i been using my E-Cig for 2 weeks, but still crave a .... why??

[MMAfighterNH]

i got E-cigs 2 quit smokin butts but stiill every night i feel like i need abutt and i smoke one sumtimes.....is it cuz i got 11mg mint, and 8mg strawberry e-liquid?? i didnt wanna get hight strength cuz i didnt wanna get a nicotine OD or i didnt wanna smoke high and still have no chance of quitting........ any advice??

 

[DC2]

i got E-cigs 2 quit smokin butts but stiill every night i feel like i need abutt and i smoke one sumtimes.....is it cuz i got 11mg mint, and 8mg strawberry e-liquid?? i didnt wanna get hight strength cuz i didnt wanna get a nicotine OD or i didnt wanna smoke high and still have no chance of quitting........ any advice??

Yes, some advice...

Smoke a cigarette whenever you want.
It will come to you when it comes to you.

And get some higher strength nicotine juice for when you think you need it.
That has helped a lot of people get over the hump.

 

[Tugger]

Just use as high a strength as you need and vape as often as you feel like it. A lot of people quit cold turkey, others ease away more slowly. Don't worry about it. If you stick with it you'll see that you want a real one less and less.

Of course, some here need more nicotine and supplement the e-cig with snus, which is demonstrably several orders of magnitude safer than analogs.

 

[jexmex]

I quit two days ago using the e-cig. I use 18mg nic, and I was a 1 1/2 to 2 pack a day smoker. I think I could have went with high nic, but its been ok. I still get that urge to smoke, sometimes bad, but it goes away with a few good hits off of my PV. If you get the urge, you may want to drip a few drops on the atty for a nice good hit, that should help with the urge.

Also if you are urging to go outside and smoke, take you PV outside and smoke it. I use to smoke outside, so I am always heading for the door out of habit.

 

[steven.rn]

i got E-cigs 2 quit smokin butts but stiill every night i feel like i need abutt and i smoke one sumtimes.....is it cuz i got 11mg mint, and 8mg strawberry e-liquid?? i didnt wanna get hight strength cuz i didnt wanna get a nicotine OD or i didnt wanna smoke high and still have no chance of quitting........ any advice??

Higher mg nicotine sounds like a good idea, actually. I smoke 24-36 mg to keep me off .... logs (whoops... analogs)

It took 2 or three weeks of going back and forth from regular cigs to vaping... now, I can't even imagine lighting up a regular smoke. Last time I did (more than 2 months ago) it tasted terrible and left a film in my mouth.

There's no rush. If it takes you a few weeks or a year to get off tobacco cigarettes, it's all good. You don't wanna wake up after 39 years of smoking butts and think... "sh*t I shoulda quit this decades ago" (like I did) when you see folks younger than you dying of lung cancer and on nasal hoses for oxygen cuz they can't get enough O2 in their tar covered lungs.8-o

Besides, vaping is tastier.

 

[FRESH]

As has been mentioned, tapering off is a decent way to go. That is how I did it. I was an hour between analogs, then an hour and a half, then two hours, then is was a couple a day when I really neded it...finally I quit altogether. Took about 3 weeks to a month to totally get off of them for me. I was using 18-24 mg stuff to ween off of the analogs.

Patience. Stay with it. It does get easier.

 

[lotus14]

i got E-cigs 2 quit smokin butts but stiill every night i feel like i need abutt and i smoke one sumtimes.....is it cuz i got 11mg mint, and 8mg strawberry e-liquid?? i didnt wanna get hight strength cuz i didnt wanna get a nicotine OD or i didnt wanna smoke high and still have no chance of quitting........ any advice?

One thing you didn't mention - what device are you using? Get some 24mg liquid in a tobacooy flavor you like, and a pv that packs a punch like an 801, 510, or a mod. When you feel like a .... just fire up your pv and vape out.

But don't beat yourself up if you cheat a little, it takes time for most people to give 'em up entirely.

 

[PatriciafromCO]

I agree smoke one when you feel you need one, don't worry about the one or two or three analogs (butts) you need,,, focus on the positive of the 20 analogs(butts) you didn't need..

I like the lower nic levels, so I can vape more often but when I felt the need to smoke an analog I reached for the higher nic level for me it was 18 or 24mg and vaped that until I felt satisfied in the moment which was always like 10 minutes then go back to my lower nic level.

My transition off analogs was quick, for my friend it took a month and 1/2 longer so we all wired differently and you have to go with the flow. I was miserable on the patch and the gum I couldn't win for loosing.. But with the e cig,, I just set my sight on being happy for every analog I didn't smoke and that I felt great in the direction I was slowly accomplishing..

 

[nick76]

I think you need to find the right flavor that you really like ( maybe you need to mix with some other flavors to find a good one for you, once you love that flavor juice, you wouldn't want to go back to real cig cuz it tastes terrible. Nic is not an issue for me so i use 14mg and lower, quit smoke easily ( after 15yr of 1- 1 /2 Marl-light/day).

I haven't found any liquid in its org bottle that taste really good yet. Usually i have to mix 3 different juice to get my favorite one. With a nice flavor juice, low Nic strenght i vape all day with out feeling ill of Nic effect. I tried smoke real cig few times, i could not take a second puff, so terrible taste and smell, i had to wash my mouth right away.

 

[MMAfighterNH]

i got a joytech 510..........and what do u mean drip on the atty???? like drop fluid right on it???? how do u smoke if ur piece is open like that i dnt get it..........

 

[tiffytiff]

i vape 24 in the mornings and after meals, the rest of the day i vape 12 mg's or less. but everyone is different. i smoked more than a pack a day for 20 plus years and after i used my friends pv for one evening i never looked back, had no problem making the transition, but again, everyone is different.

dripping is when you drip 2 or 3 drops right on the metal bridge in your atty. then put the plastic mouthpiece that comes off the cartridge back on the end of the atty and puff away. i do both, i drip and i use a cartridge depends on what kind of mood i'm in.

you will get the hang of it, i'm still learning been less than 2 weeks for me. hopefully someone will come along and explain dripping a little better than i have

 

[PlanetScribbles]

One thing you didn't mention - what device are you using? Get some 24mg liquid in a tobacooy flavor you like, and a pv that packs a punch like an 801, 510, or a mod. When you feel like a .... just fire up your pv and vape out.

But don't beat yourself up if you cheat a little, it takes time for most people to give 'em up entirely.

Liberty Flights 24mg Virginia is very nice IMO

 

[undyingguitarist]

keep on vaping man, it will come to where you dont even want a real smoke trust me vaping works

 

[Debbie Lee]

I was urging for one abut a mo. after vaping. Sometimes I still want to smoke a cig I just don't.

 

[Debbie Lee]

keep on vaping man, it will come to where you dont even want a real smoke trust me vaping works

Yes it does I smoked for 43 years until May and now i just vape on menthol 18mil. So It gets better and easier to not want a analog..

 

[MidnighToker]

Don't sweat it man. I started vaping July 1st and immediately dropped down to about 5 butts a day. I've been a pack+ smoker for 23+ years, and at the end here I've been at 2 packs for quite a while. Even after a month, I still "need" those few a day. Some days it's only one, others it's 10. Either way it's an improvement (as well as a friggin miracle!) from those 40/day.

I just do what I can to avoid them...higher nic, tobacco flavors, dripping on atty, etc.

i got a joytech 510..........and what do u mean drip on the atty???? like drop fluid right on it???? how do u smoke if ur piece is open like that i dnt get it..........

If you have a "dummy" mouthpiece (usually comes on attys), you'd use that in place of a cart. If you don't have one, you can just "tailpipe" it off of the atty itself. It gives a killer hit, and will kill the crave most of the time.

 

[Superstargoddess]

All I can say is that everyone is different. I was a bit nervous before I got mine, but I tell you what, I just got mine today- and I haven't sat the thing down since I got it. Most of the time I'm not even hitting it, it's just in my hand or hanging out of my mouth. I put my analogs somewhere that I couldn't see them since I was smoking them right before the mail got here with my package today. Totally forgot about the ash tray with butts in it until a few hours later, emptied it and slid it under my desk where I couldn't see it.

I am totally good to go right now. No idea why. It's just one of those things. Though I know that it will be different for everyone since I used to drink a lot and quit drinking cold turkey. Not everyone can do that, especially people that drank as much as I did. Really though, just give it some time, you'll be fine.

 

[Debbie Lee]

Yes it does I smoked for 43 years until May and now i just vape on menthol 18mil. So It gets better and easier to not want a analog..

oops I mean smoking for 37 years. How do you get your tracker in your cig. sorry off topic. Is there a how to thread anywhere so I can look myself. Thx.

 

[MMAfighterNH]

nice 2 hear there hope...........im gonna get a 18 or 24mg e-liquid and jus keep on tryin

 

[Antebellum]

i got E-cigs 2 quit smokin butts but stiill every night i feel like i need abutt and i smoke one sumtimes.....is it cuz i got 11mg mint, and 8mg strawberry e-liquid?? i didnt wanna get hight strength cuz i didnt wanna get a nicotine OD or i didnt wanna smoke high and still have no chance of quitting........ any advice??

My suggestion would be to not sweat it. I started e-smoking because I wanted to cut down on cigarettes. For a while I vaped and smoked. Then one day I lit a cigarette that was stale... because the pack had sat open on my desk for four days.

I started out with 24-mg cherry, and I think I was pretty lucky that I did. The juice replaced my nicotine and the e-cig replaced the habit.

I think you'll do okay when you get a higher concentration juice. Many folks use the high stuff to jolt them awake and put them to bed and smoke the lower stuff in between. The important thing, in my opinion, is to have something close to hand that's strong enough that one or two vapes curbs the cravings and a dozen or so puts them totally away.

Gee, I feel like a rusty old pro now, but it's not been so long that I don't remember the sense of utter amazement that after trying so many different ways to stop smoking, what finally worked for me was a toy cigarette.