How easy was it for you to change from analogues to vaping?

[seahawkin]

Pretty easy for me, as I have quit for long periods of time then went back to smoking. So for me, the last time, I usually cave around the 3 month mark a coworker begged me to try ecigs. He had seen me struggle before and he was so sincere in his worry.

Finding the stuff that worked best was the tough part. Also I didn't like smoking, I needed it to even out ya? So with vaping it was like an answer to everything I needed. Hubby goes back and forth between analogs and vape, think we have the best set up for him now and he is doing better.

 

[kashmoney38]

When I got my first ego kit I quit immediately. Literally crushed the pack and never looked back.

 

[Knittinglady]

From my first vape I was done with analogs and I too never looked back.

 

[k9rotehexe]

It was pretty easy for me as well after 28 years of analogs and one failed quiting attempt with patches. I started one morning, had 2 analogs during the day, 1/2 of one the next day and suddenly I could not stand the taste of my analogs anymore. Granted it was not to long ago but I do not crave them at all. Happy!!! But... I do vape all day.

 

[Dusif]

I was analog free after 3 days and 1.5 analogs to stop the shakings (our analogs are full of all sorta crap chemicals that makes them hard to quit and taste of alot) but i wasnt craving the coffin nails even the first day... But i had to have those nasty chemicals to stop shaking like a paint mixer

 

[JR 137]

It was so easy, it was scary for me. For me, it was all about finding the right juice(s) and devices.

I tried Blu disposables to see if vaping had any potential. I figured it would have been like everything else I tried during my 20 year pack a day career. I used them during some temp work, but had to chain smoke 2 cigarettes once I got around the corner, and another cigarette 15 minutes later. But they definitely held me over for 8 hour shifts.

I researched and asked questions here, and bought a Halo Triton starter kit and a few sample sized juice bottles. They arrived on a Thursday afternoon. I had one cigarette that night, and 3 the next day - first thing in the morning, after dinner, and before bed. I knew I didn't need those last two, but I had them anyway. I said to myself 'let me see if I can get through tomorrow without a cigarette.' During the first vape of the morning, I knew it would be easy. Haven't had a cigarette since, other than two weeks later when i ran out of juice for a day. Smoking my five of my wife's cigarettes (my old brand) was torture. It tasted like inhaling camp fire and licking an ashtray. I couldn't get that taste out of my mouth no matter what I did. The last 3 smokes had me dry-heaving.

The only issue I had that first day of no cigarettes was I was a little light-headed. It was due to the extra oxygen going to my brain that would normally be carbon monoxide.

I still get the urge to have a smoke every now and then. Nothing major though. I'm sure I always will have the occasional urge, even though I vividly remember how disgusting they tasted last time. I'm 37 and smoked full time for 20 years. Something I did for more than half of my life isn't the easiest thing to forget.

 

[discusfan]

For me, it was instant. Once I picked up my first ecig, the tobacco companies never saw another dime of my money!!!!!!!!!

 

[Anbessa]

For me, it was instant. Once I picked up my first ecig, the tobacco companies never saw another dime of my money!!!!!!!!!

The painless transition to Vapeikg and the loose of money for the tabacco industry and the tax money for the gov. is why e-cigarettes are about to be regulated and controlled as medicine.
So glad it will not affect me once e-cigarettes are regulated because i am a Vapor.

Greets Anbessa

 

[BmoreDoug]

Easy from the addiction/withdrawal standpoint. Hard from the social standpoint though. I still want to smoke with friends & family. I still like the taste and smell of cigarettes (crazy I know). I haven't quit. I have about 5 a week, but only been vaping for a month. I think I just need some more time.

 

[stormwench]

Pretty painless here. In 48 hours I was through with analogs. I bought 2 packs (two pack a day smoker) the day I got my ego and the second pack still sits on my desk as a reminder of where I have come from.

I actually was so 'into' vaping I overdid it in the beginning and had the jitters, indigestion and green feeling on an off the first weeks after that - probably a psychological urge to chain vape because i could and to make sure I was 'getting enough nic'. I worried after 3 weeks when I started getting the urge for an analog (hubby was still smoking) but learned that I was keeping a steady level of nic in my blood instead of the lows and highs I was used to from analogs. Learning to vape 24 mg when I got up and after breakfast, using 0 or 6 mg if I was just chain vaping for fun and hitting a 18 or 24 mg juice when I got a urge and then using 18 or 24 in the evening when I had smoked more make me stop thinking about analogs even with a smoker in the house.

Yes, he is now a vaper. That was not as painless for me as my own switch but that is a whole other, and quite amusing story.

 

[Mud Pie]

When I switched (in February this year), I was amazed how effortless it was ! In the past I tried the pills, the patches, the gum. All the while screaming inside, "I WANT A CIGARETTE !!!". When I switched, I never looked back (except for The Test that I posted previously).

But as odd as this seems, just yesterday I considered buying a pack, "just because". I actually craved an analog for some reason. Four months down the road and NOW I get a craving ?!? I didn't cave in, thankfully, but it was odd having that "old feeling" again. I didn't chain-vape through the craving, I just kept keeping on; resisted that urge to flick on the car turn signal near the next gas station.

As they say in Boot Camp, "Pain is weakness leaving the body".

And I won.

 

[Walker843]

It was fairly difficult for me. I started a little over a month ago, and was doing both up until this past week. I am now on my 4th day of vaping only.

 

[Alfro]

as easy as BAMMB! could'nt be happier

 

[PDADoc]

In the beginning, it was difficult, actually. Having never vaped before, I was looking for a sensation commensurate with the actual cigarettes I smoked at the time. Also, I was still craving the nicotine after vaping. Of course, I didn't really know about the various concentrations and the differences between vendors. My first e-cig was a V2, and it was terrible for me. So for about a year I bounced back and forth, trying to make the effort to stay off the analogs for good.

Ironically, it wasn't until I got the Blu kit that I was able to leave them behind for good. And it was helpful to be able to pickup refills anywhere. I've since outgrown the Blu and its relative flaws, but it did get me off the analogs, so I owe them for that.

Now if only my Green Smoke and Apollo kits would get here; they were supposed to arrive today! Aarrgh!

 

[NancyB]

Hubby and I are fulltime RVers in our retirement (began in 2001) left So.Cal. and hit the road. I have been smoking (this time) since 1992 when my dad passed away from Hep. C (got down in Mexico on a 60 day tour). My youngest son come over and lit up his smoke and I asked for a puff - now, 21 yrs later....this past January I purchased my first China made $15 kit from a weird smoke shop on the Olympic Peninsula up in Washington. I tried putting a cartridge on the battery and sucked on it - the led light came on but it was rather like sucking on a straw!! no flavor at all, so I laid that kit aside. Note here: this week, 6 months later, I read somewhere on ECF about those cig-alikes that you need to drip some e-juice into the cartos - HAHAHA yup - I tried my first kit 'dry' - YUCK!!
Once we arrived down in Arizona and got parked on our RV lot in a development NW of Phoenix, I bought another starter kit from Zikwid in Phoenix/Glendale?/Peoria? - anyway - it was an eGo C with cartridges I could fill with a needle and short ego batteries (450? 650ohms?)
They gave me a 10ml bottle of juice with the kit - and I was totally surprised at all the flavor and vape, etc.!! pleasantly surprised!!
But they didn't quite give me more than an inkling of what I was looking for as a complete substitute for analogs. I kept at it tho, occasionally substituting a stinky into the mix.
I found Vapor Vortex next further south and east in Phoenix and they had just opened up a new store, but Chris was very welcoming and shared a LOT regarding the switch and what might work better, etc. - I purchased 2 MT3 Kanger tanks, 1 650 variable voltage battery and some juice and immediately loved this new set-up! Over time I found the big tanks just too big to carry around with me while out on our quad in the desert, so I ordered some Clearomizers on the internet and used them a lot over the next couple months. After having 2 of them break in my pocket, I looked and read and ended up buying a couple Kanger EVOD tanks and love them and their size and delivery.

It was probably a month in the beginning that I kept going back for an occasional stinky when outside (habit?) - but I don't remember making a big decision over 'never having another one of them' - it was pretty smooth sailing - the stinkys STUNK and tasted really BAD by then. So they still sit in their box with my lighter in an ashtray out in the shed (drying out and I'm sure by now, really tasting bad if one was lit up now!).

I am mainly using my 650 variable voltage batteries and an occasional clearomizer with a sweet juice in it - and my EVOD tanks for my main 'all day vape' fluids - Kentucky Menthol Tobacco flavor, and 3 others with plain tobacco flavor and one of these, mango, pineapple or horchata flavors being added (15% to the other tobacco mix).

I mixed up some lower nicotine juices (18, 15, 12, 9, 6, 3 and 0) - 30ml each that lasted me about 3-4 weeks, then I'd begin the next lower level of nic mix. This went well until I reached the 6ml bottle - I had mixed it 1/6 Tobacco and 5/6 Cool Mint Menthol Tobacco (just watching the nicotine levels - not the flavors) and found the Cool Mint just WAY TOO MINTY for me - so I stayed at 9-12mg for awhile until I used up a re-mix of those offending juices, ordered some more Mentol Tobacco, USA Blend (without mint or menthol to add the fruits to) and got some 36mg nicotine in pg/vg base - and made up new 30ml bottles of mixes that I could tolerate (again) grin. I'm now finishing up my 8-9mg level and will soon begin the 6mg nic level bottle. I sorta gave myself some room to 'learn and try to fix' my mistakes - and still haven't had any desire for the old stinkies. YEAH!! Now that the juice area is in order and I like what I have made - I'm on to the next project - rebuilding the attys in my EVODs and MT3 tanks - making coils and adding wicks - and am amazed at how easily my first ones have been accomplished! just watching one u-tube video!! So - I'm on my way, enjoying the process and learning ever so much as I go. I've traded some things and given some away (which is totally fun!) and been there when folks ask questions and listen to what I have to say. It really helps having this forum handy to seek answers from experienced folks - as well as this newbies forum to share and encourage others coming along behind us in the same journey. It just takes time, we're all different in our needs and what we do or do not want to do (rebuilding coils?) - and what we like in juices, where we want to shop for stuff, etc. and our financial situations.
So read a lot and learn, but the most expensive stuff isn't always the most satisfying, I've learned in this life.
We like to save our $ for more diesel so we can travel more (grin).

 

[PDADoc]

Hubby and I are fulltime RVers in our retirement (began in 2001) left So.Cal. and hit the road. I have been smoking (this time) since 1992 when my dad passed away from Hep. C (got down in Mexico on a 60 day tour). My youngest son come over and lit up his smoke and I asked for a puff - now, 21 yrs later....this past January I purchased my first China made $15 kit from a weird smoke shop on the Olympic Peninsula up in Washington. I tried putting a cartridge on the battery and sucked on it - the led light came on but it was rather like sucking on a straw!! no flavor at all, so I laid that kit aside. Note here: this week, 6 months later, I read somewhere on ECF about those cig-alikes that you need to drip some e-juice into the cartos - HAHAHA yup - I tried my first kit 'dry' - YUCK!!
Once we arrived down in Arizona and got parked on our RV lot in a development NW of Phoenix, I bought another starter kit from Zikwid in Phoenix/Glendale?/Peoria? - anyway - it was an eGo C with cartridges I could fill with a needle and short ego batteries (450? 650ohms?)
They gave me a 10ml bottle of juice with the kit - and I was totally surprised at all the flavor and vape, etc.!! pleasantly surprised!!
But they didn't quite give me more than an inkling of what I was looking for as a complete substitute for analogs. I kept at it tho, occasionally substituting a stinky into the mix.
I found Vapor Vortex next further south and east in Phoenix and they had just opened up a new store, but Chris was very welcoming and shared a LOT regarding the switch and what might work better, etc. - I purchased 2 MT3 Kanger tanks, 1 650 variable voltage battery and some juice and immediately loved this new set-up! Over time I found the big tanks just too big to carry around with me while out on our quad in the desert, so I ordered some Clearomizers on the internet and used them a lot over the next couple months. After having 2 of them break in my pocket, I looked and read and ended up buying a couple Kanger EVOD tanks and love them and their size and delivery.

It was probably a month in the beginning that I kept going back for an occasional stinky when outside (habit?) - but I don't remember making a big decision over 'never having another one of them' - it was pretty smooth sailing - the stinkys STUNK and tasted really BAD by then. So they still sit in their box with my lighter in an ashtray out in the shed (drying out and I'm sure by now, really tasting bad if one was lit up now!).

I am mainly using my 650 variable voltage batteries and an occasional clearomizer with a sweet juice in it - and my EVOD tanks for my main 'all day vape' fluids - Kentucky Menthol Tobacco flavor, and 3 others with plain tobacco flavor and one of these, mango, pineapple or horchata flavors being added (15% to the other tobacco mix).

I mixed up some lower nicotine juices (18, 15, 12, 9, 6, 3 and 0) - 30ml each that lasted me about 3-4 weeks, then I'd begin the next lower level of nic mix. This went well until I reached the 6ml bottle - I had mixed it 1/6 Tobacco and 5/6 Cool Mint Menthol Tobacco (just watching the nicotine levels - not the flavors) and found the Cool Mint just WAY TOO MINTY for me - so I stayed at 9-12mg for awhile until I used up a re-mix of those offending juices, ordered some more Mentol Tobacco, USA Blend (without mint or menthol to add the fruits to) and got some 36mg nicotine in pg/vg base - and made up new 30ml bottles of mixes that I could tolerate (again) grin. I'm now finishing up my 8-9mg level and will soon begin the 6mg nic level bottle. I sorta gave myself some room to 'learn and try to fix' my mistakes - and still haven't had any desire for the old stinkies. YEAH!! Now that the juice area is in order and I like what I have made - I'm on to the next project - rebuilding the attys in my EVODs and MT3 tanks - making coils and adding wicks - and am amazed at how easily my first ones have been accomplished! just watching one u-tube video!! So - I'm on my way, enjoying the process and learning ever so much as I go. I've traded some things and given some away (which is totally fun!) and been there when folks ask questions and listen to what I have to say. It really helps having this forum handy to seek answers from experienced folks - as well as this newbies forum to share and encourage others coming along behind us in the same journey. It just takes time, we're all different in our needs and what we do or do not want to do (rebuilding coils?) - and what we like in juices, where we want to shop for stuff, etc. and our financial situations.
So read a lot and learn, but the most expensive stuff isn't always the most satisfying, I've learned in this life.
We like to save our $ for more diesel so we can travel more (grin).

Sounds like you two have gotten into the full swing of things, good for you!

OT: I'm also really jealous of your RV activity; I watch those luxury RV segments on Destination America all the time and drool over those things. Perhaps one of these days!

We now return you to your regularly scheduled vaping!

 

[DC2]

Sounds like you two have gotten into the full swing of things, good for you!

OT: I'm also really jealous of your RV activity; I watch those luxury RV segments on Destination America all the time and drool over those things. Perhaps one of these days!

We now return you to your regularly scheduled vaping!

I used to own an RV but gas got too expensive.
When I retire, I may pick up another RV but gas is still too expensive.

I'm currently working on a plan that involves an RV that has a built-in toy-hauler.
And I'm thinking about getting a three-wheeled motorcycle to haul along.

But the toy-hauler has to be able to double as a master bedroom.

 

[PeteyZ]

Changing from analogs (primative cigs lol) to ecigs was easy. I started at 24mg of eliquid to keep the buzz and all that for the morning, and just started experimenting with flavors. I moved up from the e-go battery setup to a mod and realized theres so many setups to vape that I just got hooked. Now, months later, I've found good all day vapes and a perfect setup that suits me. There's no reason to go back to cigarettes.

 

[peterforpats]

It's like changing from Coke to Diet Coke. First day is a bit of a shock, third day you're kind of used to it...after a while, regular Coke tastes funny and bad.

its not that regular coke tastes bad, its you convince yourself that diet doesn't!

 

[Barbara21]

I was one of the lucky ones.

Tried analogs about a year ago but it didn't stick. In early May, I found out about a local B&M ecig shop, stopped by, walked out with an ego starter kit and that was it. I finished the pack of regular cigarettes I happened to have in the car but haven't had one since. I've had absolutely no urge for a 'real' cigarette.