OMG !!!! am i addicted ??

[pamdis]

Glad you're seeing the doctor. Sometimes I think (no, I know) that we get symptoms that just happen to coincide with quitting smoking, that are due to something else, and we attribute it to the wrong thing. I already told you the near mental breakdown I had at six-eight weeks, and how I fixed it, but here's another thing that happened. At around two weeks, I was getting nauseous, extreme fatigue, pain all over like the flu. I looked up quitting smoking symptoms and everything I was experiencing was on the list so I decided to just tough it out. This went on for two weeks and kept getting worse, by the end of the two weeks, I could hardly move the pain was so bad and I was ready to call the doctor first thing the next morning, then woke up with blisters - SHINGLES! And I was attributing everything to the quitting smoking and/or starting vaping Found out later that if I had gone to the doctor within the first 72 hours of the symptoms, I could have gotten a shot that would have lessened the total duration and severity of the episode, but it was way too late by the time I realized what was happening.

 

[Skinr1]

well i will say this being only 24 days in i am really a major newbie to all this , this hole stop smoking buissness is some scary
stuff , and honestly i see now why some people including myself in the past would be like no way why would i want to suffer all that
id rather smoke . now i honestly see why many smokers feel that way .
i was doing so well for the first 14-16 days in then all of a sudden BAM i hit a wall

 

[Av8roc]

You can vape 0% nicotine if you just want flavour. I/we don't recommend getting an addiction you didn't have before. (or was it more than just the "occasional" cigar?)

Maybe once a month.. Definitely no nicotine addiction. Doesn't the nicotine affect the taste of liquids?

 

[Bill's Magic Vapor]

ok here i am 23 days in no analogs , after 30+ years 2 paks a day , this morn i awoke at 3:00am for work as usual and my cravings are the worst in the morn during wake up and morn coffee admititly so , this morn i was craving badly , more so then i had in the past 23 days , i grabbed 1 of my wifes cigarrettes and said hey i cant take no more i need 1 and i need 1 badly , i lit it took 3 drags ,
and OMFG !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
it was DISGUSTING !!!!!!!!!!!!! the smell , the taste , everything about it and i threw it out in the yard ran in and washed my mouth out with mouthwash OMG it was SOOO GROSSE !!!!!!!!
I even came close to putting bleach in my mouth to get rid of the taste of it .....

and i went and grabbed my ecig .............. OMG !!!!! Does this mean im addicted to Ecigs Now ???

HELP !!!!!! whats happening to me ?????

I've been vaping 10 mils a day for almost a year now, and I'm not addicted...

 

[fabricator4]

Maybe once a month.. Definitely no nicotine addiction. Doesn't the nicotine affect the taste of liquids?

Yes, but not necessarily for the better. Also, I don't think you are vaping 12% nicotine. That's is way too strong and would make you very sick several different ways. I think you meant 12 mg/ml which is 1.2%

If you don't have a nicotine addiction, why are you vaping nicotine. You're not trolling are you?

It's better to vape than smoke (the reason most of us are here). It's better to vape with no nicotine than with it. It's BEST not to do any of it. Note I'm not telling *you* what to do, but people actually getting a nicotine addition from starting to use it by vaping is a rather contentious issue around here.

 

[Dabruuzer]

I recently got into vaping because after 7+ years of being off analogs, I was tempted again. My wife, however, was still smoking analogs, and switched last week to an eGo-C, etc. She forgot her eGo at home yesterday, and apparently borrowed a smoke from a co-worker, and was completely disgusted by it. I chuckled at her story, but was so happy to hear it, to be honest.

 

[dice1976]

I haven't had a real cig in over 5 years. Then I got word of the whole e-cig craze and now I love smoking again. I love not smelling like an ash tray and boy do I love all the flavors. The Hawaiian daze and mango from high caliber is some of the finest I've tasted

 

[danca90]

I went to a wedding last week, one of my friends was fixing my shirt collar, and I was holding her cigarette, what did I do? took a puff. Gross.

 

[Skinr1]

morning all , well I am now approaching the 30 day mark with no cigs , I have also visited the doctor and was tested and found out that I do NOT have an allergy to the PG in the E-cig , and what I was suffering from was aggravated symptoms of quitting smoking .
however the scratchy throat and dry mouth was indeed a side effect of the e-cig is what I was told by the doc ,
he just told me to ease off it just alittle and the problems should clear up in time , so im moving right along . getting ready to hit the 1 mo. mark .
actually he was very informative about the e-cig I was alittle surprised .

 

[Spazmelda]

Sounds like you have an informed doctor! That's great. I'm glad you are feeling better.

ETA: oh, you didn't actually say you were feeling better. I hope you feel better soon!

 

[kainvamp86]

I'm the same way, I can't stand the taste of cigs anymore after vaping almost 2 months now. I tried a puff off one a few weeks ago and I felt like getting sick. My friend who actually introduced me into vaping still hits a cigarette every once in a while and I'm always like " how can you be doing that??" He vapes more than I do too...lol But I guess I'm lucky cigs were always an on and off thing for me and I could quit when I wanted for long periods of time, it was more like I felt like going outside and hanging out with the smokers during the day and needed something to do, now I just vape outside and haven't had the urge to smoke a cig again, quite the opposite actually.

 

[gordvan]

ok here i am 23 days in no analogs , after 30+ years 2 paks a day , this morn i awoke at 3:00am for work as usual and my cravings are the worst in the morn during wake up and morn coffee admititly so , this morn i was craving badly , more so then i had in the past 23 days , i grabbed 1 of my wifes cigarrettes and said hey i cant take no more i need 1 and i need 1 badly , i lit it took 3 drags ,
and OMFG !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
it was DISGUSTING !!!!!!!!!!!!! the smell , the taste , everything about it and i threw it out in the yard ran in and washed my mouth out with mouthwash OMG it was SOOO GROSSE !!!!!!!!
I even came close to putting bleach in my mouth to get rid of the taste of it .....

and i went and grabbed my Ecig .............. OMG !!!!! Does this mean im addicted to Ecigs Now ???

HELP !!!!!! whats happening to me ?????

the same happened to me. I ran out of juice and bummed a cigarette from a co worker. I threw-up in my mouth. absolutely disgusting.
and that was awesome. no way back to the cancer sticks =)

 

[The Ocelot]

morning all , well I am now approaching the 30 day mark with no cigs , I have also visited the doctor and was tested and found out that I do NOT have an allergy to the PG in the E-cig , and what I was suffering from was aggravated symptoms of quitting smoking .
however the scratchy throat and dry mouth was indeed a side effect of the e-cig is what I was told by the doc ,
he just told me to ease off it just alittle and the problems should clear up in time , so im moving right along . getting ready to hit the 1 mo. mark .
actually he was very informative about the e-cig I was alittle surprised .

I'm very glad you're doing better. Scroll back to post #22 - I'll be sending you a bill....

 

[Skinr1]

yes I am feeling much better thank you and yes my doc is pretty informed , however he wont just come flat out and endorse the e-cig of course due to his position and the FDA and all of that which is understandable but it is always good to know exactly what was going on when your health is concerned and why I was feeling the way I was at the time , but im doing much better now ,
here was an interesting tid bit , the chest pains and lets call them twinges I was feeling was from a combination of stopping the analogs
and the thickness and heaviness of the vaper so he was pretty clear about how to address that issue , so taking his advise as I said I eased up on the heavy vapor a bit and lets see how that works , hey trial and error gang trial and error , I didn't know much about vaping when I first started and im learning quick that user error sux ,,,,,, as with all things
most problems are caused by user error .

 

[remnant]

Your side-effects suggest to me that you're overdoing it with juice that simply isn't strong enough to reach your comfort zone. You might be better vaping less often with a higher nic strength - if not 24mg, then in the 16-20mg range. I smoked a lot less than you did, and even vaping (rather a lot) at 16mg only gives me something like half the nic consumption that I had as a smoker. I have to take a blast of 24mg juice in a dripper to get anything like the nicotine hit that a roll-up used to deliver - but most days I don't feel any requirement for that, it's really more of an occasional special effect.

 

[Skinr1]

your exactly correct user error ...... I have raised my nic level back to 18 and now Im not using it as much and doing much better ,
I was way over doing it hence user error ............I guess I have to learn lessons the hard way

 

[crxess]

Just a little helpful hint.
I stopped my 45yr+ habit just over a year ago. First purchases were 18mg e-liquids(to strong) and they easily pushed back the cravings. That helped me to realize it was the Nic, not the smoke, my body was craving.
I almost immediately cut the nic back to 12 and now Vape anything from 6-12mg comfortably.

I ALWAYS have a tank prepped with 1 18mg e-liquid just for emergencies. Those super stress OMG NOT ME moments don't come often, but it is nice to be ready for them.

 

[Skinr1]

yeah Im learning im learning , like my grandfather used to tell me if your gonna be dumb u better be tuff , ohhhh how that adage
holds true , cause being dumb hurts , knowledge doesn't hurt ,im kinda sticking at 18mg right now because 24 mg was way to heavy , made me real light headed and made my stomach upset after a few hrs , so 24 was def to much .

 

[hnsenter]

UMmm.. if you're vaping nicotine.. you're still addicted to it. The first time i vaped with the Njoy and blu, I found myself a lot more addicted to nicotine the next day, only because I wasn't watching how much nicotine I was taking in. Vapeing, to me, is a lot more accessible than cigarettes. I can vape just about anywhere I please, for example work and home, and I can vape whenever I please without the inconvenience of finding a place to smoke, outdoors. When I have an e-cig next to me, I just vape away. The first time I vaped, I finished what the label said to be equivalent to 2 packs in a single day.