What stacks said.

Keep in mind that they already know what they are going to do before you bet. Checking or slow playing doesn't ever make you more money except on the odd occasion where they will stack off to a C/R after catching some pair on the turn(very rare). You need to remember that calling or playing PP's for set value means you have to get the stacks in the middle to make playing them preflop actually profitable. If you aren't taking down a ton of flops with bets when missing with SC's and small PP's then you will need to be getting a much higher price when you do finally hit. like 20:1 eff. stacks preflop or more.