Hi there I smoked in excess of twenty cigs a day I have bought a vapour ecig I really want to stop I have chosen the lower nicotine level and a flavour a friend said I'm fooling myself as this is still smoking I know I'm still getting nicotine but I would love to know can you really stop smoking using ecig and get down to just using flavour with zero nicotine any help would be fantastic thanks
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How can you be smoking if there's no smoke? all you've done is replace the way you get nicotine. As far as 0 nic, just keep lowering the amount your using over time until you get there. It's all up to you how fast or slow you do it and if you have the willpower. Good luck whatever you decide to do.
I think you've got a couple of separate issues mixed together here. Can you switch from tobacco cigs to e-cigs? Pretty much that's what this forum is about. People who've done that, are doing that, want to do that. Can you quit nicotine with e-cigs? I don't know. I don't know anybody can know if you can quit nicotine. Some can. Others can't. The "method" notwithstanding, breaking the addiction to nicotine is tough. Some folk may be genetically predisposed to never be able to quit. I suspect I may be one.
The issue to hand is "harm reduction". Yes, e-cigs give you nicotine as do cigarettes. But cigarettes also deliver 50+ cancer causing substances right into your lungs. E-cigs are basically water vapor and flavoring and you don't generally even inhale that deeply anyway.
I bought a disposable just out of curiosity. Just to try it out. Found out I liked it. Then sometime that evening, realized I'd forgotten to light a cigarette for nine hours. Nine. Hours. I used to smoke two packs a day. 40 cigs a day. And I just forgot to smoke for nine hours.
Fell immediately below 10 a day then bought a kit and fell to maybe 3 a day. Then started things like getting a "real one" out of the cabinet (where they and the ashtray and the lighters went to live), intending to smoke it, then forgetting about it for six hours.
And I've been at this two weeks as of today. 40 cigs a day to... I think I had two today. I'm losing interest in them. I saw I had two in the pack this afternoon and wondered if I should go get another pack or wait for my new e-liquid to show up which could happen tomorrow. It's about nine in the evening now and I haven't gone to buy cigs.
Look at it this way, even if I never break my nicotine addiction, I'm losing interest in sucking 50+ cancer causing agents into my lungs hundreds of times a day. If that's as far as I can get, it's a lot better. I feel better, I breath better, my mood is better, mom says my clothes don't stink anymore, I feel more energy lately and food tastes better.
I'll take it.
You may quit entirely. Many do. You could look at it as reducing the harm to your body first then working on the nicotine later. Take it a step at a time. Get the 50+ cancer causing crap out of your life then worry about the nicotine. Trying to tackle the whole mountain all at once is a good way to set yourself up to fail. I think that's why this is working out so well for me. I wasn't trying "to quit". I just discovered I could swap a seriously unhealthy thing I was doing to myself for something less dangerous.
I'll worry about the rest later. For now, I'm enjoying feeling better. And I do. Much better. And looking forward to feeling even better in time.
I mean, that "oxygen" stuff they talk about? That stuff is pretty damn good!
My opinion, is this will help you to quit smoking. I also think that you can quit nicotine this way as well. But that is up to you and how much effort you put into it. I have gone from 1PAD to none in 3 days. With not much effort, some self control and perhaps a few time of some serious chain vaping. But I also think that if I put some effort into it I could cut the nicotine out as well. Personally I am happy to stop smoking for now. I will work on the nicotine after I have this one better under control. To many changes at once are not good, it decreases the chance of success. Good luck with your endeavors!
Some very good advice from the seniors there.
Just take it easy. If you need to light up, light up.
I'm still very much of a noob when it comes to vaping (abt 1mth), and I do light up a stink-stick once in a while.
Note, 'Once-In-A-While' compared to every 2-3 hrs before I switched 'camp'.
Perhaps given enough time, I just might forget about lighting up altogether like mkbilbo; which I hope to.
Anyway, go easy buddy. I've tried zero-nic and it's just isn't the same. (Zero TH, so to say)
You may want to lower your nic intake a step at a time.
Guess that's the more feasible plan in the long run.
Just take it easy. If you need to light up, light up.
I'm still very much of a noob when it comes to vaping (abt 1mth), and I do light up a stink-stick once in a while.
Note, 'Once-In-A-While' compared to every 2-3 hrs before I switched 'camp'.
Perhaps given enough time, I just might forget about lighting up altogether like mkbilbo; which I hope to.
Anyway, go easy buddy. I've tried zero-nic and it's just isn't the same. (Zero TH, so to say)
You may want to lower your nic intake a step at a time.
Guess that's the more feasible plan in the long run.
getting rid of tobacco smoking is a win no matter how you do it. for me vaping has been my solution to get off off smoking tobacco. As for the nicotine I feel it's an addiction in some ways not allot different then some people's caffeine addiction. I've wondered how nicotine itself (in the extracted form not used in cigarettes or other tobacco smoking related products) effects the body differently then caffeine...Is nicotine in moderation any different then caffeine in coffee or all the energy drinks being sold as far as negative impact to the body? I believe they are both classed as a similar substance and impact the heart in a similar fashion if used in excess. if they were putting Nic in drinks like caffeine it would probably be viewed by the masses differently lol
Yep. You can quit smoking with e-cigs...as long as you really want to. I did virtually overnight from 1.5 PAD for 17 years, and I didn't really think I was ready to quit.
But yeah. First trick is to master the nicotine dose. Find your level. THEN worry about cutting down and quitting if you want. Or turn it into a new hobby as so many of us do.
But yeah. First trick is to master the nicotine dose. Find your level. THEN worry about cutting down and quitting if you want. Or turn it into a new hobby as so many of us do.
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