1 day down :)

[DrGabber]

So I am on my second day of being analog free. I am vaping alot more than I smoked, but I have had no cravings for a "real" cigarette. Well other than I would like to try an analog just to compare the flavor and feel to my e-cig, but no feelings of "I NEED a cigarette!"

I only smoked between 1/2 and 1 pack a day, but I have tried quitting several times before with nicorette, snus, herbal cigs, cold turkey, etc. and I always craved a cigarette. I would chew a couple pieces of nicorette to death or use a pouch or two of snus and then have a cig right after and feel sick from all the nicotine.

It really surprises me that I feel satisfied and have not felt the need for an analog.

[breakfastchef]

Similar situation for me coming off 20-30 cigs/day. I was able to stop the analogs two days after I started vaping. Vaping more than smoking is normal. My theory is that constant vaping is providing some basic level of nicotine concentration all the time whereas smoking would provide peaks of nicotine followed by valleys. In the valley, you would likely crave another cigarette and so the cycle went. Of the few studies on e-cigs available to read on the Web, one suggests that you take in less nicotine vaping. Perhaps another reason some of us tend to 'vape heavily'.

[accord96]

Perhaps it is because of the convenience of vaping. With cigarettes I used to have to leave my office and walk a bit as opposed to vaping where I can do it wherever so I never really have the crazy withdrawl from the nicotine.

I will agree though that vaping has helped me cut from a pack a day, down to 1.5 over the past 2 days since I got my e stick. Honestly I feel that this is the best thing to help quit smoking that has been created. It mimics the action of cigarettes while chewing gum or the patch offers no movement or activity.

[DrGabber]

With cigarettes I used to have to leave my office

Being able to vape at the desk is nice. Yesterday it was raining and instead of going outside and getting soaked just to have a smoke, I could vape inside and stay nice and dry.

Honestly I feel that this is the best thing to help quit smoking that has been created. It mimics the action of cigarettes while chewing gum or the patch offers no movement or activity.

I think this has alot to do with the satisfaction I get from my e-cig.

[Richie G]

Being able to vape at the desk is nice. Yesterday it was raining and instead of going outside and getting soaked just to have a smoke, I could vape inside and stay nice and dry.

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So, you're at your desk while you vape. Prior to this, you would have to leave your desk to go outside and smoke, yes?

Doc, I think you deserve a raise for being more productive! =)

(I brought this up at my jobsite and was told [ jokingly] -- "I should-a fired ya when you were taking unscheduled smoke breaks!")

[DrGabber]

So, you're at your desk while you vape. Prior to this, you would have to leave your desk to go outside and smoke, yes?

Doc, I think you deserve a raise for being more productive! =)

(I brought this up at my jobsite and was told [ jokingly] -- "I should-a fired ya when you were taking unscheduled smoke breaks!")

[BARENETTED]

Drgrabber - if you don't need a cigarette - don't do it - at least not now.
You can safely do it after about a month. It will taste like dog donuts!
I tried it just last month and choked - couldn't even inhale it. I have no desire for it.

I quit analogs five months ago after my second day.

I definitely vaped a lot more than I smoked - why - because I could.

I think I have since cut down on vaping - but will never completely give it up. - why - I love it tooooooo much!

[jim420]

I can't speak for everyone, but after almost 40 years of smoking 2 packs a day, I started vaping, and that was the last puff I took off an analog. Patches and gum and hypnosis dodn't work...I'm in my third month of not even one puff, but the way I did it was, even in the bar with friends smoking all around me, I said to myself "If I take one puf, it won't be my last" and have won the battle.

[Wench]

I'm also at 1 day. I've been a 1 pack to 1 1/2 packs a day smoker for 20 years now I've tried quitting so many times it is just not even funny and even my family knows to avoid me when I've tried, it gets ugly.
I've only had 3 regular cigs today and I'm not feeling stressed and like a atomic bomb about to go off due to .."Omg I need a ciggie" and for me that's amazing in itself.
I noticed I have been vaping a bit more than I smoke usually but I imagine it will taper off.
I'm so thankful I don't have to go outside anymore especially since summer in Florida is hot, humid and miserable.

[Alain59]

I'm also at 1 day. I've been a 1 pack to 1 1/2 packs a day smoker for 20 years now I've tried quitting so many times it is just not even funny and even my family knows to avoid me when I've tried, it gets ugly.
I've only had 3 regular cigs today and I'm not feeling stressed and like a atomic bomb about to go off due to .."Omg I need a ciggie" and for me that's amazing in itself.
I noticed I have been vaping a bit more than I smoke usually but I imagine it will taper off.
I'm so thankful I don't have to go outside anymore especially since summer in Florida is hot, humid and miserable.

Well Congradulations Wench ! and all you others that have made it !
I have not been able to stop yet as i too have turned into the Tasmania Devil LOL , but hope to get there someday too, i have noticed that i will vape a lot more than with a ciggaret but i guess its part of the change over , some of the more experienced might be able to give you more details on how it went with them and if they are down to vaping less over a certain periode of adjustement
keep up the vaping !