What method(s) worked for you?

[Betterbait]

Hello everyone. I recently started vaping about a week and a half ago. Within the first 2 days I cut back from 2 paks to 1 pack a day but seem to be stuck here. I have tried different methods to cut back more, but not having any luck. What did work so far is cutting out smoking in the car and don't even want to anymore. My wife smokes and I cant get her to even try an e-cig, never-mind get her to quit. I started out with a locally sold e-cig but just the past Friday, I received my new Ego and at first it seemed better but that novelty wore off. I havent tried the e-liquids yet but expect them to arrive in the next day or so.

Any helpful tips or methods to finally quit? I know I need to want to but to tell you the truth I didnt want to quit before the ecig, but it was so successful the first few days that now I am hell bent on it. I cant wait to surprise my family when we are out together and don't smoke anymore. I am the only member of my family that ever even started smoking.

I look forward to the replys and will give everything a try

thanks

 

[Shotline]

Hmm, not sure I can help much as within a week I went from a pack a day to none. I guess for me it was hitting the ecig anytime I had a craving. When I sit at my computer I am almost chain vaping (i really need to get a passthrough, lol) and that helps.

I wouldn't "try" to quit. Just use the ecig and it should take care of itself. Do you smoke with your wife? That could be a problem. Even with the ecig I would go outside with my wife and smoke with her out of habit and to be with her. Now, I take the ecig outside with me.

Also, it sounds like you are using carts. If so, try dripping. I found carts to be a big hassle and even carto's are not much better. Dripping is easy and convenient and I am finding that two drops gives me as much vaping time as an analog.

Good luck

 

[usamare]

I used the mentality of, "I'm not quitting anything, I'm switching to this". Historically I had switched cigarette brands many times, and it always took about a week to get full satisfaction out of the new brand. As mentioned above, whenever you get a craving to light up, you break out your new brand and puff away until the craving subsides.

For me there were certainly some serious cravings to light up, but every time I got past one, the next one was just little bit weaker, and that encouraged me to keep it up.

After a few days, people smoking around me didn't bother me at all. I quickly realized that THEY were the ones who were missing out.

However you get there, keep smilin!

 

[Slea]

I never pressured myself. I took me a year. Either you want to, or you don't yet. Just keep puffing away on that ecig.

 

[cy1970]

I managed to cut down the number of cigarette per day by delay the time of each cigarette.. the first 3days was like hell and subsequently I get rid of the nicotine addiction...

coming to 2 weeks without cigarettes

 

[rosesense]

Hang in there and you will get there. I just fought through the cravings and hit the pv hard the first few days. It then got easier for me. We are all different though.

I'll send you a drip tip to try on your Ego, if you want. Shoot me your address in a pm and I will get it in the mail.

 

[grndzero]

I agree. I never set out with vaping intending to quit smoking completely. I looked at it as a possible alternative. I was actually tired of smoking but realistically knew that I wasn't going to quit without some sort of help. What I did was try many different flavors until I found one that I liked more than my cigarette when doing both side by side then slowly replaced analogs with vaping. It took me about a week and a half to fully get off analogs and I went through withdrawal from all the other chemicals in them, but I got over it after a few days. It took some will power but my e-cig tastes so much better to me than a cig ever would. I got some crap, especially from my boss when we would go on smoke breaks 4-6 times a day. But Chantix failed him and I haven't had a analog in almost 5 months. I personally can't go back to analogs, I took a puff a week after I totally quit and the after taste was so totally repulsive that I can't even vape tobacco flavors without getting queezy.

Here's some points that I have found out through my process and what I use to assess someone that wants me to get them started.

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/quitting/100101-revelations-quitting-smoking.html

 

[markfm]

What nicotine strength are you using? When I bumped up the strength a notch, that worked for me.

Also, I'll vape more often than I smoked, though for shorter periods of time.

 

[grndzero]

Nic level can be important. It may be prudent to bump your nicotine level up as a way to cut down on the analogs. I rolled my own cigarettes for years, most of the time it was light tobacco in a light filter, so it was very low everything. I started vaping at 10-12mg with no problem, then went down to 5 or 6 for a few months. It's not about the nicotine for me, it's about the habit. I am using mods more lately than the pen style that I started with. I was sucking on pen styles constantly. I have bumped my nicotine level back up to 10mg so I can hit my mods and put it down for at least a few minutes to try to break the habit and routine part of the addiction.

Conversely I have a friend that I hooked up with a Copper 6V mod. When he smokes, he smokes 3 packs a day. I started him out on 36mg and it was too much for him, so I dropped it to 24mg. If he hits that he will put it down for 20-30 minutes. He doesn't always use it consistently, but when he does he doesn't even smoke 1/4 a pack a day. It's all about the nicotine intake for him.

 

[rusty shackleford]

I just graduated to "no nic" juice. Been on it for a week or so...no problem! I make my own juice using cherry vodka and Glycerin! I mix it about 60% gly and 40 vodka...it burns great, loads of vape and a pleasent flavor...I'm using a Mr puffer v1....the vodka/gly mix seems to be cleaning up my atty's...maybe not but I seem to detect it's burning off the residue left by the nic juice...it really seems to be cleaning up the atties just by burning this no nic homade mix...I'm very satisfied and I'm closer than ever to quitting vaping....it's gonna be weird not having the smoke/vape "crutch".....

 

[HeatherC]

I really think quitting is a very personal thing. I wanted to because I had pleurisy which smoking 2 and a half to 3 packs a day was definitely NOT helping. So when I learned about these I bought a kit and have not smoked a single analog since. OTOH My husband had no desire to quit...even says he still kinda misses analogs...But a week after I got mine he said he'd try it out...Three days later HE got rid of all the ashtrays in the house and GAVE AWAY the carton of cigs he'd just bought. I think you just have to be at a place where it's something you really want to do...or need to do. IMO it also helps to find a nice flavor that you really really like and level of nicotine that does it for you. You didn't say how much nicotine was in the juice you're using but I started (51 days ago) with 36mg nicotine 3 weeks into it the 36mg started giving me a headache so I dropped to 24....today I started using 18mg again cuz I started getting a headache.
My advice would be to take it slow and easy. Don't expect yourself to go from even a pack a day to 0 nicotine. Both my GP and a psychologist I see regularly have told me that this is a very good thing EVEN at the 36 mg nicotine. So don't expect instant miracles is my advice.