Did vaping help you quit smoking?

[Weizenheimer]

If by help you mean was the sole instrument used which I would not have quit without

 

[alexandria2326]

Yes it helped me I have ben smoke free for 3 months..

 

[Trucha]

Same story here. I smoked two packs a day for like forever it seems. I tried everything to quit. Cold turkey went real well with the family begging me to go buy a pack after three days. Picked up an Evod starter kit at a local vape store and noticed how bad the analogs tasted. Hardest was the morning one. When I finally couldn't finish the very last one, I knew I had beat it. Smoke free one year anniversary coming up July 4. Woohoo Provari here I come

 

[DaveP]

I started vaping in April 2010. By the end of the first week I realized that I had only been smoking about 6 a day, down from 2 PAD. I decided to keep the after meal cigarette and a couple with morning coffee and breakfast. I did that for two more years, thinking that I needed those.

One day, I decided to vape and smoke at the same time to compare flavors just to see how they stacked up. What I discovered was that my Doral Ultra lights tasted pretty nasty and the vapor was really good. I decided to finish the pack I was smoking and try to quit. I did that and never bought another pack. The first week vaping and not smoking went by and then week after week passed and no cravings. I was cured and didn't know it until I dropped those last few cigs.

The secret in my opinion was to quit the 2 PAD habit and allow myself 5 or 6 cigs at key times of the day while vaping. That weaned me off the addictive chemicals in tobacco and I still got the nicotine from vaping. Had I tried to switch over all at once I would have been fighting the cravings like many others say they have.

The moral of this story is don't expect to quit all at once. If you can, that's fine and you should do it. If you try to quit cold turkey and vape but still have the cravings, try the alternate method and keep a few a day to protect your sanity. Do that for a few months and then drop those. For me, that was the easy way.

 

[Damrin]

I have been smoke free for 34 days now, and I was a pack a day smoker for 15 years. Haven't cheated once since I started vaping, and I tried everything before this...

 

[DancingHeretik]

I would think it's probably NOT designed to get you off cigs, because if that was the intention.. they'd be killing off their own business no?

unless you consider vaping the same as having quit smoking..

Vaping IS NOT smoking. Simple as that. The only things they have in common are the feeling of smoking (physical, comforting hand-to-mouth habit, the taking time to focus on breathing, etc.) and sometimes nicotine. And, since those aren't the dangerous parts of smoking, vaping is well worth the trouble.

I'm no longer smoking and no longer slowly killing myself.

E-cigarettes are designed to help you quit smoking. The original inventor saw his father die as a result of smoking and wanted to help people to not have to see their loved ones die that way.

What you said would make sense if tobacco companies had invented ecigs. But, they didn't. They simply jumped on the bandwagon after they started losing money to ecigs. They would be happy to make ecigs as ineffective for quitting smoking as possible. But, as long as they have competition, they're going to have to sell better stuff or squash the competition (along with help from the FDA, CDC, and greedy politicians).

35 years. Prolly 2+ packs/day since I rolled my own.
Quit the first day but cheated on occasion the first year because my friends/wife still smoked.
Rolling through my third year. No interest in smokes.

I'm starting to believe that, as a smoker, you gravitate towards other smokers.
When you quit, your circle expands.

I love your avatar. What kind of car is that?

 

[markse]

I quit instantly nearly 5 months ago the moment I had a decent vape. I had tried a couple of cigalikes including njoy in the year before but they didn't do it for me, and were way too expensive. The clean taste of a Vype convinced me it could work and I haven't had a cig since. I quickly found something cheaper! I was smoking 20 camels or probably 30 or 40 rollies a day up till then for the previous 29 years. Only wish I'd discovered it a lot sooner! Now I really can't stand the smell of cigarettes and feel really ashamed I used to force it on others :-(

 

[DancingHeretik]

I don't really consider myself an x-smoker. I'm a recovering smoker who vapes. It might sound like a matter of semantics but its not to me. I recognize that I'm still and probably always will be a few smokes away from returning to 2PAD. I smoked for nearly 60 years and not the nicotine addiction which is long gone if it ever was a factor but all the rest that goes along with a deeply engrained, comforting, habit creates an obsession for me. I was a daily dual user for a long time and then one who only dual-used during high stress. I learned how to quickly lay them back down after slipping during stressful situations and don't kid myself that it can't happen again. So, yeh, I try to keep myself humble knowing I'll most likely always be a recovering smoker who might slip now and then but, thanks to vaping, am not likely to become chained to a deadly habit with my one-day-at-a-time approach.

Exactly how I feel. I never actually quit, not exactly. I just decided to put off that next cigarette as long as I could. It's been over 3 years now, and I'm still putting it off. That's a long time between cigarettes!

Yep. I had pretty much given up on quitting, but then late last year, I came across a number of articles in the media lamenting the fact that the FDA wasn't doing its job because it hadn't yet regulated e-cigs. Being an anarchist at heart, I figured I should check 'em out before the goobernment ruined 'em. So I ordered a starter kit from Halo (which I don't recommend because they continue to use the now obsolete 808 threads and aren't compatible with much of anything else) and decided to see how much of my 2 PAD habit I could replace with 'em. First full day, I went from 40 to 4. Second 2. Third and fourth: 1. Fourth day (180 days ago today!) I drove through a snow storm to a B&M, bought some better gear (Pro Tanks and Spinners) and higher VG juice and that was the end of my smoking. Now I have several liters of 100 mg nic base in the freezer, a lifetime supply of Kanthal and CelluCotton, and there's NFW I'm going back to smoking no matter what the nannies at he FDA do.

Me too! There's NFW I'll give up vaping and go back to smoking. They may have decided that smokers and ex-smokers have no right to live. But, I'll fight it to my death. At least, I have that choice. I hope future generations have the same choice.

 

[AndriaD]

But, ah, it LOOKS like smoking!

And feels a lot like it too -- which is why it's so effective as a way to QUIT SMOKING!

Andria

 

[BigKev77]

I have only had two cigarettes in the last 15 days. One was the day I got my device and the other was when I got aggravated and smoked one. I almost got sick from the nic and taste. I would absolutely not have even tried quitting without vaping. So yeah it has helped.

 

[AndriaD]

I started vaping in April 2010. By the end of the first week I realized that I had only been smoking about 6 a day, down from 2 PAD. I decided to keep the after meal cigarette and a couple with morning coffee and breakfast. I did that for two more years, thinking that I needed those.

One day, I decided to vape and smoke at the same time to compare flavors just to see how they stacked up. What I discovered was that my Doral Ultra lights tasted pretty nasty and the vapor was really good. I decided to finish the pack I was smoking and try to quit. I did that and never bought another pack. The first week vaping and not smoking went by and then week after week passed and no cravings. I was cured and didn't know it until I dropped those last few cigs.

The secret in my opinion was to quit the 2 PAD habit and allow myself 5 or 6 cigs at key times of the day while vaping. That weaned me off the addictive chemicals in tobacco and I still got the nicotine from vaping. Had I tried to switch over all at once I would have been fighting the cravings like many others say they have.

The moral of this story is don't expect to quit all at once. If you can, that's fine and you should do it. If you try to quit cold turkey and vape but still have the cravings, try the alternate method and keep a few a day to protect your sanity. Do that for a few months and then drop those. For me, that was the easy way.

I think you're absolutely right, though it only took me a month of vaping before my 15-20 cigs per day had declined to 1 a day -- at which point I knew the end of smoking had arrived, almost without me realizing it, it was so easy -- the vaping tasted so good and clean, the cigarettes so absolutely nasty. I don't really understand those who stop smoking the minute they pick up an e-cig, but if that's what works for them, terrific! For me it was that gradual weaning you described, almost not realizing it till I was down to 1 a day and smoking just seemed kinda dumb at that point. I've had VERY few cravings, and those have been very easily satisfied with vaping.

It is simply the best method of quitting smoking that has ever been invented.

Andria

 

[DonnaLee]

I tried vaping twice before and found equipment failures my downfall. I'd do great at home having time to fiddle with leaks, burnt tastes, charging batteries but then summertime would hit and vacations had me buying cigs again.

Back after 2 years due to serious health problems and quitting for good necessary or die a smoker and I got darn close. I got a new kit, Kanger Evod after a week in the hospital and started vaping again, no cigarettes in 3 weeks! My husband quit too and I know this time it will work! If only the equipment had been this good before!

 

[Rwb1500]

Without a doubt vaping was instrumental in me quitting. Before I thought it would take an absolute miracle for me to quit. It was actually pretty easy with vaping.

 

[matt83]

I started on cig a likes and tried so many I gave up. 6 months ago a coworker showed me ego style and it was ok until I got my vamo and protank 3. Once I got them I lost the urge to smoke analogs. I spent less on egos tons of toppers and my vamo than I did on cig a likes . I am glad vaping evolved. I was a pack a day give or take a bad day or two lol. I also tried everything from over the counter to prescription and acupuncture and hypnosis vaping did it.for me.

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[RPMac]

Absolutely, I've been vaping a little more than 2 months, I had like 2-3 cigs the first week, none since, and i was 2 pack a day smoker.

 

[Blindtarm]

Absolutely! It took me a couple of months realizing that if I had to choose, I would have chosen vaping before smoking, but now I have been tobacco-free for over five months. I thought I'd never quit smoking, I loved to smoke, guess I loved vaping more!

 

[Alter]

Its so true to your vape experience is directly related to the gear your using. Crappy gear= crappy experience. My wife and I were lucky and bought SMOK ego batteries and rebuildable CE4's in out first kits but the kits were $129.00 and the juice was $19.00 for 20mls, also the store was hour and half away in the US so we didn't buy from them again but we did get a good starter kit and still have the batts and 1 of the original CE4's that came with those kits as a memento of the good ol' days.

 

[Paradicio]

Quit smoking in 4 days, haven't looked back. Started with a Vision Spinner and an AeroTank. I’ve graduated up to having multiple mods now. My most recent acquisition is my beautiful copper Nemesis and Stillare RDA. With all the fun involved with vaping I have no reason to go back to analogs! They’re so BORING!

 

[granolaboy]

25 years as a PAD smoker.

Took me about a month to cut down to nothing.

I've tried everything before vaping...patch...gum...mist...even anti-depressant meds.

I'm almost at a month off tobacco now, and I don't even crave one.

Before I found vaping, I was convinced I'd just be a smoker until I died a gruesome death.

If anyone tries to tell you vaping doesn't help people quit smoking, tell them they're delusional and to grow up and stop thinking "the news" is a reliable source of any factual information.

 

[andrea79]

Lol... I am new but hope this helps me quit!!

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