Trying an analog after vaping for 7+ months?

[jonjay]

So I have been vaping for 7 months now, and have been pretty much sold since day one. That's not to say I haven't had some slips here and there. (The worst was in January when I was on vacation and stressed, yes oxymoron, and smoked for a good week straight)

But ever since I have been faithful and steady vaping! The other day I had a funny desire to smoke, I think it was more of a desire for the taste of tobacco, not to actually smoke. (I think it's important to have a nice tobacco flavor on hand for this occurrence) So I grabbed an analog, lit it, and it was DISGUSTING, to the point 2 drags I put it out.

I think it's funny how the mind & body are, and how it literally seemed as though I was 12 years old lighting up for the first time. I can tell you I am never willingly going back to smoking, everything about it is just nasty.

 

[mad maori]

yea you're right- it does pay to have a ciggie flavor e-juice handy for times when you feel like ya really need a ciggie!! its not the nic that one craves when you get that feeling but the craving for the other chemicals created in the cumbustion process of burning it!!!! i got some 555 and peter s. and had a vape when i felt the urge!!! the juice was such a good rendition of the actuall ciggie that it tasted bloody yuck!!!! good on ya though, and vape on and stay off the ciggies!!!!

 

[michmich]

I did the same thing last weekend. I was by myself, some friends had just left, DH was out of town....sitting on the patio with a glass of wine. Thought...eh, nobody will know (stinking thinking) and lit one up. Two puffs and that was it. It was SO disgusting. Ugh. Gross, nasty tasting...and the analog felt so insubstantial in my hand. This wimpy little paper thing....LOL.

I'm glad I did it, though. It just reaffirmed for me that I will NEVER smoke another analog again. EVER.

 

[middleborn]

I did it on my 6 month anniversary of quitting and like you guys...one puff and tossed that sucker.
Yuck!
What was worse was that just from the one puff, I swear, the smell stayed in my home for what seemed like hours.
From just one puff !!!!!!!
I turned on fans and opened doors and it still took forever for the stink fairy to wash the odor away.
lol

 

[Tiffany Smeggin Peak]

after 7 days of vaping, i decided to smoke, 1 drag and BLECK!!!

so this should be incoragement, if you're a new vaper and you have an urge to smoke, you may very well ind out that you haate it, like you should!

 

[drsocal]

I agree...I find it nearly impossible to finish an entire traditional cig anymore.

 

[DummyMe]

For me it has been a year & a half. I don't think you could pay me to smoke one! I've thought about trying one to see if it would disgust me or if I'd still like it, but I just haven't tried one. Don't think I will.

 

[memories]

I did the same thing last weekend. I was by myself, some friends had just left, DH was out of town....sitting on the patio with a glass of wine. Thought...eh, nobody will know (stinking thinking) and lit one up. Two puffs and that was it. It was SO disgusting. Ugh. Gross, nasty tasting...and the analog felt so insubstantial in my hand. This wimpy little paper thing....LOL.

I'm glad I did it, though. It just reaffirmed for me that I will NEVER smoke another analog again. EVER.

Im only 5 days in but i took a quick little drag on my second day from my gf.. glad i did because i too thought it was absolutely terrible!

 

[MMarie]

When I got my first e-cig, I still had three packs of cigarettes. I never intended to quit smoking when I bought it, it was merely to keep from freezing up north at my mother's house when I went there for Christmas (twenty below zero weather smoking cigarettes in your pj's kind of sucks) and to deal with my brother's resistance to stopping the car just so I could smoke on the trip up there and back.

Surprisingly, I just kept reducing my cigarette intake with the e-cig. It was working so well that I decided I'd get my nicotine exclusively from the e-cig, but I also told myself that I was free to have those last 60 cigs anytime I wanted to, but I couldn't buy anymore after they were gone.

So, every month, I still have one cigarette, or rather, a few drags off a cigarette because any more than that is just too nasty to handle. For me, it serves to reinforce the idea in my brain that I am not missing a damn thing.

 

[jonjay]

I think it's amazing at the body's potential to suddenly reject something we were so dependent on for so long (at least myself) I have some friends who vape and still smoke minimally, which is what it is, and is great. But hopefully they cross that line completely. I would have to force myself to go back to smoking and even if I did, i'd know in the back of my head "there was a better way" haha

 

[LaraPaw]

I started vaping to try to keep myself from relapsing with analogs due to a bunch of stressful situations happening at once. Since I have been vaping the idea of even trying to smoke an analog is about as appealing as kissing my dog's ..... Blech!!!

I always worried about the potential to relapse and start smoking again but never, ever again!!!

 

[woofpuppy]

I had a similar reaction after vaping for about a year and a half. I was super stressed & bought the same brand I smoked for 15+ years. It tasted awful, it stank, and it gave me a headache. It gave me the realisation that I had quit - I was now a non-smoker. Because I was vaping I still felt like I was a smoker, at least to some degree, and that having a cancer stick would be just like it always was, but it wasn't. I had changed and my body had changed. I think a lot of people don't get that until they've been off smokes for some time and then try it again. At least I didn't get it. I felt like I had just wasted a good bit of money on something I was never going to use.

 

[Rapture]

The same thing happened to me after I had been vaping for 6 months I ran out of juice and went and bought smokes and it was really not as pleasant as I once thought it was. The taste of the smoke was nothing like I remember. It was disgusting. I also noticed how minimal the cloud of smoke i blew out was compared to vaping. I then proceeded to buy a disposable e-cig and even that was more satisfying than a cigarette. I dont know why anyone would not make the switch to e-cigs. It wins in over 5 catergories.

 

[Rapture]

I had a similar reaction after vaping for about a year and a half. I was super stressed & bought the same brand I smoked for 15+ years. It tasted awful, it stank, and it gave me a headache. It gave me the realisation that I had quit - I was now a non-smoker. Because I was vaping I still felt like I was a smoker, at least to some degree, and that having a cancer stick would be just like it always was, but it wasn't. I had changed and my body had changed. I think a lot of people don't get that until they've been off smokes for some time and then try it again. At least I didn't get it. I felt like I had just wasted a good bit of money on something I was never going to use.

I really think its beneficial for anyone who switched from smoking to vaping to try one cigarette a few months to a year after just for a mental reinforcement on how much better vaping is than smoking. After I switched to vaping I always had this small feeling in the back of my head that i wanted to smoke again. After trying one cigarrette that feeling was completely gone and never crossed my mind at all. Absolutely disgusting in every possible way. This was the moment I finally realized I was a non smoker.

 

[Hotwire]

I still enjoy a few day, to unwind in the evening. They still taste nice to me. Hotwire bad boy, lol.

 

[Mud Pie]

While at one of our customers buildings, I went to plug in my laptop power supply and noticed in the outlet was a charger with a cig-a-like battery being charged. I asked, "Who's vaping ?", and an engineer I used to smoke with says, "That's mine, why ?" and pulls two bottles of e-liquid from his pocket. I pull my Greensmoke from my shirt pocket and say, "I vape, too. But didn't I just pass you outside smoking ?". He laughs and says, "I vape when I can't smoke. Thought about quitting, but nothing is like a real smoke.". I ask, "Don't they taste like crap now ?" He says, "Only if you don't stick with them. I never quit so they taste fine to me.". I ask, "Don't you want to quit ?". "Not at all.", he responds.

I asked the how/why he got into vaping. He said he was a 2 PAD smoker and his doctor said his lung capacity was at less than 78% and he needed to quit smoking. He vaped solid for 6 months and a follow up showed his lungs were now at 90+%. He said the doctor should have never told him that, because he took it as a green light to go back to smoking. He admitted that made zero sense, but that's what he ran with. Now he vapes and smokes.

 

[thinkingaboutit]

After ten months I had a whole bunch of them. Like two months worth.

Don't ask why...because even I don't know how it happened. I have ideas...but nothing that really explains it.

 

[Dj tank]

4 days after quitting (back in Feb 2013) I had a cig while out in Vegas (sober) and it tasted like .... Fast forward to a month ago I was hammered up on Mackinac Island in Michigan and had one...it tasted not bad, but not as good as my ejuice.