Did U Just Start Vaping? Me too! Please add your Days 1-10 "diary" here!

[PhoenixD]

DAY 1: I am writing this the following morning. I should have put some things down last night. I have been smoking for years (will put that "smoking history" in my profile pretty soon!). I got my equipment mid-day at a local vape store. I bought what I think was some of the main stuff recommended here to start up. I know, from having other hobbies, I will trade up. That just happens, but I don't want to start at the very "stupid me" bottom ($$ economic reason).

So the guy showed me how to load it, I got 2 "units" (sorry not got good lingo yet) with each a battery and the other part that holds the juice etc. One is pink and one is purple, not that I was all excited on the colors, just wanted 2 different colors.

On the drive home (I am about 30 minutes "out of town") I thought of opening the box and vaping but was kind of nervous that I wanted to "explore it at home" before trying it driving. So I lit up an Analog. Or 2. I was wishing I'd been able to go buy the stuff early in the day because I get up early and would have wanted to "start" first thing in the a.m. and see how it substituted for the analogs. Nevertheless. LOL

Things I discovered: you don't Vape in the same manner you smoke. The salesman had touched on this thank god. So much of the day I was learning some of what will become my "style". Then it came to times in the day when I needed to take the dog out, grab an analog of course--my habit. Later in the day I relaxed more about it and took the dog and my new...machine? PV? something (I'll learn the lingo eventually). But i was just trying to "get nicotine" as well as enjoy it, and also watch the dog so it wasn't "working".

Later in the day, I was writing on the computer or watching TV or both and thought "I need a cig" and got up and got all essed up in my mind, should I go in the back room (mud room "converted" for smoking in super hot weather or super cold but a window is perpetually open), should I go out on the front porch? Should I just Vape here? I ended up sometimes going in the back or out front and vaping. Sometimes vaping in the house. I realized I need to figure out my habits, I had to do a lot of "thinking" about do I really want a cig? Am I just restless? (I found this a lot, that I just needed a mental "break" or maybe a physical one--I didn't "need" a smoke. GREAT REVELATION!! --for me anyway)

I also was quite happy that when I fell asleep, I could keep the machine/thing/PV? (damn will have to keep the Glossary handy, lol!) right by my bed and maybe if i woke up (lately haven't been sleeping thru) I could Vape RIGHT IN THE HOUSE! (no smoking allowed in house--too stinky). I didn't do it. But I had the option.

Some positives, some negatives.

START of DAY 2: I am not real sure today that I am getting "enough nicotine" I mean how do you know they put 18, or whatever in there? Maybe my style isn't working? Have started writing down my analogs (times etc) and wondering about going back and getting a juice with like 36 or something, it is fun, I like the smells (much nicer) and I'm starting to "play with the smoke" but I feel a little "anxious" as if I am not getting eunf nicotine.

So if you just started also, tell me your Day 1 or Day 2! I would love to hear it.

 

[Yerf Dog]

I'm about a month and a half in so far. My first day I received my gear in the mail (Provari/Protank) but I didn't open it right away. I was working on a project in the garage still enjoying my MYO cigs.

I finished up my project and tore into my vape mail. The setup was a bit involved, but I was able to get up and running without too much trouble. A few vapes later and I was one my way. The funny part was once I had my vape running I felt the urge to 'celebrate' with a cigarette. Wait a minute! That's what I'm trying to stop doing. I never did have that cig and the vaping has been better and better.

 

[dirtbikemom]

I've wanted to try E-cigs for sometime now. My boyfriend went to Toronto as he started a new job and meet a guy that sells the products. He brought one for each of us home along with some samples of the e-juice. I finished my last analog on July 23, 2013 and started vaping. I have never returned to those nasty analogs as the taste of vaping is so much better. It's been a month now and I will not go back as I feel better and breath better!

 

[EmeraldLeo1982]

I wouldn't recommend skipping from an 18 to a 36, try the 24 first. Generally when you first start to vape you need a higher mg of nic to help curb the anxiety of not having the analog. Most of the time you end up needing to vape more frequently then you'd normally smoke as well due to the way the vapor is absorbed and what not.

Congratulations on the switch too! Once you get your ideal vape dialed in (Juice strength and flavor, and proper coil and battery setup) you'll more then likely find it farrrrrr more enjoyable than the analogs and will just fall out of the habit.

 

[PhoenixD]

duh, thanks EmeraldLeo, I was thinking of getting "36" because then I could maybe mix it with the 18 and the result might be 26-8 level. I will just ask the guy at the store, and see what he says. I appreciate your note because I was getting a little discouraged (it's only day 2!! O ye of little faith!) that I still felt like I wanted nicotine. I can say for a darn fact however, that I REALLY APPRECIATE that my mouth feels cleaner, and i smell less like an ashtray already. Gosh that is a fine thing. Maybe once I get to dialing in on my "vaping style" and get the right nicotine level to start with it will be easier. I am finding the analogs much less satisfying today, *however* I need to get into a new type of toking than I did with the analogs. :-( Just trial and error I'm sure. thanks.

 

[s10sdeville]

Well me and my wife are both almost a month deep...she is doing great no analogs for 2 weeks me im diwn to about 2 or 3 and funny thing is i dont really enjoy them iys just some thing about waking up and driving to work at 3am were i gotta smoke a real cig but im super proud of boyh of us i went from a pack a day for about 15 years (omg been along time) to no more than 3

 

[cmdebrecht]

I just started vaping too. I agree, there is so much to learn (or re-learn) that every day is different. For the most part my experience has been absolutely positive. Except for today lol, I am struggling with equipment malfunctions. But the goods outweigh the bads over and over.

 

[Ghettogramma]

I finished my last analog cig on the 16 same day my vv3 came I vaped a lot the first few days but never went back to analogs