Like you, I don'I'm want to quit. Like some here, I'm finding the transition to vaping to be more difficult than I think it should be. I see that plenty have made the transition relatively easy.
I'm here to find out why I'm having so much trouble. I'm a light smoker. Pall Mall menthol, Less than 7 cigarettes a day. I've tried several ecig variations & nothing comes close to the simple experience of a single cigarette.
The fake cigarette looking jobs don't settle the nerves, like I'm not getting equivalent nicotine regardless how many drags I take.
I just bought a Millennium E-Go. Tried an 11mg kiwi flavor & I couldn't taste anything. Now I'm on a 24mg Apple Sin flavor & while the taste is great I woke up with the worst throat ache I ever experienced. After 1 day.
I had been on the patch for a little more than a month. 24mg & only smoked 1 cigarette a day for the last two weeks.
Lurking here I've come to realize there are many ways to create my own liquid that may solve the throat aches... but it sounds too confusing & I'm afraid ill be experimenting for a long, long time.
I tried the non inhaling method, keeping the smoke out of my lungs but still find myself craving at least one cigarette.
Inhaling gets me closer to the smoking experience I enjoy.
Any of you guys have difficulty making the switch? What was your EurekAlert moment?
I'm lucky, i got into this to try and quit smoking - i was ready to do it, and I was pleasantly surprised to find that vaping will let me continue to use nicotine - which I do enjoy - until I'm ready to stop.
Cravings are tricky things, especially with smoking, you have to hit all the numbers - flavor, nicotine, vapor, throat hit. That's why the cheap disposable and Blus don't really work, they're not strong enough to deliver the vapor and throat hit of a real cigarette.
Your sore throat could simply be your throat getting used to a pretty high level of nicotine, vapor, and the flavoring. I would simply wait and see a couple more days, and see if it goes away. We all react differently to switching from cigarettes, and your throat isn't used to vapor yet - it took me a couple days of coughing, a slight pressure in my chest and headaches to go away.
Maybe try a smoother, mellower flavor, as well. Apple Sin might be just too much right now.
I agree that 24 might be too much for you, too. Who are you buying liquid from? A lot of the kit flavors tend to not be very good.
Anyway, keep going on your attempt, you just have to find the right combination of gear and strength and flavor, and you'll forget all about cigarettes.