Have trouble quitting on the weekends

[abt03f]

Hey everyone. I'm a relatively new vaper, only been doing it for a few weeks now. It's really helped me a lot. I used to smoke nearly two packs a day and now I only smoke about 5 or 6 analogs a day. Except on the weekends.

Therein lies my problem. I work at a private English school in China, and the days when I have the most classes are Saturday and Sunday. Seriously, it's like a marathon, just one class after another. And I'm the sort of person who tends to stress out and smoke more when I'm working more. I'm okay for awhile on those days, I smoke a couple analogs in the morning and then tell myself that's it and, for awhile, it is. But then something stresses me out, a class is rowdier than usual, a parent waylays me to chat about their kid when I don't have time for it, or it's just the general thought of going through all those classes without smoking at all during the breaks, and I end up caving. And when I cave once I cave again and end up smoking somewhere bewteen 12 and 17 analogs on those days. I really feel like re-vamping my smoking habit two days out of the week is the main thing that's stopping me from giving it up completely, and I really want to do that. If anyone has found themselves in a similar situation, please help me out. And, of course, thank you all for listening.

 

[clark8876]

Don't be too concerned that you haven't given them away completely, just think of all the analogues you have not smoked.

Some give them away almost straight away, others may take months and still others may have a few each day. The fact is you are way better off than where you were on 2 packs a day.

One thing you may want to try is to go for a high mg juice on those two days. Some on the forum like to have a high mg in the mornings and then go lower during the day. It's really about what works for you, so if your stress level go up maybe a higher mg might do the trick.

 

[yohann976]

Whenever stressful situations present themselves, the habit of smoking is that much harder to break. It's really twofold, psychological and physical. In all honesty, I really turned to my analogs as a way to relax. The nicotine put my mind at ease and the very act of smoking even calmed me.

When I completely switched over to vaping, I was prepared to handle stressful situations because I knew that I always turned to cigs when worse came to worst. I had stronger juice when stressful situation arose. Also, I vaped like crazy.

Now that I'm so comfortable with vaping, I really don't use the stronger juice anymore. In fact I'm attempting to change my behavior. I'm attempting to deal with the stress in a different way.

 

[Ande]

Another thought- are you vaping at work?

If not, you need to start. (I'm assuming you're in a reasonably smoke friendly work place. I'm in Korea, which sure is!) Make a vape friendly place too- I've been totally "off" analogs for only a few days. Did it on a weekend. With returning to work this week, I was worried I'd go right back.

One thing that made it easier was introducing colleagues to the ecig. Now that they know what it is, and why I'm on it, they don't look at me funny when I pull it out for a quick hit...


Best,
Ande

 

[Rosco]

Welcome to ECF,

Glad you are still working on making this work for you. I smoked for 40+ years and just knew that I needed to start out with high nicotine, so 36mg was what I went with and could do that all day long with no problems.

What "killed" those cravings for me was having a nicotine level high enough to take care of those urges. When that craving would hit me, I would vape like crazy for several minutes and soon noticed that it took care of the craving well. So, I quit a 40 years habit of smoking on vape day 2.
Good PV - high enough level of nicotine to handle the crazings - consistency - determination- POSITIVE thinking = Ex-smoker finally.
Don't get discouraged if and when you smoke a cigarette, but determine in your heart that you WILL beat this. Then work on getting a system down that works well and run with it. Of course, for some, this will take a bit of time to get things "in order" and get rolling. You need a PV that is quality and that does what it is suppose to do, a juice that is acceptable to you, a nicotine level that handles those cigarette cravings, and then vaping consistently. Before you know it, 1 day, 1 week, 1 month, 1 year arrives.
I wish you MUCH success. Keep us posted and stick close to ECF for support and encouragement. It helps. When a question arrives that you are baffled by, run it by ECF and chances are someone will offer up a acceptable solution.

Go get it abt03f.....it's your turn.

 

[blumoon]

I'm very new at this. I ordered all low doses of nicotine with my initial kit. I found myself chain vaping and smoking 1-3 analogs per day for the first 3 days. I then rec'd my second order which had some 18 mg carts and that seemed to do the trick for me. I didn't smoke any on Sunday and none so far today (Monday).
Good luck abt, I'm sure you'll find what works for you.
I'm enjoying this forum, it helps me to read other people's stories.

 

[dormouse]

abt - what kind of e-cigarette model do you have? Maybe a more powerful model would help? Something that could give you some heat in the drags?

 

[Nitemist]

Another thought- are you vaping at work?


One thing that made it easier was introducing colleagues to the ecig. Now that they know what it is, and why I'm on it, they don't look at me funny when I pull it out for a quick hit...

I had a bit of a similar thing with the co-workers... V4L ships business cards that explain the difference between smoking and vaping - now I have a few ppl who are considering switching to vaping as well - esp. when they found out about passthroughs!