I've quit analogs the day I started vaping and don't ever go back to that horrible addiction. I had crazy cravings first couple of weeks but now, 4 month later, I could care less if someone is blowing smoke in my face. As a smoker, however, I was always envious of the people who were social smokers, people that can have one or more analogs a night and not smoke for months after type of thing. My question to all of you is how soon is too soon to have that one analog to see if you'd still enjoy it, to know if you completely kicked the habit, to find out if you are ready to say yes to one without intention of ever going back to the addiction itself.
How soon is too soon?
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I think I quit smoking for about 8 months before I had a cigarette. I realized I'm no longer a smoker, although I have a few a couple times a year...
I was quit from smoking for nearly 4 months when I had my relapse. Supposedly a cigarette would taste awful after that long smoke-free, but it tasted like... home. Took me a month to get back to smoke-free after that; I highly don't recommend it. Much easier to STAY smoke-free than GET smoke-free.
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I smoked about half a cigarette 1 month or so after I started vaping. I was just curious, and I have no intention or desire to smoke again. If PV's and the way I get my 'nic fix' now become unavailable to me, I'll just have to learn to cope.. Patches, gum, pills, or cigarettes themselves are not in the picture.
In 4-1/2 years I have never gotten curious. I can still remember the taste of my last cig. That's enough for me. It's hard for me to understand this trying one for curiosity's sake thing.
I cannot smoke a cigarette because it would take away my time and happiness that I enjoy vaping..........
Not sure why you would ever want to do that but a few former vapers I know tried smoking a cig now and then and have gone back to smoking full time. I honestly believe the addiction to cigarettes is much stronger than it ever is to vaping, 4+ years of strictly vaping now and still having that occasional crave to smoke tells me that. I would just be thrilled you have been able to stop smoking, as so many can not, and never look back! 
I have no desire to smoke "right now". I know for myself I'm no where ready to play with analogs (like I started to in high school that got me here). I just feel like I haven't beat the addiction itself unless I can enjoy an analog and not be sucked in to the whole thing over again. I might be wrong though, it could be a life long thing.
I didn't try an analog until my 3 month mark of vaping. It was truly nasty. Haven't had one since...
Another point to consider, which I've experienced personally, and have heard others experience something very similar. It took me about a month the first time, and I really didn't find it difficult at all, and had zero cravings. But the 2nd time.. oh mama. It took me a month to talk myself into quitting again, a really concerted effort... and 10 days later, the bad cravings that caused the relapse in the first place came back, and required WTA to dismiss. It's easy to think, well I did it once, I can do it again, and maybe you can, I did, and others have too -- but the 2nd time is NEVER as easy as the first.
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My dad quit cold turkey 2 years ago after 30+ years of smoking, he'd smoke with me during family gatherings and parties, but only that. Since I've quit, my dad hadn't had one analog. I feel like some people replying to this thread are scared to death of one, which I understand, I just feel like beating an addiction for myself should mean more then complete abstinence..
This is what happened to me as well. I lost my wife to cancer last year and started to have a few here and there. I quit again, only to go back, and quit, and start and quit, and start again, and now I'm trying to stop again. When I'm using analogs I don't smoke anywhere near what I did before I started vaping. Usually between 2-5 a day, but now, here I am, trying to completely quit them again and it does seem to get harder every time. My advice for the OP is do yourself a favor, don't take the risk. It isn't worth it.
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