Looks like you are well on your way and received a lot of good advice. Read it without logging in but would have given everybody a like, nice job! I'm adding this not just for you but for anyone else struggling. And believe me, I struggled a lot and needlessly beat myself up a lot. Wish I'd found ECF sooner.
I could live in Denmark happily for the rest of my life. My father's family lived there for a couple of years while fleeing the Nazis. As a kid I was dragged through much of the country and was quite bummed to leave. Bornholm, Copenhagen, Tivoli (Gardens)...
Trivia alert: Back in the day, the best hourglasses were made from Bornholm sand. It wasn't just the color, each grain of sand is small and pretty uniform making the hourglass more accurate.
I can do without Denmark's nic restrictions.
I dual used for five frustrating months. I had the same problems you did with throat irritation, coughing, etc. Dairy products, something to coat your throat, helped a lot. You probably will cough for a while as your body gets rid of the gunk, just not the same as dual using.
Online research finally told me I should bump up to 18mg to 24mg. It was a complete overdose but it worked. I dropped back down within a month and then continued to drop periodically as the nic naturally became too much at each level.
Don't worry about how much nic you are using, everybody is different. My happy spot is 4-5mg. For other people it's much higher and for some it is none.
Whatever works is the right way to do it.
Ever fly on a plane, run outside, light a cig and get sucker-punched between the eyes with the nic rush? With cigarettes you are free-basing nic. Unfortunately, that never happens with vaping. No quick fix and I miss that a lot.
The trade off is you get many more healthy, happy years of living with a hell of a lot fewer doctor visits, colds, flu. Worth it.
I tried looking for one of those handy dandy vaping calculator/banners and could only find this one, humble apologies.
Since My Last Cigarette | Create your banner! To date I haven't smoked about 75,000 cigarettes and saved over $25,000. Staggers the mind. That's 75,000 toxic butts that haven't gone into a landfill or somewhere else critters might get ahold of them. Worth it alone just for that.
Looking at a constantly updating banner gives you sort of an extra kick in the .... when you have a moment of weakness. If you do break down and have a cig, you don't need to be happy about it but
do not beat yourself up over it either. As the others have said, it is the ones you don't smoke that count.
You are correct in that there is a lot of crap added into cigarettes that make quitting a nightmare. BT has spent billions getting us hooked, we are stronger than they are especially if we stick together and share information and support. Here is a list of symptoms you may experience withdrawing from their toxic soup.
A list of symptoms when quitting tobacco and changing to an ecigarette
Keep up the good work!
