My worst moments

[Scallywag88]

It's great now I have a good vaping device (iTaste V3 with iClear 16 on the move and iClear 30S at home). I now crave my flavour liquid and I feel a little ill near analog smoke!

There were a few tough situations for me:

1 - At the pub like you mentioned. A few weeks after starting vaping (with a cig-a-like device) I did have a few analogs after I got a little tipsy. Now I have a good vaping device I go outside with the analog smokers and it satisfies me more than analogs ever did.

2- At work when the stress levels are high. The smoking area meant I got to socialise with people from other departments too. I'm allowed to vape at my desk now and originally it was a big loss not going outside.

3- Oddly, if I've just missed a train. That 20mins of spare time was perfect to relax and have a cig. I found myself standing on the platform waiting and really wanting a cig. The train company I use have even banned vaping on platforms! I'm out of the old routine now so it's not an issue anymore.

The best part? I can sit and play games on PC or console or watch movies and vape away! I used to love smoking while playing games (during breaks or when playing a strategy game) and chain smoked during movies. I'm not allowed to smoke indoors since moving 4 years ago so vaping allowed me to get back my love of game/movie smoking.

 

[shakedowncircus]

I quit on the 17th and haven't smoked an actual cigarette since.I bought a vision spinner/carto tank kit and some juices from a local shop with some help from the sales rep on the 18th. I did not have any cravings until this morning rolling out of bed. It was a very intense craving I've never tasted or wanted to smoke a cig so bad in my life! It lasted for about an hour and vaping did not seem to help it much so I got myself up and moving around found stuff to preoccupy myself with so I wouldn't think about it. I never realized how much of a habit smoking out of boredom and to procrastinate daily tasks had become to me.

 

[TheReign]

the cravings.. but they go away eventually! just stay strong to the vape and you wont have to worry. whenever you get an urge for a stinky, think to yourself about all the nasty things that come with it. bad health, you stink like what your smoking, chicks dont dig it at all unless they smoke, you smell better etc. then whip out the vape and vape!

 

[dripdaze]

I get an urge to smoke when I am starting a load of laundry. I always smoked in the garage before. The ashtray and my pack of smokes is up on the shelf just left of the washer. There is still a half pack of smokes there that I haven't touched in over a month. I find myself looking at the ashtray and smokes while I wait for the washer to fill and start. I haven't actually had a smoke though.

 

[JQside]

I don't know if it will work for you, but what I did was apply some mental calisthenics, which I've learned from some obscure psychology book.

Plan things in advanced. We smokers (ex) were used to looking forward to smoke breaks everyday of our lives. We look forward to a satisfying smoke while sipping coffee first thing in the morning, for example. Before such moment arrives, try to imagine in vivid detail that you're just going to drink coffee without the cig. Or maybe even give up the coffee.

If you don't plan ahead, you won't know what to do once that moment comes. Does that make sense?

 

[Schwiggiddy]

Think I'll try that. Was going to give Mtbakervapor a try and I generally like cinnamon. I'll see what that have. Thanks!

You're welcome, and good luck! FWIW, I started on a hot cinnamon juice and the throat burn really made it easy to give up my analogs. Now, though, I can hardly handle the throat burn of it, I guess my throat has started to heal. Almost 3 months of vaping with only 3 cigs.
Also, if you really really want a cig, just smoke one. You probably won't even like it that much. I know that I tried a couple and was all "really? is that what I thought I was missing so much?" I can tell you honestly that I like vaping a whole lot better, the hit is better, the taste is better, etc.

 

[TheDistinguishedGentleman]

Good Lord. I had no idea a tuna fish sandwich could trigger a craving that bad. I must have spent thirty minutes chain vaping after leaving subway. By far the worst craving I've had yet.

 

[JTrain23]

The first week, when I would go to a bar, were the hardest. I just vaped steady and the cig craving would go away. Now, I have no craving at all. Been a month.

 

[atcsat64]

I'm an Air Traffic Controller, so I have many moments at work when my brain is telling my body what it needs and where to get it on break (the smoke hut outside the base of tower). Coincidentally, that's where I am right now, but vaping cinnamon!

Last weekend at a casino while drinking, I thought I was gonna catch my EVOD on fire from over vaping, but never reached for the unopened pack of analogs I've been carrying.

So far, all those cig-triggers have been manageable because of these great devices!

 

[revco]

My worst moment so far happened last night, actually. I found a 1/4 pack in the office that I didn't know I had. I freaking sat there and thought about it, kept eye balling it, was all tempted by that little yellow American Spirit pack. Then, in a moment of resistance, I grabbed every last one of them, tore them to shreds and threw them in the outside garbage. I'm done with those, I vape now. It was scary for a minute there, though.

I think had I seen them under a week in, I probably would have smoked one. Three weeks in, I was able to resist.

 

[Huckleberried]

Think I'll try that. Was going to give Mtbakervapor a try and I generally like cinnamon. I'll see what that have. Thanks!

If you're gonna vape cinnamon, like the red hots candy, put it in a glass or stainless steel tank. It's a tank cracker.

My worst moment so far happened last night, actually. I found a 1/4 pack in the office that I didn't know I had. I freaking sat there and thought about it, kept eye balling it, was all tempted by that little yellow American Spirit pack. Then, in a moment of resistance, I grabbed every last one of them, tore them to shreds and threw them in the outside garbage. I'm done with those, I vape now. It was scary for a minute there, though.

I think had I seen them under a week in, I probably would have smoked one. Three weeks in, I was able to resist.

I don't know if American Spirit would've been this way, but I remember the tobacco in others was always kinda sticky/tacky feeling. We smoked that junk.

One thing I can say is smoking always makes you smell worse than a burning cigarette. I hate that I smelled that way and never even noticed until I quit smoking. My worse times were the drive to work and smoke breaks, since I still hang out there with my smoking co-workers. I still get the occasional craving when I'm home and bored, but I just vape through them.

 

[rico942]

I got to work way early this morning, was sitting in my car in the parking lot finishing a chapter of a Louis Lamour novel, and a guy parks next to me. He's smoking in his car, windows up, and I could still smell it. Must have come in through the vent ...

I was never repulsed by the smell of tobacco smoke, then or now, and it triggered a mild craving ...

Vaped like crazy for a few minutes, problem solved ...

Its a cruel irony that quitting smoking makes you more sensitive to the smell, but its manageable. I almost wish I was like most vapers, and hated the smell. But I grew up in a house full of blue pipe smoke, Dad was a cloud chaser, way before his time, and could blow a whole chain of smoke rings, even put one ring through another. The smell of tobacco holds fond memories ...

My Dad, like George Burns, smoked all of his adult life, and died at age 100, of causes unrelated to smoking. Sure hope some of that resistance rubbed off ...

 

[Bolivar]

Mine just come out of left field. WHAM ! I vape like a madman for a bit and ride them out.

I have noticed some triggers, doing something that I always smoked while doing, being somewhere that I always smoked. I know about those, and just tell myself "nope, you are not going to smoke a cigarette" and vape. Those pass fairly quickly. But those left field ones...WOW. They are a little tougher to ignore. I think eventually they will weaken and subside. I quit once before for 4 years, and it took about a year as they gradually tapered off.

I still slap my shirt pocket looking for that pack of smokes.

 

[cbrite]

Worst time for me is first thing in the morning. For years (literally!) the first thing I did when I came downstairs in the morning was grab a cigarette and start the coffee and then smoke a couple more cigs while I had the coffee. So what I do is charge up, then fill my clearo before I go to bed at night. I grab it the first thing when I come into the kitchen and I am totally content. I also have found that I want to smoke less and less the more great flavors that I try (French Vanilla, currently). You can't find cigs that have yummy flavors, and it is easy to find all kinds of lovely ones to vape.

 

[PoeDung]

Unfortunately I'm still on the analogs. With it being winter time I'm just so used to standing outside my car smoking while it warms up. That's pretty much the only time I smoke analogs now. The rest of the time I vape. Once winter is over I plan on giving up the analogs.

 

[atcsat64]

Because my wife still smokes, you would think THAT would be a trigger for me: just the opposite! We (she now) don't smoke in the house, but do in the cars, garage and porches. Just being near an ashtray -that smell tells me never again! And seeing ashes in every crevice of the car interior makes me more determined.

I do however still maintain my humidor with several nice cigars, and THAT smell of cedar and aged tobacco when I open the lid YELLS at me that I'm an idiot for being a quitter! That's when I'm fighting the voices!

 

[atcsat64]

Unfortunately I'm still on the analogs. With it being winter time I'm just so used to standing outside my car smoking while it warms up. That's pretty much the only time I smoke analogs now. The rest of the time I vape. Once winter is over I plan on giving up the analogs.

I know you've heard or read it here before, but it true that it's not the ones you smoke but the ones you don't that count, right?

 

[maybeshewill]

I think I've eradicated my worst moments. But for quite some time it was my last cigarette of the day, before bed. It had a certain ritualism, that by having my last smoke, the day was over and I could brush and head to bed.
I beat that eventually when the cold kicked in. I smoked on my balcony cause I didn't want the stink in my room. Once smoking on the balcony became unpleasant I pulled through.

 

[Shyla]

First thing in the morning for me. The first week off of analogs was the worst. I didn't even want to get out of bed some days. Now, almost three weeks in, I don't even feel the need to vape until 45-60 min after I get up!