Tomorrow will be day one for me! Gotbmy stuff in, everythingnis charging, can't wait to start! So excited!
thoughts after being analog free for several days and "trying" one
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Ya know, now that you mention it, I have been waking up a whole lot earlier since switching.
I used to feel like needed 9 hours MINIMUM of sleep before I would naturally wake up comfortably ( or not so comfortably as I now know)
I was even worse off. I'd conk out for 10 - 12 hours and be tired throughout the day with random naps. Worse if after work where I'd fall asleep till I needed to be up the next day. It has been a complete 360 since cutting the analogs. Now I sleep for about 7-8 hours and I'm up and can stay up all day. My SO is even worse about sleeping and feeling tired. I managed to convince him to give vaping a shot to see if it's something he can continue with.
Now I'm just waiting for my tastebuds to return from /afk status so I can give some other juices a try.
Hey Ecfers. I browsed this forum for a week or so before buying my first ecig. Thank you all for the abundance of knowledge, tips, reviews, etc. Got my joye ego 6 days ago and went from a pack a day to 2 analogs the last 2 days. I'm still puffing half a smoke in the morn and after a meal. I will try the 24mil nicotine as mentioned above for those times. Iam starting to feel that buzz with just that half an analog, What is cool is I am starting to smell things again. Thanks for all the info.
Ps I ment to say I will try some 24mg (nicotine content) for those morning cravings. My first order of juice was 12 and 18's from Backwoods Don. Good stuff.
I personally have found that the first thing in the morning "smoke" is not even an issue since I began using a PV. It's like I don't even think about it. I don't feel the need to get up and rush out, to vape like I did when I was using analogs. I do however find that I vape a tremendous ammount when replacing the ever coveted after meal fix...
Perhaps I should keep track of how many ml I am using..but still it wouldn't add up. I assumed that if I had a 18mg juice in a 10ml bottle that I would be getting 1 analog (1.8mg nic) for 1 cc. No chance of that being equal. 1ml is quite a lot of drops of liquid, could probably last me all day..but no way one analong would last me one day.
Just to correct your math: 18mg strength means 18mg of nicotine per 1ml (1cc) of fluid, so 1cc @ 18mg carries as much nic as TEN of your former 1.8mg/cig analogs. There's about ~20 drops per ml, so the nic in ~2 drops @ 18mg is approximately equal to one of your former analogs. The subjective "effect" of the nic is different with vaping; I'd say it's more comparable to a pipe or cigar buzz, which comes on more gradually as a deep-down body feeling, vs. the headrush and surface-level skin-tingling buzz of analog cigs.
While you have not quit using nicotine, you HAVE at least quit smoking, and that's a significant net win, health-wise. The dangers of tobacco smoke are legion, significant and well-known. The effects of nicotine and inhaled PG are well-known and -documented; nic in moderation is a fairly benign stimulant comparable to caffeine, and PG is considered safe enough that it's used as a carrier in asthma inhalers, so VG and flavorings are the only lesser-known factors (I'm leery of VG myself, from what I've read, so I avoid it). Check out ECF's Health and Safety subforum if you really want to dig into this subject:
Health, Safety and E-Smoking
Hello Broken Halo, Rosa
carbon monoxide poisoning, no wonder I start to gag, and its one of those skinny European cigs Capri i can't even make myself finish one, and i've only been doing this two weeks.
going 00 mg: i was scanning through the med research posts, and best i can tell from what i read so far, the nicotine addiction is real in that we are addicted to what nicotine becomes after the body absorbs it (direct comparison of nicotine from cigs to nicotine from PVs is not going to give a meaningful answer), the longer a smoker has smoked the less able they will be to tolerate not having nicotine, and that going 00 mg is like going cold turkey - there will be symptoms of withdrawal and individual situations may arise which will make having nicotine again irresistible.
Broken Halo, if you think you can go 00 mg and tolerate it, try... because the longer you stay a nicotine addict, the less likely it is you will be able to stop being one in the future, but if you can't stop... Happy Vaping.
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Interesting thing, nicotine does stimulate peristalsis, which is the rhythmic contraction of muscles that moves food through your digestive tract. In fact, waaay back in the day, RJ Reynolds used to have an ad campaign that's dismayingly hilarious in hindsight: "For Digestion's Sake - Smoke Camels!"
Its been a month now i am analog free and for the last couple of days i have been struggling to not to have analog. The reason for that is very simple i have run out of ejuice an i am waitng for the new one. So far i have resited the temptation of having 'just one'. After a month of not smoking having one means putting all that effort to quit down the drain and in the meantime i am vaping 90% vg with no flavors or nicotine.
While I have been vaping for 2 months now I still find that I enjoy an analog once in a blue moon. Especially if I'm out at the bar with friends and its starting to get late(If ya catch my drift.) I can only smoke about 1/2 to 3/4 of an analog though. I don't see it as cheating either. 1/2 cig every couple of weeks is a lot better than the 25 I used to smoke a day! Don't know how I ever smoked that much!
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