A list of symptoms when quitting tobacco and changing to an ecigarette

[ladybug51]

[QUOTE=Misty;77265]Hi,

Nicotine is popular supplement among lucid dreamers for example, who try to become aware and alert during dreams. Nicotine has also been reported to result in more vivid dreams.

OOPS! I was just having some fun with Frankie. Now this part I like. I love to dream and usually don't, or don't remember them too well. Maybe I should vape more before bed.

This has been a strange but interesting day for me Misty. No one invited me to eat with them this time and I'm hungry. So instead, I came here looking for something to do and ate pizza leftovers.
Bug

[Frankie]

ladybug51: Yeah. Check from 2:30

YouTube - JIM JARMUSCH - Coffee And Cigarettes

zoom zoom zoom zoom BOOOM!

[ZambucaLu]

Well that's pretty interesting Misty!

Lu

[nqhqhz]

Interesting replies; incidentally, I do not know too much about these things, my girlfriend is a pharmacologist and is my backup on any scientific stuff.

By the way I don't wish to cause alarm or concern, this symptom, which I regard as interesting rather than bad, is common enough in healthy people. I included a reference to exploding head syndrome because of the hilarious name and because it is a disorder which includes the symptom, but I don't think I have the disorder. I am simply more susceptible to this (I got it a lot when coming off an SSRI once)

What misty says is correct to my knowledge- and I'd add that hypnagogic and hypnopompic hallucinations are in my experience common in one who makes any change in diet, sleep pattern, drug or medicine use, and are definitely nothing to be concerned about. I would say that this is just a manifestation of a symptom listed above, that is to say, sleep disturbance.

In addition, chewing sugarfree gum before bed (not nicotine gum obviously!) has been helpful for me in this regard, my theory is that it rebalances the delicate state of the inner ear.

Another substance with the same effect is galantamine, which inhibits acetylcholine reuptake in the synapses. Nicotine actually attaches to these receptors increasing your overall level of wakefullness.

You sound like a knowledgeable practitioner of lucid dreaming to me, you might be interested that my ability to lucid dream has at least temporarily increased since using e-cigarettes, even without acetylcholine precursors (which I usually take as choline supplements) or Calea Zacatechici which I would sometimes drink as a tea with an evening cigarette.

Also ladybug thank you for your concern; however I am not on any medication for anything, naturally if I or a loved one was on psychiatric medication I would avoid using e-cigarettes as, since as Misty mentions above nicotine is multiple agonist, a suspected monoamine oxidase inhibitor (i.e. similar to some old school antidepressants) and has some dopamine related effects. By altering the amount of nicotine you take you run the risk of interfering with your medication. The same thing is true of patches and lozenges.

[ladybug51]

Also ladybug thank you for your concern; however I am not on any medication for anything, naturally if I or a loved one was on psychiatric medication I would avoid using e-cigarettes as, since as Misty mentions above nicotine is multiple agonist, a suspected monoamine oxidase inhibitor (i.e. similar to some old school antidepressants) and has some dopamine related effects. By altering the amount of nicotine you take you run the risk of interfering with your medication. The same thing is true of patches and lozenges.

I do apologize if you took offense to my poking fun with another. I seem to be correcting myself too often. Now apologizing. Thank you for being so gracious. I think I best end this evening and give my overworked brain a rest.

I do hope you find out for sure what is causing this. It seems like Misty has an avenue worth exploring. Because there is so little known about the e-cigs, I felt caution should be taken.

I wish you well.

[nqhqhz]

Oh no, not at all
I think it's very hard to tell any effects this is having on me from any caused by not smoking analogue cigarettes anyway. For instance, I seem to be in the middle of a chesty cough and a cold at the moment, but my instinct tells me that my body is somehow recovering from the tar.

[Frankie]

nqhqhz: Yes, sorry, too. We were just in a bit of New Year naughty mode, that´s all. Actually I think almost everybody experienced something like that syndrome in his/her life, me included, it´s just the name... lol...

No offence meant.

[ladybug51]

At the risk of TMI, this is an embarrassing thing. I heard someone mention it before, forgot who, couldn't find the post.

I get some awful smelling flatulence. It's sometimes worse than others. It is not from what I am eating; I've kept track. I've been vaping since Nov. 9th and it still happens. It has it's own definite smell.

It could be I'm vaping too much? certain times? I know others have has this. Do you know why? Did it stop? Ideas anyone?

Thank you,
Bug

[katink]

Ladybug, I think many are stuck with that for a couple of months ('poison leaving your body in all ways possible' remember?)

And nqhqhz, I recognize what you are talking about exactly too... I went from full smoking (a lót) to full e-vaping within a day... and then I entered a really strange period... for a couple of weeks (3 to 4 if I remember correctly) I was (first increasingly, from about 1 to 1 1/2 weeks in decreasingly) ill. Bit flu-like indeed. And just like you, the strangest part about it was... I felt sick, for sure... and at the very same time could feel myself getting healthier by the day, by the hour almost... and both situations were occuring at the same time. Strangest episode of my life as to health-issues...

After those weeks of 'leaving-the-tobacco-sickness' everything cleared up again, and I could go on feeling myself about 3 flights of steps higher up on the ladder as to health.

[swanee]

I tried to stop smoking right when i ordered my e cig and made it three days before smoking again and i can tell you i had some pretty wicked almost flu like symptoms.None of which have i had with vapor. Accept mild stomach cramping but i don't think it has anything to do with vaping as it started this morning before i recieved my ecig.