Did everyone quit analogs as soon as they got their e cigs?

[mn shutterbug]

Great stories, all. My first PV should be in my mailbox tomorrow morning. After reading thousands of posts, I'm getting pretty anxious. I believe my biggest problem will be that I have enough rolling tobacco and filtered tubes on hand to make about 5 cartons of analogs. Besides that, I have a few briars and quite a bit of pipe tobacco. Until that's all gone, the temptation will still be there. I could throw it all out, but I have a phobia about wasting. After all, I did spend money on the crap. I rarely consume alcohol and 1/2 cup of coffee a day is all I drink, so other than after eating, the tobacco supply will be my worst temptation, and I can't quit eating.

 

[KoS]

My second day I smoked 2 cigs. After that I just didn't crave them anymore and I was a hard core smoker. About two months ago I had a batt failure and bought a pack of cloves ( figured it was the only thing tasty enough) and wow thy were nasty with a clove finish lol but I smoked about six of them. Once I got home and charged the batts I just didn't want the analogs anymore. Give me my PV ya. Proud to say it has been a year now and I am not looking back.

 

[THELEGACYMAN]

Seriously did everyone instantly quit analogs? I'm still smoking them when my pv charges. I really want to quit them. Just want to know so I don't feel like I'm the only cat doin this or who has done this etc.

Don't worry you will get there. I was a pack a day smoker for 25yrs and the first week I went from a pk a day to 4.5 cigs a day= 1.5 pks a week. Then the 8th and 9th day I took 2 drags per day on reg cigs.
I am into my 2nd week and I still have my 10.5 reg cigs I carry always. I just choose not to smoke them. I Vape.

So not all of us stop as soon as we get the e-cigs but the end point is usually a complete stop of all analogs (reg cigs).
By this time next month you will laugh about this question you asked.

 

[happyonnic]

I ordered my wife a 401 7 days ago, she still stuggles with wanting analogs, says there is something missing in the ecig that she only gets from analogs. I said "yeah I long list of poisons". she ran out of analogs 2 days ago and is doing well.

 

[happyonnic]

I quit smoking analogs 4 years ago using the patch. I realize now that i used nicotine to self medicate my anxiety and my suseptability to depresion as conventional meds did not work well for me. they do seem to work well for others I know, but not for me. In the past 4 years of being cig free i have fought anxiety and recently started falling into depression. I also started haveing a couple of beers in the evening the day i quit smoking, and over the past 4 years that has turned in to 2 cases a week. I couldnt resist trying my wifes new e cig and have been "happy on nic" every since. I disagree with those saying that nic addiction is not that bad or mostly psych, if they really want to back up that statement try vapeing 0 nic for a while. I feel more myself in the past ten days than i have in 4 years. I realize now that i never really overcame the nic addiction. Oh by the way Ive only had a couple beers since i started vaping.

 

[AlexTM]

Happyonnic, don't discount your wife's statement that she needs more than nicotine quite so easily, several people actually do. (Very likely MAOIs in tobacco.) Around 20% or maybe slightly less, to be precise.

Do a search for MAIO and snus, especially if your wife keeps saying (or says again in a few weeks) that she needs more than just nicotine.

 

[techtony]

I just had to share this: I just saw the new commercial for the patch; 3 steps 10 weeks smoke free "easy as that" my ..... how bout 1 vape no analogs "easy as that".

I know not everyone does, but ecigs have a better track record so far than the patch.

 

[77fro]

dump ur cigs in the toilet and dont buy and just smoke ur pv dont even try a cig ull be completly over it in bout 4 2 5 days cuz dont have cigs acessable or ur screwing ur self

 

[77fro]

and yeah i complety quit after 7 years of pack a day marb reds. its easer to just cold turkey switch

 

[DMS2008]

almost ,only about 3-4 analogs after I got mine in March 09. haven't looked backed since

 

[Bellasin]

The day I ran out of analogs I started vaping and havent had an analog since. I found an old analog hiding by my bed about a month after I started vaping and kept it as a souvenir. I have not ever wanted to light it up. And no idea where my lighters are anyway.

 

[Daifne]

I got my 510 on Thursday (evening because I was on the run all afternoon), so I consider today day 3. I have cut back on analogs dramatically, but have not fully quit yet. I was a 2 pack a day smoker up until Thursday. I immediately went down to 5 or six a day.

My main motivation for quiting analogs was the upcoming inability to order them over the Internet and a $.75 increase in the price coming this summer here in Wisconsin. We're already over $7 a pack now. Ha! I just remembered that I swore I'd quit if the price ever went over $1 a pack... That tells you how long it's been..

 

[subject0]

i have only smoke 4 cigarettes since august 2009

 

[wmrwl]

I completely stopped smoking when I had my first vape. I had an analog when the battery died and got REALLY sick from it (and I've been smoking a pack a day for 15 years). I don't crave analogs one bit when my vaping equipment is functional, but when I have total or partial equipment failure I'm right back to analogs (and actually crave vaping while I'm smoking).

 

[Bill77094]

Can you believe that some university honchos haven't seen this forum and said "Wow, look at all of the people that are cutting back, or quitting completely using this e-cig device, we've gotta' launch a study."

I guess all of the universities get grants from Pfizer.

 

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Haven't smoked a analog from the time I took my first vape Feb 17,2009 almost 1 year. I had a little more than 1/2 a carton of cigs when I quit, never smoked one but kept them in the cloths press for about 2 months before I gave them away, don't know why I had to keep them around .. I think the fear of being without was the issue .. luckily for me I never felt like I needed one again

 

[Bill77094]

Can you believe that some university honchos haven't seen this forum and said "Wow, look at all of the people that are cutting back, or quitting completely using this e-cig device, we've gotta' launch a study."

I guess all of the universities get grants from Pfizer.

Kind of got off topic, sorry. I quit the day my 510 showed up at the door. I think my quitting was helped by this forum. I had to wait for 4 days for my 510 kit to arrive (MLK day postponed my shipment by one day). Durng the wait, I was glued to this forum, stupified by the sheer number of people that quit analogs when they picked up the PVs (I prefer to call it a Personal Vaporizer, "PV".) And, even when people don't quit analogs entirely, nearly all cut back a considerable amount.

i'm jazzed about vaping and have a Juicebox mod coming once it is built for me.

 

[Eleen Holloway]

I think it is not easy for me to quit smoking. But I am health conscious too. Then I think if a chain smoker can quit smoking then I can also quit. All these stories are really helpful to take a hard and fast decision to quit smoking.
Thanks.

 

[techtony]

Eleen,

Remember don't get discouraged if you don't quit instantly. For some it can take awhile to get off of them completly, pat yourself on the back for every small milestone and you'll quit in no time.

 

[jctennis]

I rolled my own for a long time and when my 510 showed up I took a few puffs and threw out everything.... the roller, the ashtray, the tobacco, the papers. I do distinctly remember thinking "tastes kinda like taking a hit off a fog machine" but i guess I got used to it.