Has anyone completely quit?

[sugismimi]

I havent had an analog in a week. Bronchitis sent me to the ER and have been afraid to smoke since then. Guess I got scared when I wasn't getting any AIR!
I've hardly been vaping either...kinda scared...but really really wanting a throat hit! I'm mixing 12mg juice with 0mg trying to limit that nicotine intake.
So...guess i've completely quit at this point.

I'm not in a very good mood...I must say. Feeling a little uptight lol

Take a few mins. to read the health section. There you will find that having anxiety, feeling crappy, and maybe even tired alot, are all signs of withdrawal, or common signs I should say. Maybe cutting your mgs. too low too fast is causing you to feel like your not in a good mood.
I smoked for over 20yrs. and I didn't think very much per day, like 10-15 analogs, but when I don't have a least a few hits of nicotine even after 3 mos, I get crabby and .....y, and still gets chills and well I seem to stay in the bathroom(enuff said there), so Feel it out, be safe and research....
Lot's of folks here to help, we all have the same reason to be here...
Good Luck

 

[tarazarr]

I've been cig free for 2 weeks now. When I first got my e-cig, I kept my expectations low, didn't tell anyone I was "quitting....again" just trying something to lower the number of cigs I smoked a day. That way there was no Failure, if I still wanted to smoke.

I think a big part of the deal for me anyways was, coming to terms with what I am.... that's a person who is addicted to nicotine... I stopped thinking of myself as a "smoker" and started thinking along the lines of..."I'm an addict" you know... just calling it what it is. Then I told myself "I'm just changing the way I get my drug" the smoke is killing me, not the nicotine.

For the first 3 days I continued smoking while I was "making friends" with vaping... I started enjoying the vaping and found myself wanting a regular or analog smoke beginning to lessen quickly. After 3 days of vaping I was down to 2 regular smokes a day and knew it was just a matter of time before I "trusted" my 510 enough to not freak out when I ran out of smokes. After 3 days of only smoking 2 ciggs a day, I knew I was ready. I went out to play a round of Disc Golf and smoked up my last 5 ciggs in the pack and then picked up my e-cig and I refuse to look back.

 

[SnowDragon]

I have read about several people that successfully quit analogs, stepped down their nic level vaping and no longer vape.

I decided I would give myself the first month at 18mg, then a monthly decline down to 11 mg, then 8mg to hopefully 0 around December.

That being said, I have also stocked up on 18mg juice just in case I fall off the wagon and start thinking about analogs again.

Which reminds me, Mutt's Fire and Ice at VB is awesome...Thanks Mutt!

 

[hurricanekatrina]

The first time I quit "cold turkey" for ten years I always told myself "I am just stopping for awhile- if I want to smoke, I will." I do the same with the e-smokes. "I am enjoying this now, if I wanted to smoke, I would." This psychological game works for me because I give myself freedom and options. (BTW- I have nto smoked analogs in two months now.)

 

[Daemonz80]

I've been vaping for about 3 weeks. First with a blu, which I know gets a bad rap around here, but wasn't all that bad. I was a PAD smoker and with the blu was down to about 4 a day if that. Just got my 510 yesterday and whoah, night and day difference from the blu. So we'll see how it goes.

 

[YKruss]

Stop smoking the day my ecig arived 15.5 months ago.

As for quiting vaping or going down to 0 nic - will never happened, you wouldn't want to be around me when my body craves for nic.

 

[prawdaeh]

maybe it's too early for me to say...but i've been smoking about 20 years...got my first e-cig about 3 hours ago (a joye eGo) and...i totally don't crave a cigarette. I was smoking near 2 packs a day every day for about the past 10 years...my lungs DEFINATELY were telling me they didn't like me for it...I have a carton of cigarettes sitting on the other end of my desk...about half a pack from before my e-cig showed up...and I don't care..im giving them away! and i pretty much used to chain smoke....so after 3 hours of not caring to have a cigarette at all....i'm fairly confident i wont care to have one ever again. I could be wrong! but i am so freaking amazed.

 

[Tober138]

I have been vaping for about a month. Went from PAD to 2-3 a day. I still like to have an analog first thing in the morning, and usually a second one right after dinner. I'm kind of ok with that. Once I start dropping the nic level in my vapes down from 18 (working towards zero then done with it all) I'm hoping that my use of a few analogs will go away as well. Right now tho - I'm ok with where I'm at.

 

[Voxvolari]

It is amazing, isn't it? BUT, I have to wonder if it's the vaping alone or if being a part of this forum that helped. Hmmm...

Personally I think the forum plays a huge part. This place turned my own skepticism over ecigs (primarily formed from smokeassasin commercials on the radio) into genuine curiosity and after days of avid reading into a believer that it works, and it can work for me. I've NEVER felt that way before about quitting.

I've browsed forums for quitting before and was put off by the AA feel of it (no disrepect to those who followed that path to sobriety, I salute you). It seemed very white knuckled, very supportive yes but focused on bootstrapping your way through a miserable path. I think one of the attractions of this place is not only are people getting through the quitting process - they enjoy vaping! It's not only become a step in the right direction but a leap into something exciting they can share with others. Vaping takes a real pain and for many it seems transforms it into a passion.
That to me is a testament to both.

 

[Lemon-aid]

On my firt day I went from 12 cigs a day to 3 and on the second just 1. On the third day I was vaping only and vaping only since.

I too have been wanting to quit for a long time but felt that patches and gum just wouldnt work for me. When I started researching e-cigs I felt like this really could work and so far so good.

 

[Phayah]

I started seriously vaping about 4 months ago. I experimented with it a year ago and failed miserably.

I have not been able to completely quit smoking but I have reduced it a lot. I was smoking 2 packs a day and I now smoke anywhere from 0-6 per day. Most days it's just 1-2.

 

[DC2]

Has anyone quit smoking and viping?

I'm not sure we'll ever know how many people quit completely.
If you stop vaping, you probably don't come here anymore.

 

[Core618]

I stopped smoking tobacco the day I was handed my e-cig...

Not really interested in stopping vaping though... smoking was the only reason I remembered to take a break at work, so I still need that 'habit' to remind myself to take a break...

It's been a few weeks, I forget the exact date right now, maybe a month though since my brother-in-law gave me his old e-cig (which I finally figured out, today, is a Joye302, it has no markings that meant anything, but the charger had JKY302 on it) because he had gotten a new one... I haven't lit up since.

~C

 

[AEP]

I started vaping on the 15th of march this year. Not had a normal ciggy since then. To be honest found it very easy to make the switch and loving it so far. In two days it will be my 5 month anniversary.

 

[Timberwear]

5 minutes ago I destroyed my last pack of cigs. I'm going to just quit everything for as long as possible. This includes snus, ecig, cigs... any form of tobacco or nicotine. I can't wait

this should be fun.

 

[DaKnight]

Today marks two weeks of no analogs after going through 1 1/2 to 2 packs a day for over 20yrs. I think as well as others that the general rule of vaping helping to quit is no matter how much you used analogs its the ones not used, whether it be a few less a day to lots more not smoked.I am still a new vapor newb but with the positive feedback/enforcment and help from members here on ECF, quiting analogs gets easier.
As a side note - my house and truck smell better along with the other benefits, all the while I get compliments of how good the vapor smells (fruit and such flavors), lol I never heard that with analogs.

 

[locky]

My 1st ecig kits arrived on 5/22 and I have had no analog since that day. Started with 16mg nic and now I'm on 6mg nic, couple more week I will be down to 0mg nic.

 

[Aquino0120]

I quit smoking the first day I started vaping. I have worked myself down from 26mg to 11mg go me!!!!

 

[catwoman]

My last cigarette was three weeks ago after 39 YEARS. (that is very sad Really the banners should read how much we have spent in the past not how much we have saved) But, I did not set goals or rules, because the minute I tell myself I am not allowed to do something of course I want to do it. (I am not sure I ever grew up) So, I am not being punished or deprived. I have a lovely stale pack of menthol cigs in the freezer, and I am just choosing to leave them there. And If I get off nicotine, or stop vaping it is all to the good. I am just thrilled that I have gotten this far. I never, never thought I could stop. So hang in there, enjoy the fact that you are not coughing, burning holes in your stuff, you're not adding cigarette butts to the landfill and you can still get that little oral fixation need met.

 

[Vini]

thanks everyone for your support.

I know I will make it!