You may want to consider being a dual user - err... dual nic level user. I had to do that for about the first four months, the mornings were a big cravings problem. So it was the next higher nic level for the first couple hours of the day and then dropping to my regular nic level. Then I had a problem before bed time usually, so it was back up to the higher nic level most days for an hour or two late at night. One of the best things we have in our corner is all the flexibility - use as needed.
Lol - you got the gist of the "other stuff". You make vaping easy - you make smoking not so easy. Your PV belongs on the night stand so It's the first option when you wake up, the pack of butts belongs on the top shelf of an inconvenient place. Make yourself get up and get a cigarette if you really want one. For me it was the hall linen closet. It doesn't take much to get over/past a cigarette craving most of the time if you have to get up and go get one. A little physical separation from your pack of butts - get them out of your shirt pocket and off the computer desk - goes a long way.
That's a possibility too. I'm hoping that it'll all smooth over over the next week or two on it's own, but if not I'll look into getting a higher nic content juice or maybe try wearing a low dosage patch in the morning. It's not the smoke I miss, it's the clarity and ability to make a plan. This morning wasn't as bad as yesterday morning (when I punched a chair) so I'm hopeful.
I did that for quite a while, several months at least, 11-12mg for the first hour, then back to my 9-10mg once I was "over the hump." Then after awhile it just didn't seem necessary; I just vape 11ish mg all the time -- after not-smoking became as natural to me as smoking had once been.
I made it very clear to my husband very early on, that I had to make vaping wayyyyyyyyy easier at all times, than smoking, which is why I needed multiple mods, tanks, batteries, and a veritable army of driptips, plus at least several different choices of ejuice, though that last is much easier since I started making my own. He agrees, since he's absolutely amazed and delighted that I finally stopped choking him out in the truck and stinking like an ashtray all the time.
It was winter when I first started vaping, and now that it's winter again, I'm twice as delighted since I'm so firmly committed to vaping now -- no need to go outside and freeze my .... off at all, unless I'm actually going somewhere -- even the mailbox for my vapemail! (if I know there's no vapemail out there, I just let my husband get it when he comes home from work!)
Andria
