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I quit for 6 months cold turkey, then started vaping cause I couldn't deal with it.
I probably could have quit immediately too, but IIRC, I had two packs left. so I think I smoked about 4 or so analogs a day until they were gone. Then haven't had one since.
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Same as the previous poster. I started vaping dec 7 and had my last cig on the 12th. I had 2 packs left when I got my kit & normally those 2 packs would've been gone in less than 2 days. But I have a friend who started vaping & she hasn't had a cig since. Today made a week for her so she sold the rest of her stinkies! She had five packs left!
I smoked for 46 yrs (started at 12). I started out with a cigarette like - because I like many figured it needed to be just like a cigarette. I used these for 3 weeks - while I researched and stumbled onto ECF and spent 2 weeks reading. I then ordered a kit with 2 eGo 650 mah Twists, some CE4 clearomizers and some stronger juice (18mg) I didn't even have the one I was still smoking on the day my twists arrived.
I am still using my twists, but have also added a 900mah spinner and a little ego mini along with a Vivi Nova, mini Vivi Nova, Kanger T2, T3 MT3 and just recently an Evod. Really like all of these much better than the CE4 (stardusts) I started with. Oh and I also have some nanos - I prefer to use these to test new juices. I have tried to drip with several atomizers and so far it is not for me.
Good luck convincing your mother - I hope she is open to giving this a try. I honestly did not even plan to quit - just tried vaping to see if it could help me cut down on the 30 cigarettes I was smoking a day. Did not take me long to realize that vaping tastes so much better.
I am still using my twists, but have also added a 900mah spinner and a little ego mini along with a Vivi Nova, mini Vivi Nova, Kanger T2, T3 MT3 and just recently an Evod. Really like all of these much better than the CE4 (stardusts) I started with. Oh and I also have some nanos - I prefer to use these to test new juices. I have tried to drip with several atomizers and so far it is not for me.
Good luck convincing your mother - I hope she is open to giving this a try. I honestly did not even plan to quit - just tried vaping to see if it could help me cut down on the 30 cigarettes I was smoking a day. Did not take me long to realize that vaping tastes so much better.
it took me about a week, but i think that's because i still had an open pack left.
what's surprising is that i wasn't trying to quit. i bought a new e-cig because i was making travel plans and had used one in airports many years before and i started vaping the day i got it just to try it out. that day i smoked around 3 tobacco cigarettes, by the end of the week i was totally off.
i still have 3 full cartons of cigarettes sitting on a shelf getting stale.
what's surprising is that i wasn't trying to quit. i bought a new e-cig because i was making travel plans and had used one in airports many years before and i started vaping the day i got it just to try it out. that day i smoked around 3 tobacco cigarettes, by the end of the week i was totally off.
i still have 3 full cartons of cigarettes sitting on a shelf getting stale.
once i was able to see straight from the first tank of 36mg juice i tried, i never smoked again lol. almost a year now.
From the other end of the spectrum...
30 year 2 PAD ex-smoker. I continued to smoke during my first 90 days of vaping. I had the cigarettes on hand since I had just bought my usual 1 month supply. And I couldn't in good conscience give them away. ("Here, have a box of carcinogen.") Anyway, the transition wasn't as easy for me as some people. Those first two weeks were kinda rough, brain fog, quit smoking withdrawal. Still, it was a lot easier than with all the pharma approved attempts in the past.
Right away I dropped from my 2 PAD habit to 10 butts, to 6, to 6, to 4... The rest of those first three months were like that. Some days I didn't have any at all. A bad day was 6 or 7. As things moved along I disliked smoking more and more. A lot of us go through that. In it's own weird way, smoking a cigarette turned into it's own worst negative reinforcement.
Ultimately it came down to: 30 year habit, 3 months to completely quit. I didn't see a problem there. That flies in the face of everything you have been told to do by the ACS to quit. And we all know how well trying to do it their way works out... I was down to my last .... in my last pack, smoked it, didn't enjoy it at all - and it was over.
My point is there are no rules to quitting with e-cigs. You get to figure out your own end game. Smoking while transitioning is not an automatic failure. As long as you have the desire and motivation to quit you can do it the way that works for you.
30 year 2 PAD ex-smoker. I continued to smoke during my first 90 days of vaping. I had the cigarettes on hand since I had just bought my usual 1 month supply. And I couldn't in good conscience give them away. ("Here, have a box of carcinogen.") Anyway, the transition wasn't as easy for me as some people. Those first two weeks were kinda rough, brain fog, quit smoking withdrawal. Still, it was a lot easier than with all the pharma approved attempts in the past.
Right away I dropped from my 2 PAD habit to 10 butts, to 6, to 6, to 4... The rest of those first three months were like that. Some days I didn't have any at all. A bad day was 6 or 7. As things moved along I disliked smoking more and more. A lot of us go through that. In it's own weird way, smoking a cigarette turned into it's own worst negative reinforcement.
Ultimately it came down to: 30 year habit, 3 months to completely quit. I didn't see a problem there. That flies in the face of everything you have been told to do by the ACS to quit. And we all know how well trying to do it their way works out... I was down to my last .... in my last pack, smoked it, didn't enjoy it at all - and it was over.
My point is there are no rules to quitting with e-cigs. You get to figure out your own end game. Smoking while transitioning is not an automatic failure. As long as you have the desire and motivation to quit you can do it the way that works for you.
As soon as I charged up my battery, that was it, 4:30 pm 12/12/12. I smoked 1 to 2 packs a day for 35 years. I started with 18mg (still there but I can feel the need to go down a notch) and had some 24mg for bad cravings. I still have most of that and probably won't use it.
I wrote my quit date on the one unopened pack of cigs I had left. Still have it.
I wrote my quit date on the one unopened pack of cigs I had left. Still have it.
40 plus year smoker. Smoked whatever was on sale to save money. When I first started vaping I cut down to 5 - 7 a day probably within the first week or so, but from there it took a few months to drop the last few. The ones after meals and the first one in the morining were hardest to give up. The first one in the morning was the last one I gave up and it definitely was the hardest. I just got to where I only took a few draws and put it out and eventually it started to taste bad - now they smell bad also.
I slipped a couple of times - caught without a recharged battery once and another time I was just surrounded with heavy smokers everyday and bummed a few. That was over a year ago and have not touched one since... If I can do it your parents can. Bring them here and let them read some of the success stories... I procrastinated for over 8 months before I tried vaping... Wish I had started sooner...
I slipped a couple of times - caught without a recharged battery once and another time I was just surrounded with heavy smokers everyday and bummed a few. That was over a year ago and have not touched one since... If I can do it your parents can. Bring them here and let them read some of the success stories... I procrastinated for over 8 months before I tried vaping... Wish I had started sooner...
I tried many times over 21 years of smoking, many different ways and couldn't do it. My wife smoked almost as long. I took a couple drags off my PV the day I got it and said, yep I can do this. I crumpled up my smokes and threw them away right at that moment. The look on my wife's face was priceless. She said, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING! I thought we were doing this slowly." I told her to do whatever she wanted, but I was done. She threw hers away too. That was just over three years ago and we've been happy ever since. We've cheated a couple times to remind ourselves what it's like. We'll share an analog once or twice a year but we can't even finish it and it reinforces us. My wife's mother passed away last year way too early while in the hospital for a double lung transplant, reinforcing us even more. She smoked her whole life up until she was made to give it up cold turkey a couple years ago, which of course was too late. Congrats and good luck to you and your mother!
Received my first setup Dec 25, and haven't pic up a analog since. So 1 day ....
Pack a day smoker for the past 14 years. I quit 4 days after my first vape. Probably could have dropped them sooner because they tasted bad almost immediately but I chose to smoke 2-4 a day during unpleasant tasks like cleaning the litterbox. Double negative reinforcement? I couldn't make my way through the last pack I had on hand, so 10 cigarettes sit in a box on the table next to me every night.
40 year 3 pad smoker. Thing was, I never intended to quit...just cut down some. It took 3 days...but just 2-3 per day. For me it was truly shocking.
My wife took about a week, but only 3-4 per day and she was a 1 1/2 pad smoker.
My wife took about a week, but only 3-4 per day and she was a 1 1/2 pad smoker.
Well I never did plan to quit. My plan was to still smoke at work and vape in my car and at home. But the cigs. Started tasting more and more nasty so I just quit buying them. I wont ever go back cause I fell apart that first month but now I feel wonderful!
I smoked a PAD for 19 years and quit the day I got my very first vapemail, a V2 kit. I found the V2 lacking very quickly and moved up to eGo Twists within a couple of weeks. Gave my V2 kit to someone at work so he could get off the smokes.
Everyone is different. Some are lucky enough to quit right off the bat and others continue to smoke while vaping until they feel it is time to stop. The good news is every cig not smoked is a blessing.
Everyone is different. Some are lucky enough to quit right off the bat and others continue to smoke while vaping until they feel it is time to stop. The good news is every cig not smoked is a blessing.
I received my vape gear on 1/22/10 had my last analog that day, my gril friend did as well we had each smoked 30 plus years.- Status
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