I had an analog this evening.

[NCC]

I've been smoke free for almost eight months. Last weekend, doing some housekeeping, I found seven packs, actually a carton with three packs removed, which had fallen behind my refrigerator. I haven't tossed them in the trash can yet. I think I would actually like to light up a cigarette out of curiosity's sake, as I did up to a month into non-smoking (seven months ago).

At one month, I found the then fresh cigarettes to be putrid. Now, I've got 7 packs of really stale cigarettes. I don't have any desire to light one of those suckers up, LOL

 

[Automaton]

Making your own juice is very easy. I can gladly coach you on it if you like.

All you need is some high-nic unflavored juice, flavoring, PG and/or VG to dilute, and some bottles and syringes/pipettes.

You can start with simple one-flavor mixes, and gradually work your way to something more complex. This is a very easy juice calculator I used exclusively for my first month of mixing.
eJuice Recipe Calculator

 

[gice]

At one month, I found the then fresh cigarettes to be putrid. Now, I've got 7 packs of really stale cigarettes. I don't have any desire to light one of those suckers up, LOL

Mine are still fresh!

 

[NCC]

Mine are still fresh!

I sincerely hope you find those freshly rolled tubes of tobacco leaves to be as putrid as I found mine to be.

 

[steelnation36]

i hope ecig can lead me to the point where i can quit analogs. You guys talking about sneaking one id love to get to that point

 

[gice]

I sincerely hope you find those freshly rolled tubes of tobacco leaves to be as putrid as I found mine to be.

Yes. just can't get myself to trash these.

i hope ecig can lead me to the point where i can quit analogs. You guys talking about sneaking one id love to get to that point

You certainly will. i was only hoping to cut down to 1.5 pad (from 2-4 pad for 20+ years). Now at 0 pad but second guessing myself; might do 1-5 analogs
then 0....

pad = packs a day

 

[Mindfield]

Been going 8 straight days and i almost smoked an analog today. Why? because i've been feeling like crap; headaches, dizziness and all sorts shiatsu
going on. Feels like a cold but it's not a cold. i also have the quit-zits, which is the least of my concerns. Apparently, all this is normal and will pass
in weeks/months.

i actually planned on having a cig today. Just because... And like you, i still have 7 packs of reds from 2 weeks ago. However, even if i do finish
off that carton, i've still reduced my habit considerably. NOT going to beat myself up over it.

Nor should you. The great thing about vaping is that it is equivalent enough to tobacco smokes that you can go back for a few analogs without worrying about how hard it will be to quit them again -- because it won't be. Any reduction is praiseworthy, and if you have to go back for a few analog hits, so be it. Everyone's different. If at some point I feel like having one more of those 7 I have left (unlikely, but stranger things have happened and I'm a bit odd to begin with) then I'll be okay with it. I have had two analog cigarettes in a week. I'd have gone through close to a carton of analogs by now.

EDIT: Oh, that's just dandy. I jinxed myself. My eGo battery flashed at me so now I'm charging it. Having a bit of a nic fit. I'm going to have another analog -- and I'm okay with it. I can't bloody wait 'til my Mega battery arrives though.

JEEZ these things taste worse indoors. I guess when I was outside in the fresh air it was different but holy crap. Sitting at the desk now and puffing on this analog ... yecch. What the hell was my 17-year-old ..... of a brain thinking? I'm gonna yank my eGo off its charger soon and vape the hell out of some cappuccino just to get this nastiness out of my mouth before I go to bed.

Ack!

Well, if they outlaw it, I'm going black market. Just my .02.

You and me both. If they outlaw eCigs, only outlaws will have eCigs and I'll have to change my name to Jesse James.

I also have found that I do have moments when I feel the impact of MAOI addiction. Not often enough that I have given in to having a cigarette besides the one time I mentioned, but I want to be prepared for when it does happen. A stressful situation has already broken me once, and I won't let it happen again.

What is MAOI withdrawal supposed to feel like? I suppose if I have to ask then I'm not experiencing it. I know MAOIs are an antidepressant, and I've never suffered from depression, so would this be something my body just doesn't miss because it never really needed it?

Making your own juice is very easy. I can gladly coach you on it if you like.

All you need is some high-nic unflavored juice, flavoring, PG and/or VG to dilute, and some bottles and syringes/pipettes.

You can start with simple one-flavor mixes, and gradually work your way to something more complex. This is a very easy juice calculator I used exclusively for my first month of mixing.
eJuice Recipe Calculator

I'm gonna go that route myself soon. Seems easy enough to do, I can source some 60mg eJuice on the cheap and get some quality flavours and PG from one of the better vendors around here, and I have the eJuice iPhone app to work out the numbers, so I'm good, I think. The only thing I need to work out is the percentage of flavouring, but I guess that's a to-taste thing.

i hope ecig can lead me to the point where i can quit analogs. You guys talking about sneaking one id love to get to that point

Oh, you will. It's amazing how quickly your sense bounce back once you get off cigarettes. You may not totally switch immediately as some of us have done; some have taken days, weeks, even months to wean themselves off analog. But once you do, your senses will bounce back with alarming speed and you'll quickly come to detest analogs.

Like this FREAKING DISGUSTING ONE I'm smoking right now. Ugh!

EDIT the 2nd: Mmmm. Cappuccino. And not a moment too soon.

 

[zenvita]

OK - so this thread makes me curious. I just started vaping 2 days ago. I am a 30 year analog smoker. I have a few packs left from my last carton and have smoked maybe 5 or 6 since I received my "e-cig starter pack" on Wednesday. Mostly just out of habit (grabbing the pack instead of the e-cig). Still, I fee great, my lungs already feel better and I am certain that the e-cigs are going to help me break this old habit.

So do most folks switch "cold-turkey" or do most change from analog to vaping combining them both initially? Like I said, I have 2 or 3 packs of analogs - If I can hold myself to 3 or 4 per day, I don't see that as problem. In a month I should be totally through with them no problem and vaping full time.

Topdown67 i quit cold turkey. I had smoked my last analog last Wednesday and on Thursday around 11:00 p.m. my wife walked in and said, "hey your e-cig came in the mail". they timing was perfect and i've haven't craved an anolog since. I was at the bar with an old boss just two days ago and we went out to smoke and i had a drag and hated it. I was smoking my e-cig at the bar and he kept asking if he could use it. I lobe this thing. Can't wait until my 510 get here.

 

[Automaton]

What is MAOI withdrawal supposed to feel like? I suppose if I have to ask then I'm not experiencing it. I know MAOIs are an antidepressant, and I've never suffered from depression, so would this be something my body just doesn't miss because it never really needed it?

For me, it isn't exactly withdrawal.

For some people it is. Some people are just as addicted to MAOI's as they are to nicotine. I'm not - I'm much more addicted to nicotine. But I can tell a change in my moods and stress threshold since losing the MAOI's.

Basically, when I am stressed, or sometimes randomly, vaping is just NOT ENOUGH. This is when I feel like something is "missing." So far, I've tried to dampen this by using an LR atty with strong juice. But I really don't like LR's or high voltage. It's not pleasant to me, and it only works "so-so."

I feel like this may be my body's way of missing MAOI's. They are essentially anti-depressant and anti-anxiety drugs. So when I am stressed, that is when I feel the impact of it.

So next time I feel like that, I'm going to try a bit of snuff instead, and see if that works better.

 

[Infernal2]

Its odd that so many people have this kind of thing around the same time. Ive been vaping now for four months and I went to clean out my work truck yesterday evening and found an opened pack of Marlboro Lights. Now, I'm vaping at around 4.5 volts with my HV on my Omega so I was prepared to get my .... kicked with this little experiment. I popped in the vehicle lighter, opened the pack, took one out and lit it up.

Ok, first of all. Cigarettes ain't got nothing on the throat hit I'm getting off my Omega. And considering I had a loaded drip 510 HV atty full of my homemade Banana Now'n'Later I was unpleasantly surprised with the nastiest taste I have put into my mouth in a long time.

Three drags boys n girls. Three drags and that little white stick was put out.

Did I get the nice little buzz we got when we first started? Nope.
Did I get awesome throat hit? Nope.
Did I get a mouthful of nasty? Yep

So my neighbor got a free pack (minus one) of Marlboro Lights on the hood of his truck, he'll enjoy em.

 

[Keillor]

So my neighbor got a free pack (minus one) of Marlboro Lights on the hood of his truck, he'll enjoy em.

Even better, leave him an ecig you don't use anymore and a sample of liquid.

 

[Mindfield]

For me, it isn't exactly withdrawal.

For some people it is. Some people are just as addicted to MAOI's as they are to nicotine. I'm not - I'm much more addicted to nicotine. But I can tell a change in my moods and stress threshold since losing the MAOI's.

Basically, when I am stressed, or sometimes randomly, vaping is just NOT ENOUGH. This is when I feel like something is "missing." So far, I've tried to dampen this by using an LR atty with strong juice. But I really don't like LR's or high voltage. It's not pleasant to me, and it only works "so-so."

I feel like this may be my body's way of missing MAOI's. They are essentially anti-depressant and anti-anxiety drugs. So when I am stressed, that is when I feel the impact of it.

So next time I feel like that, I'm going to try a bit of snuff instead, and see if that works better.

Ah, that makes a bit more sense. I don't know that I've experienced that. If anything the only real desire I had was for new flavours, as the regular tobacco flavour I was vaping wasn't really doing it for me, hence the cappuccino last night -- had a fair bit of that and I'm liking it more the more I use it. And there is a twinge of desire for a real smoke in the context of how it tasted and felt before I quit, but that's something I know I can't get without going entirely back to analogs, and I am not going there. I'd have to push through the nastiness, and after last night there's just no way in hell I'm doing that again. I don't think my mood has been effected in any significant way -- if anything I feel better now that I'm on analogs; the health benefits kicking in have lightened my mood, and though I still get stressed periodically, my reaction to it isn't nearly as bad as it has been. That could be the novelty talking too (I'm a gadget geek; I love new toys), but I don't think so.

 

[bukkaroo]

I smoked my last analog almost 2 weeks ago. I vaped for a day and had one left so I smoked it just to see what I thought after really enjoying the vape, I was utterly disgusted and had to choke myself through that one .... just to prove to myself I was done. I haven't even thought of analogs since vaping, just the taste, smell and harsh lung feeling reminds me I can't stand cigs! Vape on!

 

[Steakpak]

I've been vaping for almost a week now and I also go back to analogs. I'm at about a half of a pack a day. Which is a full pack less than what I was smoking. So I'm ok with it. I noticed that if I keep the analogs away from me, I won't smoke them. I go to work everyday without analogs so I don't really have a choice but to smoke my ecig. And it satisfies. I'm hoping to completely rid myself of analogs, and if this is the way that works for me, then so be it.