Yup, I smoked twice since I switched to vaping (immediately and effortlessly, as the time was right) on 4 Nov 2011.
1st time - 3 weeks after I started vaping: 2 batteries broken and the 3rd one was charging. There were 5 cigarettes left in the pack that had been lying, ignored and not needed, on my coffee table. I smoked them. Eeewwwwwww... the last one tasted just as horrible as the first one.
Lesson learned: get backup. A lot of backup. Now
2nd time - about 7 months after I started vaping: out in the beer garden with friends, had not taken enough batteries with me. Bummed cigarettes. Ewwwww... but, as we say in German, "when in need, the devil will eat flies"
Yuck yuck, when I got home, I grabbed my vaping gear and vaped one whole ml at one sitting, to get that taste out of my mouth, throat and lungs.
Lesson learned: always take enough vaping stuff with me.
BCFCMike
Does tossing between analogs and vaping actually work?
I'm concerned cos I'll finally be taking vaping on fully at the end of the month, but I go to watch the football (soccer) with my mates on the weekend, have a few drinks, and they all smoke. It was sort of a routine I got into, just a day out with the lads really...
I can't really see myself taking my Spinner to any matches, but at the same time I want to be able to get off the analogs completely, and not have to worry about wanting one when out with friends having a few drinks..
When going out and / or drinking alcohol, this is what works well with me:
Take a nice, strong-tasting tobacco liquid (cigar flavor will work just fine) and some sweet liquid, such as caramel. When you start drinking, your taste buds will call for the flavor that used to go so well with drinking all these years: tobacco. Strong tobacco. Mix the tobacco liquid and the (e.g.) caramel liquid in the tank of your atomizer. Vape. As the evening progresses, you will mix more parts tobacco liquid with fewer parts sweet liquid. It will taste just fine, nice and strong and satisfying. And all is well
- But beware of the rest in your atomizer the next morning: that stuff will take your socks off
And why the heck not vape when you go out with your buddies?
To me, and to many vapers I know, vaping comes as naturally now as smoking did for decades. We have simply exchanged all smoking rituals for vaping rituals. - And you never know before you try