How long after you started vaping did you quit smoking cigarettes?

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RogerLee

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I tried a few differnent brands of ecig form truck stops before I gave up smoking and those didnt work. I started them again after about three weeks after I quit smoking and now really like them. I started with a brand Mistic for about a year until the company went under then I switch to cig2go. Just last night, I bought a small bottle of e-liquid (cant remember the name) and filled a few carts and now really like it!
 
Quit the same day I started Vaping, still crave an analog from time to time though.

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whitewolf53

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Got my kit on Jan. 17, 2013. Smoked three more analogs the next day. After vaping for two days....I couldn't stand the taste or smell of analogs. For me, it was a decision to quit the sticks and this was after smoking since junior high!! ( I won't say how many years I smoked, just trust me...it was a bunch!!) If smoking tasted as good as vaping...I would still be smoking analogs.
 
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J138

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I stopped smoking the minute I bought my first gas station throw away e cig. I gave a friend of mine an ego,kit and he still smokes 3 months later although he is down to one or two a week as opposed to a pack a day. The goal is to quit cigarettes all together but if worse case you cut down to a few a week, I think you have made an improvement.

Good luck!
 
I first tried E-Cigs a few years ago.. They didn't do much for me, I spent several hundred dollars, and never really went more than a day or two without smoking a real cigarette. I wrote them off as a gimmick.
I really didn't give them a second thought until a few months ago when a friend of mine switched to E-cigs. He's currently using a generic Blu-type setup, and it's working fine for him. I started seeing commercials on TV about E-cigs and thought I'd look back into it. After a week or so of research, I decided to try something I considered a step up from the Blu style setup. It was okay, but I'm not a real big fan of the cartomizers. I mostly ended up flooding them. Not to mention, the process of refiling a cart is a pain, as I tend to burn through them rather quickly.

I realized after about a week I wasn't going to be able to keep doing this. It was easier (for me anyway) to just go buy a pack of cigarettes and smoke those. Time for more research.

I found the eGo type e-cigs. Much easier to refill, and about a zillion vendors sell them. Now I'm getting somewhere, I think to myself as I smoke one of my last real cigarettes.

I also found this forum. I read it endlessly. Soon realized that most everyone's tastebuds suck!! and there is no e-liquid that tastes exactly like my beloved Marlboro Lights, no matter what anyone says. Halo isnt' as good as most people would lead you to believe and Johnson Creek isn't as bad, and no matter how hard you try, you will probably never know what Radiator Pluid tastes like because it's always sold out.

I did, however, discover rebuildable atomizers, batteries that last a whole day or more, and things I never knew I needed like Kanthal wire and SS mesh or SS wire rope, or aquarium airstones.

What I needed, as much as I needed to quit smoknig, was something to keep my mind off that fact that I wasn't smoking. Wrapping wire around metal wicks and doing it again, and again and again, kept my mind off the not smoking part. Looking at this or that vendor's website also kept me busy... and broke.

A few more weeks into this, I'd discovered some e-liquids that I actually liked! Some even (sort-of) remind me of smoking.

Then, while washing the car and cleaning out the inside after a long winter, I found a half of a pack of cigarettes under the seat. I toyed around with the idea of trashing them, but of not before I took one out of the pack and smoked it.

Then I smoked another one, then another, then another. I didn't enjoy it (though I kind of wanted to. Hard to give up 30+ year old habits). I really got nothing from those cigarettes that my newly discovered e-liquids wasn't giving me from the VAMO and AGA T+ I'm currently using.

So to answer the question... It took me about two weeks to quit smoking after I started vaping, a few more to decide I wasn't going back. Ever.
 

aussiedog61

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It took about three days to finally realize that I didn't need analogs anymore. Pretty good considering that I was consuming about a pack and a half a day of Marlboro Red 100's (started at 2-3 packs a day). I used to love those guys, but alas it was no longer meant to be. Couldn't be happier.
 

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For me it was different, first i quit smoking for about 16 months and after i started once again with analogs. In the mean time a friend of mine started to use these things and i was able to test one. Next day i bought a cheap kit, carto style and after some deep research i switched to Provari + ZAP. Different league as price but also as vape quality.
 
I got started with c-cigs by using the disposables. I couldn't have quit completely on those, so I used them for about two weeks while I was researching my "real" kit and cut my analogs in half. I got my Ego Twist on a thursday, smoked about 5 analogs per day as I was getting the hang of the new twist until Sunday morning. Easter Sunday morning was my last cigarette. 11 days later, I feel great and have no desire to go back. I never actually decided to quit at that moment; I never said "this is my last cig", it just pretty much happened that way. Sometimes its better to let it happen naturally, but when you feel like you can do it, you still have to have the willpower to say no.

The first three days are the hardest while you are retraining your brain to associate vaping with the "ahhh" feeling of cigarette smoking, but it happens pretty quickly. Just go with the vape whenever you have a craving, and amazingly, you will be satistified. That is assuming you have the right equipment and liquid that works for you. I'm still struggling in that dept, but it's trial and error, of course.

"Have faith in the Vape"
 
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cymric

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I just got all my stuff today and I'm hoping I can quit by the end of the week. Did anyone else quit fairly easy?

I have not smoked a cigarette since the day I got my first kit two months ago. I will not say that it has been easy. I have a full carton of 10 packages of cigarettes in my drawer, but I have not touched them since that first day.

The advice on this thread to be patient with yourself and switch over at your own pace is to my mind the very best way to quit the bad stuff. You have started vaping and in MHO the switch will happen.
 
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