How did you come across ecigs for the first time

Hi.I became aware of electronic cigs a while back but never investigated further until I saw an ecig user vaping at a poker game 3 weeks ago. He was kind enough to offer me a try, and answer my questions. I think it was an 18mg nic mix with some kind of Redbull flavour. It tasted great and gave me a similar enough feeling in my throat to what I expect from a drag on one of the cigarettes I am so familiar with after smoking for more than half of my life.
I stumbled upon "Health E-cig" at a mall a few days after and bought it with usb charger and 10 refills for $25. Tastes pretty bad and obviously has no nic content so was pretty much a novelty that wore off very quickly indeed while I was still emptying ashtrays etc.
I soon found this and another forum during my online quest for vaping information. During the next fortnight I bookmarked 27 pages in total on 25 sites. I had charts relating to batteries carts and juice mix ratios and heaps of things new and alien to me. I set myself a budget and decided on a few items to to get the ball rolling. Chatted with a few of the irc chat canukvapers folks. Nice folks, not judgemental when you stagger in drunk as hell asking questions they must hear all the time...I digress. Tonight is 3 weeks since my first "e-toke" and the day of my first online order.
I will be turning 40 just before the end of this month and hopefully my present to myself will be a way I can manage to kick the habit in it's current form and say goodbye to the $100+ weekly costs , stink, and health impact of these cigarettes I have both loved and hated for so long. The aim is to never purchase tobacco or cigarettes from Feb 01, and hopefully vaping by Jan 27.
I ordered the Alp.comltraMax. Planning on getting a Provari order underway in a few days. Ego-T or maybe C starter kit probably too. One of Johnny's boxmods is practically inevitable. Currently researching best nic ejuice options and I am really looking foward to experimentation with juices and flavours and voltages (to distract me long enough to realise I no longer smoke , hopefully).
Good, informative forum you have here.

 

Welcome Toecutter, grab your self some cartomizers too, to make your eGo-t or -c more versatile

 

Welcome Toecutter and good luck finding your favourite vape!

 

I like how the poll results strongly suggest what we all already know, word of mouth or seeing someone with one far surpasses other ways of finding out about e-cigarettes. That means its up to all of us to tell the truth about vaping since the media fails at that.

 

well a friend of mine was telling me about e-cigs one day i thought what a lot of crap it cant work .... but meh i'll give it a try anyway anything was worth a try at that stage so hubby and i got between us a 510 kit just to see if we could stick with it .... almost 5 months down the track now i dont think it was alot of crap anymore lol ...
have since got my 70 year old mum on e-cigs as well as hubby and brother ,,,,

 

My brother had a shifty-lookin' DSE901 kit that he gave to me be.comse it wasn't doing anything for him. Didn't work for me either but I dug a little deeper and now I'm trying to re-introduce him to better stuff after being put off.

 

I first bumped into vaping a few years ago, by accident as I was looking to quit the cigarettes.

glad I found an alternative

 

I tried a disposable from a friend and loved it..ordered a 510 and havent looked back...it is well over a month now and I havent looked back....I still kind of find it unbeleivable...all i am doing now is sitting home designing mods and talking to anyone who will listen...hahah (i am trying not to be an annoying "convert" though!

 

Hi and welcome to canukVapers LazyDog..
Best of luck with designing mods, look forward to seeing some

 

Same here, have ordered some gear and am waiting patiently to give it a go.

 

Hi and welcome motiv8dan,
you will be surprised at how easy it is to start vaping and give the cigarettes up

 

Thanks for the Welcome margyb, and i hope so.... i have finally had enough of the ciggies.

 

if my 3 converters were here it would be word of mouth for there vote aswell as seeing someone else use it.

 

Came across an ad on the Web around 2005-6 for a cartridge type E-cig whilst studying at Uni. It intrigued me
but I thought I would not be able to get a continuous supply of the cartridges in canada. It seemed
novel to me, but too much trouble to follow up and could it work ? Finished study 2008 with health suffering more from the chop/chop and whatever
I could get my hands on to feed my addiction. Admittedly I still 'liked smoking' and didn't want to let go of it, resented the shadow of the Quit campaign etc. I tried a number
of methods to quit but to no avail,I had a love/hate relationship with ciggies, but nothing worked for me. Then I remembered what I had seen a few years ago. I wondered if it could work ? So that started
a search which then led me to 'Tokes' and Elusion. The LIGHT WENT ON ! I actually got excited about giving up cigarettes! I didn't immediately buy Elusion's kit but searched out a cheaper alternative starter kit. A whole world of vaping and vapers emerged and the rest is
vaping history for me and far better health. Thanks Tokes, Jato, Nelson and Peter, forum members canukvapers for your help and advice !

 

interesting how the trend is shifting away from WP now, it was near 40% in the early stages and has of course progressively dropped since they closed the thread. Now it seems word of mouth is becoming a stronger force as perhaps more people are now using them in public, the start of an exponential growth phase may be soon.

 

I voted word of mouth.
In my case i had heard of vaping from a friend on another forum i frequent. She was just getting into it herself so i figured i would wait and see how she and others went with it before taking the plunge myself, soon enough i was hearing of friends success with this vaping phenomenon. This was i think around.comgust 2011 and i was well and truly into a ground hog day cycle of failed quitting attempts.
I started with an order of nicotine from Box elder and a week or two later an Ego-t 1000mah kit along with some juices and D.I.Y supplies from Vapeking and i was pretty much on my way.

Now a few months (and mods) on and vaping has turned into a bit of a hobby with seemingly endless innovations and improvements.

 

I saw someone at work with one a week ago and they sent me here. Told me to do my own research so here I am.

 

A doctor recommended them to my .comghter as an aid to give up the fags. The doctor's husband uses them.

 

That is good to hear gtadmin---a doctor recommending them and her husband uses them
By the way welcome here

 

Thanks marg The doctor is asian so is more open to "other" therapies. BTW, her husband is a surgeon in Adelaide.

Cheers,
GT

Edit: the quoted welcome didn't show? Fixed now! Ok, worked it out, the quote button is at the bottom of the post you want to quote - all other forums I've used have the quote button at the top. Doh!