How real is your cigarette cessation?

[ZoSo823]

I was a full time vaper for a while, from 2009 to 2012, having the odd ciggie here and there.

I had gone to full time smoking again, since then.

Now I've started vaping again, and plan on quitting analogs again for good this time, starting today (Will be quitting Sunday, at 10AM)

It is currently 4:33AM now on sunday. (in Australia)

Wish me luck again, although I think its going to be as easy as the last time to quit smoking 35 ciggies a bloomin day!!!

I think I might need some support this time more than last.

Going to try and keep my signature (quit cigarettes) growing day by day as I vape myself to freedom!!

Good Luck!

 

[yzer]

I am another 35-year smoker. Luckily, I did not develop COPD and had a good recovery. My last cigarette was in April of 2012. I have no desire to smoke again. As far as I can tell I will not smoke again.

 

[TanukiXL]

My issue wasn't quitting cigarettes but quitting chew. Stopped the day I picked up my first ego pen with no problems. Got my office mate into it and things were going great until management told us that the policy was to treat it as smoking and we could no longer vape while we worked. I went back to using SNUS for a few days then said .... it. Now I stealth vape, track when the manager is out, and go out for breaks when I really need to. I try to find work juice that doesn't leave an odor in the air. (The boss noticed our roomed always smelled of tootsie rolls and vanilla.)


May the force be with you,

Tanuki

 

[Australe]

That is why I'm on my second week vaping and currently have over 100ml in my stash (not counting my husband's juice). Today is day 10 since my last analog and to be honest I'm a little afraid of having something happen to stop me from vaping for a few days and backslide. I will NEVER run out of juice and here pretty quick I won't have to worry about not having a backup

 

[Ld3441]

I have got my mix to the point where I can vape the whole tank and my battery terminal would still be dry. Huge, when it comes to protanks. All the juice I bought from vendors have either leaked into my battery cuz they were too thin or would barely vape for being too thick.

With DIY, you are the tailor and you are tailoring for yourself. You just get better.

No more juice issue,

Congratulations!!

I remember my first few weeks vaping, getting low on juice and running to my closest B&M only to discover they were out of MY juice. YIKES! Like you, I had a hard time finding premixed juices I liked. I am also into DIY now and love that I can make what I want. No more worries.

 

[amoret]

Now when I first saw this thread I would have said that I'd go back to smoking analogs in an instant if it wasn't so inconvenient. (For me buying on the internet was way easier than going to town for smokes.) But last week our house caught fire, and I ended up in a motel in town, and while I had my pvs and some liquid I didn't have my favorite flavor. So I would have thought that I'd run out and buy a pack right away.

Much to my surprise I haven't been tempted. Now part of that might be not wanting to stand outside in the cold to smoke, but mostly it's been that I now prefer vaping. Who would have thunk it.

 

[Rancor0681]

Now when I first saw this thread I would have said that I'd go back to smoking analogs in an instant if it wasn't so inconvenient. (For me buying on the internet was way easier than going to town for smokes.) But last week our house caught fire, and I ended up in a motel in town, and while I had my pvs and some liquid I didn't have my favorite flavor. So I would have thought that I'd run out and buy a pack right away.

Much to my surprise I haven't been tempted. Now part of that might be not wanting to stand outside in the cold to smoke, but mostly it's been that I now prefer vaping. Who would have thunk it.

Sorry to hear about the fire man. That stuff sucks big time

 

[grandmato5]

My smoking cessation is complete. Will never smoke a cigarette ever again. BUT I've been vaping for over 3 years so I've had a long time to get to this point. Even a year after I quit smoking and after loosing my addiction to nicotine four months into vaping I didn't think I'd ever smoke again, but I couldn't have guaranteed it wouldn't happen. Two years into vaping I was more assured I'd never smoke again, but still would have been hesitant to say the word NEVER, because stuff happens sometimes. There's a lot of people out there that quit smoking cold turkey that returned to smoking several years later. Now I have every confidence that I can use the word NEVER without any doubts. There is absolutely no draw what-so-ever to ever having another cigarette

 

[DummyMe]

It's been a couple of years of ecigs for me & I KNOW I'll never go back to the 45 years I smoked. I hope I never run out of juice that I like or at least tolerate!

 

[WileECoyote]

Well...can you ever really quit? I know people who quit smoking over a decade ago, who are still afraid of smoking a single cigarette, because they know they'll be right back where they were when they quit. I know people who quit for years, and did just that. They all say the cravings go away, but they're always there, lurking under the surface.

They say smoking is like alcoholism. You never quit, you are just in between the last one and the next one. My job is to make sure I never have that next one. It is a damn shame something so addictive is legal to purchase... SHM

 

[Rossum]

It is a damn shame something so addictive is legal to purchase... SHM

Are you suggesting it should be illegal to purchase or sell tobacco?

 

[iamzg]

The day I bought my first ego starter kit I quit smoking and haven't picked one up since. Order a bunch of different flavors from a bunch of different to try things out. The things you like but don't want to be your ADV or even an EDV, keep around for situations like this. Sometimes, too, I've found I outgrow a taste. When I first started I was all about honey cured tobacco and now it almost makes me physically ill.

Keep up the good fight

 

[Jay-dub]

The instant I tried vaping I knew it would in no way be a cessation tool for me. It was at Green Smoke and the location was heavily promoting it as such. I told them flat out that I don't see how that could apply in my case. The flavors were yummy, and despite evolving into a 100% VG user, I find the vapor to be more fulfilling than smoke. Being since nicotine is no worse to inhale than the polluted air we breathe, I really don't care about cessation either. Maybe next round I'll up my nic from 24 to the 30's or 40's.

Sorry if that comes across as snide. I just like how vaping delivers my nicotine so now I'm chasing the dragon.

 

[RosaJ]

I haven't smoked in 2 years. Always made sure I had eliquid at hand, even learned to diy in case I ran out of the pre-mixed flavors I like. I would rather vape 0nic with vg diluted with distilled water than light up a cigarette. You can buy vg (USP grade Glycerine) at CVS for less than $5 and a gallon of distilled water is less than $1.

You'll be surprised that it's not a bad tasting experience. It's subtly sweet.

 

[cocoloco]

Two years ago (see my banner, below), my wife and I decided to quit analogs and vape instead. Neither of us have touched an analog since. She likes pre-filled cartomizers (16mg nicotine content) that I flush and re-fill (also 16mg) and re-use with my favorite juice ($2.70/Oz).

I keep a one-year supply of my liquid in the freezer in opaque glass bottles. These are not to be touched. I keep a two or three month supply available for my daily needs. When that threatens to run out, I reorder and leave my freezer supply alone.

Alternatively, and since my wife prefers the pre-fills, (those come wrapped in cellophane and in a wrapped box) her one-year supply is in the drawer. Like with my day-to-day supply. I keep tabs of when she needs re-stocking. I order those for her so she doesn't have to dip into her one-year stash.

Like I said, I flush and re-fill her spent cartomizers with juice for me. As a result, I have an ample supply of cartomizers threatening to exceed 800 in number and growing.

We have three chargers in service and another three in a drawer for a rainy day. Likewise, we keep a 12-battery reserve in their original boxes. For the cars (2), we have feed-throughs in each along with a few disposables for the glove compartments.

This system works very well for us. Unless vaping gets declared against the law or taxed to the hilt (like the FDA would want) or the industry goes belly-up, we don't foresee a problem with vaping supplies. Of course, if the impossible happens, then we have one year to wean ourselves and quit nicotine entirely.

The one thing we will never do is go back to smoking. That was the original goal, and no amount of governmental or societal interference will change that. If the OP is truly committed to quitting cigarettes, then none of this is news and he/she will come up with a system that works effectively.

 

[Baldr]

Well...can you ever really quit? I know people who quit smoking over a decade ago, who are still afraid of smoking a single cigarette, because they know they'll be right back where they were when they quit. I know people who quit for years, and did just that. They all say the cravings go away, but they're always there, lurking under the surface.

I was a 3PPD smoker, and smoked for decades. I'm not even a little bit tempted to go back to smoking. I've been off the cigs for over 2 years. (Date in my sig-line.)

Once I got off the cigs, I would have some small "I'd like a cig" feelings, nothing major, from time to time, for about six months. Then one night, I left the house without my PV, and was a long way across town before I realized it. I still had an unopened pack of cigs in my truck, and that night, due to not having my PV, I opened those and smoked 3 or 4 of them. But I hated them. They were just plain nasty. I was honestly shocked, even though I'd been told "Once you've been vaping awhile, you'll hate cigs".

When I got home later that night, a friend was here, and I bummed a cig. The pack I'd had in my car had been there for at least six months, mostly during summer heat, so I figured it was pretty stale. I bummed one from him so I could try a fresh one. It was just as bad. I couldn't even convince myself to finish it, now that I had my PV (and therefore, nicotine) available.

Since then, on the (very few) occasions I've even briefly thought about having a cig, I just remember how bad that last one tasted.

In the meantime, I've cut down on nicotine, slowly, and now I'm nic free.

I'm sure that I'll never be a smoker again.

For anyone who is having trouble getting off the cigs, my advice is that it's OK to smoke a few here and there, just keep your goal in mind. Count the ones you *don't* smoke, not the ones you do. And get the right juice. If you don't have enough nic, or if you have too much nic, or if you don't like the flavor, then it's not going to work as well. If nothing else seems to be working, check into WTA juice. I have never tried it, but that's the trick for some people. (For me, I simply needed a higher nic level than I started with, and once I raised the nic, it was easy.)

One last piece of advice - you need backups for everything. You need more than one tank, and you need replacement atomizers for your tanks. You need more than one battery, and you can't run out of juice, and you need a back-up charger, and you need another charger designed to plug into a cars cig-lighter outlet because who know, a storm could knock out your electricity for a couple of days. With smoking, pretty much any grocery store or gas station would sell cigarettes, so they were easily available 24 hours a day. With vaping, at least in most places, it's not that easy, and if you lose your PV, or your only charger quits working, you'll be tempted to pick up a pack of cigs. (I go out dancing a lot, and I leave my PV sitting on my table while I dance. But I have a backup PV in the truck, just in case someone walks off with it. An extra battery, tank, juice, everything I might need if the whole darn thing disappears is in my "vaping purse" in the truck.)

 

[cocoloco]

I'm hoping we are no different than most people. Speaking for myself (I don't have my wife's permission to speak for her), I have never had the urge or inclination to go back to analogs. My only pre-conditions were that vaping feel like I was smoking (throat hit) and that the craving go away. The minute I vaped for the first time, I knew this was it.

I finished the few packs of analogs we had left and have never had the urge to smoke again... no more trips to the garage. The reasonable one in me realizes that nicotine still has a grip on me, but my lungs no longer have to suffer for it.

I've been vaping for two years.

 

[Grimmda]

Good point.

I think higher pg juices have the throat hit as we'll. my 70/pg30vg juices really have that feeling my first few hits, if I chain vape not so much.


Kanger mpt2, Aspire Nautilus, burn with iTaste MVP2 and some Evod vv's. I prefer darker heavy flavors.

 

[cbrite]

Well...can you ever really quit? I know people who quit smoking over a decade ago, who are still afraid of smoking a single cigarette, because they know they'll be right back where they were when they quit. I know people who quit for years, and did just that. They all say the cravings go away, but they're always there, lurking under the surface.

Way back in the 80s, I went through a smoking cessation course (worked for a while) and the motto there was You're one cig away from a pack a day. Seriously the truth. I have quit--for months and even years--and with that ONE cigarette that I just had to have because of stress or with a drink or whatever I was back to smoking full time again. I am not yet ready to say this e-cig thing is the answer to all things smoking related since it has only been 15 days, BUT for the first time I think it is something that will see me through any and everything without grabbing that first smoke.

 

[DancingHeretik]

I can't say absolutely I would never smoke again. But, I can say that I will never smoke again as long as I can vape instead.