So, what's the catch?

[house mouse]

I've been lurking here for a while and I'm finding the whole ecig experience almost too good be true. I received my Joye eGo on Monday and have been ordering and experimenting with ejuices ever since. Clove, Fire & Ice, and Irish Cream are turning out to be my favorites(although I have another order out that might have some faves in it I just haven't met yet.)

I've smoked a pack or two daily for the last 34 years and I've tried everything to quit. Sometimes I'm successful for a few months, but the analogs creep back into my life and I'm full on smoking again.

So I ordered this thinking I was probably just throwing some cash away, but it is very different this time. I've not touched an analog since Monday, not one. I don't WANT one which I find incredible.

What I find stupefying is that analog smoke smells horrible to me now. Before, even if I'd made it for months without a cig, a whiff of smoke from someone's cigarette would still smell absolutely divine. Now, it just gags me.

Can it really be this easy to stop after 34 years? I feel like I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop here.

 

[Bozzlite]

Welcome to ECF housemouse. Thats exactly what I thought after the first week of being analog free and vaping away with my Ego kit. Whats the catch. It was just too easy.

Rest assured there is no catch. It really is that easy. I was a 2 plus pack a day smoker for over 40 years, and quit 'em the first day my PV arrived. Its still hard to believe. After 3 months.

PS: That was the title of one of my first posts here: "Waiting for the other shoe to drop"

 

[asti]

welcome house mouse!
Yes, the other shoe will drop and it comes in the form of tasting and smelling your food, no more hacking up a lung, feelings of joy and happiness, the flip side?
Shopping.
sorry, but that can become a problem.

 

[kellogg]

Welcome to ECF, Housemouse. Weird, isn't it?

Wait until your sense of smell really comes back. I didn't even know the smells I was missing out on.

 

[skottfree]

No catch just a lot of money in your pocket from not buying analogs and everyone and their brother looking down on you!

I smoked analogs for 40 years and after getting use to how these work it was a breeze to stop smoking!

Have fun and avoid paying all those new tobacco taxes they keep raising every year! I was living in Washington state and they raised the tobacco taxes 2 years in a row by $1 each time. Can you imagine half the cost of a pack of cigs was taxes! A carton was $75!

 

[WomanOfHeart]

Hi, housemouse! You can keep waiting for the other shoe to drop, but you'll probably be waiting for the rest of your life. You can try holding your breath, too, but you'll just end up passing out and that isn't any fun.

It really is just that easy, just that inexpensive, and most importantly...JUST THAT FUN!

There is somewhat of a teeny, tiny, little catch, though. You have to learn how to stalk the postman! That's not hard, either. Trust me, and all the other stalkers on this forum.

It's ALL just that easy!

 

[stainedclear]

I have the same feeling on the smell of smoke and I was the same as you. Any other time I quit and smelled smoke it was like heaven. Now it makes my noise itch and I almost have to hold my breath. So odd...

As for downsides, I'm still pretty new but the only ones I've found are spending too much money on juice and pvs and that a sense of smell means I notice how many people go around without bathing. Ugh.

 

[Springbird]

Welcome Housemouse. It has been that easy for me. I smoked for about 42 years. No quit smoking anything ever worked for me and I tried them all, including hypnosis and one drug that made me fall madly, ( I'm talking the most wicked 7th grade crush you've ever had) crazy in love with the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank. I don't know if there are any other recovering Bernanke stalkers (C-Span) out there, I may be the only one. Any way I stopped taking the drug and while I still think he's pretty hot, he no longer occupies every other thought and I'm getting more work done.

I've been dying to tell that story.

Anyway it's been 15 weeks since I had a cig. I'm very happy, food tastes great, I stopped coughing and I stopped getting headaches. Hope you continue to have a great experience.

 

[Nomoreash]

Can it really be this easy to stop after 34 years? I feel like I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop here.

It really was that easy for me after smoking analogs for 25 years. Probably what makes it easier than any other method is we're not stopping, we're trading for a better alternative. E-Cigs simulate the smoking experience better than any alternative out there and if there is a catch that's it. We're holding a device in your hand, drawing into the lungs, etc which is a habit in itself to many. Then there's all the options which you touched on with the variety of juices, nic levels, pvs, atomizers, cartomizers, on and on, pretty much anyone is bound to find something that hits the sweet spot. With other methods, that's it, you're stuck with that method which totally deviates from the smoking experience, if it works great, if it doesn't move on.

 

[house mouse]

It's really weird to notice all those little ingrained habits that you don't need anymore. Like looking for an ashtray when I sit down at the computer, or feeling around in a tray in my car for a lighter. It makes me laugh when I catch myself doing that.

 

[Springbird]

I occasionally catch myself rolling down the car window.

 

[NCC]

I've smoked a pack or two daily for the last 34 years and I've tried everything to quit. Sometimes I'm successful for a few months, but the analogs creep back into my life and I'm full on smoking again.

So I ordered this thinking I was probably just throwing some cash away, but it is very different this time. I've not touched an analog since Monday, not one. I don't WANT one which I find incredible.

What I find stupefying is that analog smoke smells horrible to me now. Before, even if I'd made it for months without a cig, a whiff of smoke from someone's cigarette would still smell absolutely divine. Now, it just gags me.

Can it really be this easy to stop after 34 years? I feel like I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop here.

I smoked a carton a week for 35+ years. I ordered my first PV as a curiosity, not intending to quit. That was delivered to me on January 15, 2010, and I quit smoking that day ... without any pre-plans to do so.

I'm nine months in now, and my experience in the beginning was pretty much like yours ... except that in 35+ years I only made one attempt to quit, which lasted 10 days. I was, like you, dumbfounded that I had actually quit smoking. It was an accident for me, I hadn't planned to quit.

IMO, from what I can see, there is no other shoe to drop.

Get a good PV, research, make it a hobby, enjoy breathing and tasting your food again.

Vape On

 

[WomanOfHeart]

I still go down to our "Smoking Lounge" once in a while. (Our lease prohibits smoking in the house proper, but smoking in the garage and adjacent storage room is okay.) We used to go down there all the time after we started vaping until it really hit me that there isn't a smell. Not having to roll down the car window is going to be extremely appreciated when the snow starts flying here.

 

[Liv2Ski]

Welcome to your new hobby. Yes it does work and if you are like me you can get a lot of nice vaping gear with the money you save by not buying smokes.

 

[tybin]

I occasionally catch myself rolling down the car window.

Ya i've done that too!

 

[house mouse]

I still go down to our "Smoking Lounge" once in a while. (Our lease prohibits smoking in the house proper, but smoking in the garage and adjacent storage room is okay.) We used to go down there all the time after we started vaping until it really hit me that there isn't a smell. Not having to roll down the car window is going to be extremely appreciated when the snow starts flying here.

I work in a hospital and I'm hoping that this is well received there. I would never use it out in the open in the patient care areas or at the desk, but see no problem with ducking in the lounge or a bathroom for a hit. And I've been doing it routinely. A couple of my friends are sold on it and are ordering their own. But I've gotten a few "looks" from some other employees about it. Right now there is no policy in place that forbids it, so we'll see what happens. If the powers that be tell me I have to go outside to use it, I'll just smile nicely and tell them I don't have a problem with that. Then I'll just go to the bathroom when I want a hit. There's no smell so how will they ever know?

 

[Dawn L.]

I ordered my first e-cig in June and basically just ordered it to try and appease my husband who quit smoking 3 years earlier after being hypnotized (I went to the same hypnotist and never could quit.) After receiving my order in the mail I saved about 10 analog cigs for when I might need them, figuring I'd want one after dinner, in the morning, etc. I actually just found that half pack of cigarettes about 2 weeks ago and finally threw it in the garbage because I'm now confident that I'll never go back to analog. I found that I actually preferred vaping to smoking. I smoked a pack a day for 15 years and didn't even really want to quit, I loved smoking. As I stated previously, I was trying the e-cig just to appease my husband, but I'm sure glad I did because now I LOVE vaping!

 

[Sandybeach40]

When your first juice order comes from PureSmoker it sure helps to make it a simple transition. Good juice is the Key and you lucked out starting out with the some of the best of the best. I haven't tried the Tonic Line yet but the VaporCast said its good and they haven't let me down yet. Fire And Ice is going to be my next try at finding another great juice.

 

[house mouse]

When your first juice order comes from PureSmoker it sure helps to make it a simple transition. Good juice is the Key and you lucked out starting out with the some of the best of the best. I haven't tried the Tonic Line yet but the VaporCast said its good and they haven't let me down yet. Fire And Ice is going to be my next try at finding great juice.

I read here a lot before I ordered and kinda went with the fire and ice because some other posters seemed to enjoy it. It didn't disappoint at all. I picked the clove because I always liked clove cigs and it's about a dead ringer for one. The Irish Cream I never would have ordered as my own pick, but it got thrown in as a sample on an order I made and it is really great too. I tried Watermelon and that's a big fat no. Just can't stand it. I'll give it to one of my friends and they might enjoy it. This is turning into quite an adventure sampling juices.

 

[TypeOholic]

The only catch I can think of is that you have to try a few things until you find what is right for you. So, if you guess wrong a few times you could be spending money for stuff you don't like. But, there are a lot of sites that offer trial size bottles of fluids and blank carts. I would suggest buying 3 ml bottles of fluid until you know what you like.