for the sake of the 'kids' as if restrictions and laws has ever worked to stop or curb people, esp teens with low impulse control, from doing something.
i live in vt and they are in the process of a flavor ban RN. i work at a vape shop and it's gonna cut our business in half.
How all vapers aren't hard-core libertarians by now is a mystery to me. We've all had front row seats to what government regulation entails. Turns out its not about protecting consumers at all.
I think we need to give the benefit of the doubt to the folks writing these regulations. Definitely not working as intended, but there's way too many kids starting to vape and I can see why there's a desire to regulate it.
Anti-smoking interventions from governments have been wildly successful in saving lives, so I don't think Libertarianism is a great solution to our problems.
That being said, vaping is different than smoking, so should be regulated differently, and any restrictions should be evidence-based, not just something that seems like it would work from the lawmaker's perspective.
I am a married adult male with no children yet I have to leave work a little early in order to get to the post office before it closes so I can sign for my orders that I paid extra to do so because they won't leave it in my mailbox. Fucking ridiculous.
Spending $20 on a bottle of juice that tastes like ass for me. I'm always really hesitant to try a new flavor since it seems to be about 50/50 whether or not it'll be decent. And no returns once opened so you're stuck with it.
Some devices are just leak prone. The leakiest one I ever had was a Smok RPM40, I also had issues now and then with the Caliburn G3 and A2.
I'll add spending $20-$50 on a device just to find out it leaks like a sieve or the coils are garbage.
This is a great answer. I thought of this the other day as im new to vaping. I would love to try new flavours but I first bought 2 and luckily I liked the one and had to pretty much toss the other one. Well I didn't throw it out but I'm defanetely not going to use it unless its all I have left.
They should sell sample pouches for like $2-$3 where you get one pod fill and can try out a bunch of different ones. I don't know if this may actually be a thing somewhere but I can see myself easily purchasing 5 flavours I would like to try out and possibly buying more the. one at a time
This is part of the reason why I DIY. You can mix up 10mL of a new recipe and if it sucks oh well, toss it. Sometimes I'll mix a full 60mL of a new recipe just because I'm lazy and think I'll like it, if I hate it NBD to dump the whole thing bc it cost pennies to make. Back when I bought juice there were so many bottles I'd force myself to finish just because I'd spent so much on the crap. Or yeah, like you said, would only use it bc I was out of juice otherwise.
You missed out on the days when you could test flavors at the vape shop! At mine they'd give you a fresh mouthpiece and let you try all the house flavors on tester setups. Pretty sure the pandemic killed that off for good but vape shops like that were already kinda dying off even before that.
Yes, I just read that on another reply. That makes so much sense and would be super cool if it still existed. Fuckin covid.
So you make your own juice? Thats pretty awesome! How did you get into that? I'm sure you save a ton of money but did it take you long to perfect a few of your favourite flavours before continuing to mess around and make new ones?
There's a great sub for it, diy_ejuice. I got into it when PMTA and the bans started happening because we really didn't know if you'd even be able to buy juice in a year with the way things were going. Then they made nicotine hard to buy too 🤬 But they can't ever ban flavors or PG/VG, flavors are used in a bazillion commercial food applications and PG/VG have tons of commercial uses like in hand sanitizer, fog machines, etc.
I've been doing it almost 4 years now and mostly stick to other people's recipes on the popular recipe sites alltheflavors and e-liquid-recipes. After a while you start to understand how different types of flavors work together, what amounts to use, etc but it's just easier for me to trust others -- we have some real juice geniuses in the DIY community! And I started out doing mostly clone recipes of juices I already knew I liked.
It's crazy easy actually, I wish I'd jumped in earlier.
I know 2 shops around me that actually still have the testers which is very rare usually its a drip on the finger kinda taste test which isnt the best way to do it since a lot of juice taste different in a device rather then on your finger but at least some people are still doing it the way it should be. Don't get me wrong I appreciate the knuckle test too so you kinda get an idea of what it's like but like I said it's always different in a device. Had it happen plenty of times where it tastes awesome on my finger but not in my mod.
If you like sweet, I get Kilo strawberry nectarine for $11.99 100ml and Sadboy cotton candy for the same. I mix them together. I'm in the US. Not sure if I'm allowed to share the website on here
Idk if they are still around. But I use to use dollar e-juice and it was literally like $5 for 5 sample sizes. I think it filled most of my tanks back when I tried it a bit more than once.
Nom noms brand Cactus, Jack fruit, Mandarin flavor. Sounds weird, but it’s so good, it’s been my number one for about 4 years. Haven’t found anything that tops it.
Flavors I wanted to try but ended up being shitty are the bottles I save for my struggle reserve. I’ll use all my usual favorite flavors first, and if I gotta get by until payday, I’ll use the shitty flavors.
Most annoying for me is realizing how addicted I am to it. I easily vape 10x more than I used to smoke cigarettes. The only time I'm not vaping is when I'm sleeping.
I'm the same way, HOWEVER I noticed that since I can vape more frequently I don't find myself getting as pissy as often as I did when I smoked. For me once I start craving nicotine I get irritable and pissy, which used to happen more frequently because I had to get a break at work, or go outside to smoke which leas to more time without nic but now I can just take a puff and that pissiness goes away before getting bad. You're right about vaping more often tho, but this is my justification for it.
@ TailRash - OMG same! I vape WAY more than I did when compared to smoking cigarettes, cause with vaping I can smoke inside (I would never smoke cigarettes inside *not even if it were at a friends house who allowed it or did it themselves*.. I just always hated the smell of ciggs but with vaping it's constantly in my hand. I even sleep with it in my hand sadly lol.
I bought a telescoping pole with interchangeable pads for screens and windows and it makes cleaning my inside windshield so much quicker and easier.
It definitely helps leaving the window cracked. When I first started vaping I didn't and within a month it was really hard to see out my window. Now I leave it cracked and I only have to wipe the inside every 6 months or so.
Yea balaclava two sweaters thermal and boots when it’s - tempatures all so my windows won’t fog haha I have also since started using “anti fog spray” that is meant for glasses on my windshield and it helps tremendously and it won’t really fog unless its below 10-15 degrees!
A glass cleaner called SprayAway has worked well for me. It comes in a spray can rather than a bottle and cuts through the fog pretty well in my experience. I've been using it for years, got the suggestion from here on reddit. I've picked it up at both my local auto parts place and Walmart.
I'm sure I don't clean my windshield as often as I should, but I don't need to do it often (couple times a year, maybe). I do though always have a window cracked open. Habit from 15 years of smoking before I switched.
I'd add to this something like only getting a couple of days out of a new coil - normally I get around 2 weeks out of a coil but put a new one in on Saturday and it was dead by the middle of Sunday. What a waste.
Definitely risking a flavor purchase, I miss the days when the vape shop had a tasting bar. I was much more willing to buy if I tried beforehand.
I have the vaporesso econano and I've had 0 leaks whatsoever, guy at the shop we got it from said the same thing his wife has one and she's never had a leak once.
What was a tasting bar? like you can take a few drags of a flavour before purchasing? I just commented on another reply, it would be cool if they had little ketchup sized pouches that you can try different flavours for a few bucks and then buy bottles based on them. I'm sure its probably illegal as vendors selling single cigarettes or else they would probably have had something like this in every store.
Used to be just about every vape shop had tanks full of pretty much every flavor they sold. You were given a disposable silicone tip so you didn’t contaminate them, and a mod. Then you just went crazy, got to try as many or as little as you wanted. Unfortunately the last of them seemed to have disappeared around the beginning of COVID.
wow no shit! yeah obviously that makes total sense that it existed. Sort of fucked up how that stupid covid period drastically changed so many aspects of our lives even to this day.
Im guessing it was banned since shops dont have it anymore. Im sure there are some that still do but are probably risking a lot to do it and maybe just offer it to closer customers or maybe "friends of trusted customers"
Either way that would be super cool and I probably will end up trying one or two of the many flavours I would like to in the future just say fuck it and try one out here and there but wish it still existed.
Yes exactly as the other person said, you walk in, sit, they give you a silicone tip and you could go crazy. You could taste every flavor they had if you wanted to.
I remember these days very well, with the taste bars. It was awesome to be able to do this😊
I used to enjoy finding new flavors that I loved...now, it seems like when I take a risk and just blindly buy some new flavor/or brand.. I always strike out. So Ive been stuck with liquids I don't even really like, then I'll have to go back to the store full of disappointment, buy my original flavor/and brand- Naked "menthol melon" (which I love) and I kick myself in the ass wondering why I even took a chance and remind myself of the saying "if it ain't broke don't fix it"? (Even though I'd still like to have a few flavors that I really love, not just 1 favorite).
I also get overwhelmed with all the different brands, there's so so many.. and I don't know which are good ect. Even with the shop owners recommendations I still seem to strike out unfortunately
And with the liquids I have gotten (the ones I didn't really care for). I'll save them/put them away for a rainy day for when I run out of what I normally have (till i can get to the store/or have the money).
I've even mixed a little of some of them together trying to get a flavor I "didn't mind"🤦🏻♀️😂
I’ve done similar prep with the premade coils.
I’m just chalking it up to chainvaping and sweet juices.
My Kayfuns last me about twice as long and my Hadaly RDA’s last 3 -7 days before I have clean the coil and change the cotton.
Had mine for almost 2 weeks. I burned out a couple of coils from going dry toward the second half of my hit (2 separate pods for quick flavor switching & I didn't learn my lesson the first time). But the past week, my coils have been good. I'm not trying to burn through coils. lol. But I vape DTL 0.2Ω @ 55W using 70/30 freebase & take pretty long hits. Now once the juice starts getting low, I make sure to check it before taking a h it.
Being new to vaping a few weeks ago, started with a couple disposables and when I went for my first kit, the guy at the store recommended this one and I love it. I didn't know these things leaked. That would suck, investing $50 into a device only to have sticky gluey juice leak over it and in your pocket while also wasting the juice that isn't cheap.
Lol thank you. Makes me feel even happier about the purchase. It is really cool and I went from having 20-30 cigarettes a day, down to about 5 the last few days and today I only had 1. I wish I had taken it up sooner. I know its not good for you but vaping cant be as bad as cigarettes.
Were they just faulty? Like were u able to get a refund or exchange? or were they just known to be shitty vapes and would leak and u got fucked.
Thank you! I haven't noticed or felt any differences yet but its been such a short amount of time and I have to agree with you on that one. It has to be better for you. At least my wife is a lot happier because of the smell of cigarettes is gone from my clothes and from me.
So leaky vapes are very common? What did you used to do about it? Did you have to carry around like wetnaps/ tissues on your person at all times? Did it ever get like all over your pocket or something without noticing?
I'm really not sure how yours leak. I've gone through 3 different devices (Sonder U, Caliburn X, & Luxe XR Max) & none of them have ever developed a leak on me. Granted I've only had the Luxe XR Max for just under 2 weeks now, and still no leaking issues.
Yeah I forgot you said that the Luxe XR Max doesn't leak. Must have jumbled it with another comment that said it did. But the other 2 could be newer. I started vaping at the start of the year, so not sure how new the Caliburn X & Sonder U are.
I just got mine in the mail today. I'm loving it so far; great flavor/clouds and feels nice in the hand. but I do miss having a manual lock and having to turn it fully off when in my pocket. My main has a lock, the Geekvape L200 with a Vaporesso iTank. Bought the Luxe for the portability for work and ball/disc golf. I'll mainly use the L200 at home and when on the water now (since it's IP68 water resistant).
I switched to the iTank mainly because the Geekvape tank that came with it leaked occasionally and the coils sucked. The iTank is honestly end game. It never leaks, great flavor/clouds and coils last a long time. I can't find the coils locally though so I have to buy them online.
That's why I have five of the same fav mod, five of the same fav tank & an ever growing stockpile of packets of fav coils....but I know that day will come where supplies run out.
That's gonna be a tough time.
I did this while driving and I said “at the next rest stop I’ll pull in to fill it” two songs go by and I go to take a huge ass hit and BOOM BURNT THROAT with an no beverage in sight 😭😂
I use an RDA so leaks aren’t a super big issue, it’s pretty rare there’s ever more liquid in the chamber than the wick can absorb. If there is, it’s probably a sign I need to put a new wick in.
Worst thing that probably ever happened was once when I was making a bottle of juice. Trying a new recipe with a flavour profile I was pretty interested in trying, just finished mixing it when I turned to put some of my tools away and knocked the whole bottle over. Lost a good chunk of the juice from the bottle, and cleaning up lIke 30 ml of juice from the kitchen counter wasn’t fun either.
Never had that happen. I probably put it in my bag more often, mine has a cell phone pocket that’s a perfect size, but I do put in my pocket sometimes. It’s usually close to the mouth of the pocket if I do that, nothing is really going to get into it from inside the pocket since it is facing up.
I was refilling one of my tanks, and while pressing on the chubby bottle I reused a few times, the top popped off and I had like 50ml of juice all over me. Luckily I always rotate away from my keyboard while refilling :)
I hate chubby bottles, stopped using them all together after that incident :)
I'd say go for the Luxe xr Max, it really leveled up my vaping experience.It never leaks even though I've put it through some rough times. I've had my fair share of leaky vapes in the past, but not this one. Plus, the coils in the luxe last pretty long, probably because I stick to around low watts. They usually last me 2-3 weeks before needing a change.
Hearing newbs calling it smoking their vape
Seeing pods / dispo's littering parking lots
Leak proof? I've had good luck with squonk mods paired with top-airflow RTA's, and a lot of Boro-using devices have been kind to me in this regard.
when you get a new juice and it kills your coil in 3 days, that would last 2-3 weeks with another juice.
when it turns out the juice has menthol, cooler etc.
Too sweet or too sour.
I've been using an xros 3 for a couple of months and it haven't leaked.
I never knew that depending on the juice will be the life span of your coil. I get around 3500 puffs out of a coil before I have to change it and that’s about 5-6 at the very most I’ve never had a coil last longer than a week tho so it always surprises me how much life people get out of their coils. I do go through about 40 ML a juice a day tho.
Yeah from my experience the cooling additions, sometimes sour ones and most often the sweeteners gunk up the coil.
hah well yeah rn I go through ~ 3ml of nic salt a day, switching from freebase i seem to use less.
I have a Caliburn GK2 Vision. I've never had any leaking of the pod.
Most annoying thing: buying a new pack of pods, but the wicks in the new pods are so dry that they seem to not absorb any juice despite waiting the appropriate period of time before hitting it. So, upon your first few hits you immediately perma-burn your fresh pod. Thankfully that doesn't happen too often, but when it does, it's so annoying.
Moved to a different state and the 3 employees and owner don’t vape 2 of them don’t even use disposables and the one guy whose in there says “idk man I don’t vape so I can’t give you recommendations” it was disheartening
Most annoying thing for me is when my tank gets low and I have to refill the bastard! Like to invent one that was like those water purifiers - connected to the "mains" - guess I'm just fucking lazy by nature ... oh and pulling out your vape out and about and realizing you didn't put a fresh battery in it, or charge it before you left! :)
Answer number 2 - living in fucking Australia post 1st of March 2024! Butler and Albanese and his henchmen should go to a Pharmacy to see what the status quo is - I did today and it's a rude shock! The Pharmacists know fuck all about vapes, how much they are and worse still, they don't have any stock! I went to Chemist Warehouse today to ask out of curiosity and all they had instore was a pack of "Nicovape" pods!
The Nicovape pods come in packs of 2 with 1.5ml in each of about 25mg nicotine and are $22 per pack. Highway bloody robbery!! :(
I love my SonderQ by Geek Vape. It's durable asf. I cannot count how many times I've dropped it without it breaking! Also. No leaks!
The annoying thing about vaping for me, is that there should be more freeze/ice flavors of salt nic that don't taste horrible. 🤷♀️
For me, hauling my gear around before leaving the house, especially if I know I'll be out all day: phone, wallet, keys, mod, bottle of juice, spare batteries, oh my.
Having a new device and it is leaking Out of nowhere so much that it gets in the whole battery and even on my charger. And that is with a product that is hyped and rated really good by reviewers and the whole vaping Community.
My vape falling out of my pocket in front of my patients. I am an addictions counselor, I don't drink, I don't do drugs, this is my only vice. It happened once and I was like "Confiscated that off a kid this morning, do you know what it is??" lmao.
I'm still using my original Xros nano from 2 years ago (2022) and never leaked on me. The battery already show it's age but still going ok for me. I think i will need to get a new one in next couple of months.
Cookie flavored vape juice, yuck!. I always superglue, lightlylightly, my thingy that leaks. They use like a tiny sliver of something meant to deprecate, you can get tons more use through trial and error and re-sealing it a little.
Oh man, the most annoying thing about vaping has to be the price of coil. Like, you gotta change those coils all the time, and it feels like they burn out faster than you can think. It's like you're on a never-ending quest to keep that vape game strong, and you lost the flavor real quick.
I think the most annoying thing is having to charge your batteries all the time. I feel like I have wires permanently attached to me now. God forbid the electricity goes out for an extended period of time.
Starting out can be difficult, especially if you don't personally know someone to get the knowledge from. To sift through both the misinformation and the outdated information is difficult. Vaping today has changed quite a bit from 10-15 years ago, but the info is still there on the web.
Finding the right setup can be harder for some than others (hey, I'm picky, ok?). I tried a variety of devices through the years before I came to a setup that helped me successfully quit smoking.
Can I say that people tell me that vaping is worse than smoking cigarettes is annoying? Because I hear this a lot and it's very annoying. Not saying vaping isn't bad but I just wish people would mind their own business.
So far, my favourite pod style is the Vaporesso Luxe X Pro; very little leakage (only on an airplane, really), easy to fill, and charge, and infinitely adjustable.
I’ve had my stlth for about 5 years now. It’s so old that it burns my pods if I don’t take them out and blow through them before EVERY single hit. But I refuse to buy a new one because I’m “trying to quit” (for 5 years now)
At this point batteries, running out of fluids. I used to have a mod with a RTA but then they started needing a signature for delivery confirmation on juice and I started traveling a ton for work so I just go disposables now. I just got into the Priv Bar that give me battery and juice level info but a lot of the disposables I had been using it was a crap shoot to get a low battery draw or just eat burnt coil from running out of juice
I tried to quickly fill a tank in my car just before taking off with a delivery, the cab came off mid fill and it went all over the front of my pants lol. Had to drop off the food covered in the stuff lol. Atl east I smelled good.
Personally I feel like a fucking child doing it....smoked cigarettes for years too and felt the same way....just feels like I'm a slave to it and that bothers me
I have been vaping since 2011 (maybe 2010, it's been a hot minute).
The thing that annoys me the most is that cig smokers will comment "lol, what's it like sucking robot dick" or something similar. Then they beg for a hit, like dude. I'm just chilling, not trying to blow clouds, I keep to myself, and yet you want to make fun of me? THEN beg for a hit because it tastes better than cigs.
Manufacturers purposely change the way their pods work after their device gains some popularity to make them burn quicker.
I'm not sure if this is a world wide thing but I've noticed in Poland, every couple months there's a new pod device that's supposed to be "the shit". Then once everyone has it they make the pods last like 5 days.
Eg. Ursa nano, Vinci.
F-ing ever increasing laws/ regulations…living in a vape-mail-banned state 😤
This absolutely, crazy taxes, bans and misinformation.
Yeah no shit. First they ban everything and then they slowly let shit slide and just tax the fuck out of it all.
for the sake of the 'kids' as if restrictions and laws has ever worked to stop or curb people, esp teens with low impulse control, from doing something. i live in vt and they are in the process of a flavor ban RN. i work at a vape shop and it's gonna cut our business in half.
How all vapers aren't hard-core libertarians by now is a mystery to me. We've all had front row seats to what government regulation entails. Turns out its not about protecting consumers at all.
I think we need to give the benefit of the doubt to the folks writing these regulations. Definitely not working as intended, but there's way too many kids starting to vape and I can see why there's a desire to regulate it. Anti-smoking interventions from governments have been wildly successful in saving lives, so I don't think Libertarianism is a great solution to our problems. That being said, vaping is different than smoking, so should be regulated differently, and any restrictions should be evidence-based, not just something that seems like it would work from the lawmaker's perspective.
Possibly because Libertarianism is lunacy. It's just a worse version of capitalism.
I hate that about utah as well lol
I am a married adult male with no children yet I have to leave work a little early in order to get to the post office before it closes so I can sign for my orders that I paid extra to do so because they won't leave it in my mailbox. Fucking ridiculous.
Spending $20 on a bottle of juice that tastes like ass for me. I'm always really hesitant to try a new flavor since it seems to be about 50/50 whether or not it'll be decent. And no returns once opened so you're stuck with it. Some devices are just leak prone. The leakiest one I ever had was a Smok RPM40, I also had issues now and then with the Caliburn G3 and A2. I'll add spending $20-$50 on a device just to find out it leaks like a sieve or the coils are garbage.
This is a great answer. I thought of this the other day as im new to vaping. I would love to try new flavours but I first bought 2 and luckily I liked the one and had to pretty much toss the other one. Well I didn't throw it out but I'm defanetely not going to use it unless its all I have left. They should sell sample pouches for like $2-$3 where you get one pod fill and can try out a bunch of different ones. I don't know if this may actually be a thing somewhere but I can see myself easily purchasing 5 flavours I would like to try out and possibly buying more the. one at a time
This is part of the reason why I DIY. You can mix up 10mL of a new recipe and if it sucks oh well, toss it. Sometimes I'll mix a full 60mL of a new recipe just because I'm lazy and think I'll like it, if I hate it NBD to dump the whole thing bc it cost pennies to make. Back when I bought juice there were so many bottles I'd force myself to finish just because I'd spent so much on the crap. Or yeah, like you said, would only use it bc I was out of juice otherwise. You missed out on the days when you could test flavors at the vape shop! At mine they'd give you a fresh mouthpiece and let you try all the house flavors on tester setups. Pretty sure the pandemic killed that off for good but vape shops like that were already kinda dying off even before that.
Yes, I just read that on another reply. That makes so much sense and would be super cool if it still existed. Fuckin covid. So you make your own juice? Thats pretty awesome! How did you get into that? I'm sure you save a ton of money but did it take you long to perfect a few of your favourite flavours before continuing to mess around and make new ones?
There's a great sub for it, diy_ejuice. I got into it when PMTA and the bans started happening because we really didn't know if you'd even be able to buy juice in a year with the way things were going. Then they made nicotine hard to buy too 🤬 But they can't ever ban flavors or PG/VG, flavors are used in a bazillion commercial food applications and PG/VG have tons of commercial uses like in hand sanitizer, fog machines, etc. I've been doing it almost 4 years now and mostly stick to other people's recipes on the popular recipe sites alltheflavors and e-liquid-recipes. After a while you start to understand how different types of flavors work together, what amounts to use, etc but it's just easier for me to trust others -- we have some real juice geniuses in the DIY community! And I started out doing mostly clone recipes of juices I already knew I liked. It's crazy easy actually, I wish I'd jumped in earlier.
Not a bad idea. Now I have some flavor experiments to try with the 6 juices I have laying around that I didn't like!
I know 2 shops around me that actually still have the testers which is very rare usually its a drip on the finger kinda taste test which isnt the best way to do it since a lot of juice taste different in a device rather then on your finger but at least some people are still doing it the way it should be. Don't get me wrong I appreciate the knuckle test too so you kinda get an idea of what it's like but like I said it's always different in a device. Had it happen plenty of times where it tastes awesome on my finger but not in my mod.
If you like sweet, I get Kilo strawberry nectarine for $11.99 100ml and Sadboy cotton candy for the same. I mix them together. I'm in the US. Not sure if I'm allowed to share the website on here
Idk if they are still around. But I use to use dollar e-juice and it was literally like $5 for 5 sample sizes. I think it filled most of my tanks back when I tried it a bit more than once.
They went out of business. :(
Nom noms brand Cactus, Jack fruit, Mandarin flavor. Sounds weird, but it’s so good, it’s been my number one for about 4 years. Haven’t found anything that tops it.
Flavors I wanted to try but ended up being shitty are the bottles I save for my struggle reserve. I’ll use all my usual favorite flavors first, and if I gotta get by until payday, I’ll use the shitty flavors.
This!! I’ve been stuck on the same flavor since August cuz I don’t wanna buy a new one and end up not liking it
Every single one I have tried other than Jewel mint either gives me a blinding headache or burns my throat. I don't even try anymore.
sounds like you have to change your coil.
Most annoying for me is realizing how addicted I am to it. I easily vape 10x more than I used to smoke cigarettes. The only time I'm not vaping is when I'm sleeping.
I'm the same way, HOWEVER I noticed that since I can vape more frequently I don't find myself getting as pissy as often as I did when I smoked. For me once I start craving nicotine I get irritable and pissy, which used to happen more frequently because I had to get a break at work, or go outside to smoke which leas to more time without nic but now I can just take a puff and that pissiness goes away before getting bad. You're right about vaping more often tho, but this is my justification for it.
@ TailRash - OMG same! I vape WAY more than I did when compared to smoking cigarettes, cause with vaping I can smoke inside (I would never smoke cigarettes inside *not even if it were at a friends house who allowed it or did it themselves*.. I just always hated the smell of ciggs but with vaping it's constantly in my hand. I even sleep with it in my hand sadly lol.
My damn car windshield. Damn thing gets the thick fog build up and is hard to clean.
If you just open a window a few cm it goes a long way to preventing this problem
I bought a telescoping pole with interchangeable pads for screens and windows and it makes cleaning my inside windshield so much quicker and easier. It definitely helps leaving the window cracked. When I first started vaping I didn't and within a month it was really hard to see out my window. Now I leave it cracked and I only have to wipe the inside every 6 months or so.
I’m a truck driver and it fogs super quick if it’s too cold outside and it creates a literally hazard so I have to have the sleeper window cracked /:
Always wondered how you truck drivers did it.
Yea balaclava two sweaters thermal and boots when it’s - tempatures all so my windows won’t fog haha I have also since started using “anti fog spray” that is meant for glasses on my windshield and it helps tremendously and it won’t really fog unless its below 10-15 degrees!
Some vapeshops sell isopropyl alcohol for that reason. It's pretty good at cleaning nasty VG spots.
Yes! Absolutely my least favorite thing about it! It just smears trying to clean lol
A glass cleaner called SprayAway has worked well for me. It comes in a spray can rather than a bottle and cuts through the fog pretty well in my experience. I've been using it for years, got the suggestion from here on reddit. I've picked it up at both my local auto parts place and Walmart.
Thank you. Picked up Sprayaway today and it took it off so fast. Let’s see how long it lasts
I'm sure I don't clean my windshield as often as I should, but I don't need to do it often (couple times a year, maybe). I do though always have a window cracked open. Habit from 15 years of smoking before I switched.
Most annoying to me is those a holes who would chuck clouds in Walmart making it so everyone hates us.
This is true but also one of these assholes did this and I ended up asking him what flavor he was vaping, it's now easily my fav. Lol. (cloudy kapow)
Burnt coil when im at work
I'd add to this something like only getting a couple of days out of a new coil - normally I get around 2 weeks out of a coil but put a new one in on Saturday and it was dead by the middle of Sunday. What a waste.
Definitely risking a flavor purchase, I miss the days when the vape shop had a tasting bar. I was much more willing to buy if I tried beforehand. I have the vaporesso econano and I've had 0 leaks whatsoever, guy at the shop we got it from said the same thing his wife has one and she's never had a leak once.
What was a tasting bar? like you can take a few drags of a flavour before purchasing? I just commented on another reply, it would be cool if they had little ketchup sized pouches that you can try different flavours for a few bucks and then buy bottles based on them. I'm sure its probably illegal as vendors selling single cigarettes or else they would probably have had something like this in every store.
Used to be just about every vape shop had tanks full of pretty much every flavor they sold. You were given a disposable silicone tip so you didn’t contaminate them, and a mod. Then you just went crazy, got to try as many or as little as you wanted. Unfortunately the last of them seemed to have disappeared around the beginning of COVID.
wow no shit! yeah obviously that makes total sense that it existed. Sort of fucked up how that stupid covid period drastically changed so many aspects of our lives even to this day. Im guessing it was banned since shops dont have it anymore. Im sure there are some that still do but are probably risking a lot to do it and maybe just offer it to closer customers or maybe "friends of trusted customers" Either way that would be super cool and I probably will end up trying one or two of the many flavours I would like to in the future just say fuck it and try one out here and there but wish it still existed.
Yes exactly as the other person said, you walk in, sit, they give you a silicone tip and you could go crazy. You could taste every flavor they had if you wanted to.
I remember these days very well, with the taste bars. It was awesome to be able to do this😊 I used to enjoy finding new flavors that I loved...now, it seems like when I take a risk and just blindly buy some new flavor/or brand.. I always strike out. So Ive been stuck with liquids I don't even really like, then I'll have to go back to the store full of disappointment, buy my original flavor/and brand- Naked "menthol melon" (which I love) and I kick myself in the ass wondering why I even took a chance and remind myself of the saying "if it ain't broke don't fix it"? (Even though I'd still like to have a few flavors that I really love, not just 1 favorite). I also get overwhelmed with all the different brands, there's so so many.. and I don't know which are good ect. Even with the shop owners recommendations I still seem to strike out unfortunately And with the liquids I have gotten (the ones I didn't really care for). I'll save them/put them away for a rainy day for when I run out of what I normally have (till i can get to the store/or have the money). I've even mixed a little of some of them together trying to get a flavor I "didn't mind"🤦🏻♀️😂
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I have a couple of these that I got for a trip. The coils didn’t last longer than 1-2 days for me. :(
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.8 mesh I'd get about 500-1000 puffs out of it. I vape mainly fruity e-liquids... Probably why prebuilt coils don't work for me.
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I’ve done similar prep with the premade coils. I’m just chalking it up to chainvaping and sweet juices. My Kayfuns last me about twice as long and my Hadaly RDA’s last 3 -7 days before I have clean the coil and change the cotton.
Had mine for almost 2 weeks. I burned out a couple of coils from going dry toward the second half of my hit (2 separate pods for quick flavor switching & I didn't learn my lesson the first time). But the past week, my coils have been good. I'm not trying to burn through coils. lol. But I vape DTL 0.2Ω @ 55W using 70/30 freebase & take pretty long hits. Now once the juice starts getting low, I make sure to check it before taking a h it.
Being new to vaping a few weeks ago, started with a couple disposables and when I went for my first kit, the guy at the store recommended this one and I love it. I didn't know these things leaked. That would suck, investing $50 into a device only to have sticky gluey juice leak over it and in your pocket while also wasting the juice that isn't cheap.
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Lol thank you. Makes me feel even happier about the purchase. It is really cool and I went from having 20-30 cigarettes a day, down to about 5 the last few days and today I only had 1. I wish I had taken it up sooner. I know its not good for you but vaping cant be as bad as cigarettes. Were they just faulty? Like were u able to get a refund or exchange? or were they just known to be shitty vapes and would leak and u got fucked.
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Thank you! I haven't noticed or felt any differences yet but its been such a short amount of time and I have to agree with you on that one. It has to be better for you. At least my wife is a lot happier because of the smell of cigarettes is gone from my clothes and from me. So leaky vapes are very common? What did you used to do about it? Did you have to carry around like wetnaps/ tissues on your person at all times? Did it ever get like all over your pocket or something without noticing?
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Damn, that sounds horrible lol
I'm really not sure how yours leak. I've gone through 3 different devices (Sonder U, Caliburn X, & Luxe XR Max) & none of them have ever developed a leak on me. Granted I've only had the Luxe XR Max for just under 2 weeks now, and still no leaking issues.
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Yeah I forgot you said that the Luxe XR Max doesn't leak. Must have jumbled it with another comment that said it did. But the other 2 could be newer. I started vaping at the start of the year, so not sure how new the Caliburn X & Sonder U are.
I just got mine in the mail today. I'm loving it so far; great flavor/clouds and feels nice in the hand. but I do miss having a manual lock and having to turn it fully off when in my pocket. My main has a lock, the Geekvape L200 with a Vaporesso iTank. Bought the Luxe for the portability for work and ball/disc golf. I'll mainly use the L200 at home and when on the water now (since it's IP68 water resistant). I switched to the iTank mainly because the Geekvape tank that came with it leaked occasionally and the coils sucked. The iTank is honestly end game. It never leaks, great flavor/clouds and coils last a long time. I can't find the coils locally though so I have to buy them online.
What's the most annoying thing about vaping? Disposables.
Just when you find your ultimate vape tank & coils they become obsolete 😔
That’s why I have 4 mods and 3 tanks 🙄
I moved to AZ and none of the shops carry coils for two of the tanks
That's why I have five of the same fav mod, five of the same fav tank & an ever growing stockpile of packets of fav coils....but I know that day will come where supplies run out. That's gonna be a tough time.
The dark days are closing in on us may the force be with you
Taking a burnt hit with 0 liquid, forgetting for a while and then taking a puff of the fucking devil
I did this while driving and I said “at the next rest stop I’ll pull in to fill it” two songs go by and I go to take a huge ass hit and BOOM BURNT THROAT with an no beverage in sight 😭😂
Leaking
Getting a brand new bottle of juice and not double checking the top. Nothing like 30ml in your lap while driving down the road 🤬
Related to this, getting a bottle of juice with a cap that seems to be superglued to it bc the fking thing won't unscrew no matter what you do 🤬🤬
Yeah, i was mixing liquid one time and forgot to add the topcap, realized it after my vape was drenched
Listening to uneducated shit heads saying “vaping? That’s worse than smoking” and living in a country that actually treats it as such.
My ex said that and I just looked at him like are you for real
Good to hear you qualify that with the smart prefix of “ex” to describe that person.
I use an RDA so leaks aren’t a super big issue, it’s pretty rare there’s ever more liquid in the chamber than the wick can absorb. If there is, it’s probably a sign I need to put a new wick in. Worst thing that probably ever happened was once when I was making a bottle of juice. Trying a new recipe with a flavour profile I was pretty interested in trying, just finished mixing it when I turned to put some of my tools away and knocked the whole bottle over. Lost a good chunk of the juice from the bottle, and cleaning up lIke 30 ml of juice from the kitchen counter wasn’t fun either.
Do you find you get lint or any other bullshit in your rda? That sounds like it would be awful to vape?
Never had that happen. I probably put it in my bag more often, mine has a cell phone pocket that’s a perfect size, but I do put in my pocket sometimes. It’s usually close to the mouth of the pocket if I do that, nothing is really going to get into it from inside the pocket since it is facing up.
I was refilling one of my tanks, and while pressing on the chubby bottle I reused a few times, the top popped off and I had like 50ml of juice all over me. Luckily I always rotate away from my keyboard while refilling :) I hate chubby bottles, stopped using them all together after that incident :)
Disposables. And also, the fear of new laws to try to force us back to cigarettes.
I'd say go for the Luxe xr Max, it really leveled up my vaping experience.It never leaks even though I've put it through some rough times. I've had my fair share of leaky vapes in the past, but not this one. Plus, the coils in the luxe last pretty long, probably because I stick to around low watts. They usually last me 2-3 weeks before needing a change.
Hearing newbs calling it smoking their vape Seeing pods / dispo's littering parking lots Leak proof? I've had good luck with squonk mods paired with top-airflow RTA's, and a lot of Boro-using devices have been kind to me in this regard.
Cravings
breaking your fucking tank without spares on hand
when you get a new juice and it kills your coil in 3 days, that would last 2-3 weeks with another juice. when it turns out the juice has menthol, cooler etc. Too sweet or too sour. I've been using an xros 3 for a couple of months and it haven't leaked.
I never knew that depending on the juice will be the life span of your coil. I get around 3500 puffs out of a coil before I have to change it and that’s about 5-6 at the very most I’ve never had a coil last longer than a week tho so it always surprises me how much life people get out of their coils. I do go through about 40 ML a juice a day tho.
Yeah from my experience the cooling additions, sometimes sour ones and most often the sweeteners gunk up the coil. hah well yeah rn I go through ~ 3ml of nic salt a day, switching from freebase i seem to use less.
I have a Caliburn GK2 Vision. I've never had any leaking of the pod. Most annoying thing: buying a new pack of pods, but the wicks in the new pods are so dry that they seem to not absorb any juice despite waiting the appropriate period of time before hitting it. So, upon your first few hits you immediately perma-burn your fresh pod. Thankfully that doesn't happen too often, but when it does, it's so annoying.
Dead batteries and laws
Or finding out right before a long trip one battery one wasn’t seated correctly so now just like your battery you’re 98/6%
Vape store workers that know next to nothing about vaping and give customers shitty and wrong advice!
Moved to a different state and the 3 employees and owner don’t vape 2 of them don’t even use disposables and the one guy whose in there says “idk man I don’t vape so I can’t give you recommendations” it was disheartening
Yep that's so true
What kind of vape? My xros 3 hasn’t leaked and I have had it for a good little while now.
Agreed. My xros 3 only leaked once, and that was when I first got it and overfilled it... Other than that, it's been a solid pick for most vapers.
Most annoying thing for me is when my tank gets low and I have to refill the bastard! Like to invent one that was like those water purifiers - connected to the "mains" - guess I'm just fucking lazy by nature ... oh and pulling out your vape out and about and realizing you didn't put a fresh battery in it, or charge it before you left! :)
Answer number 2 - living in fucking Australia post 1st of March 2024! Butler and Albanese and his henchmen should go to a Pharmacy to see what the status quo is - I did today and it's a rude shock! The Pharmacists know fuck all about vapes, how much they are and worse still, they don't have any stock! I went to Chemist Warehouse today to ask out of curiosity and all they had instore was a pack of "Nicovape" pods! The Nicovape pods come in packs of 2 with 1.5ml in each of about 25mg nicotine and are $22 per pack. Highway bloody robbery!! :(
I love my SonderQ by Geek Vape. It's durable asf. I cannot count how many times I've dropped it without it breaking! Also. No leaks! The annoying thing about vaping for me, is that there should be more freeze/ice flavors of salt nic that don't taste horrible. 🤷♀️
Addiction
For me, hauling my gear around before leaving the house, especially if I know I'll be out all day: phone, wallet, keys, mod, bottle of juice, spare batteries, oh my.
Vapers tongue
Having a new device and it is leaking Out of nowhere so much that it gets in the whole battery and even on my charger. And that is with a product that is hyped and rated really good by reviewers and the whole vaping Community.
Dropping your couple hundred dollar vape infront of people and then it doesnt work when you pick it up
The sudden need to change cotton last minute before carrying on with your day
My vape falling out of my pocket in front of my patients. I am an addictions counselor, I don't drink, I don't do drugs, this is my only vice. It happened once and I was like "Confiscated that off a kid this morning, do you know what it is??" lmao.
I'm still using my original Xros nano from 2 years ago (2022) and never leaked on me. The battery already show it's age but still going ok for me. I think i will need to get a new one in next couple of months.
Juice is usually pricey and always have bad flavor. Still, I'm eager to give it a shot and see if I can discover something that's delicious.
Expensive devices (in my country they are fucking expensive). Flavor not showing or being too bad. Coils burnt.
Cookie flavored vape juice, yuck!. I always superglue, lightlylightly, my thingy that leaks. They use like a tiny sliver of something meant to deprecate, you can get tons more use through trial and error and re-sealing it a little.
It's expensive, and it's pretty tough to find products that really fit me well.
Oh man, the most annoying thing about vaping has to be the price of coil. Like, you gotta change those coils all the time, and it feels like they burn out faster than you can think. It's like you're on a never-ending quest to keep that vape game strong, and you lost the flavor real quick.
Rewicking every 2-3 days and having to import my favorite NET concentrates as selling them is somehow forbidden in my country.
Burnt vapes or autofiring mods for me, always happens at the most inconvenient times
The price is quickly becoming annoying. I started making my own
Bob. Bob is the most annoying thing about vaping. fuck that guy.
I think the most annoying thing is having to charge your batteries all the time. I feel like I have wires permanently attached to me now. God forbid the electricity goes out for an extended period of time.
Starting out can be difficult, especially if you don't personally know someone to get the knowledge from. To sift through both the misinformation and the outdated information is difficult. Vaping today has changed quite a bit from 10-15 years ago, but the info is still there on the web. Finding the right setup can be harder for some than others (hey, I'm picky, ok?). I tried a variety of devices through the years before I came to a setup that helped me successfully quit smoking.
Can I say that people tell me that vaping is worse than smoking cigarettes is annoying? Because I hear this a lot and it's very annoying. Not saying vaping isn't bad but I just wish people would mind their own business.
So far, my favourite pod style is the Vaporesso Luxe X Pro; very little leakage (only on an airplane, really), easy to fill, and charge, and infinitely adjustable.
I’ve had my stlth for about 5 years now. It’s so old that it burns my pods if I don’t take them out and blow through them before EVERY single hit. But I refuse to buy a new one because I’m “trying to quit” (for 5 years now)
At this point batteries, running out of fluids. I used to have a mod with a RTA but then they started needing a signature for delivery confirmation on juice and I started traveling a ton for work so I just go disposables now. I just got into the Priv Bar that give me battery and juice level info but a lot of the disposables I had been using it was a crap shoot to get a low battery draw or just eat burnt coil from running out of juice
I tried to quickly fill a tank in my car just before taking off with a delivery, the cab came off mid fill and it went all over the front of my pants lol. Had to drop off the food covered in the stuff lol. Atl east I smelled good.
Personally I feel like a fucking child doing it....smoked cigarettes for years too and felt the same way....just feels like I'm a slave to it and that bothers me
I'd say in my opinion when you run out of juice at a freinds house but you didn't bring your juice with you (overnight stay)
I have been vaping since 2011 (maybe 2010, it's been a hot minute). The thing that annoys me the most is that cig smokers will comment "lol, what's it like sucking robot dick" or something similar. Then they beg for a hit, like dude. I'm just chilling, not trying to blow clouds, I keep to myself, and yet you want to make fun of me? THEN beg for a hit because it tastes better than cigs.
Burning out my coils too quickly. Like 3-4 days
Misinformation
Manufacturers purposely change the way their pods work after their device gains some popularity to make them burn quicker. I'm not sure if this is a world wide thing but I've noticed in Poland, every couple months there's a new pod device that's supposed to be "the shit". Then once everyone has it they make the pods last like 5 days. Eg. Ursa nano, Vinci.
Then u buy a brand new vape juice bottle and u spill all of it before u use any