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What was your very first e-cig?

SteveS45

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I started with the e-Cigs brand that looked just like a Marlboro until I switched to Logic's and that was how I quit along with the will to suffer through the withdrawals. Now using a MOD and DIY, trying to get my friends who smoke to have some incentive to quit. I was a smoker and understand where their heads are at but it only takes a little bit of interest by them to offer help on the path to quitting.
 

mattdarat

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My first was a cig a like. It was a cloud 9 rechargeable. I tried a bunch of cig a like and went back to analogs (this was before i knew a community existed) i want to say around 2006/7 then back in 2012 a friend had a ego twist 1300 mah vapage brand i tried it and ever since i have been a vapor with the occassional slip. I have to credit grimmgreen and pbusardo for getting me highly motivated on vaping and of course you guys for keeping me on track.

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pescadore

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vape pen to Vamo V5 with Nautilus to Kanger SubBox Mini Kit to several in between and now DNA200 board mods with RTA's and DIY Juice
 

GeekALiscious

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Volcano Inferno which I still use occasionally.

Started with Volcano Magma kit a long time ago. Then got the Inferno (but I'm horrified to pay so much for 3 atty heads) Stepped up to a Spinner and then VV3/MVP2 for a long time. Snake, do you know of any other sources for the Inferno heads besides directly from Volcano?
 
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Froggie1rw

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I picked up a Crown 7 cig-a-like in early 2011, just didn't do it and where I was living at the time didn't have any vape shops around that I knew of. Moved in late 2012 and found the ego ce4. Better but still didn't help that much. The atty's were expensive and leaked like crazy too. To that point I had not dropped the stinkies at all. Late 2015 tried again with a v2 pro series 3. Better but still smoking about 4 stinkies a day and I totally wanted to quit, not duel. December 31, 2015 I picked up the evic mini with mega one tank. I haven't had a cig since but I hated the tank, leaked and hard to tell how much was in the tank so I got me a cubis tank and love it. Then I decided I wanted something more powerful so I also now have an rx200 with a horizontech krixus on it. The evic mini/cubis setup great for on the go because it will not leak and the rx200/krixus for at home. And not a stinky in sight.
 
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snake94115

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Started with Volcano Magma kit a long time ago. Then got the Inferno (but I'm horrified to pay so much for 3 atty heads) Stepped up to a Spinner and then VV3/MVP2 for a long time. Snake, do you know of any other sources for the Inferno heads besides directly from Volcano?
Which tank do you have?
Pics would be helpful as they've made several versions.At least 4 that I know of.
 

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I have a couple of the older BVCs. I was physically comparing the bases, and they didn't look quite the same (the Inferno positive contact is much shorter.) I hadn't actually tried to install one - guess I'll play with that when I get home tonight! Thanks :)
 

DC2

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This was my travel setup nearly 7 years ago...

I'm pretty sure there was blue foam in them thar cartridges...
I'm also pretty sure that was Johnson Creek Tennessee Cured in that dripper bottle...

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gashadokuro

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My first e cig i can remember is the brand No. 7. I got a kit for me and my then gf and they worked pretty good. But the atomizer went out and i never bought a new one. I'd suggest that over a blu any day.
 

martnargh

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V2cigs. Still got the usb cable you could connect to your pc and connect it to a carto... pretty mean tech for its day hahaha. Went almost 2 years with these guys this was all i knew about vaping... it ended when they fucked up an order before a trip to colombia and i ended up smoking and decided to go into a vape shop for the first time. I was dripping less than 2 months after that point.

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snake94115

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I have a couple of the older BVCs. I was physically comparing the bases, and they didn't look quite the same (the Inferno positive contact is much shorter.) I hadn't actually tried to install one - guess I'll play with that when I get home tonight! Thanks :)
Just confirmed with Volcano their BVC's coils are proprietary.
 

snake94115

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This was my travel setup nearly 7 years ago...

I'm pretty sure there was blue foam in them thar cartridges...
I'm also pretty sure that was Johnson Creek Tennessee Cured in that dripper bottle...

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Johnson Creeks makes pretty good e-liquid
 

Azriel Mysterious

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Wow. This takes me back! I started with Blu. However it sucked and I couldn't quit smoking. I decided to give it another try after finding ECF and I got an ego. That did the trick and I have been vaping ever since. Just had my 5 Year Vaperversary the beginning of this month. ^.^
 

nightshard

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Ego-c X 2 kit.
I still use the box to hold some of my TFA flavors :)
 

Toronnah

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Joyetech 510 kit.

Then i graduated to a Joyetech eGo-T.

Then i discovered aftermarket tanks like the Evod that would work with the eGo batteries.

Then and istick with Nautilus and so on
 

Jimi D

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Cig-alike then went back to snus. Then roughed it out on a eGo kit. Boge Leo's were great little devices. They had a huge a coil in their atomizers.I enjoyed the bigger clouds from the Leo :D Then went to a Roughstack with dual coil cartomizers from Vapingzone. Those were my early devices. It took many years to finally choke on some vapor ! :giggle:
 

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My first vape is the one I use currently. It's a Kanger Topbox Nano. I got it about a week ago, and I love it.
 

xpen

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Started with this beauty, back in 2012
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It didn't work, but got me motivated to find better devices for the job, which I did.
It was the beginning of my vaping journey, respect to the elderly
 
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Spyg0at

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Prodigy V2 by Puresmoker, That was like 6 years ago..lol. had those god awful drip cartomizers.

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Chris'sClouds

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Very first was a Vuse e-cig that I found on the ground. Loved it, eventually got a real vape (IPV box)
 

LuvMyCole

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I had a 901 from EastMall in China. Still have but after 10 years it's dead as a doornail of course.
 

Henry Etta

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I wandered in to a B&M a couple of years ago after seeing some people around town smoking what looked to me like tiny hookahs. I sat down and sampled some of the hundred+ flavors they had, and knew instantly that it would work. I asked for a started kit, and the lady said I might as well buy something better, as I would for sure be upgrading. I walked out with a Smok Winder, Vivi Nova tank, and a few bottles of juice (pear, menthol, and cowboy tobacco). It cost $65! But I haven't smoked a cigarette since... and that lady was right. It didn't take me long to start really upgrading.
Crazy to think I spent $65 on an ego battery and a crappy clearo.
I went back to that same B&M a few weeks later to buy some more coils, and a worker there slipped me a piece of paper with "fasttech.com" written on it! :giggle:
 

outwest

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a DSE-901 cig-a-like. Fairly quickly gave up on the carts they used and started dripping. Used that for a couple of years. Still have some blank carts and several new batteries for it around here somewhere.
 

Severs

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My first was a cigalike from the Smoking Everywhere brand. What a piece of crap that was. I slowed down on smoking a little using that thing, but was never able to fully get off the analogs. Used it for about 3 months and then the kiosk at the mall I was buying my supplies from gave me the wrong cartridges and it was too far to go back and replace right away so I ended up just forgetting about the thing and went back to smoking. Then 3 or so years after that I got a Blu and tried again, and while it was a little more powerful, I could actually feel it a little, it still didn't have the oomph I needed to quit so I did that off and on for a few months, was down to 1 or 2 cigs a day but then the prices for its cartridges went up and I just said screw it again. Waited another couple of years and saw the more powerful ego that the tobacco shop in town was selling and decided to give it another go. Was able to drop cigs all together with it, although shortly there after I had to replace the battery because the shop was selling absolute crap that broke if you looked at it wrong.

Now it's a Cuboid mod and a Griffin tank for me. I did have a freakshow clone for a dripper, but it went to a home that needed it more than I. It's been just over 2 years, 3 months since I fully quit the analogs, and my lungs couldn't be happier.
 

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White Cloud disposables! The experience was so like smoking I *knew* immediately vaping would be the way I'd finally quit the cigs. Mission accomplished!

No way I could afford to stick with disposables, so I eventually moved to DIY. I still recommend White Cloud for ease of use and good flavors for people quitting cigs. They also have really high nic levels available, and that was vital for me.
 

DoctorJ

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Geesh, I started out by getting a V2 Starter Kit. Now I look back in wonder having since progressed to box mods and sub ohm tanks...what a journey!

2012:
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2013:
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Upgrade to VV

2014:
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First box mods

2015-present
THE SUB OHM REVOLUTION!!!
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cvcrcr99

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Mark 10 (shitty gas station cig a like by marlboro). Just got a free coupon in the mail for a mark 10 XL. Might just go pick it up because free and back up purposes.
 

avyrus666

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Blu disposable around 4 years ago...

Hated it...

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Rin Vapes

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The Frii starter system. (basically a Blu knock off) It was terrible. My first enjoyable ecig was the EGO
 

Jimi D

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A cig-alike back in 2009. Biggest piece of shit ! I went back to snus. Then a year later I bought an eGo with mega atomizers. Stuffed some blue foam, and vaped more than I used snus. The toughest part of vaping is when rebuildables first hit the scene. What a journey ! Today all these noobs have it made. The vaping industry did an outstanding job with innovation. :)
 

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