Transition to ecig: How did you handle it?

[cowbooger88]

Ok this may have been posted, but I'm also trying to hit my "freshman 5"


So, I've been officially vaping a week exclusively, yay! But my road hasn't been easy. So as a poll per say, I'd love to hear stories new vapers and veterans

I got my set up last month, vaped a whole 2 days haha, but migraines killed me and I stopped, tried again before Christmas my throat broke out and stopped. But last week I went broke (stupid biweekly paychecks) and was craving the juice I ordered while I was on my two day kick off being so sure I'd never smoke another analog ever! Haha. But a week in, and more complications I'm actually still just vaping, even though a fellow employee lit up next too me yesterday and my lungs screamed please while my brain told me to back away (albeit slowly ; )) I still managed to not ask for a bum. ...


How easy was it for you to do the switch? Any small cravings still? My step parents took to it abnormally natural....or I'm just jealous lol


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[minitater]

It seems I got lucky. Three years ago got my first kit and never touched another cigarette and have never craved one. As long as there is nicotine in my juice I will be fine.


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[Painter_]

I read a lot before I started. Few things I learned was to have a few choices of juice at hand, in the mornings start with higher mg / ml juice i.e. 18 to 24 depending on your level. in the afternoon step it down to 12 - 18 again depending on your level. I usually have four flavors in the queue ready for use. When I find one flavor or level is not cutting it or I am getting a headache from vaping to much I change up.

The headache is from to much nicotine you need to put it down and or drop you level. You have to power through the sore throat, it lasted about a week for me. Make sure you drink lots of water!.

Thanksgiving day my sister gave me an nJoy the day after I was at a vapeshop getting my first setup. I have not had a stinky since. At first there were cravings then the dreams, now it is smooth sailing.

 

[GaG8tor]

I started out with blu disposable and eventually a blu starter kit. Love the disposables but at10 bucks a pop it costs way more than smoking. Same with cartos as half of those were usually duds. I didn't want a battery and tank setup because I thought they were too big. Finally decided that I was either gonna go back to smoking or bite the bullet and buy a good setup.WWell that's just what I did and haven't looked back. I really never wanted to stop smoking but knew I had to. I believe finding the right setup makes it a no-brainer. For me the transition has been virtually seamless.

 

[Papa_Lazarou]

I got curious about e-cigs when I had to walk past rows of them to get to the counter to buy cigarettes. Tried 1 NJoy disposable, bought a green smoke kit that afternoon, and EVOD starter kit about a week later. The transition to fully vaping took about 1 1/2 days - this after 30 years at 1 PAD. I suppose I was just ready for something different.

 

[Grimwald]

I guess I was lucky, too. But I was actively trying to cut down with lozenges.

My biggest hurdle was juice...just finding something I could tolerate, let alone like...that was a challenge.

I found that I had to be ready to vape in the morning...you know how important that first cigarette in the morning is, right? So I always filled devices and charged batteries the night before. I went to bed with a cig-sized on the bedside table. Have to resist that urge to get up and smoke.

Also...water and chapstick. I was so, so dry. Lips cracked. Dry mouth at night. I was drinking so much water that it was hard to sleep. At my age, sleeping thru the night without getting up to use the bathroom is a real accomplishment...but this was ridiculous. That dryness was another hurdle, but it did go away after a few months.

The cravings never ended. Even today, after nearly 18 months, I have cravings. However, I don't have nearly the cravings I had at the beginning. They get fewer and milder.

Hang in there...quitting isn't for sissies. It's hard work.

 

[Phoenyx]

My mom gave me my eGo 650 Christmas Eve 2012. I figured I'd "smoke" the thing until she went home and go buy a new pack. A few hours in, I tried to smoke my last analog and couldn't finish it... my vape tasted so much better! I talked myself into seeing how long I could go without a "real cigarette" and I'm 13 months in. There were a few panic button moments when I seriously considered tossing the thing at the nearest passersby, but all-in-all I don't miss tasting ashtray all the time

 

[Lbx!]

I am quite fortunate. Cigarettes were not my first, even second addiction that I have overcome. I knew what I was getting in to. I warned my wife that I was quitting smoking, bought a quality PV *mvp2.0*, a few tanks and some juices. I finished my last cigarette at 6:30pm and switched to vaping 100% directly after that. I drink about 128 oz of water/gatorade, I accept that I am going to crave cigarettes, have dreams about smoking and all of the other options. Hydrate, have friends you can talk to about your quitting issues, accept the side effects of withdrawal and work through them. I have done it before, I can do it again.

 

[Completely Average]

Started with a low quality cigarette look-alike. That lasted about a month and I still smoked analogs the whole time. After a while I tried the iTaste SVD. That was much better and I was down from a 30+ year pack+ a day habit to about 7 cigarettes a day. That lasted about 3 months and then the SVD broke. It took a few days but I got a much smaller Halo Triton as a replacement and that was just what I needed. Kicked the smoking entirely about 3 months ago and no longer want an analog at all.

Then, about a week ago my wife's SVD broke... She just got a Triton as well. I'm also debating on buying a Vamo V5 which uses all of the SVD stuff we already have. Seems a shame to let it all go to waste.

 

[dripdaze]

I started with an eGo kit and some 24 mg juice. I just vaped when I had the urge to smoke. I didn't have a smoke after the first vape and I don't really miss them.

 

[Australe]

Tomorrow morning will be my one week mark since my last cigarette, after smoking for 16 years. I don't miss it. I was ready to quit smoking .... my husband's said he wasn't interested in quitting. Knowing myself I know I wouldn't of been able to quit while he still smoked. He's now been just over a week since his last cigarette. This forum has helped both of us immensely. Both of our families are happy about our switch to vapor.
We started with disposables, then I bought my husband a halo triton kit. My spinner and mpt2 came a couple days later. I've been so much money the last two weeks, but as far as I'm concerned it's so worth it

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[Fisheeboy]

I tried vaping for the first time a little over a year ago with a very junky disposable cigalike called Njoy. It tasted horrible! Bit I really liked the TH and I new there had to be better products out there. So I looked online and found V2 and got a starter kit. But the batteries kept goin kaput so then I found the Kgo kit which had two really good size batteries. Mind you I was still smoking analogs this whole time. Well I really liked the kgo but I mmsplaced one of the batteries and became discouraged because I'd spent so much money by then so I went back to only analogs and chewing tobacco, gross I know! Well A fews months ago I just happen to come across that lost battery so I went to my local B&M got a couple ce8 clearmizers and some new juice and haven't bought a pack of smokes or any chew since the end of September 2013. So I've been vaping for more than a year but I've been tobacco free for only a few months. I think it would have been a better success story if I had not gotten discouraged and set the vaping aside for so long. Any way, I'm so happy that I only vape and have no desire for tobacco any longer. Now I'm gettin ready for an upgrade. Thinkin iTaste vv/vw doohickie

 

[cowbooger88]

My boyfriend is just glad I don't stink anymore since he isn't and never has been a smoker. I don't really get cravings until I smell one. But even still I can push through. Besides my asst said I'm not allowed to start again because smelling my cigarettes made her want to choke me (she started vaping in November) lol I didn't know because she made the switch seem like second nature too

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[Fisheeboy]

To be honest the only reason I quit smoking was because of the stink. I hated knowing that I smelled like stale cigarette butts and everything else stinking, my car, my clothes, my puppy dog. he hated it when I smoked!!! Now I can hug my mom and know that she doesn't have to smell those nasty things on me any more.

 

[Painter_]

I should add, the forum is a big help. There are thousands of people going through the same thing as you are right now. I jump on the board and look for people that just switched and are asking for advice or just saying hello. I share my personal experience in hopes it helps them just like the first day I logged on here and someone helped me out.

 

[cowbooger88]

I've had some super help, and some that made me want to scream I did hate when I stunk from smoking but I can't deny that feeling I got either haha I'm lame

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[The Fezman]

I went out on Christmas day and bought a blu. I almost immediately cut back from over two packs of salems to less than one. Within a week i went out and bought an eGo starter kit and a few juices. Im down to less than one smoke a day yesterday i had none yesterday i had half of one brushing the snow off my truck this morning. Mainly because they were on my seat when i reached in to start it. I decided to try the e cig because i need to quit not because i really want to, the cost combined with 26yr smoking habit a 42nd birthday and a walk up a rock in sequioa national park that left me a tad dizzy kind of forced my hand, oh and im a grump not smoking makes me even grumpyer im working on that. Oh aand im dieing for a .... but its 3°f outside and my old lady won't let me smoke in her house im done freezing my .... off to feed my monkey

 

[hoosier83]

Love it no more smokes

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[Aheadatime]

I had a stomach flu when my first Spinner/Nova kit came in the mail. After I was done healing up, I tried out the kit and never went back. Before the illness though, I was on and off between real cigs and disposables for a week or two. The upgraded gear coupled with the 4 days or so without cigs during my illness really pushed me in favor of ecigs though. That chocolate mint tasted way better than I woulda guessed

 

[cowbooger88]

I have a milk chocolate and vanilla ice cream in mine! Love love love it

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