How Many Users Have Reported A Sore Throat ... ?

[TropicalBob]

You might be right, Greensurf. There's an old thread here where a Wall Street analyst said 1 percent of smokers might take up e-smoking. Everyone here poo-poohed that -- but we're E-vangelists. Read comments following newspaper or TV stories on e-smoking and they are filled with negativity. You're lucky to find one writer with anything positive to say about e-smoking. The road to acceptance is long .. and leads through Washington.

[jamie]

I've noticed feeling drier when I use the ecig a lot.

maybe more chemicals to make the nicotine go into the body quicker like regular smokes

Not into the body quicker (than lung delivery), but into the brain quicker, and I believe that would be ammonia. And then they'd have to add stuff to mask the ammonia. And stuff to mask the stuff masking the ammonia. And pretty soon it would be a cigarette.

[Hector]

I arrived at e-cigs via a very different route to most here.

I gave up smoking cigarettes in January after starting a smoke free course run by the NHS here in England. I was advised to take Zyban to ease the cravings as I had attempted to quit several times over the years without success.

After only a week or two without cigarettes I had so much more energy. I live at the top of a very steep hill. After a month I could almost run up the hill and I am 53. I had not felt so fit for probably 25 years or more.

I came off of the Zyban early. I have never known a drug with so many weird side effects. I could not take it anymore.

After 4 months I was supposed to be over the worse - the cravings should have gone according to my counsellor. Like heck !

The thing I missed most was the taste of tobacco.

I was seriously contemplating buying a pack of cigarettes when I stumbled across e-cigarettes.

Strangely when the first e-cig arrived I could not stand the smell eminating from the cartridges so I didn't even try it for a week (may have been a residual side effect from Zyban).

I have to say I am now well hooked and find e-smoking far preferable to cigarettes which I had smoked for nearly 30 years. I have no desire to return to tobacco although I will always stick to the 'tobacco' flavoured e-cigs.

As far as my health is concerned I find e-cigs a half way house. Initially I suffered a very sore throat. Now I get the odd discomfort but nothing serious. I have more phlegm than I used to as a non smoker and from time to time my lungs feel as if I have smoked a packet of normal cigarettes but this passes. Energy wise, not as good as when I was abstaining but a whole lot better than on my old 20-25 per day habit.

And I can puff away now without my dog sneezing and giving me hate looks

[TropicalBob]

Welcome, Hector. Good story and a very apt analogy. We are all residents of a Halfway House. We're still nicotine addicts, but no longer cigarette smokers.

Pretty nice place, this halfway house. Check it out. See you around.

[sanneke]

Welcome, Hector. Good story and a very apt analogy. We are all residents of a Halfway House. We're still nicotine addicts, but no longer cigarette smokers.

Pretty nice place, this halfway house. Check it out. See you around.

Halfway house. LOL..
How about "the hotel of california". You can check out anytime, but you can never leave.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=zkD-Mrg1BOQ

[TropicalBob]

That works.

"...some dance to remember,
some dance to forget ..."

That's us. And we stab with our steely e-knives, but we still can't kill the N-beast.

[CaSHMeRe]

Hector ... I am on the same boat as you ...

I quit in September of 2007, and started smoking e-cig's last week. I smoke the Zero Nic carts and Bickford flavors only and I am 100% content just vapping instead of smoking. BananaDoc and I are the only ones that stay completely Nic free, however, we are hoping more join the Zero Nic club soon

... We're still nicotine addicts, but no longer cigarette smokers...

i guess i consider myself a nic addict for life, however, I am just not a "practicing" nic addict

[UncleMidriff]

I'll get a mild sore throat whenever I e-smoke, and my voice sometimes sounds as if I arrived from the womb smoking a cigarette and haven't taken a break in all my 26 years.

I can't be two quick to pin the sore throat on PG or anything else e-smoking related though because of this damn non-stop heartburn I've been having lately. If I can get that under control, I'll be interested to see if the sore throat goes away or sticks around due to e-smoking.

I too was initially disappointed by the lack of nicotine rush provided by e-smoking, but as I've gotten used to it, I'm beginning to find it more and more satisfying. I take longer puffs now (usually around as long as it takes for the atomizer to automatically shut off), and I after 4 or 5 of those, I can feel a nice nicotine calm come over me. The rush I'd get from my regular cigs (Camel Turkish Royals) was sometimes too strong, as my fingers would sometimes get all numb and tingly and I'd feel quite weak. So, the in-between feeling offered by e-smoking is something I find rather enjoyable.

[QuietDave]

I am getting a sore throat when I vape, and I'm not yet using my e-fags that much. I've been planning to surprise my partner (who so far doesn't even know e-cigarettes exist!) by getting her one for her birthday. Have just been trying them out to make sure I get the right thing for her. Once I give her that I plan to try moving completely to e-cigarettes myself but I'm getting a bit worried by the sore throat I'm getting after only a few puffs.

Have others found mostly that you get used to it and this improves over time?

D

[UncleMidriff]

Well, I don't know how it will be with you, but when I first tried the high-nic carts from MyEcig.com, the vapor hit my throat like a swarm of angry razor blades. Now,I puff on them all day long with only mild discomfort.