Smoking to vaping transition...

[zenoland]

There was a thread today that you might find interesting.

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...126265-anyone-else-quit-smoking-accident.html

 

[Beachlover]

I have been vaping for 1 week today...today I smoked analogs...all of my batteries needed charging. I charged one this morning but decided to save it until I got home from work. I love vaping...haven't had a cigarette since I got home and have one pv on the charger now. I smoked 2-3 packs a day and on some weekends more than that. I immediately cut down to where a pack of cigarettes last 2 days and sometimes into 3 days. Vaping tastes better than smoking and I love that most of my nighttime sleep coughing and morning coughing is gone. I try not to tell myself I am quiting though...I am the type that doesn't like to feel like I am depriving myself and saying never...I just am doing what I like best and it just so happens that I like to vape better than smoke. I am using 24mg. My favorite flavor right now is Honey Flue Nut.

 

[Tinman402]

Day 1-5 I went from a pack and a half to 1-2 ciggs a day... after the 5th day I haven't had the urge since.. I held a friends lit cigg while he tightened a bolt and never even thought about it.. I don't vape where you can't smoke.. The way I see it is I can be around smoking and not even want one.. They all ask me about it and I educate them.. I have converted 3 people now to e-ciggs, they asked I told them where to look and what I learned and they did it on thier own.. You can't force it.. Some people just enjoy smoking no matter how bad it is for them..

I love vaping and so do my kids.. I still have to be careful not to make it seem cool to vape to them, I explain it is still not good for me but 100 times better than smoking was..

 

[Rosa]

I love vaping and so do my kids.. I still have to be careful not to make it seem cool to vape to them, I explain it is still not good for me but 100 times better than smoking was..

I wish I knew how to talk to my kids about e-cigs and smoking and all that. When I smoked, they pretty much knew they had to just keep their little mouths shut 'cause I'm not quitting.

Now that I'm vaping, I try to let them know that I vape because I messed up in the first place by smoking and this is the only way I know to make me not smoke any more real cigarettes. But the little one thinks it's too cool and says that when he grows up he's going to 'smoke the real kind'. He's six. I just tell him it's bad, even for grown ups, and don't end up making my same mistakes.

I don't know what else to say to him about it. Will he grow out of it? (I didn't - obviously)

 

[Linda Marie]

I still smoke 2 to 5 analogs a day. Have decided not to beat myself over it.
My goal is to quit analogs completely. Some day I will get there.

 

[Linda Marie]

Boys - they just have to be boys. Just keep saying the same and when he says I want to smoke ask him about how you smelled before - YUCKY - so if he says vaping he is just pulling you leg and testing you.
Any males here want to chime in?

 

[Tinman402]

I wish I knew how to talk to my kids about e-cigs and smoking and all that. When I smoked, they pretty much knew they had to just keep their little mouths shut 'cause I'm not quitting.

Now that I'm vaping, I try to let them know that I vape because I messed up in the first place by smoking and this is the only way I know to make me not smoke any more real cigarettes. But the little one thinks it's too cool and says that when he grows up he's going to 'smoke the real kind'. He's six. I just tell him it's bad, even for grown ups, and don't end up making my same mistakes.

I don't know what else to say to him about it. Will he grow out of it? (I didn't - obviously)

My nine year old has been on to me for several years (since about 6) to quit smoking.. He always made comments about it, told me I stink..They started telling them in school that smoking kills and made it sound like everyone who smokes is gonna die anyday now.. I was actually aggravated at the way the school went about it..but that is a story for another day. I tried quiting several times before finding e-ciggs. Everytime I started back he stayed on me about it.. I got to the point one day where I said " look I am a grown man and can smoke if I choose, everybody dies of something".... Instantly I thought OMG did I just say that to my 8 year old.. It is a tight rope trying to keep your kids from making the same mistakes you make but explain that adults can decide for themselves.. I am just glad I stopped drinking when he was 4..lol.. I made him take a sip once when he asked me what it was, now that was funny.. He sees me drink a beer a week during the titans game and never says a word but EWWW beer.

I am just glad he understands Vaping is still not cool, just not deadly like ciggs.... Now my soon to be 6 year old is a different story.. I tried the taste this with a beer on him and it backfired, He thinks beer taste great and this e-cig is cool.. He is the one I worry about.. I explain it is poison to kids and leave it at that... I also keep my juices in a lock box..He rambles..

Hope that helps... Your not alone on this slippery slope.

 

[Rosa]

nevermind.

 

[Rosa]

oops, nevermind.

 

[Tinman402]

LOL Rosa... Hope it wasn't Natty light.. Now that I am just a one or 2 here or there I swipe my buds home brew.. If I hadn't stopped drinking regularly my basement would probably resemble a brewery..lol.. another adicting hobby thankfully I don't do..His is pretty good though..

As far as my boys.. It's just me and my boys in the house so they are getting a good up bringing... You know stuff like leave the seat up and barbie dolls and firecrackers go hand in hand..

 

[AtomPunk]

I didn't quit completely cold turkey. I cut down to about 2 or 3 a day for the first few days and then didn't smoke any more after that. The big thing for me was replacing my rituals with vaping. I always smoked outside and would read the news on my phone while smoking. I just started replacing my PV for a cigarette while still performing all those little rituals that I had for smoking. After a few weeks, I kicked the rituals as well.

Never get too down on yourself. Everyone is different and will need to go it at their own pace. Good luck!

+1 for all the comments about the right combos of juice and hardware. Starting off with and Ego made my first vaping experience much better than some of my friends who cycled through various incarnations of pv's before finding the one that suited them.

 

[deback]

DC2 said: "Some studies have shown that we get around 10% of the nicotine from vaping.
Others see flaws in those studies, have done their own testing, and feel we get more like 40% of the nicotine from vaping."

So that explains why I (and many others) tend to constantly vape, compared to smoking a real cigarette every 20 to 30 minutes. I thought it might have more to do with the better throat hits and flavor (and newness/obsessiveness of e-cigs), but it makes sense that we're actually getting less nicotine into our system when vaping. I know I don't get those nicotine rushes to my brain when vaping, but I do now anytime I light a real cigarette -- which has been very rare for me after my first three days of vaping. I would have quit within an hour of when I started vaping, but during the first three days, I was having to wait an hour and a half every two hours for the battery to recharge. I bought another cheap starter kit on the third day, and that solved that problem.

 

[ebx04]

I'm a social smoker and I started to vape last week. Right now, I'm doing both because while vaping gives me the nicotine fix, I haven't found a juice that's close enough to tobacco flavor, specifically Camel.

 

[kick3r]

After reading a lot of threads in this forum, I'm so overwhelmed. I have thought about a lot of things when purchasing my ecig such as does it look like an analog? Can I get tobacco flavor and will it taste like the analogs I've been smoking for years? I'm so overly anxious and nervous that it's not going to be what I'm expecting. A lot of people have been saying that when you find the right one it will be easy...I hope I got it right...any advice before I go crazy?

 

[Rosa]

After reading a lot of threads in this forum, I'm so overwhelmed. I have thought about a lot of things when purchasing my ecig such as does it look like an analog? Can I get tobacco flavor and will it taste like the analogs I've been smoking for years? I'm so overly anxious and nervous that it's not going to be what I'm expecting. A lot of people have been saying that when you find the right one it will be easy...I hope I got it right...any advice before I go crazy?

Yes, don't expect it to be the same as smoking - it won't be. The ones that look like a cigarette don't work as well as the ones that look like a flashlight. There isn't a juice that tastes like smoldering vegetable matter and chemicals.

If you keep an open mind and accept it for what it is, you may find that you like it better than you liked smoking (really, it's true!) and everything that you thought you wanted won't matter to you.

I like to describe it this way: You are about to drive off the lot in your first Ferrari, if you want it to perform like your Kia Optima you'll be disappointed.

 

[vaporhottie]

After reading a lot of threads in this forum, I'm so overwhelmed. I have thought about a lot of things when purchasing my ecig such as does it look like an analog? Can I get tobacco flavor and will it taste like the analogs I've been smoking for years? I'm so overly anxious and nervous that it's not going to be what I'm expecting. A lot of people have been saying that when you find the right one it will be easy...I hope I got it right...any advice before I go crazy?

My advice to you is to get an eGo or something similar. If you are smoking reds or camals then try a higher nicotine juice to start. Good luck in your vaping.

 

[stormchaser1966]

I'm only at close to 48 hours without an analog, but I am being completely honest when I say I have absolutely no desire for one. The taste, convenience, and satisfaction I'm getting from my eGo has kept me from even the slightest desire to light up. I find that my biggest challenges are the "habit"... I keep wanting to get up from my desk and go outside. It's not so much for the cigarette as it is for the break. I know I could easily do that and take my PV with me, but I think it may be easiest if I "retrain" myself. Now when I have the urge to get up from my desk, I do something besides go outside (yet I still take my PV with me, lol). Let's see how I am in another week!

 

[swt_silhouette]

I like to describe it this way: You are about to drive off the lot in your first Ferrari, if you want it to perform like your Kia Optima you'll be disappointed.

I am SO hoping this is true for me. I really hate being addicted to smoking. Such a self esteem killer for me. Love the analogy!

 

[danj1111]

Down to about 4 real cigs a day now. Which is pretty great for me (used to be 25-30).

I get the urge to smoke a real cig pretty often still, but if I take a few big vape hits, that
all goes away.

I think within a week I'll be off the analogs completely.. and without the insanity of cold turkey quitting,
or the crazy side-effects of chantix/zyban, or the absolutely worthless patches/gum/lozenges.

This vaping thing seems a bit too good to be true, but for now it's working great!

 

[RBommer]

I think the type of smoker you were plays a big part-- how long and how much you smoked. I was a 15-lite cig-a-day (just under a pack) smoker, and smoked for about 12 years. I quit the day after my kit arrived and was charged (9/12/2010). It was easy for me: I had no cravings for a cig and still don't.

The biggest difference I noticed was I was chain vaping, where as I wasn't a chain smoker. I smoked one cig about every two to three hours. I found out this was partly because my body was craving some of the other addictive chemicals in cigs that aren't in e-cigs; and partly it was because I needed to raise my juice's nic levels (I went with "light" levels (11mg/ml) because that was what I smoked.) I found that for me 24mg allowed me to go back to a schedule I was more used to. I'm now vaping four or five drags every hour-- which is close to what I was doing in analogs: 8 puffs of a cig every two hours or so.

I also think the higher your OCD level, the harder it will be. The vaping “ritual” is very close to the smoking ritual, but not exactly the same: no lighters; drag is way different; no head rush on first hit; etc. If you are a hardcore OCD, you will probably have trouble with the small differences in the ritual. I noticed the differences, but they didn’t bother me.

I plan to lower the nic levels later and eventually quit, but not because I don't want to be "hooked on nicotine" (I personally don't see anything wrong with nicotine; in my opinion, it's up there with caffeine as a drug: in moderation, it is a safe, feel-good drug people like); I'm going to quit because I don't want to get stuck in the lurch if my stupid on-the-take government decides to ban e-cigs (or, almost as worst, figure out a way to tax the crap out of it to make up for all the money it's going to lose as people start quitting tobacco).

I do think it will be much easier to quit e-cigs than analogs: I've already noticed that if I get stuck in a situation where I can't vape for three or four hours, I don't get that uncontrollable how-do-I-get-out-of-here anxiety I used to get as a smoker; Instead, I find it's much easier to occupy myself and put the craving out of my mind.

The only thing I miss from analog smoking is the convenience. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise: No matter what electronic system you go with, it's going to require way more "work" to keep yourself vaping from day-to-day. Cigs were easy: your only worry was having a way to light it. If you got stuck with no cigs and/or no lighter, a store or a good samaritan was always nearby to help you out. Not with vaping.