Good luck!I've dropped from 24mg to <1mg in ~6 weeks.
I dropped ~5mg/week until I was down to 5mg then by halves.
Also a bit ambitious, but I was encouraged at how quickly I adapted to lower nicotine levels so I just kept going.
Thanks for all your replies, advice and encouragement. I will listen to my body and if nic cravings do start to pop up unrelentlessly I might stay on that level longer or even up one. We'll see how that goes.
Kind of funny that I only checked out e-cigs because I'm going on a three week holiday to Borneo in november and long plane rides (13 hours) used to get me so rattled up because I couldn't smoke. I thought I would check out vaping to see if I could sneak a vape in the plane bathroom to get me through the very long flight. Incredibly stupid but that was the actual reason I looked into vaping.
Now I'm analogue free without a single craving for one in the space of a couple of days and even planning going nic free soon. Funny how things work!
Glad to have found this vaping forum with so much information and very helpful vaping colleagues to exchange thoughts with.
Went to the vape shop in Holland this morning and bought 6mg liquids to mix with my 12mg liquids. Except for in the morning and after meals (when I will vape 12 this week because those are for me the most trying times of the day) I have been smoking 9 during the day already. Must say a barely notice a difference. My all day vape is still Tobacco Mix. My non-tobacco 'dessert vape' has changed from mojito (good but was getting really bored of it) to capuccino (I do like my coffee
I expect that the real challenge will come when I go below 6 and eventually to 0. But that's still a couple of weeks down the road so I will be adjusting to 9 in the next two weeks before dropping further.
I 've read here that lots of people that adjust to 0 nic prefer menthol flavours because they still give some kind of TH at a 0 nic level (although it's not really comparable to a nicotine TH). Any other 0 nic flavours you guys vape or recommend? I'm not really a menthol kind of guy (I used to detest menthol cigarettes also because they disrupt the flavour of food and drinks since the menthol seems to numb the taste buds and tends to linger a long time).
I started at 0.75mg this week, I have been vaping about half as much since I reached this level (3ml/day to maybe 1ml). I just don't think about vaping as much anymore.
Once I'm halfway through this 30ml bottle I'll cut in half again or maybe just go to 0.
Still kind of nervous about going to 0
I hope I can achieve what you've achieved so far.I hated menthol too, but I recently have come to love two flavors: Thin Mint and Waffle (from Fluid Vapors). The Thin Mint gives a bit of a throat hit because of the peppermint, and the Waffle has like a smokey under-flavor to it with a bit of TH, I think because of the smokey maple syrup flavor they have going on in it. These two flavors have been staples to me while I'm quitting the stinkies.
I've also heard that juice with more PG will give you a better TH, though I've stuck with the 50/50 mix since it seems to be working well for me. I've also heard that juice with a bit of distilled water (DW) mixed in also give a bit of a TH. I'm not a DIYer though, so those specifics are best left to that crowd
That's excellent!!! I started off at 18%, and it took me a year to come down to 6%, so you're way, way ahead there
Don't worry about adding some time to the schedule if you DO start to notice withdrawal symptoms.
Re menthol, yes, it does provide more of a hit. Have you ever tried a little bit in a vape? It might feel different than menthol in smoking. Another thing that could help is switching to drippers, which give more of a hit, whatever you're vaping. I've tried 0% juice in a dripper with .6 ohm coils, and I got a very definite hit. Using 0% in a Protank gave nothing at all.
Even if it means a few tough days ahead.
OK so switching to 0 nic hasn't been so easy as lowering from 18 to 3. I decided to not switch between 0 and 3 because I want to kick nic's a** once and for all. No more nic for me. Now completely nic free since 3 days. I do experience cravings though. Probably not nearly as bad as if I would have quit analogues cold turkey but still for the first time in a month and a half I crave for an analogue sometimes.
But I'm determined to never smoke one single puff again and I'm determined to quit vaping alltogether. I keep vaping my 0 nic and thinking to myself 'What's the point?' It doesn't really satisfy me anymore without nic but I don't really care.
I'll keep on vaping 0 nic for the next week. Next week I'm dumping my PV, all my juices, batteries, clearomizers, coilheads, chargers and stuff. Dumping it and never touching any of it ever again. I want to be free of everything: analogues and electronic.
I'm just going to man up and bite the apple. And I will succeed.
