It was gradual but pretty quick. Started vaping and by about day 3 was done with cigs. Still wanted one for some reason out of habit but didn't act on it. The desire to have one lingered for about a week (again, more out of habit) but I did not CRAVE want (nor did I have one).
Starting on "e cigs" ... did you just switch in a day ????
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I am down 2/3's since I have started vaping. Once it gets cold out I do not like to go in the basement or outside for a cigarette..so it should be easier as it gets cold...so long as I don't catch a cold. I can't vape with a cold but then again everything I tried to vape with while sick with a cold had PG in it. So if it happens I will try 100 % VG and hopefully that will let me keep vaping.
I wasn't planning on quitting - it just happened after about a week after I started vaping. Had a half pack of Marb Lights left - I gave them away. I still crave one when I'm drunk, but anytime I take a drag, I regret it - they taste like poo!
What motivated me to try e-cigs, after all my failed attempts, was that blonde lady on TV, you know, the one with the wig, and the tracheotomy plug...
It was June, my birthday was in July, so I decided I would quit by my birthday. At the time, I was smoking 4 cigarettes an hour. I decided to cut it to 1 an hour, and vape the rest of the time. Started on a Monday. Always had my cig, first thing. That following Monday, I woke up, and said, "I think I'll vape first, and see how long I can go before I want a cigarette...
That was June 26, 2011
It was June, my birthday was in July, so I decided I would quit by my birthday. At the time, I was smoking 4 cigarettes an hour. I decided to cut it to 1 an hour, and vape the rest of the time. Started on a Monday. Always had my cig, first thing. That following Monday, I woke up, and said, "I think I'll vape first, and see how long I can go before I want a cigarette...
That was June 26, 2011
I clung to my morning and after dinner analogs for almost a week after starting vaping. I ran out of cigarettes day 8 and never went to buy another pack. 2 months/10 days smoke free!
The switch was instant. Started with 24mg which was helpful but the very next bottle was 16mg, which is still my level. There was nothing to quit, only to transfer; I lived with chain-smokers & never had a problem. Still have analogs once in awhile, mostly when I get to whiskey-ing.
I went from the gum to ecigs yes in one day. Smoking to the gum was a slower process.
I finished the last cigarette of my last pack late the night before my bday, so I decided that it was a good day to quit. The next morning, instead of buying a new pack, I bought a disposable e-cig (N-Joy) and started searching for better options. I found GreenSmoke and bought the starter kit over the Internet (a few more N-Joys while waiting). I haven't smoke again since that night, almost two months ago.
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When my first order showed up with some 510 batteries I had a half dozen packs left. I tinkered with the e-cigs but smoked when I wanted to. Those 6 packs lasted me a week (twice as long as usual), and I never bought more. about 2 weeks after I quit I was having some problems (lousy 510's) and was waiting for my EGO's I had ordered and bummed a smoke. 3 drags was all I could take. I went back to my crappy 510's and waited 2 more days for the EGO's. Haven't had another cigarette since.
My own story is an interesting testament to the power of these little devices...
In 2009 I was working as the quality manager in a machine shop where I had the freedom to smoke anywhere in the shop, but it in the office area.
I was a 3+ pack a day smoker who had been smoking for over 40 years.
Over the years I'd tried to quit several times, I tried everything from cold turkey, to acupuncture, injections in the sinus cavity (hurt like a .....), hypnosis, NRT (gum, patches, inhalers), Wellbutrin... NOTHING worked!
I had finally said, "To Hell With IT!" and figured I'd be a life long smoker.
Years later, in 2009 I was ENJOYING my cigarettes. I had NO desire, and NO intention to quit.
Then sometime in July the general manager got fired, and they split up his duties between the sales manager, the production manager, and myself...
The end result was I was having to spend more and more time in the office where I couldn't smoke.
I was finding excuses to go out into the shop every chance I got where I could light up a smoke...
My work was suffering, and everyone knew what I was doing and why...
Hell, people were openly joking about it, because the cigarette would be in my mouth and my zippo was lit before I even opened the office door.
My lungs were full of smoke before I had taken 1 full step into the shop!
At lunch one day a friend of mine from years back told me about the Njoy e-cigarette.
I vaped on his for a bit, and though it was expensive as hell, I figured it MIGHT be the thing just for when I was in the office.
So I bought a kit.
Of course Njoy had their own names for everything, but I later found out that this deluxe kit was simply 2 automatic stick batteries, 2 801 atomizers, a charger, and a 5 pack of prefilled cartridges. The replacement cartridges were God Awful expensive, but I was just going to use it in the office, so they SHOULD last a while...
By now it was mid August, and this thing was working out pretty well.
I was only going out for a smoke at breaks, lunch, and whenever I had a legitimate reason to go into the shop.
I still had no intention of giving up my cigarettes. I LOVED MY CIGARETTES!
Through the rest of August and all of September this routine served me well... I was now vaping everyplace I couldn't smoke, restaurants, the hospital, grocery stores, movie theaters, etc...
I just kept my e-cig in my pocket beside my pack of cigs and was good for whatever the situation called for, but I STILL LOVED MY CIGS and had NO desire or intention to give them up...
But one day in early October, I noticed that more often than not when I reached for a smoke, it was the e-cigarette that I pulled out of my pocket and not the Doral?!?
At 12:15 pm on October 14th 2009 I was sitting in my car, and had just finished my lunch, and reached for my after lunch cigarette when I realized that I had the same pack of Dorals in my pocket that I'd opened 3 days before.
That was the last cigarette I've ever smoked.
I threw the rest of the pack away on my way back into the building, and I've been a dedicated vaper ever since.
In about a month it will be 4 years since my last smoke.
Everyone has their own story and some are similar and some are not, but the point to take with you from mine is that I NEVER INTENDED TO QUIT SMOKING!!!
We're not allowed to hype e-cigs as a device to help people quit.
But, at least in my case, e-cigs are responsible for taking away my cigarettes even though I was not trying to give them up?
Did they help me quit? No! They quit for me with no conscious effort on my part at all.
Yes, I've had cravings since then, hell I still do on occasion... But I've never backslid, or fallen off the wagon even for 1 smoke.
I drip a few drops of double strength juice into a 510 low resistance atty and within 3 or 4 good toots those cravings vanish like smoke rings in the dark!
In 2009 I was working as the quality manager in a machine shop where I had the freedom to smoke anywhere in the shop, but it in the office area.
I was a 3+ pack a day smoker who had been smoking for over 40 years.
Over the years I'd tried to quit several times, I tried everything from cold turkey, to acupuncture, injections in the sinus cavity (hurt like a .....), hypnosis, NRT (gum, patches, inhalers), Wellbutrin... NOTHING worked!
I had finally said, "To Hell With IT!" and figured I'd be a life long smoker.
Years later, in 2009 I was ENJOYING my cigarettes. I had NO desire, and NO intention to quit.
Then sometime in July the general manager got fired, and they split up his duties between the sales manager, the production manager, and myself...
The end result was I was having to spend more and more time in the office where I couldn't smoke.
I was finding excuses to go out into the shop every chance I got where I could light up a smoke...
My work was suffering, and everyone knew what I was doing and why...
Hell, people were openly joking about it, because the cigarette would be in my mouth and my zippo was lit before I even opened the office door.
My lungs were full of smoke before I had taken 1 full step into the shop!
At lunch one day a friend of mine from years back told me about the Njoy e-cigarette.
I vaped on his for a bit, and though it was expensive as hell, I figured it MIGHT be the thing just for when I was in the office.
So I bought a kit.
Of course Njoy had their own names for everything, but I later found out that this deluxe kit was simply 2 automatic stick batteries, 2 801 atomizers, a charger, and a 5 pack of prefilled cartridges. The replacement cartridges were God Awful expensive, but I was just going to use it in the office, so they SHOULD last a while...
By now it was mid August, and this thing was working out pretty well.
I was only going out for a smoke at breaks, lunch, and whenever I had a legitimate reason to go into the shop.
I still had no intention of giving up my cigarettes. I LOVED MY CIGARETTES!
Through the rest of August and all of September this routine served me well... I was now vaping everyplace I couldn't smoke, restaurants, the hospital, grocery stores, movie theaters, etc...
I just kept my e-cig in my pocket beside my pack of cigs and was good for whatever the situation called for, but I STILL LOVED MY CIGS and had NO desire or intention to give them up...
But one day in early October, I noticed that more often than not when I reached for a smoke, it was the e-cigarette that I pulled out of my pocket and not the Doral?!?
At 12:15 pm on October 14th 2009 I was sitting in my car, and had just finished my lunch, and reached for my after lunch cigarette when I realized that I had the same pack of Dorals in my pocket that I'd opened 3 days before.
That was the last cigarette I've ever smoked.
I threw the rest of the pack away on my way back into the building, and I've been a dedicated vaper ever since.
In about a month it will be 4 years since my last smoke.
Everyone has their own story and some are similar and some are not, but the point to take with you from mine is that I NEVER INTENDED TO QUIT SMOKING!!!
We're not allowed to hype e-cigs as a device to help people quit.
But, at least in my case, e-cigs are responsible for taking away my cigarettes even though I was not trying to give them up?
Did they help me quit? No! They quit for me with no conscious effort on my part at all.
Yes, I've had cravings since then, hell I still do on occasion... But I've never backslid, or fallen off the wagon even for 1 smoke.
I drip a few drops of double strength juice into a 510 low resistance atty and within 3 or 4 good toots those cravings vanish like smoke rings in the dark!
I had just bought a pack of American Spirits on my way to a friends house. When i got there he had a Vision Spinner and an EVOD tank for me. He also got me spearmint ejuice. I still have that pack of cigs and there are only 2 missing. That was 2 months ago. The last cig i had was over at my friends house that day.
I quit almost immediately. Last month out of nowhere i went into Atrial Fibrillation, i ended spending 2 days in cardiac ICU because IV meds couldn't reset my heart back into normal rhythm. While in the hospital they gave me no nicotine products to curb the smoking because it might intefere with my heat.
When i got out i remembered i had a full unopened pack of smokes sitting in my car. Me being the fool that i am decided that i wasn't about to let those go to waste. After smoking that last cig and feeling like crap for it i decided to quit cold turkey. I went 24 hours and was about to lose my mind.
So i went my local 7/11 and was about to buy a pack when i say the NJOY's they sell. I figured what the H. That lasted a day, the next day i got a ego starter from a shop. Now over a month later i'm rocking an EVIC and MVP2 with 2 protank 2's and 2 protank mini's.
Feeling good so far.
Plus my wife is currently in labor with our 2nd child. Hope the little guy comes out tonight.
Wish us luck
When i got out i remembered i had a full unopened pack of smokes sitting in my car. Me being the fool that i am decided that i wasn't about to let those go to waste. After smoking that last cig and feeling like crap for it i decided to quit cold turkey. I went 24 hours and was about to lose my mind.
So i went my local 7/11 and was about to buy a pack when i say the NJOY's they sell. I figured what the H. That lasted a day, the next day i got a ego starter from a shop. Now over a month later i'm rocking an EVIC and MVP2 with 2 protank 2's and 2 protank mini's.
Feeling good so far.
Plus my wife is currently in labor with our 2nd child. Hope the little guy comes out tonight.
Wish us luck
I quit the same day I got my kit, both times. I was an idiot and started smoking again after I had quite everything for a long time, but as soon as I had it in my mind to vape again, I never looked back. It is by far the easiest way to walk away from cigs altogether (though I do totally understand that some can't put them down immediately).
I gradually quit to the point where I was smoking maybe 2-4 ciggs a day and just figured
why go on? Vaping instead of smoking in the morning and after meals was the hardest, but I adapted
quickly.
why go on? Vaping instead of smoking in the morning and after meals was the hardest, but I adapted
quickly.
Since the day I bought my first e-cig (eGo battery with a CE4 and a charger + bottle of menthol juice... I've long since left CE4s behind of course), I have never smoked another cigarette.
I may be an anomaly, but for me, I just knew I was done with cigarettes.
I planned it. I smoked my last Marlboro menthol 100 and brought the empty pack in with me to the vape shop to buy my first kit. I asked them to throw that empty pack away - ceremonially. As it fell into the trash bin, I said my goodbye. Never to buy another. A joyous dirge.
There was no doubt in my mind after studying ECF (I did that for about a month before I made the decision). I guess it was where I was in my life's journey. I just set my brain and heart on quitting - decided ahead of time that I was going to like vaping, and that is what happened.
Much of it is your decisiveness factor. I did it for me - I did it for my daughter. Tired of the haunting, accusing look in her eyes when I smoked. Memories of her words echoed in my mind..."Mom... don't you want to be around to see me get married? Have children?"
Honestly, even had it not been for my steel resolve, I like vaping better, just as I suspected I would.
To me vaping is the answer, and I pray for a day when all smokers and society in general recognizes it as THE most viable cessation option.
I may be an anomaly, but for me, I just knew I was done with cigarettes.
I planned it. I smoked my last Marlboro menthol 100 and brought the empty pack in with me to the vape shop to buy my first kit. I asked them to throw that empty pack away - ceremonially. As it fell into the trash bin, I said my goodbye. Never to buy another. A joyous dirge.
There was no doubt in my mind after studying ECF (I did that for about a month before I made the decision). I guess it was where I was in my life's journey. I just set my brain and heart on quitting - decided ahead of time that I was going to like vaping, and that is what happened.
Much of it is your decisiveness factor. I did it for me - I did it for my daughter. Tired of the haunting, accusing look in her eyes when I smoked. Memories of her words echoed in my mind..."Mom... don't you want to be around to see me get married? Have children?"
Honestly, even had it not been for my steel resolve, I like vaping better, just as I suspected I would.
To me vaping is the answer, and I pray for a day when all smokers and society in general recognizes it as THE most viable cessation option.
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Friend gave me a Blu disposable, husband and self tried it and ordered a joyetech twist kit, when kit arrived we both quit cigs that day.
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