How to deal with this ?

[ACQPL]

Eyup all you lovely lot of the ECF community

What do you guys do when you have a bit of a downer day and could really murder a rollup from the shop down the road..
Don't get me wrong a LOVE vaping, but I could really do with a ciggy right now

Chain vaping for England at the moment but i'll run out of juice if i keep this up !

 

[Sugar_and_Spice]

Sorry you are having a bad day. Find some other stress relievers? Gotta tell ya, after 106 days(according to your signature) without a ciggy, if you do light one up, it WILL taste like CRAP!!!! But if ya gotta, ya gotta. Just don't kick yourself too hard and I will refrain from saying 'I told ya so' LOL

 

[Purplepeeps]

Take up a hobby that allows you to tinker and vape at the same time!

Hang in there, it will pass!

 

[Hypatia]

Sad to hear you're having a crap day . I always keep a tiny bottle of some of my very favorite flavor in a "extra high" nic level for the bad days. For me, that's just 24mg, but I've seen people keep a 36mg/ml bottle on hand for "emergencies." But, even if you've given in and had a ciggy or two, DON'T beat yourself up over it, either. It's not the ones you smoke that count; it's the ones you didn't.

 

[Sthur]

Keep your head up, find a dripper or rda and build some coils and make some clouds. We're here with you and been in the same boat.

 

[Fisheeboy]

I get that sometimes. Infact that's happened to me a few times just in the last couple days. Not that I'm feeling down, cause I'm not. It's actually being around someone that has that freshly lit cig and it smells so invitingly good. I have gotten very close to asking for one or taking a puff from my brother's while he's smoking but I remind myself of the last time I did that and how gross it tasted and was nothing like I had hoped it would be. And how that taste stayed in my mouth for several hours, bleh!. I take several vapor puffs back to back and feel much better. However, that seems to not be quite working for you from what it sounds like. I believe if you push through you will eventually feel better. This cravings come and go for me. If you do light one up I think you're gonna think it was nasty. But if you do don't beat yourself up over it. Sometimes we have to go back to something to be reminding why we left it. Least I do.
But I say push yourself as best you can to stay away from lighting up. Good luck buddy, I hope you get to feeling better very soon.

 

[Buggainok]

You know, sometimes I think I'm all grown up, because I am, after all, a grandma. Then my grandkids come over, and I watch them want to snack a lot while they are here. I sometimes tell them, you're not hungry, you just want to eat because you are bored with what you're doing.

I find that I'm that way sometimes. I might be having a bad day, or just bored, or thinking too much, and I want "something" but don't know quite what it is.

I do know this: a cigarette will not really fix what's wrong, so I vape on.

Hope your spirits improve soon.

 

[The Ministry]

Eyup all you lovely lot of the ECF community

What do you guys do when you have a bit of a downer day and could really murder a rollup from the shop down the road..
Don't get me wrong a LOVE vaping, but I could really do with a ciggy right now

Chain vaping for England at the moment but i'll run out of juice if i keep this up !

We have all felt this at some point. Today, I had the brother in law over who needs to move in due to agro with his significant other. Had his kids in tow. He was screaming at her on the phone, kids were all upset, I'm rushing around making cups of tea and my other half rolls a ciggie.

Talk about temptation.

I vaped, and vaped hard, and it passed.

Life throws plenty of curve balls, I cope by vaping harder truth told. A ciggie would not have made me feel better, and wouldn't have lowered the stress levels, nor fixed a damn thing.

It's hard though, granted.

Stick to your guns fella

 

[ACQPL]

Thank-you all for your advice, and for your comments ! It means a lot to me, and mercifully the "phase" has now passed ! I didn't get any smokes, and I didn't smoke a ciggie ! Mind you I don't need a smoke machine
I may or may not have just made about 30 coils for my RBA *whistles* oops..

Again - Thank-you all !

 

[mcol]

Congrats! There will be tough days and easy days.

 

[The Ministry]

Well done mate. Proud of ya

 

[Buggainok]

Good for you! Glad you made it to the other side of your mood.

 

[Anjaffm]

Well done!

What is helpful for me in such situations is a nice sweet-cigar flavored liquid (e.g. a strong tasting tobacco liquid mixed with caramel or vanilla liquid in the tank). With a decent nicotine content. - That is just like smoking a sweet flavored small cigar - but without the smoke.

Heck, I had been a 100% vaper for 2 years last November. One November evening I sat down with my PV and a glass of red wine and read a magazine. It had an article about Cuba. And the production of cigars. All of a sudden, my taste buds screamed for tobacco flavor. For the flavor of my formerly beloved small sweet-flavored cigars. As in: NOW!

-Well, try reasoning with your taste buds. You might as well try reasoning with a two-year-old who is throwing a tantrum
So I made myself a nice cigar- and caramel liquid mixture - vaped it - and was 100% satisfied.

As vapers, we can have anything we want. Anything we desire. Every flavor that we want, feel we need, are accustomed to. And any flavor that our taste buds desire. But without the smoke as such. Aren't we lucky?

 

[Hypatia]

Take up a hobby that allows you to tinker and vape at the same time!

Hang in there, it will pass!

You mean a hobby...like rebuilding for more vaping? That's what I do!

Thank-you all for your advice, and for your comments ! It means a lot to me, and mercifully the "phase" has now passed ! I didn't get any smokes, and I didn't smoke a ciggie ! Mind you I don't need a smoke machine
I may or may not have just made about 30 coils for my RBA *whistles* oops..

Again - Thank-you all !

^^Like this. Glad you made it through the day! Cheers

 

[alisa1970]

Glad to hear you moved past it successfully!

Prior to my final cig, I wouldn't vape more, or higher nic, because for me it never worked. Actually, I really did just smoke. I knew that for me, having that one didn't lead to wanting more and I'd have the one, feel better, then vape again. This happened several times over a 6 month period (hence my sig), until one day the cig didn't satisfy--at ALL. Sure they always tasted bad and left me feeling yukky physically but mentally/emotionally they did the trick.

When any satisfaction stopped happening, I had that last smoke, and honestly--I haven't had a craving since. I've had a LOT of stressors in that time and not once have I even thought of having one. If a passing thought comes, it's really just that--passing. Sure, it took me 6 months to completely drop even just the occasional one, but for me the lack of stress over it made it that much easier.

I do keep a can of Swedish Snus on me because once in a while I need something "extra", but a 24 pack lasts me at least a month. I will likely eventually drop that too, although I know that the harm in using that is about the same as the e-cigs.

Whatever works for you, works. I didn't have to be 100% free at all costs from cigs in order to eventually not want any. I'm glad that you found your way through it as well.

 

[Bigflyrodder]

Woohoooo....VICTORY! Good on ya!

 

[RedVelvet]

Good job! I think we all have to acquire some new/additional coping mechanisms now. Goes w/the territory. Cigs served so many functions for so long.

 

[HauntedMyst]

What do you guys do when you have a bit of a downer day and could really murder a rollup from the shop down the road..

I've had those bummer days and the one thing that will really put a smile on your face....Nun Bombing. I live near a Convent and when I'm feeling down, I'll set up the water balloon sling shot and fill up some water balloons with ketchup, different types of salad dressings like ranch or french, house paint, fake blood, itching powder, etc and then pick them off one by one as they come out. The great thing about Nun Bombing is they can't get mad at you and they have to forgive you! Sister Mary Catherine and Sister Catherine Mary are twins and it's awesome when you can hit them both in a row with Oil & Vinegar and a make Nun Salad. Some times if you are lucky, a bunch will come out and you can see how many you can take out with one shot - that's called Nun Bowling.


Once when I was out of water balloons, I put on my Police Officer stripper costume and walked in with my boom box into one of their birthday parties and started talking it all off and dancing. I thought they'd call the cops but they ended up really enjoying the show and I made $600 in tips and got a few phone numbers.

 

[alisa1970]

^^^^ So I liked this, and then I unliked it, cuz I didn't want anyone to think I was irreligious. And I'm not, but I still like your sense of humor.

 

[CalamityJess]

Sorry you had a bad day! I find these moments bad or good days. Today for example I hit a trigger I'd forgotten about over the winter. Mr Jess and I went out on the Harley for a ride. Now I never smoked on the back, it's nearly impossible so that wasn't a problem. But when we stopped it hit me. we weren't stopped long enough to really connect the dots for me. When we got home though, the first thing we ALWAYS did was light up. He still does. I...felt lost. Like I was missing something. I finally realized it was that habit sneaking up on me.

I made it though, I grabbed my mod with my only tobacco type juice (The Virus from Nicoticket) and took a nice long drag. Felt so right that I joined my husband in the garage while he smoked.

I also learned that I can vape on the bike at my leisure and I LOVE that.