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  • The Ruby Twist Ball Vape (From VgoodiEZ) – Pros & Cons – My Thoughts After One Year

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    I was just about to load a bowl in my Ruby Twist, and realized I’ve had this thing for about a year now, so I wanted to share my thoughts on it now that some time has passed.

    I was a little bit nervous before buying this, for a couple of reasons. One is that I had tried a dry herb vape before, the Arizer Solo 2. As someone who was ripping bongs all day every day, the Solo 2 didn’t do much for me. It was a slow, soft hitting, session vape that just never got me where I wanted to go, unless I took a tolerance break first. That experience kept me away from the Ruby Twist for way too long, before I realized I was totally wrong, and this thing hits HARD, but more on that later.

    The second thing I was worried about was set up and maintenance. Maybe some of you guys can relate, but ball vapes intimidated me a lot when I first looked into them. I thought they’d be complicated to figure out, and maybe even require upkeep, like cleaning the rubies or changing a coil, the way you would on a nicotine vape. Once again, I was wrong. That’s why I made another video showing the unboxing/setup of this device, it’s so much easier than I expected.

    So, now that I’ve been using this thing just about daily for the past year, here are the biggest pros and cons I’ve noticed:

    Pros: My lungs feel healthier. This is the biggest reason I bought this vape, and probably what I like most about it. daily smoking felt like it was starting to put stress on my body. Sometimes I’d have coughing fits, or pains in my lungs, or a little too much phlegm in the morning. Those things all went away, pretty much entirely, in the first few weeks of using this. It’s been years since I could breathe this deep and clear, and I didn’t even fully notice how much smoking was impacting me like that until I switched. I spent $180 on the Ruby Twist, and it feels like I’m saving myself much more than that in future medical bills alone.

    And saving money brings me to my next point, Efficiency. I only put 0.10 to 0.15g of flower in the ruby twists titanium bowl, and it lasts longer and gets me higher than 0.40g of the same flower in my regular pipe. I’m no scientist, I don’t know how it works exactly, but this thing really seems to give you every single cannabinoid that must just be wasted in combustion.

    Stronger Highs! As I mentioned in the last one, this genuinely gets me feeling higher than combustion does. It really makes the flower feel more like a dab experience, I love it. A tiny bowl of this tickles my brain more than a big gram+ blunt would, it’s wild.

    Flavor. You really get to experience the terpenes in your flower. I hear a lot of people say that all weed tastes the same, which just isn’t true if you have a vape! Now if I smoke again, it all just tastes like smoke, but with this ruby twist, I could do a blind taste test and tell you which strain I was hitting.

    Fast heat up & you can use any bong you want. I bought the ‘Cell’ bong, because I like how I can just let the heater sit comfortably on top, but you can use any glass water pipe you have!

    Cons: When vaping several times a day, every day, I seem to get more cottonmouth. I’m not positive why it seems worse than with smoking, but I definitely need to drink more water, especially between and during sessions.

    I need to clean the glass I use it with pretty constantly, hitting it daily. It gets a fair amount of gunk built up inside of It after about 10 bowls, which really impacts the flavor. Luckily, it’s super easy to shake a little isopropyl alcohol and salt around in it to get it spotless again.

    The heat element! When it’s on, you need to be careful to not let anything touch it, and it stays on for at least an hour, depending on how long you program it to stay on.

    Overall, I can’t believe how much of a lifechanger this vape is, and I’m very thankful for it. I would have spent much more than $180 on this thing, for sure!

    Check it out on youtube here:

  • Ruby Twist Ball Vape: “Unboxing” & Setup – A Quick & Easy how to!

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    A year ago, I bought the Ruby Twist (Particularly, the Ruby Twist Bundle w/ Titanium Matrix Bowl + Microdose Bowl by Crossing Technology) from VgoodiEZ.com. As a daily smoker, it was the BEST decision I’ve made in a long time.

    I’ll get into why I love it so much in a different post, but when I first looked into them, I was so confused. What is a ball vape?? How does a “Ball Vaporizer” even work? It sounded so complicated, and scared me a lot. I didn’t buy one for months, because I felt like I wouldn’t understand how to set it up, or what maintenance or cleaning it might need, all those little things that can surprise you after a purchase.

    After doing some research, I said whatever, if all these people can figure it out, so can I! And I was very right. When you have it in your hands, it is the easiest, most intuitive thing to figure out. Almost as easy as just using a lighter!

    Check out the video I made on it here ⬇️ It’s only a minute and 30 seconds!

  • Ruby Twist – Review/Experience

    A review of the Ruby Twist Kit by VgoodieZ

    First off, I feel that it’s important to explain just a little bit about my background and experience with both cannabis and vaporizers, just so you have an idea of who this review is coming from, and gauge how it may or may not relate to your personal situation.

    Vaporizer Experience:

    This is my first and only ‘ball’ vape. I have previously owned a portable dry herb vape, the Arizer Solo II. I was not a huge fan of how much time that device took for one session, and how little vapor I got with each hit. 

    Cannabis Experience:

    I’ve been smoking, dabbing and eating weed all day, every day for the past 15 years, with just a few breaks in between. High quality flower and concentrates from California, Michigan, Colorado and everywhere in between. My daily routine can easily involve smoking 3 grams of flower, taking several rosin dabs, and eating 200-500mg of edibles, all before noon. I’m genuinely not saying this to brag, I don’t even think that it is one. Why I’m getting into this will become apparent a little bit later. 

    My Preconceptions: 

    When doing my research on what ball vape should be my first, I kept seeing the same phrase mentioned over and over: “It makes your flower hit like a dab!” I was pretty hesitant to believe that one. I figured “they must just have low tolerances, surely it won’t hit me like that, right?”

    Wrong!

    I was also hesitant to believe that it would be easy to set up. I mean, ball vapes sound complicated as a complete beginner. The concept of going from a lighter, to a heated coil and ruby balls, sounded pretty intimidating. 

    Also wrong!

    First Impressions:

    Right out of the box, I could tell it would be easier to get setup than I had thought. I bought mine from VgoodieZ as a kit, so it came entirely assembled, just had to plug it in, let it “heat soak” for 5 minutes according to the instructions, then it was good to go! The bowl it came with fit right into the bong I had already owned, and was ready to pack and go. (After I cleaned it and my bong with isopropyl alcohol, just to be clean.)

    It was very simple, and I hardly even needed the instructions to figure out how to work it. It’s pretty intuitive to just pack the bowl, put the metal coil on it, and rip some clouds! 

    And let me tell you, this thing RIPS! It gives me just as much cloud-action as this same bong did with combustion, except the bowls actually last longer! I get several huge hits out of the same amount of flower as one combusted bong hit. And the best part is, it truly feels like a dabbing experience. The people who had said that were so exactly right! Each hit is a super flavorful, potent burst of terpenes and flavors, that hit you immediately right between the eyes, just like a dab would. Due to my tolerance, I thought that I would disagree with this, but I was very wrong, it really is just like dabbing. 

    In the first few days, I was under the impression that lower temps would be best for smooth vapor, so I was hitting it at about 500f, and found a lot of my strains to be relatively harsh at that temperature. I brushed it off, figuring I just needed to get used to the new device. 

    Thoughts After One Month:

    A month in, and I’m still loving this device. I haven’t even wanted to try combusting my green again, it just feels like that would be a waste, and taste terrible as well. I’ve adjusted to using the device at 550, the higher temperature actually makes for a smoother hit.

    After running this daily for a month, probably thousands of bowls in by this point, I can tell you that it STILL hits me like a dab. Tolerance buildup hasn’t been much of a thing at all, I’m still getting absolutely ripped off this thing, despite being pretty used to it at this point. I consistently feel like I used to as a beginner stoner, getting as high as I did years and years ago. It’s been amazing!

    Another benefit is in my lungs. As a daily smoker for so long, my lungs were really feeling it, I had a smokers cough and everything. Since getting used to the switch, I haven’t had any cough at all.

    I also smell better, in addition to all my clothes and my whole house as well. When using the Ruby Twist, the room will still smell, but it seems to go away entirely in about 15 minutes. When I used to smoke out my window, I’d be able to smell it hours later. 

    Since making the switch, I no longer need ash trays at all. Instead, I fill a jar with my already-vaped-bud, and just mix it in to ice cream later on. Since it’s been ‘decarbed’ by the vape process already, it’s ready to eat and be absorbed in the body! No need to cook it in to edibles, like with traditional flower. It takes longer to kick in than a regular edible, but it lasts a long time and hits pretty hard. 

    Overall Thoughts:

    I’m absolutely considering this the best purchase I’ve made in years. 

    1. It’s definitely healthier. The older I get, the more important that is to me.

    2. It’s just fun! After smoking for years, it’s great to have an option that’s not only hard hitting, but just fresh and new. 

    3. It saves weed. Weed is very possibly one of my biggest expenses. Don’t get me wrong, I can afford it, but it’s always nice to cut costs down on something you go through a lot of!

    In conclusion, the only thing that I regret is taking so long to pull the trigger on this. I’d been reading about ball vapes, and how great they are, for well over a year before making this leap. That’s a whole year that I could’ve been enjoying weed more, while harming my body less. 

    Don’t be like me! Grab your Ruby Twist Kit here at VgoodieZ, I don’t see how anyone could regret it. I used code ‘Buddy5’ at checkout, to bring the whole kit down to just $190 in total, shipped to my door and everything. 

    Addition: Later on, I bought the ‘Cell’ water pipe that’s made to be used with these devices. It’s a very nice addition to my collection, and the Ruby Twist sits perfectly on top of it, letting me use it hands free, a little bit. I love it, and the showerhead percolator inside of it. However, if I could go back in time, I would buy the bigger ‘Cell Mega’ for a little bit more money, just so it would sit with more stability on my counter. It’s not unstable, but I’ve almost knocked it over a couple times. I don’t think the big guy would have budged! If you’re just buying a water pipe attachment, you can use code ‘Buddy10’ at checkout for 10% off.

    Differen’t options you could buy, and the attached discount codes that I used. You could just buy the ruby twist bundle and use it with any bong you have at home, or you could buy the bundle with the glass included, or just the glass itself if you need. You DO NOT need all of these items to use the Ruby Twist.

  • How to take a break from weed.

    So, you’ve been smoking for a while now. You’re getting pretty used to the effects you’ve been feeling. Maybe even.. too used to them? Or maybe you just can’t partake right now for any number of other reasons.

    If you’ve found this page, I’m assuming you’ve already realized what point you’re at, and what you need to do about it. You may need a tolerance break!

    Luckily, taking a tolerance break doesn’t have to be as hard as it seems! Just about every seasoned stoner has been there. It’s all in your mindset and perspective, my friend. Let’s dive into this a bit;

    How do I know I might need a tolerance break?

    • Weed isn’t getting you as high as you want to be
    • You’re feeling brain fog
    • You’re anxious, sad or irritable every time you smoke
    • You’re spending too much money on weed
    • You’re spending too much time on weed

    If I take a tolerance break, what effects will I experience?

    That depends pretty heavily on how long you’ve been smoking, how good your product is, how often you smoke, and probably many more factors. But generally, most people will experience a few or all of these symptoms:

    • Decreased sleep quality
    • Decreased appetite
    • Mood Swings
    • Boredom
    • Intense dreams
    • Cold sweats at night

    How can I make my tolerance break easier?

    Essentially, a lot of self care.

    • Exercise – Hit the gym, go for a run, get on the floor and do some pushups if you need to. The more physically tired you get yourself, the better. For one thing, you’ll sleep much better if your body is tired out. You might not even notice the insomnia! Another benefit is the natural release of endorphins when you exercise. The runners high is no joke! When all your body wants is that elevated feeling, exercise can certainly duplicate it.
    • Hobbies – One of the hardest parts of a tolerance break can be the extreme boredom. The goal here is to keep your mind off of your tolerance break. If you’re sitting there fantasizing about smoking again, you’re just going to feel worse and worse. Instead, fill your time with just about anything. Read or write a book, draw some doodles, craft something, play an instrument, do a puzzle, play some video games, get lost in a movie, or even discover a brand new hobby. The world is still your oyster, even without the green.
    • Replace your Rituals – Personally, I love the ritual of smoking or vaping about as much as the act itself, so I replace it as well. Rather than grind up flower and pack a bowl, I’ll boil some water and steep a tea bag. I find it to be a great way to achieve a similar level of relaxation in my day. I get the process of physically preparing something, and then I can sit down and have a nice sip sesh as well.
    • CBD Flower – If you have access to it, CBD flower can be helpful in achieving a very similar ritual, as well as providing your body with all the benefits of your green, without any of the high. This method could be useful for helping you get back to sleep if you’re struggling with that. Personally, I find that this method can be a slippery slope, and usually just makes me want the real thing even more. Many people do have success with this, though!

    How long will these tolerance break side effects last?

    I find that the worst of it is over in about one week, though everyone is different. It could take you a couple of weeks. Generally speaking, after one week your appetite, sleep pattern and mood regulation should be much closer to normal again. Boredom can still be in full force, if you’re not actively fighting it!

    How long should my tolerance break be?

    This one is personal preference. If you’re a heavy smoker, even one day off will make a big difference in the effects you feel when you smoke again. I like to take occasional 7 day breaks to help my tolerance, and then a 30 day break when my body lets me know it needs one. This ensures my tolerance stays lower for longer once I come back to smoking.

    How should I come back to smoking?

    When you smoke again, start small! It won’t take much at all. After a few days off, I make sure to start with one puff to see how it’ll hit. Jumping right back in to the heavy hitters is a surefire way to raise your tolerance right back to where it was before.