Anyone Miss Analogs???

[CalPilot89]

I am sitting here in El Paso Texas. I fly for a living, and one of my favorite parts of going on trips were to get to the hotel, have a drink, have a few cigarettes, and relax after a long day.

Today I got to thinking.. Do I really miss the analogs??

I really enjoyed smoking. I liked the ritual of going outside on a nice night for a smoke. I enjoyed that first cigarette in the morning. I loved the smell of a freshly lit cigarette.

What I did not enjoy was having to FIT smoking in during the day. I did not like having to sneak one in between flights. Having to go through security at the airport many extra times just because I had to go outside.
Getting crazy by the end of a long flight, because it had been 6 hours since my last cigarette.
Not liking the smell of smoking rooms, having to go outside the hotel in the freezing winters just to get my nicotine.
I hated smelling of smoke. My clothes. My hands. My breath.

I know that everyone on this board has different lifestyles and different reasons for switching to e cigs. But what was your experience?

What do you miss? What do you not miss? Do you miss the analogs?

I realize now that I don't. Life is much simpler now. I feel great. I don't smell like an ash tray. I can still enjoy sitting outside with my e cig and enjoy life.

Tell me what you think?

[SuperStack]

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.

[CalPilot89]

I agree superstack.. Now if big tobacco could use their big bucks to create the perfect safe ecig....

[riddle80]

There's not much I miss. Every now and then after I eat or have a glass of wine I get a pretty bad craving, but that's about it. Usually when I start craving one that's when I'll start playing around with flavors to take my mind off it. So far so good though

[nitewriter]

I think I'll miss them less and less as time goes by, especially in about 10-20 years when I'm not dying of enphyzema.

I do still find myself reaching for them (Just out of habit, not out of want) but then I grab my e-cig instead. I do think I miss the rituals more than the actual analogs.

[Muzzaman]

Thought I was missing them yesterday when I had a dead atomizer and was expericencing problems with refilling cartridges with e-juice etc. But revived my dead atomizers (much to my relief) and hav sorted out the best was to get my juice working and was thankful I didn't hav to got back to analogs.

If everythings working with the e-cigs theres no chance I miss analogs!

[parapo]

i don't miss them at all,
even when i'm away and a battery dies or when i'm short in liquid....

[mixxy]

I really have not missed them at all since quitting a week ago now, other than a few times that were more a part of my old "ritual" -- and not that it was an e-cig instead of a real one. Because of our kids (both now grown and gone for over 10 yrs) we both still smoked 90% of the time under the kitchen exhaust fan... and even using e-cigs we had a terrible time not standing under the kitchen fan! The funny thing was that 3 days after we quit "smoking" the kitchen fan "broke" after almost 30 years!
I still start to roll the window down in the car.. before I remembering I don't need to. My hubby keeps complaining about not being able to find his "mother pack" -- he can't get used to having just a single e-cig instead of a box of 20 cigs-- to watch disappear!

[prophet]

Ive been on my new mini from puresmoker for about a day. Ive smoked 3 cigarettes within that time frame, the rest was all vape. Glad to say.. def not.. im not missing them any

[JamesD]

I don't miss them a bit. The past 10 days I've been alternating between my Janty Kissbox and my Aeros smokeless. No analogs at all. I'm beginning to wonder what I will do with the 6 packs of Pall Mells and the entire carton of Swisher Sweets Little Cigars I have on my shelf. I've had these since Thanksgiving. I'm just not interested in them anymore.

Couldn't have quit without the e-cig, but I think the new push toward completely demonizing the individual smoker through the big "THIRD HAND SMOKE" campaign has really influenced me. This new move aims to plant the idea in most people's heads that "if you can smell smoke, your life is in imminent danger." I don't want to get caught up in that. I'd say we're 2-5 years from a complete criminalization of tobacco.

JamesD