My first cigalike was overpriced, underpowered, and tasted the way my cat's box smells... but it proved to me that these things work. Within a week and a half, I'd moved up to Joye 510's, and eGo's a month later... 3 months after that I was on mechanical mods & building my own.
Anyway, I got this first wimpy little thing on a Sunday night. I was smoking about a pack and a half a day at the time, and had been for 26 years. Monday: 13 cigs. Tuesday: 9. Wednesday: 3, with my last one at 2 in the afternoon, and after that one, I gave the other two left in the pack to a co-worker. "You want these man? I don't need 'em anymore". That was May 5th, 2010.
Fun things that happened to me; may or may not happen to you....
After about a week and a half, I realized that I had to wash every piece of clothing I owned. And my walls. And steam clean the carpet. When your sense of smell comes back, it's both good and bad, lol...
Two or two and half weeks later, as I recall, I was going into my usual morning 30 minutes of hacking (sometimes with the bonus dry heaves) from all those years of 'baccy. All of a sudden I started coughing up some of the nastiest brown gunk I'd ever seen. I almost freaked out, I was seriously considering going to the hospital or something. That is, right up until I inhaled deeply & noticed my lung capacity had gone up by 40-50%.
I think it was shortly after that episode that I was napping on the couch on my day off. I was in that fuzzy place between awake and asleep, and all of a sudden I got this creepy feeling that something wasn't right. As if something didn't *sound* right in the house. I actually had my hand in the coffee table drawer & on my 9mm when I realized what it was: I couldn't hear myself breathing. The 'out-of-tune bagpipes' wheeze that had lulled me to sleep for years was gone.
Oh, one downside: Once your sense of taste returns with your sense of smell (give it a month or two), you may have trouble eating at a drive-through. You're about to rediscover why they call it "junk food". It took me about six months to build up my tolerance again, lol.
Oh, and drink a lot of water. The only, and I mean ONLY, honestly bad side effect I've had in the last five years is dehydration; both PG and VG are hygroscopic (they suck up water), and will dry you out. Always have some beverages handy.
Have fun on the journey. We're pulling for you.
