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Unfortunately, nobody will be able to tell you what is best for you. Just make sure you get a decent variable voltage battery so you can vary how hard you drive whatever you decide to put on the end of it. Good ones are Joyetech Ego Twist and Vision Spinner, although others have had success with cheaper Ebay jobs. The bits that go on the end (cartos, clearomisers, etc) are pretty cheap (usually £5 to £10), so keep trying different ones. The Kanger T3S clearomiser is a good place to start. The Tabac BCC looks like a copy of the Kanger T3S.
Alongside finding your favourite hardware, you need to find your favourite juice. The Smoking have Foggy Dew - I tried the Honey Tobacco, which was nice. EEI reviewed a few of the other Foggy Dew juices a couple of pages back, so perhaps see if any of those sound like your thing. And they sell them in 10ml bottles so you only waste a few quid if you don't like it.
Hopefully this will help you through the jargon a bit:
**Clearomiser **- a transparent (usually) tank that has a string like wick inside dipping into the juice. In the middle of the unit, the string passes through a coil which does the vapourising. The good ones have replaceable coils as they do get clogged up after a week or two. They can be dry burned to get rid of the clogging - look on YouTube to see what I mean.
**Cartomiser **- a metal tube with cotton wool like material inside and a coil set into the cotton wool. The end bits that you find on supermarket ecigs are cartomisers (rubbish ones IMO). You can't dry burn or replace the coil in a cartomiser - you just throw it away and screw another one on. Look on YouTube for instructions on how to fill these.
Cartomiser Tank - A fairly large diameter transparent (usually) plastic tube which the cartomiser sits in. The carto will need to have a hole punched into it for the juice to get in. This makes no difference whatsoever to the performance of the carto - it just provides a ready supply of juice so you don't have to fill it up anywhere near as often.
Rebuildable Atomiser / RBA - You need to build your own wick from stainless steel mesh and wrap your own coil around it. The wick dips into a large tank of juice. I wouldn't worry about these until you have tried everything else, as getting the wick / coil right is tricky and greatly changes the way it performs.
Single / dual coil - You can get both clearomisers and cartomisers in single and dual coil. Theoretically, dual coil will produce more vapour and will be slightly warmer. In practice, this isn't really a reliable way to look at it as the quality of the design plays a bigger part.
Some good brands:
Joyetech
Kanger
Vision
Innokin
Boge
Smok / SmoktechFinally, UKEcigStore (http://www.ukecigstore.com/) have a store in Wembley which you can go into and have a better look at all this stuff. Might be worth a visit once you feel like you know roughly what hardware you are after. I would avoid their liquid though.
Dully repped
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Dully repped
Couldn't you rep excitingly for a change?
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Well, I ignored Butters advice and bought direct from the shop, the vaping vault in Brighton. The lady behind the counter was very helpful and very patient with me, gave me lots of flavours to try, different machines to try and even let me try her own personal vape.
Spent just under £30.00 which got me an eGo-C Twist that has variable battery output, the tank thing, a charger and two bottles of juice.
Dunno if the kit is any good but it looks OK for a novice like me.
The lovely lady then mixed the two juices into the tank and checked I was happy with everything.
So, the journey begins.....
Many thanks for taking the time to explain everything to me, its much appreciated.
Cheers
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Quick (slightly smug) update.
Since buying my vape thing yesterday I haven't had a fag - haven't wanted one, hardly think about having one - the vape machine is used and all is good.
FYI - I've smoked for 30+ years and I can't recall a day that I went without a fag.
Maybe a bit early to say I'm a convert but it does feel good!!
Thanks again for all of the advice and support
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Just got some of this:
http://www.mrslord.co.uk/index.php/nicotine-liquids/custard-cream.html
Bloody lovely! Tastes exactly like you think it would, which isn't often the case with eliquid in my experience.
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I need something a little more robust, I've broken three of the T3 clearomizers in the last three days... Not cool as they're a fiver each... The one that broke yesterday was faulty, but still...
I may need to get a RoboCock™... Suggestions, Butters? Something super-strong that won't break in my pocket...
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How did you break them? They seem pretty solid to me!
Kanger EvoD's are basically the same thing, but with a metal (I think) shield round them. You might even be able to use your T3 heads.
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Smug update:
Now on day 8 without a fag - feeling very pleased with myself.
Not fancied one at all during that time.
Thanks again for your help everyone
Cheers
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How did you break them? They seem pretty solid to me!
Kanger EvoD's are basically the same thing, but with a metal (I think) shield round them. You might even be able to use your T3 heads.
They look pretty good, might try one out... Will see what thesmoking.co.uk say when they get back to me, they managed to send me the wrong liquid this time as well as a faulty clearomiser... Time for a swapsie...
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Nope. Best thing ever. Smooth smoke. I've got a sore throat now and found the Kanger too harsh (too higher airflow).
Also, don't need to replace the coil as often as in Kanger clearo, which very quickly gives a BBQ taste. Angled mouthpiece works well with bigger battery mods - at least you don't look like you're sucking CP3O's cock.