Do any of you vapers still smoke a few analogs once in awhile? If so, how many a day?

[WarsawNan]

After nearly 45 years of smoking, I fully expected that it would take me awhile to give them up completely when I started vaping. But to my complete surprise, I've not had a smoke since my second day of vaping because they tasted so bad to me, and I've had no craving for one even when I'm around someone who's smoking.

I am, however, quite attached to my 25-year-old Zippo. So when I'm vaping I hold it in my other hand and flip it open and light it a few times.

 

[librarising]

I smoked 3 pad for over 40 years.

On the third day with my 510 I stopped analogs. A few days later I started to crave analogs, so I upped my mgs and got Rivas. Every now and the I think about lighting up and I grab my pv, and the need disappears.

I gave myself permission to lapse, but I haven't.

 

[Brewlady]

When I first started vaping, I did smoke an occasional cigarette, since my husband still smokes. That was just for the first month. My eGo really changed that, I have absolutely no desire to light up. Vaping cinnamon makes me happier than smoking menthol. I'm hoping that by the time it's below freezing outside I will have broken the habit of rolling down the window in the car!

 

[librarising]

I will have broken the habit of rolling down the window in the car!

How true is that! Laughing here!

 

[warlike36]

I was cig free for nearly 6 months...then I got a job that makes me drive an hour and fifteen minutes one way........for some reason I have a cig or two while making that trip.....dont get it.....but that is the ONLY time I cant fight back the urge..GOOD NEWS is Iam moving in Nov. Will only be 10 mins. from work. CANT WAIT !!!!!

 

[warbdan]

haha, well... I work and go to school all week and the earliest i ever get home is 8:30pm and my boyfriend lives in tampa so we pretty much only get to see each other on weekends. Saturday is pretty much just spent going at it and the asc is the only urge vaping hasn't been able to replace, so i end up blowing through a pack. Who knew being young and lascivious could be an impedance? =p

hahahahahahahahaha!

 

[FireHorse]

I smoked 1 - 1.5 pad for 21 years. I'm now down to one or two in the morning and maybe another one later in the day. I can't seem to let go of that first smoke of the day habit/want/need/desire/addiction... whatever you want to call it, I can't seem to break it. I think part of it is that I really can't stand inhaling sweet things when I first wake up. As for the others I sometimes have during the daytime, well, it's just because I want a cigarette dangit! LOL

 

[191ahc]

16 days and not one analog (formerly 1- 2 paks a day for 44 years)...mornings "require" me to vape 36mg with my coffee though, LOL. I use 24 or 30mg during the day and keep an unopened pak of reds in my car JUST IN CASE...so far so good- pak still unopened. I REALLY wanted to quit tobacco and vaping has done it for me from day 1! YMMV.

 

[Rachie]

Yesterday marked my 2 week point of turning over to vaping instead of smoking. I smoked a pack of cigs a day. I TRIED smoking a cig about a day after I started vaping and I only could take 2 hits of the cig, ALL I tasted was chemicals. I keep 1 cig on hand tho JUST IN CASE, but I see it going stale before I would smoke it.

 

[dmnall]

I was still smoking cigarettes when I got my first kit because I was not stoked with the limited tobacco flavor I picked up, but then I quit using mine for a couple of months. Back to a pack a day then I started a week ago 2 packs a day and my lungs hurt. So I decided to go back to one pack and look into driving back to LCV and get more parts and liquid. Well I ended up buying another Atty, a riva ego, 4x liquids *2x 24 mg winston and 2x 36 mg Hilton Custom Blend* and the next day I finished my pack which was this past friday and have not had a regular cigarette since. The winston and hilton blends have kept my cravings at bay. I dont think I will ever go back to analog cigarettes ever again.

HTH,
Charlie

 

[christina7]

I was still smoking 2-4 a day but only when driving. Not sure why. Even got a PT that I used once. not enough power or something. Well 5 days ago!!! I recieved new atty's for my ego PLUS a 306 (?) atty and I can now say I no longer have a desire for a real smoke. Though like previous posters, I still have 2 left in a pack that I bring with me just in case.... so yea, 5 days smoke free. finally. Took long enough. sheese. I gotta get me one of those fun banners.

c.

 

[Doberz]

I smoked almost a whole pack today! UGH

 

[teabagger]

I went from a pack and half to nothing when i first got my pv. Surprisingly I only got the Ecig cause i love electronics, no actual intention to quit smoking. That being said, i still have a smoke or 2 when i work with some certain people that chain smoke about 2 packs a shift and always make sure to offer me a "choker" or "blue lunger", so maybe all in all 1 or 2 analogues a week.

 

[SuZamme]

I enjoy (less and less I must admit) having 1 stinkie on the 8 minute drive to the studio five days a week. It's interesting to me the process of having that 1 is enough no matter where else I may drive or for how long.

The rest of the time I vape; in the car, at home, outside, at the studio, among my smoking friends, etc.

For me, after 40 years of "smoking", this is good enough for now. My one year anniversary of starting to vape is coming up in a couple of days. I am so pleased when I look at the $$$ saved and the number of stinkies avoided and I know the day will come that I don't even have that 1.

It certainly is wonderful to be free of that huge urge of "needing" a smoke accompanied by getting a little edgy or even downright cranky.

This is a fact that I have been aware of for some time because before vaping, I wanted to smoke all the time.

Now, it is finally not an issue - except for the 8 minute commute to the studio.

Thanks for asking.
Vape On!!!!

 

[newbutt]

NOPE. I went from 2 packs a day for 42 years to zero in 7 days. I'm done with analogs.

 

[Iamfoltzy]

Shortly after I started vaping, I quit smoking for a month solid. Very few urges. Then I slipped, and it's been a rough time since. Right now, I'm at about 4-5 analogs a day, mostly while driving to and from work and one or two while at work. When I'm at home I have little to no urge for an analog, I'm very happy to vape. For some reason work gives me problems. Maybe I need a new job *shrugs*.

 

[PaulB]

It's interesting to hear from those whose remaining smoking impulses come while driving. Natural, I guess, especially since in our cars has become one of the few OK-to-smoke places in recent years. For me though, it's pretty rare that one of my 4-6 a day is smoked in the car--maybe once in a month. I think it's because, for several recent years, that's one place where I had gotten stricter with myself: only allowed myself two (down from 4-5) in the 40-minute commute in. And since I've made no similar rules about vaping, I feel somewhat liberated to vape my way to and from work non-stop.

 

[Vapenstein]

Woke up yesterday morning and smoked an analog, or several while I drank my morning coffee. Took my newly charged batteries for my Copper that I had never used, and fired up some juice. Smoked two more analogs that morning. Smoked an analog after waking up from an afternoon nap. Tried my Wyatt Earp sample, really fell in love. By dinner time I am wanting to vape more than I want to smoke. My wife is saying the same thing because she's been taking blasts off my Copper all day. The warmth, TH, fullness and vapor are all there, plus vaping tastes and smells a million times better than analogs. I like it better, and I've been smoking analogs since 1978.

 

[RollTheBones]

Shortly after I started vaping, I quit smoking for a month solid. Very few urges. Then I slipped, and it's been a rough time since. Right now, I'm at about 4-5 analogs a day, mostly while driving to and from work and one or two while at work. When I'm at home I have little to no urge for an analog, I'm very happy to vape. For some reason work gives me problems. Maybe I need a new job *shrugs*.

This is about where I am at as well. At first when I started vaping I had less than half a pack left and it sat there for about a week untouched. I am not sure when/where/why it happened but at some point I just decided to buy another pack and even tho they last me a LOT longer now I still smoke them. Sometimes with a vengance it seems.

I am thinking the cold weather ahead is going to do a lot to discourage that sort of behavior.

 

[Doberz]

I am thinking the cold weather ahead is going to do a lot to discourage that sort of behavior.

It will if you have to go outside to smoke like I do.