I smoked 20 -25 cigs a day, i started at the age of 11 (Scary!) and was on a 10 pack a day throughout most of my school life and then it gradually increased. After 27 years I'm now 4 weeks today without a cig and am fine with it. I tried everything over the uears to quite, patches (3 times!), gum, lozenges some nicorette inhaler (Nothing like an e-cig) and even a drug my doctor prescribed (I think it was zyban) even read the Alan Carr quite smoking book. I tried som e-lite cig-a-likes a couple of years ago but couldn't find supplies (Didn't try too hard, they just didn't sell them in my local shop!!) about 12 months ago got an ego & CE4, that I used a bit on and off, but wasn't really commited and it was easy to use the "battery ran out" excuse for myself. Thought I'd give it another go, got a Vamo and a protank2 and I'm amazed, sure I think about it now and again but not for too long and now I'm 4 weeks in there is no chance I'm going back. I haven't really thought about it as giving up more as switching brands!! Somehow this seems to help to be in the right frame of mind.I do love any type of gadget and a bit of tinkering so I think that helps, I've no got an itaste 134 (Not to everyone's taste I know) which I love and have ordered a variety of gizmo's from fast tech. Not sure I'm going to save huge amounts of money if I carry on like this, but at least it's not killing me!! I would strongly agree with some of the previous posts, there is some real rubbish out there and I think a lot of people have a bad experiance and give up, once you find something that works well (and have some kind of back up device just in case) it's a completely different experiance. I'm already mixing my own juice and looking forward to getting my first Mech and rba!
Switching from smoking to vaping -- a sort of poll
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I smoked Marlboros... I finished off the pack I already had when I bought my eCig, and that was that. I didn't have much in the way of withdrawal, and it was mostly just missing the routine.
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I smoked for 40 years over a pack a day I loved to smoke I was a cronic
About a year+ ago I tried an ego-t starter kit it just didn't do it
This time i got a few VV mods and some good juice at 18mg of nic spare batteries and it was easy
I have bin analog free since Dec 5th 2013
The trick was better equipment it gave me a better vaping experience
Don't be afraid to spend a bit of money getting set up it could make the difference
I smoked for 40 years over a pack a day I loved to smoke I was a cronic
About a year+ ago I tried an ego-t starter kit it just didn't do it
This time i got a few VV mods and some good juice at 18mg of nic spare batteries and it was easy
I have bin analog free since Dec 5th 2013
The trick was better equipment it gave me a better vaping experience
Don't be afraid to spend a bit of money getting set up it could make the difference
For me a bit of a delayed start - bought 510 starter Oct 2012 - tried it, but not enough motivation to keep it up - back to analogs for 4 months - until a surgeon told me no can do surgery unless I quit smoking. Pulled out the 510 kit and changed over the next day 100%.
Yeah - it was not delightful- but reminding myself that vaping was better than having nothing made it for me.
Had ONE puff on analog 2 months in - drinking logic told me to- it tasted bad-real bad. Have not craved an analog since that.
Will be 12 months tobacco free this month. I am super happy with vaping - enjoy the fiddling with my set up, have upgraded twice to better rig. Just can't get my partner to get on board. Oh well, that's out of my control.
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Yeah - it was not delightful- but reminding myself that vaping was better than having nothing made it for me.
Had ONE puff on analog 2 months in - drinking logic told me to- it tasted bad-real bad. Have not craved an analog since that.
Will be 12 months tobacco free this month. I am super happy with vaping - enjoy the fiddling with my set up, have upgraded twice to better rig. Just can't get my partner to get on board. Oh well, that's out of my control.
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I was smoking about 10-15 cigarettes a day. Once I started vaping it really only took 2 or 3 days to make the transition. In fact I still have a part pack in my dog park bag that I'm going to pass on to one of the homeless guys I see there. What I miss is the business of smoking and I have yet to find it with vaping. You know, the jazzy lighter and that sort of stuff. I also carried a brass lidded ashtray with me for smoking outside. It'll come, I just haven't found it yet.
Smoked a pack and a half a day of the most addictive, cowboy killing, cigarettes you can find. For the first two weeks of my transition I smoked 1 cigarette in the morning and vaped the rest of the day. After that I even got away from the tobacco flavored juices and stopped with that first of the day smoke. I am now happily five months smoke free and have even convinced the rest of my immediate family to stop smoking as well.
I believe there is almost a panic factor to transitioning from analogs to electronic. I just tell the newer people to relax, take a few deep pulls from their ecig and everything will be just fine.
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I believe there is almost a panic factor to transitioning from analogs to electronic. I just tell the newer people to relax, take a few deep pulls from their ecig and everything will be just fine.
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I was a two pack a day gal ryo and the cheapest i could find I went on the patch and gum at the same time following doc orders did this in November by the 18th of December I was a total wreck!!!!!!!!!!!!! I became the devil women so I started to vape the kind you get in a truck stop went off the patches and gum by the 30th i found a vape shop and got a kanger esmart kit and i love love love it I use 1.8 nic in coffee and tobacco flavor I have had no cravings and I will never look back I am going to drop the nic level next time i purchase juice and now i am happy happy happy! no more devil women my husband loves that he dont have to smell the stinkys any more he quit cold turkey 9 years ago and he never pushed me to quit or gave me comment on my smoking but said if i had not found the vape he was going to buy me a pack of analogs lol and he really likes the fact that he cant smell my vape! hope this helps 
I not only switched from Marlboro and Camels, but have not used tobacco since the day I started vaping. TBH I wasn't planning to quit smoking entirely, just that I was applying for a lot of jobs and liked the option not to smell like smoke when I went to interviews.
But here I am a month later, still tobacco free Although for whatever reason, the last few days I have been craving tobacco. I hope it will pass... I just keep vaping until I am over the craving. LOL So it does seem to me there was something else in the cigarettes that is still missing somehow. Whatever it is, I hope I stay off it... I like being a non-smoker
But here I am a month later, still tobacco free
Although for whatever reason, the last few days I have been craving tobacco. I hope it will pass... I just keep vaping until I am over the craving. LOL So it does seem to me there was something else in the cigarettes that is still missing somehow. Whatever it is, I hope I stay off it... I like being a non-smoker I was a two pack a day gal ryo and the cheapest i could find I went on the patch and gum at the same time following doc orders did this in November by the 18th of December I was a total wreck!!!!!!!!!!!!! I became the devil women so I started to vape the kind you get in a truck stop went off the patches and gum by the 30th i found a vape shop and got a kanger esmart kit and i love love love it I use 1.8 nic in coffee and tobacco flavor I have had no cravings and I will never look back I am going to drop the nic level next time i purchase juice and now i am happy happy happy! no more devil women my husband loves that he dont have to smell the stinkys any more he quit cold turkey 9 years ago and he never pushed me to quit or gave me comment on my smoking but said if i had not found the vape he was going to buy me a pack of analogs lol and he really likes the fact that he cant smell my vape! hope this helps
This thread was a very interesting read. I had wondered same thing as OP. Guess not so much.
I originally switched to American Spirits from Camels as step one of my quitting plan (get off the additional chemicals)...oh probably 7-8 years ago. I "quit" several times in there, cold turkey or with patch and never made it more than a month or two. Several times only a week. I knew the problem, I didn't REALLY want to quit at all. Sure I wanted to be healthier, and not spend the money, and not stink.....but I loved the act of smoking, and really just didn't know what to do with myself if I wasn't. I had seen/sampled the cigalikes, and wasn't interested at all.
One morning I was having a smoke while waiting for a cab to take me the airport. Still smoking when the cab arrived, DJ loaded my bags, and then proceeded to show off his itaste vv, talk up all the great plusses of vaping that you already know, and blowing clouds of yummy smelling vape for the full 30min ride. He gave me the number of some friends of his that were selling starter kits and their own juice. I did some research while I was on my trip (found ECF). When I returned home, I called the friends and bought my very own itaste. Over 5 months later, I'm still trying every single flavor I can get my hands on.
I made the switch pretty easily. I looked at vaping as way to have my cake, and vape it too.
I originally switched to American Spirits from Camels as step one of my quitting plan (get off the additional chemicals)...oh probably 7-8 years ago. I "quit" several times in there, cold turkey or with patch and never made it more than a month or two. Several times only a week. I knew the problem, I didn't REALLY want to quit at all. Sure I wanted to be healthier, and not spend the money, and not stink.....but I loved the act of smoking, and really just didn't know what to do with myself if I wasn't. I had seen/sampled the cigalikes, and wasn't interested at all.
One morning I was having a smoke while waiting for a cab to take me the airport. Still smoking when the cab arrived, DJ loaded my bags, and then proceeded to show off his itaste vv, talk up all the great plusses of vaping that you already know, and blowing clouds of yummy smelling vape for the full 30min ride. He gave me the number of some friends of his that were selling starter kits and their own juice. I did some research while I was on my trip (found ECF). When I returned home, I called the friends and bought my very own itaste. Over 5 months later, I'm still trying every single flavor I can get my hands on.
I made the switch pretty easily. I looked at vaping as way to have my cake, and vape it too.
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