Enjoyment or nicotine hit ?

[Fad]

Recovering smoker? Are you dual using some? I ask because it just seems a low nic for someone possibly still recovering

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No, not a dual user - I "quit" smoking literally the same second I started vaping, no problems, withdrawals or regrets !

"Recovering" refers to the fact that if I ever decided to stop vaping, it`s almost certain I would start smoking again - for the habit rather than purely for the nicotine.

I am a smoker and never really gave up at all (this is why it was 100% successful) - just changed the method.

 

[Skold]

That's certainly one way of looking at it! Afterall it's still the motion of smoking isn't it

 

[vapdivrr]

No, not a dual user - I "quit" smoking literally the same second I started vaping, no problems, withdrawals or regrets !

"Recovering" refers to the fact that if I ever decided to stop vaping, it`s almost certain I would start smoking again - for the habit rather than purely for the nicotine.

I am a smoker and never really gave up at all (this is why it was 100% successful) - just changed the method.

It's funny, I quite pretty much , like you, the moment I started vaping, but a few years into it I became disgusted by cig smoke. I now get literally sick when I smell it and never could go back.

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[Skold]

Just beer that makes me crave

 

[Riplea]

I craved a cig first thing this morning to go with my coffee....

I am vaping not to smoke. I enjoy it enough to keep me off the cigs. If cigs weren't so bad for me, I would probably start back up.

90 days today off the stickies. I have had smokers tell me they never quit craving the cigs...hope I eventually get past it.

 

[Skold]

First month was the worst for me.

 

[Asbestos4004]

I craved a cig first thing this morning to go with my coffee....

I am vaping not to smoke. I enjoy it enough to keep me off the cigs. If cigs weren't so bad for me, I would probably start back up.

90 days today off the stickies. I have had smokers tell me they never quit craving the cigs...hope I eventually get past it.

Of course smokers will tell you they never quit. They're smokers. As an ex smoker, I can tell you that the cravings will pass. Don't feed em and they'll leave.

 

[realsis]

That's a great question. When I read this question my mind instantly said, oh yeah nicotine for sure, but then I really thought about it. How much I enjoy watermelon candy, or a creamy vanilla ice cream flavor, a luscious blueberry, and I thought it's really both for me. It's part habit, a lot about flavor, and of course my old friend nicotine . One wouldn't be right without the other. I'm loving the whole of it. Not just one particular part.i love the flavor and smell the sensation the whole of It! It's saved me from cigarettes ! It's absolutely taken their place, the all of vaping!!

 

[DC2]

Just beer that makes me crave

For me it's beer, martinis, champagne, wine, and well...
You get the picture.

But I don't "crave" per se.
I just NEED something to do with my hands.

 

[Canadian_Vaper]

I've always loved the diverse effects of nicotine, it perks me up, it calms me down.. I also enjoy flavors as well..

I started at 18mg, worked my way down slowly to 1.5mg but wasn't getting enough nic so now I'm back up to 6mg most of the time but if I feel like making it cloudy in here I'll use 3mg..

 

[DaveP]

If vaping weren't an alternative I probably would have had a terrible time staying off the cigs. Knowing I can stay off them using a nicotine alternative is valuable info. If the alternative was just nicotine gum I'm not sure that would work. Getting it from vapor is a life saver because you get to play like you are really smoking while you are getting the nic.

 

[Skold]

I was at 6mg too for months then I got back on the smokes unfortunately at a stressful stage and now I'm on 18mg to kill my cravings, I will probably decrease over next few months but now it keeps me calm.
@Canadian_Vaper I can see how it calms you down because for me it has always been great for my nerves, cigarettes were one of the only thing that calmed me down when I was stressed. Now its vaping, an I don't know why I ever started smoking again cos' the flavour of them when vaping is horrible!

 

[Kikofarakiko]

I need it all. A little nic, some great flavors, hand to mouth and visible exhale. Plus the whole hobbyist tinkering side and collecting shiny things.

That's Me as well

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[Asbestos4004]

Me? Leave me alone! I can quit whenever I want!

 

[mattiem]

For me vaping replaced smoking. I made the switch for my health and well being and hopefully save a dollar or two. I have stayed with it for the flavors and to continue being smoke free.

@Asbestos4004 , I finally made some or your "The Last Straw" and it is delicious.

 

[thetrucker]

I craved a cig first thing this morning to go with my coffee....

I am vaping not to smoke. I enjoy it enough to keep me off the cigs. If cigs weren't so bad for me, I would probably start back up.

90 days today off the stickies. I have had smokers tell me they never quit craving the cigs...hope I eventually get past it.

I don't have the cravings anymore for tobacco..........I have the cravings for my ecig now lol........congrats on 90 days off the stinkies....this is a very good start......

 

[DC2]

I can see how it calms you down because for me it has always been great for my nerves, cigarettes were one of the only thing that calmed me down when I was stressed.

I'm just going to suggest something, because it's true for me.
That doesn't mean it's true for you though.

Just something to consider for you, and for everyone reading this...


Cigarettes did not calm me down so much as other things involved in the smoking ritual..

• Getting away from the world for 15 minutes
• Watching the swirling smoke while considering things
• The rhythmic breathing of inhale/exhale
• Something to keep my hands occupied while my mind wanders

I could sit in front of my computer trying to figure out a problem and get nowhere fast.
Then I'd go for a smoke break and figure out what to do in the first 3 minutes.

And I am pretty sure that's not just me.
But then again, I'm also sure it doesn't apply to everyone either.


But, yeah, just something to consider.

 

[cigarbabe]

I have to wonder why it is such a "big deal" for many of you to lower your nic intake?
That wasn't a big part of the equation for many of us when I started so I wonder why it is now?
Do you on some level, believe that nicotine is addictive or harmful so you have to "do away with it"?
If not why are you lowering your levels?
Congrats on being 90 days smoke free Riplea!
C. B.

 

[SK1LL]

I have to wonder why it is such a "big deal" for many of you to lower your nic intake?

1.) To proove to myself that I could live without that stigmatized substance.
2.) To appease to the overzealous' idealization.
3.) To be a statistical nightmare for those zealots by becoming irrefutable proof myself that this technology can and does work to "escape the grip of tobacco."

 

[vapdivrr]

I have to wonder why it is such a "big deal" for many of you to lower your nic intake?
That wasn't a big part of the equation for many of us when I started so I wonder why it is now?
Do you on some level, believe that nicotine is addictive or harmful so you have to "do away with it"?
If not why are you lowering your levels?
Congrats on being 90 days smoke free Riplea!
C. B.

I often wonder this myself.... I hear people who smoked for 40 years and never even thought about it, now their vaping and worried about the nic. Personally I feel one should stay with a nic level , which at first should be fairly high, and stay with that until they know 100 percent that no matter what, they will never go back to smoking. Once you are in that place, then I think it's something to consider. Just in this thread alone, there was one person who started lowering and soon after went back to smoking. I do agree that nic gets kind of a bad rap in vaping, I hear it all the time when people say to me, " but isn't there still nicotine in ecigs"? To each their own and more power to ya for lowering, but don't lower to a point where your thinking about cigs, that's just not good.

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