Ever "try" a cigarette after you became a full-time vaper?

[ninjuh]

I am one of the MANY who have found success quitting cigarettes via vaping. That being said, I HAVE had cigarettes here & there.. However I found as more time goes on, they taste worse & I'm less able to finish an entire one without feeling sick of it. Obviously that's a good thing. Has anyone else had experience similar to this?

Often we relapse to cigarettes during dimes of distress or dramatic life events, but I've happily found myself content with just vaping during the harder times I've had recently..

I love vaping, I love it as a hobby, I love what it's done for me and many others around me. Glad to be here

 

[klynnn]

I was about 4 mos in the last time I tried one to see. Lit it up took two puffs and put it out. No need to try again.

 

[dsy5]

Glad to hear another success story. Keep at it! In all honesty, I had a couple of stinkies during the first few days of vaping, but I haven't had one in almost 2 years come November and have not really even had the desire to.

I haven't been without my PV's everyday though; so who knows, if I forget and leave it home ???????

 

[klynnn]

After my last try of a real cig I would just have to give up totally if I couldn't vape. It was more curiosity than wanting an actual cig. I smoked 48 years and now I can't imagine why.

 

[Baditude]

When I first started, I allowed myself 3-4 cigs the first few days. I noticed progressively that I was getting less satisfaction from them and not finishing them. When the last pack was finished, so was I.

A few weeks smokefree, I let my 4 little cigalike Volt batteries drain down. I had no charged batteries to vape, and I panicked and had a nic fit. While one battery charged, I made a quick run to the convenient mart and grabbed a pack of my old favorites. I lit it up and it tasted like ! I could barely finish it and I felt almost nauseated. Never smoked another since. Seven months and counting.

I have since move on to a BB and Silver Bullet for 1-2 days battery time, and on further to a Provari. I still make a point to keep the batteries for these charged up with backups to spare.

It is from experiences like mine that the veterans preach, "Have backups for your backups, and backups for those backups..."

 

[ninjuh]

When I first started, I allowed myself 3-4 cigs the first few days. I notice progressively that I was getting less satisfaction from them and not finishing them. When the last pack was finished, so was I.

A few weeks smokefree, I let my 4 little cigalike Volt batteries drain down. I had no charged batteries to vape, and I panicked and had a nic fit. While one battery charged, I made a quick run to the convenient mart and grabbed a pack of my old favorites. I lit it up and it tasted like ! I could barely finish it and I felt almost nauseated. Never smoked another since. Seven months and counting.

That's awesome man

 

[Thinice]

Stress can make you try a stinky for sure . I tried one today and thankfully I only made it thru half before I tossed it and reached for my newest toy

 

[grandmato5]

The first week I was vaping I did light one cigarette almost each day but they tasted so bad I butted them out after only a couple of puffs and never had another one until about 19 months later. While moving my computer desk to get something that had fallen between the desk and filing cabinet I found an old ciggie No clue how long it had been there beyond the 19 months I hadnt smoked but chances are quite a while before that. Even though I knew it was extremely stale and I had absolutely no desire to have a cigarette I was curious how it would taste to me after so long so I found a lighter and lit it. To my surprise, the few puffs I took were very stale but it didnt taste nearly as bad as those I'd lit that first week of vaping had tasted to me While I still have no desire to ever return to smoking that one cig showed me how easy it would likely be to return to smoking if I should ever decide to "just smoke a few" so in the long run I'm glad I gave that old stale ciggie a try so I know to never ever seriously have another cigarette

 

[Aron Gatt]

Well I started vaping 7 to 8 m ago with a small liberro PCC type a think and I loved it great juice aswel ..but I relaps from time to time but just for a few puffs" cos I couldn't stand to finish it" so then I just upgraded to better battries and now mods ! Have had a stinky in 4 M now ..... But sometimes I get a feeling just to try one ...to see how it feels " like I don't know stupid me" ...but I grab my mod and have a good VAPE and it feels and smells so GOOD that I forget about those them stinkys ..... VAPING IS GREAT

 

[Xanth]

Just happened to me 2 days ago. Quitted analogs for 20 days.

Was out drinking with a couple of friends. Asked to try a puff. Took one short drag and I regretted it immediately.

It stinks like a muddlefacker. The taste lingered for a couple of minutes in my mouth and I know i will never smoke an analog again.

 

[jimrug1]

I was a 40+ year 1 1/2 pad smoker. I have been vaping for 4 months now. I still smoke 3 -5 cigs a week. Vaping does it for me most of the time. Sometimes when I get off work. I get this craving for a smoke. So I have one and then don't think about it for a day or so. Then it hits me again and so on. I don't have any desire to go back to smoking cigarettes. I just keep on keepin on and figure (hope) my cravings will get less and less as time goes on.

 

[tygertyger]

... I made a quick run to the convenient mart and grabbed a pack of my old favorites. I lit it up and it tasted like ! I could barely finish it and I felt almost nauseated...

I'm only three weeks in, but I was vaping and smoking just a few for the first few days. After two days of only vaping, I got curious. Bummed a ciggy and fired it up. Did NOT enjoy it but kept puffing because I'm stubborn like that.... I just wanted to see what I'd think after a few days of not smoking, but without nicotine withdrawal. I did finish it, but I was never so glad to reach the end of a cigarette, and I'm quite sure I don't want to try again. There's been a couple stressful moments since, when I've *thought* I wanted one, but then I remember how gross the last one was and I reach for my eGo instead.

 

[zapped]

the last time I quit analogs I smoked a few here and there and they tasted like wet ashtrays.I have zero inclination to do that now.

 

[jespeak]

Thank you, thank you and thank you for starting this thread! It has been almost 3 months since I have been vaping, and I have had a few of the "stinkies" to see how they were. Did not miss a thing! I do not feel guilty or feel in any way off my path to healthy living without tobacco.

I had made an internal promise to myself before I committed to vaping, that if I truly needed to have a cigarette then I would. If things got really hairy then I would go out to purchase a pack of cigs. Since making this promise to self, I have had 6 cigarettes in total, and have yet to buy that package of "stinkies" .

Reverse psychology it may be, and it is working for me. Because I have given myself permission to step off the path once in a while, I find the stress less, and the vaping more satisfying. Go figure!

Cheers, and Happy Vaping

 

[desmondevers]

I am going on two months now and have never looked back, even during times of stress I will just chain vape rather than think about going back to analogs. Crack up your mgs of Nicotine or if you have a VV just turn it up a lot.

 

[Z_Ghost]

I still have a part of one every so often, then go a week without any at all.
I can not finish one and they taste nasty.
One day I will not need any at all, till then if it gets bad I can have a part of one and not get bent over it.

 

[Huffelpuff]

I tried one two weeks into vaping and that's when I knew that my smoking days were over. Felt like I had licked an ashtray... nasty. Can't believe that I smoked for 25 years.

 

[RedGirl86]

My fiancee and I tried to smoke 'stinkies' and it was awful... It felt like we smoked for the first time in our lives- after just one smoke we both started coughing and making faces... No need to say that we threw that cigarette away after just that one smoke... Vaping for almost 5 months now (after years of smoking)...

 

[Mustang73064]

There a vast majority of us who are "doubting Thomas-es". I HAD to smoke a cigarette about 3 days after I started vaping just to see what it was like, if I would get the same nasty taste/smell/etc that everyone here was saying. HOLY CRAP BATMAN, they were right!!! It was nasty just after 3 days.

 

[Plumes.91]

yeah cigs are gross after you've been vaping for a month or more. But I've gone back to smoking twice now after 3-4+ months of vaping. once you get past the nastiness of the first 2 cigarettes, your hooked again.