Really good post...
But I am upset that you changed your avatar.
I hardly recognized you.
No intention of quitting smoking...
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But I am upset that you changed your avatar.
I hardly recognized you.
I was just like you tried a cigalike years ago and hated it, few months back I wanted to try again (with all the new technology out there, might be worth a shot) after a week and a half I totally quit analogs (didn't even like the taste compared to my juice) I'm still looking for the perfect vape and every now and again I get an urge for burnt byproduct but I fight the urge and vape on. Its funny, if you told me 4 months ago I would be quitting analogs I would have laughed at you. Ive tried many accessories but mostly use jtanks with boge lr cargos and ce3 "phoenix" with either my ego or my innokin itaste vv/vw. Looking to get an MVP and the new ksd kmax. Also just picked up an anyvape Davide Glassomizer.
Same here. I bought my "ego ce4" starter kit and instantly a pack of analogs would last me like 2-3 days. I was thinking about buying a VV/VW battery about two weeks ago because I felt like I needed a little better vapor production. Instead I decided to buy a Kanger ProTank, luckily I found at my local shop, and haven't smoked since. They also have the revolutionvapor liquid there which is a lot better than the other 5 or 6 different liquids i tried at the other shops around my town. My aim wasnt to quit smoking, it was just to spend less money on cigarettes but like most on this thread, it just happened.
Well I finally took the plunge all. I pulled the trigger on the iTaste eGo 510. At least that's what I think it's called. All I can say is wow! The technology sure has come a long way compared to when I tried this just 2 short years back with a Reo mini!
I've been Analog free now almost 12 hours and I feel ok. BUT, I feel much more Confident about vaping! I bought the round battery type and 2 cartos. Please if anyone sees that I'm misusing the terminology feel free to jump me right away
Anywho, I also picked up 3 flavors. After a long conversation with the rep Apparently having half of one kind and 1/2 of another kind is the best mixture for the E juice?
I'll admit I feel a bit nervous, I'm jittery and can't sleep much. I just remember stepping outside the mall after vamping for 1/2 hr I had one cigarette left in my GPC lights box pack And I decided to finally test once and for all these"reports" of Just how awful the analogs taste after vaping. HOLY COW. I can't even STAND the taste, sensensation, smell or throat hit of a real analog now! I just wonder if I need a higher Concentration of nicotine? All the juices are 15 mg each bottle, is that normal for a one pack a day smoker? I feel like I'm hitting it non stop, could just be my nerves I suppose
I've been Analog free now almost 12 hours and I feel ok. BUT, I feel much more Confident about vaping! I bought the round battery type and 2 cartos. Please if anyone sees that I'm misusing the terminology feel free to jump me right away
Anywho, I also picked up 3 flavors. After a long conversation with the rep Apparently having half of one kind and 1/2 of another kind is the best mixture for the E juice?
I'll admit I feel a bit nervous, I'm jittery and can't sleep much. I just remember stepping outside the mall after vamping for 1/2 hr I had one cigarette left in my GPC lights box pack And I decided to finally test once and for all these"reports" of Just how awful the analogs taste after vaping. HOLY COW. I can't even STAND the taste, sensensation, smell or throat hit of a real analog now! I just wonder if I need a higher Concentration of nicotine? All the juices are 15 mg each bottle, is that normal for a one pack a day smoker? I feel like I'm hitting it non stop, could just be my nerves I suppose
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That's the PG/VG mix. There isn't a "best" mix really, it's all up to you. VG is what makes the clouds of vapor, VG carries the flavor more and gives throat hit. You can try various combinations. It seems most people do somewhere between 80/20 mixes and 50/50 mixes. I think most of mine are 60/40. Most vendors have a preferred mix they use, many also let you choose your mix. Just ordered from Mt Baker Vapor and chose 65/35.
VG is available at any pharmacy or Walmart even, little bottle of glycerin in the skin care area, it's around $4. Feel free to play with it. I've gotten flavors that were awesome when I sampled them, but ended up being too sweet to vape all day. Add a few drops of VG, tones it down a bit.
Nope. Not me.
If it were "will power", I wouldn't be here. I did "cold turkey" in my 20s. Lasted some months actually. Could have shaved a good two decades (and change) off my smoking years.
For myself, it's something about vaping being better. And that the nicotine keeps the really awful, horrible, nightmarish withdrawal stuff at bay. I've been through nicotine withdrawal a few times in my attempts to quit. Mine is pretty bad. Idea kinda actually scares me a little.
In fact, it's that "will power" ain't got nothing to do with it that I have to stay in my little indeterminate state of I could smoke any time, I just don't want to right now. Weirdly and perversely enough, if I think, "never touch one again", there's still some kind of panic in there and I want one. But if I think of it as, "Sure, any time, just go to the store, buy a pack, come back, find the lighters--if any are still around, find an ashtray--if any survived..." and it starts to sound like a chore and, oh look, blueberry vapor!
I did this funny thing at the beginning of I could smoke all I wanted. I just kept moving them further and further "away". The PV is right here where the ashtray and all used to sit. Right to hand. But the cigs would live in, oh, the kitchen. I had to go get 'em out, get the ashtray, yada yada. Gradually just kept making the cigs less convenient but the vapor was right here, ready to go.
Now I keep my cigs at the store. I could have one. I just have to drive five miles. Oh and put on pants. You know, formal occasion and all. Also, police.
(Nah, kidding. Though I do wear rag tag shorts around the house. This is Texas, it is summer, and the AC can't keep up if I try to run it too low. Thing would burn its compressor out and that ain't cheap to replace. So I gotta change to go to the store. Don't want people screaming and clawing their eyes out. Not again at least.)
Anyway. It's more taking advantage of my innate laziness. I could go get a pack. It's just such a hassle. I don' wanna.
Well, my experience is the "cig-a-like" stuff didn't last long. I went through Blu in a couple of weeks then a Joye 510 stick set up for another couple of weeks. Landed on Twists with Vision clearos and that's where I've stayed. And that was the point where the vaping replaced the smoking. The smaller set ups, you just can't get enough vapor to really knock out the smoking in my experience. I landed on, and recommend these days, a kit much like this one: Combo. You don't have to get that one nor use that vendor but something like it. Easy to use and has the battery and liquid capacity to really replace the smokes. At least for me. And for several folks I've read that go with a kit like that one. Seems to me to be the true "starter" level. Not Blu.
(I started with Blu and still have a bit of fondness for them. They got me here for one thing. Trying to deal with their deficiencies got me to the ECF. I don't hate them so much as feel disappointed? Oh well. They showed me I could do this thing. I caught myself "forgetting" to light up. Which if you knew me, was a shock. Shocked me. Shocked my relatives. I think they would have been less shocked if I'd sprouted wings and flew around the neighborhood.
)
But, come on, the ECF software called me an "Ultra Member" when I hit, what, 1,000 posts?
I just couldn't resist!
I never intended to quit when I grabbed my first disposable blu. It was just a way to smoke in the car in the rain in my eyes. But here I am, about five weeks later, with two eGo Twists, a bunch of various clearomizers and juices, and a Vamo on the way, and I haven't touched a cigarette in almost three weeks. I never expected this, but it's pretty freaking cool!
Same here. Bought a Blu disposable when I was picking up my regular carton just to try out this "e-cig" thing. Then forgot to light up for pretty much the rest of the day.
Stunned me...
That is an awesome side effect. I chose the vaping to get off the analogs,and so far so good.
I had no intention of quitting, my wife brought home a Njoy she received from some promotional , tried it and thought....hmmm.
Never even heard that much about ecigs, then after searching the Internet, came across this site, after reading through a lot of threads, I was even more curious, more so about the flavors, not about leaving my decades of a PAD smokes behind.
Dropped into a local vape shop the next day, walked out with a kit and some juice....no analogs since ( two weeks now ).
Totally hooked, soooo happy, have no desire to go back.
Never even heard that much about ecigs, then after searching the Internet, came across this site, after reading through a lot of threads, I was even more curious, more so about the flavors, not about leaving my decades of a PAD smokes behind.
Dropped into a local vape shop the next day, walked out with a kit and some juice....no analogs since ( two weeks now ).
Totally hooked, soooo happy, have no desire to go back.
Well, my experience is the "cig-a-like" stuff didn't last long. I went through Blu in a couple of weeks then a Joye 510 stick set up for another couple of weeks. Landed on Twists with Vision clearos and that's where I've stayed. And that was the point where the vaping replaced the smoking. The smaller set ups, you just can't get enough vapor to really knock out the smoking in my experience. I landed on, and recommend these days, a kit much like this one: Combo. You don't have to get that one nor use that vendor but something like it. Easy to use and has the battery and liquid capacity to really replace the smokes. At least for me. And for several folks I've read that go with a kit like that one. Seems to me to be the true "starter" level. Not Blu.
(I started with Blu and still have a bit of fondness for them. They got me here for one thing. Trying to deal with their deficiencies got me to the ECF. I don't hate them so much as feel disappointed? Oh well. They showed me I could do this thing. I caught myself "forgetting" to light up. Which if you knew me, was a shock. Shocked me. Shocked my relatives. I think they would have been less shocked if I'd sprouted wings and flew around the neighborhood.
I quit for 7 1/2 years in the 80's, I was literally ill for 2 years but I did it. I have panic disorder and any real stress will send it over the edge and quitting sent it over in a huge way. I was completely over it until my husband died of cancer after a 9 month battle, funny thing is I made it through the battle without wanting one, but later on I started again. I honestly think it was a combination of being able to enjoy something, anything at that point. Anyway that's a long story that I won't go any further into, I have tried several times to quit unsuccessfully and had resigned myself to the fact that I would smoke until it killed me.
I now spend quite a bit of time with a family member who doesn't smoke anymore and find myself not wanting to go places with her, even though I enjoy her company, because she is always having to wait while I smoke outside and it makes me uncomfortable, so I picked up a Blu disposable thinking maybe I could use that when I was with her and it would help. I found I actually liked it, but at $10 a pop it was a bit pricey so I got a cheap rechargeable and liked it too. I found I accidently dropped to 4 analogues a day and then found this forum to learn more. I have now ordered this kit and am waiting anxiously for it to arrive in hopes that it will get me off the analogues completely, but if it doesn't oh well. I'm not going to put the pressure on myself to quit completely, but I have a feeling it will eventually happen and I can continue to enjoy the sensation of smoking without all the bad stuff. Even 4 a day is a lot better than a pack and a half a day and I am already feeling much much better on day 5. My SO is still smoking so the temptation is always there but we stopped smoking in the house a few years ago so the ashtrays are already gone, but I can enjoy vaping in the house and who knows maybe eventually he will join me.
We both quit drinking 7 years ago with a lot less trouble than trying to quit smoking I may add, but I continue to miss the flavor of a margarita from time to time and I just found some margarita juice that I can't wait to try.
Hmmmm I wonder if they have Budweiser juice, or a gin and tonic, that might get him to try this. lolbut I continue to miss the flavor of a margarita from time to time and I just found some margarita juice that I can't wait to try.
I just added margarita to my wish list on Mt Baker Vapor
If you haven't found them already, go take a look! So many flavors there's bound to be one for everyone. Good luck, I bet you'll be down to zero in no time, and hope SO decides to join you!
I'd basically given up myself. "Quit" repeatedly and it was always, always a nightmarish experience and I always went back. I was doing a lot better on "cutting back" in '05 but, heh, I was living in New Orleans. Oh. Goodie. Ran from all that to Austin where I have family then in '11, the most destructive wildfire in Texas history ripped right past my house. Told my brother at the time, if I hear the word "evacuate" one more time, just get me a nice, padded cell.
So while I've gotten past the worst of it, I can get... touchy (?) about being away from the house. Some part of my head is stuck in this thing of I have to be ready to EVACUATE AT ANY MOMENT!!!!
Bleah.
Anyway.
One thing that has happened getting away from cigs, my mood has improved. Not like it "cured" anything but it's not as bad. Sometimes, almost non-existent. Dunno what that's about. The smoking drug my overall mood down I guess?
Yeah I bought a Blu disposable just to try this "e-cig" thing out. I was getting my regular carton and just got it on impulse. Then forgot to smoke the rest of the day until sometime that evening. I actually checked the receipt and I'd gone 9 hours without lighting up and never noticed.
Which was so weird.
I dropped from 2 packs a day to maybe 4 to 6 cigs a day pretty much immediately. I was so shocked, I didn't tell anybody for two weeks. I couldn't believe it was happening.
But I'm with you. I did not put pressure on myself. I just decided to see where this "vaping" stuff went. Figured even if I got "stuck" at a 90% drop in smoking, that was pretty good in itself. Took a good six weeks or so for me to run out of the last surviving pack around the house and not seem to care.
(That carton? I took it back. Exchanged it for a Blu kit. Bought no more than two packs total in the six or so weeks following. Which was incredible to me.)
One of the really, really good longer term effects has been sleep. I seem to be sleeping far more "deeply". Not waking up at every noise and having to go "check". I can't remember the last time I woke up in the middle of the night. That's unusual for me. Especially after Katrina and Rita (rode Rita out, will never do that again) and the fire and... bleah. In fact, now, it seems almost as if I can't tell any time passed. Seems I lay down and then, poof, the sun is up. Like somebody threw a switch. I don't think I've slept that deep since I was in my twenties. It's almost a little eerie.
My SO is still smoking so the temptation is always there but we stopped smoking in the house a few years ago so the ashtrays are already gone, but I can enjoy vaping in the house and who knows maybe eventually he will join me.
We both quit drinking 7 years ago with a lot less trouble than trying to quit smoking I may add, but I continue to miss the flavor of a margarita from time to time and I just found some margarita juice that I can't wait to try.
Heh. They just might. I've seen--so help me--bacon flavor.
No, I am not gonna try it. Nuh huh. Not me...
I'd basically given up myself. "Quit" repeatedly and it was always, always a nightmarish experience and I always went back. I was doing a lot better on "cutting back" in '05 but, heh, I was living in New Orleans. Oh. Goodie. Ran from all that to Austin where I have family then in '11, the most destructive wildfire in Texas history ripped right past my house. Told my brother at the time, if I hear the word "evacuate" one more time, just get me a nice, padded cell.
So while I've gotten past the worst of it, I can get... touchy (?) about being away from the house. Some part of my head is stuck in this thing of I have to be ready to EVACUATE AT ANY MOMENT!!!!
Bleah.
Anyway.
One thing that has happened getting away from cigs, my mood has improved. Not like it "cured" anything but it's not as bad. Sometimes, almost non-existent. Dunno what that's about. The smoking drug my overall mood down I guess?
Yeah I bought a Blu disposable just to try this "e-cig" thing out. I was getting my regular carton and just got it on impulse. Then forgot to smoke the rest of the day until sometime that evening. I actually checked the receipt and I'd gone 9 hours without lighting up and never noticed.
Which was so weird.
I dropped from 2 packs a day to maybe 4 to 6 cigs a day pretty much immediately. I was so shocked, I didn't tell anybody for two weeks. I couldn't believe it was happening.
But I'm with you. I did not put pressure on myself. I just decided to see where this "vaping" stuff went. Figured even if I got "stuck" at a 90% drop in smoking, that was pretty good in itself. Took a good six weeks or so for me to run out of the last surviving pack around the house and not seem to care.
(That carton? I took it back. Exchanged it for a Blu kit. Bought no more than two packs total in the six or so weeks following. Which was incredible to me.)
One of the really, really good longer term effects has been sleep. I seem to be sleeping far more "deeply". Not waking up at every noise and having to go "check". I can't remember the last time I woke up in the middle of the night. That's unusual for me. Especially after Katrina and Rita (rode Rita out, will never do that again) and the fire and... bleah. In fact, now, it seems almost as if I can't tell any time passed. Seems I lay down and then, poof, the sun is up. Like somebody threw a switch. I don't think I've slept that deep since I was in my twenties. It's almost a little eerie.
Heh. They just might. I've seen--so help me--bacon flavor.
No, I am not gonna try it. Nuh huh. Not me...
Oh I understand your anxiety only too well, I grew up in Southern California, my family had a cabin in Crestline and I still remember clearly the BAD fire there in the 50's, we were on evacuation orders at any minute for a week and there was no TV or phone, we had to watch and listen for fire sirens. Then moved to Riverside county in the 70's, and right into the middle of the chaparral fire area in the 80's. I have a terror of leaving the house for any length of time still, especially after coming home from a trip and finding the house next door was burned to the ground, and another time everything around our house was charred, it looked like a moonscape for a long time.
Now I'm in Tennessee and the terror is tornadoes, especially since the bad outbreak two years ago, there hadn't been any bad ones in this area for over 30 years and that day it was one after the other for over 12 hours, they were EF4 and EF5's and we could see them from the house to the east and west at the same time. I'm usually ok when I'm gone, until I start getting close to home and then I'm so afraid the house won't be there.
The bacon flavor really made me laugh, it must be universal with men, bacon is his favorite flavor of just about anything.
Ech. I lived in Long Beach (then Norwalk a while) around a decade. Wasn't around any of the fires but I remember how wild they got. Remember seeing Los Padres look like something out of a horror movie after one of the big ones up there. Ours was... fun. Ripped right through a heavily populated area. This is a snip from somebody on the other side of our little semi-suburb facing my direction. Still get the willies seeing this pic:
Yeesh! My house was about two miles from... um... that.
Well, I like bacon but not like that. The idea of a bacon vape kinda makes me feel a little... ill?
Though, I am a little tempted by this one:
Pizza Flavor e-liquid
I am down to my last carton but I am at least using 1/2 analogs 1/2 vape. I am not ready to quit analogs but I am excited every time I get a new juice(a good sign). Do I plan on quitting right now..no..I will probably go get another carton in a couple of weeks. I will say I was very annoyed today when my battery quit 15 miles from home(a good sign). I have this thing about lighting up or vaping when I am 8 miles from home. Had to light one up. Well time to go super glue my other battery that came apart at the seams when I dropped it last night on concrete at a summer party.
The day I quit smoking I didn't even know I was gonna be vaping later that night and would not smoke another cig. I smoked since I was 17 . Only time I quit was when I was pregnant and as soon as I would get home I would go out on porch and smoke a cig. I know its only been a little over a month but I hardly even think about a cig unless I see someone smoking one. But anyways. just wanted to share a lil. Congrats to you and keep on vaping. 
When was that? I lived in Vegas when the fires were bad in late 2003, and we had gray skies and ash out there even. One day I got home and left my car windows and sunroof open, thinking I'd go back out. Got distracted and didn't leave again until the next day. My interior was covered in ash. Crazy. I moved to Torrance just after all that, Thanksgiving 2003.
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