Ok so this is day 2 without an analog and I feel like I'm going nuts. I'm so anxiety ridden. Still vaping my 24 WTA and it's helping a lot but I'm still having a hard time. I smoked almost 2 packs a day, for 32 years and started vaping 6 months ago. Cut down to 6 per day and decided to quit this past weekend. Please tell me it gets better. I see a lot of people here making the transition with no issues, wish I was the same........
I started Saturday..... 1/18/2014 & I was having the same issue. I thought everybody else picked up the Vape & dropped the smoke all in one go. I started a thread here, Sunday "
I love smoking" I didn't want to quite, but new that I should.
In that thread I realized the mistake was mine. I assumed vaping allowed everyone else to quit cold turkey & that just wasn't the case. Many people continued to smoke cigarettes, but just like your experience, the amount of cigarettes they smoked was
drastically reduced.
That said.... if you're feeling anxiety about it, something's wrong.
1. Nobody is saying you have to quit today. Going from 40 cigarettes a day to 6 cigarettes a day is a big freak'n deal & you should be patting yourself on the back, not kicking your .... about it.
2. Sounds like you need a vape... that should "handle" the anxiety.
As others mentioned, if you're on 24mg liquid, you're pretty much maxed out. The only thing to do from there, is to hit the pipe more (that don't sound right does it?).... or work on your technique. My first 48 hours I figured out that I wasn't getting as much nicotine out of my vapes. I was drawing the smoke into my mouth, then exhaling without drawing the vapor into my lungs. It wasn't at all like smoking a cigarette.
I couldn't inhale, because the vapor was too harsh on my throat. But I learned to breath the vapor into my nose after letting it escape my mouth....... let me tell you I felt every bit of that 24mg. Yesterday & today, I'm hitting the vapor like I smoked.... about 7 times a day & don't feel like a cigarette at all. It's been suggested that I lower the nicotine content of my vapor, but..... that doesn't make sense to me. I'm going to try it, but I assume I'll be hitting the pipe more than 7 times a day.
Any who..... congratulations on knocking a big fat dent into your smoking habit. Feel good about it, celebrate. Heck, have a cigarette.... then don't plan to have another one until Thursday about noon.
