How soon is too soon?
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I believe it's a lifelong thing. My mom who stopped smoking over 30 years ago (following a massive heart attack) says she still gets cravings to smoke and has dreams she is smoking every now and then.
My experience was I was able to stop smoking the first day I started vaping, I was determined to stop smoking after 30++ years. For the first 2+ years I had no desire to smoke, the smell of someone smoking actually made me gag and if I breathed in any cig smoke that was in the air it made me feel like my throat was closing up and I couldn't breathe (most of my friends and a lot of my family smokes) After that first 2+ years that all stopped though, not sure why, but cig smoke actually started smelling good to me again and I started getting cravings to smoke every once in awhile and honestly I wish it still made me gag and choke to smell it! lol
it depends very much on the substance, the individual, and that individual's response to that substance. I'm an alcoholic, I can't drink alcohol -- but I can, when necessary, take a narcotic pain killer without endangering my sobriety, because narcotics don't make me lose my mind; when the pain's gone, I'm done with it; in fact, usually before the pain's gone, because I don't like the side effects.
Keep in mind that cigarettes aren't like alcohol, to which some 10% of the population either is or may become addicted to, and the other 90%, not so much; cigarettes are *engineered* to be as addictive as possible, as quickly as possible, to the greatest possible number of types of people. That's why quitting is sooooo hard. Getting free of cigarettes by *any* means is quite an achievement, and you should be proud of that, not seek to undermine it.
Andria
Back over 2 years ago, when I started vaping, after about a month and my sense of smell improved, I would walk by the smokers and realized how bad it smelled. I have no desire to go back. I'm also at 6mg now so there is not much of a craving now. Just something to do.
I also just use vanilla (10% Holy vanilla with a drop of caramel per 10ml ) do I don't smell either, or my car.
I also just use vanilla (10% Holy vanilla with a drop of caramel per 10ml ) do I don't smell either, or my car.
I smoked for 55 years, and like a lot of folks here, tried numerous times to quit using numerous methods, and failed. I had resigned myself to the fact that my dying breath would be while inhaling smoke from my cig. When e-cigs came along, I jumped on it, and all of a sudden quitting smoking was so much easier even with the e-cigs available 4-1/2 years ago, and it's only gotten better. A twinge here, and there for a few weeks, but nothing me and my e-cig couldn't handle. There is no way in H*** I'm gonna take a chance and jeopardize where I'm at now for the sake of "curiosity".
I'm not going to try it. I think I could relapse.
I started vaping at the end of February. I had 13 cigs left in a pack. I put the pack away in my closet instead of throwing them away. I think it was a peace of mind to know they were there just in case the vaping didn't work. 30 days into vaping I took the 13 cigs out of the closet. Lit one up to see what I had missed. It tasted nasty, horrible and after three hits on it, I put it out. An hour later I lit another one up, did three hits on it and put it out, took the rest of the pack that was left and threw them in the trash and never looked back. There have been times when I have thought of a cig, but not so much anymore. I'm down to 4mg nic on my Nauti's and 2mg nic in my Sub tank. I will never smoke a cig again. I can be around smokers and there is no urge to have one.
I don't think it works this way.
I did try a cigarette about 2 years into vaping. Other than it was extremely nasty, my one huge disappointment was that I was still "able" to inhale the smoke.
That kinda bothered me. Because, when I had quit COLD TURKEY (this was years before vaping existed) for 5 years, I picked up a cigarette and was UNABLE to inhale it at all. I coughed my brains out.
So, I do wonder a bit about vaping providing me with the ability to inhale stuff into my lungs, versus my experience with NOT inhaling anything into my lungs (during that 5 year hiatus). In this sense, there is something about vaping that still allows "habituation" of inhaling something into lungs which leads me to believe that my lungs are not as virgin as they were during that 5 years i wasn't smoking at all?
I got the super urge to lite a cig about a month ago and bought a pack of my old brand. About 2 drags through the 1st one I felt sick, I gave the other 19 cigs to a poor old guy outside my con. store and suggested He try an Ecig vs the tabbky. Saw the same guy with a blu cig a week later. I suggested a E-twist and maybe I can help him along more later. I'll damn sure offer to get him a refill anda new coil then another cig. Hell I'll buy him a vape rig if it comes to that. His grandkids will thank me.
I have been vaping 3 years and the other day I dug out my old cig alike to play with....the simple act of holding it and using it felt so foreign to me! Considering I smoked for over 20 years I thought that was funny. Didn't feel natural at all!
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i've had a few cigarettes in the last few years and from my experience having one makes you feel like having another. don't do it it's not worth it.
Everyone is different. You can't get your answer from us. Only within yourself.
Personally I hope never to tempt fate again. Or have to change my sig line. The surest way to stay quit is to never smoke another one. The KISS method. 100% guaranteed success rate.
Personally I hope never to tempt fate again. Or have to change my sig line. The surest way to stay quit is to never smoke another one. The KISS method. 100% guaranteed success rate.
I'd say it's not so much a matter of time as a matter of options.
If you only vape on egos and have no backups then it's probably too soon.
If you have several tanks, and rda's and mods and have liquids available that you like then you're probably pretty secure.
I tried one 3 months after I switched to vaping - I just had to know. I had smoked for 40+ years. I barely made it through 2 puffs, couldn't believe how disgusting it was, and couldn't wait to brush my teeth. Everyone is different, though. But for me, that was the day I knew I was free.
I think I fall into this camp - I can see 1 becoming 2, 2 becoming 3 etc etc. I feel I have achieved so much in giving up smoking and don't want to jeopardize that. Also my husband would be soooo disappointed and he's supported me all the way with vaping
I think I fall into this camp - I can see 1 becoming 2, 2 becoming 3 etc etc. I feel I have achieved so much in giving up smoking and don't want to jeopardize that. Also my husband would be soooo disappointed and he's supported me all the way with vaping
That's the thing... once you open the door... suddenly it's very easy to allow yourself to smoke; for me, it took exactly 3 days before I was back to pack+ a day.
If you don't open the door, it stays easy to tell yourself "I'm not going to smoke." Open the door, and all bets are off.
Andria
If having a cig is what you think you ought to do then Do It.
I've not had or wanted a cig since I started vaping (over 2 years ago). I was a 43 year PAD smoker that actually gave away three and a half cartons of cigs when I quit.
Do I even care what a cig might taste/feel like? Hell No!
My only question to you would be, Are You Committed To Quitting Smoking Or Not?
I've not had or wanted a cig since I started vaping (over 2 years ago). I was a 43 year PAD smoker that actually gave away three and a half cartons of cigs when I quit.
Do I even care what a cig might taste/feel like? Hell No!
My only question to you would be, Are You Committed To Quitting Smoking Or Not?
No cravings: why bother
Cravings: put it off as long as you're able, then don't beat yourself up over a relapse
Cravings: put it off as long as you're able, then don't beat yourself up over a relapse
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