Ok just responded to the doom and gloom thread where someone went a year and half an fell off the wagon so I figure it's a good idea to throw out some positive motivation to potential vapers.
I found out about e-cigs when a coworker got one at first I was like what ever sounds like gimmiky crap. But I was curious and took at a look at it. He let me give it a try and well I was intrigued I'd tried to smoke several times up til then making it several months of multiple occasions, I'd tried the patch I'd tried wellbutrin I tried chantix and in the end none of them had helped.
So after doing a little research and deciding there was no way it could be any more dangerous than smoking cigarettes, I started hunting for one. I tried to find one locally to no avail finally after about a week of fruitless searching I broke down an ordered a penstyle from puresmoker when I got it I changed up the battery and gave it a try.
I liked it I liked it a lot. I soon discovered that I needed to be rather diligent about keeping supplies and parts on hand. These were the days of FDA custom holds and constant back orders on several occasions I thought I'd have to break down and go analogue I went through several batteries and atomizers eventually buying a second complete penstyle kit then extra atomizers.
At some point after doing some digging I found the kissbox which was a nice improvement over the standard penstyle in that it had a manual switch option that wasn't susceptible to getting gummed up by juice leaking into the battery.
By this time I'd learned my lesson with the penstyles and just bought 2 kissboxes so I'd have plenty of spares in case of failure. I used these for a few months along with their passthroughs but in the end they had all the problems that all cigarette like E-cigs had. The batteries simply weren't up to the task and they were expensive and hard to replace. I was seriously considering a screwdriver or the soon to be released Jantystick when Puresmoker released the Prodigy V1.
Since I'd had good interactions with Puresmoker in the past I decided to give the device a shot and on 8/10/2009 I ordered my Prodigy V1.
That Prodigy V1 was my main vape for the next year and a half. I ended up ordering extra adapters as well as a couple extra switches which I even ended up sending in for repair once. Basically I learned to keep spares of every breakable component I could so that repair was a simple matter of swapping out a part.
I found a cheaper source for Juice and atomizers I liked and I just kind of settled in. There were a couple panics early on when I was building up my stockpiles and the FDA shipping hold was in effect but somehow I managed to scrape through and avoid analogues.
Recently I decided that my V1 was getting to be a bit much to maintain when I was down to my last working switch and it started getting buggy so I went ahead and pulled the trigger on a new V3.1.
I will say that of half dozen or so guys who tried quitting with Ecigs when I did here at work I'm the only one who stuck with it, So I don't think that it's for everyone. I think for vaping to work you have to really want to quit analogues and I mean really want it. It can't be kind of 'oh it would be nice to quit' it has to be a serious commitment.
My advice for success is, commit to quiting, decide that you are going to do this come hell or high water. Buy a good reliable vape that's going to be able to be easily maintained and have some reliability (I highly recommend the Prodigy) make sure you have plenty of supplies as well as a back up device in case your primary experiences a catastrophic failure. Don't ever let yourself get down to a single working atomizer or a few ml of juice.
For the first month at least do your best to avoid those situations that would make you smoke. Stop hanging out with the smokers always pay for your gas at the pump try to avoid even going into a store that sells cigarettes.
If possible figure out your triggers and where ever reasonable avoid those activities.
Enjoy your last pack of smokes I kind of stretched mine out and then sat down and really enjoyed the last one from my pack. from that moment on avoid your triggers and stay off the smokes. If you happen to fall off the wagon don't beat yourself to death over it but don't have another. Odds are the first one will taste like crap so that shouldn't be to hard but if you have 2 it will be much harder as your tastebuds stop working again.
Be aware that vaping is not smoking, it won't feel the same you'll still be lacking some of the stuff that makes cigarettes so addicting so expect some withdrawal symptoms it's going to take some willpower to avoid relapse.
Remember the Ecig is just a crutch not a cure you still have to provide the will to quit you have to recognize your rationalizations for what they are and you have to be the one to stop yourself when you think about sparking up an analogue.
But it can be done and while it's not easy it's definitely doable.
I found out about e-cigs when a coworker got one at first I was like what ever sounds like gimmiky crap. But I was curious and took at a look at it. He let me give it a try and well I was intrigued I'd tried to smoke several times up til then making it several months of multiple occasions, I'd tried the patch I'd tried wellbutrin I tried chantix and in the end none of them had helped.
So after doing a little research and deciding there was no way it could be any more dangerous than smoking cigarettes, I started hunting for one. I tried to find one locally to no avail finally after about a week of fruitless searching I broke down an ordered a penstyle from puresmoker when I got it I changed up the battery and gave it a try.
I liked it I liked it a lot. I soon discovered that I needed to be rather diligent about keeping supplies and parts on hand. These were the days of FDA custom holds and constant back orders on several occasions I thought I'd have to break down and go analogue I went through several batteries and atomizers eventually buying a second complete penstyle kit then extra atomizers.
At some point after doing some digging I found the kissbox which was a nice improvement over the standard penstyle in that it had a manual switch option that wasn't susceptible to getting gummed up by juice leaking into the battery.
By this time I'd learned my lesson with the penstyles and just bought 2 kissboxes so I'd have plenty of spares in case of failure. I used these for a few months along with their passthroughs but in the end they had all the problems that all cigarette like E-cigs had. The batteries simply weren't up to the task and they were expensive and hard to replace. I was seriously considering a screwdriver or the soon to be released Jantystick when Puresmoker released the Prodigy V1.
Since I'd had good interactions with Puresmoker in the past I decided to give the device a shot and on 8/10/2009 I ordered my Prodigy V1.
That Prodigy V1 was my main vape for the next year and a half. I ended up ordering extra adapters as well as a couple extra switches which I even ended up sending in for repair once. Basically I learned to keep spares of every breakable component I could so that repair was a simple matter of swapping out a part.
I found a cheaper source for Juice and atomizers I liked and I just kind of settled in. There were a couple panics early on when I was building up my stockpiles and the FDA shipping hold was in effect but somehow I managed to scrape through and avoid analogues.
Recently I decided that my V1 was getting to be a bit much to maintain when I was down to my last working switch and it started getting buggy so I went ahead and pulled the trigger on a new V3.1.
I will say that of half dozen or so guys who tried quitting with Ecigs when I did here at work I'm the only one who stuck with it, So I don't think that it's for everyone. I think for vaping to work you have to really want to quit analogues and I mean really want it. It can't be kind of 'oh it would be nice to quit' it has to be a serious commitment.
My advice for success is, commit to quiting, decide that you are going to do this come hell or high water. Buy a good reliable vape that's going to be able to be easily maintained and have some reliability (I highly recommend the Prodigy) make sure you have plenty of supplies as well as a back up device in case your primary experiences a catastrophic failure. Don't ever let yourself get down to a single working atomizer or a few ml of juice.
For the first month at least do your best to avoid those situations that would make you smoke. Stop hanging out with the smokers always pay for your gas at the pump try to avoid even going into a store that sells cigarettes.
If possible figure out your triggers and where ever reasonable avoid those activities.
Enjoy your last pack of smokes I kind of stretched mine out and then sat down and really enjoyed the last one from my pack. from that moment on avoid your triggers and stay off the smokes. If you happen to fall off the wagon don't beat yourself to death over it but don't have another. Odds are the first one will taste like crap so that shouldn't be to hard but if you have 2 it will be much harder as your tastebuds stop working again.
Be aware that vaping is not smoking, it won't feel the same you'll still be lacking some of the stuff that makes cigarettes so addicting so expect some withdrawal symptoms it's going to take some willpower to avoid relapse.
Remember the Ecig is just a crutch not a cure you still have to provide the will to quit you have to recognize your rationalizations for what they are and you have to be the one to stop yourself when you think about sparking up an analogue.
But it can be done and while it's not easy it's definitely doable.
