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I have always been an odd ball ;-) Maybe there will be someone else who has had the same experience as me... 
As of right now, I am racking my brain trying to remember when I stopped inhaling my cigs deeply... It's very odd, because I know I used to at some point in history. Because I recognize the nicotine high I have been getting from 0.6% GS... I just do not remember exactly when I started puffing instead of inhaling...
I really do not have any complaints... apparently I subconsciously pre-adapted my inhaling technique to be perfectly suited to vaping without even knowing it
Go figure
As of right now, I am racking my brain trying to remember when I stopped inhaling my cigs deeply... It's very odd, because I know I used to at some point in history. Because I recognize the nicotine high I have been getting from 0.6% GS... I just do not remember exactly when I started puffing instead of inhaling...
I really do not have any complaints... apparently I subconsciously pre-adapted my inhaling technique to be perfectly suited to vaping without even knowing it
Go figure
What analog cigs did you smoke?
How do like "traditional" products compared to GS cigalikes?
How long did you use GS?
This is very interesting. I smoked EXACTLY the same way - +/- 1 PAD Camel Filters for 22 years. I started off on 18mg liquid - for a week. I couldn't handle it. Even 12mg was making me jittery. I'm down to 6 or 8mg, and feeling a lot better. I didn't even know that people actually direct-inhaled cigs. I thought everyone pulled it into their mouth, and then inhaled. That's unbelievable to me. I've tried that in the past, and had a coughing fit every time.
Me too, apparently folks inhale these .......s like they are mary jane cigarettes
I smoked full flavored Winstons, about a pack or a little more a day. I used GS products for almost a year while still on the analogs before I quit the analogs and went strictly with GS products. Traditional vaping equipment beats GS hands down. I've turned it into a hobby. I apologize for not quoting but I am using my phone and have issues quoting with it.
Hey! You're still alive!
I know!!! How freakin' crazy is that
I have been vaping on my 1.2% Halo Triton with Tribeca all day... and... Loving it
Green Smoke is going back under the 30 day guarantee
Still can't believe the 0.6% GS carto messes me up so bad when I am able to vape on the Tribeca 1.2% all day long... so much for logic...I see 45 year smokers going through 2+ pad get over niced in the b&m I work in. Its pure nic, not all those other chemicals. And we absorb the nic differently in vapor than smoke.
As I was packing up the Green Smoke kits to return... I took one last drag off the Tobacco Gold... in comparison to the Tribeca or Torque56, not good 
The GS cartos totally coat the inside of my mouth and I taste it forever... even if I use mouthwash I can't get rid of it...
The GS cartos totally coat the inside of my mouth and I taste it forever... even if I use mouthwash I can't get rid of it...
I been smokeing camels for 35 yrs & started on 24mg and after 3 yrs im still smoking 24mg i enjoy the taste. i found the hardest thing to get over smoking is the constant hand movement as they say its all in your head & it really is lol
Well, the answer may have been obvious to everyone else... but I have been so damn high off nicotine since Saturday, it took me until I wrote this post to realize it would be as easy as inhaling my smoke deeply to see if I got high off a real cig... duh!!!
I just went outside and took a few deep inhales with a Camel Ultralight... SURPRISE!!! I got just as high as I have been getting off the Green Smoke with only mouth hits (no inhaling, just mouth suck and blowing the vapor out).
Looks like Zero nicotine for this guy (or diluting some 0.6% juice down to super low levels)... unless someone has a vaping technique for me to minimize nicotine absorption
Hi Aphro, I have only read 4 messages in this thread but your first (and the one I just quoted) REALLY interested me. I, too, have found I had to "compare and contrast" my old smoking habits (what I enjoyed, what I didn't--while I smoked I never noticed these things). I am still "working" on this. My result with Vaping now for [Today is Day 5] 4 days plus a morning is that it is entirely different from smoking (however, I find it much more rewarding--and I wasn't PLANNING to quit smoking). What I had to discover (and you, in a different way) is WHAT do I enjoy about the act of smoking the cigs? i.e., deep drags & hold it in? shallow drags and not even hardly in the lungs? Quick drags, long slow drags? That sort of thing. You are ON the right track by smoking one of your cigs and comparing.
Do you have any "veteran" friends who are really into Vaping? (I don't) If you do, or if you can get friendly with a knowledgeable person at a local store, perhaps they can watch you Vape or smoke and give you some observations of what you are doing? Here is the thing I have only smoked cigarettes, not pipes not cigars.
And if you have friends who smoke a pipe or cigar, you will see there are entirely different techniques. When I was younger of course someone had cigars they passed around and when I tried one (smoking like I did a cigarette) I almost fell over from dizziness and (to me) the taste was something horrible. So each "instrument" so to speak, you need to come up with a different-ish technique that you find enjoyable. I have, with the help of my Personal Vaping Advisor (lol, just thought that up--the very good salesman at my local store), honed my "vaping style" in about 4 days. I am sure it will change as I go along too.
If you find you get as much enjoyment out of Vaping with no nicotine you will be a step ahead of a lot of us!
I have always known it was psychosomatic for me... it is the act itself, all the rituals that are based around it and of course the 26 years I have been practicing the aforementioned
I have always known it was psychosomatic for me... it is the act itself, all the rituals that are based around it and of course the 26 years I have been practicing the aforementioned
Yup, about the same for me, and same number of years repeating that habit, lol!
I have analyzed the way I smoked more in the last week than I ever did in the 30+ years I actually smoked!
Today I just switched from E-cigs (almost 3 months of smoking them) to a Kanger Tech and bought my first juice also.
I am noticing I am jittery, is this from too much nicotine? It's not a nicotine high, just feel jittery inside.
I do feel more satisfied with the nicotine in the Kanger, I use to carry my E-cig EVERYWHERE with me! This, I will use it, put it down and come back to it.
Today I just switched from E-cigs (almost 3 months of smoking them) to a Kanger Tech and bought my first juice also.
I am noticing I am jittery, is this from too much nicotine? It's not a nicotine high, just feel jittery inside.
I do feel more satisfied with the nicotine in the Kanger, I use to carry my E-cig EVERYWHERE with me! This, I will use it, put it down and come back to it.
I'm definitely addicted to nicotine, but I also discovered from reading this forum that I was smoking cigarettes all wrong. As another poster said, I did once or twice attempt to inhale directly from the cigarette, and it was horrible. Instead, I drew the smoke into my mouth, and then inhaled (deeply) from my mouth. This, apparently, is the wrong way to smoke a cigarette, but the right way to vape. Now that I've switched to vaping, I'm apparently doing it right.
I'm using 24 mg/ml, which seems about the same strength as what I'm used to. However, I'm only going through 1 ml per day, and from some of the other reports on this site, that's definitely on the low end of the spectrum.
I'm using 24 mg/ml, which seems about the same strength as what I'm used to. However, I'm only going through 1 ml per day, and from some of the other reports on this site, that's definitely on the low end of the spectrum.
Personally, I don't see a right way or wrong way to smoke or vape. The general idea is to inhale the smoke or vapor so that the nicotine gets absorbed through your lungs, right? I was a heavy smoker for 20 years and recently dropped analogs for vaping a month ago. The first time I took a hit off my pv I experienced a dizzy high almost like when I first took a puff from a cigarette. As time passed, I no longer had that feeling.
IMHO, it's probably just a case of the body getting used to a different way of delivering the nicotine into your system.
IMHO, it's probably just a case of the body getting used to a different way of delivering the nicotine into your system.
Nicotine from cigarette smoke is absorbed in the lungs. However, nicotine from vaping is absorbed through the mucous membranes in your nose and mouth.
Boy, this situation is foreign to me. Now I want to fly to Minnesota and see if they all smoke in such an interesting fashion.
I don't remember getting a nicotine high very often, except when I'd quit for a few days. Many years ago, I quit for two weeks as I was all freaked-out over my scuba exam. When I finished that, I went for gusto and bought a pack of Camel Unfiltered. I went to my second floor apt, grabbed my rollerblades, and sat on the stairs and strapped those babies on. And I lit the Camel. First couple of hits were intense. I had to hang with it for a while. Then I took a couple more hits, put it out, stood up, and did not make it down the stairs very well with wheels on my feet. Nicotine's one hell of a drug.
I don't remember getting a nicotine high very often, except when I'd quit for a few days. Many years ago, I quit for two weeks as I was all freaked-out over my scuba exam. When I finished that, I went for gusto and bought a pack of Camel Unfiltered. I went to my second floor apt, grabbed my rollerblades, and sat on the stairs and strapped those babies on. And I lit the Camel. First couple of hits were intense. I had to hang with it for a while. Then I took a couple more hits, put it out, stood up, and did not make it down the stairs very well with wheels on my feet. Nicotine's one hell of a drug.
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