My name is Dave, and I'm an addict, I have insomnia and mix at night. I have about 116 flavors by several different companies and have been know to extract flavors from spices.
I have a science and art background, so to me mixing was the perfect hobby. I don't sell juice, nor do I ever plan to. Mostly because I don't want to deal with the crooked assed government and the general public, two of my greatest pet peeves.
I was a flavorholic even back when I was smoking, I loved camel cigs because they put so many cool flavors out. I had repeatedly tried to quit over the years and had almost kicked the habit, when I got a job doing tech support of websites. What got me to quit originally where these old school 51's ecigs with removable atomizers and stick batteries, I just lowered the nic until I had no need to smoke.
However after working 12-16 hour days with idiots on the phone, pissed off about there shitty websites, I started smoking again with a passion. Eventually I was back to my 3 pack a day, camel menthol habit with a side of booze.
My daughter was having her birthday and when asked what she wanted she said she wanted me to quit smoking. So I went to the store because I had smoked my old 51 to death and hoped that they had something better with more vapor. That's when I got my first iTaste vv and CE2 and was instantly hooked. In the week that I got my first rechargeable vape, I stopped smoking completely (well besides weed). I noticed a lot of the flavors sucked ass, and tried to make my own juice, this was before premium juice was available in my state.
Originally I used Lorans flavorings, then by stalking HIC on ECF, I switched over to flavorart and learned how to mix. I have also incorporated a ton of other flavor companies into my mixing and have to say that I would not be a decent mixer if I hadn't had to learn to mix Lorann's and Flavourarts.