How Easy Was Switching to a Tobacco Alternative??

How easy was it to quit smoking by switching?

  • Switched by accident, wasn't even trying.

  • Took a little effort, but I did switch.

  • Took a lot of effort, but I did switch.

  • I have not switched altogether, but I'm working on it.

  • I have no intention of ever giving up smoking.


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DEAc23

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I quit rather easily, after my first fill of a cheap e-go from a convenient store I never touched another cigarette. The main problem I had in the beginning was I would constantly go to grab a cigarette when I had a craving, and it always took a little effort for me to grab the e-go instead.

Now it's been almost 3 months, and I know with absolute certainty I will never take up smoking analogs again, even if for some reason they stopped making/selling/allowing e-cigs.
 

a wandering soul

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So at just past a month smoke free I tested something i had heard about. That being take a puff off an analog & see what you think.

So was hanging w a friend who smokes the brand I used to. Took a puff.. tasted good on the inhale (camel menthol lights.. so pretty much just menthol) the exhale however was awful. I literally grimaced.. immediately grabbed my drink which was empty.. wasted no time & grabbed another.. then started vaping like crazy.. even petted my mvp ala gollum stroking his 'precious'

I can has tapatalked this.
 

UnclePsyko

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I had to vote for the accidental option, although I would actually call it "Unintentional" quitter.
Though the very first time I bought an e-cig, a miserable cig-a-like, I had every intention of quitting... wasn't even close. That was back in June 2010.
I absolutely loved smoking... and I seriously never "wanted" to quit, I just knew it would be the right thing to do. I needed the cigarettes, but I loved cigars and an occasional pipe loaded up with some Black Cavendish, especially cherry when I had the time to dedicate to the ritual. Loading and tamping a pipe was something I looked forward to.
I would continue to smoke in the company vehicles knowing full well it was against policy. I revisited vaping with a Joye 510 manual 3-piece kit, battery with the atomizer and the "cart". I used it primarily for work to avoid any more hassle about the smell in the vehicles and on myself. Day 3 and I wasn't even reaching for the smokes anymore so I just stopped carrying cigs with me during the day.
I never did have that anticipated evening smoke after work and I never looked back.
Haven't fired up any tobacco since February 2012 and I've never been happier.
 

jjordan

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I used cigarettes and an e-cig at the same time at first because I just couldn't stop smoking completely, then all the sudden the more I vaped the more disgusting the cigs tasted the less I smoked. So at first it took a little effort and once I made a hobby out of collecting e-cigs and tanks and stuff it became fun and now I have absolutely no problem keeping a full pack of cigs in my purse without smoking them. My husband bought them for me because he thought that e-cigs were bs and couldn't help you quit smoking until I bought him one and he started vaping and slowed way down on smoking and is smoking less and less due to having the e-cig I bought him and the backup he bought himself. He gets mad at me for how much money I spend on all of my e-cigs and supplies but I can guarantee it is a lot less than he spends on his two pack a day habit with his stinkies! So I say we are fair! Besides I work for my money and don't spend his money so why should he ....., seriously?!?
 
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Merryhellion

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I stumbled into a local B&M shop with bronchitis from being with other smokers for a holiday adventure. Got an ego and an evod tank; the next week, without antibiotics, I walked back in to thank the guy who sold them to me. My lungs were clear, my sinuses were clean, I was breathing through both nostrils regularly after years of perhaps one at a time. Being that sick made it easier to forget about the cigs and just vape for my nic cravings. My voice was clear, and I wasn't coughing, not even the half coughs that come from smoking irritation.

It helped a great deal to be sick when I was quitting; by the time I tried lighting up again my taste buds had recovered enough to utterly reject the concept. Had I not begun vaping, chances are very good that like every other winter of my smoking lifestyle, I would have been on antibiotics, then spent a very harsh winter of relapses; that was the pattern every year for as long as I smoked.

So I vote with very little effort; once opened to the solution, I followed it with relative ease. There are a few black letter days, desperately just wanting to actually smoke a cigarette, that ended each time in violent physical reaction to attempting to smoke.

Five days after I began to vape, my regular cigarette order of 4 cartons arrived. I have 3 cartons, 9 packs, and 7 cigarettes of that left, to remind me just what it truly cost every time I restocked. There is no desire to smoke any of those cigarettes now, at all.
 

dahlialady

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I stumbled into a local B&M shop with bronchitis from being with other smokers for a holiday adventure. Got an ego and an evod tank; the next week, without antibiotics, I walked back in to thank the guy who sold them to me. My lungs were clear, my sinuses were clean, I was breathing through both nostrils regularly after years of perhaps one at a time. Being that sick made it easier to forget about the cigs and just vape for my nic cravings. My voice was clear, and I wasn't coughing, not even the half coughs that come from smoking irritation.

It helped a great deal to be sick when I was quitting; by the time I tried lighting up again my taste buds had recovered enough to utterly reject the concept. Had I not begun vaping, chances are very good that like every other winter of my smoking lifestyle, I would have been on antibiotics, then spent a very harsh winter of relapses; that was the pattern every year for as long as I smoked.

So I vote with very little effort; once opened to the solution, I followed it with relative ease. There are a few black letter days, desperately just wanting to actually smoke a cigarette, that ended each time in violent physical reaction to attempting to smoke.

Five days after I began to vape, my regular cigarette order of 4 cartons arrived. I have 3 cartons, 9 packs, and 7 cigarettes of that left, to remind me just what it truly cost every time I restocked. There is no desire to smoke any of those cigarettes now, at all.

I too had my typical fall/winter bronchitis (about 6 weeks in) when I bought my starter kit. It too was gone within a week of vaping. Been great since then! I too went back to my B&M and thanked them like crazy.
 
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