{"id":4428,"date":"2013-07-02T11:44:31","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T15:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/?p=4428"},"modified":"2016-03-24T09:42:47","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T13:42:47","slug":"from-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/archives\/4428","title":{"rendered":"From Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi Phil,
\nA note of appreciation for your superb video reviews which I happily stumbled across
\nby accident and immediately file in my “subscribed” folder on YouTube.
\nI have now been off analogues now for over three months.
\nI am in the UK in case I refer to any products you don’t see in the US!
\nI am now 45 and have been smoking since the age of 18. My wife was also a smoker but
\nshe gave up in our second year of marriage – some 19 years ago.
\nWe both had the hypnotherapy sessions but I secretly went back to it after a week or
\nso of horrendous cold turkey. So for the past 19 years I’ve been smoking in secret –
\nand you have no idea how hard that can be! First there is the terrific expense of
\nthe habit these days and hiding the cost of cigarettes in my car fuel bill was
\nbecoming awkward, so three years ago I switched to rolling my own. Even that was
\nbecoming ridiculously expensive but I was managing.
\nOK, I say I was a secret smoker, but you cannot really not notice the smell
\nemanating from someone who has just put a cigarette out. In truth, she knew I
\nsmoked. I knew she knew. But neither of us spoke of it and she certainly didn’t
\nrealize I was on a pack a day.
\nAside from frequent trips down the garden, holidays were a nuisance when we spent
\nmost of our time together. When do you smoke?
\nI would find excuses to pop outside or take walks on my own in the evenings and
\n“stock up” on nicotine for the lean times ahead. Then there’s buying supplies and
\nhiding them somewhere – you can’t put a pack of 200 in your suitcase when she does
\nthe packing!
\nAnyway, over the years I have tried to give up on many occasions.
\nI’ve tried the gum, inhalers and the patches, but always found myself smoking as well.
\nA comedian once said that “the best way to give up smoking is to use two patches.
\nYou put one over each eye and you can’t find your fags!”
\nMy problem was that despite knowing the risks, I enjoyed smoking.
\nSo three months ago my wife went to the doctor with shortness of breath and was
\ndiagnosed with COPD – Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease – probably brought on by
\nsmoking for many years (she is 10 years older than me so had been doing it for a
\nwhile).
\nThat was the clincher I think and the weekend after I spotted ecigs in the petrol
\nstation at Tesco.
\nI bought a pack – the starter set with the battery, USB charger and three cartridges.
\nExpecting the worst, I also bought 20 Dunhill to keep me going!
\nThe brand was 10motives (www.10motives.com).
\nI was incredibly impressed – there was the nicotine, vapour and throat hit, just
\nlike the real thing!
\nSo next time I bought a refill pack and no cigarettes.
\nVery quickly it became apparent that while this was a great way to give up smoking,
\nit was still somewhat expensive, so I hit the internet looking for inspiration.
\nActually I was looking for a cheaper supplier of the 10motives, but I stumbled
\nacross one of your videos in the process.
\nThis opened up a whole world of possibilities and I realized that there was a group
\nof people who enjoyed vaping, not as a quit smoking thing, but as a hobby in itself.
\nThis gave it credibility and immediately I decided that I did not want an analogue
\nlookalike and to be grouped with that sad crowd of people who are desperately
\nfighting their cigarette addiction. Vaping is something I could enjoy as an activity
\nin itself, so I needed some gear!
\nAs luck would have it, a small supplier had just opened up nearby so I went in and
\nsaid “tell me about vaping and sell me some kit!”
\nThey sold their own branded CE5 vaping kit for ??19.99 with 3ml of free juice.
\nPeering at the counter display and chatting to the guy though, we ended up putting
\ntogether a kit of upgraded eGo battery topped with a ViviNova.
\nFearful of falling into the vaping AND smoking trap, I opted for 10ml of the 24mg
\njuice from Ritchy in original tobacco and a trial 3ml of the Ritchy Espresso.
\nAnd I’ve been happily vaping ever since (helped by your video on rebuilding the
\nfaithful ViviNova).
\nI found enough rolling tobacco in my car armrest a couple of weeks back so rolled it
\ninto a cigarette – and I didn’t like it! RESULT!
\nI’ve now been studying your videos for battery mods.
\nThe choice is bewildering, but thanks to you (and availability or lack of, in the
\nUK) I am narrowing down the list.
\nReplaceable parts is what is required – I cannot be doing with replacing the whole
\neGo thing.
\nI cannot get an AnyVape CVI over here so I watched your lengthy videos on the eVic
\nwith the firmware updates that look remarkably like they have also watched your
\nvideos!
\nThe decision has yet to be made.
\nSo many thanks for your inspiration.<\/p>\n

Best regards,
\nMartin<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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