Apologies. I'm still trying to get used to the lingo so bare with me. I also just bought off of recommendations from the vape store owner. My tank is aspire. It has BDC beside the name? My battery is eGo-C Twist. The liquid I'm currently using is from All Vape Warehouse I believe, 16 mg nicotine, menthol ice flavor. I hope I just made sense as I don't know the details of my set up lol
I smoked about a pack a day for about 8 years. I've tried a couple menthol flavors since I smoked menthol cigs. I really like this menthol ice I have in the tank now. Also have tried a couple fruit flavors and liked mango.
Ok, hardware sounds good.
Your nic level may be low. There is no hard and fast rule to determining the proper nic level as it's a very individual thing depending on how much nic you absorb from vaping (everyone seems to be different...), the hardware that's being used - many factors. If you are having serious "wanna cigarette" fits multiple times per day I would try a 24 mg liquid and see how that sits.
As I said - you have options now. The best thing about vaping is the flexibility. Where am I going with that one? You can buy another Aspire like you have and have your 16 mg liquid in one, the 24 mg in the other. That way you can use the 24 mg for serious craving fits, the rest of the day you may be fine at 16 mg. I vaped two different nic levels for my first four months to deal with craving fits. After that I found I wasn't reaching for the higher nic level so I just stopped.
And you have to go through the Vaping 101 thing: Vaping is not smoking. (Duh - I know...) My point is it usually doesn't work very well if new peeps try to treat vaping like they used to smoke, taking short vaping breaks here and there during the day. Or expecting vaping to whack you upside the head the way a cigarette experience does - it won't. One of the harder things to sort out when doing this is working up to actually vaping enough when you start, to make sure you are getting enough nicotine to keep the cravings at bay. Vaping isn't the "natural" smoking experience we were all used to. It's different, and it takes some work to figure out the right nic level and do it often enough when you start.
Lastly: No beating yourself up. This isn't the American Cancer Society
"Pick a quit date! And one cigarette means you are a total failure!" method to quitting. We all know how that usually turns out so... There are a lot of things that can be tweaked and adjusted about your vape experience to get you there. That, and a lot of people hit this weird, happy place where the smoking experience suddenly turns on them and they start tasting bad, really bad, all over again. As long as you have a genuine desire to quit you can sort this out at your own pace.
. It took me two weeks of smoking along with 
