Analog Desire

[echos67]

My official stop date is 1-1-12 after smoking Marlboro Menthols for 25 years. I started vaping actually around a month ago off and on, Im using a higher nic at 24mg, a PG80/VG20, and I found I like the menthols and cinnamons alot so far. Food and water is tasting alot better and I feel my breathing is already getting better (may be in my head but thats ok too). Sometimes I notice the cig smell on a person if they have been out smoking and sometimes like today I couldnt.

My question cant be answered directly because each person is different and there are just too many variables but I would like to hear from others as to when the desire of reaching for an analog leaves ?

My desire for grabbing an anolog is usually short lived but it is still there once in awhile, should I make myself wait a full 2 weeks and then smoke one to see how nasty it tastes and that may remove the desire ? I really dont want to go this route as I hate failing at what I try to do.

TIA for any comparrisons from others.

 

[Rob.W]

I think you are right that everyone has a different experience, but for me it was about 3 days before I stopped feeling like I wanted an analog. It's been 6 days off analogs all together and I haven't had a single desire yesterday or today. Congrats on it all, it's truly amazing!

Rob

 

[dandelionwings]

i'm not really sure when the desire for anologs stopped---what i gained was a desire to not have to start the quitting process all over again! omg, that always sucks so hard and i always feel like a failure. now, i just have a desire to vape.....not sure when that happened, but i'm happy with it

 

[Huffelpuff]

I would only grab an analog if you have to. My thoughts are to reduce smoking to x # cigarettes per day. My number was 3. It gave me something to look forward to and I didn't feel like I couldn't smoke if I wanted to. For me, taking away the fear of not having a cigarette made me relax and enjoy vaping. Within a few days they just tasted too foul and I stopped altogether. Kept the packs for like 4 months "just in case" and threw them out a few weeks back.

 

[Renzuli]

Well , Welcome . I have been vaping for over 8 months now , and still once in awhile I get a sudden craving for an analog . I keep some higher nic. content juice around for that . Right now I have been vaping 12 mg . And my emergency bottle is 24mg. It only takes a 1/2 dozen hits and the craving is gone . Then I go back to the lower nic. juice .

 

[whitepony]

it took me using hv to get completely off of analogs i had a 1 cigg a day habit unil then

 

[CCC]

Since my hubby and all of our friends still smoke ciggs it was really hard for me to loose the desire, i had 1 after 2 weeks of vaping and yes it was discusting and i felt really bad about it, then another 2 weeks after that i did it again and i couldn't even finish that one, so for me it was just over the 1 month mark that my brain switched from "gee maybe i could have a real smoke" to "i never want to smoke again".

 

[DummyMe]

The best advise I can give you is try to be good...not perfect. If you set yourself up to be perfect, you set yourself up to fail. If you put in your mind that you can NEVER smoke another analog, you are putting pressure on yourself. If you just gotta smoke one, smoke ONE, then go back to vaping. Don't take this as a failure, just a step in the learning process. After a while they'll taste terrible & you won't think about them again.

 

[Huffelpuff]

+1 on higher voltage vaping as well. My cravings did totally get quashed when I took my first 5v vape. Just is/was more satisfying than 3.7 for some of us.

 

[cardiackid]

deleting post due to my bad attitude last night!

 

[Trucapri]

My first 2 days vaping I smoke 2 analogs per day each. After that, not another single one, however, week 3 was tough! I was in the height of my detox and I had what was left of my last pack in the frig and I took notice of it every time I opened the door. I never reached for it . . . just stuck it out. It took a few days before the thought was gone, but it hasn't come back.

I purposefully went to the smoking area at work this week and had no desire at all to "light-up". I don't smell smokers like most do, maybe because I've lived in a smoking household my entire life, so that hasn't been a trigger. I think the reason I don't crave analogs anymore is simply because I got through detox and I'm enjoying vaping completely.

Wishing you well . . . .

 

[Animeguy]

I used to smoke reds and then switched to menthols because I hate menthols but got hooked to menthols then it don't matter what I smoked as long as its a marlboro and of course Djarum Black when it was legal. Now I can smell the different brands of cigs better than I used to. I can tolerate the smell of marlboro but other than that I just want to take the cig out of the lips of whoever is smoking it beside me.
When I first started vaping, I made a huge mistake within the first week. I forgot to bring my back up.....battery died because I did not charge it right and I drove a whole 40 miles before stopping to get a pack of cigs. One week is all it took. I bought 2 packs one marlboro men and djarum black cigars. One puff of marlboro and whole pack out in trash. I had to force myself to smoke the cloves. I thought I was going crazy...how can something I enjoyed so much in 14 years be disgusting in a week. Its now been a year of vaping and I have tried smoking a couple times just to see and hate it. Never going back. I will vape straight vg if I have to. lol

 

[RocketRod]

What I am running into is breaking the habit of smoking. Grabbing the pack after dinner, lighting up after I put it in 1st gear, 1st thing in the am, etc. So I consciously have to put my PV in those places. I didn't even take my analogs to work today! Great big success for me. But what was said is smoke one if you must, because you don't want to be miserable. I have a brand new pack in case that hits me, but am working hard to not use them again. Gonna take a little work on my part, but I can do it!

 

[Vapoor eyes er]

Congrats to kicking the stinkies to the curb. When I first started vaping I was told the worst would be in the first 10- 14 days and sure enuff the Vets were right. I smoked an analog 4 hrs after quitting, took 2 puffs and found it VERY dry and tasted like hay and and put it out...sure didn't seem like my old friend Mr. Tobacco. For the next 2 months every time I went to my desk my VERY FIRST THOUGHT was ashtray, analogs and lighter. I'd go out without my analogs and time and time again would have "momentary anxiety attacks" when I realized I didn't have my analogs. After the 8th week that has all passed but I still get the occasional "where are my analogs?" thought. I read that researchers say it takes 6- 12 months for the brain to deprogram itself of analogs.
My desire for grabbing an anolog is usually short lived but it is still there once in awhile, should I make myself wait a full 2 weeks and then smoke one to see how nasty it tastes and that may remove the desire ? I really dont want to go this route as I hate failing at what I try to do.
This is absolutely normal behavior for an nicotine addict. If you want to visit your old "friend" one last time feel free to do so and bid him farewell. You are not a failure as far as I can see and are just exhibiting normal behavior- we are all curious animals.
Good Luck.

My official stop date is 1-1-12 after smoking Marlboro Menthols for 25 years. I started vaping actually around a month ago off and on, Im using a higher nic at 24mg, a PG80/VG20, and I found I like the menthols and cinnamons alot so far. Food and water is tasting alot better and I feel my breathing is already getting better (may be in my head but thats ok too). Sometimes I notice the cig smell on a person if they have been out smoking and sometimes like today I couldnt.

My question cant be answered directly because each person is different and there are just too many variables but I would like to hear from others as to when the desire of reaching for an analog leaves ?

My desire for grabbing an anolog is usually short lived but it is still there once in awhile, should I make myself wait a full 2 weeks and then smoke one to see how nasty it tastes and that may remove the desire ? I really dont want to go this route as I hate failing at what I try to do.

TIA for any comparrisons from others.

 

[trailwalker]

i know what you are feeling, my prob is not that i need a smoke it is i need to retrain my self to think about the pv not the smokes. after 43yrs of them i reached for them when stressed , happy or sad. now i still think about it but i know i don't need them anymore. but my mind still looks for them. i guess it will take time to relearn( i am thinking about old dog new trick
)
TW

 

[Nate1778]

On a Bloog max and 24mg it took me 3 days, after that I don't crave them. Coarse I am just starting this adventure as well. Big motivator for me is my kids, I am tired of smelling like an ashtray to those who idol me.

 

[CarbonThief]

Albeit I've only been off analogs for 6 days now, the OCCASIONAL desire for one hasn't abated. But it is much less urgent of a craving than it was the first few days solely on the PV. I have been supplementing the decreasing number of analogs with a cig type (whatever the term is!) PV which I can't recall the name of now for about 4 months, slowly decreasing the number of analogs each day and increasing the number of PV draws, quite unsuccessfully in fact. Too many throat hits with my first PV I guess and not quite as "satisfying" as an analog. Definitely takes some getting used to, imo. But then I resolved to quit for New Year's and with my battery no longer holding a charge for more than 10 to 15 hits, I bought a new cig-style (only thing I've seen in the tobacco stores around me) called the cigalectric.

This one is so much better than the other, better menthol flavor, less throaty, and overall so much more satisfying that it became pretty easy to chain-vape rather than go buy a pack of analogs. YAY!

Like I said I still have SLIGHT cravings for the analog, but it is certainly diminishing each day. I expect certain situations the craving will return stronger than it is now even, like out at a bar when my smoker buddies go out for a smoke......but I will persevere, thanks to E-cigs and the great tips and info on this site! Thank you all.

Carbon

 

[DummyMe]

Once in a while, I pull out my PV & search my pockrts for a lighter!

 

[echos67]

Thanks everyone for the replies, alot of them really hit home.

I have came to the conclusion that in my case it may be a combination of things such as, nicotine addiction, habit, going through "detox", brain needs to relearn and a few others im sure but I wanted a quit date of 1-1-12 so I have decided to tough it out and vape more instead of picking up an analog.

Prodigy V3.1 at 6v in use with a couple Ego's for back up if needed.

 

[McDougal]

My experience was occasional cravings about a week into vaping, then nothing. Like others have said, you could up the voltage.

I would tough it out, because I suspect it will get easier. The thought of an analog makes me feel kind of sick now. There are thousands of god-knows-whats in analogs, so that may also have something to do with it.

Good luck!