Still dealing with cigs?

[MystStick]

Nah, seriously ladies, you've gotta do what you've gotta do. No guilt, not coulda/woulda/shoulda. Nancy, I agree that longer-lasting batteries are a big help when out & about.

Thanks for your words Katz.... I was pretty bummed at first when I really wanted to lower my levels but was increasing them instead. Finding that some juices I feel the need for a higher level or I just don't get much out of it....... others I would enjoy and vape at lower levels and be fine. It has been all about the experiment and finding something that works for you today, even if tomorrow may be different.

 

[TheBlueAdept]

I too got frustrated when I was charging 3 to 4 standard batteries and topping off cartos like crazy every day. I didnt like spending so much time just managing my gear.

I moved on to tanks and the OMG mod, and finally on to several other PVs. Finally I'm in a situation where I charge one battery a day, top off the tanks in the morning, and I don't have to mess with anything unless a carto fails. I'm much happier now. Still not 'easy' compared to analogs, but easy enough.

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[waylonjessi4ever]

Teehee Waylon, I'm just gonna get a bigger purse!!! But I do hope the egos will help ya out and get you where you want/need to be!
I personally just do not want to go back to analogs, so I'm gonna do/use whatever keeps me off 'em. Sadly, if it weren't for ecigs, I know I would go back to analogs. If upping the nic does it, then so be it, imho, anyway! I'm just thrilled to have made it this far!

Yeah i dont know whats wrong with me ...I dont WANT to smoke but sometimes it gets me again .its a nasty addiction for me .I am able to go most weekends as it is hidden from hubby just like any other addict I dont smoke everyday ,but when i fall its one or two in a day ,so maybe not a pack a week always ,still bad .This makes me ill advised to help anyone but if i could say ,just keep fighting it .sometimes the urge passes in an hour or so .

 

[MystStick]

Yeah i dont know whats wrong with me ...I dont WANT to smoke but sometimes it gets me again .its a nasty addiction for me .I am able to go most weekends as it is hidden from hubby just like any other addict I dont smoke everyday ,but when i fall its one or two in a day ,so maybe not a pack a week always ,still bad .This makes me ill advised to help anyone but if i could say ,just keep fighting it .sometimes the urge passes in an hour or so .

Don't beat yourself up over it. You have made MAJOR progress in chaning a habit that took years to instill. Just take it one step at a time at those moment I elect to vape instead. When you find yourself having more and more of those moments, where the choice seems simple and more pleasant, you know you saved yourself from one more cig. If I hadn't already dumped every ashtray in sight, cleaned my car and learned to smell again, I might be tempted myself. But being that I am just too lazy to go through that process again, I elect to vape when the urge hits me. Sometimes, I find it necessary to have a higher nic juice around, not my normal vape, and when the urge hits, it really helps to have that jolt of new flavor and a higher hit of nicotine.

Just don't be hard on yourself. You are making the right moves!

 

[GrannyM]

Yeah i dont know whats wrong with me ...I dont WANT to smoke but sometimes it gets me again .its a nasty addiction for me .I am able to go most weekends as it is hidden from hubby just like any other addict I dont smoke everyday ,but when i fall its one or two in a day ,so maybe not a pack a week always ,still bad .This makes me ill advised to help anyone but if i could say ,just keep fighting it .sometimes the urge passes in an hour or so .

Wow...this just spoke to me for some reason.
Part of the problem with quitting smoking is we've all done it so many times and we feel & are made to feel like failures when we don't succeed. In my 38 years of smoking, I never made it past 3 days without a smoke.

When I started vaping, I decided I wasn't setting myself up for failure again. If I wanted a cigarette, I had it. That took the total stress out of it. And immediately I went from a pack - 2 packs a day to 4 cigarettes a day. Granted it wasn't always easy; sometimes I had to talk myself out of that smoke. But I was okay with where I was at and I think that was key. Because pretty soon I was down to 2 a day, then 1 a day, then 1 every couple of days. It just happened; it wasn't a deliberate move on my part.

I don't honestly know when I smoked my last cigarette. I think it was somewhere around 10 months after I started vaping. One day I just realized I hadn't smoked in a while.

There have been occasional temptations, but they're very rare & over pretty quickly now.

So Nancy, my advice to you is just to relax & don't be so hard on yourself. So what if you smoke a few here & there? You're still in a much better place now. Try to be happy with where you're at. Not everyone quits smoking the minute they start vaping & not everyone who vapes has quit smoking completely.

Finally, if this is really on your heart to be completely smoke free, perhaps you might want to look at some other parts of ECF that discuss snus and/or WTA liquid. For some people, vaping nicotine is just not enough & they supplement with snus or WTA.

Take heart Nancy. There is nothing "wrong" with you and you are not "falling".

 

[SAG]

Now, here, in this thread is some great advice and support! I know that I am one dead battery away from smoking. I was one of those that couldn't quit the day my shipment arrived, so I totally can relate to those black and blue marks I gave myself from havin a smoke. Just don't ever give up trying. Maybe the eGo will do it, maybe up your nic level, or try a new flavor. I remember reading on the forums about everyone else "just quitting" immediately and thinking there was something seriously wrong with me. Maybe I just didn't want it bad enough or something. (I knew I did) Everything I had was 36, and I was still having a couple. I kept trying with flavors,etc. Then I got Peppy, my big pink eGo. From day 1 with Peppy, NO SMOKING. I don't know why. Today, Peppy goes everywhere with me, but just as a backup. I can't explain it because I honestly don't understand it. But here I am. And I am not smoking. I am thankful for that ugly pepto bismal pink thing (and Smilin 36, of course)!
Sorry for the rant, I just wish I could help you. Please just hang in there and don't be afraid to try something that you think may be "ugly". Whether your "ugly" is a battery, higher nic level or some undesired flavor. You might just end up accidentally in a very happy spot!

 

[ussr]

Fully agree with GrannyM, dun pressure yourself. If u need or feel like having a log go ahead, it's starting to taste bad anyway...as your taste buds starts to recover over time. I'm a returning vaper. Stopped logs on my first month, chain smoked back as I couldn't get supplies or part when it broke down.

Now that I have returned, I no longer push myself. I will still take a long when I feel like. But they are tasting real bad. Will look forward to loving the urge for logs completely.


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[jeffree]

Thanks for the most interesting thoughts, all--just as I'd expected. Early in my cig-quit days, I used to look for such threads to give me strength.

I can only add emphasis to something implied by others above: equipment's important. Choosing simpler options (I use just two 900mah batts and mega cartos daily) and having plenty of extra gear (both batts and cartos) in every conceivable location (work, car, etc.) were vitally important to my own quits. I vowed early on, and still do, that I'll never be caught without the vaping gear I enjoy. And that I'll never, ever, have an easy excuse to bum a cig. As others have mentioned, I know that one would likely take me back downstairs in a flash.

To those who haven't quit, I'll just join the chorus who say 'each in his or her own time.' When it feels right, if it ever does, just be glad that vaping's such a wonderful resource for the process. I still can't believe how relatively painless the switch was for me. YMMV, of course.

 

[plantlvr]

Hey jeffree have you tried tanks yet?

 

[SAG]

Jeffree - thank you for this thread. I know there have been others, but sometimes the timing is just right for some one out there

 

[BHam]

I agree with SAG. Thanks jeffree. The stories people have shared and opened up with make me realize why we are all here. We all went through the struggle of trying to switch or stop completely. And we all know its hard but when you explain your story to someone else who's been there they just "get it". I love that about this thread. It makes it so much easier to keep vaping when I know I'm not the only one and there's other people who've felt my struggles.

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[HarmonyPB]

Wow...this just spoke to me for some reason.
Part of the problem with quitting smoking is we've all done it so many times and we feel & are made to feel like failures when we don't succeed. In my 38 years of smoking, I never made it past 3 days without a smoke.

When I started vaping, I decided I wasn't setting myself up for failure again. If I wanted a cigarette, I had it. That took the total stress out of it.

+1000 to that! That is exactly the attitude I took my second time around with ecigs and I have been much more successful this time. I decided my start date would be the day I started vaping full time. I've had several analogs since that date. In fact I just had one last night (1 year and 3 months after my switch date). I have gone months at a time without analogs, but sometimes I want one so I have one. Last night was a rough one and I WANTED one!!

As for the OP. Yes and no. I don't normally crave analogs. I still love the smell of a cig as well as the taste. My DH still smokes so they are always around if I want one. But when I first switched every time I smelled one I wanted one bad!! Now, I just enjoy the smell and keep on vaping

 

[plantlvr]

Always remember that one less cig smoked is a victory. I for one have no problem with people smoking cus I did for so many years and prob would, no I take that back, I WOULD still be smoking if not for ecigs. I loved smokong and never tried to quit, so to me, vaping is a win.

 

[MystStick]

Always remember that one less cig smoked is a victory. I for one have no problem with people smoking cus I did for so many years and prob would, no I take that back, I WOULD still be smoking if not for ecigs. I loved smokong and never tried to quit, so to me, vaping is a win.

I totally agree with you! I loved smoking and even though I thought about quitting, I never really wanted to and knew I probably would never truly do it 100%. I like to say that I accidently quit smoking because when I tried vaping, it was to get me over an immediate hurdle of being too sick at the time to be able to smoke (really bad cold). Vaping worked for me without making me cough, so I just continued to do it and before I knew it, it was 3 months, then 4 and so on. I just took it one day at a time and luckily was never truly able to handle the thought of a log again. Yes, there have been moments, some while driving by a gas station and thinking maybe I will just pick up a pack to have (almost like I missed going into the gas station and visiting with my old friends I think that is part of the old habits that get involved in the mental process. Had I actually stopped, I am sure I would have tried it again, but also sure that I would enjoy the vaping more, so the urge went away pretty quickly.

Not that the process was entirely peaches and cream, there were certainly moments that I looked at my vape stick and said, you aren't doing it for me like you used to. The best advice I received (was from V4L forum) was to just change things up some in my vaping habits. Add a new flavor, new equipment, higher nic level or whatever makes it as wonderful as it was in those first few glorious weeks. I followed that advice and now I have a huge arsonal in my war chest. What did it for me yesterday, may just not do it tomorrow. So I make sure I have everything I could to meet the urge head on. If ever I found myself without something to vape on... I know what would happen.... so never will I let myself be put in that situation.

 

[EleanorR]

Nancy, hon, let's face facts. That slim, white cylinder of tobacco was our very best friend for years, decades even. Always reliable. Super easy. Never let us down.

It can be very, very hard to say good-bye to such an old friend. I didn't want to, even after I really had.

As so many others have said so eloquently, don't beat yourself up. It's about the cigs you don't smoke, not the occasional cig you may smoke.

 

[BHam]

Well put EleanorR.

 

[jeffree]

No, Plant, haven't tried tanks... yet. Have a pretty good groove going now and don't feel the need to rock the boat.

BTW, Eleanor, I completely agree about the challenge of saying goodbye. Certainly hard at first. On the other hand, I am absolutely sickened by the smell of second-hand smoke these days and sometimes catch myself beginning to scowl at smokers. Hypocritical as hell, I know. Still, Goodbye has moved on to Good Riddance. And yeah, vaping was definitely the reason.

 

[SR219]

It will be 3 years for me in 8 more weeks (end of August). That's when I had my last puff. I no longer even think about ciggies except how much they stink. lol

 

[BHam]

Congrats SR! That's quite the accomplishment. I just hit my one year not too long ago.

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[stormchaser]

when I first tried e-cigs, I saw them in the local mall, they were giving a free trial while you listened to the sales pitch, so I tried it and listened to what they had to say. ended up buying a starter kit from them.... the brand was 21 century smoking. it was a thin battery with the light up tip. tried it for a few days and thought this is a cool idea but the fact that the amount of vapor produced every time it was used was not consistant i was really discouraged with it. Then I found this forum started reading some of the posts, found Vapor4Life's website, found out they are close to me so I went to the lounge, looked around tried an ego with a tank and haven't looked back yet. I think if I didn't find out about Vapor4Life I would have gave up on the e-cig and still be spending close to $ 10.00 a pack now that this corrupt state of illinois and cook county decided to raise taxes on cigarettes again.