Thought the e-cig would just help me quit analogs, but.......

[JOHNNY K]

it's almost like a new hobby to me. I've been researching various vendors, ordering juices, and trying to absorb as much information from this forum. I quit the analogs ten days ago and only have a few basic "generic" juices (peach, orange, grape, fruit punch, apple), but am anxiously awaiting on juice deliveries from two of the most reputable vendors on this forum.

Do any of you view quitting cigarettes and moving on to vaping as picking up a new hobby?

 

[onry]

i am starting to now that i am verified and can haunt the classified ads lol
there is a ton of stuff i see i would love to have but cant afford so
a potentially very expensive hobby

 

[NoMoreMarbs]

Hi Johnny

I have been free of analog smokes since Oct 31 , yeah I know that was an odd date to pick to quit. I have been in the same spot as you learning about all this stuff and I currently have 4 orders of juice and supplies out waiting to arrive. Anyhow for what its worth stick with the vapor. Anything is better than regular smokes for you and at only ten days in you need to stick with this . My gf feels the same way about this being a new hobby for me . She wants me off nicotine all together. However I really enjoy this. I have smoked for 25 yrs so to quit in 2 months is a big deal and I tried everything before and nothing worked.
I feel this is a hobby, but it is a good one to have. You can get yourself down to 0 mg strength so there will be no nicotine at all. Good luck and keep at it !! Everyone here is very helpful. I wish I would have found this forum when I first quit.

 

[SupplyDaddy]

It turned into a hobby for me, while for the wife, it's just "vaping". Since I make her setups, she's glad I turned it into a hobby.. It keeps me from chasing other women.. errr.. no it doesn't.. LOL
Hard to imagine, with smoking, I'd open a pack, make sure I had several others around and run to the store semi-panicked if there weren't extras around. Now, I check inventory a couple times a week, look through a bunch of sites calmly and Think about what I could do to make my vape experience better and fiddle with everything..

 

[Thrasher]

and yes if you moved to vaping then you did in fact quit analogs and stopped smoking.

I never had any intention of quitting until i found vaping. in the beginning I promised i wouldnt spend more them i did on cig's.
after going through the -gotta try this too- phase i have settled down and look more then touch, every day i see things i want to play with but think " great another 140 bucks that will just sit here" and I stop myself. becuase in the end how many cool looking unused devices do you need LOL.
----have fun and vape on!

 

[Baditude]

I began vaping as a replacement for cigarettes. After 30+ years of smoking and multiple failed attempts to quit, I haven't had a cigarette in over 8 months. Never desired one, either. I much prefer vaping over smoking now.

I have reduced my nicotine strength from 24mg down to 12mg. I feel content at that level. I do not see nicotine as much different than the other more socially accepted stimulant, caffeine. Caffeine is probably consumed by a larger segment of the population. Nicotine has a negative association from tobacco products.

This has become a hobby of sorts. I've become a collector of tanks and drip tips. I do enjoy paying it forward by helping others in this new experience. I can invision myself working in a vape shop in several years after my retirement.

 

[Liquinator]

I'm into vaping for almost a year now. I can absolutely assure you that this WILL become a hobby if you continue. However, for me it was a hobby as long as I was searching for the perfect vape utilities: good mod, good juice, good atomizers. After I had found all that it just became what cigarettes were: an addiction which at least appears to be not as harmful as cigarettes. I also noticed a continous increase of ml per day that I vape. I started with barely 3ml of 12mg nic juice and now I vape as much as 6ml per day. I still feel good about vaping and I think you should too because the money you spend is, if at all, the amount you would have spent for cigarettes anyways. The health part is pretty much self-explanatory

PS: Try to resist cigarettes for one month and then just try ONE DRAG of a cigarette. You won't believe that you had THAT taste on a regular basis.

Gl and keep vaping!

 

[Thrasher]

PS: Try to resist cigarettes for one month and then just try ONE DRAG of a cigarette. You won't believe that you had THAT taste on a regular basis.

def agree here.
once vaping is all you do for a while you think ewww how did i enjoy that?

 

[DoctorJ]

I'm relatively new to the vaping scene and I don't really consider it a hobby, but I think it has kind of turned into one. I've been vaping for a little over a month and dropped about $400 into my equipment and supplies. Once you start looking at all the cool vaping swag out there, it's like, oh that's cool, I'll get that, I could use that too!! Then when you get to the ejuices it's like, wow, that sounds good, so does that...and so on. I've made two ejuice orders from two different vendors, each order consisted of around 16 different juices from each vendor. I also purchased a larger battery and a ton of clearos. So basically I don't see this as a hobby, yet, but I'm looking at it from the view point of necessity (am I rationalizing or what ) I haven't gone off the deep end yet and purchased anything I don't deem necessary to vaping. But as time goes by, I'm sure I will. Plus after totaling up my vaping expenditures in just one month and realizing I was spending $100 a week, I stopped cruising the vendor sites to avoid temptation. Plus, now that I have plenty of juice and clearos, I don't need to buy anything else right now.

The moral of this post is, you can easily get caught up in a "new hobby", but it's the new toy syndrome I guess. And I look at it this way, I'm spending money on something that is bettering my health, so it's not all that bad (am I rationalizing again )

 

[JOHNNY K]

I'm into vaping for almost a year now. I can absolutely assure you that this WILL become a hobby if you continue. However, for me it was a hobby as long as I was searching for the perfect vape utilities: good mod, good juice, good atomizers. After I had found all that it just became what cigarettes were: an addiction which at least appears to be not as harmful as cigarettes. I also noticed a continous increase of ml per day that I vape. I started with barely 3ml of 12mg nic juice and now I vape as much as 6ml per day. I still feel good about vaping and I think you should too because the money you spend is, if at all, the amount you would have spent for cigarettes anyways. The health part is pretty much self-explanatory

PS: Try to resist cigarettes for one month and then just try ONE DRAG of a cigarette. You won't believe that you had THAT taste on a regular basis.

Gl and keep vaping!

I'll pass on the one drag deal. Last time I quit, it only took me a few drags to be back on them. It was the weirdest thing, I took a few drags and an hour later I was having a nicotine fit, and you know where it went from there.

THAT WAS BEFORE E CIGS THOUGH !!!!!!

 

[Iusedtoanalog]

Do any of you view quitting cigarettes and moving on to vaping as picking up a new hobby?

Absolutely. I would have otherwise been tossing my money,and livelyhood, as well as more imprortantly my health to the tobacco companys ashtray otherwise. I enjoy the fact that I no longer smoke. If I spend the same amount of money on vape supplies as I did on analogs, then so be it. I didn't think twice when I smoked why should it bother me now that I don't.?. Most months that is nearly impossible to do. I do peroidically treat myself to new equipment or flavors as I become interested in doing so. For the most part I see this as a healthy and enjoyable alternative to the obvious perils of smoking.

Enjoy your new flavors. Don't allow yourself to get overwhelmed.This is too much fun to be frustrated. Good Luck. Happy Vaping.

 

[grandmato5]

I'm a believer that the hobby aspect of vaping that many of us here move into during our first months of vaping is a part of what helps keep us from returning to smoking in our first year of vaping.

It took me two years to get past that hobby stage and I don't regret a single purchase I made or vaping toys I tried, but its nice to be settled down now and just enjoy what I like best

 

[turner.curtis]

I would tend to agree but you know any hobby that assists with getting me away from 99+% of the bad stuff in cigarettes is not such a bad hobby to have.

 

[frankyfive]

Although I haven't dropped a ton of money on this. Its definitely becoming a hobby. - Never been on a forum ever, now I cant wait to get back to my laptop to see whats going on here. - I try to learn something every day about this new habit of mine and there are so many cool different setups out there and I am a noob plus a geek so its easy for me to get sucked in. But thanks to posts like Thrashers, im keeping it an informational hobby right now...At least til I find that one Gotta Must have that MOD. =)

in the beginning I promised i wouldnt spend more them i did on cig's.
after going through the -gotta try this too- phase i have settled down and look more then touch, every day i see things i want to play with but think " great another 140 bucks that will just sit here" and I stop myself. becuase in the end how many cool looking unused devices do you need LOL.
----have fun and vape on!

 

[Thrasher]

im keeping it an informational hobby right now...At least til I find that one Gotta Must have that MOD. =)

lol get verified and check the classifieds here........ you will see some wild drool worthy gear in there.

 

[Beccca]

Been vaping close to a month....Had smokes lying around but did't use them...Then yesterday out of no where in the am I had one. First drag was awesome after that it was lousy......Gave the rest of my cigarettes lying around to my friend to throw out. She did and am back vaping. How long before your lungs start to really clear?

 

[maverik]

Absolutely. I would have otherwise been tossing my money,and livelyhood, as well as more imprortantly my health to the tobacco companys ashtray otherwise. I enjoy the fact that I no longer smoke. If I spend the same amount of money on vape supplies as I did on analogs, then so be it. I didn't think twice when I smoked why should it bother me now that I don't.?. Most months that is nearly impossible to do. I do peroidically treat myself to new equipment or flavors as I become interested in doing so. For the most part I see this as a healthy and enjoyable alternative to the obvious perils of smoking.

Enjoy your new flavors. Don't allow yourself to get overwhelmed.This is too much fun to be frustrated. Good Luck. Happy Vaping.

'Fun' - hit the nail right on the head!

 

[onry]

lol get verified and check the classifieds here........ you will see some wild drool worthy gear in there.

That is so true i drive my wife nuts cause i am always scanning the classies
saying i want this or i want that. or someone just beat me to that lol

 

[Faylool]

It kind of feels like hobby but I think the term collector would fit me better. A hobbyist in this would be the people who can redesign mods, make them, make Atties, build them, make E juices that appeal to a lot of people and so on. I collected a lot of things initially and glad to have done and have the different kinds of devices to help keep it interesting for me. It has become a normal part of my life, not a new thing anymore which seems to have made it so I vape less. In the end I'll have two mods and one drip tip, and several tanks, and a cheap RBA I could sell some day but I doubt I will. I chewed Nicorette for 10 years so I doubt I'll quit vaping!

 

[Cease]

Vaping has transformed into a personal adventure. Collecting objects has never been high on my priority list, but pyrex, ceramic and stainless will always be included in my set-up. Probably, I will keep a small menagarie of tanks and drip tips. Making my own juice will become a hobby, no doubt. Cooking and experimenting in the kitchen has been one of my passionate hobbies since childhood, so I am confident flavor creations will keep me interested. I also view the rebuildable as another one of my hobby niches - MUST tinker!