How many of you still smoke analogs occasionally?

[ScarletAbby]

I just had one last nite, we were at the club and EVERYONE went outside... mind you, my eGO had died so I didn't feel guilty. If I had had my PV I would've used that instead. I liked it but I wasn't impressed nor upset I couldn't have anymore. I rarely play by the black/white rules, when I started vaping, I didn't said to myself "This is it, no more" I just kinda let it go, and so far it has been working. I vape about 2 ml a day, sometimes less and feel so great about it.

 

[JacobTX]

I haven't been able to smoke one. I tried one a couple of days after starting vaping and had to put it out. Tasted like a cat rubbed it's ... in an ash tray.

 

[Kitju]

I have 1 in the morning shortly after I get up. I am trying not to beat myself up too much over it because I have only been vaping again for 3 weeks.

 

[Mitey F]

I buy a pack of smokes (or more likely, an ounce of rolling tobacco) about every other week, and usually have about 1 smoke daily. There is no nic goo out there that tastes like a finely rolled cigarette with premium tobacco. Period.

 

[PaulB]

I'm kind of the same way. I've been vaping for 3+ years, but I've worked four cigarettes maximum into my daily nico-routine--two early morning and two late at night. And I guess it does boil down to "I'm old and I want to." I still like the taste of cigarettes and the smell of smoke. But this bit of smoking also works like a safety valve for me: If I were to burn out on vaping, I think my inevitable return to smoking would be less likely to accelerate back to my old level (1 - 1.5 pad). In fact, something like this did happen a couple months ago when I was quite ill for more than a week and, feeling self-indulgent, wanted to smoke more than vape. So I did. But I don't think I ever smoked more than eight in any of those days--first time I'd done that in more than two years. Back to my four now.

I've been vaping for 2 years. I used to smoke at least 2 1/2 pad. now I smoke 2 cigs a day. both at night before bed. because I am old and I want to
and I don't feel a bit guilty, not one little bit now if I were to crack and have more than 2, then I can't have any, so that keeps me on track

 

[Jman8]

I haven't been able to smoke one. I tried one a couple of days after starting vaping and had to put it out. Tasted like a cat rubbed it's ... in an ash tray.

You've actually tasted an ashtray that a cat rubbed it's....

Oh never mind. I don't want an answer to the question.

 

[GregoTX]

I smoke one or two when I'm out drinking with friends that smoke, but that's about it.

 

[Ryan1888]

Have been smoking analogs for the past day and a bit due to my Provari being stolen and I can say that, to me vaping is way more enjoyable and satisfying now.

 

[Rickajho]

You've actually tasted an ashtray that a cat rubbed it's....

Oh never mind. I don't want an answer to the question.

I wanna know how you managed to get the cat .... into the ash tray to begin with. I think way too much about these things. Stop bringing them up.

 

[padejash]

As a sufferer with extreme chronic pain, I used cigarettes as a crutch for many years. Before vaping I was close to a 3 PAD smoker. Since then, I now still have 2-3 analogs a day, usually when the pain gets extreme. Maybe I need those thousands of chemicals for a fix, or more likely, it's all in my head. I started out at 36mg now I vape at 12mg. I'm hoping to reach zero in a year or so and stop analogs completely, but I'm not forcing the issue. The best way to get me to do something is to tell me I can't. So if I'm told I have to quit analogs, I'll smoke more.

Quitting will come when I no longer want them and I want to, but reducing down from nearly 75 cigarettes a day to 2-3, I consider a major accomplishment.

 

[YoTone]

i smoked in the mornings for a first few months, now ive kicked that habit and been totally free of smokes for over a month.

its still an everyday battle with me though. i actually bought a few packs for my friends in nyc and it sat next to me the whole way. the temptation was still strong but i didnt give in. you just gotta get the routine of smoking out of your head.

since vaping gives us the nicotine, the hardest part is the mental aspect of it.

its not easy but at least the physical craving is gone.

 

[jhiga]

For me, it's a lot less than occasionally. The ONLY combustible I can stomach is awfully hard to get. Cheap as nails, but damn near impossible for me to obtain. Thus, I still have one combustible sitting in my glove box in my car for an extreme emergency. The pack was a gift from October or 2012.

 

[weisner]

Once in a while less than once a month, I will be spending time with a friend who still smokes and I'll have one. I am immediately reminded why I quit and feel bad when I apologize to that friend for wasting their supply of analogues. It has been 14 months since I bought my last cigarette pack. I feel better for it.

However I will not condone verbally or otherwise abusing analogue smokers. We where them once and we need to give them the same latitude we would have wanted. I always hated people that came at me with fake coughing and all that healthy living crap. As smokers we all knew all this stuff and being confronted didn't really help anything. .... ... bla bla bla .. I could go on but you all I assume know my point.

 

[AaronY]

I recently tried a hookah and an analog but after ecigs for two years I think my tastes buds have changed because those taste nasty to me.

 

[MeanDrunkR2D2]

2 months smoke free for me, and I'm never looking at having a stinkie ever again.. The smell absolutely disgusts me and I have no desire to ever cheat and go back.. Knowing that I can vape delicious flavors and not stink to high heaven is all the reason I need. Plus, they won't kill me with cancer or other diseases like a stinkie will.

 

[Davenkay]

Not me, bro! That is my biggest fear right now of failing and smoking one. I dream that I have taken a smoke and wake up and smell my fingers. No joke! It scares me to death that I will backslip.

 

[astounded]

Sometimes it is discouraging to not be one of those people who walked away from smoking immediately and never looked back, but one consolation is that as I realize that I can choose when/if I have a cigarette it feels like the addiction is losing its power over me ...

I guess because the tobacco addiction really meant there was never any choice as to when/if to have a cigarette, so as I transform to be OK with either choice it feels less like an addiction ... even actually HAVING a choice is such a change.

 

[mkbilbo]

Sometimes it is discouraging to not be one of those people who walked away from smoking immediately and never looked back, but one consolation is that as I realize that I can choose when/if I have a cigarette it feels like the addiction is losing its power over me ...

I guess because the tobacco addiction really meant there was never any choice as to when/if to have a cigarette, so as I transform to be OK with either choice it feels less like an addiction ... even actually HAVING a choice is such a change.

I've consciously chosen to not set any "goal" or such things. If I just can't resist a "real one", I do it. Stress always sent my smoking right up to "chain smoking" level. I'm the kind of idiot that could end up smoking because I'm stressed about smoking.

I know somebody that can pick them up and put them down. Smokes when visiting me and I would always find his pack sitting on the coffee table after he left. Me, making sure I had a pack and two lighters (gotta have a back up!) came ahead of wallet and keys. If I compared myself to him, I'd just give up. Nicotine has its hooks into me so bad, when money has been tight, I've felt the urge to rob a convenience store like a street druggie. Disturbing feeling that!

Everybody's different, the stuff affects everybody differently, "comparisons" don't work. We ain't all got the same brain chemistry.

Me, I'm making myself count what I've not smoked. Since getting my "starter" kit, I've not smoked almost two cartons. I did between a pack and a half to two packs a day depending on stress level and such stuff. I'd easily be at least half way into a second carton by now and maybe getting close to the end. Instead, yesterday, there were no cigs at all in the house until I finally broke down and bought one pack about 7 something in the evening and had two cigs.

You only gotta go back about two weeks and the idea of not having any cigs in the house would have me racing out the door to the store so fast, I could forget my pants.

 

[mmudder]

I started "really" vaping in the first week of February. I've tried letting myself run completely out of cigs and telling myself I won't buy more. That simply does not work for me. Knowing that I don't have any around and can't get any makes it 100Xs harder than if I keep some around. Now, I have a bag of tobacco and rolling tubes. I keep a pack rolled up and might smoke 5 per day, give or take. To me, that is quite an accomplishment considering the fact that I smoked a good 2 packs per day before. As time passes and my rebelling body becomes more accustomed to vaping instead of smoking, I am sure I'll smoke even less.

What I -have- found is that beating myself up for smoking around 5 real cigs per day will do nothing aside from harm my progress and self-esteem while working toward a goal. I plan to just take it as it comes, while keeping an end in mind. I'll take my time getting there instead of trying to rush.

This morning, I haven't even had my usual real cig and I've been up for 2 hours (Vaping some nice Double RY4-Hazelnut. Good stuff!). I'd say that's some real progress.