A list of symptoms when quitting tobacco and changing to an ecigarette

[LadyJazz]

I'm so glad this thread is here....make it a sticky! I'm day one on the e-cig, and I was wondering why I'm running to the bathroom so much. I didn't think about withdraw. Ah!
I had started on low, but I don't think that's strong enough. Maybe I'll try the med. to see if that helps, or makes me run to the bathroom twice as fast.

 

[strayling]

I'll chime in with one that got me the other day. My sinuses and Eustachian tubes were completely bunged up and everything smelled of RY4, which became quite annoying after a while.

I think I've figured out what happened: the night before, I'd been vaping loads and exhaling through my nose to savour the flavour My hypothesis is that the PG dessicated my nasal system At any rate, I switched to mainly exhaling through my mouth and stopped letting the vapour linger so long, and the problem cleared up within a day.

 

[GetPaidToStopSmoking]

Interesting,

Just found this thread and I am amazed at all the symptoms people have had. Is there any one brand that seems to be causing the most symptoms, or is it equal across the board?

I only had dry tickle in throat for first couple days as I switched, but nothing else I can define, certainly not the running to the bathroom issue. I am just curious what would cause that. lol

Success to all,

 

[Cinn]

I had my first vaping experience yesterday.

I started the day with a migraine (not related to vaping, I get migraines frequently and had not vaped yet). Having read others experiences with headaches after vaping I was hesitant to start but being anxious to get started I decided to give it a go anyway, Interestingly, my migraine actually improved greatly after vaping.

On the bad side, my throat is on fire and I feel like I have a cold (symptoms others have also mentioned).

I'm wondering if perhaps my throat has actually been burned. When I first started I did not inhale, just took some puffs to try and get used to it. On my first inhale I felt heat hit my throat, and then the burning began. Is it possible that the heat from the atomizer might actually hit the throat and cause burns?

I'm taking a break from vaping for today but plan on trying again when I'm feeling better. I'm hoping what I'm experiencing will only be temporary, as some others have said it was for them. If not for the issues I'm experiencing today I believe I might just be done with the analogs already. With vaping yesterday I'd cut my analog use in half and may have cut it out completely had my throat not gone up in flames.

I'm really curious about the possible literal burning of the throat theory. Anyone have any thoughts?

 

[SABOTEUR]

I've suffered with a dry complexion for the longest time. No amount of lotion or moisturizer would get rid of the flakes that would form all over my face for more than an hour or so.

That flaky condition stopped once I dropped analogs for e-cigs. The flakes returned, though, when I started vaping 36mg strength e-juice with polyester fiberfill material. I jumped to the conclusion that I was experiencing a negative reaction to the e-juice, but when I replaced the batting material with tea bags, my complexion improved immediately.

It seems that some combination of that particular strength e-juice and the batting material created the adverse affect to my body chemistry. In any event, tea bags works great...

...and I don't have to walk around looking like The Mummy anymore.

 

[Cinn]

I replaced the batting material with tea bags

Can you give info on how to do this?

 

[Klimpt]

Just read this entire thread. Couple of quick comments:

1. Of the hundreds of posters, only 2 or 3 people reported really, really nasty sounding symptoms. Seems to me this is perhaps a neutral figure given the occasional allergic reaction and/or contaminated product is bound to happen to some percentage of people. If this was a thread about eating apples or riding a bike you might find a similar mix....some small number will eat rotten apples and some will fall off their bike.

2. Almost every symptom seems to me can be explained by one or all of: nicotine dosage issues, the effects of quitting tobacco and dehydration (the latter itself partly explained by the former two). This is relatively reassuring - my main fears about e-smoking are about contamination from the cart plastic or vapour laced with degrading metal or burning plastic etc. Strikes me that those things would basicaly poison lots of people pretty quickly, which either hasn't happened or has happened but symptoms don't appear until years hence. But the lack of signs of immediate symptoms like this is reassuring. I certainly didn't read anything that sounds like heavy metal poisoning.


......

5 days in. Two minor symptoms myself:

1. Tightening in chest and a wheeziness are starting. Again, very consistent with going from 20 cigs a day for 20 years to zero cigs overnight.

2. Mild heartburn/stomach cramp. Certainly feels like a nicotine issue as I seem to remember similar heartburny-nausea symptoms on traditional NRTs I'd tried like gum or the inhaler.



I should say I am in a massively biased mood at the moment because I so want this to continue. I still cannot believe I've only had 2 cigarettes in 5 days, none the last 3 days. A miracle.

 

[cowgal]

Can you give info on how to do this?

There are a couple of threads happening over in Tips & Tricks. Here's the one that I think started it....
...Oops I'm not allowed to post URLs yet! Hope you will know what to do with this:

/forum/tips-tricks/11394-replacing-cartridge-wool.html

 

[1HitWonder]

Just passed the one-week point with E-cigs last Sat. The only symptom so far that I've noticed is a slight headache with the energee liquid. None of the other flavors seem to bother me.

Plus I am probably vaping way too much. I have to remind myself to put it down from time to time. I've already killed 1 atomizer.

I like it too much!

 

[AlmondEyes]

I cannot say if I haven't been feeling well due to e smoking or if it was something I ate. I've been vaping for about 2 weeks. Over the past few days, I cannot get to sleep (I'm up til nearly 4am and wake back up around 6am). My stomach is in knots come night time. I've had on and off headaches that make me miserable and last a long time, nothing seems to get rid of them. I'm pretty tired and tense in my shoulders/neck. I used to use the Low nicotine juices. However, 4 days ago I opened up a different flavour that was Medium nicotine. Maybe this is just too much for me. I'm going to lay off vaping and smoking til I can figure out how to make my own 0 nicotine juices.

Nothing in my life is different than it was a month ago... well, I had a birthday, but that's not stressful. Might be the economy, lack of work, having to renew the lease and the rent went up again, sneaking up in my subconscious. I don't know. I'll sit out this no vaping period and see if I feel better.... maybe it was just too much nicotine for me.

 

[cclisamona]

after i esmoke... my mouth feels like i just sucked in a whole helium baloon!!!!!! weird!!!!!

 

[Klimpt]

I cannot say if I haven't been feeling well due to e smoking or if it was something I ate. I've been vaping for about 2 weeks. Over the past few days, I cannot get to sleep (I'm up til nearly 4am and wake back up around 6am). My stomach is in knots come night time. I've had on and off headaches that make me miserable and last a long time, nothing seems to get rid of them. I'm pretty tired and tense in my shoulders/neck. I used to use the Low nicotine juices. However, 4 days ago I opened up a different flavour that was Medium nicotine. Maybe this is just too much for me. I'm going to lay off vaping and smoking til I can figure out how to make my own 0 nicotine juices.

Nothing in my life is different than it was a month ago... well, I had a birthday, but that's not stressful. Might be the economy, lack of work, having to renew the lease and the rent went up again, sneaking up in my subconscious. I don't know. I'll sit out this no vaping period and see if I feel better.... maybe it was just too much nicotine for me.

Seems to me all these symptoms are common to smokers quitting cigarettes. And as you say, a slightly incorrect new nic reigime might account for (some of) it too.

I think the real test would be to go cold-turkey on the cigarettes with no vaping...if you still have the maladies, then you know it is cig withdrawal not vaping. That said, it would be a remarkable coincidence if the symptoms of quitting cigs happened to be exactly the same as the symptoms of starting to vape!

 

[Skad]

I've developed small round bruises on my knees.
This may be more symptomatic of my sticky 801 battery then anything else.

 

[Torngold]

Im 16 days out from smoking and the first thing that happened was a VERY sore tongue really bad and it hurt....Still does but not as bad... I also have bad, bad night sweats like I just got out of a pool...Anyone else, have the tongue issue....

 

[Caesarea]

Nothing but good side effects of my one month's vaping to note from my annual check up this year. BP had been slightly up at the surgery, (prolly nerves cos I don't care for needles?) but has been normal every day since.

Blood tests for cholesterol both kinds are low, thyroid normal, kidneys normal.

Said the Doc: they're such good tests I won't need to see you for 3 years. It's not often we over 60's hear those words.
Now I'm a bit miffed by that 'cos I wanted to keep telling the good news.

 

[Klimpt]

Nothing but good side effects of my one month's vaping to note from my annual check up this year. BP had been slightly up at the surgery, (prolly nerves cos I don't care for needles?) but has been normal every day since.

Blood tests for cholesterol both kinds are low, thyroid normal, kidneys normal.

Said the Doc: they're such good tests I won't need to see you for 3 years. It's not often we over 60's hear those words.
Now I'm a bit miffed by that 'cos I wanted to keep telling the good news.

That is really, really great news, congrats.

Could I ask, were the blood/thyroid/kidney/other checks looking for specific problems (cholesterol for example) or were they general checks that would have picked up any vape-related nastiness in those parts of your system?

I'm thinking that if vaping were causing some kind of toxic poisoning (say if atomisers were degrading into the vapour) then surely that would show up in blood tests, wouldn't it?

 

[Caesarea]

That is really, really great news, congrats.

Could I ask, were the blood/thyroid/kidney/other checks looking for specific problems (cholesterol for example) or were they general checks that would have picked up any vape-related nastiness in those parts of your system?

When you're 60 plus and a lifelong heavy smoker dependent on thyroid supplements, they check you out pretty good! I'll go on needing the thyroxin all my life, and I'm phasing out asthma preventer medicines because I have had no real symptoms for ages now, even before vaping, and no smoker's cough or wheezing since vaping, but other than that no chronic conditions and so the blood tests would be the usual range for folks my age.

I'm thinking that if vaping were causing some kind of toxic poisoning (say if atomisers were degrading into the vapour) then surely that would show up in blood tests, wouldn't it?

I think it would have shown up in feeling unwell, but I'm not a doctor. What did strike me was that the blood samples were red, not the "usual" violet and I'd expect to see ... related rather than vape related nastiness, wouldn't you?
Better the little risk than the Big Fat Certainty, no?



PS Just remembered: my atties never degrade anyway - they expire healthy and young on passthroughs. Therefore shall take up the passthrough again, and avoid any chance of degradations.....hehehe

 

[ISAWHIM]

3.) Hiccups - Also caused by a lack of air exchange in live-lung capillary vessels. The hiccup action aids in the unclogging of small blocked passages which have constricted and filled with thick mucus. (After heavy smoking, and while stressed, these symptoms can occur without stomach air/gas being present.)

It goes away by taking a few deep breaths, and one deep breath prior to inhaling a restricting gas like carbon-monoxide or carbon-dioxide saturated vapor. (It is the opposite reaction of hyperventilating, but similar a situation.)

Yes, Acne is a common issue with quitting smoking. This is also related to stress-levels as well as toxin levels in glands being excreted.

Multiple, small, mouth-only puffs, like smoking a cigar, can help reduce some of the associated cross-over symptoms.

Remember, cigarettes are also filled with other speed-like stimulants. Nicotine is only the chemical that is responsible for the craving, not the, "high". Cigarettes are also filled with urea for flavor and formaldehyde for smoothness. This along with many of the hunger-suppression chemicals, which mess with your digestive track, are no longer present in an e-cig. (Essentially, many of these symptoms are your body reacting to the damage it now feels, which was caused before, and suppressed by the anaesthetic reaction from normal cigarette chemicals.)

You get a similar reaction if you eat McDonalds every day, and suddenly stop... or never eat there, and then start eating there. Your body makes a temporary adaption to the new foreign chemicals, or begins to show signs from protecting your body from elements that no longer exist within your body.

 

[Cinn]

Gave vaping another try yesterday. This time using a different juice (switched from menthol from e-smokeytreats to Chocolate Almond Dec. from Johnson Creek). No throat issues this time but my stomach is not feeling too swift (lots of indigestion, acid reflux, etc) and I also had some very strange vivid dreams (apparently the mafia is after me, not to worry the FBI is on it), quite a bit of anxiety/panic attacks, and my head feels "odd".

Vaped once more this morning but going to lay off again for a while. I'm still determined to give this a fair go but if these issues persist I don't think I'll be able to keep going with it.

 

[ThePaintedHarlot]

FYI For an acne breakout, try and aspirin facial. I do this every other day and it keeps my skin clear:

1 packet of BC powder
a few drops of water
2 drops of honey

Mix in your hand
Rub on your face (it is a great exfoliant)
and leave it for a few minutes
Rinse and tone