This Is A Guide For Those Who Are New To The World Of E-Cigarettes

I’m not going to delve into the pros and cons of e-cigarettes in this particular article, but you may be interested to know that a lot of smokers experience considerable advantages when changing to e-cigarettes. These are both social (you can smoke anywhere), health based (e-cigarettes contain no tar, for instance), and financial (e-cigarettes can be a real money saver). 

Please note, however, that electronic cigarettes are not suitable for anyone below the legal smoking age in your particular country.

As a new vaper - that’s what people who smoke e-cigarettes are commonly called, while the act of using one is often referred to as “vaping” - your best option is to go for a starter kit. There are quite a few different models to go for, and each may come with a slightly different set of items. What they all, generally speaking, have in common is that they come with batteries, an atomizer and a few cartridges (or cartomizers, which are combined atomizers and cartridges), a charger and in some cases some e-liquid (often called e-juice). If the package you go for contains e-liquid, that’s all you will need to get started – if it doesn’t, you will need to pick up a bottle of that as well. 

There are plenty of e-liquids to choose from and several different producers with varying strengths and flavours, much as with traditional cigarettes. Those of you who have previously smoked cigarettes will probably opt for standard Tobacco or perhaps Menthol flavour to start with – but it’s worthwhile noting that other flavours range from coffee, to tiramisu, to various fruit and berry flavours, and vanilla, to name but a few. A lot of converted smokers are surprised to find that they enjoy these as a change, so it may be worth giving them a shot if they intrigue you.

Now! Once you have your starter kit and e-liquid, all you have to do is assemble your cigarette. The process of doing this will vary depending on make and model, but generally speaking there are between two, three or five components to be screwed together:

General Electronic Cigarette Structure

• Two-component e-cigarettes consist of a cartomizer and a base unit which holds the battery, simply put the two together and turn it on. 

• Three-component e-cigarettes consist of a base unit and a separate atomizer and cartridge.

• Five-component e-cigarettes are basically very similar to three-component ones, with the difference that you have to assemble the base-unit (consisting of a battery, base, head and cone) yourself. 

While the latter in particular may sound complicated, the e-cigarettes come with clear assembly instructions and the parts can only really fit together in one way – making it easy as pie to get going. The advantage of a three- or five-component set-up is that replacing the cartridges is a bit cheaper, owing to the fact that you don’t have to replace the atomizer whenever you change your cartridge.