I want a cigarette!

[-Lew-]

Hi guys,

I'm totally new to vaping. Had my last ciggy 4 days ago and was surprised how easy the switch was. However, I'm now starting to crave a cigarette, I keep trying to justify having one and constant vaping is the only way of stoping the craving! Does anyone have any tips to help me, or is it just a case of will power?

Thanks, Lew

 

[zoiDman]

Hi guys,

I'm totally new to vaping. Had my last ciggy 4 days ago and was surprised how easy the switch was. However, I'm now starting to crave a cigarette, I keep trying to justify having one and constant vaping is the only way of stoping the craving! Does anyone have any tips to help me, or is it just a case of will power?

Thanks, Lew

Try Eating something. Chewing gum or Candy. Or Riding your Bike or Taking a Walk.

It get's better after a week of No Cigarettes. But if you have one, it kinda starts over.

 

[Tallmaan84]

Keep vaping! Those cravings will subside soon enough.

 

[Titanium]

I want a cigar,
But I don't smoke them anymore.

 

[Los Marauder]

May need to up your nic. % on your juice, or carto's. Keep on keepin on. You can and will do it. and if you smoke a stinky, just get to vaping next urge. May need to find a flavor that realy hits the spot. For some, a tobacco flavor isn't nearly as satisfying as a sweet flavor, or a citrus flavor. When you get a few good taste vapes it is easier too. Good luck, and let us know how its going.

 

[-Lew-]

I was thinking about upping my nic % but then I would be on a higher nic intake than when I was on normal cigs. Is this a bad thing? Sorry if its a dumb question but I'm really new to all this.

 

[Apptiger]

"I want a cigarette"
No you don't. You want a vape with a higher nic content maybe. You do not want a cigarette.

You are doing great and you can make it. Repeat after me...I do not want a cigarette....

Congratulations on the switch. By the way, any cig avoided is a plus one. If you fall off the wagon, get back on it.

Edit- to answer your question above. No, you don't absorb nic the same way so you are not getting as much nic now if you are smoking the same level. This info came from my Doc. I used to smoke ultra lights and transitoned to a 24 level. Went to 18 after two weeks. After 6 months went to a 12.

 

[Chrissie]

Lew, as los says, you may need to up your nic. % on your juice.

However, don't be too hard on yourself if you do give in to having a cigarette. Count the ciggies you don't smoke, not the ones you do

 

[Chrissie]

I was thinking about upping my nic % but then I would be on a higher nic intake than when I was on normal cigs. Is this a bad thing? Sorry if its a dumb question but I'm really new to all this.

Lew, what nic strength are you using?

 

[Artisticnails07]

For my first week I kept a pack of 5 cigs in my purse. My just in case....dead battery, just gotta have one, etc.
Day 2 one of my clients wanted to go out and have a smoke- I vaped she smoked . When we came inside I could smell it on her hands eww. I smelled like that to my clients.
Evening of day 3 I decided to have a cig. 3 puffs- done! Yuck! Ok I can do this.
Day 8 husband walks me to my car to see me off to work, I hand him the ashtray. He goes to empty it and comes back and says "it was empty." reply with a proud smile "I know" he went to hand it back to me and I proudly replied "I don't need it any more"
Day 10 the Pack of 5 cigs came out of my purse and is not planning on a return.
This is the first time in over 25 years I am smoke free. Tomorrow is 3 weeks.
Everyone's journey is different. Smoking one cig will not kill you but continuing to smoke can. Make your vaping journey a positive one. Stay on ecf everyone here is here to help

 

[BlueSnake]

I was thinking about upping my nic % but then I would be on a higher nic intake than when I was on normal cigs. Is this a bad thing? Sorry if its a dumb question but I'm really new to all this.

No it's not a bad thing. You have to remember you are withdrawing from lots of chemicals not just nictotene. A higher nic level will help especially with the initial withdrawal. I started 4 months ago at 20mg nic and am now done to 14mg. I'm just going to very slowly lower it.

 

[Racehorse]

I was thinking about upping my nic % but then I would be on a higher nic intake than when I was on normal cigs. Is this a bad thing? Sorry if its a dumb question but I'm really new to all this.

Personally, I 100% agree with you. I suspect most people crave a cigarette psychologically, not physically.

The advice to up nic level given out so often can actually be dangerous. You can certainly keep *one* tank/carto with higher nic someplace on the kitchen counter or desktop, and hit it every so often when feeling stressed. That should also be a good experiment to TELL YOU if you need to up your nic level altogether.

Most likely though, doing so "across the board" can actually make you sick and lightheaded. I never suggest this until people have done their OWN experimentation with nic levels. My body is not your body and so on. !

You need to assess what a higher nic level in YOUR body will do to you......nobody can post that information for you. They are not you.

 

[-Lew-]

Thanks everyone for the replies, It's helped me a lot!

Lew, what nic strength are you using?

I'm using 18%. I was on 10-15 roll ups a day. I think I might up my % on my next shop.

 

[-Lew-]

For my first week I kept a pack of 5 cigs in my purse. My just in case....dead battery, just gotta have one, etc.
Day 2 one of my clients wanted to go out and have a smoke- I vaped she smoked . When we came inside I could smell it on her hands eww. I smelled like that to my clients.
Evening of day 3 I decided to have a cig. 3 puffs- done! Yuck! Ok I can do this.
Day 8 husband walks me to my car to see me off to work, I hand him the ashtray. He goes to empty it and comes back and says "it was empty." reply with a proud smile "I know" he went to hand it back to me and I proudly replied "I don't need it any more"
Day 10 the Pack of 5 cigs came out of my purse and is not planning on a return.
This is the first time in over 25 years I am smoke free. Tomorrow is 3 weeks.
Everyone's journey is different. Smoking one cig will not kill you but continuing to smoke can. Make your vaping journey a positive one. Stay on ecf everyone here is here to help

What a nice story. I'm surrounded by smokers while at work and their cigs still smell lovely! I was hoping this would of subsided by now but I might have to wait a little longer.

I'm also quite proud that I convert my girlfriend to ecigs!

 

[Racehorse]

I'm using 18%. I was on 10-15 roll ups a day. I think I might up my % on my next shop.

eeks. 10-15 roll ups a day isn't a whole lot. That is what I smoked when I started vaping, and anything over 18% would have made me pass out.

There is a study already on RYO in the UK........."Yields of cigarettes produced by 26 RYO smokers ranged from 0.9 to 1.8 mg nicotine per cigarette, and were generally lower than yields of laboratory-produced RYO cigarettes."

At the lowest mg nic per cig., for 0.9 for 15 cigs would be that would be 0.9 would be a nic level of around 14mg.
At the highest (and I doubt your RYO was the highest) 1.8 mg per would be a nicotine level of about 18%-27 if you smoked 10-15 cigs a day.

In the real world, most RYO is about .7 mg - .8 mg of nicotine which would translate to 12mg nic if you smoked 15 a day, and about 16mg nic if you smoked 20.

I started off w/12-16 based on that. I tried 18 and 24 and got sick because my blood levels of nicotine were NEVER that high when I smoked!

A Marlboro full flavored KING (long) is about 1.1.
For 20 cigs a day of Marlboro full flavor kings your blood nicotine level would be about 22mg.

 

[zapped]

smell a wet ashtray if you havent already emptied all of them.You'll lose the urge to smoke

 

[-Lew-]

eeks. 10-15 roll ups a day isn't a whole lot. That is what I smoked when I started vaping, and anything over 18% would have made me pass out.

There is a study already on RYO in the UK........."Yields of cigarettes produced by 26 RYO smokers ranged from 0.9 to 1.8 mg nicotine per cigarette, and were generally lower than yields of laboratory-produced RYO cigarettes."

At the lowest mg nic per cig., for 0.9 for 15 cigs would be that would be 0.9 would be a nic level of around 14mg.
At the highest (and I doubt your RYO was the highest) 1.8 mg per would be a nicotine level of about 18%-27 if you smoked 10-15 cigs a day.

In the real world, most RYO is about .7 mg - .8 mg of nicotine which would translate to 12mg nic if you smoked 15 a day, and about 16mg nic if you smoked 20.

I started off w/12-16 based on that. I tried 18 and 24 and got sick because my blood levels of nicotine were NEVER that high when I smoked!

WOW! Ok, so maybe I screwed up when judging my nicotine intake. however I don't feel sick or light headed and the swap was really easy. Now I'm thinking I might have to just MTFU and just enjoying vaping!

 

[danwelsh]

If you made it 4 days......you don't need a CIG, pound the vapor to yourself and yeah up ur nic level, congrats by the way!

 

[Racehorse]

Lew, I don't have a magic formula. First of all, vaping does NOT translate simply and easily to smoking, so there is a little figuring and experimenting to do.

It all depends on YOUR body, how YOUR body and blood and mouth and lung tisssues and YOUR metabolism absorbs and synthesizes nicotine.

That is the point I was trying to make, that's all. Finding out the mg. of nic that your "former" cigarettes had, then computing a total blood level for the day of what your were *probably* carrying, is just a starting point.

You may have to up, or lower, the actual vape nicotine. I just tried to compute, for myself, a good place to start. Then I checked it with somebody else, and they agreed with my 12-14mg for ME. (I smoked RYO American Spirit Organic tobacco, only about 10-15 a day.)

My god, if you were smoking something like English Ovals, a pack a day and inhaling deeply, you'd probably have to start off vaping at about 34mg nic. But most people are not smoking anything close to English Ovals.

 

[Chrissie]

Lew, we really do absorb nicotine in a different way when vaping, so if 18% isn't cutting it for you, do give 24% a go.

You also have to remember though that your body is going to have to adjust to not getting the hundreds of other chemicals that real cigs contain, so please do be easy on yourself