Do You Really Want to Quit Nic or is the E-Cig Just a "Healthy" Replacement?

[Apollotrigger]

I'd smoked for 11 years before I got my ecig last Saturday, and not even a week later I'm barely using the thing. I've tried to quit smoking before with no success, but the ecig really has helped me. I'm pretty sure I won't even need the ecig in a month or so.

 

[b00stzx3]

I like nicotine. There, I said it. I LOVE nicotine. Everyone has addictions and habits. Its like caffeine, and plenty of upper-class business people rely on caffeine everyday. Used to be having a nice Marlboro Light with my beer, now its a nice vape with my beer. If they could make beer healthier I'd do that to.

 

[Malicedoll]

I really am enjoying vaping.. i don't really want to quit so this is working for me..plus making all the different flavors and stuff is really fun.. yes, it is becoming my new hobby..

 

[pegling]

Always knew I should quit but was never able to. I love nicotine and "smoking". Love the feeling of dragging the smoke in and bringing it down into my lungs then blowing it out.

While I never saw the e-cig as a quitting device I was hoping it would prove to be a substitute I could live with. Well, 7 months after starting I'm happy to say that since January I've had no desire for an anaolg cig at all. If they are proven to be bad for you I'm in the camp of "well, just how bad is bad?".

After all ~ they have to be better than analogs!

 

[Calaban]

I am planning on vaping indefinitely. If it turns out e-cigs are really bad for you, I will stop.

I will not go back to analogs. It's e-cigs or nothing.

 

[Roxi]

After a couple months, I really want to cut back on the nic. I want to stop altogether. I hate the fact that the addiction is winning. I will be the winner in the end!

 

[Chorizo]

I've only been doing this for about two weeks. I never saw it as a method that would help me quit, I knew it would be a replacement.

I like it, I actually enjoy it more than my old smoking habit, and plan on making it a hobby.

Like another poster said, if it turns out they are really bad for you, I will quit those and NOT go back to analogs. (I'll quit only if I don't happen to be the person that PROVES they are really bad for you)

I only vape low nic right now, but that's from JC, and their low seems to be everyone elses "mild" so I guess I'm in the middle, but may go down to zero and just do this because, well, it's fun for me I guess.

 

[Malicedoll]

I wouldn't mind quitting nicotine altogether someday, but it's not really my motive at the moment. I enjoy vaping, even more than I enjoyed smoking. I've turned it into a full-fledged hobby... not so much with collecting devices (although I have purchased 4 in a week) but with tinkering with home brews. I've assembled a regular chemistry-set of pipettes, dropper bottles, flavorings, etc. When I'm bored, I work on another recipe.

i agree! this has become my new hobby.. i am really enjoying it.. I might quit nicotine eventually but i really enjoy vaping!

 

[Kate51]

Not at all for. I'm a diagnosed ADD and a student and I've self-medicated myself with cigarette for a few years now.

E-cigarettes have been a god send because before I'd get the calming effect of a stimulant but with less lung capacity which has lead to its own batch of problems that countered most of the aid from the nicotine.

I'm only been a week in but I'm feeling a lot better physically and mentally with the switch.

I think you will find as time goes on, your mood will be evened out, your energy level will increase exponentially, and focus becomes easier, not perfect, but easier. Do a lot of deep resistance breathing, really firms up your breathing apperatus' increases lung volume (in through nose, out through the mouth pursed lips) and of course this is the key. Better oxygenation inproves brain function. PLUS: all the nasty parts of your cigarettes will be gone! Totally reverses all on the "bogged down, drained" feelings you may have had. I was a 3 pack a day smoker, with ADD. I cannot believe the benefits I've gotten back!

 

[Nephthys]

I marked "I'm happy vaping and have no intentions to quit" but I do hope to cut down on the nicotine.

My current goal is zero nic all the time. Once I reach and maintain that goal, I'll reexamine the situation.

I love vaping. My PV is my adult pacifier. I love the flavor and the action. If I can do it with little to no harmful effects, why stop?

 

[Paradiso]

3 weeks for me and I really have no desire for analogs. Up till now I haven't monitored my vaping habit at all. I just vape as much and as strong a liquid as I desire, as long as I wasn't smoking tobacco, it was good. I think pretty soon I will start tracking the amount (ml) and strength (mg) that I vape and try to even it out with a goal to reducing my nicotine level.
At this point, I see myself vaping indefinitely.

 

[GotiT]

Gotta think quit

 

[Vicks Vap-oh-Yeah]

I get the sneaky suspicion in the back of my mind that nicotine isn't the uber-addictive substance we've all been brainwashed to accept....I'm very surprised that I don't crave the nic hit - just the controled breathing and the full feeling in the lungs and mouth. I've dropped down to ultra-low (4mg) from my medium starting (11mg), and have plans to go no-nic with DIY.

I'm happy with my vape stick, and have no intention to stop. "They can have my Kissbox when they pry it out of my cold, dead hands."

 

[Sar]

I always thought I liked smoking, but now I think it is just an addiction. So want to eventually stop e-cigs. I just don't want to be addicted, no matter what it is. If I could vape the same way I drink beer for example, I'd probably continue indefinitely. When I have a craving or taste for beer I can be without, but when I crave a cig, I MUST have it. And I hate that. It is now over a month for me without analogs and I don't even think about them -- for the first time in 20 years. But I do think about vaping, so I have possibly switched one addiction for another.

 

[yknotagain]

I'm just happy being smoke-free for the first time in 40+ years. Don't care if I eventually go without nic or not, not a priority for me. Just wish I could get my wife to try the one I bought for her.

 

[Meltbanana]

I've been vaping for a little over a month, and have pretty much stopped smoking analogs(minus those times I'm out drinking and didn't bring my e-cig, then I'll bum an analog).

I do want to quit smoking the e-cig in the future as I'm sure it still isn't great for your health. The next batch of liquid I buy is going to be 0 nic, as I enjoying the taste/action of smoking more than I care about my nic fix. After a few months who knows, maybe my e-cigs will begin to collect dust.

 

[Kilroy2.0]

:QUIT OR STICK? / THAT IS THE QUESTION:
How Many of You Really Want to Quit Nic Altogether and
How Many of You Intend on Using Your E-Cig Indefinately?

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So I could not answer your poll because I have QUIT NIC altogether, I am vaping 0mg.

-g

 

[NutttSo]

I have not had a analog since I started vaping, 5 weeks ago. I started at medium nic and am down to low and 0 nic, and I am finding a lot of the time I don't inhale, so I know I can give up the nic, but injoy vaping so much I don't want to stop,

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