vaping while cheating with analogs-and feeling bad? this post is 4U
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I had my last analog as I was opening the packaging that contained my 808 kit. The batteries had partial charge when they came to me and I was started within minutes, totally happy with the change. The transition was actually pretty easy for me. I didn't want a cigarette as long as I could vape instead.
I don't know if I could quit vaping easily though. I haven't tried and don't know that I will ever. For me it isn't just the nicotine...the hand to mouth action and visual smoke are all a part of those things that send that satisfaction signal to my brain which is why vaping was successful for me where nicotine replacement patches, gum, etc were not.
June 29th was the day I quit. Since then there have only been a handful of times that the thought of needing an analog hit me. All of them were times of extreme stress. Vaped more heavily than usual on those days and the feeling passed. I can honestly say that I haven't ever cheated-not once-but I can't fault anyone else for having a cig because I've experienced first hand how much the materials have to do with the ease of this. I got very lucky in that my first order contained hardware and juices that I loved. I've used other hardware since and tried MANY juices I didn't care for. Had I only had those things available to me first I know that I wouldn't have stayed on this wagon so easily.
I don't know if I could quit vaping easily though. I haven't tried and don't know that I will ever. For me it isn't just the nicotine...the hand to mouth action and visual smoke are all a part of those things that send that satisfaction signal to my brain which is why vaping was successful for me where nicotine replacement patches, gum, etc were not.
June 29th was the day I quit. Since then there have only been a handful of times that the thought of needing an analog hit me. All of them were times of extreme stress. Vaped more heavily than usual on those days and the feeling passed. I can honestly say that I haven't ever cheated-not once-but I can't fault anyone else for having a cig because I've experienced first hand how much the materials have to do with the ease of this. I got very lucky in that my first order contained hardware and juices that I loved. I've used other hardware since and tried MANY juices I didn't care for. Had I only had those things available to me first I know that I wouldn't have stayed on this wagon so easily.
I have some friends that vape with a 3.7 V PV and are perfectly happy. I've got a few other friends that needed something stronger and they use a VV for higher voltage and are satiated. I also have 3 friends that need the WTAs to get by. Whatever keeps us off the stinkies is ok in my books.
True. I started vaping in Sept 2011 and my main reason for trying it was to cut the cost of enjoying nicotine. Before I started with ecigs I was purchasing a carton of tobacco cigs a week at almost $50. Now my wife and I share 1 pack of 20 analogs a week for about $5.
I started vaping near the beginning of 2010 without a particular goal beyond smoking less for all the various reasons one might want to. Unlike many here, I wasn't an instant quitter. In fact, I haven't stopped smoking. I don't intend to. (On the other hand, I don't particularly intend NOT to quit either.) I enjoy smoking, and have for well over forty years. BUT, I have been very consistent in the past year and a half in keeping it down to no more than four cigarettes every day (down from 20-30). Besides enjoyment, I figure my routine of barely smoking/mostly vaping gives me some sort of equilibrium: Had I chosen to give up smoking entirely and then got tired of or annoyed with vaping, I'd probably have gone back to smoking at my old rate very quickly. Plus, by still enjoying those few cigarettes, I exempt myself from becoming one of those sour anti-smoking types I so dislike. And I figure the four or fewer cigarettes I still smoke every day are not doing much to me, as compared to the several hundred thousand I smoked in the years before.
Your mileage may vary, but I think whether one uses e-cigarettes to quit smoking, to cut down on smoking, or, for that matter, just to supplement smoking at times and places when one can't, it's not my business to tell them they should feel bad about it.
Your mileage may vary, but I think whether one uses e-cigarettes to quit smoking, to cut down on smoking, or, for that matter, just to supplement smoking at times and places when one can't, it's not my business to tell them they should feel bad about it.
While I vaped Blu, for about a year, I would often buy a pack of smokes whenever I felt the need for something more. Since I got my Kgo, I have never felt the need for "something more". No more tobacco for me!
I have to admit, I've been vaping for about 3 weeks so far, and I haven't completely broke away from analogs. I'm a 50 cig/day smoker, and I blame it on 2 things: I"m using a kanger; and v2 only has 18mg nicotine as it's strongest carts. I'm primarily vaping, but when things get stressful, I'm back to logs for a day or so. I'm leaning towards a kgo w/a tank atomizer, once I've used up most of my carts.
I don't consider it "cheating" and I don't feel one bit bad and it's not a struggle, it's fun and tasty too.
In fact, I feel pretty damn good that I've gone from about 50 RYO smokes per day (37-year habit) to just one or two daily in two months of vaping.
This is HUGE for me in terms of harm reduction! I'm a hard-core addict; cigarettes taste horrible to me now but I still smoke the occasional one because I'm an addict. With or without vaping/smoking nicotine, I'm an addict and always will be and I'm OK with that now that I've cut down the smoking part drastically.
I'm really proud of myself for avoiding about 48 cigarettes a day, and I think that everyone who has managed to cut down by vaping should be proud of themselves too.
In fact, I feel pretty damn good that I've gone from about 50 RYO smokes per day (37-year habit) to just one or two daily in two months of vaping.
This is HUGE for me in terms of harm reduction! I'm a hard-core addict; cigarettes taste horrible to me now but I still smoke the occasional one because I'm an addict. With or without vaping/smoking nicotine, I'm an addict and always will be and I'm OK with that now that I've cut down the smoking part drastically.I'm really proud of myself for avoiding about 48 cigarettes a day, and I think that everyone who has managed to cut down by vaping should be proud of themselves too.
I think the hardest part for me during the switch (I did it cold turkey) wasn't that the e-cig wasn't giving me the satisfaction I was looking for, but that I had to get my brain to switch from "I need a cigarette" to "I need my e-cig". I knew consciously that the e-cig had what I wanted, but it took my subconscious a week or two to realize that the e-cig was my new cig.
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