E-Cig Success Rate?

[allure]

it is really frustrating not knowing when these atomizer and batteries die. I have started smoking e-cigs(npro) from last Friday and had to switch to analogs on Wednesday after my battery and atomizer died. I have ordered new 801 kit from eastmall which is at customs. I am still learning things you should do before you start e-cigs. back up..backup...backup...buy more atomizers and don't buy npro from njoy.

[kender]

I here ya. My first was an NPro also.

[DaveG_phx]

I still slip and have one...or two, at most three. But honestly, I get more satisfaction out of my e-cig.

I've gone the most three days without a smoke. I need to buckle down and commit totally to vaping. Otherwise, I'm afraid, I could end up right back at smoking analogs, nasty as they are.

I don't bundle switching from analogs with any kind of self improvement. I don't consider using e-cigs a quit attempt at all. I'm just using these things instead of analogs purely for health reasons.

With that rationale in mind, slipping isn't tied to self-worth/self-loathing. The meaning of smoking an analog is reduced to what it is, you smoked an analog. So what. I even go so far as to consider analogs my 'backup' if anything happens to the e-cig when I'm out and about. I know I can get nicotine at any corner store.

It can be hard because almost everyone on this site considers switching from analogs an accomplishment, just look at all the banners saying how long they've been off analogs. I look at it differently and that allows me to keep using them.

[bugeater]

Twenty-five years of smoking analogs. At least a pack a day for 20 years.

I'm completely analog free a week after my first vape.

[Stephaniems]

I havent bought any tobacco cigs since the last 2wks of March. I've been tobacco cig free for 3wks now I think, and have 0 desire to pick them up again. Well that is as long as I have access to electronic ones.

[JocelynG]

I have COPD and knew I had to quit smoking in January when I got pneumonia and could not even walk to my car to go to the doctor for meds without major psyching myself up for the exertion. So I quit analogs because I couldn't breathe for about three weeks. Then I got better and thought I could maybe just smoke one while sitting at the computer, or just one when I watched a movie....and I realized that I was once again going to resume a two-pack a day habit no matter how bad it was for my lungs. I had been smoking for over 40 years and just liked it. Period. Did not want to live smoke-free, thank you very much, and it looked as if I was going to get my wish. Then I decided to go ahead and give the Smoking Everywhere a shot, what did I have to lose? Got that first starter pack in late February and of course experienced the usual frustration of all newbies as it sure didn't seem to be as trouble-free as promised...BUT, despite all that, it was close enough to smoking to stick with it, and I have not smoked an analog since. Of course, I have gone on to discover 901s and this wonderful forum, and perhaps have just switched one addiction for another..BUT, I don't miss tobacco at all, don't particularly like the way it smells coming out of someone else's car window but at same time don't mind being around someone else who is smoking an analog either. Breathing is definitely better. No desire to sneak just one. I even think now that I am ready to cut down to a very low nicotine and go a step further. This method to quit seems to work because I don't mourn the loss of smoking, which is why I could never stay quit before, and there is so much fiddling around with carts and atomizers that my hands stay busy. So I'm a believer, and would encourage anyone thinking about quitting to make an investment of $100 for a kit and extra atomizers aand juice and give it a try. You may find you can make it without will power too!

[ShMiGgY]

my wife and i took one NPRO between us and about 20 carts on vacation. We swore with all the activity and an alternative to smoking while we were there, that we would not buy any analogs ever again, not there, or after we got back.

That was a month ago. we both haven't smoked since a day before we got on the plane. After 15 years, we just up and never touched another one thanks to our NPRO... This is the honest truth too. Haven't touched a single one.... Now if i even smell a cigarette, it really turns me off, disgusting and i can't believe i ever smoked.

so, chalk up TWO of us using only ONE super mini type ecig.. We think the things are a godsend.

*edit* so we're looking at about a 75 percent quit rate... Unbelievable why anyone would not want these things around... just mind boggling..

The money saved on needless health insurance costs with e-cigs are probably astounding. We both tried it all. patches, gum, lozenges... just got more of a nicotine buzz since we just smoked along with them...

This is the only way we would have quit

[Tallulah]

I stopped tobacco for nearly 2 months with my penstyle, and swore I was done with tobacco. Then, while waiting on an order that never arrived, I ran out of juice. Back to analogs I went, and without batting an eye. By the time I received my next order, my starry-eyed love affair with this technology was over.

Baby, you're so good, but you never call....and I don't have the patience to sit and hit F5 a thousand freaking times to get my stuff like I'm trying to win some stupid Ebay auction.

I want this stuff available whenever I need it. I'm an addict.

[ShMiGgY]

i don't know why the NPRO gets such a bad rap. That's all we have in this house (till my 401 comes). We do have 100ml of juice, a box of 10 carts, two chargers, 8 backup batts, 8 backup atty's, etc. etc.... plenty of backups and well stocked.

Everything is still working, all attys, all battys, chargers.... maybe we're just lucky but, the things keep working for us... I have noticed our original batteries that came with our NPRO kit don't get me through a whole day anymore, but, if i condition them, i bet they'd work like new..

I guess everyone's mileage varies. Our original NPRO, both it's battery and its atomizer still work fine after a month.

*edit*,,, all this with much maintainence/cleaning i should add...but i knew that going into it.

[SlideJob Jones]

I'm a quitter!

I smoked at least a pack a day, and there was a few year period where I did 2 to 2.5 packs a day. Started when I was 16, and turn 35 this month.....19 years!!!!!!!!

I heard about this, and gave it a try with the crappy npro. It was okay, but didn't inspire me to slow down or quit the analogs. I ordered a Vapor King, which showed up last friday. That was my last day of smoking!!!!!!! I am now on day 8 of ZERO analogs, and the cravings are already starting to subside. I know the demons will be back, but I can beat em!

I've ordered a ton of stuff now, I am set. The Npro which I hated by comparison, actually makes a pretty dang good dripping machine. Currently addicted to my mini-pipe, and the vapor king with the red bull carts.