Cheriepye

I think you did great!

There will always be those that care more about 'impressions' vs facts. You would think business lost would be more important....

I don't clean my atomizers or cartomizers. I might blow out an atomizer or let it drain overnight if I used some bad juice. When I was new, I started out boiling and cleaning. Eventually I learned I was spending more time agonizing over the cleaning than really enjoying vaping. I find it easier to just start with a fresh carto and leave the fuss behind. It equate it to trying to revive a broken lighter.

If you go to your profile you will see a tab for posts. It will list all your posts.

This answer will apply to both a cartomizer and an atomizer because basically they screw on the same. You want to screw the cartomizer on to the battery so it is secure. It still may appear to have more turns left but do not over tighten. It will push the center post down on the battery or it could do the same with the cartomizer. This will cause the battery not to make contact with other cartos or the carto not make contact on other batteries.

There are holes in the cartomizer that allows air flow into it. So there will be a sound of hissing or rushing air. That is normal. The air flow varies among the different models of e-cigs. Some will have a real airy type of draw and some may have a tight draw.

Cartomizer = carto Cartridge = cart

Nicotine raises blood pressure and is a vasco constrictor.

"Vasoconstriction is the narrowing of the blood vessels resulting from contraction of the muscular wall of the vessels, particularly the large arteries, small arterioles and veins. The process is the opposite of vasodilation, the widening of blood vessels"

Now this can be a good thing to stop hemmoraging - but as a general thing, no, it's not a good idea. However, it is certainly not Cancer, Emphysema, etc.

There is a very good article about it at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine.

Most of the articles I have seen don't separate nicotine from tobacco, and so confuse the issue we are attempting to deal with.

It also discusses THERAPUTIC EFFECTS of nicotine in certain situations. And cites FDA studies on it.


Now for my DISCLAIMER. I have not done a zillion hours of research on this.. I found this one article that is interesting, and says some of the same things I've seen elsewhere.

However, as most of you know, Information on the Internet is put there by PEOPLE. And PEOPLE posting information don't necessarily do THEIR research. PEOPLE have OPINIONS.. etc etc etc.

Whenever you research anything, you should never take ONE SOURCE as being the end all be all. The same can be said for any kind of research of course, but our main sources are found on the Internet.

I've known a few people to claim that "THE WIKI" is an unblemished source of info on a zillion subjects. Let me just say there isn't just one WIKIPEDIA for one thing. Many folks think anything wiki.blabla.blabla is gospel. Nope.

Secondly, information changes constantly as we learn things. If you don't believe me, just look through an encylopedia from say, 1970. Not only are countries named differently, but everything changes, including history.

There, now I've been all school marmy. I know most of you know all this. Maybe even all of you, this is a very intelligent group of people. But I am soooooo tired of hearing folks cite some website as gospel.

GOOGLE is dangerous if you don't know what you are doing. LMAO I mean just listing what your pee looks like lists everything from "well hydrated" to basically "you'll die tomorrow". Scary stuff. It would be sooooooo easy to become a hypochondriac with all this at my fingertips.

There is a reason doctors have a zillion tests and spend many years in school learning all this. It's not wham bam...you have (insert long scary latin word here).

AANNNNNYway as usual I've gone crazy gabbing and stepping on the soapbox. But I think you'll find the article above interesting.

Somebody SLAP me !!!!! hehe

As for studying the long term effects of vaping, the FDA clearly spent VERY little time studying the SHORT term effects of "YAZ". The birth control device has not been out very long, and the Lawyers are ALREADY munching up the airwaves for me and my loved ones. There is one that ACTUALLY uses this line - " If you, or a loved one has died from the use of...". Wait a second, If I DIED how the hell am I gonna sue ? Trust me, those bloodsuckers would prop my rigid, sorry Irish *** up in a chair to collect. I believe we, as a vaping community, are more concerned about "safety" and quality control than ANY government entity is. Also, products like e cigs, from the gate, are in a no-win situation, from a business standpoint. If you promote it as a smoking cessation product, then essentially you're trying to sell something that EVENTUALLY you will have to to STOP selling to individuals. If you come up with a device that is SUCCESSFUL, like e cigs, you are saying " buy my product, and in a very short time, you wont need to send me any more money". I think Billy Mays just did a barrel roll in his sarcophegus.

AimmeG...that's an awesome story!!! I've heard nothing but good things about the eGO! Makes me wish I would've come here first. But, I am happy with my "Nebula" from vapornine (for now! ). Just got it, but I have no desire so far to get an analog in my mouth. With that said, I also got some liquids and blank cartos from VT...looking forward to getting them. I say, try again!! Get the eGo!! I used the 24mg carto from vapornine and the TH about knocked me out!! I had to go all the way down to the 11mg. But, now that I have the hang of it a little bit, the 16 isn't so bad, but I still can't handle the 24...wowee!! What I've learned from this forum, is there are soo many different things you can try to make the experience better and work for you. So, don't give up...I'm not going to! Analogs are yicky and I hear they'll kill ya..harhar!!