Been vaping since 10-1-2011. Last week my battery went dead .So i went and got a pack of cig's. Holy crap did they taste really bad. So i waited till i got home [about 2 hours] got a fresh battery and back to vaping gave the cig's to some home less guy. [question] Has this happened to you?
Yes the same thing happened both to my husband and I when we started vaping in late November, and were totally off the real things within the first week. I was just stunned how quickly I couldn't stand a real cigarette... I mean I'd been smoking close to 2 packs a day for about 45 years, a virtual slave to them my entire life. Our lives revolved around whether we had plenty of smokes on hand; together we forked out over $500 a month on the darn things. God forbid we might run out before morning; oh I would go out driving to 7-11 in the middle of the night, no question.
Every day the first week of vaping I made myself smoke one real cig. Even on day one of vaping most of the day - oh geez does that thing burn, it's really darn tasteless, and bam, the cig only lasted a couple minutes. By the 4th day, I couldn't even get through a whole cig, I would stomp it out halfway through. And after that, I didn't ever want to smoke one again. Simply because I am so thrilled we are finally free, I still carry around the carton I bought stocking up for my husband's trip to Mexico in my trunk, there are packs in several rooms in our house, and my glove compartment. And neither one of us have the remotest desire to grab one - it's like magic!
I suffered from chronic bronchitis, with full-on asthma attacks after almost every cold or flu, and coughed bad for 6-8 weeks after any cold, sometimes longer for at least the past 15 years. I technically had COPD, although I only did the breathing meds and breathing machine treatments for a month or so after a cold when I was in essence just like an asthmatic; then I would feel better and stop those meds for many months. For two months after we started vaping I didn't cough at all, even in lousy cold weather, I was amazed how quickly my lung status changed. When we finally did get a big cold/flu virus hub brought home from Mexico, it never took us down as it would have before, and two weeks after it started we were completely finished with it. I'm back to the no coughing, virtually no congestion status again. It is very frustrating to me that no real serious studies have been done to assess vaping's success in getting smokers who want to quit to do it successfully. I always knew no patches or gum would do any good at all - it was the PROCESS of smoking that I simply did not want to give up. My big regret now is that I didn't look into it further when a friend first mentioned them two years ago! No doubt about it, I enjoy vaping much more than smoking, and have no fears whatsoever of going back!