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I received my e-cigarette starter kit from Cloud 9 Smoker’s Paradise on July 12th and have not smoked a regular cigarette since July 14th. The e-cigarette is great, and has completely replaced old school smokes for me. I absolutely love the fact that the e-cig doesn’t stink, or make you and your clothes smell bad, like regular cigarettes. While I wasn’t crazy about the taste of the “regular” cartridges that I had ordered with the starter kit, the company was very accommodating and agreed to exchange them for a spare atomizer and a box of blank extended cartridges. I got the blank cartridges to use with the e-liquid that I bought from Vermont Vapor, the only company I’ve found that makes e-liquid with 100% food grade glycerin and natural flavors. Vtvapor.com has lots of flavors to choose from, and offers sample sizes that make it affordable to try them all. For my first order I got blackberry, cappuccino, cafe au lait, choco-mint, maple, mocha, and strawberry. I have to say that I like them all, but my faves are probably the blackberry, mocha, and maple. The strawberry is really good too, and the fruity ones are not super sweet or overly fruity. It’s like a kiss of the fruit taste on top of the tobacco. Maple is their best seller, and it is really nice when you want to taste a smoke – it really tastes like good quality tobacco and the maple is very subtle not overkill. Mocha has a hint of chocolate, and both this and the maple give you that “throat hit” that you get from a burning cigarette. One last thing that’s worth mentioning is that the e-liquid is available in different nicotine strengths just like cigarettes, so if one wanted to stop using nicotine you could do that with ecigs and still get the oral fixation that is the core of the habit for most people. All in all I am very satisfied with the e-cigarette, and Pete is too!
Not many are aware that I smoke, mostly because I don’t smoke that often – sometimes I go for a couple days without having any. But then Friday afternoon rolls around, or just about any afternoon out here in B.F.C., and it’s time for beer or cocktails and the token smoke. Now some may wonder, well what’s the problem? It’s not like I smoke a pack a day, and never have been even close. Well, three years ago Pete quit smoking and I always feel guilty when I smoke even though it’s not all the time and he insists it doesn’t bother him. But I still feel guilty, and I know the smell is on me even if it was just one cigarette because I’ve smelled it myself after coming back into the house. (Even when both of us were smoking we never, ever smoked in our home.) So, after trying a couple friends’ electronic cigarettes in the past few weeks, I’ve taken the leap and bought myself a starter kit from Cloud 9 Smoker’s Paradise. After reading about ecigarettes at ecigarettes365.com, I chose Cloud 9 e-cigs because they had good battery life ratings, good flavor ratings for cartridges and eliquids, was reasonably priced, and it has a really cute compact case that will fit very nicely in my purse on those rare occasions when I do come down off the mountain. Oh, and so you’re in the know, the word “smoking” is out and the new term is “vape” or “vaping”- for vaporizing. The heating element in the e-cig device vaporizes the nicotine solution in the cartridge, and creates a vapor that is inhaled & exhaled making it look like a traditional cigarette. This system delivers nicotine without the other 4000 or so chemicals that are found in traditional cigarettes, and in my opinion are more responsible for health damage than the nicotine is. Yes, I know nicotine can be poisonous, but under the usage conditions with these devices that would impossible. (Unless of course you are stupid enough to drink a bottle of eliquid, that would cause a problem!) The cartridges and refill nicotine liquids come in different strengths just like cigarettes, and there are zero nicotine cartridges/liquids if you don’t want nicotine. I don’t intend to use these to quit smoking, and they are not recommended for that, but I think for my situation they are going to be great. No more stinky cigarette smell, and more importantly no more stressing out my honey with cravings from having to be around them. My kit is due to arrive by Monday, July 12, I’ll post more after I’ve had it a few days so you can follow along. Who knows, if you smoke it might just be what you (and your family) are looking for, too. Save 5% by using this link to Cloud 9 Smokers Paradise. Stop smoking and start vaping!
