, and I've already built my first mod. A single 18650 with a mosfet for switch protection. It works great and was a lot of fun to build. I also have in my vape collection, a new Wismec Theorem, a Kanger RBA for my TopTank Mini (both were given to me by the awesome employees at my local vape shop) And I have a new Limitless RDTA Classic and one of the new Coil-Master V3 tool kits.
Since I started vaping, I feel a million times better, I have a ton of energy, I can taste things much better and my house now smells like a bakery / ice cream parlor instead of an old ash tray! And I'm down from 6mg nic to 3.
I had lurked around the forum for a while and so I decided to become a member and share this hobby with my fellow vaper's.
Cheers and happy vaping,
Shawn