First day off cigs and vaping help please
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This! Every cell in your body is screaming for nicotine. Your body will figure it out.
Doesn't help for the short term though. I was 1/2 PAD of American Spirit Lights and had to get some 36mg juice. That does the trick.
I had the same experience. I am still at 36 after 1 month but no headaches or nausea, but my blood pressure improved (from my Doc today....keep doing what your doing...118/76).
You are doing the right thing!
I went through the same thing (i just quit a week ago) i had headaches because i was constantly dragging on it you might want to focus on slower drags and maybe boost the nictotine level so you wont crave it so bad i use the 24mg myself and i find that i space out my use a little better. 
Anxiety can manifest itself in our bodies in many ways - even if we don't feel like we're anxious. Just the thought of quitting used to make me anxious lol. If it's not too much nicotine...try to step back and realize that it's different for everybody. Not everyone has that one "OMG this is it" moment but rather alternate between vaping and smoking until one day the smoking is virtually nonexistent. Go with what makes you the most comfortable as you embark on your new vaping adventure.
Good luck
Good luck
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Thanks so much for all the info and support everyone! Jaka... I could just kiss you... You told me to eat chocolate!!! I've got a jug of water and am going to try and keep busy and read more on here and yes I'm going to run and grab me a dark chocolate bar I'm loving this forum! Infozone here I come
I'm loving this forum! Infozone here I come 
I can tell you what worked for me...I use nic patches with the e-cig and have been off analogs since the first of Jan.
I started with the 14mg patch and around 18mg juice, seemed to work well for me. You might have to tweek your juice to suit your situation but I was going through the same thing that you were.
I started with the 14mg patch and around 18mg juice, seemed to work well for me. You might have to tweek your juice to suit your situation but I was going through the same thing that you were.
Oh, yeah! This is why I kept ODing myself when I started -- I smoked 1.5 PAD of Spirits full-strengths, and figured I'd need the highest-octane juice out there to replace the highest freebase-nicotine cigs on the market. I was right, too... for the first couple of weeks. After that, I figured out how to vape more efficiently, but didn't realize I was getting more nicotine out of my vaping, so it was all stomachaches, headaches, insomnia, and my boss asking if I was "taking something new" until I cut back. XD
I think Spirits smokers have an advantage, though, or did back when I quit, because we don't have as much other stuff to withdraw from.
Funny you say that, because just this morning I took a pull and felt the nicotine hit immediately. I totally agree about it being easier to quit Spirits too.
This is how I did it. I smoked cheap E-cigs for 2 years until I finally realized what I was doing wrong. I would only use them in place of a cigarette, but I don't believe that is the best method. I can honestly say that after 8 months of vaping only (8 months today!) the reason I was able to quite was because I have only had a couple of cravings in the last 8 months and that was during high stress times where I didn't want to vape. I vape so I don't have to smoke. Meaning I no longer take smoke breaks or go outside, I just vape in my office, and at home inside all day and night. So I effectively broke the habit of going on a smoke break while keeping enough nic juice in my system to never crave. I actually think I over do it fairly regularly. Sometimes I have to push my e-cig out of my reach or I will without even thinking about it take a puff.
Hi, I can only share my experience as very new to vaping. I switched straight from smoking around 12 a day to vaping, the first few hours I could not get to grips with vaping but as others advised it is not the same as smoking, it is best to have a longer draw and hold it b riefly in the mouth before inhaling if that is what you wish to do.
I also found I was drink large quantities of water in the first day but that has backed off a bit now.
The first couple of days were really hard with cravings, and I felt a little out of it, I think maybe I did not vape enough but either way the cravings were still there but these subsided gradually, the key is not to touch the cigarettes, try and fight the craving as they will be short lived. You can do that by vaping, or drinking, eating, whatever works for you.
If you manage that then you will find you will adjust just fine to vaping, although I am not sure I get the same satisfaction but it does enough for me that I dont need to smoke the nasty cigarettes.
Good luck with it, stick with it, be strong and you will succeed
I also found I was drink large quantities of water in the first day but that has backed off a bit now.
The first couple of days were really hard with cravings, and I felt a little out of it, I think maybe I did not vape enough but either way the cravings were still there but these subsided gradually, the key is not to touch the cigarettes, try and fight the craving as they will be short lived. You can do that by vaping, or drinking, eating, whatever works for you.
If you manage that then you will find you will adjust just fine to vaping, although I am not sure I get the same satisfaction but it does enough for me that I dont need to smoke the nasty cigarettes.
Good luck with it, stick with it, be strong and you will succeed
I can go you one better: you'll want the highest-quality chocolate you can get your hands on. Skip the Hershey's bars and go for Green & Black's or some high-cocoa-content stuff from Whole Foods. You're used to smoking it, and now you're only eating it, so it will take longer to kick in and you want to make sure you get plenty. Treat yourself to the good stuff without guilt, because this is chocolate for your health!
The organic dark chocolates are rich in antioxidants, too, so it's got general health benefits, too, and it might help you recover from the damage smoking can do. I have my workout coach resigned to the fact that I basically just consider chocolate a vitamin at this point. *grin*
I know when I was first vaping I was about a Pack and half a day smoker, I can smoke in my office at work so I smoked alot some days more. For the first week I was smoking 3-5 cigs a day and vaping, then I just woke up on morning and decided I would try to not smoke and cigs at all, I succeeded and stopped buying them all together, I actually threw away an almost full pack bc I quit them all together, every once in a while I will smoke one but more or less to reaffirm my self that I dont need them. That sounds pretty stupid but whatever it works, they just dont taste the same to me at all. I start with 26mg nicotine and still do to this day. I have been vaping since christmas, I am pretty happy with my results. Best advice is find a good setup and try some non tobacco flavors or atleast ones that try to imitate real cigs bc they lead to dissapointment, to me atleast.
My two cents... stick with one flavor( that you really like). 36 mg strength. Be patient.
Imho we are merely transferring addiction. Plus eliminating a bunch of other addictions to the many chemicals found in smoking. So it will take time. 21 days of the same thing to be exact.
I smoked a pack and a half of mediums for 15+ years. I mix the juice you need, it worked for my wife and I over 5 years ago.
Pm me your address. I will send u a bottle .
I also find staying obsessed with mods and juice helps a bunch.
I dont know what i would do without vapeing.
Just for the record i have reduced my Nic to around 10mg as of the last year.
Oh yeah cigarettes are gross and they stink something aweful
Hope this helps! Took forever to peck out on my phone.
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Imho we are merely transferring addiction. Plus eliminating a bunch of other addictions to the many chemicals found in smoking. So it will take time. 21 days of the same thing to be exact.
I smoked a pack and a half of mediums for 15+ years. I mix the juice you need, it worked for my wife and I over 5 years ago.
Pm me your address. I will send u a bottle .
I also find staying obsessed with mods and juice helps a bunch.
I dont know what i would do without vapeing.
Just for the record i have reduced my Nic to around 10mg as of the last year.
Oh yeah cigarettes are gross and they stink something aweful
Hope this helps! Took forever to peck out on my phone.
-Ohman
Sent from my LG-LS970 using Tapatalk 2
My two cents... stick with one flavor( that you really like). 36 mg strength. Be patient.
Imho we are merely transferring addiction. Plus eliminating a bunch of other addictions to the many chemicals found in smoking. So it will take time. 21 days of the same thing to be exact.
I smoked a pack and a half of mediums for 15+ years. I mix the juice you need, it worked for my wife and I over 5 years ago.
Pm me your address. I will send u a bottle .
I also find staying obsessed with mods and juice helps a bunch.
I dont know what i would do without vapeing.
Just for the record i have reduced my Nic to around 10mg as of the last year.
Oh yeah cigarettes are gross and they stink something aweful
Hope this helps! Took forever to peck out on my phone.
-Ohman
Sent from my LG-LS970 using Tapatalk 2
Staying obsessed with mods also keeps me content also, I also make my own wicks for my nova out of cotton and bamboo
I was given 18 mg strength juice to start with but I vaped A LOT and I felt a bit tense and couldn't sleep. Switched to 12 and all was fine for a month; then I found myself vaping more and more (and more), up to 15 ml per day, so I switched back up to 16 and now everything is fine. I still vape a lot, though.
Doesn't sound stupid to me. I use to keep a pack around and try one every now and then, like I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing out on something and only pretending I was happy with vaping. It doesn't bother me that I did so, because it let me know that
1) Cigarettes don't taste as good as I remember them tasting, when my tastebuds were nuked into insensibility,
2) My ecig is giving me just as much nicotine as a cigarette can, without the first-hit highs and the been-an-hour lows, and
3) Cigarettes really do make me shorter of breath and kill my physical stamina for pretty much anything, even walking and stairs, even if I only have one, and the effect lasts a couple of days.
So it's not just that I don't need them; I don't miss them and am still glad to be rid of them.
This is not a stupid thing to reassure yourself about.
Chain vape...try and take a lot in. Try getting good, solid throat-hits. As the cessation end depends heavily on this for the maj. of people.
And the usual's, strength, flavor...
And the usual's, strength, flavor...
Doesn't sound stupid to me. I use to keep a pack around and try one every now and then, like I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing out on something and only pretending I was happy with vaping. It doesn't bother me that I did so, because it let me know that
1) Cigarettes don't taste as good as I remember them tasting, when my tastebuds were nuked into insensibility,
2) My ecig is giving me just as much nicotine as a cigarette can, without the first-hit highs and the been-an-hour lows, and
3) Cigarettes really do make me shorter of breath and kill my physical stamina for pretty much anything, even walking and stairs, even if I only have one, and the effect lasts a couple of days.
So it's not just that I don't need them; I don't miss them and am still glad to be rid of them.
This is not a stupid thing to reassure yourself about.
Thanks, I know the biggest eye opener to me was when I could smell someone who walked into a room I was in who smoked
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