One Week In - A Noob's Tale
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Congratulations! Two weeks without analogs for me, but it's been almost a year since I got my first e-cig. I think you brought up some important points that are important for newbies: many, though certainly not all find that 1) it is not just like smoking and easy to put down the analogs once you start vaping and 2) the psychosomatic elements of analog smoking can have a strong effect on how we try to replace vaping with analogs and how we succeed or fail in doing so.
I got an automatic 505 about a year ago and within a month switched to the VK manual. Although the VK was much better and to me felt more like smoking an analog, it certainly was not close to the same. It was not the magic pill I had hoped it would be. It could be any number of factors why it didn't do it for me, but basically after a few weeks of combining (mostly) analogs and (a little) vaping, I pretty much quit vaping altogether except on the rare occasion. I went back to my pack-a-day habit and the VK and all my cartos began collecting dust. I had all these things going around in my head about how vaping wasn't going to work for me to quit smoking, and I quit even seriously thinking about another quit date.
The kicker for me was over New Year's when my 19 year old stepson and girlfriend came to visit and *gasp* were smoking! This broke my heart, but there I was out in the freezing cold garage smoking analogs with them. I gave him a very short and sweet lecture about how he doesn't want to be like me or his dad and that the longer he smokes the harder it will be to quit. I told him I was told the same thing when I was his age, and I didn't listen. Of course he probably won't either, but I began thinking about about my young children and the likelihood that like me, my husband and and my siblings, they are much more likely to begin smoking watching their parents and and extended family do it. I began to think, if I quit now my kids might not even remember me as a smoker.
I began mentally preparing to quit (again!), and I quit on Feb. 8th. The first few days were very difficult in that I wanted an analog even though I was vaping. I can tell you that putting it in my mind that I would not sneak even ONE puff on an analog, no matter what, has been the trick for me to go from failure to success in substituting analogs with vaping. Now I rarely even think of analogs during the normal "I wanna smoke" moments such as first thing in the morning or after dinner.
Also for me, I really need a very high nic dosage for now. Even though I was never much more than a puffer, 36mg is what I need now to get the TH to keep me off analogs. Hopefully this won't last too long and in a few weeks or months I'll begin reducing my mg and eventually go nic free.
I wont' go all into the psychosomatic issues I mentioned, but I'll just say that vaping has made all the difference in helping fend off those tricks my mind try to play on me.
I hope you and I can keep it up, and also, for those out there for whom vaping just doesn't seem to do the trick, it's worth another shot or two, or three, or whatever else you need to try to help you quit.
Of course it's still early for me, but thanks in part to great products from V4L, I have more hope than ever that I will be able to quit for good.
I got an automatic 505 about a year ago and within a month switched to the VK manual. Although the VK was much better and to me felt more like smoking an analog, it certainly was not close to the same. It was not the magic pill I had hoped it would be. It could be any number of factors why it didn't do it for me, but basically after a few weeks of combining (mostly) analogs and (a little) vaping, I pretty much quit vaping altogether except on the rare occasion. I went back to my pack-a-day habit and the VK and all my cartos began collecting dust. I had all these things going around in my head about how vaping wasn't going to work for me to quit smoking, and I quit even seriously thinking about another quit date.
The kicker for me was over New Year's when my 19 year old stepson and girlfriend came to visit and *gasp* were smoking! This broke my heart, but there I was out in the freezing cold garage smoking analogs with them. I gave him a very short and sweet lecture about how he doesn't want to be like me or his dad and that the longer he smokes the harder it will be to quit. I told him I was told the same thing when I was his age, and I didn't listen. Of course he probably won't either, but I began thinking about about my young children and the likelihood that like me, my husband and and my siblings, they are much more likely to begin smoking watching their parents and and extended family do it. I began to think, if I quit now my kids might not even remember me as a smoker.
I began mentally preparing to quit (again!), and I quit on Feb. 8th. The first few days were very difficult in that I wanted an analog even though I was vaping. I can tell you that putting it in my mind that I would not sneak even ONE puff on an analog, no matter what, has been the trick for me to go from failure to success in substituting analogs with vaping. Now I rarely even think of analogs during the normal "I wanna smoke" moments such as first thing in the morning or after dinner.
Also for me, I really need a very high nic dosage for now. Even though I was never much more than a puffer, 36mg is what I need now to get the TH to keep me off analogs. Hopefully this won't last too long and in a few weeks or months I'll begin reducing my mg and eventually go nic free.
I wont' go all into the psychosomatic issues I mentioned, but I'll just say that vaping has made all the difference in helping fend off those tricks my mind try to play on me.
I hope you and I can keep it up, and also, for those out there for whom vaping just doesn't seem to do the trick, it's worth another shot or two, or three, or whatever else you need to try to help you quit.
Of course it's still early for me, but thanks in part to great products from V4L, I have more hope than ever that I will be able to quit for good.
Once you make the decision to put the cigs down, and just vape through it, it doesn't take too long for the habits to fade. After about a month, those pangs for the pre-bedtime cigarette faded away. The urge to walk outside for a smoke break dissipated. A month was all it took. Even with the people around us who took up vaping, it seems that those who tried to transition slowly failed, those who made a clean break and muscled through it stayed with it.
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