Noob E-Cig Smoker

[jmorv]

Good Morning All!

My name is Jim and I can proudly say that I am an e-cig smoker now. I purchased my starter kit from V2 about 2 weeks ago, and so far I have only smoked analogs occasionally. For the most part, I favor the e-cig over analogs for many reasons, but the most important is the better physical feeling I have now thatn before. Being an analog smoker for over 20 years, I felt it was time to quit and I tried the patches for a couple of weeks, but found that the physical addiction (i.e. holding a cig in my hand, taking a drag from it, etc.) was still there and I fell off the wagon. I got curious enough to research the e-cig online and after mulling about with several brands/manufacturers, I settled on V2. I bought their standard kit which came with 5 carts, two batteries and charger. After the first couple of days, I found the taste to be very pleasing, but I was still concerned about whether i was receiving the right amount of nicotine to help satisfy my cravings. In essence, I wanted to be sure that what i was replacing the analogs with were going to work for me.

Even though I have a few analogs since I switched, I immediately recognized the difference, not to mention all of the reasons why I wanted to quit analogs in the first place. lol

Anywho, I stumbled on the ECF and thought I would give it a try to perhaps hook up woth others here and get some thoughts, support and guidance. I appreciate this place very much and i will be frequenting it often!

Thanks again.

Jim

 

[knobbysmoo]

Hi Jim, welcome! You are off to a great start. Don't be too hard on yourself if you are still smoking the occasional cig.... it takes some people a long time to completely quit. You are doing a good thing for your body and it will definitely be obvious in the coming weeks and months.

 

[jmorv]

Thank you knobbysmoo! I quit once a long time ago for about 3 months but this was before the advent of e-cigs. If they were around then, I would be smoke free already. Patches do help with the body's addiction, but the mental addiction is much stronger and using the e-cig is definitely helping. Having analogs around is pretty much for backup and having the occasional is just a gentle reminder for me. I'll be off of them soon enough as I am taking more to the e-cig now.

Jim

 

[dormouse]

Grats! BTW we call it vaping

V2 is a KR808D-1 so when you need spare parts don't pay V2's prices. Instead buy parts at multibrand hardware vendors like LiteCigUSA.net where a nice manual battery is around $10-12 or at Vapor4Life.com where you can find colored batteries in various styles for a bit higher price (but still lower than V2) as well as prefilled cartomizers.

 

[bangnail]

welcome Jim, recently got off analogs myself after 40 years. Gum gave me hiccups and didn't work, patches, hell i'd be at work with a patch on my back and a Winston dangling from my lip. But E-cigs, bingo, push the button, inhale the fog, and problem solved. Am still hooked on nic, but with a clean atty, live batt, and some juice, the analogs sit in their open pack getting stale.
In the morning i weaken, and start to think about digging into that pack just to "start the day off." Instead, i do what a foreman of mine told me he did years ago to quit cold turkey. "When i want a cigarette, i think about some fat rich Kentucky Colonel sitting on his vernadah sipping a mint julip and laughing at me". Works for me, and the e-cigs make it virtually painless. Good luck and hang in there.

 

[dormouse]

You know you can refill cartomizers? Even if the V2 ones are glued on the end or have hard caps, you could buy Vapor4Life ones or buy KR808D-1 standard resistance soft-cap blank cartomizers and keep them damp with juice to get several days or more use out of each. One caveat - if you have automatic batteries they are vulnerable to being killed by juice leaking out of a carto (it would leak right above the necessary drag sensor through the hole in the end of an auto battery). And if you refill cartos inevitably you will occasionally get a couple of drips out of the bottom of the carto. KR808D-1 manual batteries still have a hole at the end of the battery but are not dependent on a drag sensor.

 

[pixiedust]

Hi Jim and welcome to ECF. I started with a KR-808 and I'm glad I did, I was self conscious about using an e-cig and from a distance it sort of looked like a traditional cigarette and didn't draw a lot of attention, was easy to use and very satisfying. I didn't make any real effort to switch to it completely and give up analogs, but shortly after I started using it I realized "OMG I just went an entire day with no analogs and didn't even notice!!"

This forum has been a blessing to me. Once I made the decision to ONLY use the e-cig I had some rough moments- one of which was talking on the phone lol..for 40 years when I talked on the phone I would automatically light up. I made a post here about the difficulty in breaking that association and several folks just jumped right in and offered me all kinds of advice. Moral of the story- the only dumb question is the one you don't ask =)

 

[jimbalny]

Congrats !
Ya I tried the patch, didn't work. Harm reduction's the way to go! Only swedish snus n ecigs for me!