I loved smoking and had for 30 years - of course I am addicted to the nicotine, but I was also addicted just to the mechanical part of smoking. Holding the cigarette, inhaling, exhaling and so on.
My first venture into e-cigs was the njoy and it actually sent me back to cigarettes. Part was what I fund to be the tastelessness of the liquid and how difficult it was to 'draw' the e-cig and lack of vapor. The only thing that it really full-filled for me was that I had something to handle that looked, and while heavier, felt like a cigarette.
After a lot of research, videos, and trial and error I ended up with a basic eGo battery and a rebuildable clearomizer, low resistence, and 24 mg "Marlboro" flavored e-liquid PC/VG. This satisfied the amount of nicotine I needed to inhale for the amount I vaped turning the day (everyone is different - if you vape a lot or all day long 18mg might be the same as 1-2 packs while if you only vape a few times a day or for very short periods you might do better with 24 mg.
The PG/VG (20%VG) gave me more vapor then just PG alone and that was part of what I needed to have. I used a low resistance clearomizer so I did not feel like I had to draw any harder on it then I did with a cigarette. With this set up I was able to move over to vaping full time in a matter of 2 weeks.
Now everyone is different. I have heard from some people that picked up vaping and immediately dropped the analog, while others had to have few analogs a day for a while until they got fully into the vaping.
Everyone is different so there probably is no one that can give you a perfect recipe for getting of analogs and on e-cigs the surest and fastest. I warn people that they initial will probably not save money switching over - at least in the first few weeks while they try different hardware/juices/nic levels to see what gives them the nicotine level they need. Everyone is different and there is not a 1-1 correlation between what/how many analogs you smokes and what you need in a e-cig.
People usually say that anyone that smokes more then a pack a day should start out with 24 mg but that is not necessarily the case. if a lot of an analog burned to ash in a tray so that maybe you were really on inhaling have of it you might not really need to vape 24mg an 16-18 would be fine for you. And nicotine level also has to do with taste and 'throat hit' so if you really like that throat hit then you might want 24mg and just vape less often since yu don't need as much nicotine as some who uses 24mg because they need a high nicotine level because of how they smoked when they did.
None tobacco flavors probably are not the best to start off with even if you give them up and switch to flavors after the first bottle. After all you have been tasting tobacco the whole time you were smoking and your brain is not going to buy that Watermelon flavored vapor is as good as tasting tobacco to equal smoking in your mind. Even if you find a flavor to start out with that you really love I think a good investment is to make sure you have one tobacco flavored bottle in your supplies. If you really love the flavr you have picked but are hitting a wall now and then when you really want an analog - vaping a bit of tabacco flavored liquid is a better choice to get over it and not go back.
That said, some people are turned off by the tobacco flavors they can find or think they taste too harsh. You can always mix you tobacco flavor with a bit of another flavor and sweeten and cut the harsh taste down a bit. Also keep in mind that the higher the nic level the harsher the vapor ca sometimes taste to some people. Some people find that fruit flavors taste much better at 18mg - the flavor comes through better while the higher nicotine hide some of the fruit taste.
How much vapor is produced to, can have a lot to do with it, and that can differ from person to person. Even if they use exactly the same system, juice etc, some will seem to have more or less vapor on an inhale/exhale and that can be important to the subbing of vapor for the smoke part of an analog. Different people draw and inhale differently and so more or less vapor is exhaled (and believe me to exhale vapor like you use to exhale smoke can be a big difference as to whether vaping is satisfying). Some people need/want more vapor then others. Using e-liquid with 20% VG/80% PG will produce more vapor (usually) then e-liquid that is 100% PG, and different systems produce different amounts of vapor depending on atomizer resistance. So yu may have to play around with what resistance atomizer and what mix of VG/PG is most satisfying to you along with everything else.
Different methods of vaping, such as dripping, using a cartomizer or preferring a clearomiser or larger tank can make a difference in taste and how satisfied one feels form vaping. What seems like the most satisfying system to many people when you look around might not be the one that fits yu the best, so think through how your feel about holding a larger battery vs a analog shaped/sized one and experiment with the various ways to vape like dripping, atomizing etc.
Some people also find that a battery larger then an analog does not feel right or even tells their brain they are not really "smoking" because it does not feel right in their hand. You maybe one of those people that needs it to look and feel like a analog to make the switch. I actually did buy a joyetech 510-T and used it while I used my eGo most of the time but when I got a bad urge for a analog I could use that. I could use it when I was ut of the house - so I did not feel like people wondered what I was inhaling on and sometimes I just needed the 'comfort' of holding a analog. I rarely use it now but it got be over the last hump where I had still be needing an analog once or twice a day.
So that's a lot to think about when you're trying to figure but what you are missing that is trying to drive you back to or to continue with an analog. It may not have to do with 'enough' nicotine at all, but the use of flavor choice when just switching over and getting used to the feel of the system you are using.
And believe it or not, if you hit an urge now and then to smoke and analog instead of vape, if you go to You Tube and watch a vaping video (does not matter which ones, whether is a review of systems, or juice reviews, or how to's or just people telling their story) while they are vaping - and you vape right along - it can really help you move away from thinking about that analog - it can be helpful to sit there and watch someone vape right along with you (or you with them) to get your mind back into vaping.
My first venture into e-cigs was the njoy and it actually sent me back to cigarettes. Part was what I fund to be the tastelessness of the liquid and how difficult it was to 'draw' the e-cig and lack of vapor. The only thing that it really full-filled for me was that I had something to handle that looked, and while heavier, felt like a cigarette.
After a lot of research, videos, and trial and error I ended up with a basic eGo battery and a rebuildable clearomizer, low resistence, and 24 mg "Marlboro" flavored e-liquid PC/VG. This satisfied the amount of nicotine I needed to inhale for the amount I vaped turning the day (everyone is different - if you vape a lot or all day long 18mg might be the same as 1-2 packs while if you only vape a few times a day or for very short periods you might do better with 24 mg.
The PG/VG (20%VG) gave me more vapor then just PG alone and that was part of what I needed to have. I used a low resistance clearomizer so I did not feel like I had to draw any harder on it then I did with a cigarette. With this set up I was able to move over to vaping full time in a matter of 2 weeks.
Now everyone is different. I have heard from some people that picked up vaping and immediately dropped the analog, while others had to have few analogs a day for a while until they got fully into the vaping.
Everyone is different so there probably is no one that can give you a perfect recipe for getting of analogs and on e-cigs the surest and fastest. I warn people that they initial will probably not save money switching over - at least in the first few weeks while they try different hardware/juices/nic levels to see what gives them the nicotine level they need. Everyone is different and there is not a 1-1 correlation between what/how many analogs you smokes and what you need in a e-cig.
People usually say that anyone that smokes more then a pack a day should start out with 24 mg but that is not necessarily the case. if a lot of an analog burned to ash in a tray so that maybe you were really on inhaling have of it you might not really need to vape 24mg an 16-18 would be fine for you. And nicotine level also has to do with taste and 'throat hit' so if you really like that throat hit then you might want 24mg and just vape less often since yu don't need as much nicotine as some who uses 24mg because they need a high nicotine level because of how they smoked when they did.
None tobacco flavors probably are not the best to start off with even if you give them up and switch to flavors after the first bottle. After all you have been tasting tobacco the whole time you were smoking and your brain is not going to buy that Watermelon flavored vapor is as good as tasting tobacco to equal smoking in your mind. Even if you find a flavor to start out with that you really love I think a good investment is to make sure you have one tobacco flavored bottle in your supplies. If you really love the flavr you have picked but are hitting a wall now and then when you really want an analog - vaping a bit of tabacco flavored liquid is a better choice to get over it and not go back.
That said, some people are turned off by the tobacco flavors they can find or think they taste too harsh. You can always mix you tobacco flavor with a bit of another flavor and sweeten and cut the harsh taste down a bit. Also keep in mind that the higher the nic level the harsher the vapor ca sometimes taste to some people. Some people find that fruit flavors taste much better at 18mg - the flavor comes through better while the higher nicotine hide some of the fruit taste.
How much vapor is produced to, can have a lot to do with it, and that can differ from person to person. Even if they use exactly the same system, juice etc, some will seem to have more or less vapor on an inhale/exhale and that can be important to the subbing of vapor for the smoke part of an analog. Different people draw and inhale differently and so more or less vapor is exhaled (and believe me to exhale vapor like you use to exhale smoke can be a big difference as to whether vaping is satisfying). Some people need/want more vapor then others. Using e-liquid with 20% VG/80% PG will produce more vapor (usually) then e-liquid that is 100% PG, and different systems produce different amounts of vapor depending on atomizer resistance. So yu may have to play around with what resistance atomizer and what mix of VG/PG is most satisfying to you along with everything else.
Different methods of vaping, such as dripping, using a cartomizer or preferring a clearomiser or larger tank can make a difference in taste and how satisfied one feels form vaping. What seems like the most satisfying system to many people when you look around might not be the one that fits yu the best, so think through how your feel about holding a larger battery vs a analog shaped/sized one and experiment with the various ways to vape like dripping, atomizing etc.
Some people also find that a battery larger then an analog does not feel right or even tells their brain they are not really "smoking" because it does not feel right in their hand. You maybe one of those people that needs it to look and feel like a analog to make the switch. I actually did buy a joyetech 510-T and used it while I used my eGo most of the time but when I got a bad urge for a analog I could use that. I could use it when I was ut of the house - so I did not feel like people wondered what I was inhaling on and sometimes I just needed the 'comfort' of holding a analog. I rarely use it now but it got be over the last hump where I had still be needing an analog once or twice a day.
So that's a lot to think about when you're trying to figure but what you are missing that is trying to drive you back to or to continue with an analog. It may not have to do with 'enough' nicotine at all, but the use of flavor choice when just switching over and getting used to the feel of the system you are using.
And believe it or not, if you hit an urge now and then to smoke and analog instead of vape, if you go to You Tube and watch a vaping video (does not matter which ones, whether is a review of systems, or juice reviews, or how to's or just people telling their story) while they are vaping - and you vape right along - it can really help you move away from thinking about that analog - it can be helpful to sit there and watch someone vape right along with you (or you with them) to get your mind back into vaping.
