Nicotine: We can do without it...

[Falconfloat]

Hello peeps

**This is probably my final post on this forum, i havn't been here long but i want to thankyou all for your posts advice etc***

I havn't been on this forum very long, and tried vaping ever since i joined the forum.

Some quick history,I'm 29 years old... I wasnt a huge smoker when i smoked cigerettes. Anyway, I started smoking at a time when i was stressed out roughly 5 years ago. I decided to have just 1 cigerette and that turned into 2 and eventually 10 a day. I became addicted and i would try my best to stop the horrible habit but it became too difficult. I relied on them. First thing in the morning, after lunch, dinner and whenever else i got a chance.
Then came E-cigs, and i tried the 501 and bought some vapour etc, it was good and i replaced the cigerettes with vapour. Then i would sit there vaping for absolutely ages, however deep in my heart i would still want a real cigerette...slowly the temptation started to kick back in and i was on holiday to Portugal not long ago and i started smoking the dirty cigerettes again.

So then i sat down and thought long and hard, for all the reasons that i needed to stop all together such as my kid etc etc. I decided I would control the cigerettes and not let them control me.
I set myself times in the day when i would smoke i allowed myself 4 cigerettes in the day at 9am, 12pm, 5pm and 9pm. I dragged myself from hour to hour to get to those pit stops. I then cut to 3 cigerettes and then finally to two. Eventually i went to 1 cigerette in two days, i had the nicotine withdrawl symptoms. I became moody etc but i percevered. Everntually 1 month ago i kicked the habit completely. And feel great

Im not sure whether it was the nicotine, but looking back now i feel that my mind was caged, cloudy whilst i smoked. My thoughts are very clear now, its difficult to explain but i feel the environment around me etc.

I feel better not only without the smoke but also without the nicotine.
vaping is great from what i learnt, only if it can help you stop nicotine completly.
Thanks & all the best

 

[Col. Gaunt]

Hello peeps

**This is probably my final post on this forum, i havn't been here long but i want to thankyou all for your posts advice etc***

I havn't been on this forum very long, and tried vaping ever since i joined the forum.

Some quick history,I'm 29 years old... I wasnt a huge smoker when i smoked cigerettes. Anyway, I started smoking at a time when i was stressed out roughly 5 years ago. I decided to have just 1 cigerette and that turned into 2 and eventually 10 a day. I became addicted and i would try my best to stop the horrible habit but it became too difficult. I relied on them. First thing in the morning, after lunch, dinner and whenever else i got a chance.
Then came E-cigs, and i tried the 501 and bought some vapour etc, it was good and i replaced the cigerettes with vapour. Then i would sit there vaping for absolutely ages, however deep in my heart i would still want a real cigerette...slowly the temptation started to kick back in and i was on holiday to Portugal not long ago and i started smoking the dirty cigerettes again.

So then i sat down and thought long and hard, for all the reasons that i needed to stop all together such as my kid etc etc. I decided I would control the cigerettes and not let them control me.
I set myself times in the day when i would smoke i allowed myself 4 cigerettes in the day at 9am, 12pm, 5pm and 9pm. I dragged myself from hour to hour to get to those pit stops. I then cut to 3 cigerettes and then finally to two. Eventually i went to 1 cigerette in two days, i had the nicotine withdrawl symptoms. I became moody etc but i percevered. Everntually 1 month ago i kicked the habit completely. And feel great

Im not sure whether it was the nicotine, but looking back now i feel that my mind was caged, cloudy whilst i smoked. My thoughts are very clear now, its difficult to explain but i feel the environment around me etc.

I feel better not only without the smoke but also without the nicotine.
Vaping is great from what i learnt, only if it can help you stop nicotine completly.
Thanks & all the best

That is some very interesting insight. For me it seems not to have been the nic but just an association that analogs relaxed me. When I went into vaping, I vaped and smoked for a while until I liked the taste of the e-liquid far better then the taste of my analogs.

I have used high nic fluid and 0 nic fluid and both of them satisfied me.

So if i did completely give up the nic I really do not think that it would matter, but I dont think that I could give up vaping.

 

[gashin]

I love nicotine and probably will never quit unless it threatened my heath. I find it makes my mind clear and helps to give me a boost in the morning. It is the only drug I use (not even caffeine anymore) and I take it through vaping and nasal snuff.

 

[Mister]

I quit for 23 months once. The day I chose to go back to smoking was awesome. My mind cleared and I was functional again. It sure is a complex thing, so different for different people.

 

[Victor Frankenstein]

I quit for 23 months once. The day I chose to go back to smoking was awesome. My mind cleared and I was functional again. It sure is a complex thing, so different for different people.

That is sort of how I was. I had quit for 9 months. When I started back up again I began to feel better, think clearer and was more relaxed.

I think the chemical affects people differently and produces different types of results.

My wife used to smoke and really received no added benefits. She stopped one day and never went back. Same with her mother. Her mother smoked for 40 years and just stopped. That was the end of it and she felt better for doing it.

Me. I felt like crap. My brain likes the stuff.

 

[DC2]

Vaping is great from what i learnt, only if it can help you stop nicotine completly.

Can't agree with you there.

I know I can do just fine without the nicotine, but I want it and have no reason that I know of not to have a little bit here and there. But even if I were to start using zero nicotine juice all the time I know for a fact I will never stop vaping.

I vape to replace what smoking gave me, and it wasn't really the nicotine. Smoking used to give me a chance to get away for 10 minutes with my thoughts, a reason to take breaks from work, a way to remove myself from a stressful situation until I could cool off or think it through, and a way to remove myself from situations I just didn't want to be in.

These are things I will always need, and nothing in the world could ever come close to replacing cigarettes as a way to give me those things, until I found vaping. In fact, the only bad thing I find about vaping is that I don't NEED to get away from people anymore to vape, like I did with cigarettes. But at least I can still use it as an excuse if I want to.

Of all those things, the biggest thing for me is taking breaks from work. If I don't smoke or vape, I do not take breaks. I can't just sit there for 10 minutes doing nothing. And I can stare at my computer screen for half an hour and not figure out how to solve a problem I am working on, and then go out for a smoke (now vape) break and figure it all out before I can even finish my break.

Yeah, I will NEVER stop vaping, nor would I ever want to.

 

[wenchy69]

Can't agree with you there.

I know I can do just fine without the nicotine, but I want it and have no reason that I know of not to have a little bit here and there. But even if I were to start using zero nicotine juice all the time I know for a fact I will never stop vaping.

I vape to replace what smoking gave me, and it wasn't really the nicotine. Smoking used to give me a chance to get away for 10 minutes with my thoughts, a reason to take breaks from work, a way to remove myself from a stressful situation until I could cool off or think it through, and a way to remove myself from situations I just didn't want to be in.

These are things I will always need, and nothing in the world could ever come close to replacing cigarettes as a way to give me those things, until I found vaping. In fact, the only bad thing I find about vaping is that I don't NEED to get away from people anymore to vape, like I did with cigarettes. But at least I can still use it as an excuse if I want to.

Of all those things, the biggest thing for me is taking breaks from work. If I don't smoke or vape, I do not take breaks. I can't just sit there for 10 minutes doing nothing. And I can stare at my computer screen for half an hour and not figure out how to solve a problem I am working on, and then go out for a smoke (now vape) break and figure it all out before I can even finish my break.

Yeah, I will NEVER stop vaping, nor would I ever want to.

i totally agree with your sentiments here. smoking, for me has always been a reason to just get away from the world every so often. it was something i needed, it even felt like a little treat. so aside from the addictions and so forth, this was a huge part of smoking for me.
now vaping give me those little treat times.

 

[Melwig]

+1 DC2.
I think that the whole act of smoking has been greatly oversimplified, helped along by some very questionable "science" and "statistics".

The social aspects of smoking have been entirely ignored, and yes, like you those "breaks" always helped me to keep a balance in my life, and yes, a ten minute break with a cigarette was my number one method for problem solving.

I use nicotine the way I use caffeine, and with vaping I can. That means I use 6% most of the time, 0% quite often and 12% on those occasions when I really want or need a boost.

Meanwhile I can vape for all the same reasons I smoked, including everything you wrote about.

 

[CaptJay]

+2 DC2

People vape (and smoke) for different reasons - whats good for one isnt good for another and so on and so forth. Its like religion as far as I'm concerned - as long as you're happy, and content, theres no need to shove your idealism down anyone else's throat. Just enjoy and let others enjoy equally.

 

[yanks21]

Nicotine: We can do without it...

No, YOU don't need it

Not to be mean but I'm kind of glad this is your last post because for you to make some kind of blanket statement about needing nicotine especially when you yourself said: "I wasnt a huge smoker when i smoked cigerettes."

Is more than aggravating to me.

 

[keyzygirl]

Smoking or now vaping is my quiet peacful time.Coffee and a nice vape relax me and I can go on with the madness that is my life.

 

[oldtechno]

I came into this back in September with the idea in mind of cutting my nicotine to zero. On my next order to CIGNOT.com all my juice will be zero nic.

I've got 13 months left before I quiet vaping. I figure that is plently of time to break myself in. Besides I'm down to 5mg and have been for five or more months.

 

[Big Thier]

Mmm... I used to smoke a pack a week, and suddenly decided I'll stop smoking. Well, not completely: to this day I still allow myself 1 cigarette a week. But I'm missing the times where I would light one up whenever the hell I wanted to. This is why I'm trying vaping... Still waiting for my order to arrive... Waiting is killing me...