have you tasted a smoke since you quit?

[DC2]

I never even wanted to quit smoking, and am still shocked that I have!

That shock and amazement will last for about two years.
And then one day you'll realize that there is no reason to be shocked.

vaping is better than smoking, once you've got a setup and flavors that work for you.
And when you feel that realization deep in your heart, you will no longer fear cigarettes in any way.

Well, at least that's what happened to me.

 

[Sundodger]

5 months in and I have yet to try one. The one time i'd be vulnerable would be if I drank, but luckily I don't do that anymore.


I'm such a square.

You must have great will power considering your avatar.

 

[bluecat]

I like the smell of fresh cigarette or cigar smoke. I still smoke a cigar every weekend or every other weekend. There is a cigar bar up the road my wife and friends go to. The walk in humidor is wonderful. I just wish it was bigger.

I had a smoke the other day. Was out and about battery died backup was dead. So I bummed a smoke. Taste didn't bother me at first puff. I hated the smell on my fingers and clothes though. Wasn't any issues or yearnings to go back to smoking and went right back to vaping.

 

[Rickajho]

Does tossing between analogs and vaping actually work?

I'm concerned cos I'll finally be taking vaping on fully at the end of the month, but I go to watch the football (soccer) with my mates on the weekend, have a few drinks, and they all smoke. It was sort of a routine I got into, just a day out with the lads really...

I can't really see myself taking my Spinner to any matches, but at the same time I want to be able to get off the analogs completely, and not have to worry about wanting one when out with friends having a few drinks..

It can for some people. It comes down to two issues: How committed you are to completely quitting. And: Know thyself.

Many people can play loose, and will have a .... or two here and there, but spend the majority of their time vaping. Hey, if it works it works. These people don't go into a full blown relapse. When I hit vaping I just wanted to quit smoking. Period. Thirty years was plenty enough. I had no issues or concerns about what a PV looked like to anyone else. Hell, you get more social stigma from smoking than not smoking - even if that involves the likes of a Spinner in public. It depends on your commitment level to staying completely quit. You have to sort that one out for yourself.

As you are hearing, for a lot (most) of us the smoking experience turns on you really fast when you start vaping. If you are lucky like us, you won't find any pleasure in smoking in short order. If that's the case for you then the question of having one or wanting one will take care of itself. Having been quit for over two years now I still cringe at the very thought of smoking one, let alone doing it. So you have that to consider as well.

I think it's better for new vapers to actually "fail" - call it a quit smoking experiment - early in their vaping experience to see how they now react to smoking. Get this question hanging over your head out of the way early on. If you are one of the lucky many, smoking a cigarette turns into it's own worst negative reinforcement. You won't want to repeat the experience. However, there are some people who still find something they like about smoking. If you are one of those folks, now you know and you know what you are up against. For those people it takes more commitment to stay quit. At least you know what you have to do and the occasional cigarette probably isn't a good idea.

Don't be concerned about what your mates may think until you actually get there. Guys like technology - even if it's an e-cig. They may show a lot more interest than ridicule. As you already figured out just by joining us here, you weren't the only one looking for a quit smoking solution. You may be surprised - in a good way - at their reaction.

 

[Anjaffm]

Yup, I smoked twice since I switched to vaping (immediately and effortlessly, as the time was right) on 4 Nov 2011.

1st time - 3 weeks after I started vaping: 2 batteries broken and the 3rd one was charging. There were 5 cigarettes left in the pack that had been lying, ignored and not needed, on my coffee table. I smoked them. Eeewwwwwww... the last one tasted just as horrible as the first one.
Lesson learned: get backup. A lot of backup. Now

2nd time - about 7 months after I started vaping: out in the beer garden with friends, had not taken enough batteries with me. Bummed cigarettes. Ewwwww... but, as we say in German, "when in need, the devil will eat flies" Yuck yuck, when I got home, I grabbed my vaping gear and vaped one whole ml at one sitting, to get that taste out of my mouth, throat and lungs.
Lesson learned: always take enough vaping stuff with me.

BCFCMike
Does tossing between analogs and vaping actually work?

I'm concerned cos I'll finally be taking vaping on fully at the end of the month, but I go to watch the football (soccer) with my mates on the weekend, have a few drinks, and they all smoke. It was sort of a routine I got into, just a day out with the lads really...

I can't really see myself taking my Spinner to any matches, but at the same time I want to be able to get off the analogs completely, and not have to worry about wanting one when out with friends having a few drinks..

When going out and / or drinking alcohol, this is what works well with me:
Take a nice, strong-tasting tobacco liquid (cigar flavor will work just fine) and some sweet liquid, such as caramel. When you start drinking, your taste buds will call for the flavor that used to go so well with drinking all these years: tobacco. Strong tobacco. Mix the tobacco liquid and the (e.g.) caramel liquid in the tank of your atomizer. Vape. As the evening progresses, you will mix more parts tobacco liquid with fewer parts sweet liquid. It will taste just fine, nice and strong and satisfying. And all is well - But beware of the rest in your atomizer the next morning: that stuff will take your socks off

And why the heck not vape when you go out with your buddies?
To me, and to many vapers I know, vaping comes as naturally now as smoking did for decades. We have simply exchanged all smoking rituals for vaping rituals. - And you never know before you try

 

[MacTechVpr]

And why the heck not vape when you go out with your buddies?

Exactly. The greater part of our habituation is social, far more than nicotine.

For me, I started to notice a significant difference in my taste within the very first 12 hours. I didn't give it a second thought until two days later I realized I hadn't touched a cigarette! It was then I knew it was possible to do. Find the right PV and flavor for you and it's history.

Good luck all!

 

[Rickajho]

Yup, I smoked twice since I switched to vaping (immediately and effortlessly, as the time was right) on 4 Nov 2011.

1st time - 3 weeks after I started vaping: 2 batteries broken and the 3rd one was charging. There were 5 cigarettes left in the pack that had been lying, ignored and not needed, on my coffee table. I smoked them. Eeewwwwwww... the last one tasted just as horrible as the first one.
Lesson learned: get backup. A lot of backup. Now

Absolutely. I started with a 2 battery eGo kit. As soon as I realized this was going to work for me - within the first week of vaping - I ordered a second kit. That gave me 4 batteries and 2 chargers. That guaranteed a "reverse Murphy" - once I had the backup batteries and a backup charger... nothing failed. The money paid was worth the "security" of knowing I could have had two battery failures and a charger failure and I could still be vaping.

Once you are in and committed, a bare minimum for any new vaper should be 3 batteries and 2 chargers. You don't have to make yourself nuts, but less hardware than that and you risk being caught without working gear. All the eGo's in the world are no good if you only have one charger and it craps out. And you can't vape a battery while it's on the charger, so two batteries is not enough if one fails. Stuff like that...

This would be the time to mention the disposable option again. When I started there were very few and they weren't easy to obtain. I now have three stores in my neighborhood that sell nJoy disposables. All I'm saying is if you have a catastrophic hardware failure you have options now other than buying a pack of butts.

 

[Anjaffm]

@Rickajho:

Oh yes definitely!

Well, when I started out, in November 2011, I also bought the eGo T starter kit. Best starter kit at the time.
However, sitting in Germany with 2 broken batteries (charger defective) one evening, with not an offline shop in sight, and no vaping stuff to be bought anywhere.... well "when in need, the devil will eat flies"

That is when I started my nice little collection of atomizers, batteries etc. The mods came later
Being a lady and "in love with" nice looking vaping gear, I do enjoy my little collection, especially when I go out. And after all, buying that nice ESCO battery in metallic blue when I already have it in metallic red... well, I do wear blue once in a while *giggles*

There's nothing like accumulating a lot of nice looking vaping gear - and it's all for security, of course. After all, I don't want to smoke again *makes innocent face*

And you guys and gals are really lucky in the States:

This would be the time to mention the disposable option again. When I started there were very few and they weren't easy to obtain. I now have three stores in my neighborhood that sell nJoy disposables. All I'm saying is if you have a catastrophic hardware failure you have options now other than buying a pack of butts.

No such luck here

 

[Rickajho]

Anja, have you visited here yet? => http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/general-e-smoking-discussion/323314-show-us-your-girly-pretty-decorated-pink.html

 

[LeftHandBlack]

Nope! Vape works for me.

 

[Splatnext]

I haven't dared touch a cigarette since I quit 6 weeks ago.I had found some of my old vape gear a couple of day's before and charged it up but those where the old cigarette type batteries and I knew that wasn't going to cut it, got me through that night tho.Yep thats right I tried this 2 years ago already.

Two jobs, 18 hour work day's and a dying husband where just to much at the time.

This time around I started with an ego kit and came to this forum for support (it might have bin that I got tired of being bitten up by mosquitos when stepping out of the house for a smoke, nobody want's a new house to smell like an ash tray.)
I started reading and learning about all the new stuff that came out and after 5 weeks upgraded to some nice solid almost indestructible
gear.

I never leave the house without them and carry spare batteries with me.The old egos are charged and carried in a case with an empty protank and a bottle of juice in my purse just in case I ever have to tear out of the house in a hurry and leave my mods sitting on the table.

It took me 41 years to finally quit, I'm determined not to start up again.

 

[belsenj]

At my 1 month anniversary, I figured I would try one. Took 3 puffs and threw it out! Haven't touched one since. Smoke free over 4 months.

 

[ta2dave76]

I haven't even thought about trying a cigarette.

This ^^^. As a matter of fact, when I went to Vegas Vapefest, they let you in free for crushing up a pack of smokes. Well, before I got there, I had boight a pack, and put about half into an empty pack, just in case....

That half pack has just been sitting in the car since then, untouched. I ended up giving them to a homeless guy at a stoplight the other day...

 

[EvilZoe]

This ^^^. As a matter of fact, when I went to Vegas Vapefest, they let you in free for crushing up a pack of smokes. Well, before I got there, I had boight a pack, and put about half into an empty pack, just in case....

That half pack has just been sitting in the car since then, untouched. I ended up giving them to a homeless guy at a stoplight the other day...

I was worried about wanting one when I had a few drinks at the casino, but I chose well with my juice (an 18mg Fuzion Unicorn Blood/Gummy Blood mix) and it didn't clash with my Grey Goose and tonics (with a cherry, for luck ) and didn't think about a cigarette at all. I had a Mister E-Liquid Roughneck/Liqua Standard Tobacco mix for backup but didn't use it.

 

[Big Jimmy]

I have & it tasted nasty! Only been 47 days and a few hours since my last cancer stick, I have seen the light! Never again will I inhale that "stuff"! (Trying to keep within the rules of the forum, do not want to say what I really call them now!)

Jim

 

[Rocketpunk]

I'm well beyond the point of relapse. A couple of weeks ago, my roommate had a friend over and we were outside clinking beer bottles and chilling, and I realized my gear was upstairs, two stories away. He had pack of Camel Lights (my brand) and I asked to puff on one. I had a few hits. The trip down memory lane was... meh. It stunk, that was for sure. I handed it back. I couldn't believe I sacrificed so much for something so disgusting. Singed eyebrows from a stove coil as a last desperate measure (no lighter! no matches! no money!), that was one sacrifice.

 

[B1sh0p]

I'll have a cigarette while I'm out drinking every few weeks. They're kind of gross, but I remember why they were fun to smoke. At some point, I just didn't want to smoke anymore. I smoked from 14 to 33 and I was just done with it. I'm a nicotine addict, I've never denied it. Vaping was just a natural progression for me. I guess I'm lucky in that the transition was easy and seamless, I was just done. I don't worry about relapsing or anything. Cigarettes aren't a part of my life anymore, and haven't been for a year.

One piece of advice I would give to any new vaper is to stay away from tobacco vapes. They're mostly nasty. Don't chase the dragon. Tobacco juice will never be a cigarette. Embrace vaping. Find new flavors. Experiment and explore.

 

[kabonk]

I haven't lit up in a few days shy of three years. I'm around smokers all the time but I just haven't had the urge, though I still dream I'm smoking and liking it every once in a while.

 

[B1sh0p]

I would bet alcohol is involved in at least 75% of the times that vapers have a drag off a cigarette.

 

[Sucker_dad]

Yep I broke my only PV the other day and I had already had a bad day. I smoked one. Don't get me wrong I will not start again, I am enjoying not having to have one all the time. But I loved it. I always did like the taste, and I LOVVVEEE the smell of a freshly opened pack.

I'll have to disagree with B1shop, I have a french cured Pipe tobacco flavor that I just love. I did not like it at first though.