Having a really hard time switching

[Barefootin]

I wish I had some sound advice for you but all I can say is that, for me quitting the cigs 100% is working. I had to let it go, no option of having a cig even if I had to do without for a while due to leaking, flooding, dead battery etc.
I have ordered 4 Vision ego clearomizers that will hopefully reduce the failures.
All the best,

 

[Raven02]

When I bought my starter kit it came with prefilled 18's (I think, maybe 16?). I was getting by, but certainly wasn't satisfied. Got myself some 24 and it's been a WORLD of difference.

 

[jjcordone]

I had the same coughing issue. Backed the NIC down to low and a high VG level and it went away.
WTA juice from Aroma has also helped. I'm almost to the point where I'm smoking in a week the number of cigarettes I used to smoked in a day, so I'm making progress. I believe I do have to pick a day and force myself to just stop the cigarettes, but i haven't done it yet.

 

[yardbyrd]

Barefootin and dlc, good luck! I just hate it that there is any kind of coughing phase. You would think since it's better than analogs that there wouldn't be any physical symptoms. I wish, huh?

I didn't have too much of a coughing issue but what I did have was due to my lungs clearing out! It took about a month before I stopped hacking up goo and realized one day that my lungs were cleaner than they have been in years....there are others who report a similar phase when first starting to vape. I wonder if this is part of what is causing your cough?

 

[the_vape_nerd]

That coughing issue....will certainly be worse when you quit smoking. I know you haven't but perhaps the cutting down is having a similar effect.

Even if you quit with say gum or lozenges or the patch. 4-7 days after you quit, you will experience coughing as your lungs try to expel things. I had this happen to me right when i switched. I've seen other people with the coughing issue at first post here as well. It will go away. I think it took me about 6 weeks.

 

[Superchip92]

I guess everyone's experience is different, but I was able to transition from analogs to vaping relatively painlessly on my second attempt. I tried using a e-cig kit I got from a gas station, but failed miserably at first. When I got a fairly decent PV (eGo T kit) in October of 2011, it went a lot smoother.

What I found for me was that smoking was more about rituals. I didn't smoke indoors; so, I decided not to vape indoors. My wife would go outside to smoke, and I'd go with her to vape. I didn't walk around having a vape every few minutes; I vaped when I normally would have had an analog. I found for me personally I need to trick my mind into associating the need for nicotine with vaping. Otherwise I was thinking that was a lovely vape, now I need a cigarette. After a few days of strictly vaping, I tested myself by trying to smoke an analog and it tasted awful; I couldn't do it. After a couple weeks I was able vape whenever and where ever I please; because, in my mind when I wanted nicotine I was looking for my PV not a pack of analogs.

This was my experience; so, it may be totally different for you. I wish you the best of luck.

 

[sailorman]

I won't speculate on what's causing your cough, but when my lungs feel a little beat up, I just don't inhale much.
Almost all the nicotine in vapor is absorbed through your mouth and sinus cavities.
If it's nicotine you're after, you really don't have to inhale into your lungs at all.
You can hold the vapor in your mouth and just exhale it out, through your nose, perhaps a little through your mouth and a vary shallow amount of inhalation into your lungs, if it makes the hit feel better.
IOW, if it hurts, don't do it. It's not necessary to get your lungs involved at all.

IIRC, Gorilla juice is 100%VG. That would be the reason the nicotine isn't feeling as sharp as it was before.
I'd stick to that, 18mg 100% VG.. It's possible you have some level of intolerance to PG. I do, and that's what caused a lot of throat irritation.
But, I promised not to speculate.

 

[MariB]

<3 Thanks Sailorman. Made it all day with only one analog.

 

[Flyer]

Way to go MariB!

 

[Gramurai]

I started at 18mg, and the cravings were still there. I moved to 24mg, and a flavor i could tolerate, along with a clearomizer. Love it! almost 2 weeks now, no analogs. Dont give up! Keep trying, your flavor, nic lvl, your draw, play around with all of it and you'll find it. Where there's a will, there's a way.

 

[Starrchine]

Wow.. just reading all of the responses to MariB, Everyone here is so wonderfully supportive! What a great group of people. I just started vaping a couple days ago and have a slight sore throat. I learned so much about inhalation just from this one thread. I wish you all the best of luck MariB!!

 

[MariB]

Oh good luck to you, Starrchine!! This forum is seriously wonderful. So many helpful and knowledgeable people. Love them. <3

 

[yardbyrd]

<3 Thanks Sailorman. Made it all day with only one analog.

Wow! That is absolutely excellent! How is your cough doing?

 

[otrpu]

MariB, Some of us take longer to totally switch over than others. Myself, I think it was a good 6 months before I quit smoking tobacco. Hang in there, it will come if you stick with it. I was a 2.5 pad for 52 years. Haven't lit a tobacco cig for more than 9 months. JMHO

Cheers,
otrpu

 

[DarkLeopard]

I know I went and am still going through that coughing phase, I found that a slower draw helps and tiny very tiny puffs in the morning. it takes practice to find the perfect draw rate, if I draw too slow I hack up a lung (that's how I know they are cleaner) but I found pg to be way to harsh for me and sometimes even the flavors seem a bit too strong as well, I have been cutting my juice with unflavored VG and it seems to help alot. hope this helps and good luck you are doing great

 

[OnnaB]

I'm still stuck on the instructions NOT to do a straight to the lungs inhale! Do people really smoke cigs that way? I know....um....herbs....that usually are direct draw but I don't think I've ever seen cigs smoked that way! Wow....and I thought I was a hard core smoker...lol!

 

[DC2]

I'm still stuck on the instructions NOT to do a straight to the lungs inhale! Do people really smoke cigs that way? I know....um....herbs....that usually are direct draw but I don't think I've ever seen cigs smoked that way! Wow....and I thought I was a hard core smoker...lol!

Here is a nice breakdown of smoking vs vaping...
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/polls/33605-how-do-you-inhale.html

Personally, I was shocked to find out that anyone did anything other than direct lung inhale.
I didn't know there was any other way to smoke!

 

[MariB]

How do people mouth vape only? How do you not inhale? That seems so odd to me.

 

[Phen0]

I hear you on the Boba's Bounty. I was so hyped when it came in the mail and was VERY disappointed that I didn't like the taste at all, lol.

But anyways about the coughing. Vapor is totally different than smoke. I found that my lungs had to get used to the vapor and after a short while it was fine. I tried an analog a week or so ago without having one for a few months and found my lungs weren't used to the smoke anymore, lol.

 

[Cloud Wizard]

Kind of like using a straw to drink Margaritas. Mouth only suction to pull it into your mouth, then either inhale or hold for a couple seconds and let it out. I've always sort used a hybrid of that method where I fill my mouth first and then follow through with a finishing direct inhale.

On the plus side, with vaping more nicotine is thought to be absorbed in the mouth and upper respiratory track than in the lungs because of the difference in particle size (0.1-1 mcron vs. 1-5 micron) which doesn't allow it as deeply into the alveoli.