As of 30 minutes ago I have gone 22 days without a cigarette. 8 pm October 13th was my last one. That first night was the hardest for me. About 10 pm I REALLY wanted a cigarette. I managed to resist the temptation. Since then there have been a couple of moments where I want a cigarette, but nothing like that panic the first night. I have been using about 4-5 Camel Snus a week, and as soon as I have recovered financially from my recent juice orders I will be ordering some real Swedish Snus to sample, as I hear they are far superior. The Snus really helps me through the moments when I am feeling week even with my Ego, and I thank those here on ECF representing the dark side!
This was not my first sojourn into the world of Ecigs. I purchased my first almost a year ago, December of 2009. It was the Super Ecig starter kit from what was then The Electronic Cigarette Company, and is now Totally Wicked. I was immediately impressed, and went from being a pack and a half to two pack a day smoker to 4 or 5 smokes a day overnight. After about a week I was down to one cigarette a day, but just couldn't get over that last one. I hovered there for a couple of weeks, then relapsed while on a 1200 mile drive without a car charger. I smoked 3 packs in those 1200 miles, and jumped back into the tobacco with both feet. I tried and tried to get back down to that one cig a day, but just couldn't do it. Not to mention, since I was spending money on cigarettes again, and had just moved halfway across the country, I was unable to get the scratch together to make a juice order when I started to get low. So sometime in February of 2010 my poor little Super Ecig was relegated to the back of a junk drawer and I was smoking again full tilt.
So towards the end of this summer I started seeing the Ecig commercials on TV, and was reminded of my little Super, waiting patiently for me to be ready to take the plunge again. I got it out and charged it up, and started trying to cut back on my smoking again. After making a little progress I came to the conclusion that if I wanted to succeed I was absolutely going to need a model with better battery life. I just couldn't conceive of carrying five or six batteries around to get me through the day, and I really couldn't imagine how I was going to keep them all charged. So I bought a Tornado starter kit from Totally Wicked. After doing some more looking around I realized I could have gotten it a bit cheaper if I had shopped around and just gone for an Ego, but the difference is not huge and I have always been happy with TW's service, not to mention I kinda like their unapologetic attitude. Anyway, after buying the Tornado I had just enough money left to purchase a 50mL bottle of Dekang ejuice from Madvapes. I foolishly expected it to last at least a month, based on my ~1mL/day usage I remembered from using my Super, not realizing that with a larger model, and smoking no cigarettes, I was going to consuming about 3mL/day. WOW! That's a lot of juice! I read tales here on ECF of people using 20mL a week and couldn't believe it, but I am now convinced.
So anyway, I just wanted to post some of my experiences so that maybe someone else who is considering the switch can learn something from my journey. Here are a couple more thoughts.
- Automatic batteries and PV's that look like cigarettes - When I was getting started, I was convinced that I would need automatic batteries and a PV that looked like a cigarette. Not only was I wrong, I was WAY wrong. Manual batteries are superior, and constraining myself to one of the smaller models just so it resembled a cigarette was silly. However, I passed along the Super to my Dad when my Tornado arrived, so it was not a waste.
- Ejuice - Order more than you think you need. You will probably use more than you think if you completely remove cigarettes from your routine.
- Smells & Taste - These have come back slowly, but steadily. I keep getting weirded out when I smell something. I was walking by a car in a parking lot the other day and I could smell the air freshener from outside the vehicle! Oh, and frozen junk food is becoming less tasty every day....
Have fun and Good Luck!
This was not my first sojourn into the world of Ecigs. I purchased my first almost a year ago, December of 2009. It was the Super Ecig starter kit from what was then The Electronic Cigarette Company, and is now Totally Wicked. I was immediately impressed, and went from being a pack and a half to two pack a day smoker to 4 or 5 smokes a day overnight. After about a week I was down to one cigarette a day, but just couldn't get over that last one. I hovered there for a couple of weeks, then relapsed while on a 1200 mile drive without a car charger. I smoked 3 packs in those 1200 miles, and jumped back into the tobacco with both feet. I tried and tried to get back down to that one cig a day, but just couldn't do it. Not to mention, since I was spending money on cigarettes again, and had just moved halfway across the country, I was unable to get the scratch together to make a juice order when I started to get low. So sometime in February of 2010 my poor little Super Ecig was relegated to the back of a junk drawer and I was smoking again full tilt.
So towards the end of this summer I started seeing the Ecig commercials on TV, and was reminded of my little Super, waiting patiently for me to be ready to take the plunge again. I got it out and charged it up, and started trying to cut back on my smoking again. After making a little progress I came to the conclusion that if I wanted to succeed I was absolutely going to need a model with better battery life. I just couldn't conceive of carrying five or six batteries around to get me through the day, and I really couldn't imagine how I was going to keep them all charged. So I bought a Tornado starter kit from Totally Wicked. After doing some more looking around I realized I could have gotten it a bit cheaper if I had shopped around and just gone for an Ego, but the difference is not huge and I have always been happy with TW's service, not to mention I kinda like their unapologetic attitude. Anyway, after buying the Tornado I had just enough money left to purchase a 50mL bottle of Dekang ejuice from Madvapes. I foolishly expected it to last at least a month, based on my ~1mL/day usage I remembered from using my Super, not realizing that with a larger model, and smoking no cigarettes, I was going to consuming about 3mL/day. WOW! That's a lot of juice! I read tales here on ECF of people using 20mL a week and couldn't believe it, but I am now convinced.
So anyway, I just wanted to post some of my experiences so that maybe someone else who is considering the switch can learn something from my journey. Here are a couple more thoughts.
- Automatic batteries and PV's that look like cigarettes - When I was getting started, I was convinced that I would need automatic batteries and a PV that looked like a cigarette. Not only was I wrong, I was WAY wrong. Manual batteries are superior, and constraining myself to one of the smaller models just so it resembled a cigarette was silly. However, I passed along the Super to my Dad when my Tornado arrived, so it was not a waste.
- Ejuice - Order more than you think you need. You will probably use more than you think if you completely remove cigarettes from your routine.
- Smells & Taste - These have come back slowly, but steadily. I keep getting weirded out when I smell something. I was walking by a car in a parking lot the other day and I could smell the air freshener from outside the vehicle! Oh, and frozen junk food is becoming less tasty every day....
Have fun and Good Luck!
I tripped out that I could smell my coffee when I walked up to my car!
