The impulse to vape vs the impulse to smoke.

[EricB]

You can't compare the two. When I was a cig smoker the addiction had so many rituals. One when first wake up, one when right out the door, after meals and so on. vaping got me off cigs. vaping is different. When I want a vape, i'll take one. If I left the home to go to the store without my ecig I don't feel like its a bummer. Leaving my cigs at home when going up to the store on the other hand would of had me in a bummed out mood until I got home. Cigs and its addiction suck major ....

 

[craighwk]

Not as bad. When I smoked analogues, I would light one up within a minute of waking up in the morning. Now I find myself "forgetting" to use it until after my shower or sometimes even when I am in my car driving to work.

I am definitely cutting down.

 

[zerominusone]

It's WAY worse for me. It was about the same when I vape my usual Tennessee Cured, but for the past week, when I first tried Cinn-a-bun from myvaporstore, that stuff is so good I went through the 10ml bottle in less than a week.

 

[vikki59]

I marked other... It depends on what I'm vaping as to how much I vape!!

 

[Picklesworth.]

Not as bad by a longshot This is after 5months analog free and basicly chain vaping at 24mg. I have often wondered about how my serum lvls for Nic. would be presently verses when I did smoke a pack a day. At any rate I have found that times I have been unable to vape vs when I was unable to smoke to be much less agonizing. Case and point yesterday my passthrough I use at work craped out the first hour of my shift. After the initial panic the next 8 hours were not so bad at all. I was even offfered an aanalog but my commitment to not smoking easily fought off my adiction to Nic. In the past if I had run out of squares I would have been climbing the walls. I have no doubt it has everything to do with the long list of other chemicals in those analogs engenered to augment the adictive properties to Nic. Smoking kills! Choosing vapor was on of the best decisions I have ever made.

 

[Killjoy1]

I still need my nic or I wind up fiending for it, but I definitely have a little less impulse/craving to vape than I did to smoke

 

[telsie]

I kind of feel like my habit has grown stronger while my addiction has grown weaker. I rely heavily on my ecig (the thing rarely leaves my hand), but when I'm in a situation where I can't vape, it doesn't affect me nearly as much as when I was a smoker and was in a situation where I couldn't smoke.

 

[throatkick]

The desire/impulse is the same. Since vaping doesn't bother people as much as smoking it is easier to take a drag or two almost anywhere. I take full advantage of that. So while the impulse is the same, my ability to vape in more places than I smoked makes it better!

 

[Running Wolf]

I vape like a fiend.... but at the same time it isn't like it was with cigarettes. I'll pick up the PV and have a few drags, set it down and come back to it. Where as with a cigarette I would finish the whole thing.

Also other difference is I tend to mix my nicotine levels. I think it has less to do with wanting nicotine and more to do with just wanting a flavor. Like popping a lifesaver candy or chewing a piece of gum.

When I can't vape it isn't like how I was when I couldn't grab a smoke. Don't get that antsy feeling of needing it.

 

[nansc]

I do vape a lot but I am in a store or outside working I don't have that awful craving.