I casually smoked for a few years, then turned to about a pack a day for 4 months, and then have been on about half a pack a day for awhile. Surprisingly, I don't give a hoot about nicotine whatsoever; it's never been what my body is addicted to. I'll openly admit that I'm addicted to the act of smoking because the feeling of a thick air going into my lungs seems to calm me down just a tad, I can't go long without that type of distraction. Now, I like the high from nicotine as much as anyone else, but I haven't felt that since a week after I first started smoking. I'd happily vape 0 nic if it tasted amazing (which is why I'm less worried about FDA laws - there's no way under the sun they can regulate vegetable glycerin and food flavorings!). Being able to vape with nicotine is just a bonus that I rarely use - to feel the nicotine, I'll just exhale through nose, and I do feel the buzz I originally felt with cigarettes so long ago. But it's not my requirement. I just enjoy sitting down and inhaling something! It's my favorite thing to do while watching a movie or something. I love everything about vaping - sadly, as everyone on this forum probably knows, I haven't been able to get ahold of a working vaping device in over 3 years, so I'm still a cig guy, very sadly (I hate the taste and general low mood feeling associated with cigs!) Imagine if you have been trying to vape for 3 years, spending hundreds on it, yet every single device you recieve and buy either burns up or shorts out or comes in faulty with no refund. It is extremely stressful.
*I also have the motto that if I want a darn cig, then I'll have a darn cig, and it's a great mindset IMO. No pressure. I feel like a couple cigs a day at most would be so much better than what I've been doing, and with vaping, I only feel the need for the fullness of a cigarette every so often (and alcoholic drinks require them.) While I'm super interested in NET's for a pipe tobacco type vape, I'm in no goal to make my vape taste like a cigarette. That'd be awful anyway. When I need a cigarette, I'll have one. I even want to quit for awhile so that I can
enjoy cigarettes again LOL. I smoke so much that I can't even taste them anymore, tastes like I'm smoking powder, and it's sickly
My advice to anyone is of coarse do the goal you set out to do, but my opinion is that life's life, one cigarette isn't going to kill anyone. For example, with how they treat drug addiction in Europe opposed to the US, the US promotes a cold turkey sit in rehab deal. Europe and places like that promote a "here's a medical version of your drug and we'll give it to you in a smaller and smaller dose every time you need it when you walk into our clinic 4 times a day, and in the meanwhile, go party and have fun, learn about life while your body is slowly healing." The later is what I think works, where people just slowly get sober and realize "what in the world am I doing? I feel good enough now that I don't need to fool with this anymore." and then they get a nice hobby. During the rare times I got a working vape, that's exactly what I did. I found what I enjoyed and stopped cigs before I even knew it. For people that have cravings, try new things like NET's, new flavors, better vapor amounts, find something about vaping that tastes and feels better than cigarettes, and while you enjoy that, don't pressure yourself to entirely quit smoking if you don't want to!
But do exhale the vapor from your nose. It's more relaxing than a cigarette could ever be, literally gives me a "high." and suddenly makes cigarettes feel pathetic! Find the things about vaping that make you hate cigs, and sometimes, that's a process. IMO, forced cold turkey often leaves people in the mindset that they crave it instead of hate it!
Some of us had to deal with cigalike batts or get into modding.
