How long did it take you to convert to e-cigs and why?
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Perhaps if you upped you nicotine level to 12, 18 or even 24mg that would be satisfying for you.
Took me about 4 months to switch over completely.
Took 42+ years of smoking 1 - 1 1/2 PAD, with various failed attempts to quit during those years. Then I tried vaping. Took 56 days of dual using (while lowering the # of cigs I could have each day/week)...to quit smoking for good on Jan. 2014. It was honestly the ONE thing I'd wanted to do in my life that I just couldn't accomplish...until I started vaping. It's the best thing I've ever done for myself! 
I smoked for 40+ years, tried half-heartedly to quit several times. In late 2008, our state mandated fire-safe cigarettes. Over the course of the next year, I developed a persistent cough and congestion, and knew that something needed to change. In the fall of 2009, a friend let me try his electronic cigar - I'd never heard of such a thing. I was intrigued, so I started doing some research and stumbled onto the ECF. I was amazed at what I read, so I wound up ordering a cig-alike kit (there were not many options back then). As soon as I tried it, I thought it might just work, so I decided to use it and only have a cigarette when I felt I really needed one. That turned out to be 3-4 times a day. I figured I'd try putting that first one of the day off as long as I could, and within a week I never got around to lighting up again. Within a short time, I experienced notable improvements in my health. I carried cigarettes with me for several weeks - it felt good to look at them and say "no thanks". I tried a real cigarette about 3 months after making the switch - I could not believe how disgusting it was. That was the day I knew I was free.
Day 1 - Walked out of a B&M with two set-ups with different flavors around noon. I had a 100 mile drive home, so was not about to start then. Not sure when, but had 2 smokes the rest of the day.
Day 2 - Got up and went straight to the vape. I must have done a great job picking out my gear and juice, and it was sooooo good, that I easily made it through the day sans cigarettes.
Day 3 - Started just like day 2....until early afternoon anyway. Stupid newbie I was, I was switching entire set-ups when I want the other flavor and had both batteries drained within 15 minutes of each other. Just the thought of not having something for the time it would take to charge one up, I didn't feel bad having one smoke. After all, it was early in my transition and it seemed to be working better then any of my other failed attempts. How could I beat myself up over one smoke in 2 days?
Day 4 till now - Nadda, zero, zilch. 3 whole smokes in the first 3 days and that was it.
Day 2 - Got up and went straight to the vape. I must have done a great job picking out my gear and juice, and it was sooooo good, that I easily made it through the day sans cigarettes.
Day 3 - Started just like day 2....until early afternoon anyway. Stupid newbie I was, I was switching entire set-ups when I want the other flavor and had both batteries drained within 15 minutes of each other. Just the thought of not having something for the time it would take to charge one up, I didn't feel bad having one smoke. After all, it was early in my transition and it seemed to be working better then any of my other failed attempts. How could I beat myself up over one smoke in 2 days?
Day 4 till now - Nadda, zero, zilch. 3 whole smokes in the first 3 days and that was it.
Two weeks. I didn't buy any cigarettes after I got my Ego twists and Vivi Nova, but I'd just bought a carton before they arrived. When I finished it, I thought "Why don't I try putting off buying the next one until I really want a cig?" I never did.
I bought my little cig-a-like kit the same day I bought my normal 2 cartons of smokes.
I didn't smoke any of the smokes I think the main reason it worked so well for me....
I really really wanted to put the smokes behind me but up until that point I just couldn't make it past a few days. Well, that isn't completely true. I did quit one time for about 6 months. I was a basket case during the whole 6 months. Not a single moment during that time did I not crave a smoke. I finally decided that I would not spend the rest of my life with that feeling so right back to the smokes I went. I am well past 5 years smoke free this time with absolutely no cravings.
I didn't smoke any of the smokes
I think the main reason it worked so well for me....I really really wanted to put the smokes behind me but up until that point I just couldn't make it past a few days. Well, that isn't completely true. I did quit one time for about 6 months. I was a basket case during the whole 6 months. Not a single moment during that time did I not crave a smoke. I finally decided that I would not spend the rest of my life with that feeling so right back to the smokes I went. I am well past 5 years smoke free this time with absolutely no cravings.
Took me about 4 months to switch over completely. In the beginning I would try to vape instead of smoke a cigarette on my smoke breaks. But I ended up still craving cigarettes as they seemed to be more satisfying. It wasn't until I started chain vaping all day like a madman that I completely eliminated the need for cigarettes. I've since gradually tapered off from vaping and do not chain vape like I did in the beginning.
Probably could also have been because I started off with Halo cigalikes and eventually upgraded to a subohm device.
why? i was playing that farmville online game and before i knew it, i had literally smoked two packs of kool 100's in like 5 hours. my brain finally said thats it, enough is enough and i turned game off and went straight to mall and bought my first ecig kit, a M401 kit.
we had no VV/VW devices/etc. back then like we do today that were satisfying so i only managed to stop cigs for first week. After first week, i decided to smoke 2 cigs every AM with my mugs of coffee and vape the rest of the day and that worked well for me for a couple years since i was not depriving myself of something i still enjoyed doing. It took my first VV tube and than finding that one tobacco juice in 2012 that i liked better than my kool 100's to finally give up my 2 cigs altogether. will be 5 yrs this june with no cigs at all.
we had no VV/VW devices/etc. back then like we do today that were satisfying so i only managed to stop cigs for first week. After first week, i decided to smoke 2 cigs every AM with my mugs of coffee and vape the rest of the day and that worked well for me for a couple years since i was not depriving myself of something i still enjoyed doing. It took my first VV tube and than finding that one tobacco juice in 2012 that i liked better than my kool 100's to finally give up my 2 cigs altogether. will be 5 yrs this june with no cigs at all.
I was a 42 year smoker and was up to over 3 packs per day. I was actively trying to cut down with will power and lozenges. One day I had a pop up adv on my computer about e-cigs (can't remember the brand). So I started researching and ended up here on ECF.
Ordered my first starter kit that weekend. Never in a hundred years did I think it would actually work...just hoped to cut down some.
My kit arrived on Friday (Volt cigalikes from SmokelessImage) and I had my last cigarette on Monday morning. That was 4 1/2 years ago.
I remember that Sunday evening. My wife and I have our own big fluffy chairs facing each other. (She was also a heavy smoker). I had only had 2 cigarettes that morning and it was 6 pm. Now I had gone 10 hours without a cigarette. 10 hours! Hadn't done that since college. Anyway, I must have had a strange look about me because my wife asked me what was wrong. I told her I couldn't believe how well these e-cigs worked. Three days later, she had her first starter kit.
Ordered my first starter kit that weekend. Never in a hundred years did I think it would actually work...just hoped to cut down some.
My kit arrived on Friday (Volt cigalikes from SmokelessImage) and I had my last cigarette on Monday morning. That was 4 1/2 years ago.
I remember that Sunday evening. My wife and I have our own big fluffy chairs facing each other. (She was also a heavy smoker). I had only had 2 cigarettes that morning and it was 6 pm. Now I had gone 10 hours without a cigarette. 10 hours! Hadn't done that since college. Anyway, I must have had a strange look about me because my wife asked me what was wrong. I told her I couldn't believe how well these e-cigs worked. Three days later, she had her first starter kit.
I've tried 11 mg nic, and the throat hit too harsh. Some liquid with 6mg nic is enough for me, but hard to find 6mg liquid in my country, so I had to use 3mg nic.
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Which time? LOL
Seriously, I tried the cig-a-likes and pen-style and joined here in 2010. I really wanted them to work and saw that they had potential, but they didn't "do it" for me.
Three years later, I bought an eGo kit, and I haven't had a cigarette since that day. Smoked for about 45 years previously.
Why did I quit? Overall health, bronchitis several times a year, money, stink factor, social stigma, gagging on the smoke, coughing up a lung every morning.
Did I win???
Seriously, I tried the cig-a-likes and pen-style and joined here in 2010. I really wanted them to work and saw that they had potential, but they didn't "do it" for me.
Three years later, I bought an eGo kit, and I haven't had a cigarette since that day. Smoked for about 45 years previously.
Why did I quit? Overall health, bronchitis several times a year, money, stink factor, social stigma, gagging on the smoke, coughing up a lung every morning.
Did I win???
Did I win???
Of course you did. Just like everyone who quits smoking.
In about 2009 I bought 2 three-piece Joye 510 kits. They were kind of pitiful, and I couldn't get them to work consistently. After about a week, I gave up and threw them in a drawer.
At the end of 2011, my son told me that a couple of his girlfriend's relatives had quit with ecigs. They had smoked like freight trains, so I was intrigued. I went out and bought some Mistic brand ecigs from Walmart. They worked way better than the Joye 510s.
Over the next three weeks, I started vaping more and more, and smoking less and less. Then on Feb. 10th I was just too lazy to go buy more cigarettes. The next morning, I smoked for the last time.
I have two stories. First story, a friend visited our house and was vaping instead of smoking. Our first exposure to the vaping thing. I tried it, and his juice was an apple flavor that didn't appeal to me, but I was intrigued with this new tech! A couple of months later it was Christmas, so I said, hey, let's get a couple of these things and just see how it goes. So we picked up a couple of ego Ts and CE4s plus some small bottles of tobacco flavored e liquid for a rather silly-high price at a B&M. We didn't actually use them until New Years (hey! did I spy a resolution?!), and even then we weren't committed to vaping only. I figured we'd go with no more smoking in the house and use the e cigs inside. But I didn't smoke again after that, at all. And it was easy. UNTIL [ominous music here] ...
Story 2, after about a year of not smoking at all, I had a stress issue, and picked up a cigarette. Such a very bad idea. It tasted absolutely horrible. Yet I persisted. And yes, started smoking again. After a couple of months of smoking with all my vape stuff staring at me accusingly, I shoved it all into a drawer out of sight, and kept smoking. Then one day I was out of cigarettes, and like so many other times before, I said to myself, "you could just not buy any more. You could just open that drawer and start vaping again instead." And this time I did. Why that day, and not any of the days before? I don't know. It was a day like any other day. But I knew what it was like not to smoke, and I was sick, sick, sick of smoking again, even though I wasn't "sick."
It wasn't as easy totally quitting the cigarettes the second time. I wasn't dual using, but I would have two or three a week at first -- unlike the first time when I just cold quit (without even really intending to). I took out my easiest no-problem stuff, the Nautilus minis and iSticks, bought whatever fancy expensive e liquid I wanted as an incentive and got down to not smoking again. And it's been ... about a year? Again not smoking.
I think the first time, I was so enamored with the shiny new technology and TOTALLY AMAZED that I could just vape and not need a cigarette. The second time it was not a brand new amazing thing, so took more willpower to cut the cigarettes. Both times I did it for my health, and because it makes everything disgusting. I wish I had never picked up a cigarette again after successfully quitting, but I'm quit again and wiser about the lingering temptation of just-one, just-for-today, just-while-I'm-feeling-so-upset, just-for-now. I naively thought I was safe from that, but I wasn't, and now I know: in the same way that "trust but verify" is a useful maxim in life, so is (for ex-smokers) "trust (in your non-smoking), but fortify (keep your guard up)." I won't take quitting for granted again.
Story 2, after about a year of not smoking at all, I had a stress issue, and picked up a cigarette. Such a very bad idea. It tasted absolutely horrible. Yet I persisted. And yes, started smoking again. After a couple of months of smoking with all my vape stuff staring at me accusingly, I shoved it all into a drawer out of sight, and kept smoking. Then one day I was out of cigarettes, and like so many other times before, I said to myself, "you could just not buy any more. You could just open that drawer and start vaping again instead." And this time I did. Why that day, and not any of the days before? I don't know. It was a day like any other day. But I knew what it was like not to smoke, and I was sick, sick, sick of smoking again, even though I wasn't "sick."
It wasn't as easy totally quitting the cigarettes the second time. I wasn't dual using, but I would have two or three a week at first -- unlike the first time when I just cold quit (without even really intending to). I took out my easiest no-problem stuff, the Nautilus minis and iSticks, bought whatever fancy expensive e liquid I wanted as an incentive and got down to not smoking again. And it's been ... about a year? Again not smoking.
I think the first time, I was so enamored with the shiny new technology and TOTALLY AMAZED that I could just vape and not need a cigarette. The second time it was not a brand new amazing thing, so took more willpower to cut the cigarettes. Both times I did it for my health, and because it makes everything disgusting. I wish I had never picked up a cigarette again after successfully quitting, but I'm quit again
and wiser about the lingering temptation of just-one, just-for-today, just-while-I'm-feeling-so-upset, just-for-now. I naively thought I was safe from that, but I wasn't, and now I know: in the same way that "trust but verify" is a useful maxim in life, so is (for ex-smokers) "trust (in your non-smoking), but fortify (keep your guard up)." I won't take quitting for granted again.
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Two days. That was back in 2009 so the NIC percentage I used was much higher since the vapor production was much weaker than today.
I started as a hookah smoker. Smoked on average about 6-7 bowls a day. One day I was at a hookah lounge in LA and the workers gave me a mech mod, I believe it was the Gus 18490 SS version. On top it had a Nimbus with a 28 gauge 5 wrap over silica wick. The worker told me to inhale as much as I can. So I did and it was delicious! If I remember correctly, I was vaping on Ben Jonson's Jumanji 50/50 blend. From there, I stopped smoking hookah, bought the Smok ZMAX VV/VW 18650 with a standard cartomizer tank and boom. Vaping to this day!
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