I only lasted 2 days with the Blu. Maybe fine for light smokers but not me. Congrats on your upgrade and best wishes. 
So...I bought a Blu...
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As a member of the ex-Blu club (
), I hear you. On the other hand, it did show you it can work and get you into the world of vaping. Not a total loss. I'll always have a soft spot for them because of that.Oof. I know that song. Swapping batteries constantly, checking those goofy lights hoping the charged one will last long enough for the charging one to finish. Which it often didn't. Then finding out I was going through cartridges so fast, I was spending as much as I was smoking (if not more).
Ah, I doubt that. Attacks I mean. Folks around here don't get riled often unless somebody asserts their ways is the One True Vape. "I don't like..." ain't fightin' words.
Folks around here often say "everybody's different". Which is true. And I think a lot of us like that vaping has so much variety and you can find what works for you personally instead of being stuck with a "one size fits all" situation.
Well, first of all, nicotine, by itself, isn't the big killer of smoking. Inhaling smoke of just about any kind is the biggest problem. Fireplaces and wood burning stoves are potential health risks on a scale with smoking if you're not careful. Switching to vaping, you've left behind literally thousands of chemicals in tobacco smoke (over fifty of which are known carcinogens). You could set the issue of nicotine aside for now. Deal with it later.
What if you were stuck as a nicotine addict but a healthy one as opposed to a nicotine addict with lung cancer? Which would you chose? I decided on the former. I increased my chances of lung cancer enough already. If I'm going to be addicted to nicotine, I'd rather be doing so in a way that lowers my chances of lung cancer, not keeps increasing them.
A lot of folks around here lower their nic over time. Many go to zero. But worry about that later. You've quit a good 4,000 other chemicals (no, seriously, some even say 10,000). That's a pretty big accomplishment eh?
Hah, like that goes away or something? I'm thirty years older and sitting here with my morning coffee. Going through a pot a day just like I did in college.
(Weirdly enough, I don't have a caffeine addiction. If I get up and find I forgot to pick up coffee, I just grumble and make a note to pick some up later in the day. No withdrawal like I've seen others go through. I just really like coffee. Always have.
)Oh definitely. I could not break the "first one in the morning" habit for a few weeks. I found for a while, I needed that "quick fix" with a cig in the morning then I could "coast" with vaping for some hours. Then, one morning, the thought of having "one of those things" first thing in the morning sounded rather disgusting and I grabbed the PV instead. So the morning cig died.
Not everybody quits the first day.
Some do. Some take up vaping, walk away, never look back. Others take more time. I did not come to a complete "halt" until about six weeks after I started vaping. I saw a dramatic drop in my smoking immediately. But didn't totally stop at once. Took a while to get to the point the one remaining pack was empty and I just didn't care.
Don't set yourself up by expecting miracles. If the smoking is decreasing, be happy. I consciously decided to not worry about it so long as the answer to "did I smoke less this week" was "yes".
One thing you could try that I did was pay attention to your habits and arrange things so vaping is convenient and smoking isn't. I work at home so I stuck the one (and only one) pack in the kitchen cabinet. I had to get up, go get the pack, get the ashtray, find a lighter... blah, blah, blah. But the PV was right next to the computer.
I'd sometimes catch myself getting that, "Wish I had a cigarette" feeling but I was in the middle of something and would think, "In a minute!" and it'd pass. But if I just had to have one, I could.
But as my habits shifted (and there's so much habit and ritual in smoking), I pushed the cigs to less and less convenient situations. Like stopping smoking at the computer. I had stand right there in the kitchen and finish the thing. No getting any more smoke in the computer!
The vaping provided the nicotine so the cravings weren't severe and nightmarish like all my other "quit" attempts so the urge to smoke was much, much milder. And I found the more I settled in with vaping, the less I wanted a cigarette. They didn't taste as good. They seemed harsh. Then they started giving me headaches.
Heh, I went through a weird period at one point where it was like dealing with a three year old in my head. "I wanna cigarette!" "You don't like cigarettes anymore." "I want one!" "Okay but every time you have one, you don't like it." "I like smoking!" "All right, here." "YUCK!" "Told you so."
Eventually, I caught myself throwing things away. Lighters. Ashtrays. An empty pack. I needed room for liquids!
Now I keep my cigs in the most inconvenient place: the store. Yeah, if I really, really, really wanted one, I could have one. I just have to get the keys and wallet, drive five miles down the road, buy a pack, come back (don't smoke in the truck), find the lighters (I think I have some?), find the...
Oh you get the idea.
Truth is, cigs are widely available. You can have one any time you want. That's just reality. I just kept pushing it further out. More and more, "Maybe later." These days, "later" just never arrives. Even times I kind of miss smoking (it's a weird, almost wistful feeling), I'm not motivated enough to go get any.
Myself, I don't think making it "hard" on yourself works all that well. If it did, the old "cold turkey" would be the way everybody would quit. Also, they say surveys show upwards of 70% of smokers want to quit. That's a good 30 million people who would stop tomorrow if "will power" was enough. Well, ain't happening obviously.
Cut yourself some slack. You've already made huge progress. Be happy and keep going. If you give in to the urge to smoke here and there, it's not the end of the world. Long as the amount is going down, it's a good thing eh?
Especially because if it keeps going down, it eventually hits zero...
Thank you so much Bilbo, I was feeling kinda isolated right now as my coworkers go out for a smoke break...I don't want to go out with an electronic one, so I go out about fifteen minutes after them. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I actually dropped the cancer sticks completely when I bought the blu. The first day was easy, but the second and third were terrible. It's getting easier if my equipment didn't suck, but I'm just praying that Friday comes faster so I get my packages. Thanks Bilbo and everyone else, you'll be hearing more from me
I heard of blu but I had a 60 dollar ecig from the mall and the charge was terrible. I bought an Ego Twist and wow..it was much better then I've only bought more and more mods haha!
Thank you so much Bilbo, I was feeling kinda isolated right now as my coworkers go out for a smoke break...I don't want to go out with an electronic one, so I go out about fifteen minutes after them. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I actually dropped the cancer sticks completely when I bought the blu. The first day was easy, but the second and third were terrible. It's getting easier if my equipment didn't suck, but I'm just praying that Friday comes faster so I get my packages. Thanks Bilbo and everyone else, you'll be hearing more from me
Glad I could help.
Don't beat up on yourself. Just ask, "Am I smoking less?" If the answer is, "Yes", that's great. So you need time to settle in more? Okay. No big thing. Took me a while too. But I got there. Rarely even think about smoking anymore. Did yesterday. Had that odd, almost... wistful feeling that I "miss it". Strange actually. Not a craving. Just... missed it. Kind of a fond feeling like, "I used to enjoy that."
It can take some experimenting to find the combination of kit and flavors and PG/VG mix and nic level and this and that and the other thing before you hit your combination. In my opinion, I think some folks hit a good combination for them the first time out but others have to play around with things and try stuff out before they find stuff that really works.
Don't expect yourself to perform miracles. Just explore this "vaping" thing and find what works for you. I'll bet you'll do like I did. Start hitting stuff that you really like only to realize you forgot to smoke this week. No, seriously, it gradually turned into that. I would stop somewhere along the way and try to remember when I had my last cigarette and I didn't know for sure. I still don't know exactly when I smoked my last one. I can only tell you within about a two week period. That's how unimportant cigarettes became.
Which is so weird to think about. I was a heavy smoker. Nobody believed I'd quit. Especially not me. I'd given up on even trying. In fact, the idea of trying could throw me into a near actual panic attack (every quit attempt is a memory of a total horror show... the idea of going through nicotine withdrawal again... brrrr).
Blu won't cut it for a lot of us. Some stay with it. Not many. With better kit, you'll go further. Be happy that you found something that can work and that you've already made progress. That's a good thing. A very good thing.
I remember, in my first month, thinking "okay, what if I were stuck smoking three or four a day?" And realized up against a pack and a half to two packs? Which is, what, 30 to 40 a day? I could live with that. If that was all I got, that was better than anything I'd tried before...
Welcome and have fun on your adventure (or like me.. a new addiction). Wonderful people here, thanks for joining.
Blu was my first as well. Never liked it one bit. Got a Smokeless Image kit and I love it
Those cheapy small e cigarettes really don'tg pack the punch. You really gotta go with an ego or something similar. You will be happy in the end with easy refills.
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