How often do you crave a cig?

[rokyo87]

When I am around smokers. Everytime. And then I have a cognitive dissonance. My thoughts goes like that:

"Look this smoker is very old and he smokes for decades and he is still alive. Will you be alive after decades of vaping?"

"It's better to smoke, we know that you can smoke for decades but we don't know if you can vape for decades..."

"It's known what smoke does to your lungs and we know that it take decades to cause major harm to lungs. What will PG and VG do to your lungs after 30 years?"

And so on.

I almost relapsed to smoking countless times but I still insist with vaping. It's hard when your minds wants to convince you that vaping is more dangerous than smoking.

 

[Skold]

Maybe, I didn't really guilt myself out about having the one. It was nasty but I enjoyed that cigarette.

Hoping I get to the point I don't have any cravings like others have posted. Have been thinking I might make up some stronger nic juice to have on hand in case I go through that again.

So glad for vaping. I know I would never have given up the cigs without it.

I actually find smoking enjoyable though, a lot of people on here seem to hate it!

 

[Just Me]

I actually find smoking enjoyable though, a lot of people on here seem to hate it!

I might or might not find it enjoyable, but I haven't been tempted to try since the first year I quit. I remember coughing up a lung all the time, and it stinks so much that I don't care to go back there. And it's expensive! I'll be four years off smoking next month--why would I want to mess that up?

 

[Riplea]

I don't think Skold was encouraging anyone to smoke again. I know I certainly wasn't.

 

[CMD-Ky]

After four years of exclusively vaping, my answer is now, "Never". But, I used both for six or seven months. Toward the end of that time I smoked two cigarettes each morning. One day I realized that I hadn't smoked for several days.

I was really surprised last night when I had an intense craving for a cig. It's been over 7 months that I've been vaping and I thought I was out of the woods. Am I alone here having these cravings so long after I've quit the stinkies?
How long have you been vaping and how often do you still crave cigs?

 

[ShannonA]

I was really surprised last night when I had an intense craving for a cig. It's been over 7 months that I've been vaping and I thought I was out of the woods. Am I alone here having these cravings so long after I've quit the stinkies?
How long have you been vaping and how often do you still crave cigs?

I haven't craved since day 4. Day 4 was hell. After I quit both I occasionally would have a mild urge to smoke if I was around it or maybe if I saw someone smoking on tv but it would quickly turn into wanting a vape. I missed vaping more so much so that I took it back up sans nicotine.

 

[John_Vonage]

I haven't had a real craving for a cig in a long time now. I've been strictly vaping for about 2 years. The only time I get a slight craving is when I see someone on TV smoking. For some reason it still gets to me, but then I vape and the craving disappears.

 

[Beamslider]

Over more than 40 years of smoking, I lost count of how many times I tried to quit them. Made it sometimes a day or two and even a week or two occasionally.

Have only been vaping for a little over 6 months. The first 4 or 5 days were bad for craving cigarettes. It wasn't the nicotine though as I was getting plenty from the vape. It may well have been addiction to all the nasty chemicals in cigarettes. But it was hard for a few days. Also addiction to the pattern of smoking. Have a cup of coffee crave a smoke, etc. I was able to satisfy at least partially during that time by chain vaping for 10 to 15 minutes when the urge for a smoke hit.

Took a good month and a half to stop craving or sometimes think about how nice it would be to have a smoke. Since then I don't have cravings for cigarettes. I have cut the nicotine level down to 6 mg now and am completely satisfied.

Not ever going back to that smelly nasty habit of smoking tobacco and no longer want a smoke.

 

[mountaingal]

Funny, how some of us see smoking on TV and have an urge to smoke. I have been vaping for 5 years and I still get the urge from TV smoking. Sometimes, when I smell cig smoke it smells wonderful and other times, YUCKY. I then just vape more and any urge passes. My health is more important to me. And I am a lot wealthier.

 

[anavidfan]

I crave one everytime I pass someone smoking a cigarette.
I see the smoker, and try my best not to make them feel like an "alien" or some sort of evil monster, I smile when I get the chance.

Then I take in a deep breath of the smoke and my mind goes "AH" how I miss that and how good it smells. ( YES, to me it smells good, always has )

Then I reminisce, I go down memory lane an think of all the wonderful times, my youth, when you could go to a good liquor store and buy a good pack of Shermans, or Dunhill if you were going somewhere special. When cigarettes were made of TOBACCO, real tobacco not filled with all sorts of additives and drugs, when they would burn so smoothly and last for a few minutes, not fizzle up and pop and burn you.

At first I would be tempted to just take a puff or two. But after vaping for a while, it always made me nauseous. RIght before I quit I noticed that my Marlboros were making me nauseous after every other one.
Cigarettes were just being filled with so much crap other than tobacco, it was making me sick, but I could not "just quit"

THe cig-alikes were my saviour. Dont think I could have quit with a "big ole ugly Provari" Yes, I hated them and all the large battery tubes. I did get over that and I love my Provari and all my mechs.

I still enjoy walking past a smoker, but now Im NOT tempted, because I know it will make me sick.

Is there cigarette scented incense ?

 

[DeAnna2112]

i still crave a cig, don't expect that to go away which is why i keep vaping, when i vape i am ok without a cig

 

[Brandon David]

Never. I'd get a random craving here and there for the first year after I switched. They mainly came when out drinking with friends and again for a short time after my mother passed.

The summer after she passed, my girlfriend, who wasn't local at the time, came into town to scout out houses and we went to the local tavern one evening. There is a court yard there with a stage where bands used to play on the weekends that would get a bit breezy and she was having troubles lighting up a smoke. I lit it for her (not due to temptation- I just remembered what it was like to frustratingly try to light up with no luck). It was vile. Like, disgustingly vile. I can still almost taste it after this long. It didn't have the burning tobacco taste I remembered. It quite literally tasted like a stale ashtray smells.

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[ChelsB]

I crave one everytime I pass someone smoking a cigarette.
I see the smoker, and try my best not to make them feel like an "alien" or some sort of evil monster, I smile when I get the chance.

Then I take in a deep breath of the smoke and my mind goes "AH" how I miss that and how good it smells. ( YES, to me it smells good, always has )

Then I reminisce, I go down memory lane an think of all the wonderful times, my youth, when you could go to a good liquor store and buy a good pack of Shermans, or Dunhill if you were going somewhere special. When cigarettes were made of TOBACCO, real tobacco not filled with all sorts of additives and drugs, when they would burn so smoothly and last for a few minutes, not fizzle up and pop and burn you.

At first I would be tempted to just take a puff or two. But after vaping for a while, it always made me nauseous. RIght before I quit I noticed that my Marlboros were making me nauseous after every other one.
Cigarettes were just being filled with so much crap other than tobacco, it was making me sick, but I could not "just quit"

THe cig-alikes were my saviour. Dont think I could have quit with a "big ole ugly Provari" Yes, I hated them and all the large battery tubes. I did get over that and I love my Provari and all my mechs.

I still enjoy walking past a smoker, but now Im NOT tempted, because I know it will make me sick.

Is there cigarette scented incense ?

Lol! Cigarette incense, that's a first! You may actually be on to something!

 

[WillieB69]

I could say "never" but I have had to resort to them as a drastic measure when major malfunctions have occurred with my gear or I was an idiot and forgot my vape elsewhere.

 

[Skold]

I might or might not find it enjoyable, but I haven't been tempted to try since the first year I quit. I remember coughing up a lung all the time, and it stinks so much that I don't care to go back there. And it's expensive! I'll be four years off smoking next month--why would I want to mess that up?

You wouldn't an should be proud, 4 years is a long time !

 

[Skold]

Never. I'd get a random craving here and there for the first year after I switched. They mainly came when out drinking with friends and again for a short time after my mother passed.

The summer after she passed, my girlfriend, who wasn't local at the time, came into town to scout out houses and we went to the local tavern one evening. There is a court yard there with a stage where bands used to play on the weekends that would get a bit breezy and she was having troubles lighting up a smoke. I lit it for her (not due to temptation- I just remembered what it was like to frustratingly try to light up with no luck). It was vile. Like, disgustingly vile. I can still almost taste it after this long. It didn't have the burning tobacco taste I remembered. It quite literally tasted like a stale ashtray smells.

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I don't find it vile an if people smoked anyway can't hate it that much can they?

 

[ShannonA]

i'm new in vaping, is it really sticky?

It depends on the person, for me I walked from smoking to vaping VERY easily, this forum helping me every step of the way. I had given up on ever quitting and then all of a sudden it was as easy as falling off a log. It's been 6 years now.

The only rough day was day 4. That day was horrible no matter what I did nothing satisfied. the next day I was over it and never looked back. However, I've known some people both in the forum and in rl that never managed to make the switch stick.

 

[ChelsB]

i'm new in vaping, is it really sticky?

Not sure what you mean about sticky?
Congrats on switching to vaping!

 

[Craybee]

it's been almost exactly four years since i switched to vaping and had my last cigarette so, no i don't crave them anymore.

it was rough in the beginning though because i missed the nicotine "rush" i'd get from that first ciggie of the morning. that was actually one of my first posts here at this forum and i remember someone replied that the "rush" had more to do with the carbon monoxide in cigarettes restricting oxygen to my brain than nicotine. after i read that it made me even more determined to stick to vaping.

 

[EIHYPI]

I've been vaping for 3+ years and thank God the idea of smoking a cigarette now is very alien to me. I don't think that I would smoke a cigarette even if I don't have my vape gear with me which is usually never.