Hi everyone! I'm a newbie to ECF and vaping. Around a year ago I tried to quit smoking and bought one of those e-cigs from the gas station. It tasted horrible and I didn't see the point so I quickly gave up. I have now ordered a joy510 and looking forward to it's arrival. There is so much info on vaping that I don't even know where to begin researching. My husband and I both smoke and spend about $500 a month on smokes. I'm hoping with the help of vaping I can give up smoking since patches and gum hasn't worked for me and I'm not willing to take a pill. Anyways any advice would be very appreciated!
I think the best advice is not to pressure yourself too much. When I started vaping, I didn't throw away my cigarettes. I just focused on learning to vape and developing my new habit. If I wanted to smoke, I did.
But, after the third day, I didn't want a cigarette badly enough to go outside to smoke. It wasn't worth the trouble when I could just vape indoors instead. And, I haven't smoked since, even though I had several packs of cigarettes sitting around that I could have picked up at any time. That was a year and a half ago.
I threw myself into it. I was fanatical about always having more than enough supplies. I had been the same way when I had smoked. If I had less than 2 packs of cigarettes on me, I'ld panic.
I went quickly from an Ego-t to a 510 to SR cartos to LR cartos to the 306. That's where I stopped for a long time. The Ego-t might have been enough to do the job. The 510 certainly would have been - at least for a while, until I got sick of the fiddling with cartridges. I never stood still long enough to know for sure. I quickly tried new things until I found something that I really loved - dripping DFW Caramel Macchiato on a 306.
Eventually I went through a bad spell where I started experimenting again and have found lots of new toys that I like. I guess I could have just thrown out the bad atties I had gotten and ordered new ones and kept on going. Financially, that would have made more sense. But, it was almost Christmas, and there were so many things on sale that I wanted to try!
The point I'm trying to make is that the focus should be on moving forward and not on what you're giving up. You don't have to give anything up. Just keep moving forward and developing and enjoying your new habit!