how's your energy level with e-cigs?

[nicv827]

Maybe its just me, but has anyone else had their energy level go through the roof while quitting smoking and moving to the e-cigs?

I'm high energy to start with but I'm just noticing this extra burst of energy - almost lightness. I don't know if its a mental thing or what, but i like it!
My boyfriend said the same thing. Rob (the b.f) noticed as well that if he goes all day without smoking an analogue and then smokes even a little of one at night he feels like junk.

I was just wondering if anyone else feels the same. Do you think its purely psychological or do you think that there is some biological merit to this? I mean, if i'm not smoking a real cig, then i'm not putting those 4000+ chemical into my body - right? So that right there has to at least make someone feel better.

I'm just curious, feel free to share other things that you've noticed as well.

 

[Sarlen]

I also experienced an increase in energy level but not as significant as yours appears to be. I noticed I was not near as tired by my normal bed time after just a few weeks off of analogs, I now have to get up about an hour earlier then I normally do so I can go to bed at my regular time.

 

[Poeia]

The sudden drop when you haven't had a cigarette for a while is probably due to oxygen deprivation. Your system is happily puttering along and you shove a whole bunch of carbon monoxide in.

When I started vaping I had two speeds -- falling asleep on my feet and "no one else wanted to get a word in edgewise, did they?" Part of that is learning what the right nicotine level for you is. I'm vaping more than I did but at a much lower nicotine level. It seems to be about right for me.

 

[cliff5550]

When I began vaping last July I used my riding mower to mow my yard because I would get too winded pushing a mower. Within a few weeks I was using the push mower and I have ever since. More lung room, better breathing, more energy and stamina. (And I'm 60.)

 

[Mr Atty]

I used to find that smoking was like attaching lead weights to my head. For about 20 minutes after the nicotine buzz had worn off I would feel light headed and sleepy and struggle to concentrate

Since swapping to ecigs, I haven't so much had more energy generally (I'm still a fairly young chap at 28), but those nasty energy crashes presumably caused by the carbon monoxide have stopped and I feel a lot better for it.

 

[doots]

i had some up level energy too

 

[Toker]

It's very common to have an increased amount of energy after you quit analogs. Instead of breathing in all that smoke, you breathing in more oxygen.

Increased oxygen flow = increased energy.

Your body will eventually adjust to it.

 

[DonnaDo]

I find the opposite. Sleepy and sluggish... I figured that would be normal since nicotine is a stimulant; and I seem to be getting less of it.

 

[hecknaw]

Yep!! I could'nt run a mile before E-Smok'n, Still can't!! but I do feel more gooter....Hecknaw

 

[Toker]

I find the opposite. Sleepy and sluggish... I figured that would be normal since nicotine is a stimulant; and I seem to be getting less of it.

When you first get off analogs, you will feel more drained to start with. It's almost like your body is in the healing process and you also aren't getting all the nasty chemicals that come with smoking analogs.

Everytime I quit analogs, for about the first month I was drained and more tired than usual. After I got past that hump, then the energy kicked in and that lasted about 2 months till my body got adjusted to the increased oxygen flow.

Then again, it may effect everyone differently.

 

[br5495]

I felt old and wore out while on the analogs. I still feel old and wore out. Maybe it was because I smoked 3-4 packs of ultra lite 100s each day, which were little more than pacifiers. But then, maybe it is because I am 75 years old. What do you think?

 

[Happy Domino38]

If I could have gotten out of bed at 12pm and gone BACK to bed at 3pm, I'd have been a happy camper when I first started vaping. But now, I'm back to normal..

 

[cliff5550]

br5495 - I'm thinking the 75 part.
(yeh, I know. Sixty year olds shouldn't be sassing their elders.)

 

[AJMoore]

My energy went down, way down. I was almost static. It's slowly, ever so slowly, coming back a little. I'm typically a high energy person, friends called my hyper. I was just researching on the web last night about green tea extracts etc. to see if there was a safe, over the counter remedy for energy.

 

[br5495]

Cliff, all you people on this forum are just kids, heheh.

 

[hecknaw]

Yep!! br6495, If'n I make it to 75 years uf age I will have been E-Smok'n fer 21 years. I'ma juts think'n bouts all uf da changes in E-Smok'n we'll see in da years to come

 

[glowgirl]

We did lung capacity testing at school the other day (I am taking anatomy and physiology so that's not weird) and and I tested my lungs for the first time in 4 years. I came out the low side of normal! 27 years of smoking, and wheezing and getting winded when i talked sometimes. Now I can breathe.........ah feels good!

I bet it's all the extra oxygen that's boosting your energy!

 

[Happy Domino38]

br5495 - I'm thinking the 75 part.
(yeh, I know. Sixty year olds shouldn't be sassing their elders.)

WHAT? My husband will be 72 on the 3rd and I can't even come CLOSE to keeping up with HIM.

 

[glowgirl]

My energy went down, way down. I was almost static. It's slowly, ever so slowly, coming back a little. I'm typically a high energy person, friends called my hyper. I was just researching on the web last night about green tea extracts etc. to see if there was a safe, over the counter remedy for energy.

My energy tanked the first few days too. Turned out I was anemic (prone to it always). I popped a multi vitamin and it was better in a hour. I kind of wonder if the Lactic build up doesn't deplete some your iron stores.......

 

[br5495]

Well heck, I didn't think I would last this long. I smoked for 57 years, ate all the wrong foods, drank whiskey and chased wild women. It's too expensive to do all those things now and vaping is a good way to reduce the cost. I don't expect I'll be here long enough to see many changes in E-Smok'n, but it's very likely that I'll still be using these things until the very end.