New To Particles and need to do fog

Hi Guys

Being predominantly a modeller, I have never really touched on particles or 
PFlow. I've been through all the shipped tutorials and have a basic 
undertstanding, but I'm having some serious issues with getting past them. I can
do 
basic stuff, but i need to create some fog that wisps around an object and 
is then sucked away.

I tried using blizzard and adding various forces, but I can't seem to get the 
material right. I have a combination of noise and fall off in the opacity 
channel and noise in the Diffuse, but I still get some really hard edges on 
the particles as they fly past. They are also flying past way too fast and 
I have the speed set at around 1cm

Does anybody know a good tutorial to do this?

I have also tried the Volume Fog, but it doesn't really give me the effect 
I'm looking for.

Thanks in advance

Chris