How did you go from smoking to vaping?
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It was quick and easy .
Started with a crappy cig-a-like and it worked some what, got a ego and that was a lot better.
Now I use ego's and mod's and it's almost two years now with out a cigarette thank god .
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Started with a crappy cig-a-like and it worked some what, got a ego and that was a lot better.
Now I use ego's and mod's and it's almost two years now with out a cigarette thank god .
Vape on
It took me a month to quit the cigarettes. I was a dual user and just by letting the vaping take over (cigarettes started getting nastier and nastier) I was a non smoker a month later.
2 years and 4 months later... Still vaping and no cigarettes.
There is a saying around here: Count the ones you don't have, not the ones you do.
2 years and 4 months later... Still vaping and no cigarettes.
There is a saying around here: Count the ones you don't have, not the ones you do.
Everyone is different. When I smoked, I could never cut down from my natural 2-3 PAD habit. I could never smoke 2 or 3 cigs a day, over the long haul, without ending up at 2-3 PAD again. Although I never fully tested that while vaping too.
I was introduced to vaping at a vape shop. Within a day or two I stopped smoking, for a few days. I was out of town by myself. I went home, where my wife is a 2-3 PAD smoker too, and started snitching her smokes, and within a month I was back to a pack a day. A short time later I decided I would never take a single puff again on another cig, and that was July 31, 2014. I was totally committed to the idea, and I really enjoyed vaping.
I have yet to take another puff. The 4th or 5th day was REALLY tough. But after I got over that hump it was all downhill sledding (easier as time went on). And now, a little voer 6 months later, I rarely get an urge to smoke, maybe a couple times a week at most, and it is not a bad craving, just more like wistful thinking that passes quickly after I vape some.
That was my experience. I think you have to get good vape gear, whatever works for you, and be willing to spend some money experimenting with gear and juice. I would suggest, at a minimum, something like a good eGo battery and a tank like a Nautilus or maybe now a Kanger subtank, which is my current tank of choice.
And then you have to reach down deep and just decide that you are not going to ever smoke a cig again, just do it. You have to have that level of commitment. It has to be more than "a nice idea".
That was my experience, you will read different variations of that theme. I suspect that the more dual use you do, the harder it is to quit. It was easier that first time, than the second time, and I would be afraid of how much more difficult it would be if I went back to smoking and had to go through that again. I don't ever want to go through that 4tyh day again, ever. Smoking is much about a long ingrained habit. I suspect it is better to make a brand new habit of vaping only, than to dual use for a long time and then try to break that new habit.
Good luck in your venture! You *can* do it. If you really want to.
I was introduced to vaping at a vape shop. Within a day or two I stopped smoking, for a few days. I was out of town by myself. I went home, where my wife is a 2-3 PAD smoker too, and started snitching her smokes, and within a month I was back to a pack a day. A short time later I decided I would never take a single puff again on another cig, and that was July 31, 2014. I was totally committed to the idea, and I really enjoyed vaping.
I have yet to take another puff. The 4th or 5th day was REALLY tough. But after I got over that hump it was all downhill sledding (easier as time went on). And now, a little voer 6 months later, I rarely get an urge to smoke, maybe a couple times a week at most, and it is not a bad craving, just more like wistful thinking that passes quickly after I vape some.
That was my experience. I think you have to get good vape gear, whatever works for you, and be willing to spend some money experimenting with gear and juice. I would suggest, at a minimum, something like a good eGo battery and a tank like a Nautilus or maybe now a Kanger subtank, which is my current tank of choice.
And then you have to reach down deep and just decide that you are not going to ever smoke a cig again, just do it. You have to have that level of commitment. It has to be more than "a nice idea".
That was my experience, you will read different variations of that theme. I suspect that the more dual use you do, the harder it is to quit. It was easier that first time, than the second time, and I would be afraid of how much more difficult it would be if I went back to smoking and had to go through that again. I don't ever want to go through that 4tyh day again, ever. Smoking is much about a long ingrained habit. I suspect it is better to make a brand new habit of vaping only, than to dual use for a long time and then try to break that new habit.
Good luck in your venture! You *can* do it. If you really want to.
My experience was similar. Vaping 24mg nic juice helped, but what really helped was moving up to a decent setup from a cheaper ego kit and cheapo clearomizer. Using the Nautilus Mini I was finally able to quit grabbing a loosey every morning, and even the occasional smoke tasted terrible which was easy to let go. The key was not to try to have vaping replicate smoking, because it's not going to - find a flavor you like that's nothing like tobacco and you'll likely have a much easier time becoming repulsed by cigarettes.
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It took me a month to quit the cigarettes. I was a dual user and just by letting the vaping take over (cigarettes started getting nastier and nastier) I was a non smoker a month later.
2 years and 4 months later... Still vaping and no cigarettes.
There is a saying around here: Count the ones you don't have, not the ones you do.
I did about 6 ~ 8 Weeks of ramping down Cigarettes while ramping up e-Cigarettes before I was able to quit.
It took me awhile to Find an e-liquid I could use on a Day-2-Day basis. An to get a High Enough mg/ml so that I wasn't Climbing the Walls.
It took me awhile to Find an e-liquid I could use on a Day-2-Day basis. An to get a High Enough mg/ml so that I wasn't Climbing the Walls.
I started with a Cigalike as well but after a week or two of dual use I picked up an ego and CE4. quickly realized that the CE4 was not going to do it for me. Got an Evod2 and off I went, Smoked a couple I bummed from a good friend and hated the taste.. Didn't smoke again.
I've found that sometimes having a "quit date" can make things worse. For a lot of people, smoking your "last" cigarette only makes you crazy-want another one.
A different approach is to allow yourself the choice. At any given time, you can smoke or you can vape. Push yourself to vape more, and eventually you might find that you're smoking none.
For all those who say "Once I picked up an e-cigarette I never smoked again" there are a bunch for whom this just isn't the case, so it has to be an approach that works for you.
But don't expect the e-cigs to do all the work for you! You'll need to kick in some effort and determination of your own!
Go for it, and good luck!!!
A different approach is to allow yourself the choice. At any given time, you can smoke or you can vape. Push yourself to vape more, and eventually you might find that you're smoking none.
For all those who say "Once I picked up an e-cigarette I never smoked again" there are a bunch for whom this just isn't the case, so it has to be an approach that works for you.
But don't expect the e-cigs to do all the work for you! You'll need to kick in some effort and determination of your own!
Go for it, and good luck!!!
My daughter did it for me. I came home from a week of being on a work trip, and expected a great big hug from the light of my life. I walked in the door and saw her eyes light up and she waddled her way up to me throwing her arms wide and jumped into my arms (insert any old TV movie clip here). The first thing she said to me after this week was "Daddy, you stink! Yuck"
I threw away my pack then and there. A day later I walked into a vape shop and walked out with a ego twist and a clearomizer. Yes I do frequent bars and I have had a few here and there, but the taste is not so good.
I threw away my pack then and there. A day later I walked into a vape shop and walked out with a ego twist and a clearomizer. Yes I do frequent bars and I have had a few here and there, but the taste is not so good.
Once I resettled into the vape world (tried cigalikes back in 2010 and 2011) in Feb 2014, I would piddle with the ecigs and still smoke regular ones. I'd finally gotten to where I thought I'd "spent so much on vaping stuff" that I shouldn't also be spending money on cigarettes. Bought a pack on a Friday in March. Smoked from it over the weekend (I had been a PAD for the previous 25-ish years) Smoked my last three on that following Monday and haven't touched one since.
It also helped that I'd found more suitable gear than the cigalikes. They were somewhat of a "novelty", but they weren't sufficient to get the job done for me. With EVOD tanks and Spinner II, I finally let go.
You'll know when you're ready. I didn't "choose" my quit date - it just happened. That way, I wasn't under any specific pressure, and it was not "forced" artificially.
Good Luck
It also helped that I'd found more suitable gear than the cigalikes. They were somewhat of a "novelty", but they weren't sufficient to get the job done for me. With EVOD tanks and Spinner II, I finally let go.
You'll know when you're ready. I didn't "choose" my quit date - it just happened. That way, I wasn't under any specific pressure, and it was not "forced" artificially.
Good Luck
I started with cigalikes back in the last half of 2013 with the intention of cutting back. I was a 1-2 PAD smoker for 40 years and multiple attempts to quit via patches, gums, medications, etc. failed every time and I returned to smoking with a vengeance. The cigalikes did slow me down, but not enough and they were so expensive, so I looked around online and bought an Ego-T setup. The day it arrived, charged up and filled with juice from the same vendor, I took my first hit. Days later, I realized I wasn't smoking at all, so I just kept on vaping and haven't had a cigarette since and it's been over a year. I was what some call an unintentional quitter. Just vape and enjoy it and maybe the urge for cigarettes will just fade away. I wish you well.
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I had been a smoker for 30 years - stupidest thing I've ever done, which is really saying something. I'm a jazz musician but I also teach at Depaul University and I saw one of my students using an ecig in the courtyard of the music building. I had to ask him about it because I had never seen anything but the type that looked like cigarettes that are sold at convenience stores. He had an Ego-C, with a type-A atomizer. He told me there was a shop really close to school and I went over there to check it out. Wound up buying an Ego-C starter kit which consisted of two batteries, the charger, two attys and 5 empty tanks. Also bought a couple of 20ml bottles of liquid. It was exorbitantly expensive compared to what you can buy these days, if I remember correctly, about $125 including the liquid. That was it for me. Never looked back and I've never felt better.
Both times I quit, I gradually vaped more and smoked less, over about a month's time. By the time I got to 5 or less per day, they just tasted like total crap, and I couldn't figure out why I was even bothering with them anymore -- got better TH from my vape, even in an eRoll!
The way I made sure I was smoking less, was to keep a tally sheet; everytime I smoked, I'd make a mark on the tally, and each day was a new competition with the previous day, to smoke less. It worked! But I had to do the tally thing, because smoking was so unconscious, even when I had to go outside to do it -- auto-pilot. Hard to keep track of stuff you do so unconsciously, so I did the tallying. I've still got my original tally sheet around here someplace... the last 3 days, it was just 1 cig a day, and each of those days on the sheet, it says JUST ONE!
I couldn't get past that first smoke of the day, until I learned to do the slow inhale, pause with it in my mouth/throat, and gradually let it exhale from my nose -- once I did that, that day I didn't smoke at all -- it was my first smoke-free day.
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Got my first gear from a local shop, a fixed voltage ego with replaceable coil CE4+ / Stardust. On their recommendation based on my smoking habit, started at 18 mg. Sampled a bunch of flavors and settled on a few. Had mixed results the first week, and got some juice at 24, which is what turned the corner for me.
Of course, since then I've upgraded my gear - a lot! VV made a huge difference, and I won't get any hardware that isn't at least VV now. Advances - big ones! - in toppers have made it even nicer. And lowered my nic back down to 18, with no current plans to go lower. (Search out beneficial effects of nic - without carcinogens!)
But we're all different. As said, go at your own pace. If it's a quick change for you, great. If it's not so quick, great!
Of course, since then I've upgraded my gear - a lot! VV made a huge difference, and I won't get any hardware that isn't at least VV now. Advances - big ones! - in toppers have made it even nicer. And lowered my nic back down to 18, with no current plans to go lower. (Search out beneficial effects of nic - without carcinogens!)
But we're all different. As said, go at your own pace. If it's a quick change for you, great. If it's not so quick, great!
I first got a cigalike it wasn't great but i found i would smoke less when i had it so i took the next step to a itaste vw4 and a naughy mini. Since i got the naughty mini i have not smoked one stinky. its been almost 3 months now, much longer than any other attempt i have made to stop.
I have now moved onto a istick 50w with a subtank mini and loving it. I do still have some rolling tobacco in a tin but never have the urge to smoke.
I have now moved onto a istick 50w with a subtank mini and loving it. I do still have some rolling tobacco in a tin but never have the urge to smoke.
I smoked cigarettes for 15 years until i tried a logic ecig. started on 2.4%, which is like 24mg. tried out refilling them but it wasnt so good with mixed flavors so i went ahead with ego pens. i still use logic ecigs on occasion for some nicotine, but i've been using a kanger subtank mini with a dual coil on the rba deck paired with an istick 30. the thing clouds my room quick and sets off my fire alarm sometimes so ventilation is key. personally i prefer 0 nic max vg juices, mainly cuz pg dries me out pretty bad and i dont like the taste mixed with nic. but yea, everyone has different experiences and preferences. i would suggest reading about things that interest you. there's a ton of resources on here.
I was a smoker (1/2 pack a day appx.) for 20 years. When I decided to switch I picked up an ego battery and a simple clearomizer. My first instinct was to get a tobacco flavoured juice, personally that was a huge cig trigger for me. When I found my desired strength, for me it was 18mg, I got a juice that tasted as far from tobacco as possible, spearmint or citrus flavours I found worked the best to keep me off of cigs. Within a few weeks I became super-sensitive to the smell of tobacco, that was the final cog in the wheel! I was so put off by the smell of someone else smoking that I knew I was a vaper for life. Good luck on your effort to switch.
Different for everyone, some people need to dual-use for quite some time before being able to completely kick the cigarettes. For me, it was very fast and easy.
50 cigs a day (2.5 packs) RYO smoker for 18 years.
First day with a cigalike, I smoked three cigarettes. Second day with the cigalike I smoked one cigarette, and the same on the third day. Fourth day I craved that "just one" cigarette, but I resisted. Never smoked another cigarette after that, and within a week I'd moved up to good vaping gear instead of the cigalike.
Do whatever works for you. If you have to smoke, have one, but resist when you can. You can chain-vape if you need to, which can help keep those cravings at bay.
I wish you luck!
50 cigs a day (2.5 packs) RYO smoker for 18 years.
First day with a cigalike, I smoked three cigarettes. Second day with the cigalike I smoked one cigarette, and the same on the third day. Fourth day I craved that "just one" cigarette, but I resisted. Never smoked another cigarette after that, and within a week I'd moved up to good vaping gear instead of the cigalike.
Do whatever works for you. If you have to smoke, have one, but resist when you can. You can chain-vape if you need to, which can help keep those cravings at bay.
I wish you luck!
Thank you everyone!!! I love hearing all of your adventures of kicking cigs. Reading all your posts really does help
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