How can I lose the urge for a real cigarette?

[mikefash]

As a ex-tobacco smoker, I feel you need to gear yourself to flavored tobacco. Worked for me was to move up to RDAs. RDAs with dual coils and heavy clouds made smoking obsolete. When you start blowing clouds and move back to analogs, well analogs just don't blow clouds. The sense of satisfaction of blowing clouds set me bored of analogs.

Just get a nice clone mech with a Tobh clone. Run about .6 ohm on dual coil with cotton. 0.6 nic and cloud it. Once you do that for a week your analogs will feel not so incompetent. You'll quit from cloud chasing and then your understand flavor of ejuice. You'll switch to flavor rather than clouds. Which means more money and obsessive buying of mods and then I don't know what. Quitting is not about the first time. Quitting is about long time health concerns. Go easy and don't stress. Quit to know you really quit because there is time.

 

[Shilo]

It takes a good year or two to not think of it or want it especially if you drink alcohol or hang with people still smoking. I quit smoking started the nicotine gum then later moved on to vaping. My last cigarette was over 5 years ago now. Its a process you are replacing one very bad for you habit with a new habit.

 

[jandry]

Another thing in terms of gear: quick heat-up.

When you drag off a smoke you get a near instant hit. Its like instant gratification. With many vaping devices (especially the cheap ones [except the mvp2 and istick]) it takes 2-3 seconds to heat the coil up enough to start getting the smoking sensation.

If you push 13 watts to a 2 ohm 30 gauge microcoil off rayon on a atty that has very airy draw (like an Aerotank, Russian 91%, etc), the heat up will make it behave more like a cig.

This has just been my experience, but hell its only been 6 months since ive had a cig and I have no cravings for them anymore

 

[rc3po]

I am new to vaping, I use an unflavored juice and get a good hit, but I still feel the need for the occasional cigarette. Why? It's crazy, how have other people managed to stop smoking?

I vape juice that tastes like a real analog cig. The best I have found is called "Red", from Electronic Cigarettes | V2 Cigs. Now I mix my own hybrid juice that has tobacco, coffee, and café mocha flavors and I never crave an analog cig. I use Red as a 20% base flavor for my mix. Also, I started out at 24mg of nic and now I mix mine at 18mg.

 

[rc3po]

I just suffer through it. I think I get the urge mainly out of habit and even though I am getting the nicotine and the smoke, etc... the brain doesn't agree with me. Meanwhile, I know some just change flavor, some reach for higher nicotine and some go the route of NET and WTA.

We all have our own journey, but we don't have to be lonely

Actually what is happening is your body is craving the chemicals that tobacco companies spray onto the tobacco to make it more addictive. After a while those cravings will subside.

 

[danibanani]

Put a little of your favourite fruit flavor in a tank with tobacco juice. I like 3/4 tobacco and 1/4 green apple flavors.

That's a great idea! I will definitely give that a try!

 

[JimmyDB]

Actually what is happening is your body is craving the chemicals that tobacco companies spray onto the tobacco to make it more addictive. After a while those cravings will subside.

That is basically what I told my wife when she was having cravings,... that I figured the only way to get a 'fix' would be to have a smoke... and while I considered that just fine, the end result was taking steps backward that would lead to more cravings each time. I know some of the various additives take quite a while to get out of your system and even longer to 'forget' about.

We both worked in tobacco for years, so we were aware of the various additives as well as tricks about where to place the air inlets on the cigs that would work different in real use than on the testing apparatus (enabling greater input to humans than machines, sshhhhh) etc.

Way back when, I switched over to RYO with tubes and high-quality tobacco. I noticed the same cravings back then, but it wasn't a big deal as I would just light up another very tasty RYO. That earlier and rather long experience may have helped me make the switch to vaping so quickly and relatively easy, although I was back to store bought cigs for the last couple years. Most likely, I was just lucky that I didn't need the side-effects of tobacco combustion (MAOI, etc).

Either way, I think it's easier once you understand what the cravings are.

I find it interesting, that ECF somewhat fills the void as a 'support group' in this journey,... and having support (non-critical but supportive 'friends') is found to be so very helpful in getting off tobacco. I must admit, it's my opinion that this is in part due to the ANTZ type people out there pushing us into being more closely-knit as a community.

Again, personally, I don't mind if someone wants to smoke... but if you want to stop and move to vaping or just stop all together, then I will support that choice and offer what help I can, even if vaping is only a stepping-stone.