Here's the bottom line: If you want it to work, it will.
If you're going to spend your time worrying about getting nicotine, then it seems to me like you're trying to sabotage it. If you're hoping that it's going to be effortless to quit smoking and start vaping, then you're wrong. There is a bit of willpower required, you need to be able to say to yourself "No, I'm done smoking, and I'm going to do this instead."
You can ask just about anyone here, the switch wasn't like turning off a light. Your body somehow gets addicted to the tar and other chemicals in the cigarette too. To the point that it would be impossible for you to be able to say "Oh, that's the nicotine feeling." because you can't isolate it from the other 4000 chemicals.
Everybody is different though. Some of us were able to quit the second we picked up our first PV and took a puff. Some take a few days, a few weeks, even a few months to wean themselves off. It really depends on a number of factors:
1. Nicotine strength. Too low and the user may not feel like they are being satisfied and need extra nic from a cigarette.
2. Flavour. Might not be good enough to satisfy.
3. Vapor production. Some people need that visual stimulus to feel like it's working.
4. Fondness of cigarettes. Some people just like cigarettes and don't really
want to quit, they just know they
have to, so reluctance can hinder their attempts to do so.
5. Pressure and denial. Pressuring yourself to quit and denying yourself cigarettes can make it harder to do so, triggering the old "we want what we can't have" reaction.
6. Skepticism. People who really don't think they'll work can psych themselves into feeling that they aren't.
7. MAOIs. Most cigarettes contain monoamine oxidase inhibitors (antidepressants) that enhance the addictive qualities of tobacco. Some people are sensitive to this. E-juices do not have MAOIs and their absence can create a lack of satisfaction in the user and a persistent desire for cigarettes.
8. Anxiety. Some people are afraid to give up the cigarettes because they fear not having them in the same way we've all felt when we forgot our pack when we go out and suddenly launch into panic mode, especially if we can't get access to more quickly.
And there are probably other factors involved too. The best way to approach an E-cig is to just try it. See what it does. Don't hold any expectations or reservations, and don't pressure yourself into thinking they have to work or that you have to quit smoking
right now. Try them out, see how they do for you. You might be pleasantly surprised -- and if it doesn't seem to do the trick there are any number of reasons that it didn't and just as many ways to make it work. You just have to identify what it is you feel you're missing and then find out what you need to fill that gap, and you can only do that -- and only
you can do that -- by trying it out.
Check the poll section- I think ecigs have something like an 80% success rate and patches and things like that have about an 11% success rate.
Not factoring in for time, though, and depending on which study you're reading. There doesn't seem to be any clear consensus other than that NRT products have at terrible success rate that becomes even more terrible over time, and E-cigs don't.
