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[Eryger]

I recommend Wholecig -- cheaper than aroma, but just as good, just as pure, just as effective. However, I also recommend that you wait a while before deciding if you really need it -- so soon after stopping cigarettes, you won't notice a lot of difference with WTA; you need to let your body get used to just nicotine, to know if you need more than nicotine. I'd say at least a week; those cravings for me came back when I'd been smoke-free for 10 days, so it was good that I had some on-hand, but the first time I quit with vapibg, I didn't need the WTA at all.

Andria

Andria - you may have posted elsewhere, but I was wondering if you could share a bit: You say you quit with vaping once, but went back and now quit again. What made you relapse and how long did it take you to get back? Curious about your story and hoping it can help a first-timer like me (and others) to stay on the straight and narrow... Thanks!

 

[Drummel]

You just keep doing that steve. If you still need an analog as you transition don't feel bad. Just remember each one you don't have is one step closer!

 

[daviedog]

OP - also it could help if you think through what aspects of smoking you enjoy most, aside from the nicotine intake. (I mean the nicotine alone you can get from those vile nicorette patches, still they don't work for a reason..)
The taste, the inhale/exhale, the throat hit, the hand-to-mouth action - well all of those you get by vaping too (along with the nic of course) all the same, you can fine-tune it the exact way you like it.
Or the 'situational' side - morning coffee, drinking, work, concentration, socialising, whatever - you know best yourself. (myself, I'm pretty asocial - bordering on being an antisocial pri•k -, but from your post it appears you're more on the social side. Which might be an advantage, as people usually bond over gadgetry (i know i do), esp. if it's something tinkerable. Even your housemates might get into it.

If you found a liquid you really like the taste of, that's half the battle won already.
(I was lucky to find early on a really good (and quite cheap!) air-cured 'natural' tobacco taste, can't keep my hands off of that (i don't like "too much" flavour in a vape, but more of a well-built one. This one has some slight, warm pine-resin-y, hay & moss-like notes and none of the 'artificial tobacco' gimmickry - totally addictive IMO.)

The best people i know are antisocial p*icks..

 

[Ablonz]

Hello @steve pearson. Glad to hear you are cutting back. I also wanted to say welcome to the forums. As for me, I was a 1-2 pack a day smoker for 28 yrs. Took me 3 and a half months of dual use and finding the right juice (Unflavored) before I could transition to exclusively vaping. One day at a time is all it takes. I wish you continued success!!!

 

[Needo]

I don't know about Adria's case. But I was smoke-free for over a year when I relapsed. I was breathing much better and I was mad at my folks and my wife. So, I started killing myself slowly in retaliation. After smoking for almost 3 years since then, my breathing has gotten bad enough that I decided to start vaping instead of rolling my own cigarettes. This will be my third attempt to quit smoking.

 

[AndriaD]

Andria - you may have posted elsewhere, but I was wondering if you could share a bit: You say you quit with vaping once, but went back and now quit again. What made you relapse and how long did it take you to get back? Curious about your story and hoping it can help a first-timer like me (and others) to stay on the straight and narrow... Thanks!

When I was 3.5 months smoke-free, my appendix staged a jail-break quite unexpectedly. It all went well, my lungs were perfectly clear, so I got to have laparoscopic surgery and go home the same day, but the aftermath was horrible, 4 days of ghastly sickness, couldn't eat, drink, or vape. After 4 days, I was able to start vaping, sip a little pepsi, but everything tasted GODAWFUL after a 4 day fast, I mean everything... a few days of that, trying to vape, trying to eat and drink a little, and cigarette cravings just hit me right upside the head and demanded I smoke... I was in no shape to resist that, so I smoked -- and considering how awful everything tasted at that point, cigarettes were no worse than anything else, but they put the cravings to rest, and after a week or so, even helped me get the ........ under control. But I kept vaping, trying to get back to smoke-free, and it took about a month to get back there. About 10 days after I was smoke-free again, back came the godawful cravings... but during that month-long smokebreak I had fortified myself with WTA, so when the cravings came back, instead of relapsing again, I added some WTA to my ejuice... and the cravings completely left me.

Although I think it was the 4 days without vaping that *set me up* for the relapse, I think those powerful cravings actually had a lot more to do with my intestinal mayhem, and I think that's why the WTA fixed the cravings so easily -- the anabatine is a powerful anti-inflammatory, and I think it helped my body heal from its trauma, and the MAOIs helped my brain settle back down from the month of smoking.

Andria

 

[Eryger]

When I was 3.5 months smoke-free, my appendix staged a jail-break quite unexpectedly. It all went well, my lungs were perfectly clear, so I got to have laparoscopic surgery and go home the same day, but the aftermath was horrible, 4 days of ghastly sickness, couldn't eat, drink, or vape. After 4 days, I was able to start vaping, sip a little pepsi, but everything tasted GODAWFUL after a 4 day fast, I mean everything... a few days of that, trying to vape, trying to eat and drink a little, and cigarette cravings just hit me right upside the head and demanded I smoke... I was in no shape to resist that, so I smoked -- and considering how awful everything tasted at that point, cigarettes were no worse than anything else, but they put the cravings to rest, and after a week or so, even helped me get the ........ under control. But I kept vaping, trying to get back to smoke-free, and it took about a month to get back there. About 10 days after I was smoke-free again, back came the godawful cravings... but during that month-long smokebreak I had fortified myself with WTA, so when the cravings came back, instead of relapsing again, I added some WTA to my ejuice... and the cravings completely left me.

Although I think it was the 4 days without vaping that *set me up* for the relapse, I think those powerful cravings actually had a lot more to do with my intestinal mayhem, and I think that's why the WTA fixed the cravings so easily -- the anabatine is a powerful anti-inflammatory, and I think it helped my body heal from its trauma, and the MAOIs helped my brain settle back down from the month of smoking.

Andria

Thanks for sharing. Interesting and useful to understand where the pitfalls might be

 

[nmackan]

To everyone that's posted on this thread thank you so much for the support and the advice it has really helped. I have cut right back on the analogues yet still smoking but nothing near to what I was. It's only been a few days but I am feeling more confident in my self to carry on and stick to this and make a good change in my life thank you all again.

Increase the nic rate a bit.
After cravings (or holywood effects i.e. after meals when drinking when you are awake) try vaping first and if you still want, light one afterwards.