Right from the beginning:
- DON'T UNDERSPEND
- DON'T UNDERESTIMATE
- DON'T UNDERSTOCK
- DO GET THE BEST PERSONAL VAPE SYSTEM
- DO EXPECT EXPECT TO QUIT ANALOGS - FOREVER
- DO PURCHASE MORE THAN ENOUGH FROM THE BEGINNING
I have only been Vaping for one week. Thus, I am experiencing first hand, the early challenges of switching from analogs to eCigs. I'm sure all the Vets on here can tell you much better than I can, the ins & outs of the best way to Vape, and what systems work best for different applications. But, what I am saying is THIS WORKS, if you give Vaping and yourself a chance from the beginning.
Because, it is way easier to buy another pack of smokes than it is to replenish your eCig stock. So, make certain you are ready to go the distance. Don't assume Vaping
might not work for you. IT WILL AND IT DOES! Make certain you purchase a system that delivers the correct amount of nicotine for YOU. Spend however much it takes. The first month (from what I can tell) will be expensive - anything is costly when you first "start up". There are costs to any new experience to just get the ball rolling.
I didn't want to "commit" to eCigs at first, so I did one of those silly promotional ads. $4.99 for a starter kit. It tasted terrible, and had lots of small print that was going to cost way more than just purchasing a good Vape system, in the first place. That trial kit lasted one day and I went back to analogs. Then, I saw a disposable (Blu) when I was buying a pack of smokes and decided I'd give eCigs one more chance. Thank God I did. That Blu had 24mg of nicotine and did the trick. Next, I did some research (still had not found this wonderful forum ECF, so googled a lot) and decided on a Pig Cig. I ordered an extra box of Carts and really glad I did, because I am into that box and waiting on juices I ordered to begin refilling my cartomizers with.
I liked smoking menthol, so I ordered menthol carts with my Pig Cig starter kit. But, only received one box of menthol and the other one was "Tobacco" flavor. I didn't realize this until I went through the menthol box of 5, and was still researching what e-liquids I wanted to order. My first thought? Oh, I'll just buy a pack of menthol smokes until I can get a bottle of menthol liquid, because I didn't want to smoke the tobacco flavored carts due to the taste.
Well, I popped open the tobacco carts anyway, and tried one. Not my fancy, but I am into my 3rd day of smoking the tobacco flavor and didn't buy the smokes! I rush ordered my menthol refill e-liquid (a mint one too : ) and I am going to make it. If the tobacco flavored ones run out, I'm down to Walgreens to buy a couple of Blu menthol eCigs.
Switching to vaping from analogs isn't that tough. Actually, it's much easier then smoking (I can do it in the car; I don't stink; i feel better). But, buying eCigs and their supplies is not as easy as analogs. Thus, do the do's, not the dont's.
Have a contingency plan. Walgreens selling the Blu disposables is mine. By the way, the Blu starter kit Walgreens sales is an older one, maybe not the best PV to buy. And, read the heck out of this forum, you'll learn much. What's the most you have to loose? If you do the do's you will be smoke free. And, over a few weeks you will begin to save the dollars and begin to feel better. More importantly,
you will save your life.
My other flavors marksboro 36 mg (currently too strong flavor wise but nailed the nic level), smooth tobacco 24 mg (currently too weak flavor), and vanilla latte 24 mg (too much coffee). I tried to tone these down by adding a drop of the cotton candy.
worth: I smoked 2.5 PAD of analogs for years. When I started vaping, recently, I still smoked <10 analogs a day along with vaping. I figured if I held that pattern the rest of my life that I was still way ahead of the curve. On 3/25/12 I woke and thought, "I want the flavor of vaping over the flavor of an analog. I'm going to try to vape only today". When I got that bad analog urge I would drip 36 mg e-liquid and it beat the heck out of the "analog Jones". Take your time. Don't beat yourself up. When the right e-liquid, pv, and urge to quit analogs strikes you'll be able to quit or significantly reduce the analogs. I think the main thing is knowing when the time is right for you and then seizing it. I think you're doing great. Don't give up your quest to be analog free and I predict one day you will be....it happened to me.
