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JUST leave em sit, hit your learning curve and enjoy life without the crap smell.
When I started on this, I like many others still smoked, cut down to about 3-5 a day for the first couple of weeks of vaping. When I ran out of the real thing, just stuck with the vaping. Worked for me and that was 8 months ago!
i word for 'down the road' from my experiences:
I didn't smoke any analogs for at least a couple of weeks (was just using my various e-cigs, snus, nasal snuff, NRT devices), was still having some abrupt strong out of the blue urges for analogs (usually inspired by the power of suggestion, just seeing one, seeing one smoked, etc) but was okay until I hit a real stressful snag, had a situation that really pegged my stress and upset meter and bang, back to analogs I went for somewhere between 3 days to a week
I also happened at the end of that time to sit next to somebody who had a flaming case of some sort of catchable bronchitis
so bam, the very next day after being around the sick person ever since now I'm sick as a dog, that was my last day smoking analogs too, but my lungs are still on fire, kills me to cough, etc and I can't seem to zicam this out of me or anything, about to float in fluids trying to give my lungs a chance but they're still like a California forest fire in there
sure sitting sitting next to somebody that was contagious had to do with it -- but I haven't been sick with anything like this in literally years, even when people who were sick got near me.
So, if you can avoid it, don't go back to analogs once you do get off them, I swear it weakens and confuses your system too much and makes you more vulnerable than you would have been otherwise.
Especially during cold and flu season
I didn't smoke any analogs for at least a couple of weeks (was just using my various e-cigs, snus, nasal snuff, NRT devices), was still having some abrupt strong out of the blue urges for analogs (usually inspired by the power of suggestion, just seeing one, seeing one smoked, etc) but was okay until I hit a real stressful snag, had a situation that really pegged my stress and upset meter and bang, back to analogs I went for somewhere between 3 days to a week
I also happened at the end of that time to sit next to somebody who had a flaming case of some sort of catchable bronchitis
so bam, the very next day after being around the sick person ever since now I'm sick as a dog, that was my last day smoking analogs too, but my lungs are still on fire, kills me to cough, etc and I can't seem to zicam this out of me or anything, about to float in fluids trying to give my lungs a chance but they're still like a California forest fire in there
sure sitting sitting next to somebody that was contagious had to do with it -- but I haven't been sick with anything like this in literally years, even when people who were sick got near me.
So, if you can avoid it, don't go back to analogs once you do get off them, I swear it weakens and confuses your system too much and makes you more vulnerable than you would have been otherwise.
Especially during cold and flu season
i have a similar question. this is an interesting answer.Ok well my 510 came today with 2 bottels of 24mg juice I am the type if I have analogs areound I will naturaly go for them. Should I just throw them away or will I naturaly transition if I lower analog intake and up vaper.
Need advice..
sorry ... didn't mean to shout there, but you are almost detailing my current experience.
i got back to analogs. i swore at myself as i puffed away. and i am sick.
i think it's that i need a better throat hit. i need to feel that nicotine?
is 24 high enough for me?
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I say don't pressure yourself to quit. I got this advice from a buddy on this forum.
And I think it is great advice.
The first few days I had 6 or so analogs, but in the last 24 hrs I've only had one analog.
I feel really proud of that, and I already feel I can breathe deeper.
When I did go to have a cigarette they were not that fullfilling to me as I thought they would be.
Main thing is to find a juice that will work for you, for me it was Puresmoker Menthol
for you it may be something else.
Slowly you come to enjoy the vaping more than analogs, thats my newbie experience anyway.
Good luck to you!
And I think it is great advice.
The first few days I had 6 or so analogs, but in the last 24 hrs I've only had one analog.
I feel really proud of that, and I already feel I can breathe deeper.
When I did go to have a cigarette they were not that fullfilling to me as I thought they would be.
Main thing is to find a juice that will work for you, for me it was Puresmoker Menthol
for you it may be something else.
Slowly you come to enjoy the vaping more than analogs, thats my newbie experience anyway.
Good luck to you!
Everybody has their own transition phase.
For me I ordered an e-cig thinking it would be cool to try but that after 20 years of smoking 1.5 to 3 packs a day didn't think it would really make me quit. I got my starter kit 2 weeks ago tomorrow and shockingly the first day I only smoked 2 real cigs all day(one after each meal) and then went the next day without one at all, 3rd day I switched back to the last pack of smokes I had in the house while waiting for my next shipment of carts to show up on Tuesday. Tuesday I finished off the last 3 smokes in the pack while waiting for the mail and then haven't touched one since except when I was out and my battery died one day about a week ago and then I just had 2 of my fathers to hold me over til i got home to my charged battery.
Good luck.
For me I ordered an e-cig thinking it would be cool to try but that after 20 years of smoking 1.5 to 3 packs a day didn't think it would really make me quit. I got my starter kit 2 weeks ago tomorrow and shockingly the first day I only smoked 2 real cigs all day(one after each meal) and then went the next day without one at all, 3rd day I switched back to the last pack of smokes I had in the house while waiting for my next shipment of carts to show up on Tuesday. Tuesday I finished off the last 3 smokes in the pack while waiting for the mail and then haven't touched one since except when I was out and my battery died one day about a week ago and then I just had 2 of my fathers to hold me over til i got home to my charged battery.
Good luck.
As of being 100% smoke free for 5 weeks, I do still think "I'd like a smoke" now and then, but I am not certain if it is force of habit or a real genuine craving for a smoke. 
I have tobacco and papers in the same room as me, I've not even looked at them for a months though, let alone touched them (not even a quick grope).
If I'd really wanted to smoke, I could have...but I've ploughed too much cash and emotional energy into this to balls it up now...the longer we go without, the less likely we are to fall back into old habits (I believe).
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I have tobacco and papers in the same room as me, I've not even looked at them for a months though, let alone touched them (not even a quick grope).
If I'd really wanted to smoke, I could have...but I've ploughed too much cash and emotional energy into this to balls it up now...the longer we go without, the less likely we are to fall back into old habits (I believe).
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well, my partner smokes. we don't live together, but i do visit him. he will start smoking in the bath room.
that's how i relapsed. i just decided to smoke at chris's house, and not at home...
duh ...
anyways, i have an e cigar that i love too much.
i am back on 24 mg.
that's how i relapsed. i just decided to smoke at chris's house, and not at home...
duh ...
anyways, i have an e cigar that i love too much.
i am back on 24 mg.
I am hitting just a few days above a month now. My advice is really don't worry about it. I know that sounds odd, but the first few days with my e-cig I smoked 4 or so analogs, then the next day 1-2, then I would go a couple days without and decide to have one (all this is not lack of access, I have a pack in glovebox of my car), then I just didn't happen to have one for a few weeks and didn't want one.
Everyonce in a while I think, that might be nice, and if I really decide later I want one I will smoke it; fortunately I light it, puff a few times, feel icky cuz it stinks and tastes gross, toss it out, go brush my teeth and vape it away.
I don't think trying an analog is anything to beat yourself up about, we have all smoked multitudes of them over the span of years and are making a change that is difficult mentally and physically. Some days your e-cig just doesn't seem to work right, MAKE IT WORK. Keep working at it and you won't want an analog. Don't let the analog win, just don't beat yourself up if it does win! I've found if you keep yourself from thinking you want one, you usually really don't.. Good luck it's ben great!
Everyonce in a while I think, that might be nice, and if I really decide later I want one I will smoke it; fortunately I light it, puff a few times, feel icky cuz it stinks and tastes gross, toss it out, go brush my teeth and vape it away.
I don't think trying an analog is anything to beat yourself up about, we have all smoked multitudes of them over the span of years and are making a change that is difficult mentally and physically. Some days your e-cig just doesn't seem to work right, MAKE IT WORK. Keep working at it and you won't want an analog. Don't let the analog win, just don't beat yourself up if it does win! I've found if you keep yourself from thinking you want one, you usually really don't.. Good luck it's ben great!
I think we have all been there, and the best advice is do what is best for you. I went a week of mixed use before I switched completely and haven't looked back. I hope I never do.
Good Luck
Good Luck
I still have 19 packs of unopened cigarettes. They are probably stale by now, since I began vaping on 3/27/2009.
I wrote to the scientist who conducted the testing on e-cig cartridges for the FDA and offered to send any or all of the packs to him so he could conduct tests to compare the quantities of tar, carbon monoxide, heavy metals, toxins and carcinogens produced by the smoke from 10 cigarettes with the quantities of those substances (if any) produced by the vapor from 1 ml of liquid.
Haven't heard a word back from him.
Anyone want to buy some stale analogs?
I wrote to the scientist who conducted the testing on e-cig cartridges for the FDA and offered to send any or all of the packs to him so he could conduct tests to compare the quantities of tar, carbon monoxide, heavy metals, toxins and carcinogens produced by the smoke from 10 cigarettes with the quantities of those substances (if any) produced by the vapor from 1 ml of liquid.
Haven't heard a word back from him.
Anyone want to buy some stale analogs?
I would say my mom would LOVE to buy stale cigs at discount prices, but then again, she's getting a vapor king kit for christmas, so I'll leave it alone! lol
I think the ecigs are a natural transition from regular. I'm 36, smoked about 1 - 1 1/2 packs a day for more than half my life. Tried all different ways to quit but none stuck. Got a 510 tried it and had 2 drags off a analog that night. It's only been 10 days but I haven't smoked an analog since. It's been pretty easy for me and I wasn't planning to stop right away. Just wanted to try and check it out. Now I find i don't want to reset my time of not having an analog.
I keep the pack around, maybe it makes me thing there's less pressure and keeps me from becoming obsessed with getting an analog.
I started with the 24mg carts the 510 came with. Had a headache and buzz for a while. I think the 24 was way too strong to start with. I now go back and forth between 12 and 24, also dilute with VG a little. 24 now doesn't really make me "feel" much. I think that's a sign I've taken in much higher dosages of nicotine than before and have become used to it. I don't think thats a good thing.
I think the ecigs make a great replacement for tobacco cigs BUT I find I like the ecigs a lot. I also find i can use them in more places than smoking a regular cigarette, which makes me use it more. In my opinion this isn't a cessation device, it's a direct replacement for the habit. Like switching to a (hopefully)more healthy "brand". I'm happy to not have had any analogs, i feel much better, I hope I continue. I also feel like I haven't quit anything, like I said just switched brands.
Eventually I want to get off the Ecig and off nicotine and think that might be a tough thing to do.
I keep the pack around, maybe it makes me thing there's less pressure and keeps me from becoming obsessed with getting an analog.
I started with the 24mg carts the 510 came with. Had a headache and buzz for a while. I think the 24 was way too strong to start with. I now go back and forth between 12 and 24, also dilute with VG a little. 24 now doesn't really make me "feel" much. I think that's a sign I've taken in much higher dosages of nicotine than before and have become used to it. I don't think thats a good thing.
I think the ecigs make a great replacement for tobacco cigs BUT I find I like the ecigs a lot. I also find i can use them in more places than smoking a regular cigarette, which makes me use it more. In my opinion this isn't a cessation device, it's a direct replacement for the habit. Like switching to a (hopefully)more healthy "brand". I'm happy to not have had any analogs, i feel much better, I hope I continue. I also feel like I haven't quit anything, like I said just switched brands.
Eventually I want to get off the Ecig and off nicotine and think that might be a tough thing to do.
I just think its awesome how most of us still have analogs around and no desire for them. I keep mine just in case, and I don't even fault myself for having one when I feel I really need it (maybe once a week now). Most of us had tried to quit before, and couldn't do it period, much less with analogs sitting around, if they were there, they got smoked. I remember several times my mom would try and she would soak a pack of cigs with water, I'd wake up in the middle of the night and her cigs would be in the oven drying out and she'd keep trying to smoke them until one would stay lit. We've all ben there I guess. It's just great how we can have our e-cigs and not want the analogs.
Once you have only vaped for a week, you will smell an analogue smoker when they enter the room.
That alone will probably put you off picking up another one.
MT
That alone will probably put you off picking up another one.
MT
I can't have analogs around me period...I guess I've come to find that I'm an all or nothing kind of girl. I have been using my pv at work for the last two months, but have been smoking analogs because I had them at home. I decided that I would be done when I ran out and am now on day 3. So far so good...although I don't know if i can resist when i go to the bar and drink. I guess we'll see how that goes next....
Maureen
Maureen
Totally agreed, once you off tobacco then nicotine totally. Ecig becomes the replacement for Hand-To-Mouth action. Again, once this H-T-M habit is diminishing. Congrats to you..You are quitting Ecig..
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