How do you NOT smoke when drinking alcohol? help.

[jimrug1]

There is no rule that says since you vape you are not allowed to smoke.

about twice a month my boss throws a BBQ at his house and smokes cigars, we slowly get drunk and sooner or later with all the aroma in the air i have a cig with all that rum. while i dont enjoy the taste of cigarettes anymore i just get the urge to smoke. when all is said and done on the ride home i go back to vaping.

a couple once in a while isnt going to lead you down the path of ruin. if you really want one just have one and think of all the good vaping is doing when you dont smoke. if your a heavy or long term smoker think of it this way, how long did it take before you felt crappy from smoking regularly? so a couple here and there isnt going to really bring your vaping success down

i think its cool that after 37 years of smoking 2 PAD i can have a couple cigs like that and wake up the next day feeling ok while i fire up my mod and still not want another smoke.

theres worse things in life to stress over, having a couple smokes with my drink isnt going to be one of them.

This is me too! I have from 3 - 10 cigarettes a week. Nothing goes better with a beer. A year ago, I was smoking 1 1/2 - 2 PAD. Would I like to eliminate cigarettes (Sorry, just can't call them analogs) altogether? Yes, eventually. Do I feel guilty when I smoke one? Nope!!!! I Vape 99% of the time. I always count the cigs I don't smoke. Not the other way around.

 

[Rocketpunk]

Funny thing, though. I still vape at 2.4 mg because I need throat hit. I tried to drop to 1.8, but I couldn't feel it going in. And that might be a mental thing.

2.4 doesn't do a thing to me, sleep wise. I can vape 2.4 mg all day, all night. But if I drink one strong cup of coffee, I'm Mr McNer:

And I won't sleep for hours.

 

[Faylool]

I was always quitting smoking or quitting drinking. The drinking definitely went hand in hand with smoking. It made me drink too much too fast because I was craving a smoke. I us to just break down a bum some or buy some saying just for tonight. So I learned if I really want to e successful I'd have to not drink. Same with coffee but not nearly as bad. It's the whole obsessive oral thing. Consume consume consume! I gave up entirely the drinking for a variety of reasons, namely alcoholism.

 

[Thrasher]

Anyway, I'll try some of the suggestions and if they fail, I'll be in the same mind as Thrasher and accept if one wants a drink, one will want a smoke, it's all part of having 'a party' as the youngsters call it and one has to pay the price.

for a long time (vaping 1 1/2 years now) i tried to deny it and it was ok, but dealing with a tank and a mod and oh i have to change my battery be right back, got old, then the alcohol kicked in and no matter how strong i couldnt feel the vapor anymore and said meh.

i think i do more harm to myself sitting in traffic everyday with the window open, or riding my bike on a busy traffic clogged road then smoking 1/2 a pack of cigs every month will ever do,i can control the smoking, but i cant control that idiot with the burning oil fumes pouring out of his tailpipe lol

 

[bentandshallow]

IMO ! I avoided drinking for a while. Anything that would trigger that cigarette I left alone for a while. When you get good and adjusted to vaping you will be fine.

 

[Vale46]

Original op about 0% nic when drinking doesn't make sense, as a few comments suggest. But good thread as I was about to start one about what poeple vape when having a drink. For me it's ave flue cured 1.2 in evod with top wick taken out, for beer, and roar vapor green peach tea 1.2% with white wine. Smoked a cigarette when drunk the other day, and yuck! My down fall is a joint. Even then it over powers the flavour of the flowers.

 

[Maggiemw]

Smoking and drinking often go together, IMHO, because they balance each other in respect to their effects on the central nervous system. Alcohol depresses the central nervous system, nicotine stimulates it. So, we do both to maintain a kind of canceling-out equilibrium.

So, if you're going to drink and vape, you have to find the same equilibrium, or you'll end up smoking to find it. Alternatives: drink less, drink lighter, vape stronger...

 

[Vale46]

How do you not smoke when drinking alcohol? Well, don't drink alcohol. Simple. You people are soo worried about analogs killling you when that alcohol will kill you just as fast or even faster.

Wasn't the question of op. smoking and drinking totally different things. Moderate drinking, 2 or 3 time a week won't kill you as fast as a pack a day 7 days a week. You sound like fun!!

 

[Mad Scientist]

There is a reason we like to vape more (or smoke) when we drink lol.

Insight into Alcohol-Nicotine Interaction Might Lead to New Quitting Method - DukeHealth.org

 

[chellemmm]

Vape something that goes well with whatever you are drinking...For beer, I like cherry. For red wine, I like chocolate cherry. For white wine, peach lemonade. Rum and coke-I vape a mixture of lemon-lime DIY. Vodka drinks, citrus mix. ALL at 24 mg. Or go buy an NJoy tobacco disposable. It tastes almost as disgusting as a Marlboro Red.

When I don't drink, any flavor will do, at 18 mg.

 

[Myk]

Man 6mg makes me feel too stimulated, 24mg would be the reverse of what I need I think.

I forget if I've ever asked or you've ever answered.
Have you ever tried 100% PG free and/or 100% PG? One of the bad things PG did to me was mess with my head and made me anxious. It seemed like it was a bad nicotine reaction out of the ordinary for nicotine reactions so I kept cutting my nicotine until I was at an extremely low amount and it kept on happening.
Extreme stimulation on such a tiny amount is out of the ordinary.

Try different suppliers. Different nicotine sources may not the same for how they make you feel.

One thing is for sure, you're getting way more nicotine smoking a cigarette than you are vaping 6mg so it's not that nicotine does that to you. It is either the nicotine supplier or a reaction to something else in the liquid.

I have to agree with Malarky somewhat. If you can't avoid smoking while drinking and you don't want to smoke you need to avoid drinking until it doesn't make you want a cigarette. As you said, it's a long term relationship.
Otherwise drink and smoke. As long as it's just a few cigarettes here and there it's probably not going to kill you.

 

[Lucky1127]

I don't drink too often but luckily I had been vaping for a while when I had my first drink and couldn't tell any difference the longer you have quit the easier it is to resist

 

[ShyDragon]

Almost a year after starting on this vaping thing, I'll STILL crave a cigarette if I'm out drinking with smokers. I had a cigarette last weekend and beat myself up mentally about it for three days. I know I did it because my battery was kind of weak, I didn't like the liquid in my tank and the cigarette was just too darn easy. All I had to do was light it, no fiddling with my pv.

Usually if I have a higher nic content (24mg) in a liquid with a strong flavor and throat hit, I'm okay. But if anything is even slightly off I'm lazy and just want a cig. I powered through that feeling last night because there is no way I am going to start smoking even if it is just one night a week.

 

[BigEd781]

I've been fortunate; I prefer vaping to cigs in all ways, so it's a non-starter. I forgot my vaping gear (juice) on an overnight stay once. I reverted back to cigs that night (I was drinking as well)... and it was terrible. Tasted like crap, woke up the next day with a sore throat, and I only smoked 6 or 7. I was a pack a day smoker previously.

 

[wingman399]

I feel your pain. It's just not as satisfying when you're drinking, but I can't go back to the analog taste when I do. I tried it and it was gross. Smoking has lost it's appeal but I tend to just vape heavier. It seems to work for me

 

[Flavored]

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=430578 for a few ideas.

 

[hvac999]

I smoked for 35yrs and when drinking alcohol I just chain vape. Once you do it a couple of times it is easy. Oh, and I use 36mg nic.

 

[mare ze dotes]

I find that i like vaping with my beer better than smoking. reguardless of flav.

 

[Rocketpunk]

Chatty in the house! I miss Chattanooga.

 

[Hotwire]

@Myk - I've tried all vg, all pg and 50/50. Have tried several vendors - janty, ovale, gh1, dekang, dulice etc - It all gives me the same buzz and the stronger the nic, the heavier the buzz. It's an awesome buzz too, really refreshing and stimulating ha ha! Not so good for evening time though, so I vape at 6mg now, which still gives me a great nic buzz (similar to a GOOD dbl espresso buzz but better, honestly) but doesn't give me insomnia. I have a very sensitive nervous system. As to your question - my favorite is 100% PG, no sweet undertaste, and way easier on atty life. I can vape 100ph on an ego c atty all day and not get one bad hit.

Alternatives: drink less, drink lighter, vape stronger...

This I like, good old fashioned common sense. You know what? Tonight I'm going out to the local pool comp with my best friend and am going to just drink cokes and really get vape happy with my favorite RY5 and focus on that buzz instead of drinking.

Anyway I had two stinkies last night and now it's morning here in smoggy Shanghai and I'm vaping Super Strong Mint 100%pg with my coffee and it's awesome because the mint or menthol are my ADV and it's really making my lungs, mouth and head feel all fresh, minty and cleaned out lol. And as I mentioned it gives me a really stimulating feeling, so I'm all good about last night.

Yeah tonight I'll experiment and see what it's like alternating the beer for the vape train instead, swap one pleasure for another, I think I'll be fine with that and it's better (and cheaper) for me anyway.

Then when I do have my next couple of pints, I'll probably just have one or two analogues if I really fancy them and then get over it. Like others mentioned - it's the bigger numbers of non smoked ones that really matter. I don't see myself getting overly technical and doing the WTA thing etc, it's too much like trying to get back to smoking as close as you can without smoking, kind of a fool's errand perhaps as I don't think of vaping as smoking at all, it doesn't taste, or feel like it at all when sober, it's much cleaner, fresher and enjoyable.

IN ALL HONESTY if the pack wasn't in my apartment last night, I'd not have bothered anyway, so they go out with the trash this morning. If they're not there next time i get home after a cpl of pints and I get a craving, I'll just think 'I don't have any and don't do that any more, so get over it' and then have a shower and go to bed anyway.

My friend is going to find it weird seeing me drink only cola or non alc cocktails tonight, but he'll just have to get over it lol as i want to see what it's like.