Tasted an analog this morning...BY ACCIDENT!

[Pokerchix]

I thought I was going to THROW UP! Ok...it wasn't by accident...but my curiosity got the best of me and I just HAD to see what it tasted like, to see if I truly was over the whole "smoking" thing.

So I went by Starbucks and got my Caramel Macchiato and was at the stop light. Well, I have a pack of analogs in my car (they have been there a week, I think just as a "security" thing for me), but with this heat hitting 110 no telling how hot it has been in my car during the day HAHA....but anyway, I am at the stop light and for some ungodly reason I think to myself, "I am going to light one up and see what it taste like". I KNEW before I even lit it up I wasn't going to like it...but OH NOOOOOOOO I have to be hard headed about crap. THIS is why I don't have a MAN!!!!

Anyway, I light the sucker up and take a hit....a very very small hit mind you....and it taste just like licking the bottom of an ash tray!!!! Just like ECF Folks told me it would!!! BUT WAIT!! It gets better, not only did I take that small hit...I DID IT AGAIN! WHY??? Did I need to make sure it tasted like the bottom of a freakin ashtray???????? WELL IT DID THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!! So I roll down the window and THREW OUT A FULL ANALOG! This is UNHEARD OF if you are a smoker! But I couldn't even stand the smell of the smoke

I can't look back now. I am done. There is no way in high heaven I can ever smoke another analog. The taste is totally different, the feel is totally different, the smell is totally different. I am sorry Marlboro Man.....YOU SUCK!

 

[Pokerchix]

Oh, and I am NOT changing my Smoke Free days on my signature because those two lil puffs DON'T COUNT! Do they? OH bite me they don't count!!! DANG IT!

 

[Illuminatu]

Hehe,

Good that you now know how bad they are, and to be honest I also kept a pack of analog in my car and one in my office for like my first 2 weeks of vaping, I never looked back and tried one (theres allot of analog smokers at work and i find they stink)

But I did need the security of knowing that if I had a relapse I had my "security blanket" pack of analog.... since then I gave both those packs to co-workers and told them it was BAD

Keep on vaping Pokerchix!!!

 

[TMellow]

HAHA! I've been vaping since the last weekend in November, and I haven't craved an analog at all. After I first started vaping, I was using a riva and I guess the Atomizer shorted and ruined the battery (But didn't know any better back then, I thought it was the battery) so I put the Atty on my second riva and killed that battery in an instant too........and I was into my 2nd hour at work.

My buddy (Who still smokes) offered me a cigarette since my fake cigarettes (in his words) were broken. I thought about it for a second then kindly declined...and actually went all day until I got home and got out my V2cigs (Which I started on....worthless company and equipment)

To make a long story short....I have not yet tried an analog since I started vaping and probably never will.

BTW... I don't think your little hiccup should change your smoke free days...that one's a freebie...but throw them analogs away!!

 

[BardicDruid]

I was vaping for about two months when I found an open pack of analogs on desk at home. In a moment of brilliance I decided to try one. Now remember this pack has been laying open for two months. Went out back, took the dog with me, found the BBQ lighter and lit up. Things get rather blurry after that, my lungs felt I was sucking on the BBQ smokestack, my head started spinning and my stomach churned. I threw it away and haven't gone back, the was dog sitting there watching me with this "Smart Move Ace" look on his face.

 

[BWG707]

I've been tempted to see what ciggy tastes like after 6mo. of no smoking but l'm trying to see how long I can keep a perfect record.

 

[TMellow]

the was dog sitting there watching me with this "Smart Move Ace" look on his face.

I sooooo get that from my dog too! I swear my dog and my wife both took the same class on looking at me like I'm a freak when I do something stupid..lol

 

[KeysBum]

LOL I did pretty much the same thing SEVERAL times many months ago. I was hard headed enough to smoke one all the way. Had the same pack with me for 2 months before I pitched it w/ 15 stale analogs in it. They do taste like crap!

 

[Mindfield]

Yup. I knew you'd hate it. I think a lot of people go through that curiosity phase. I did it too after a week and was the same as you -- though somehow I actually managed to smoke half of it. It was like rubbernecking past a car accident, I just couldn't get over how bad it was. But more than that I couldn't get over how my mind had an instant flashback of the first time I ever tried cigarettes, how it tasted, how it smelled, and how I was even able to remember that stupid moment in my life. I mean, I don't remember the specific details of when and where precisely, but that smell and that taste, I remembered those vividly somehow, and it was kind of freaky. But halfway through I chucked the smoke, simply unable to choke down any more of it. Pulled out my eGo to vape the nastiness out of my mouth.

I think of it as a test: Now you know they can't hook you back, and now you know how nasty cigarettes taste and how awesome vaping is, so there's no way you can go back now.

By the way, I still have the last two analogs from the last pack I bought. They're probably well on their way to becoming fossils, now.

 

[kellie]

I still try one every now and then. Why I don't know and I smoke the whole yucky thing. A friend I work with lives a hour and half away so she stays with me when we work the weekend and shee smokes. Now this is weird. My dog could care less if she smokes. If I light up a ciggy he barks at me, I put it out he stops, I light it up again he barks till I put it out. So strange lol

 

[Odium]

Haven't touched a cigarette since the 7'th of last month but I do get this occasional feeling that something is missing and then my mind comes to a Marlboro Red, which I promptly disregard because I don't intend to return to them but maybe some day I'll try one out just to see how nasty they really are! (BTW don't litter in TX Poker Face : P)

 

[wizard10000]

The wife quit smoking analogs 2½ weeks after I did so I got to smell them and look at dirty ashtrays for a couple weeks. I won't lie - I still get a random thought every day or so that an analog might taste good, but I don't have to believe everything my addicted brain tells me

The spousal unit said about 12 hours after she quit smoking she decided to smoke the one analog she had left on the way home from work - she said after one hit she threw it out the car window

disclaimer: I do not advocate throwing lit sickarettes out of car windows, honest.

 

[dormouse]

Yay!!! yeah they do taste like crap. And we smelled like that - what an awful thought.

 

[Mindfield]

Haven't touched a cigarette since the 7'th of last month but I do get this occasional feeling that something is missing and then my mind comes to a Marlboro Red, which I promptly disregard because I don't intend to return to them but maybe some day I'll try one out just to see how nasty they really are! (BTW don't litter in TX Poker Face : P)

That's "Don't mess with Texas!" (That is, after all, what that slogan was for. Meanwhile, here in Toronto, we have the "Litternot" campaign. Apparently we're a little meek when it comes to telling people not to litter...)

 

[McG]

The next step is your sense of smell will return and you will be able to smell a heavy smoker from 20 feet away. Disgusting! The worst part is I smelled like that for 20 years.

 

[Boodle]

My big plan was to get an ecig to use when smoking wasn't appropriate. After a day or so I realized I hadn't smoked all day. Wow. That's certainly not breaking news on this forum. For me it was a major life event. I still had a new pack of cigarettes. After about a week of vaping I decided to 'see what a cigarette tasted like'. It was a fresh pack, not stale. The taste was putrid. Licking an ashtray is a good description. The first hit was so bad I had to try another. (what is WRONG with us??) That's as far as I could go - out it went.

It scared the life out of me. I realized I couldn't go back to cigarettes, even if I wanted to. If I couldn't smoke and my PV broke what would I do?? I started worrying about my equipment and supplies, buying everything I could get my hands on. I'm better now. I kept the pack of cigs. It's in a box with juices I don't like marked 'skunk juice'. I don't know why I keep that pack six months later. Knowing I have cigarettes in the house that I don't want or need to smoke makes me smile.

 

[Pokerchix]

The next step is your sense of smell will return and you will be able to smell a heavy smoker from 20 feet away. Disgusting! The worst part is I smelled like that for 20 years.

o0o McG I can't WAIT for my sense of smell to come back! I am picking up new smells now (kind of feel like my toy schnauzer) but I know it will get better. I love putting on good smelly stuff in the morning and still being able to smell it in the afternoon. Those stinky sticks would take that good smelly stuff off you real quick!

Odium I am sorry! I didn't mean to litter but that smoke was just overwhelming!

It just feels sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo gooooooooooooooooooooddddddd to be free of that ball and chain! It was like a bad marriage!?!?!?!?! I will probably keep this pack around just to remind me of how bad they are though, hrmmm, I don't know, I may throw him out next week, but right now I like the feeling of knowing that pack is there and I don't need it. What is that about?

 

[Odium]

o0o McG I can't WAIT for my sense of smell to come back! I am picking up new smells now (kind of feel like my toy schnauzer) but I know it will get better. I love putting on good smelly stuff in the morning and still being able to smell it in the afternoon. Those stinky sticks would take that good smelly stuff off you real quick!

Odium I am sorry! I didn't mean to litter but that smoke was just overwhelming!

It just feels sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo gooooooooooooooooooooddddddd to be free of that ball and chain! It was like a bad marriage!?!?!?!?! I will probably keep this pack around just to remind me of how bad they are though, hrmmm, I don't know, I may throw him out next week, but right now I like the feeling of knowing that pack is there and I don't need it. What is that about?

No apology needed... Was just being silleh and in all honesty I was probably the worst about tossing my cigarette butts where ever I happened to be (even in front of a police offer while getting a speeding ticket once, to which the officer sternly suggested that I pick it up)

 

[BardicDruid]

Pokerchix, wait two months then light one, just make sure your sitting down when you do, and maybe your dog will look at you the same way.

 

[MeltingGlass]

Congrats, before you know it'll be 5 months.. Keep up the good work.