Need help/support in finding my last analog

[gypsymage777]

I tried e-cigs a few years ago, even bought one of the first Provari (anyone remember that wait time, and having your order number memorized). After a couple of months dealing with inadequate atomizer technology and not being able to find a juice that I could live with (even tried DIY) and vaping myself until sick from trying too many juices. I picked it up again just a little over 2 weeks ago. I have much better setups now. Kayfun lite is a godsend. I found 4 juices that I am absolutely addicted to in a wide range of flavor types. I received some DIY WTA unflavored to add, and have used this sparingly so far.

Anyway. I went from 2 1/2 packs a day to less than 1 pack a day in just the first few days. Not soon after, it was about 5-6 a day and stayed that way for the past 7-9 days I think? Actually, one day I ended up smoking about 10-12, I had a morning chain smoke moment.

Anyway, yesterday AM, I am looking at this pack of cigarettes (fresh I may add, I keep them humidified) that I have had for almost 4 days, with only 2 cigarettes in it. I smoke one when I wake up. Almost forgot about the very last one until I ate a few hours later. Something hit me before I even lit it. I cannot say that I had no desire for it, I did, but it was much less of a desire than before. One drag, and I am wanting to grab my mod for the next hit, but pulled by the analog at the same time. I finished it, all of these thoughts running through my head and just wondered what reason I would have in buying my next pack? Now, I was vaping immediately after to get that taste out of my mouth and to experience that wonderful flavor again.

So, I did not buy that next pack. It went well for a bit. I made sure to add WTA to my flavors just in case. It did not go too bad until near bedtime and I was finding myself chain vaping to relax myself. This morning I wake up and that is the worst/weakest time for me in feeling that I really really need that analog. I feel like I have been fighting off that demon of addiction since, and it is only a few hours so far. I did buy that pack. I was a basketcase earlier, I'm doing better now. The pack lays before me, unopened, and I have no idea when, or if I will do so.

So, anyway, how did you find your last analog?

 

[r77r7r]

Many of us didn't go Cold Turkey. Many of us still smoke a few.
Just tapered off w/o stress. Works fine for some.

 

[Myrany]

I ran out of cigs 6 hours before my first kit arrived in the mail. I toughed it out and just never purchased more. I won't lie that 6 hours was horrid. My first few days vaping only were a little rough but I realized that it was the habits that went WITH smoking kicking me more than wanting smokes.

That morning cig. Well pick up the ego with a strong menthol liquid and walk outside. Yeah I didn't have to go outside but I quickly figured out that the cool morning air with the coffee were as much part of the habit as the cig. SO vaped outside.

The after dinner cig. I got a special dessert vape. I reserved 20 minutes after supper that mine alone. I would savor that special only vaped at that time flavor. Sort of like the brandy and cigar time at the turn of the century. My indulgence. Now I no longer need the ritual but the 20 minutes is much needed me time

The trick for me was to make vaping as normal as cigs used to be. Tackle things one at a time and move on.

 

[Ld3441]

If mornings are worse for you, start your day with a higher nicotine juice and go lower later in the day when you feel you don't need as much. Listen to your body and if you need it use it. You already don't like the taste and that is a plus. Remind yourself of that when the urge hits and vape more. Good luck to you!

 

[Zealous]

I bought 2 packs of smoked & then my first of the 2 kits I got showed up. I had 2 cigarettes left from one pack but I tried my new Inferno ecig instead. I I just continued trying to work out the problems I found with it (wicking problems, etc) & my other kit also showed up so that held me over while I was trying to work out the issues with the first (the second kit was a Blu kit so cartos were more reliable while trying to figure out the tank on the other).

I never did have those last 2 cigarettes & never opened up the other 2 packs I bought. that was 2 years ago. The 2 cigarettes are still in their pack sitting where I left them & the 2 packs are on the bookcase where I put them too. I like to leave them there as a reminder that they don't have a hold on me any longer.

(tangent/)It would have been so much nicer if there had been a vape store I could have bought a simple ego stick & carto/tank from to try out instead of those 2 kits (since that was what I ended up getting after my last battery on my inferno broke and I still have that set up AND it still works). But I'm not sorry I got them cuz they both did exactly what I needed them to do for their time. (/tangent)

The trick for me was to make vaping as normal as cigs used to be. Tackle things one at a time and move on.

And I totally agree about this ^^^

 

[mare ze dotes]

No Rules! No rules! do as you need to get to your goal. I went a month with one real cig in the morning. My other hard quit was in the car. I Only smoked in the car, I did not learn how to vape and drive easily. That took well. a few trys, then I quit totally.

I don't care how much I might crave one of those things, its not going to happen.

 

[FlamingoTutu]

Wow, I do get the last cigarette thing. I had a terrible time switching. Dragged on over three months and I was pretty hard on myself. If I’d found ECF, I wouldn’t have been so discouraged. My husband was patient, understanding and my number one supporter and that made it all the harder on me, lol. Upped the nicotine to 24mg and one day I suddenly realized it was 4pm and I hadn’t had a cigarette that day. I don’t even remember my last cigarette. That was one of my biggest fears, “This will be the last cigarette I ever smoke.” Of course that just makes you smoke another and another and another… After about a month the 24mg was obviously way too strong and I went back to the 16-18mg juices. Now I use mainly 0mg.

Several months later I found a couple of packs in a drawer. I wasn’t craving one at all but waited until my husband came home just in case I was tempted to smoke both packs in one sitting. When he got home I smoked one. It was bloody awful! Not at all the reaction I expected. Walked around in a disbelieving daze for an hour and tried another. It was still terrible. That memory has done more to kill most every cig craving I’ve had since. Been over nine months and yes, those twinges do come up every now and then but never caved to them. They pass very quickly. Keep some higher nic around just in case.

Remember, it’s the ones you don’t smoke that count.

 

[Talyon]

Agreed no rules, no stress. Just let it happen. I have a pack of smokes with 2 in it and it's 10 months old now, I don't believe I'll ever smoke them but I leave them where they sit as some sort of a monumental defeat over them.

I win.

You well to.

Congrats in advance.

 

[mare ze dotes]

I think one of the best thing about vaping is that if we fall off the wagon it is easy to get back on.

 

[Truetopath]

I wouldn't fight too hard to give up that last one, it's always the hardest. Maybe try increasing your nic level in the morning, but it'll just happen one day and you'll be smoke free! Good luck on your journey.


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[Amiaji]

Just to reinforce what others have already said.

Quitting smoking is stressful enough. Don't beat yourself up over that last one. Count the ones you haven't smoked, not the ones you do. It will happen one day and all of a sudden you notice you haven't had a cig all day, and its a wonderful feeling.

 

[MikeZ28]

I smoked until the last one was gone but wish I'd kept a few around. Ten days or so after quitting I slipped and bought a pack, the one I smoked was terrible. But I kept the rest pack to tell myself "They're there if I have to, but I'm not going to smoke right now". For me, knowing I couldn't smoke was worse than choosing not to smoke. Having them lessened the anxiety for me. I did light a few over the next week but found that they just weren't the same anymore. The cravings quickly got weaker and less frequent. Now, six weeks since starting this adventure, I rarely think about cigarettes and when I do it's in a matter of fact way, not a craving.

 

[TheIronBuddhist]

I've conquered a few different addictions and now i'm quitting tobacco. I'm two weeks without a cigarette. It was relatively easy but now all the cravings are hitting me HARD. So in the back of my mind i've been thinking about it but I know I don't want it or need it.

I have a couple things that might or might not help, they help me but I never said I was normal person lol.

1. UP the nicotine , no shame in that
2. No shame in chain vaping for a while if you have too
3. Swap to a better tobacco flavored liquid, it might help.
4. Do you have any hobbies? Well get really really into them for a few hours and get your mind of off smoking.
5. Listen to music that gets you PUMPED and exercise.

I'm a musician, I play guitar and sing/scream(Death metal) so I'll crank some tunes and sing/scream till I can't anymore but I know my limits on that. Thats just as good as exercise for me.

I would not recommend swapping one addiction with another like alcohol or anything else.


Good luck!

 

[Peter_C]

I tried e-cigs a few years ago, even bought one of the first Provari (anyone remember that wait time, and having your order number memorized). After a couple of months dealing with inadequate atomizer technology and not being able to find a juice that I could live with (even tried DIY) and vaping myself until sick from trying too many juices. I picked it up again just a little over 2 weeks ago. I have much better setups now. Kayfun lite is a godsend. I found 4 juices that I am absolutely addicted to in a wide range of flavor types. I received some DIY WTA unflavored to add, and have used this sparingly so far.

Anyway. I went from 2 1/2 packs a day to less than 1 pack a day in just the first few days. Not soon after, it was about 5-6 a day and stayed that way for the past 7-9 days I think? Actually, one day I ended up smoking about 10-12, I had a morning chain smoke moment.

Anyway, yesterday AM, I am looking at this pack of cigarettes (fresh I may add, I keep them humidified) that I have had for almost 4 days, with only 2 cigarettes in it. I smoke one when I wake up. Almost forgot about the very last one until I ate a few hours later. Something hit me before I even lit it. I cannot say that I had no desire for it, I did, but it was much less of a desire than before. One drag, and I am wanting to grab my mod for the next hit, but pulled by the analog at the same time. I finished it, all of these thoughts running through my head and just wondered what reason I would have in buying my next pack? Now, I was vaping immediately after to get that taste out of my mouth and to experience that wonderful flavor again.

So, I did not buy that next pack. It went well for a bit. I made sure to add WTA to my flavors just in case. It did not go too bad until near bedtime and I was finding myself chain vaping to relax myself. This morning I wake up and that is the worst/weakest time for me in feeling that I really really need that analog. I feel like I have been fighting off that demon of addiction since, and it is only a few hours so far. I did buy that pack. I was a basketcase earlier, I'm doing better now. The pack lays before me, unopened, and I have no idea when, or if I will do so.

So, anyway, how did you find your last analog?

I never had my last one. I promised myself (and my wife who has never smoked) that I could smoke whenever I wanted to do so. I also promised myself I would vape before I lit a smoke. And while I do still miss a few aspects of smoking, I fully quit on the date below after 3-4 days of vaping.

Finding good gear, and a flavor you like, and keeping the NIC level high enough for you are the key points I think.

I just last week threw away a half-used pack of smokes, didn't even light one either.

Thank God for vaping is all I can say - this from a 2PAD 30+ year smoker.

 

[bcalvanese]

The first step is not to think about it too much. By doing that you are thinking about cigarettes.

I wheened myself from 3 packs a day, and now this is my 5th day without a cigarette, but it took me months to get to this point.

If you get a bad craving, try to vape it away first. If that does not work, smoke a cigarette. Don't try to set it in your head that you absolutely cannot smoke. It will only make you think about it more.

Try getting use to having a vape with that morning coffee instead of a cigarette. Have the cigarette about mid morning or even after lunch if you can hold out that long.

This is where the gear comes in.

It is absolutely essential to have a rig that gives you a consistant and satisfying vape. Wothout it, you will only think about smoking more. You allready have one of the best PV's for this. The Provari is one of the most (if not the most) consistant PV's out there. And the accuracy is second to none. It will give you exactly what you set it at right up until the last hit before the battery needs to be changed.

The first time i quit was with my first Provari. After about 5 months of not smoking I thouhgt I was over the hump and sold it to a buddy in work. I downgraded to one of those cigarette sized batteries, and shortly after, started smoking again. I was back up to 3 packs a day in about a month.

I have been wheening back down over the past 4 months or so using a Z-Max and an iTaste SVD, and was able to get down to about half a pack a day. I decided to quit screwing around and got a Provari mini (polished stainless... ), and went from about half a pack to 3 cigarettes a day within a week. I went from 3 a day to none a day in another week or so.

Why?

Consistancy.

The Provari with just a carto or a carto with a tank around it gives me the most consistant vape, and very satisfying as well.

You got the right gear. Just let it happen.

 

[NiNi]

My last was a Drum RYO. Maybe people who smoked RYO tobacco have an easier time, IDK? Finished it, and that was it, straight into vaping, no fuzzy overlap with analogs and vaping. This was the only "vice" I had that actually had a healthier or even had an alternative, everything else was "cold turkey, suck it up, Buttercup". So maybe toughing it out 25+ years ago on other unhealthy "things" and succeeding, I figured "Why not?"

I don't see quitting vaping in the future, but my nic levels have gone down, so maybe I'll end up at 0 nic? And I wasn't even trying

Everyone's different, I'm just ecstatic that vaping worked for me, I thought I'd never be able to quit smoking!

 

[kyletstrand]

I went for about a month easing down off a pack of day of am. spirit menthols. One day I decided to see how vaping exclusively went for a single day. One day turned to two turned into a week turned into almost 3 months now. I haven't gone back. I've had a few analogs in celebration mode, but I kept my smoking rituals, just replaced them with vapes instead of analogs! I smoked for 11 years and this has been the only way for me to break analogs for more than a few days at a time.

Best of luck!

 

[Tinkiegrrl]

What worked best for me was not to make myself or anyone else a promise on when I'd smoke my last cigarette. My mother purchased me my first kit when my grandmother died of lung cancer that spread to her brain. She gave it to me the day of my grandmothers funeral. Considering the circumstances, I had to promise to try the vape at least. I made no promise regarding when or if I was actually going to quit smoking. Over the course of a week I found I was only smoking one to two cigs per day, and each one tasted worse then the last. I didn't buy cigs for myself. My husband was still smoking. I ordered him the same kit I had, and when he stopped buying them, there simply weren't any to smoke. When a craving hit, I cranked the volts up on my ego. I still haven't promised anyone anything in regards to smoking, but after not smoking at all for a few days, smoking one was like smoking a burning tire. Yuck. I lucked out. I wound up being one of the few who developed an aversion to the taste of them after vaping.