Spontaneous drop in nicotine need

[telsie]

So this is odd. I woke up yesterday feeling just as groggy as I always am when I wake up. I fed my cats, I made my coffee and then I started surfing the web. A few minutes later I remembered my e-cig. Oh yeah... nicotine! I just didn't feel that urge for it. Of course, once I thought about it, habit kicked in if nothing else and I wanted it. But rather than force some nic into my system that maybe I didn't need, I decided to fill my cart with about half zero stength and half low (11mg) strength. And that was... fine. Weird.

As the day went on and my nic need kicked in a bit more, I still just mostly vaped low strength. I think twice during the day I topped off with medium. Normally, I vape low, med and high throughout the day (mostly medium). I haven't actually been to bed yet since I had an all-night amount of work to do (and yeah, I worked all freaking night with only low strength nic), but I'm going in a few and when I get up later, I'm curious if I'm still going to be fine with low strength or if yesterday was a fluke.

Anyone else experienced a spontaneous drop in nic need?

[Scottbee]

It used to be that the very first thing that I reached for in the morning was my analog. Not my coffee.... not my dog.. not my wife ()...

That has changed with time and PV's. My PV still gets a decent hit within the first 15 minutes of morning consciousness..... but it's not necessarily the very first thing.

[nubee]

Same boat for me too. I get up, grab the cup-o-joe and start reading the web news. A good story could be me out 10 minutes before I screw on the atty and load up my cart.

Now, that being said, could I then finish that morning, shlog to the office and return home without touching it.......don't think so.

I have also noticed a similar "lower need" during the work day sitting in some of those power, 1+ hour meetings. I'm not looking to break any tackles to get back to my desk

[The Wiz]

Unfortunatly the first thing I grab in the morning is my PV.....Generally followed up within minutes by a cup of coffee and a pinch of snuff!! The only time I seem to require less nicotine is when I am preoccupied at work.!The Wiz!

[telsie]

Years ago, I got out of the habit of lighting up the a smoke the minute I got out of bed, so I never reach for my e-cig immediately either. But generally, I'm feeling a bit hurried to get to the point that I'm sitting down with my coffee and ready to vape, just as I always was with smoking. Something seems different now, though. There's less urgency to get to it. I'm only vaping low strength today and it seems to be all I need. I hope this lasts. It's awesome to just need less without trying

[dlynne]

I just love to vape. However, I notice too that the urgency to smoke a cigarette is not present with my vaping habit. This can only be some fort of progress.

[cassey808]

i have also noticed some vierd lows in my smoking, but have always considered them a good thing. maybe they are caused by the fact that regular cigarettes have lots and lots more additives in them that just nicotine...i mean all the stuff like things used in nail-polish remover and so on. Maybe its just that once you don't get the extra additives the body grows more conscious and readjusts its nicotine need, that being lower than you were used to...
or maybe I'm just talking plain nonsense right now

[Ysabet]

I have always been a wierd smoker. I never smoked until late in the day ... usually after supper. Then I would smoke while watching tv till bedtime. A pack of analogs would last me approximately 3 days.

Never even carried smokes with me if I left the house.

But since I have started vaping I need (or want may be better) a good vape with my morning coffee. I now also vape most of the day and the evenings.

I am not sure what I am getting from the vaping but I am loving it and I am NOT reaching for any analogs.

So I figure all is good!

[myownslave]

i ran really low on juice just before the 1st so i mixed up a batch of 20ml VG and dumped in my last 5ml of 18 mg in it. so about 25ml of REALLY THICK 3.6mg if my math is right. didnt kill the craving but helped a little, by day 5 i was perfectly fine with it and i got an immediate buzz off my 11mg that showed up. now vaping at zero most of the day with a couple puffs of 11. could have NEVER done that with analogs.
*edit* got off subject, and yes i dont vape for the first 20 min of the day, used to be immediate with cigs.

[telsie]

I haven't had to vape any high strength (24mg) liquid since I posted this. So it would seem that my spontaneous drop wasn't a fluke. Before, I was mostly vaping medium (18mg) along with high sometimes and low sometimes. Now I'm mostly vaping low (11mg) with medium sometimes and zero sometimes.

Here's another cool thing I've realized...

I mentioned before how I've been feeling less urgency to start vaping in the mornings. This morning I figured out why that is: My brain doesn't seem to need the nicotine to wake up anymore. I'm not a morning person, so I'm never not groggy when I get up. Within maybe 10 minutes of getting out of bed, however, I feel quite mentally alert without even having vaped yet.

I'm still having a very distinct craving in the morning for nicotine, but because it doesn't seem to be involving my head, it's not as strong. I don't know if that made any sense at all, but it's the only way I could describe it.