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

[Pegaso]

oops! sorry!
it looks like i've written a forbidden word in my last message (i didn't think that word could be banned ).
So you can understand the message, i'll say that word starts with "S", finish with "T", and has an "H" and an "I" in the middle (sorry, but I couldn't find a better word to describe what we inhale when we smoke a cigarette...).

[bghouse]

I've gotten a bit behind in updating the first post - I promise I'll get on that asap.

I've managed this last week to cut real cigs substantially. I still can't go completely e-cig, don't know why. Almost made it today, but just caved at 7:30pm and smoked a real one. Darn it - thought today I could make it.

Sinus is the most amazing change for me. I'm starting to smell things again! Normally i'm constantly stuffy, too much mucus, and can't smell a think. Now, it's clearing up considerably - except when I cheat with a real cigarette and then I stuff up again immediately.

All my other symptoms have gone away - although I haven't yet had the coughing and breakouts - but I'm only two weeks into this.

I'm making my own mix, and it certainly seems to do the trick. I do 50% of a 11mg liquid and 50% VG.

[Bertrand]

Did you ever wonder why smokers suffer severe coughing every morning and not during the rest of the day?... 8 hours non-smoking (well, and to be lying also helps to that, as more **** comes up). You start smoking again, and coughing is gone.

I think you also get bronchospasms which help squeeze out the pus with your first few smokes of the morning. mmmm. Smoking is stupid.

[CaSHMeRe]

Excellent Compilation so far BG !!!

[SuziQ]

I have been vaping for a couple of weeks, although I haven't managed to cut out cigarettes completely. I was smoking 30/day and now down to 2/day.
Over the past few days, I have had horrendous spots coming up on my face. These are not little things either, but huge flipping lumps! I am an old woman for goodness sake, lol. I guess it could be that my cigarette consumption has dropped so low, that my body is in some kind of detox.
I haven't noticed much in the way of anything else.
SuziQ

[TropicalBob]

That's an excellent description, Pegaso -- and I've been there as you have. Right now, I've been off tobacco cigarettes for 16 months and on e-devices since January (along with snus and some other stuff that doesn't involve inhaling smoke).

Despite the rose-colored posts we often find on this forum, it does take a "quit" mindset to stay on e-cigs and off regular cigs. Your brain will lobby you to return to the "pleasures" of smoking real cigarettes. I liken it to a battle inside my head -- good TB says stay off and reap the health benefits of not taking in smoke; bad TB says 'get real, you're a born smoker and you're making yourself miserable by not smoking.'

What we never read on this forum are members who gave up. They tried e-smoking, posted enthusiastically and then after a period of e-smoking went back to regular cigarettes. One of the most interesting statistics I look forward to is the success rate of e-smokers who quit regular cigarettes. With NRT, it's usually less than 10 percent after 12 months. I think e-smoking is the best alternative to cigarettes, but my bet is the success rate won't be even close to the cheerleader-led posts of happy e-smokers here. Maybe 20 percent will stay lifetime e-smokers. Maybe.

And remember that Wall Street estimated only 1 percent of cigarette smokers would convert to e-smoking. If you doubt that in your enthusiasm, just read reader comments beneath any news account about e-smoking in mainstream media. It is often extremely negative. Our e-cigs are considered Cracker Jack toys by many, who might try one and then laugh them off as not replicating a real cigarette.

[Textuality]

It's in the first post... but I just figured I'd post to say that I get a dry throat when e-smoking. It doesn't last long, but it's quite noticeable when I'm actually using the device, sometimes resulting in a dry cough.

[Textuality]

Oh, and I also got a headache when I first tried it. But.. umm... I think that had slightly more to do with using a high nicotine cartridge (I normally smoke light cigarettes) and taking in waaaaaay too much.

[SMILIN]

That's an excellent description, Pegaso -- and I've been there as you have. Right now, I've been off tobacco cigarettes for 16 months and on e-devices since January (along with snus and some other stuff that doesn't involve inhaling smoke).

Despite the rose-colored posts we often find on this forum, it does take a "quit" mindset to stay on e-cigs and off regular cigs. Your brain will lobby you to return to the "pleasures" of smoking real cigarettes. I liken it to a battle inside my head -- good TB says stay off and reap the health benefits of not taking in smoke; bad TB says 'get real, you're a born smoker and you're making yourself miserable by not smoking.'

What we never read on this forum are members who gave up. They tried e-smoking, posted enthusiastically and then after a period of e-smoking went back to regular cigarettes. One of the most interesting statistics I look forward to is the success rate of e-smokers who quit regular cigarettes. With NRT, it's usually less than 10 percent after 12 months. I think e-smoking is the best alternative to cigarettes, but my bet is the success rate won't be even close to the cheerleader-led posts of happy e-smokers here. Maybe 20 percent will stay lifetime e-smokers. Maybe.

And remember that Wall Street estimated only 1 percent of cigarette smokers would convert to e-smoking. If you doubt that in your enthusiasm, just read reader comments beneath any news account about e-smoking in mainstream media. It is often extremely negative. Our e-cigs are considered Cracker Jack toys by many, who might try one and then laugh them off as not replicating a real cigarette.

TB, today is 2 weeks cig free, for me, a frikin miracle as I have tried everything. Ecigs, are the "real deal" I was smoking about 100 kools/day, and since ecigs, well, you know the deal. I only hope these catch on, cause I know how GREAT I am feeling, and BREATHING, as a result. These are the best "toys" and investment I have made in years. Yes, Better than stocks

[Kate]

Nicotine overdose has been mentioned a few times on the forum. I got palpitations after using some 36mg juice for half an hour, had trouble getting to sleep and had nightmares.

Jimmy was saying he got a persistent bad headache and had to go to hospital on this thread - Worst Headache of my life!!