How did you come across ecigs for the first time

I sent to see a friend at work and he pulled one out and started screwing it together, I thought it was a toy when I saw it light up at the end when he drew back on it, apparently I had an epic "WTF?!" look on my face when he actually blew smoke out of it. After about a million questions on juice, atomisers, batteries, nicotine, etc. I had a toke on his and was instantly impressed. I found this forum later that day after mining google for information and research on them, and ordered my first e-cig the next day.

 

My partner saw them on WP and tried to get me to try it in 2009 - he bought some disposables and they were horrible - so no go.

We tried again in July this year but after reading everything on WP went ego batts and boge carts - end of story...

Michael

 

EXACTLY how it happened for me...I have no idea where i first heard about them, but when i decided to quit (yet again), i just somehow knew what they were and haven't looked back since! maybe some sort of subliminal conspiracy theory going on?!?!?!, lol.
Now 6.5 months off the cigs and loving every minute

 

I was on isohunt and one of those adds for a cheap piece of crap popped up.

Did some research, decided i wanted something that resembled in size a normal cigarette, and (stupidly) bought what is basically a joye 510 for 100 dollars with some horrible flavoured tabacco liquid. Thankfully i also ordered some razbull 18mg juice from freedom smoke...

Thankfully then i did find this and ecf, and the quest for the perfect pv has begun...

 

An add on Facebook

 

I am in china,i found it on TV first and them found,they are pupular on the net.

 

I saw a Blu cig ad in The Rolling Stones magazine and immediately started googling.

 

just grabbed the current data to see how it changes now that the WP thread closed..

 

whirlpool - actually I saw the ecig topic many times but never read it or took any notice of it, until in another totally unrelated thread I read a post by some guy about ways he saved money, one was ecigs and that he'd saved thousands by using them.. had a little read of the (closed) ecig threads over there and decided to give it a go

 

Recently went to catch up with an old friend i hadn't had contact with in 12 months. Sat by the pool and as i started to roll a durrie she started puffing on what i thought was a black pen ... was keenly interested as I've been wanting a "magic smoking cure" for many years. After she told me about the basics of it and doing further research i ordered my 510. Wore out the 2 batteries within four days on no-nic juice, still waiting on my nic. Stepping up to a bigger PV now, but will probably get more 510 gear for use in public, as i think they draw less attention and suspicion about their purpose. These things are great as you don't have to give up the smoking action or nic, both the hardest things to deal with when trying to quit burning tobacco and all the other crap in it.

 

came across them in a shopping mall in the usa, almost bought the crappy kit for $200, but then thought i better do some research, and ordered a greensmoke kit online for $200. Clearly didn't do enough research lol.

 

Saw a news item in the paper about them a long time ago but didnt consider them until I quit smoking 12 months ago and ecigs were mentioned on a quit smoking furm. Had a bit of trouble then as went for the no nic juice but used them a bit for about 3 months. Started smoking again and decided I better use the ecigs for real to stop with proper juice.

 

Some years ago a friend of a friend bought one when they first came on the Market but I was told his broke or didnt work.. seeing as how I was continously trying to give up I thought this may be my chance becomse nothing else had worked and believe me I had tried everything,
I got on the internet and the only dicussion boards I could find had been closed and the last topics were about how they were illegal and people could no longer buy them.So aftr that i gave up. In the meantime I had developed very serious health problems which the Drs told me were due to smoking. So a couple of years had elapsed by then and i thought the situation with the Ecigs was hopless-by this time I was even considering moving to the UK for a while where they were legal.It was the only way I could think of I had no idea of where else to obtain them either legally or illegally.
One day I was walking past the Mall in brisbane where a bunch of weird kids used to hang out and one of them had a 510 with the blue tip and I recognised what it was,
The minute I got home I rushed to the computer and eventually found a Whirlpool site - then foundcomssie Vapers,
The girl in the Mall literally saved my life- I had given up any hope that I could get ecigs here and stop smoking- i knew that otherwise, no matter how many ultimatums the Drs gave me, I couldnt stop..becomse I had tried abolutely everything else and this was all that was left to try,
Thank you to everyone who helped me get here-- now I'm a non smoker,

 

i was on holidays and got talked into buying 1 at a stall in shopping center in usa , never heard of them before and was in process of giving up on and off for last 2yrs to the anger of my non smoking partner;/ ,was on patches while on holidays and hadnt had smoke for 3 weeks but new that would change when got back to the old grind in oz . the pack i got was a smokefree 1 and $100 plus tax had 1 small battery 1 atomizer and 5 pre filled cartridges and a US charger ,the guy selling spun/lied it well said each carto would last eqivilant between 20 and 40 analogs or a few months for me for the 5. and he had heard that there are many shops in sydney that stock ecigs liquid ect if i wanted to get extra juice later on. didnt mention battery or atomizer would need replacing regulary or that couldnt buy nic liquid in oz . Anyway got home and cartos lasted about a week so I bought a 1pack of smokes and I thought id get replacments thru their web site and maybe get a back up battery and atty and they sell them for $10 for 5 cartos and batts n attys $55 each and I thought foooook maybe I can get them cheaper elsewhere online or at a shop and found forums and other ecig sites and thats when i realised how ripped off I got that was 2 months ago. Since then I have gotten a t rex ,riva t ,ego t with few extra attys each and liquids for about $200 ish which should last a little bit longer than the smokefree and I havnt bought a pack of ciggys for 2months now and love it but now I seem to vape more than I ever smoked but atleast my partner doesnt mind kissing me now so extra bonus I did buy it with the intension of using it as a quitting tool and to ween of it and eventually stop but I cant see that happening anytime soon I love it to much or maybe thats the chocolate nicotine talking

 

on Elusion E Cigs Purcased and to quote Neil Young (Was a piece of crap) Found this forum and purchased a 510T. A few teething problems all sorted now but havn't looiked back. Thanks all.
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Neil

 

Was isohunting for err.. legal downloads.. and there was an ad for the v2.. just went from there.. somehow ended up on this forum.

 

My sister has the 510, i didnt think it was any better for me than analogues, then I started to do some research and here I am....
Purchased the Ego-T kit from JW, I wished i could get the nic juice that quick

 

Knew about E-Cigs for ages but never really got around to buying, then I decided in March to give them a go. Went the Elusion way and as much as they were rather crap (did not know at the time) they assisted me in giving up the analogues. Now on Ego-Ts with atties & JW juice and have not looked back since then. I have been analogue free since then and definitely will NOT go back. Trying hard to get partner, brother and mother on them but it sort of is a losing battle but I am going to keep trying. Brother is getting an Ego-T kit for Christmas as he seems to like the chocolate tobacco from JW. Mother & Partner well lets see how they go, if they want to might get them 510 as they don't like the size of the Ego-T........ wish me luck

 

I joined deals.com so i would be sent discount vouchers for dining out etc. A coupon came for a starter kit of social-lites e cigs, i went to the website to read more about them, then started googleing other brands.

 

Through a work collegue who was talking about no longer smoking analcigs. I was like "what?!" She got turned onto them from a movie. So I ordered the same as hers to start with...Elusion Standard Kit Blue 1123 & Standard 16 1123 on the 15th and they arrived today from NZ.
Great service!
As a 100% newbie I will give this a go and see where it takes me.

I've spent several days reading through these forums and have learnt a ton. Thanks everyone!