Effect of flavors on potential to relapse to smoking

[kristin]

tobacco flavors taste like a cigarette or pipe tobacco SMELLS like, rather than what burning tobacco tasted like. It left me wanting "the real thing." It's kind of like wanting ice cream and getting frozen milk instead.

I switched to a peach flavor as soon as I moved up to a refillable Joye 510 from my original, pre-filled "cigarette look-alike." So, I haven't used a tobacco flavor since August of 2009 when I got my new device and bottle of peach. I give the flavor a lot of credit for keeping me from returning to smoking for two reasons: 1) The peach and mocha/coffee flavors don't make me crave cigarettes the way tobacco flavors did and 2) the non-tobacco flavors made the ONE cigarette I've tasted in over 3 years taste horrible, just weeks after I had switched. I could use tobacco in a pinch if I was out of everything else, but I found it's not really the nicotine that kept me smoking so much as the hand-to-mouth thing. That puts all the more emphasis on having an enjoyable flavor.

If they banned all flavors but tobacco or menthol, I would use menthol probably. (My hope would be for a loophole that would allow vendors to sell unflavored liquids or even "very low flavor" in various strengths, so we can put in our own non-nicotine flavor drops later ala "Tasty Puff.") But if they limited it to just tobacco flavors, I think I would either quit vaping altogether or start smoking again, because I would just want the real flavor instead of a poor facsimile. Hopefully I would be able to just quit altogether rather than smoke again, but I think the whole business of the government taking away my choice and enjoyment of a product would just make me so angry and stressed that I'd start smoking again just out of spite!

My husband was a menthol smoker and he's been pretty much exclusively a menthol vaper. (He tried a French Pipe flavor once but rarely used it.)

 

[yvilla]

I think she is trying to break it down by "cig like " & "totally NOT cig like "

& menthol falls in "cig like"

That's exactly my point.

Menthol on its own, and even more so various mint flavors, when not employed over a tobacco-based flavor, are not "cig like" at all, and that's why I could not fairly tick off the first choice.

 

[Jimi D.]

I vape 6 to 10 different flavors on a daily basis. Tobacco's fruit, candy, drinks, bakery..etc. This is what makes vaping so much fun. I haven't had the urge to smoke or snus since July 2010

 

[JC Okie]

I moved from tobacco flavors after the first week of vaping. If I had to vape either tobacco or menthol, I would opt for unflavored nic juice. I do still use nicotine. The flavors (fruit, mostly, but some coffees and some bakery goods) are what got me away from a 40 year cigarette habit altogether. I can't stand tobacco flavors/smells of any kind now. If it weren't for the fruit flavors, I wouldn't be nearly as satisfied. If "they" limited my choices to tobacco or menthol, I'd opt for civil disobedience. I'd absolutely find a way (easily) to get around it and vape the flavors I like. Since I DIY all my own juice now anyway, it's really a moot point. Just my 2 cents.

 

[FranC]

Peppermint and menthol mainly. Lost my taste for tobacco.

 

[Robino1]

If I hadnt found ecigs, I would have died with a cigarette in my hand. I had tried to quit smoking first with going cold turkey, lasted three days. Second try hypnosis, lasted one day. Third try, accupuncture. Smoked as soon as I left the office. Tried the patch, smoked while wearing it frequently. I heard about using the patch in conjunction with Wellbutrin. Worked for eight months. As soon as I was weaned off of both...went right back to smoking when I spent time with family that were all smokers.

I am now cigarette free for 2 months and I have not craved a cigarette, unlike all the other times I tried to quit. Vaping is also giving me the choice to step down my nicotine intake. Yes the patch did that also, but it didn't stick with me. Vaping also feeds the ingrained hand to mouth habit that I developed over almost 40 years of smoking.

If they took vaping away from me, I would surely go back to smoking. No doubt in my mind.

I feel healthier for sure. I'm a singer and in just the short time I have been using the e-cigarette my vocal chords have gotten stronger and I have better breath control. I can hold my notes far longer than I used to while smoking.

I sure hope the government doesn't take this life changing device away.

 

[Lisa Belle]

Also DIY and started out with tobacco flavors, and saw my desire to smoke decrease. Now about 2.7 yrs later and for several months, zero desire to smoke and making my own desert like flavors. I tried a cigarette the other day and YUCK!!! Disgusting and the burn in the throat who needs it! So very glad to have the choice to vape and to vape what I like.

 

[francky5591]

I've been smoking for 42 years, and first I tried tobacco flavors, but now after 8 months vaping I'm not anymore limited to tobacco flavors, I also enjoy vaping fruity, sweet flavors; to me the worst tasting e-juice still tastes better than the best tasting analogic cigarette. And like someone said at the beginning of this thread/poll, Iv'e had no urges at all to smoke from the very beginning of vaping because the e-liquids I'm vaping contain some nicotine, it just took me one short week to completely quit tobacco after I started vaping.