Still smoking support and chat thread

[Topdogie01]

Im hitting a flavor wall. Its all tasting bland.

Im stressed about something but cant figure out what. Just caught myself mindlessly scratching my head. Also am bleeding somewhere but cant find any tender spots. Just a random spot of blood on my hand. Maybe I squished a mosquito.

Im hating this insomnia bout.

Cant find any good music to relax. Grr.

 

[loxmythe]

Top cut your flavoring % down to 10%

 

[Topdogie01]

My diy is at 7% already. I need to buy some more nic base and play with my mint chocolate chip flavor.

Also cant wait until tomorrow. Get to order the evic supreme. Will give yall a review when I use it. Also need some high amp 18650 batteries so I can use my lesser used mods. My k100 is under used. And my kts-2 im debating on modding it.

Still looking for the limited edition dr who die cast sonic screwdriver kit. From what I saw of it I should be able to make it into a ecig. But can't find the kit now.

 

[Topdogie01]

Girlfriend had a drs appt. Went to eat afterwards. Then went next door to the ecig store to see what flavors are new.
Girlfriend likes a new monkey food flavor. I think it's a banana nut bread with very little nuts. I got some captain crunch. And girlfriend got a candy fruit flavor. I think it tastes like soap. Lol.

Also now have a purple protank 2 now. Girlfriend isn't used to the draw of a protank on her battery. Used to little airflow on a ce4. Hopefully she can cut down on her smoking. Cant take it to work because they don't allow them in the plant period. Only in cars and smoking shack. And she doesn't want to spend her whole break walking to and from car to get her ecig. So will still smoke at work.

 

[Thayamax]

That's a shame that they don't allow ecigs on the premises but cigs are allowed. This is getting ridiculous. I'm thankful that I work in a very small place with forward thinking young people who have no problem with ecigs.

 

[aikanae1]

Shari - I got a surprise today and I am without wheels. Dinner at the Circle K tonight. Ugh. Crap like this never happens when the fridge is full. Anyway my card will be late.

 

[Thayamax]

Shari - I got a surprise today and I am without wheels. Dinner at the Circle K tonight. Ugh. Crap like this never happens when the fridge is full. Anyway my card will be late.

Murphy's Law.

Shari, I picked up the card but too late for it to go out today, so it'll be in the mail tomorrow.

 

[ShariR]

Some progress on kitchen this week. Carpenter/electrical type guy coming Monday to start on lighting. Hardwood guy week of Memorial Day. Bought kitchen sink and a pull down nozzle faucet. Picked out granite but not bought yet. What do you all think. It is an exotic called Imperial Gold but it has a fair amount of pink in it. I am a little scared of it but it is beautiful to me and DH (who would have thunk it?).

http://www.mcgranitenashville.com/exotic-granite-specials/thumbs/imperial_gold_new.jpg

So it is the above granite or this granite below. DH wants the above one. Methinks maybe play it safe with the one below. Boring but expected.

http://www.mcgranitenashville.com/sale/santa-cecilia-gold-granite.gif

We hate big decisions like this. We are always afraid we made the wrong one.

 

[Thayamax]

Live dangerously...get the top one. I actually like them both, but the top one is more interesting.

 

[aikanae1]

top. if ya like it you won't regret it.

 

[darksparkle13]

Im hitting a flavor wall. Its all tasting bland.

Im stressed about something but cant figure out what. Just caught myself mindlessly scratching my head. Also am bleeding somewhere but cant find any tender spots. Just a random spot of blood on my hand. Maybe I squished a mosquito.

Im hating this insomnia bout.

Cant find any good music to relax. Grr.

have you tried regular sounds, like rain, waves, crackiling fire? I find when my mind is overwhelmed that I cant focus with songs per say... but you give me croaking frogs with rolling waves AWWWW relaxation here I come!

 

[darksparkle13]

Love the top one, its it very awesomesacue!!!

 

[ShariR]

I also love the top granite but there is a fairly strong vein of pink hues running through it. It is perfect for us, and we are not pink people, but I am thinking of when we go to sell the house down the road. I feel the beauty of the piece as a whole will win the day, but you know how some people are about certain colors. It will take almost 2 slabs to do the 8x4 island and the surrounding countertops so that adds up to quite a statement.

We were going to do just the island in the exotic granite but found that the only thing that would work on the perimeter countertops was black and we definitely do not want black. Other colors were either too busy or too expensive. Choosing black granite would make me a slave to every bread crumb and speck of dust. We have it on two bathroom sink areas and we hate it. I am too old and too lazy to wipe down that much space every hour.

 

[beebopnjazz]

I like the top one too

 

[rangerrobin]

Thanks everyone, for the warm welcome!

Welcome to the thread rangerrobin. What are you using for equipment and have you found any juices that you can vape for an extended period of time?

I am using different sized adjustable ego batteries with Kanger tanks.

I started out with a few tasty organic 100% VG juices. Then I received a freebie that was 50/50 and fell in love with it! So, I bought others with different ratios, but still mostly higher VG. Now, I have 19 different flavors, that I active switch between. Oy! I recently put a moratorium on juice buying for the rest of May. Meanwhile, I have some very good "go to" juices.

My nic level is 6mg, but do have some 12mg for when I have stronger "urges" to smoke. I just read about WTA and am thinking about trying it...

 

[ShariR]

Sounds like you have found equipment that is working for you and quite a few juices you do enjoy and at the nicotine level you are at, it looks like vaping is working well for you and doing its job. Since you were a chain smoker and are down to 4 cigarettes a day, if you are having cravings I would try upping the nicotine to 12mg more often or even trying a little 18mg for the very tough cravings.

I have a personal opinion on the WTA. I am going to voice some of it here and now and it is my opinion alone. I think that WTA is wonderful stuff and seems to be quite effective for some people who have difficulty quitting cigarettes with regular eliquid. It is in short supply compared to the multitude of choices of regular eliquid available to people who are newly vaping or not struggling with getting their smoking under control to the level they want.

The WTA has whole tobacco alkaloids which have more ingredients of the tobacco so you are getting more than just nicotine in your vape. Before you dive in on WTA I would suggest you go over to the Aroma thread and read up on it. There are also several other threads on WTA and several people here who use it. I have never used it so I can not advise you on its pros and cons. I would like you to get expert advice, not just me talking.

I was lucky and was able to stop smoking using just regular eliquid. I started vaping using 18mg and after a week or so of vaping and feeling like the cigarettes were chasing me and haunting me, I upped the nicotine to 24mg and that did the trick. It is a very individual combination of things that seem to do the trick for a person, everyone is different. After about 5 months I was able to step down to 18mg and then in the past couple of months, down to 12mg. I still have some 18mg and a little 24mg left that I only use rarely when I am so stressed that I feel like doing serious bodily injury to something. And I have had to resort to it several times over the past few months.

You really do sound like you are doing great. It took me several months and over 140 different bottles of juice from various vendors to find more than one juice that I could vape all day. So be proud and happy for your great progress and success!

Thanks everyone, for the warm welcome!



I am using different sized adjustable ego batteries with Kanger tanks.

I started out with a few tasty organic 100% VG juices. Then I received a freebie that was 50/50 and fell in love with it! So, I bought others. Now, I have 19 different flavors, that I active switch between. Oy! I recently put a moratorium on juice buying for the rest of May. Meanwhile, I have some very good "go to" juices.

My nic level is 6mg, but do have some 12mg for when I have stronger "urges" to smoke. I just read about WTA and am thinking about trying it...

 

[rangerrobin]

4 cigarettes a day sounds like a great accomplishment from chain smoking. I was a 2 pack a day smoker for 46 years so you should be pleased with your success. Do not be surprised if you develop a dislike of the taste of your cigarettes sooner than you think.

Oh, they already do taste bad to me, just haven't been able to break the habit. Don't even like the tobacco flavored juices, but got some to see if that would help. To clarify, I wasn't a chain smoker except when consuming alcohol. Which is still a challenge.

 

[ShariR]

Oh, they already do taste bad to me, just haven't been able to break the habit. Don't even like the tobacco flavored juices, but got some to see if that would help. To clarify, I wasn't a chain smoker except when consuming alcohol. Which is still a challenge.

Ah. I misunderstood. I was a severe chain smoker so when I hear it mentioned I assume the other person is like me. My mistake. Really though, it sounds to me like you are taking to this like a duck to water. It worked good for me almost right away, but to be honest, I think my stubbornness is what kept me from picking up a cigarette.

I found the psychological addiction to my cigarettes to be much more powerful than the physical addiction. I still find that so. The physical addiction and physical cravings I think I overcame in the first few weeks. It was the habit and association portion of smoking that I struggled with terribly, no matter how much I vaped. I still have periods when my mind tries to tell me that nothing will satisfy me but a cigarette. I still say, if I have one cigarette I will smoke the whole pack, one right after the other. So I will not allow myself to have even one. The times I want one are less and less as time goes on and the intensity of the craving/thoughts are lessening. Every once in a while I get a good strong thought process of where I debate on having a cigarette though. I always decide it is not worth it. But a struggle it is for that moment in time.

 

[Thayamax]

I was a serious chain smoker for years. You hardly ever saw me without a cigarette in hand. I never thought I would ever quit. That's why it's so strange to me that I don't have urges to smoke. However, I do chain vape. Extremely occasionally I might have a fleeting thought of a cigarette, but I attribute that to the habit and a deja vu trigger. It passes as quickly as it appears. That said, I still do believe if I smoked a cigarette I'd smoke the whole pack, too.

I've never used the WTA, but several others on here have had success with it. I believe it's just something they use to get past the strong urges, not something to vape all the time. You seem to be doing very well so far, Robin. Those last few are the hardest ones to give up. It's like saying goodbye to a dear friend or throwing away your crutch...a hard thing to do physically as well as mentally.

 

[Karen N Daytona]

good morning! I hope you all have a fantastic Friday!

I am living in crazy land, between me not feeling well and roommate, it's been a nightmare, I have to try to get him to go to the hospital, I need to get sleep. He now has some digestive issues that are making him ill. driving me nuts!