OK confession, I had Sunday dinner not long ago and I REALLY
need a cigarette.
Decided to catch up with the blog, instead of going to the
shop and change the cartridge in the skycig, from the medium strength menthol,
which I have been using for the last twenty four hours, to a full strength
tobacco flavour.
Calming down a bit. Now that I have been puffing away on the
stronger flavour, for a good 15 minutes, or so.
Have to admit to being a wee bit worried about this, as I
have ordered three packs of the vanilla flavour, to do me for the next
fortnight. I am not sure if it’s the
tobacco flavour or the amount of nicotine, which seems to work better. I am
sorry to bang on about this, but why do skycig only offer their medium strength
cartomizers (and why do they all spell
it like that, seems very American to me). Clearly I would have liked a variety
of the strongest ones they have and I do not believe I am alone in this. Well I
have ordered the strong vanilla ones now so fingers crossed, I know you are all
thinking, instead of sitting there worrying and boring us all with the minor
complaints, why not, just order the **** (fill in whatever cuss word you
thought of ;)) tobacco flavour? Well, I have good reason for that. Cigarettes
taste and smell horrible. Those of us that smoke have acquired a taste for this
foul smelling stuff and become immune to the smell.
I have carried on having the odd cigarette, while “vaping”
(oh the jargon you learn while ploughing through ecig sites). Today I have had
none, major victory there. Another major step forward was when I was out at
William’s 21st (my nephew for those who don’t know) I went outside
for a fag, stole one of William, had a couple of draws and thought “I don’t
really want this”
Stubbed it out. Did smoke one when I got home though and
had, had a couple during the day.
Rambling again, back to my point. The day I tried the
vanilla flavour, felt quite a lot of craving for cigarettes but I think this
was down to the strength of the cartridge.
When I did have a cigarette, however, it tasted quite bad. I am
assuming, rightly or wrongly, that a couple of weeks of smoking something that
actually tastes quite pleasant will result in me being as abhorred by the taste
of cigarettes as your average non smoker. We will see, if I ever get the
vanilla flavoured cartridges.
It's now Monday and something else is bothering me, my choice of
the skycig. I did do a fair bit of research into electronic cigarettes prior to
purchasing the skycig starter pack but in the end my choice came down to two
factors: Initial cost and convenience. The initial cost was helped a great deal
by the fact that I found a code which gave me £38 off (quit38, if anyone is
interested). The convenience came down
to the fact that skycig starter pack comes with 2 batteries and a cigarette
pack type thing to charge them in, meaning you can charge up while out and
about, as long as the pack is charged. What I didn’t look into much was
customer service. My fault, I know, but customer service and timely delivery of
things we order over the internet is something we take for granted these days.
Not in skycig’s case though.
Where do I start with these people, let’s forget the starter
pack, after all any delay there just meant I put using them for a bit, so wasn’t
that concerned. Now, however, I sit here typing with no nicotine available.
Easiest way to solve this is to go buy cigarettes but I am determined not to do
that. The local Morrison’s apparently has some compatible cartridges and I will
be off there, first thing, to purchase some. How did I get into this predicament
and was it my fault? I don’t think so, Skycig advertise on their website that,
if you order before 2pm, they will dispatch your order the same day; I also pay
for first class postage. Since Skycig are based in Scotland, I do not think it
unreasonable to expect delivery the next day, or the following day at most. Hasn’t
quite worked out that way, I placed an order Friday at 12:31, I have their
confirmation email, time stamped, so I know this is correct. I get another
email, Saturday at 11:31am, saying my order has been dispatched and giving a
tracking number, to track the package on the Post Office site. I duly head over
to the PO site input number and receive a message that they have no information
on the package. Now the PO says this is because they haven’t received the
package, which to me means it hasn’t been dispatched, four days after they
promised it would be!!! Skycig, however disagrees, they claim they have
dispatched it but it can take 48hours for the PO site to be updated. I have
never heard so much manure in my life. We live in an age of instant
information, whenever a package moves from one location to another it is
scanned and the website is instantly updated, otherwise what would be the
point?
Anyway I am sure you are fed up reading this by now, just
one more wee moan afore I go, I would have had enough cartridges to do me till
tomorrow but one of skycig’s cartridges was all but empty!!
Conclusion, need to keep going with electronic cigarettes
but going to do a lot more research and change brands, will keep you all
updated.
