The Test

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Snarkyone

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After being exclusively on my Dragon and 510 for the last 21 days or so I decided to do a test to see where I was at with my "taste for tobacco" that we all have to one point or another, or think we have anyway.

I can't put my amazement into strong enough words at the way a tobacco cigarette tasted. It was terrible and nostalgic all in one. It evoked memories of snatching a ciggie or two from the parents as a young teen and puffing them down outside somewhere or in the bathroom with the fan going. It tasted exactly as it did when I was first starting out. The other amazing part was after using the E-Cig for so long and worrying about the throat hit and the taste I find that my E-Cig is superior in both ways. It felt as if I was sucking on a straw when I had that full flavor Winston to my lips, I was flabbergasted. This can't be I thought to myself, how is this true? I still don't know but I do know what I felt and experienced and it is exactly as I described. I felt as if I was taking a hit off a super ultra light tobacco cigarette with a terrible taste.

The other thought that was in my head was how in the hell did this get me addicted, it's taste like crap, what was I thinking? I don't have an answer for that either except that I was exercising my constitutionally protected right not to think and use my brain, as were the millions of others that have started smoking tobacco over the years.

I would say mental ......ation but that's giving people afflicted with mental ......ation a bad name because honestly they have enough sense to not start the habit in the first place, I can't think of a single mentally challenged person that I have ever met in my life that smoked tobacco, what's that say about us?

Anyway after my great experiment I felt pretty good about myself other than the fact I had come to the realization that I had made such a terrible lifestyle decision that mentally challenged people don't screw it up, yet I had managed to do it for over 32 years. Depressing? Hell yes, but not the end of the world after all I did see that I was never going back to those awful tasting things. Why would I go back to tobacco cigarettes when I get better taste, and better throat hit from my E-Cig than I do a tobacco cigarette? Oh, and the best part of this great experiment? It only took about 3 hits on the tobacco cigarette to come to these conclusions. I lit it, took a hit and put it out disgusted and grabbed my E-Cig to get the taste out of my mouth!

Please don't post any pm's about being offended by the words mental ......ation. The point being made is how incredibly insane starting smoking tobacco even sounds in hindsight, not to belittle or to make fun of ......ation. I have relatives that suffer from mental ......ation and would not dream of belittling anyone afflicted. Peace people and good luck with your bid to keep away from those tobacco products.
 
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OMG! How can you make light casual conversation about mental ......ation!!!! Snarkyone I never would have thought this of you! *Gasp*

(Sorry had to. It's not a "Snarkyone" original post without some drama llama in the first few replies)

Seriously though you mentioned a lot of similar feelings I had when I did my "test". I took 2 or 3 drags from an analog as well and found the taste to be less favorable than dehydrated piss. The only point that we differ is the "nostalgic" part. I grew up with a heavy smoker and I was very intimate with the smell, everything in the house smelled of cigarettes, but it had been such a prevalent smell throughout my life that when I finally started smoking the smell didn't seem indicative of the event. The taste was "bad" but at the same time almost expected so there again when I started smoking nothing was strongly urging me against it.

Fast forward to today, the smell of cigarette smoke is highly disturbing, not because of an urge to smoke when smelling it (like on previous attempts to quit) but because it reeks and the taste... urk!

Now that I don't have a dedicated smoker in my house I'm able to fully get away from the smell and taste of ciggies so when I did my test it wasn't even a reminder of when I began because beginning smoking wasn't even as traumatic as testing that one analog was.

That was an awesome day in my book, that was the day I knew I couldn't ever go back to smokes, it was just too nasty.

(Sorry if I come off sounding "prudish" to some but I can't express how amazed I am by how bad cigarettes smell, and not just because of how bad they smell, but because of how long they were in my life and I really never recognized it.)
 

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Yeah I hear you Porphy, it seems I can't make a thread without it stirring up some feelings in people. As far as the nostalgia I experienced it wasn't so much in a good way but I couldn't think of any better way to describe being brought back to my youth. I came from a house of smokers as well and I had never associated the smell of tobacco with smoking for whatever reasons, I never could really smell the tobacco smoke that all the non smokers would ..... about...until the last couple of weeks. I never noticed how bad they smell either, it somehow evaded my senses all those years, nay decades. No longer, since I was the only smoker in the house my daughter is very pleased indeed now that there is no tobacco smoke smell in the house and I am getting more and more used to it myself. It is so weird how they taste and feel like sucking on a straw though that blows me away that it seems like my E-cig hits better than a tobacco one after 3 weeks away, I can not see going back ever at this point.
 

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Thank you Snarky, you saved me a who lot of typing. Your post nails exactly what I did and experienced. I am still amazed at how critical I was of PV throat hit when the analogs are so weak in comparison lol.

Although I think the throat hit with analogs may actually be a secondary effect, after you smoke for a while the hit develops? It had to have been there at some point or we would not have looked for it in the PV.

But yeah, you nailed it. :)

Nestran
 

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Nestran that is a great question and I wish I knew the answer because it's amazing how weak it was. I am talking incredibly lame here, it was really as if I was sucking on a straw I am not kidding. I felt like I was smoking?? a super duper ultra awesome killer light cigarette since I could not feel it at all, it was an epiphany for sure.
 

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sooo how about e smoking in the dark.. when you cant see the vapor is the hit still there.. he he..

one thing real cigs were that e cigs are not is consistent.. when i cant see the vapor from my e cig it bothers me.. does it need a top up or a battery change.. i am never sure.. he he

trog

ps.. for me i recon e smoking is %50 in the mind and %50 in the chemical reality.. my percentage figures are pure guesswork..

i also differ from most.. one of my favorite roll ups still tastes like they always did.. quite pleasant..
 
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