Last item you purchased or were gifted.

[Namcot]

I think this counts as a purchase.

[SynchroDub]

Originally Posted by alexora

Every time I go back to Italy, I am always sure to stock up on Toscano cigars.

My favourites are the Classico and Garibaldi variety. I cut mine in two halves rather that smoking the whole thing in one go.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=MCHhuCIbVaU

I only like the Garibaldi variety. That's what I smoke the most.
I feel that the taste of the Tobacco is much more pronounced on those than on the Classic ones.
Let's see if the "La Tabaccheria" Kentucky aroma I bought for my e-pipe, that has to arrive tomorrow, is faithful to the real thing.
Time will tell....

Anyway, I also used to smoke, on special occasions, the Montecristo and the Cohiba variety of Cubans, along with some Tequila.
Unfortunately, due to a few problems with my lungs, I stopped smoking those huge Cubans. As only after taking a few drags, they made my lungs burn like they were on fire and also made my mouth very dry.
A shame. Because Cubans make some of the best and classy cigars in the world.

[SynchroDub]

Ok, so after 2 days of just vaping (without touching a cigarette at all) I realized that vaping, at least for me, doesn't do anything at all. The "smoke" just taste of glycerine and comes with a bad aftertaste of burned metal.
Tried different mixtures, adding and cutting nicotine (gradually), tried different voltage settings (from 10W to 20W....20W was the only setting that actually replicated the combustion of a real cig "faithfully", even though it made my kit overheat), as well some of my uncle aromas, but all of this didn't made anything at all to make me fall in love with the e-cig. It just gave me terrible headaches and felt drowsy and "drugged" for 2 hours, every single time I tried it. Not a very good sign.
And it's definitely not a nicotine thing, as I can make my errands and work 8 hours straight without lighting up a single cig just fine without feeling nothing, and smoke a Toscano or huge quantities of pure rolled tobacco without getting headaches and drowsy.
Either i'm allergic to the glycerine and the synthetic aromas, or the kit just exudes way too much radiations.
Anyway, it was worth give it a shot just to remind myself that a good Marlboro, a Toscano or pure tobacco, even though they're harmful, can't be replaced by e-cigs.
It's just not the same thing.

[magergxd]

A block/ cut of Boar's Head Blue Cheese. Quite frankly, it was a gamble considering the last time I bought and ate blue cheese gave me food poisoning Christmas Morning 2017.

[DoctorNo]

Originally Posted by SynchroDub

Ok, so after 2 days of just vaping (without touching a cigarette at all) I realized that vaping, at least for me, doesn't do anything at all. The "smoke" just taste of glycerine and comes with a bad aftertaste of burned metal.
Tried different mixtures, adding and cutting nicotine (gradually), tried different voltage settings (from 10W to 20W....20W was the only setting that actually replicated the combustion of a real cig "faithfully", even though it made my kit overheat), as well some of my uncle aromas, but all of this didn't made anything at all to make me fall in love with the e-cig. It just gave me terrible headaches and felt drowsy and "drugged" for 2 hours, every single time I tried it. Not a very good sign.

Glycerine vapor just has a slightly sweet taste. If it tastes liked burnt metal, then you were probably getting dry hits and burned the wick. Look at the the inside of the coil. It should be white, not black. Headaches are typically the result of too much nicotine from using vape juice that is too strong for you.

[alexora]

Originally Posted by DoctorNo

Glycerine vapor just has a slightly sweet taste. If it tastes liked burnt metal, then you were probably getting dry hits and burned the wick. Look at the the inside of the coil. It should be white, not black. Headaches are typically the result of too much nicotine from using vape juice that is too strong for you.

I have vaped for various periods, but the factors detailed above have meant that I returned to tobacco each time (even after many months).

However, I still think vaping is the way forward: all it needs is for some technical improvements to the delivery system so as to avoid coil burnout, and ensure a uniform, steady intake.

I don't personally go for what many (mainly hipsters) do when they modify their coils and end up looking like a locomotive going full steam ahead: they strike me as show-offs...

If someone happens to be addicted to nicotine (like I am, having started smoking Marlboro reds/classics regularly at age 11), then a good new way such as vaping is a positive thing. Just make it as pleasureful as smoking the real thing.

It's not the nicotine that kills, but the other byproducts associated with inhaling smoke from burning substances, whatever they may be.

[SynchroDub]

Originally Posted by DoctorNo

Glycerine vapor just has a slightly sweet taste. If it tastes liked burnt metal, then you were probably getting dry hits and burned the wick. Look at the the inside of the coil. It should be white, not black. Headaches are typically the result of too much nicotine from using vape juice that is too strong for you.

Yeah, definitely. It felt like I ate spoons of lube
The coil is fine and is capable of delivering up to 45W no problem. And it is white, of course. Could be some resistance warmup thing, as I only had it for just 3 days.
But, anyway. I only tried 4 different juices, the strongest one being the menthol one.
I just put 5 drips of pure nicotine into every juice, and going to 0 as well, but still. Maybe something in the aromas triggered headaches and general malaise. I don't know.
I should probably (if I ever will give it another go, in the future) just use plain PG/VG + some distilled nicotine and be done with it, next time.
We'll see. I'm always eager to try something new.

[SynchroDub]

Originally Posted by alexora

I have vaped for various periods, but the factors detailed above have meant that I returned to tobacco each time (even after many months).

However, I still think vaping is the way forward: all it needs is for some technical improvements to the delivery system so as to avoid coil burnout, and ensure a uniform, steady intake.

I don't personally go for what many (mainly hipsters) do when they modify their coils and end up looking like a locomotive going full steam ahead: they strike me as show-offs...

If someone happens to be addicted to nicotine (like I am, having started smoking Marlboro reds/classics regularly at age 11), then a good new way such as vaping is a positive thing. Just make it as pleasureful as smoking the real thing.

It's not the nicotine that kills, but the other byproducts associated with inhaling smoke from burning substances, whatever they may be.

Vaping could really be a great and really effective alternative to traditional smoking, if only there was a big name in the industry (ie. Samsung, Apple, Marlboro or even Pfizer or Bayer) who was willing to buy the original patent and start manufacturing his line of products, assuring intensive lab tests and quality controls as well, and helping the consumer decide what kit to buy and what not.
There's a pletora of different kits out there, way too much confusion around the exact amount of liquids you have to use, and way too many coil/replacement parts that still make some people very skeptic about making the switch.
If there really was a sort of Apple of e-cigs who created really easy and complete products, that could also last 5 years, and that could also provide repairs and replacements, easily, probably millions of people would had already made the switch.
People want easy products ready to be used out-of-the-box without many hassles and without having to go through thousands and thousands of forums posts, in order to find answers to the problems they have with their products. That's what they want.
We can only hope that one day a big name will clean up the confusion that's still around the e-cigs world and make everything easy for anyone who wants to approach this world.

As for me, I started smoking when I was only 13. I didn't smoked a lot as I do now (1-1/2 pack a day). Just 3 cigs a day. That has always been my limit.
I started smoking heavily when I turned 17, after my mother got diagnosed with an unoperable frontal lobe tumor and died. I started smoking 20-30 cigs, without even noticing it or even care about. But I was also put on different dosages of Valium for 3 years, as I developed PTSD with daily panic attacks that persisted even 2 years after her passing. Not to mention that Valium is a very wicked benzo. Unlike fast-acting benzos, such as Xanax, that gets out of your system after 6-12 hours, you never know when you're gonna nod off or feel lethargic, while you're on Valium, as it builds up in your body, and get delivered at very different fractions of time, throughout its half-life of 24-60 hours. So that also certainly contributed a lot to my heavy smoking habit.
But I really wish I could quit the habit, or at least turn to a more healthy way of absorbing Nicotine without all the harmful stuff that comes from traditional cigs.

[buffalo]

Well had a blast last weekend and had a Aunt who made up for all the birthday's, X-Mas and everything in last 20 years or so and took me too Hershey Park and bought the Fast Track passes and the all day food and refill pass I guess you call it, she had bought hotel room for 2 days and me and her had a blast and we rode every roller collaster at the park and the Reese Drop as the Big Drop was down for repairs, also took me too a bunch of food places I never been and bought me like 2 shirts from the gift shops and a mug with my name and she just spoiled me like crazy and had so much fun and thanked her for a amazing time and it was the most time me and her spent together in a very long time...loved it!...The 8 hour car drive back and forth brought us closer then ever and just spending a whole day at the park with her was awesome and also seeing her face as we ride in front on every roller coaster:-)

[Gemini37]

Bought a ticket to "The Nun", a small popped corn and a small Mello Yello at my local theater.