Better or just high?

[Skully7780]

So, im feeling 100x better after not smoking Newports for 1 full day. I was wondering if its becasue im not smoking death stix or if its from the nic "high"?

Meh, eaither way, this rox!

This new juice needs to hurry up! Im sick of "winston".

 

[tims]

My guess is it's both, but who cares as long as your feeling better, that all that matters really. Congrats, on going a full day with out a newport.

 

[beast775]

im guessing its the ....not smoking buzz.i got that when i quit 1.5 mnths ago.and then i started vaping 1 mnth after i quit and was buzzin again.

 

[jlmanno]

Congrats on the "high", best of luck to you and as always Happy vaping!

 

[Drewcifer1972]

The fact is you no longer have your blood saturated with carbon monoxide.

 

[Skully7780]

Smoking cessation timeline – the health benefits over time

• In 20 minutes, your blood pressure and pulse rate decrease, and the body temperature of your hands and feet increase. (I figure this one does not count)
• Carbon monoxide in cigarette smoke reduces the blood’s ability to carry oxygen. At 8 hours, the carbon monoxide level in your blood decreases to normal. With the decrease in carbon monoxide, your blood oxygen level increases to normal.
• At 24 hours, your risk of having a heart attack decreases. (I figure this one does not count)
• At 48 hours, nerve endings start to regrow and the ability to smell and taste is enhanced.
• Between 2 weeks and 3 months, your circulation improves, walking becomes easier and you don’t cough or wheeze as often. Phlegm production decreases. Within several months, you have significant improvement in lung function.
• In 1 to 9 months, coughs, sinus congestion, fatigue and shortness of breath decrease as you continue to see significant improvement in lung function. Cilia, tiny hair-like structures that move mucus out of the lungs, regain normal function.
• In 1 year, risk of coronary heart disease and heart attack is reduced to half that of a smoker. (I figure this one does not count)
• Between 5 and 15 years after quitting, your risk of having a stroke returns to that of a non-smoker. (I figure this one does not count)
• In 10 years, your risk of lung cancer drops. Additionally, your risk of cancer of the mouth, throat, esophagus, bladder, kidney and pancreas decrease. Even after a decade of not smoking however, your risk of lung cancer remains higher than in people who have never smoked. Your risk of ulcer also decreases.
• In 15 years, your risk of coronary heart disease and heart attack in similar to that of people who have never smoked. The risk of death returns to nearly the level of a non-smoker. (I figure this one does not count)

 

[breakfastchef]

Your glee is purely mental. You have yet to hit the actual withdrawl symptoms coming in the next week or so. I smoked Newports for 30+ years and had some pangs for the incinerated leaf up to a month or more after I switched to e-cigs. Focus on what your goal may be and good luck with your effort.

 

[searcher]

A lot of people do experience withdrawal, but a lot of lucky people experience almost no withdrawal symptoms. As for a high, just my opinion, but I don't think you could absorb enough nicotine from vaping to create a high when you have been smoking previously. You might well absorb enough though to become sick and get a headache. Like Breakfastchef said a lot is mental, but after one day you will have better breathing and blood flow.

 

[Paranorm]

Smoking cessation timeline – the health benefits over time

• In 20 minutes, your blood pressure and pulse rate decrease, and the body temperature of your hands and feet increase. (I figure this one does not count)
• Carbon monoxide in cigarette smoke reduces the blood’s ability to carry oxygen. At 8 hours, the carbon monoxide level in your blood decreases to normal. With the decrease in carbon monoxide, your blood oxygen level increases to normal.
• At 24 hours, your risk of having a heart attack decreases. (I figure this one does not count)
• At 48 hours, nerve endings start to regrow and the ability to smell and taste is enhanced.
• Between 2 weeks and 3 months, your circulation improves, walking becomes easier and you don’t cough or wheeze as often. Phlegm production decreases. Within several months, you have significant improvement in lung function.
• In 1 to 9 months, coughs, sinus congestion, fatigue and shortness of breath decrease as you continue to see significant improvement in lung function. Cilia, tiny hair-like structures that move mucus out of the lungs, regain normal function.
• In 1 year, risk of coronary heart disease and heart attack is reduced to half that of a smoker. (I figure this one does not count)
• Between 5 and 15 years after quitting, your risk of having a stroke returns to that of a non-smoker. (I figure this one does not count)
• In 10 years, your risk of lung cancer drops. Additionally, your risk of cancer of the mouth, throat, esophagus, bladder, kidney and pancreas decrease. Even after a decade of not smoking however, your risk of lung cancer remains higher than in people who have never smoked. Your risk of ulcer also decreases.
• In 15 years, your risk of coronary heart disease and heart attack in similar to that of people who have never smoked. The risk of death returns to nearly the level of a non-smoker. (I figure this one does not count)

You are wrong about all of the timeline points you don't think count. The circulatory and nervous system damage that occur due to smoking are completely unrelated to nicotine (the only active ingredient in e-juice). The studies of nicotine are extensive and varied, and no scientifically sound study I have ever read has produced any evidence of mortality-increasing effects from the drug alone. These effects are by-products of the delivery system (analogs, pipe tobacco, and chew/snuff) a doctor friend of mine recently told me that despite it's absurd addictive properties, nicotine approaches a wonder drug in terms of managing the symptoms of ADD, Tourette's, depression, and anxiety disorders.

The New Zealand medical study on e-juice is a fascinating and informative read, and while it did point to some negative effects of long-term exposure to heavy doses of PG/PEG (wheezing, chest tightness) after several years, there is a %100 deposit and expulsion rate of both PG and PEG via the respiratory and digestive tracts. There is also such a vast reduction in the presence of tobacco-specific nitrosamines (the worst of the carcinogens in analogs) that their quantity was too small to measure, and had to be estimated.

 

[Skully7780]

You are wrong about all of the timeline points you don't think count.

Wow! Thanks!

 

[dee5]

I love your avatar pic!

 

[Stab74]

I'm on day 2 and I feel pretty good too. I love my e-cig. Don't even want to smoke another tobacco cig. Usually when I've tried to quit in the past I've had this huge feeling of dread in the back of my mind. Not this time. I feel like I'm "beating the system" somehow.

 

[Lilibet]

Interesting thread. I stopped smoking and started vaping 5 days ago and I feel great. My husband really loves the fact that I'm cheerful and agreeable, 1. because he expected a lot of angst and 2. because I wasn't all that charming when I was smoking.

 

[smokingisbad]

Good luck to everyone who just started, I too had the feeling like I beat the system when I first started. After awhile it just becomes normal kind of like smoking did. Anyway good to hear the storieds. GL and Welcome!!! ps. it will only get easier from here.

 

[DarKm4773r]

A lot of people do experience withdrawal, but a lot of lucky people experience almost no withdrawal symptoms. As for a high, just my opinion, but I don't think you could absorb enough nicotine from vaping to create a high when you have been smoking previously. You might well absorb enough though to become sick and get a headache. Like Breakfastchef said a lot is mental, but after one day you will have better breathing and blood flow.

I disagree about the not having a nicotine high. I moved down from 24mg to 18mg because 24mg was too much for me.... But it didn't stop me from vapin' it, lol. I almost got a similar high with the nic that I get from smoking a specific plant(and no, my niquid doesn't contain anything that can't be spoken of here).

I got very energetic, but calm at the same time.... But I do agree with the headache. It's kind of discerning when you have a pounding headache, whilst running around frantically with my heart racing.

 

[bige1030]

I felt better when I quit smoking...for a week or two. But during that time, the withdrawal symptoms were creeping up on me to the point that I just couldn't stand the anxiety and insomnia that 1mg Klonopin (rx from doctor) wouldn't even relieve.

So I started smoking again, and switched the Klonopin to trazodone (rx from psychiatrist) at night, and it seems to be working better for the insomnia. I'm still smoking because I'm not quite sure I'm ready to try quitting again, despite a bout of severe acute bronchitis. I just need to have things under control. Hopefully, once I get my living room rearranged, I can exercise and maybe have my mental health under better control, so I can try quitting again.

But yeah, it does feel better to quit, for a few days. Good luck on the withdrawal. I hope you don't experience any symptoms that interfere with your life.

 

[Stab74]

I felt better when I quit smoking...for a week or two. But during that time, the withdrawal symptoms were creeping up on me to the point that I just couldn't stand the anxiety and insomnia that 1mg Klonopin (rx from doctor) wouldn't even relieve.

So I started smoking again, and switched the Klonopin to trazodone (rx from psychiatrist) at night, and it seems to be working better for the insomnia. I'm still smoking because I'm not quite sure I'm ready to try quitting again, despite a bout of severe acute bronchitis. I just need to have things under control. Hopefully, once I get my living room rearranged, I can exercise and maybe have my mental health under better control, so I can try quitting again.

But yeah, it does feel better to quit, for a few days. Good luck on the withdrawal. I hope you don't experience any symptoms that interfere with your life.

Are you talking about quiting period or with a PV? I don't see how you can have withdrawal symptons with a PV as your are still taking in nicotine. I guess there could be a certain psychological component to still wanting an analog but not so bad you would need klonopins, which can become addicting themselves.