Has anyone quit real smoking?
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You can always get more TH with a few drops of PGA in the liquid... or just try vaping atomic cinnacide
You can always get more TH with a few drops of PGA in the liquid... or just try vaping atomic cinnacide
I like to vape straight roach poison.....killer throat hit.
I am getting so antsy to get my supplies.......I ordered on wednesday and expext to get them early next week. I am still smoking analogs while I impatiently wait for my gear. Just thinking about switching from analogs to PV have me looking at my analog supplies in a whole new light.........Im getting disgusted looking at the ashtray.
Hope my experience will be as good as all your yours.
Lawdy......give me some patience!
Hope my experience will be as good as all your yours.
Lawdy......give me some patience!
Confession Time.
I quit smoking analogs back in 1989. I was analog free for 4 years.
Back then whenever I had the urge to smoke an analog, I took a hit or two or three off a ......... joint. After about 3 months, I didnt even need the ......... anymore......I started smoking again during a super stressful time in my life when I first started grad school in another state, was living in a homeless shelter with my 7 year old son and was having a hard time finding a place to live before school started. I was so stressed out after one especially horrible apartment hunting experience I went to the nearest gas station and bought 3 packs of ciggies. Been smoking ever since.
So I am pretty sure that having something to emulate smoking will work for me. anyone else quit before? How long did you stay ciggie free and what made you go back to smoking?
I quit smoking analogs back in 1989. I was analog free for 4 years.
Back then whenever I had the urge to smoke an analog, I took a hit or two or three off a ......... joint. After about 3 months, I didnt even need the ......... anymore......I started smoking again during a super stressful time in my life when I first started grad school in another state, was living in a homeless shelter with my 7 year old son and was having a hard time finding a place to live before school started. I was so stressed out after one especially horrible apartment hunting experience I went to the nearest gas station and bought 3 packs of ciggies. Been smoking ever since.
So I am pretty sure that having something to emulate smoking will work for me. anyone else quit before? How long did you stay ciggie free and what made you go back to smoking?
Last analog on 7/19 at 7am my 48th birthday. Analog free for 5 days. No cravings for one. Gave 5 packs that I had left to my girlfriend. Don't miss it at all. So glad I found e-cigs and this forum. 2 ppd for 39 years and can finally say I am a non smoker...doesn't get much better than that!!!!!!
I have never been able to quit...until the e-cig. And even then I had to find the right model, flavor and nic level to suit me. All I can say is "don't give up." Even if you a try an e-cig and fail....do research and buy one based on the comments that seem close to your personal taste. There are a lot of good models available now.....you'll be fine.
Agreed, and may I add, darkling56, keep the analogs handy for a while. There is other addictive stuff in the analogs, that from what I think I understand messes with the dopamine receptors in your brain (the same receptors that control pleasure and are messed with by anti-depressants).
I can't stress enough, DON'T BEAT YOURSELF UP if it's not an overnight switch for you.
If you feel a craving, try to vape it away -- go ahead and light one up if it persists. I know I was still smoking a few analogs a day the first week (more than a few on day one), but if you persist you will more than likely be able to phase out all the burnt crap eventually. Some people still can't get rid of the analogs completely; don't let that discourage you, you should still be able to cut way back on them.
Near the end of week one, I was practically forcing myself to smoke an analog on the porch every night (knowing what I know now, it was the routine I was addicted to at that time, not the analog). I then went a week without a single craving.
After the first week tobacco free, I felt I "needed" one again, so I stepped outside, lit up... and felt the sensation of something dying in my mouth. I couldn't take the taste anymore, and I knew that I was done.
That last few puffs was six months ago now, and I haven't desired one since. Just keep telling yourself to enjoy the journey, and the destination will come when it does.
On the other hand, your experience may be like that of many others here, where they get their first e-cig, start using it, and never look back... unless they run out of equipment or have a mechanical failure. As soon as you feel like you're there, order backups, even if it's just a few disposable 510 kits or something.
Good luck, and have fun!
13 years smoking, 40 or so roll your own cigs a day.
Received 510 & 901 in the mail last August, haven't had a cig since that day when I opened the pack.
Now also can't stand the stale smoke smell on people BUT I do like the smell of a lit cig if it's not too close to me...hmmm.
Received 510 & 901 in the mail last August, haven't had a cig since that day when I opened the pack.
Now also can't stand the stale smoke smell on people BUT I do like the smell of a lit cig if it's not too close to me...hmmm.
After about 37 years as of today I am analog free! Its been 8 weeks today! Got an EGO which didnt work foe me. Didnt really feel like a cig. Then I ordered a KR808. That did the trick. Feels more like the real thing. It took me about 8 days before I finally gave them up! But now I feel I vape more than I smoked. Not really sure. Guess It depends on what I am doing. When Im on my puter I look like a smoke stack! Anyway its really good to say I am not a smoker! I dont smoke..I Vape!!!!
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The good part is when you walk away from vaping too...I'm so close I can taste it! ( or not taste it I guess )
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The good part is when you walk away from vaping too...I'm so close I can taste it! ( or not taste it I guess
I respectfully disagree. After having personally met over 300 local smokers in less than a year and having a full conversation with each one I have learned the following:
There are 2 kinds of smokers:
1. Those who started smoking from peer pressure or other various reasons, became addicted, no longer "enjoy" smoking but can't quit because they are addicted.
2. Those who started smoking from peer pressure or other various reasons, became addicted, yet enjoy the act of smoking, the inhalation and other intracacies of "smoking."
Group #1 doesn't even like smoking anymore they just can't quit. This group usually does well with the patch, gum, etc.
Group #2 (this is me) We love to smoke (as un-PC as it is to admit,) we freaking love the act of smoking. Those of us in this category typically fail with all normal smoking cessation products. The E-cig was the ONLY alternative to traditional tobacco cigarettes that worked for me (13 months tobacco free now.) For the MAROJITY (not all) of us in this category, we wish to continue smoking (vaping,) just not with traditional analogs. "Smoking" is part of our personality....we just wish to find a less dangerous way to do this....hence the e-cig.
I agree
Type 1 will quit using e-cig/mods once they feel they are free from the nic
Type 2 (Me) will become a Vaping conosur
Type 1 will quit using e-cig/mods once they feel they are free from the nic
Type 2 (Me) will become a Vaping conosur
1. Those who started smoking from peer pressure or other various reasons, became addicted, no longer "enjoy" smoking but can't quit because they are addicted.
2. Those who started smoking from peer pressure or other various reasons, became addicted, yet enjoy the act of smoking, the inhalation and other intracacies of "smoking."
Group #1 doesn't even like smoking anymore they just can't quit. This group usually does well with the patch, gum, etc.
Group #2 (this is me) We love to smoke (as un-PC as it is to admit,) we freaking love the act of smoking. Those of us in this category typically fail with all normal smoking cessation products. The E-cig was the ONLY alternative to traditional tobacco cigarettes that worked for me (13 months tobacco free now.) For the MAROJITY (not all) of us in this category, we wish to continue smoking (vaping,) just not with traditional analogs. "Smoking" is part of our personality....we just wish to find a less dangerous way to do this....hence the e-cig.
Been free of analogs for a month now from 18 years of smoking 1 to 2 packs a day. E Cigs are the only way to go in my book nothing else worked for me
I'm finding it kind of hard just to quit analogs. I was smoking a pack a day, and now I'm down to 2 analogs a day. I think it's been such a daily habit, it's hard to stop...Any advice on how to completely "let go" 
I'm finding it kind of hard just to quit analogs. I was smoking a pack a day, and now I'm down to 2 analogs a day. I think it's been such a daily habit, it's hard to stop...Any advice on how to completely "let go"
I did that for a week after I started vaping. How long have you been at two analogs/day?
I suggest you don't push yourself, take it easy, over time if you enjoy vaping more (which many of us do), you will actually FORGET to smoke. Just keep trying, there is a learning curve.I'm finding it kind of hard just to quit analogs. I was smoking a pack a day, and now I'm down to 2 analogs a day. I think it's been such a daily habit, it's hard to stop...Any advice on how to completely "let go"
I respectfully disagree. After having personally met over 300 local smokers in less than a year and having a full conversation with each one I have learned the following:
There are 2 kinds of smokers:
1. Those who started smoking from peer pressure or other various reasons, became addicted, no longer "enjoy" smoking but can't quit because they are addicted.
2. Those who started smoking from peer pressure or other various reasons, became addicted, yet enjoy the act of smoking, the inhalation and other intracacies of "smoking."
Group #1 doesn't even like smoking anymore they just can't quit. This group usually does well with the patch, gum, etc.
Group #2 (this is me) We love to smoke (as un-PC as it is to admit,) we freaking love the act of smoking. Those of us in this category typically fail with all normal smoking cessation products. The E-cig was the ONLY alternative to traditional tobacco cigarettes that worked for me (13 months tobacco free now.) For the MAROJITY (not all) of us in this category, we wish to continue smoking (vaping,) just not with traditional analogs. "Smoking" is part of our personality....we just wish to find a less dangerous way to do this....hence the e-cig.
I am sooooo Group #2. I love to smoke, just ain't doing the analogs anymore, e-cigs filled the niche; just passed the 6-month mark!
I toyed with an inferior product for over a year, and then I got myself a KR808... have been 4 months analog free, and it has been the best thing I have ever done for myself. I have cut down the nic to 8mg or less, and alternate with no nic juice. I now usually go all day working without even using the e-cig, just use it when I have a drink or after dinner. This is after 20+ years of a pack to a pack and a half a day habit. I do have to say it was ultimately the cost of cigarettes that pushed me to the e-cig, so thanks to the corrupt system that taxed them so much, but stop trying to ban the one thing that let me quit the "evil" cigarettes!
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