Anyone Miss Analogs???

[TropicalBob]

Let me be brutally honest: Yes.

But do I miss tobacco cigarettes or do I miss what they became to me in my years as a smoker? I can't know, because I can't smoke one to find out. I haven't smoked a real cigarette in 18 months now.

For 50 years, though, they were my best friend. Always there to lift me up, to calm me down, to reward me when I needed a reward. How can anyone not miss that? E-smoking is not the same. It's great, I love the taste, but it's not the same. I miss what cigarette smoking gave me.

And of all the problems this quitter has had, the biggest is finding a substitute reward for "job well done." I'm a writer, and when I completed something I thought particularly good, I rewarded myself with a cigarette. I also contemplated the next task while smoking a cigarette. With the e-cigarette, its use is non-stop. Always in my mouth, it seems. That's not a reward. That's an addiction to a new source of a drug.

You asked a fair question and you have a bunch of happy campers newly off cigarettes. Wait a few months. Wait a year. Ask again. Then visit forums where you'll find smokers who have been off cigarettes for a decade -- and still crave one every day. That's life for many quitters. I envy those who can just walk away from smoking. I envy those who think e-smoking is a perfect answer.

I'm still searching, while contemplating a writing job I'm procrastinating by sucking on my Janty Kissbox and thinking of a lost love, the daily death of my former best friend.

Yes, I do.

[Sir_Puffalot]

From my personal experiences at the start of vaping I would of killed for an analog but that could of been down to device choice and using the standard carts that came with them (just cant get on with the flavour). Just bought a platinum 901 and using French Pipe liquid in it. Everything works as it should and I`m genuinely loving the flavour.
In a weak moment out on the beer with the lads I had a couple drags on my mates roll-up with I used to smoke religiously and it almost made me gag.
But like T-Bob says ask me again in a year but at the moment all is good

[e-pipeman]

I don't miss tobacco at all. If I smell smoke now it just seems so acrid - I can't begin to imagine why I used to inhale the stuff. In my memory when I was smoking it didn't smell like that at all, but it must have done (to others if not to me). Curious, that.

[PeteMcArthur]

I miss them less and less, even the much loved first in the morning. Who knows what I will be like in a few years time. I've been off cigarettes for three months or so, I have given up for a similar length of time, the difference was when I went cold turkey, I was a different person, not nice to know, vicious temper and a CONSTANT feeling of deprivation. With e-cigs, I get my nicotine, I don't feel deprived and the temper is no more. My anxiety is that the government will ban them, I don't know what I'll do then...

[Sun Vaporer]

Been off the anologs for over 2 months now and do not even think about them--and I can actually smell a smoker--yicks!! To think I use to smell like that-NASTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Pleased2BHere]

I miss the bulletproof performance of lighting up and having a predictably good smoke. These things are just not there yet. I do not miss the distain from anti-smokers, the smell and the continued health damage though. I hope these stay "legal" long enough to get better performance.

[Ladycats]

About the only thing I miss to any degree is how hassle-free it is compared to vaping - you just light them, and they always work at peak performance. But that's about the only advantage they have, which isn't much compared to all the various downsides.

Yep ... light em and go ..... but I am finding that as time goes by, I'm getting my vaping routine down so it's no longer a major production either ..

[panderson01]

I had been smoking for 30+ years and have struggled to quit over the last 5. I had quit using the patch about 4 or 5 times in that period and was on the patch for the last 3 months and knew when I ran out of patches, that I would end of smoking again or be on patches for the rest of my life, at this point anyway.

Then I ran into e-cigs and for me, it is the perfect solution at this point in my life. The patch was handling the nic I needed, but not the periodic rush, especially in the a.m.

The e-cig also satisfies the physical smoking habit of handling, inhaling, and other physical points of smoking that the patch, gum or lozenges can't address.

So for me, it is the perfect solution at this point.

-Paul

[Damian The Dude]

The thing I miss most is the 5 minutes of peace I get when I go outside for a cig.

Other than that, I dont miss them at all. After e-smoking, analogs taste like crap.

[Tetsab]

I've wavered a bit about this - from early days in November the analogue use dropped sharply from around 30/day to 4 or 5 a day in the first week. Into December and I'd had a couple of days with none, started writing the date I opened it on my fag packet. Next two packs lasted a week each and the third even longer. By this time I'd found I didn't even particularly like the taste of my formerly beloved Marboros anymore.

New Year's Eve I tried an experiment, partly because I wanted to find out if I was 'increasing' my nicotine use with liquids. So no vaping all day, just analogues - that was the plan. Result, mouth tasted horrible, a filthy headache appeared from nowhere and persisted, becoming more unpleasant as the day wore on. After about 15 or so 'real' cigs around 4-5pm decided I'd had enough. Out came the 901. Conclusion - I actively prefer vaping to smoking, and I haven't increased my nicotine dependancy, probably actually reduced it despite seeming to be vaping more than I ever smoked because I like it so much.

Still had the odd 'real' one since then, including one half an hour ago 'cos both my batteries had died and I couldn't be a*sed to go get charged ones. Gave me a headache and I didn't like the taste as much as my own mixes. Went and got fresh batts and much happier now.

I'm not going to say I've just smoked my last-ever analogue on the 'never say never' principle and just occasionally I may remind myself why I don't want to do it anymore!

PS Go see the 'swaps' thread if you haven't got to where I am yet - I have nasty tobacco/cigarette stock I want to get rid of!!