I'm a dual user. I start out the day vaping. A couple of puffs from a pod. Then I have a couple of cigarettes on the way to work. Partly from old habits, and partly because I just like a couple of cigarettes.
Once at work I vape most of the time. But where it used to be go outside, light up and smoke until it is gone I take a couple of puffs and that does the trick. So I vape less drags per session probably because the vape device supplys what I want in a way that turns itself off. I suppose if it were such that your device stayed on until it ran out I'd keep vaping.
I slowly ween off cigarettes a little more over time. I don't know that I'll ever detest a cigarette anymore than I destest an Oreo cookie at bedtime. But over time I stopped having Oreo cookies before bed. Once an open pack of cookies was an empty pack of cookies. In time the cookies would get stale half way through. Now I walk past the cookies at the grocery store because I have a fresh container of walnuts in the cart. A container of walnuts that will likely go stale before empty. I replaced cookies with walnuts over time. But now I suppliment an occasional urge for cookies with walnuts but over time have even reduced that habit to occasionally. I am doing same with vaping.
So when I choose vaping over smoking I vape less drags than if it were a cigarette. It took some trial and error to find that it was walnuts that was a viable alternative to cookies and it also took a while to find the vape tool that replaces my cigarette habit. At one point at this time today I would be half way through a new pack of cigarettes. Today I'm finishing a pack opened on Thursday evening. And I've only eaten walnuts twice this week at bedtime.
When I started vaping it was part of a lifestyle change. Chocolate, caffiene, skipping meals, prepared foods when I did eat, sedentary evenings, not enough liquids all day, and smoking too much. A whole host of changes needed to occur at the same time. So instead of joining Jenny Craig, some gymnasium, and vaping a gallon a month I chose to slowly get used to a better set of habits. Portion reduction has also played a role. Eat less, fast less, nap less, smoke less, and fill those gaps with more positive habits that over time build their own momentum. More energy, and more stamina have led to a more positive outlook that lends itself to wanting more of that and less of the old ways.
I do not see myself as a person who quit smoking. Instead I see it as a person who used to smoke.
