Thanks everyone. You are all giving me strength...
You can do this. Others have suggested......just lean heavy on the vaping when that urge strikes. Stay with higher nic for a while. You'll be fine.
Fell Off The Wagon
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You can do this. Others have suggested......just lean heavy on the vaping when that urge strikes. Stay with higher nic for a while. You'll be fine.
This was exactly my situation when I first vaped from 2009-2011. Never gave up those 2 cigs a day down from a pack. I fell off the wagon sometime in 2011 and went back to the butts exclusively. Got back into vaping this past November, immediately got right down to those same two smokes a day for the first week. I think I was scared to try to give them up.
So I woke up one morning a week after restarting vaping and summoned up the courage to try and dump those 2 smokes that day. Lo and behold I was successful! Been cig free for four months now. So for me it was the fear of failure that stopped me from kicking those 2 smokes a day to the curb.
Have no fear!
Ramp down. When I initially quit it took 5 or 6 months to go from 3 packs a day to none. I caught myself before getting back up to 3 packs a day, and now I am a little less than a pack a day.
Wanted to add, that if you vape high nic juice fairly heavily / frequently in the early stages, it will kill those nasty urges every time. Just find a few flavors that you like, and get some in higher and lower nic, and you'll have this thing licked.
Glad I'm not the only one. I'm still stuck with one analog when I first wake up and one during the work week on my way home. Having a tough time kicking those last two analogs. That's still way less than before, though.
we're keeping this thread alive until you get em down to none ... one day at a time.
you can do it bcalvanese
That was/is my routine, to ramp down. Started at 2.4%, did that maybe a month, but it hit too hard. Dropped to 1.8% and stayed there for almost two years. No plans, no schedules. I felt setting a deadline was setting myself up for failure/disappointment. I'll do it when I do it. This past January (I think..) I dropped down to 1.2% thinking it would SUCK. Got nothing but 1.2%, so I couldn't regress. Made the transition surprisingly smoothly.
Earlier this month, my vape shop was out of 1.2%, so I got 1.8%, y'know, my "old faithful". To my amazement, THAT was hitting too hard now !! I smiled to myself.
I'm getting there.
You can too !!
Don't browbeat yourself, don't keep track of the losses, for they only bring you down. Keep track of the successes. The hours you didn't smoke, then the days, then the weeks, so on and so on. You'll be amazed how fast they add up !! At the end of every month, I added up the cigs NOT smoked, then calculated the money saved. Don't subtract the cost of the vape supplies, you ain't doing a spreadsheet for a coporate meeting here. Focus on the cigs GONE, for that's what really matters.
Incorporate daily exercise with your vaping. Once you start to get into and feeling better physically through your workouts, you will think harder about that cigarette and screwing up all your progress. Just something that keeps me from smoking when im out with friends who smoke.
Woah now slow down! I'm trying to quit the stinkies and now you're suggesting I start exercising? What's next, salads!? You're really asking for a lot
Bof man I have everything sub ohm and I still smoke a couple of smokes..its still better than a pack a day lol
No pressure man,enjoy life!
No pressure man,enjoy life!
Woah now slow down! I'm trying to quit the stinkies and now you're suggesting I start exercising? What's next, salads!? You're really asking for a lot
Baby steps, baby steps...
Woah now slow down! I'm trying to quit the stinkies and now you're suggesting I start exercising? What's next, salads!? You're really asking for a lot
haha
It is all about harm reduction, anyway. I chew nic gum when I am out for dinner or a movie. Then get in the car and vape. However, I always feel I am one cig away from a pack a day cig habit! I am sure some here will admit that is the same case for them. No matter what we say about the smell and harm to our health, cigs ARE the reason we vape. And, I know, IF I couldn't vape, I'd be in your shoes now. Keep trying, but admit, it really is about the nicotine, chew nic gum, wear a patch, it is all so you can be healthier.
To OP: If you did it before, you can (easily) do it again. Especially with vaping. Especially especially with higher nic content. I'm sure you'll succeed in a way and at a time that makes most sense for you.
I still think moderate smoking kicks .... (pun not intended). If moderate smoking were all that ever existed, I highly doubt there would be any known issues with smoking, and would be zero anti-smoking advocates. But because anti-smoking advocates do exist and some people (includes vapers) believe their rhetoric, then from this perspective, you are failing. I see that logic as so easily defeated, it is not worth arguing against, and yet I still do, cause it is fun taking anti-smoking snobs down a few notches or off their proverbial pedestal.
I still think moderate smoking kicks .... (pun not intended). If moderate smoking were all that ever existed, I highly doubt there would be any known issues with smoking, and would be zero anti-smoking advocates. But because anti-smoking advocates do exist and some people (includes vapers) believe their rhetoric, then from this perspective, you are failing. I see that logic as so easily defeated, it is not worth arguing against, and yet I still do, cause it is fun taking anti-smoking snobs down a few notches or off their proverbial pedestal.
Yup, but if moderate smoking were all that ever existed, smoking would not be as addictive as it is and there would be no issue for most people.
I guess I was lucky I smoked 2 pad for 30 yrs but the last three yrs I was rolling my own with organic no additive tobacco so when I started vaping 42 days ago I just quit the analogs no problem cause I had already got rid of all the chemicals that bt is putting in their analogs so since I had nic with the vaping not even a itch to smoke anymore just the taste is hard to reproduce in vaping
as long as you didnt fall into the stuff that is left behind from what was pulling the wagon, you will be okay...
That's why it's called a wagon. So you fell off...no big deal. Wagons keep on rolling so eventually hop back on and you'll be good.
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