Hell yes i cheated

[AndriaD]

Here's something I've been wondering, and thought Id ask for opinions here -- after the first of the year, I'm going to start very slowly reducing the percentage of WTA in my ejuice -- right now, 25mg WTA is 10% of my mix; I thought I would start by just reducing it to 9%, and keep reducing it 1% at a time, each time I mix up a new batch of juice -- which I do about once a month or so. Would it be of any benefit for me to slightly increase my nic level, like maybe .5mg, as I reduce the WTA? I'm not sure if it would help or not.

Andria

 

[rico942]

I recall that I tried to cheat exactly three times in the first month after I started vaping. Darn near choked on the smoke, its amazing how quickly the tolerance can vanish ...

When I quit drinking in 1991, I put the last Bud from the last 6 pack in the freezer. When I quit smoking, I taped the last Kool Blue 100 from the last pack to the side of that Bud bottle. They are both still there in the freezer, covered in frost and probably disgusting beyond belief ...

Its not a "Break Glass In Case Of Emergency" thing, its more symbolic of the end of an era and the beginning of another ...

Its hard to explain, but for me, quitting quickly became something of great value, something to protect at all cost, despite constant temptations ...

I do still miss my drinking buddies, and don't spend as much time with friends who still smoke. There are sacrifices beyond just giving up a vice ...

But my Dad lived to be 100 years and 8 months old before he passed. I fully intend to surpass that record, only 39 more years to go ...

 

[Lisa Marion]

I've started vaping about 11 months ago and for the first two I smoked also. I have cheated once in awhile but I don't know why because I hated it. I can't have a menthol cigarette only a light non menthol. I think I just wanted to hold one again. Vaping is not glamorous but smoking at one point a long time ago was..I can't wait till these big bulky units are down to a small sensible cigarette. I'm talking with the power of a Siegeli and a great RDA.

 

[Cavenerd]

Not long into vaping my BFF talked me into having a "realsie" and it wasn't horrible. It didn't taste great. The smoke was almost nonexistant (compared to vapor from an RDA). The smell from being that close was overpowering...

Having said that. It wasn't terrible. It wasn't the worst thing I've ever smoked (banana peels, idea courtesy of Dead Milkmen song, circa 1987ish. Uh. Disgusting). And it did feel familiar and... comforting... I didn't hate it hate. I didn't hate the well known experience of that one cigarette.

But I didn't like it either. I didn't like it nearly as much as I like vaping. I didn't like it nearly as much as I like the prospect of being healthier. I didn't like it as much as I like the idea of having smooth skin and normal colored teeth. I didn't like it as much as I like that girls like to kiss boys that smell good. I surely didn't like it as much as I like the idea of living to be old enough to BE old (someday).

I could start smoking again but I think I would have to make myself go back, as tempting as it sometimes might seem. So when I want a "realsie" I drip-up my favorite atty with my favorite juice and blow clouds until the urge passes. I think about everything that I have to gain from not-smoking and everything I lose if I start. I think about how no analog cigarette in the world can taste as good as even some of the lowliest juices. Also, as I'm tooting and thinking I'm flooding my system with NIC from those great big clouds.

I did that quite a bit when I started quitting. I still do it now. I'll probably still do it in the future.

Keep vaping.
You don't have to say no to every cigarette forever right now.
Just say "no" to the one you want right now.
Deal with the rest when you get to 'em.

 

[AndriaD]

Not long into vaping my BFF talked me into having a "realsie" and it wasn't horrible. It didn't taste great. The smoke was almost nonexistant (compared to vapor from an RDA). The smell from being that close was overpowering...

Having said that. It wasn't terrible. It wasn't the worst thing I've ever smoked (banana peels, idea courtesy of Dead Milkmen song, circa 1987ish. Uh. Disgusting). And it did feel familiar and... comforting... I didn't hate it hate. I didn't hate the well known experience of that one cigarette.

But I didn't like it either. I didn't like it nearly as much as I like vaping. I didn't like it nearly as much as I like the prospect of being healthier. I didn't like it as much as I like the idea of having smooth skin and normal colored teeth. I didn't like it as much as I like that girls like to kiss boys that smell good. I surely didn't like it as much as I like the idea of living to be old enough to BE old (someday).

I could start smoking again but I think I would have to make myself go back, as tempting as it sometimes might seem. So when I want a "realsie" I drip-up my favorite atty with my favorite juice and blow clouds until the urge passes. I think about everything that I have to gain from not-smoking and everything I lose if I start. I think about how no analog cigarette in the world can taste as good as even some of the lowliest juices. Also, as I'm tooting and thinking I'm flooding my system with NIC from those great big clouds.

I did that quite a bit when I started quitting. I still do it now. I'll probably still do it in the future.

Keep vaping.
You don't have to say no to every cigarette forever right now.
Just say "no" to the one you want right now.
Deal with the rest when you get to 'em.

Precisely the psychology of "one day at a time" -- if I even THINK that I'll never ever have another beer... it makes me want a beer! So, I just figure I won't have any today. It's worked for 22 yrs now. But I already had, revisited, and re-solved my issues with cigarettes, and you're right, it wasn't horrible, in fact in a very short time it was just "home", but I hated what it did to my lungs and my aroma, even to myself, and I absolutely despise the cost of it. If every e-cig on the planet suddenly vanished tonight... I'd probably be back to smoking before the week was out. But that's about the only provocation I would consider sufficient cause to smoke.

Andria

 

[Ryedan]

I had a smoke a month after I switched and then one more another month in. That was about 2 1/2 years ago. I liked both of them, but I stuck with vaping because if I didn't I was going to have serious health issues.

I still appreciate the smell of a burning cigarette, but it now has no pull on me anymore. The smell of an ashtray is not nice.

 

[carcus]

Zero, just over 3 months. Can't say I haven't thought about it while imbibing a nice cocktail.

 

[jhhollier]

Twice in the first three days. Day one after vaping on and off all day I decided to try a cigarette. Smoked half of it, hated it and put it out. Day three, work was supremely annoying and I fired one up. Finished the whole thing, hated it again and haven't had one since. 20 days, not a long time but I'm feeling good about it.

 

[AutumnBrook]

Uuughh the smell. I haven't not once. Even walking next to smokers in stores grosses me out.


Two years

 

[NavyChief52]

It's only been since the 24th of November since I gave them up. Since I purchased a decent kit I haven't even had the desire after smoking for 30+ years.

I made it past my fathers passing a few weeks ago without "lighting up" The last hurdle is to see what I do when I put a "get drunk" on, which I do about once ever two years.

 

[Jma1087]

If you are in the process of quitting smoking, don't deprive yourself. If you have a need to smoke a cig, smoke it. Everyone who I know that used an ecig to help them quit always had a slip up.

 

[Kiznar]

I smoke 4 cigarette a day down from 2 packs a day and I'm going to cut them out to. Still looking for a every day vape.

 

[Jdurand]

Had one relapse after I started vapeing. It was really nasty, so I had another just in case.....yup still nasty. Go ahead and see for yourself, guarantee they are not what you remember they were.

 

[DingerCPA]

I've thought about it a few times over the 9+ months I haven't smoked a cigarette....

However, I'm not going to buy a pack, and nobody I know smokes menthols (I'd occasionally bum a non-menthol and would gak.)

I'm happy to mix up a new flavor for my arsenal and to wind up a new coil. It's more time-consuming (hmmm, open pack, pull out cigarette, fire up zippo compared to check coil, fill tank, screw onto battery - after making sure it's charged....)

But, I'll take long-run over short-run these days....

 

[OlderNDirt]

It would be devastating to have to re-set my quit banner. It's hard to see through teared up eyes!

 

[AndriaD]

It would be devastating to have to re-set my quit banner. It's hard to see through teared up eyes!

It really was a terrible thing to do; I put up a CASAA banner during my month-long return to smoking, but started a new quit banner again as soon as I laid them back down. I'm still kicking myself about it, but at the time, I felt I had no choice -- didn't have any WTA yet, at the time. But thanks to WTA, I know I never have to repeat it.

Andria

 

[skaterose]

I mainly vape but still have an occasional spurt where I have a few packs of Marb Reds now and then. I'm happy that I don't smoke what I once did. But to me you just cant beat that occasional cowboy killer! Plus my father still smokes em, so when I visit its easy to have a few. Its not two bad once in a while. I just would'nt be able to stand being a smoker all the time again.

 

[LairdDrambeg]

No I haven't cheated yet in my modest 7 weeks and I don't think I will: I used the technique recommended by some of having a cig-pack with one left sitting in front of me every day, giving me the "choice" to relapse or not and I didn't. And I loved smoking and got so much pleasure from it - I must have smoked everything smokable in all my 55 years at it: UK cigs, French Gauloises and Gitanes for 25 years till they quit importing them, unfiltered Camel and Pall Mall, various pipe tobaccos during a couple of pipe-phases and various forms of cigars and cigarillos.

My favorite cig was Sobranie Black Russian, so not very obtainable in the USA but even that wouldn't tempt me now. It'd be nice if we had a Black Russian e-juice though just to complete things for me. There's still a carton of Amercan Spirit "Full Bodied" -- my last regular cig -- laying around the house but I don't even know exactly where it is. I'm done with it.

One thing I have to do is get a car USB adapter in case we have one of those week-long power outages we had in the past few years.

 

[chemicalemily]

Like a few have already said, I didn't start vaping (first week, by the way) to quit analogs; I just wanted an alternative, a step in the right direction, to cut back, with the end goal to quit. I've been having some issues learning how to use my piece and leakage and such, and while it was out of service for a bit, after using my spinner for a day straight, I lit up an analog while knitting. I smoked two hits, and immediately put it out. It actually gave me a headache. NOW, THAT BEING SAID: my piece died today and I had to charge it, and I had a pack sitting around, and I for sure started smoking them. But in the past 3 days, I've gone from 2 packs a day, to one pack lasting me 3 days.

Right now, I'm just trying to stay positive about the fact that I've smoked 2 packs a day for 8 years, and this is literally the first time EVER I felt that I was in control of buying/smoking/wanting a pack of cigarettes. I just keep thinking of Bob from What About Bob: Baby steps to the door....baby steps to the vaporizer....baby steps to the no analogs....baby steps to the nicotine free....

 

[fagoff]

No I havnt cheated in over 4 months ,after 40 years smoking I know I aint missing anything, stick with your vaping bro cigarettes will take your life ,they aint worth it and vaping is way nicer and less harmful. Your a vapour now not a smoker