Hi everybody! I'm just curious about other people's experience. I have FINALLY stopped smoking...in the traditional sense. My biggest hurdle had been the urge to go outside and smoke even though I was satisfied to vape! I realized it was total madness but for the longest while could not get over that urge to step outside and light up. Finally I was able to stop going outside to smoke but I honestly think it was the biggest challenge of my lifetime. it was even easier to stop drinking beer !
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I currently wrestle with completely cutting out the tobacco for this very reason. After vaping in my basement living quarters, I just get the urge to step out the back door, or have a seat on the front porch to have a smoke. I guess there is no need to take my vaping outdoors. Plus my neighbors on both sides have kids, one toddlers, the other teens. I get the sense that my blowing clouds offends them.
There are a lot of habitual and behavorial components to addiction (and smoking). Smoking is more than just a physical need for nicotine.
The nicotine gum & patch failed me miserably when I tried to quit smoking multiple times. Although they allegedly replaced my physical need for nicotine, they didn't replace my habitual hand-to-mouth routine nor my behavioral need to inhale and exhale a substance. Vaping took care of all of those physical, habitual, and behavior needs, so it worked for me.
Many of us smokers (and ex-smokers) have been trained by political correctness and laws to go smoke or vape outdoors.
The nicotine gum & patch failed me miserably when I tried to quit smoking multiple times. Although they allegedly replaced my physical need for nicotine, they didn't replace my habitual hand-to-mouth routine nor my behavioral need to inhale and exhale a substance. Vaping took care of all of those physical, habitual, and behavior needs, so it worked for me.
Many of us smokers (and ex-smokers) have been trained by political correctness and laws to go smoke or vape outdoors.
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I had trouble with the going outside routine too, so what I did is do the same ritual with vaping in the beginning, after meals especially I just took my vape outside 
but I vaped inside too, but going outside is a pleasant thing to do anyway to look at nature and trees and sky etc, so not a bad habit!
but I vaped inside too, but going outside is a pleasant thing to do anyway to look at nature and trees and sky etc, so not a bad habit!As time goes by, I find my former "trigger points" that used to signal time for a smoke are diminishing. Vaping and smoking are two different animals to me now. I don't treat one like the other if you know what I mean. I vape at times I would have never smoked (at work, etc) and don't get cravings at the times I used to when I smoked (after a meal, etc). I just don't make that "special time to vape" anymore, just more of a moderate constant.
Thanks for the replies everyone. There are so many rituals, however small, related to smoking. It is really amaziing. I can even remember smoking in the supermarket when deciding what to buy. Also how could anyone not light up in the hospital waiting room?
Even going outside to smoke has another benefit that is accepted. Workers that get up from their desk or leave their spot to get 10 minutes of change of scenery are known to be happier about their job. Now for production reasons, management doesn't see that as beneficial. The Federal Government even passed a minimal lunchtime/break period when a certain number of hours are worked continuously.
Anyway, it seems that I mix the two. If I am busy and happy, I will stay and vape in place. But, I do know that the porch/patio/walk is good, too. I make a habit of discontinuing physical work/chores at a certain time and that is a vape moment. Just to kind of take a deep breath and take a quick break before doing something relaxing.
Going outside to vape is probably a healthy thing.
Anyway, it seems that I mix the two. If I am busy and happy, I will stay and vape in place. But, I do know that the porch/patio/walk is good, too. I make a habit of discontinuing physical work/chores at a certain time and that is a vape moment. Just to kind of take a deep breath and take a quick break before doing something relaxing.
Going outside to vape is probably a healthy thing.
After almost 20 years only smoking outside, a good part of the time during frigid winters, that urge to step outside is happily in my past. But I do enjoy time on the porch with my vape on those cool summer evenings. Not to mention I have not needed to have a new zipper put in a winter coat since I started vaping.
I went outside to vape my first few weeks of vaping also. I never smoked inside my house. Where I live, in a month or two, I'll be very thankful that I don't have to go outside to vape!
that's why the first place I replaced my smoking with vaping, was in my truck.. I come by my redhair naturally and I road rage, I've actually blown up a coil while driving... but hey I didn't run them over with my shiny new ram with our business logo, for going half the speed limit and not letting me pass. we own a garage and I go to get parts reg, so I drive a lot, and it would look bad for business if I drummed it up by destroying daily sunday drivers, right?!
I live in the MD, DC, N VA region where we have the official worst drivers in the country. They could make mother Teresa pull out a 9 mm and start blasting.
My two triggers: 1) Sitting down at the computer would automatically without looking reach for my pouch of cigs atop the ashtray. Took me two weeks and sitting my MVP right where I sat the ashtray to get over that one.; 2) Habitually pick up "bits and pieces" of stuff off floor and place in ashtray. Another two weeker of standing in the middle of the room looking for the ashtray, finally realizing it'd been put up, and depositing floor "stuff" in whatever pocket was handy........Now have to check pockets before washing!
When I first started vaping I was a dual user and the truck was the first place I didn't smoke and the Cig-A-Likes were great to be able to vape while driving. But I was able to smoke in my home office so I did not have to go outside but it is funny how sitting on the front porch and vaping after a nice meal is more enjoyable than smoking a cigarette was.
@T0mmy1977 the other day sitting at a light I had my Pangu Sub Ohm tank with me and the cloud that wafted over the vehicle next to me windshield was pretty major and the driver rolled her window up!
@T0mmy1977 the other day sitting at a light I had my Pangu Sub Ohm tank with me and the cloud that wafted over the vehicle next to me windshield was pretty major and the driver rolled her window up!
There are so many rituals that are hard to overcome. For me it was the car...driving with the window partially down. Even when I started vaping, it was hard for me to drive with the widow up. Fortunately I never flicked my .... (vaporizer) out of the window...almost did that a couple of times.
I like your optimism,but remember,this is Ohio,it may not take a month,we could wake up to snow tomorrow,and then be back to 80 by sunday haha.
you shup! I'm friggen north of you, you can keep that stuff down there thanks!
Haha,i've never been in Canada during the winter,but i've seen some crazy pictures of cars completely buried,so yeah we definitely have it easier here,but i hate anything to do with the cold,so not having to go outside to vape is one of my biggest benefits to switching haha.
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