New to vaping to quit smoking

[ArneVL]

Hello all!

Arne here, 27 years old from The Netherlands!
I've been smoking for about 11 years and to keep it short i've been wanting to quit for a while but plain cold turkey wasn't my way. In the recent months i've been having some more shortness of breath and in combination with certain anxiety feelings it just made me feel restless. So now through a friend of mine giving me advice to give vaping a shot i started. I ordered a voopoo drag s pro and since yesterday have started on my vaping expierence and already i am smoking less (i'm a heavy smoker). I'm planning to smoke less and less whilst getting used to vaping and then just vape. I'm enjoying it alot (besides the heavy coughing yesterday). I found this forum as i want a resourceful place to find info/share expierences etc, this seems a good place!

Cheers, looking forward to the ecf!

 

[Rat2chat2]

to ECF Arne. So glad you are here and so glad that you are giving vaping a try. I just thought vaping would help me cut back on smoking and save some money. Vaping changed my life and it has been 9 years since I wanted a cigarette. You figured this out a lot quicker than I did so congrats to you.

I also think the love and support you get through this forum have a huge effect. I wish you all the luck in the world and look forward to reading more about your journey.

Welcome to the family.

 

[Bliss Doubt]

Welcome Arne.

How is vaping in the Netherlands? Can you get products easily?

I will offer you non-medical advice (I am not a doctor). You may be coughing because vaping lubricates your lungs and begins to loosen the old junk. That was what happened to me when I started vaping in 2012. It got better and better. As I began to enjoy vaping more and more, it became easier to choose a "quit day" for cigarettes and succeed. I haven't smoked a cigarette in almost 10 years, and I still love vaping.

Best of luck to you.

 

[FranC]

Welcome to ECF, Arne You have a good start.

 

[ArneVL]

Welcome Arne.

How is vaping in the Netherlands? Can you get products easily?

I will offer you non-medical advice (I am not a doctor). You may be coughing because vaping lubricates your lungs and begins to loosen the old junk. That was what happened to me when I started vaping in 2012. It got better and better. As I began to enjoy vaping more and more, it became easier to choose a "quit day" for cigarettes and succeed. I haven't smoked a cigarette in almost 10 years, and I still love vaping.

Best of luck to you.

A thank you, i'll see how the coughing/quitting ciggs will progress; i've only just started after all.

As for products here in the Netherlands. There are some stores with vaping products but i have not tried them out yet; i so far order my products from the UK, day after ordering it all arrives so seems fine. Smoking is under alot of pressure here with prices increasing by 3-4 bucks each year and vaping is very uncommon. For example i see you are from USA, prices of tabacco per 40 grams here average on 15 US dollars, same goes with packages of 30 cigs. But im also unaware of us cig prices. So people here tend to ''just quit or keep paying loads'', they seem unaware of the vaping alternative.

 

[zoiDman]

Hello all!

Arne here, 27 years old from The Netherlands!
I've been smoking for about 11 years and to keep it short i've been wanting to quit for a while but plain cold turkey wasn't my way. In the recent months i've been having some more shortness of breath and in combination with certain anxiety feelings it just made me feel restless. So now through a friend of mine giving me advice to give vaping a shot i started. I ordered a voopoo drag s pro and since yesterday have started on my vaping expierence and already i am smoking less (i'm a heavy smoker). I'm planning to smoke less and less whilst getting used to vaping and then just vape. I'm enjoying it alot (besides the heavy coughing yesterday). I found this forum as i want a resourceful place to find info/share expierences etc, this seems a good place!

Cheers, looking forward to the ecf!

Hi Arne. Welcome to the ECF.

Everything you said sounds Very Reasonable. The Smoking Less and Less while Vaping More and More is how I Quit Smoking. And I Smoked for Longer than you have been Alive.

LOL.

Some Coughing when you 1st start using a e-Cigarette is not all that unusual. And sometimes it can be from Hitting your e-Cigarette Too Fast. It helps to take Slower Hits when you use an e-Cigarette.

 

[Daniel Forsyth]

Welcome to ECF

 

[rosesense]

Welcome to ecf.

 

[Coyote628]

The price for a pack of Marlboro in Kentucky is getting close to 7 dollars these days. Can't believe I used to like those things. I can't even stand the smell now.

 

[somdcomputerguy]

Welcome to ECF, Arne.

 

[BrotherBob]

Hello all!

Welcome and glad you joined.

i'm a heavy smoker

Could look at:
https://www.reddit.com/r/electronic_cigarette/comments/3w38zx/vapewilds_diacetylap_testing/

 

[Mediocre00Rebel]

Hello all!

Arne here, 27 years old from The Netherlands!
I've been smoking for about 11 years and to keep it short i've been wanting to quit for a while but plain cold turkey wasn't my way. In the recent months i've been having some more shortness of breath and in combination with certain anxiety feelings it just made me feel restless. So now through a friend of mine giving me advice to give vaping a shot i started. I ordered a voopoo drag s pro and since yesterday have started on my vaping expierence and already i am smoking less (i'm a heavy smoker). I'm planning to smoke less and less whilst getting used to vaping and then just vape. I'm enjoying it alot (besides the heavy coughing yesterday). I found this forum as i want a resourceful place to find info/share expierences etc, this seems a good place!

Cheers, looking forward to the ecf!

Thats a lot like what i did. I used vape to wean off cigarettes and at first it was like i was still craving, but my nicotine intake steadily declined from using the 3mg juice. It felt like the vape was just enough to satisfy. I never really felt like i forced it and still dont. Used to chain smoke like 26 cigarettes a day, now its just a couple on the occasion that my day feel extremely stressful. I still never wanna go back to cigarettes tho. For whatever reason sweet things trigger my craving for a combustable. Im gonna try to get an unsweet e juice to combat this tho. Im thinking a tobacco flavor should do the trick. Vaping can be very trial and error sometimes. I wish you the best of luck!!!