You have just received your electronic cigarette. You’ve charged your battery and you are ready to smoke. Take your atomizer, which comes with a protective plastic guard that looks like your cartridges/mouthpiece, and screw the atomizer into the battery. Now pull the protective guard off. Take one of your empty cartridges/mouthpiece that have been provided with your kit and remove it from the sealed packaging. Remove the clear rubber stopper from the end. If you received pre-filled cartridges, just unwrap one, start e-smoking, and when it is done (i.e. not more vapor is being produced), just refill it as an empty cartridge.
For your reference, pick up the protective plastic guard and the empty cartridge/mouthpiece and look down into both of them. You will see inside the empty cartridge/mouthpiece a small fluffy pad. That small fluffy pad is your nicotine cartridge or the wick. It is this wick where you will drip 2-3 drops of eLiquid each time you want a cigarette! You will notice the absence of this in your protective plastic guard. To keep from getting confused, throw out your protective plastic guard.
To fill your wick, simply take your eLiquid dropper and drip 2-3 drops onto the wick. Allow the ELiquid to settle for a few seconds, then place the cartridge/mouthpiece onto your atomizer. Give it a few starter puffs by taking quick drags. Once you develop vapor, you are ready to smoke. When your wick is dry, you will know because your unit will no longer create vapor.
So what if you are going out and wish to take pre-filled cartridges with you so you don’t have to take your bottle of eLiquid? Easy as pie. Take the rubber stoppers you have removed from your cartridges/mouthpieces and set them to the side. Take the small plastic ziplock your batteries and atomizers came in and set it to the side. Take your cartridges/mouthpieces and set them so the small hole in the mouthpiece is facing down. Fill your cartridge as you would for one smoke and let it settle. Move on to the next cartridge.
You can fit up to 5 cartridges in your small ziplock. Once you have filled all 5 with liquid go back and drip 2-3 more drops into each cartridge again. The most drips you should put into a cartridge ever is 7-8 drops. You will know when they are overfull because they will start to “pool” with eLiquid. Try to avoid pooling. Pooling can cause damage to your atomizer.
Once your cartridges are full, place the rubber stopper back into the bottom of the cartridge and place them, rubber stopper up, into your ziplock back. Seal the ziplock and place into your velvet carrying pouch with your extra batteries and maybe an extra atomizer. Then, you are ready to go out for the day or the night. By filling 5 cartridges you are taking with you approximately 1 1/2 pack of cigarettes.
So how long should your empty cartridges and eLiquid last? Each 15ml eLiquid bottle is equivalent to 300 cigarettes. The cartridges/mouthpieces can last until they fall apart. What do we mean by fall apart? They will losen and not fit as tightly on the atomizer. The wick will become compacted and no longer hold liquid. The wick will become loose and fall out of the cartridge compartment. Any one or all of these things can happen.
If you follow the above directions, your eSmoking experience will go smoothly. Once you get the hang of it, you will be able to “drip” just as easily as you lit a tobacco cigarette. Happy eSmoking!
Reference Pictures:
Electronic Cigarette Mouthpiece w/ cartridge inside:
An unwrapped mouthpiece with plug pulled out (keep clear rubber plug to use later when refilling cartridges):
Here is the mouthpiece with the cartridge and plug all separated. Please note: You can refill a cartridge with ELiquid while it is still in the mouthpiece. You really don’t ever need to take the cartridge out of the mouthpiece. Inside the cartridge is white fiber that acts as a wick to hold the ELiquid:
For those who are curious, you can take the cartridge out of the mouthpiece by sticking a toothpick through the small hole in the end of the mouthpiece. Again, you can refill the cartridge while it is still in the mouthpiece:
