New And Hurting

[MiamiMom63]

The last time I tried to smoke a cig was last June when some of us was outside the hospital waiting for my grand baby to be born. Lol. I was a nervous wreck and my ex lit up so I figured what the heck. I was shocked that I just could not smoke it and threw it out and vaped my delicious vanilla instead. Lol. I don't think I can ever smoke again. If I couldn't get nic in my ecig, I would probably wear a patch and vape zero nic anyways. I just love the vape so much more. To me it's what smoking should have been from the very beginning.

 

[MiamiMom63]

If you don't want to get into full DIY, which would be more than just adding nic to the 6mg because it would require adding flavoring also to retain your juice flavor, just buy the same juice in 18mg and mix equal parts of it and your 6mg to give you 12mg. Here's a calculator. If it doesn't go to the right page, use the one the left menu called mixing eliquids near the bottom:

Combined E-Liquid's Name

You can mix different ratios if you instead want 11,10, 9, 8 or 7 mg strengths. And don't mix all the 6mg you have because while you get the nic quicker from a smoke (ie: no delay), when vaping most of us vape more than we smoked and with the 20 minute or so delay in vape nic delivery, it builds up so you may still need some of your 6mg to come down for lack of a better term. Hope that makes sense... I'm in a hurry here.

This is very good advice from Parkin. I forgot about mixing nic levels. I used to love a flavor from a vendor that only sold 8, 16, and 24 mg juice but I vaped at 12 mg nic. So I would buy a bottle of 16 mg and 8 mg and mix them together to make my 12 mg juice.

 

[BabyFeet]

Up your nic. level when vaping. Drinks lots of water (distilled if you can find it) Try doing a light physical activity like walking to flush out old toxins and toxic chemicals and try eating more leafy green veggie salads to push out even more toxins.
Hang in there, you'll make it.
The journey is worth it and the ECF community has your back.

Good luck

 

[michaelsil1]

Thank you it's my eight day and I'm feeling better than I did. I added some Menthol to my Juice and wow what a rush.

 

[kay67kay]

i allowed myself a transition period and didn't even think about trying to transition cold turkey. i gave myself a month or so with no hard and fast rules about how many smokes i could have. it turned out i fully transitioned after only 2 weeks, because i just wasn't enjoying the smokes any more. i went from 30+ a day to 6 a day from the day after my kit arrived, and just went down from there.

i've been fully smoke free for 3 weeks now. sometimes i feel like a smoke, but the urge hasn't been strong enough that i've had one. if i do find i need to have one, though, i'm not going to make a big deal out of it. after 30+ years of smoking, the habit is so deeply ingrained that it won't go away over night. it's a big enough change to be making without adding the stress of beating myself up if i happen to have a slip now and then.

 

[MiamiMom63]

I totally agree, Kay. I never planned on totally quitting. I think it took a lot of stress off of me. I tell newbs not to worry about it so much. To just keep in mind that every Vape is one less cig they smoked and take it from there.