When to quit analogs after starting e-cig

[seahawkin]

I quit before. I have quit several times in my life, for long periods and always different methods. A friend who knew me well started seeing me crack around the 3rd month, as normal. He begged me to try ecigs and hubby came home from drinking one night with one and I almost cried when I tried it. Even the crappy gas station ones, for me it was hope. Hubby kept smoking and I had one or 2 here and there, once I got edumacated and found this place no looking back. Hubby still smokes but much less and I keep chasing taste for myself and something for him

 

[Jman8]

Been vaping for 2 years and am now in place where I smoke moderately, and really really enjoy that. Currently in a phase where I smoke a pack a month. Yep, I spend all of $8 on smoking each month. Didn't have that example growing up. Now I'm living it.

Took me a little while to get here given the psychology at work in the vaping community, the smoking community and the anti-nicotine community. In none of those groups will you find many examples of proud smokers, while you'd think smoking community would be the logical place to look. IMO, it is not. vaping community, and a very tiny segment, is place that is least likely to shame smoking or continued choice to use.

Anyway, I understand personal choice to be non-smoker as I've done that for more than 10 years of my adult life.

I just know with vaping, my current preference for nicotine delivery, that it is possible to eliminate abuse and incessant craving for smoking a traditional cigarette. Still have to want to quit and not look back, which vaping won't do. That's up to the person.

 

[kalex]

I stopped analogs and started vaping. had one cigarette when i woke up and switched to vapping. haven't had analog yet (since december 5th)

 

[stumacky]

Having smoked analogs since they were $1.50 a pack to the now $7.50 a pack, it's been easier to put them down just looking at the financial aspect. That said, it did take a week or two to drop down to the occasional analog in a pub or when my batteries dead. The last one I lit, I took two puffs and tossed. The smell alone is reason enough to avoid the analogs.

 

[rico942]

I had the "luxury" of getting the nastiest flu I think I ever had last February. I didn't have a cig for a week- I couldn't. My throat was so swollen and torn up it was the last thing I wanted.

I wonder how many others were "lucky" enough to start vaping during an illness or after an injury, when it was painful or impossible to smoke ?

For me it was dental surgery, so the critical first days afterwards were miserable anyway, and the vaping was the only relief I had ...

Not a good thing to be sick or injured, but if it provides the opportunity to break with tobacco, that's a true silver lining ...

 

[sarradee]

I quit within a couple of days of starting to vape, but I wasn't a heavy smoker to begin with, somewhere around 6 or so a day mostly in the car or in the evening after dinner. I think the only reason I continued to smoke analogs after finding out I could get my nicotine in a delicious fruity flavor was that there were still some left in the pack and the darned things are so expensive...

 

[mitchob123]

As soon as possible

 

[Silent Knight]

I had my last analog cig just minutes before buying an innokin iTaste starter kit. That was 5 weeks ago - haven't had one since. I took away temptation and threw out the remaining cigs I had. I was a 35-year smoker. Vaping has completely satisfied my cravings and kept my mental stability (the wife might argue that point <grin>). I'm breathing much easier, chest doesn't feel heavy and full of smoke...I'm not winded going up a flight of stairs. My sense of smell is even returning - for better/for worse.

 

[BadAssBumbleBee]

I had 4 analog cigarets the first day my kit arrived while I waited for the batteries to charge. By day two I was completely off analogs...........I haven't had one in just over three weeks now

 

[f1vefour]

I had 4 analog cigarets the first day my kit arrived while I waited for the batteries to charge. By day two I was completely off analogs...........I haven't had one in just over three weeks now

You have it whipped now, remember...always have a backup vape

An inexpensive passthrough is a safe backup.

 

[BadAssBumbleBee]

You have it whipped now, remember...always have a backup vape

An inexpensive passthrough is a safe backup.

I'll have a back up once my new gear from Smokeless Image arrives.....just keeping my fingers crossed that everything makes it across the border without any issues.

 

[Yellow Hawk]

As Segani said, I found that after only about a day or two, analogs tasted BAD. I have been smoking 3 packs a day for 40 years, over 60 now. And, I tried e-cig. on advice from grand daughter who wanted grand daddy to live longer. HOW can one say no to that! My son, a current cloud chaser (in to making huge clouds of Vapor for tons of money) went with me, and picked out a Protank 2, and a 1000mah eGo battery and cable/AC adapter, worked GREAT at 18 mg/ml. THOUGH, I still had bad cravings, so I went up to 24 mg/ml, everything was fine, and I stopped COMPLETELY the 2nd day of e-cigging. NO issues. Dropped nic. level down to 12 after about 4 months, and am happy, and helthier, and new wife, is ECSTATIC. She HATES smoke, LOVES e-Cigs. Makes me go around house puffing, to make house smell good..... How goofy..................

 

[jdrewry]

I did it after 3 days and made a point to go for a walk and throw away all my remaining tobacco, filter tips and papers. I figured I could just vape but so long as there was tobacco in the house I'd still have an analog if I really wanted one.

Now when I get the craving for a real ciggie (two or three times a day) I'll just vape like crazy and distract myself here on the forums until the urge goes away (supposedly it's about 5 minutes).

The more I vape, the less I think about smoking so I don't limit myself - puff away all day if it helps you stay off the analogs - you can always cut your nic levels later and you'll know if you've vaped too much since the nicotine will make you nauseous.

Good luck!

Same story here. To the OP: it'll come to you, as far as when you feel you're ready to walk away from those analogs...

 

[dudley]

One technique that can work well if you are intending to stop smoking anologs... Whenever you crave a cigarette vape for a little while first then have your smoke if you still want one. It tends to make the cigarette less appealing when you have it. You might realize that you really aren't missing anything by not smoking. This realization is the hardest thing to convince yourself of when making the transition.

It is a personal journey. Not everyone needs to take the same path. Focus on the positive things and don't feel guilty when you smoke every step towards stopping is a success.

Dudley

 

[fajuvo]

I smoked for 10+ years pack / pack and a half smoker a day, I quit right away. Yes, when I seen someone with one I wanted to ask for one (But I didn't) but if they wasn't around the e cig did the trick without thinking too much about one..

 

[Free6413]

I had three cigs left when I bought my kit. I vowed that those three we're going to be the last. I spent a lot of time with the guy I bought my kit from and he asked how much I smoked on a regular basis......I answered 2+ PPD for 35+ years. His eyes got so big, I felt like I just robbed him. He suggested the 24 mg juice to start off. I took his advice and with that, went home and finished my LAST 3. I haven't had the urge to pick up another one since. Keep after it at your pace and the trade off will be more that you expect. It is like a new life!! It is for me

 

[Free6413]

Choosing the right nicotine level for you juice is important if you really want to quit! I can't say anything more than that.....

 

[Cminto]

It took me about a month of doing both. I think when you find your first flavor you fall in love with you'll be done with the analogs

 

[umarbutt610]

I have been one a half pack a day analog from last 20 years. Started vaping about couple of weeks ago. When I started vaping never quit my analogs. With everyday I noticed I have been doing less with the analogs. From last 4 days have not smoked a single analog and doing perfectly fine. Rather even tried once five days ago and it tasted so bitter and bad. I think that anyone who starts vaping just start it and have fun and do not think of quitting analogs and with the passage of time you will do it automatically.

 

[Silent Knight]

As Segani said, I found that after only about a day or two, analogs tasted BAD. I have been smoking 3 packs a day for 40 years, over 60 now. And, I tried e-cig. on advice from grand daughter who wanted grand daddy to live longer. HOW can one say no to that! My son, a current cloud chaser (in to making huge clouds of Vapor for tons of money) went with me, and picked out a Protank 2, and a 1000mah eGo battery and cable/AC adapter, worked GREAT at 18 mg/ml. THOUGH, I still had bad cravings, so I went up to 24 mg/ml, everything was fine, and I stopped COMPLETELY the 2nd day of e-cigging. NO issues. Dropped nic. level down to 12 after about 4 months, and am happy, and helthier, and new wife, is ECSTATIC. She HATES smoke, LOVES e-Cigs. Makes me go around house puffing, to make house smell good..... How goofy..................

That's just...awesome.

3 packs a day for 40 years - WHEW!

Until I started vaping recently, I was only a half-pack smoker for 35 years. I can't imagine how I'd feel now if I was at your cig amounts.

Congrats on a successful transition.