Me, too! My last analog was 6:30 Saturday morning. The vape breaks outside are the only things keeping me sane right now.
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Me, too! My last analog was 6:30 Saturday morning. The vape breaks outside are the only things keeping me sane right now.
I can honestly say I have had a fairly easy time switching over. It all started the night of the super bowl, I ran out of cigarettes and my buddy had a 24mg menthol V4L and I hit it.. to my surprise it gave me a nice throat hit that I never could have thought it would have. After that I was sold.
I started the Tuesday after the super bowl. I slipped one time after I started.. I was out at the bar and it was late and my battery was dead, I didn't have another. I bummed a smoke off a friend of mine and 1/2 way through it I put it out.. it tasted like crap. After that I never touched another. When I slipped it was the 1st week. Since then I have never touched another.
I started the Tuesday after the super bowl. I slipped one time after I started.. I was out at the bar and it was late and my battery was dead, I didn't have another. I bummed a smoke off a friend of mine and 1/2 way through it I put it out.. it tasted like crap. After that I never touched another. When I slipped it was the 1st week. Since then I have never touched another.
You can always get an automatic 510 battery for when you can't use your hands, like when you're fishing. Keeping flies away is a problem. Maybe you can find some citronella e-juice.
Wow that citronella juice would really pack one heck of TH. I use citronella for dog training (I'm a trainer) and that stuff is very strong!!!
mine is 1st thing in the morning, i just "need" that 1 analog to get going. Been vaping since Jan 1st of this year but i still smoke that 1 cigarette almost every morning. It doesnt help that my wife hasnt really got on the vaping train yet so i always have acess to analogs when im at home. Oh well, 1 a day is better than a pack and a half a day.
The hardest time I have had in the 2 months I have been vaping has been going out. I'm so used to taking a pack or two out to the bars as I normally would do. I am always wanting an analog after the first few beers and it's been tough but I'm getting there.
The two worst times of day for me are after breakfast and after dinner, as after breakfast was my "wake-up cigarette" and after dinner was my "wind-down cigarette". I had never really realized that that was what those two were until I started vaping... the first couple weeks, those two were still essential to me. I was a bit uncomfortable for a few days for those two times of day when I finally quit the stinkies completely... I'd chain-vape at those points. I seem to be getting a bit less anxious about needing to vape at those points now, though.
The hardest time for me was my first 3 days.
Coming from 1.5-2 packs a day.
Day 1 - 5 cigs
Day 2 - 4 cigs
Day 3 - 2 cigs (the last two i had in the pack, one on way to work, one on way home)
Also that first week any time I got in the car. I always had one lit in the car!! I would reach for one and then get that slap in the face telling myself "You dont smoke any more dummy!"
Im on week 3 and I havent gone to shoot some pool yet... I bet that will be interesting!
Coming from 1.5-2 packs a day.
Day 1 - 5 cigs
Day 2 - 4 cigs
Day 3 - 2 cigs (the last two i had in the pack, one on way to work, one on way home)
Also that first week any time I got in the car. I always had one lit in the car!! I would reach for one and then get that slap in the face telling myself "You dont smoke any more dummy!"
Im on week 3 and I havent gone to shoot some pool yet... I bet that will be interesting!
I'm still new (4 days in), but my hardest time (aside from morning, which seems to be popular) is 2 hours in to work. I work from home and I would always take a break after working for 2 hours to go outside and smoke. Like clockwork, at midnight, I'm totally ready to jump up and head outside to smoke. Instead, my e-cig is lying right in front of me, so I have no reason to leave my desk, which is kind of disappointing because I want a break after sitting here for 2 hours! I've been finding other reasons/excuses to jump up around midnight, though; have to make sure the porch light is on or the car's still in the driveway or I got the refrigerator door shut, etc.
Stressful days at work. Like tonight. But I use my vape, feel annoyed that it's not a cigarette, and hope it changes in the future. That's all you can do when that deep down craving strikes.
For me, fishing is what got me started again when I quit for 3 weeks years ago. I don't think I'd would have had that issue had I had a pv back then.
Hardest times for me were during the first few days. I found it was during any of my normal triggers (wake up, after meals, step outside to smoke while on the phone -- that was the hardest, as it was where I did all my smoking).
What I did was changed things up on the big triggers like going into the kitchen instead of the garage. Worked great. I can't say I really have had a major craving since, but at the same time I've never been without a working pv with juice.
Oh, and stress. If I get stressed enough, I still find myself thinking let me get out of here and grab a smoke; but then I go doh, I don't smoke anymore. I grab the pv and still get out to decompress and the urge dies just as fast as it came.
One thing I found that worked for me is, when you get one of those cravings, and the pv isn't really cutting it, take slower drags. Inhale and hold it in a bit longer, blow it slowly out the nose. Give it all the time to let as much nic soak in. After a few of those more intense nic hits, I found it calmed me down.
Hardest times for me were during the first few days. I found it was during any of my normal triggers (wake up, after meals, step outside to smoke while on the phone -- that was the hardest, as it was where I did all my smoking).
What I did was changed things up on the big triggers like going into the kitchen instead of the garage. Worked great. I can't say I really have had a major craving since, but at the same time I've never been without a working pv with juice.
Oh, and stress. If I get stressed enough, I still find myself thinking let me get out of here and grab a smoke; but then I go doh, I don't smoke anymore. I grab the pv and still get out to decompress and the urge dies just as fast as it came.
One thing I found that worked for me is, when you get one of those cravings, and the pv isn't really cutting it, take slower drags. Inhale and hold it in a bit longer, blow it slowly out the nose. Give it all the time to let as much nic soak in. After a few of those more intense nic hits, I found it calmed me down.
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For me, the most difficult times would have to be after meals. So far, I have been unable to leave the after meal cigarette alone. However, I seldom actually smoke the entire thing. More or less, it sits in the ashtray beside me, and I may take 2-3 drags from it, but for the most part, if just burns itself to ash. Other times would be when my stress level is extremely high - times when the stress is so high that I literally cannot sit still so I am flitting all over the place with the flat rubber bit of the cartomizer clamped in my teeth and hanging out of my mouth like a pacifier while vaping so hard, I know I must look like a choo choo train chugging along the tracks. Yep, I crave cigs hard when I am stressed like that.
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Haha, yes I jump everytime I get a bite, I'm guaranteed to drop a PV, I think a lanyard will be required.The big problem is DO NOT drop your PV. I have droped many cigs in the water by accident (picked them up of course), and had to light a new one. If I drop my PV, good by PV.
Eeek, hadn't considered fishing yet, I always loved a smoke when fishing but haven't been in the last few weeks so it never crossed my mind. I think I'll need to get a weak or 0 nic juice so I can puff away to my hearts content. The analogues were great for keeping the flies away too, I wonder how well PG/VG will work for that
One huge benefit though will be no more butts, I always hate seeing butts on the river bank so I'd always keep mine in an empty pack which would stink. Also, the chemicals left behind in butts are supposedly lethal to fish, even just a few butts can apparantly pollute a large amount of water, so vaping will be better for us and for the fish too
I love being able to vape rather than smoke when I'm fishing as the fishing is better when it rains around here lol. I just make sure to keep my PV on a lanyard so it doesn't go tumbling into the lake.
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