Who is still smoking that analog in the morning and can't break the habit (me for 1)

[beecee]

Congrats Liz! Keep up the good work and welcome to the forums.

As for me, not doing the morning smoke is hard! However, I'm almost out of cigs that I've been carrying since I quit. Had a couple of packs, gave a few smokes away to visitors so I've smoked a few since I quit.

It'll pass! And I can't wait till it does

I bet my Chuck will rid me of any leftover want for a smoke.

 

[AmyB66]

I've been vaping for almost three weeks now. Half way through I made it to one analog in the morning. It's been a really stressed out week and I am back up to two in the morning and one at night. I even got a different brand of smokes in hopes of kicking it.
No such luck yet.

Trying not to beat myself up much, I was at just under a pack a day forever, so even at two, I figure it's a start. I've got 26 years of having a smoke in the morning, heck, about 28 years of smoking.

What I like about ''the vaping program'' is unlike quitting, you are not set up for failure like you are when you quit cold turkey or did the nic gum. When you caved going that route, you basically were at square one all over again and had to gear yourself up to quit yet again. vaping is allowing me to slowly change my habits without feeling like I am failing.

I did have to switch my juice, was vaping the atomic fireball which I think just killed my mouth for more milder flavors, couldn't taste them. I am going back to my halo menthol today and my goal before this month is over is to be at only one analog in the morning.

By June I hope to be done. This is the tail end of winter, alot easier to get the blues and blahs so I am going with the baby steps. The way I look at it is that I am at about a pack a week, not five or six packs....

My husband is still at the fifty fifty mark and he smokes more than me but hey, any improvement is encouraging.

 

[martha1014]

IMO it will just takes time. I have been vaping for 10 months and for the first few months I would smoke 1 cigarette at night. The more and longer you vape cigarettes starts to taste really bad. Eventually everytime I would lite up a cigarette I would start coughing and would put it out after a couple of drags. Then eventually everytime I thought about smoking a cigarette I would get this sickening feeling. A negative response to something and you will not want to do it.

 

[Johnny5]

You just gotta say No for the morning smoke. Trust me it will work. You just have to have the will power. I smoked Marlboro Reds for 24 years and last Friday I said no I'm not smoking any more. I still have the pack I opened last Thursday morning right next to me and don't even have a itch to have one.

I also want to say I just got me EGO on Wednesday and all I have to say is wow what a ecig and today my order for Atomic Fireball came and again I say wow. This is some awesome stuff.

This week can't get any better

 

[Kilroy]

First thing in the morning and after meals were the toughest for me. Pack up a 510 with a juice that gives good throat hit. It really helps. If you gotta have the real thing, have it. I was smoking 40 a day. One would have been a vast improvement. Thankfully, now its none.

 

[sixstring]

I've been at this off and on (mostly off due to my father's extended illness and final peaceful passing) since October of '08. I'm back on e-cigs (mostly) now with the help of a really good device (the tornado/ego) and little will power.

I still can't kick the morning analog though. Don't mean to be gross here, but I'm sure some you "vets" can relate to the "gotta have it for the good healthy dump in the morning" thing. Also the after eating analog - kinda gets rid of any lingering bad-ish food taste left over.

Don't flame - just sayin'...

 

[JEFFM]

Try direct dripping a couple drops in the morning. Thats what Ive done and it helps plenty. Strong vapor, stronger flavor. You might like it.

 

[justsomeguy]

One thing you might want to try is the old "wait 5 minutes" mind game that people try when they're quitting ... but with vaping instead.

What I mean is, reach for the PV as soon as you feel the urge to have that analog... and give yourself 5 minutes of serious vaping before you let yourself light one up.

Hopefully the vaping will help take the urge down, and you'll decide at the end of the 5 minutes that it isn't worth it...

Either way - everyone is right - look at how much you're NOT smoking.
That is definitely something to be applauded.
Seriously.

 

[bogeyjim]

Not sure if this is off topic, but the one I cant kick is the after dinner smoke. I smoke one cig a day, and thats after dinner.

Funny, I dont want the morning smoke anymore. I kind of crave the strong morning TH that some good juice gives you......

Id do what Jeff said and drip in the morning. You get a serious throat hit and it hits the spot. For me at least!

Now if I can get rid of the after dinner smoke, I'd be good to go!

Jim

 

[Tilly]

I smoked the first one of the morning with my coffee for months. Hub was buying me a pack every couple of weeks...I'd leave them in the kitchen....pour a cup, grab a cig and go check the news and weather. About 3 weeks ago I told myself I would not open the next pack and I didn't but I left them in the same place....it was actually easier than I thought it would be.

 

[Kilroy]

Congrats Tilly. The day comes, and only you know when that day is.

 

[JuniorNA]

I've been at this off and on (mostly off due to my father's extended illness and final peaceful passing) since October of '08. I'm back on e-cigs (mostly) now with the help of a really good device (the tornado/ego) and little will power.

I still can't kick the morning analog though. Don't mean to be gross here, but I'm sure some you "vets" can relate to the "gotta have it for the good healthy dump in the morning" thing. Also the after eating analog - kinda gets rid of any lingering bad-ish food taste left over.

Don't flame - just sayin'...

Dude, you F'ing read my mind. To be honest, the morning analog is directly related to a lot of things. Some people relate it to coffee, tea, morning tv, reading the paper, on the internet...but with some people that have a certain "trained bowel movement" LOL, the analog in the morning helps get all the pipes moving. I know that sounds nasty and is very distasteful to say outloud, lol, but who cares, we're amongst friends. I need the analog in the morning for the morning Dump, ha. Hopefully i'll be able to get some VAPE in there for the morning dump instead of horrible analogs. But like you guys said, one day at a time, no rush. i'm saving money already by smoking 5 instead of 40, so i'm already winning the race, which is not really a race at all, its just maintaining a good mindset and staying strong and knowing that the PV is just as good, if not better than an analog. Again, i'm not trying to quit, but i'm trying to enjoy full time vaping to save money and not have health problems in the future (with the other 3,999 bad chemicals), not the nicotine, lol. (even though thats bad too, but thats another debate, another place )

 

[daveshoot]

I am still smoking the one in the morning, usually one at lunch, and one or two in the evening.

I prefer to focus on the 17+ I am NOT smoking. Frankly, the lunch and evening ones are just nods to the old habit, and I will probably get past them. They don't taste as good as vaping. Some days I just have "bad vape" days with carts running low early, batteries dying, or yucky flavors, but I am ironing those days out. They make the extra analogs hard to resist.

But that first morning ciggie will be the hardest to kick, and I am not going to let it bother me... one a day would be a hell of a step.

 

[BARENETTED]

Eventually and hopefully, most of you will be able to get rid of the 'ONE'.

Question - if you didn't have them on hand - would you run out to buy a pack - just for one???

 

[bogeyjim]

Problem is, my wife didnt want to vape so she is still buying cigs. She smokes less than 1/2 a pack a day, but theres always cigs here. So thats why i smoke one after dinner.

If they werent in the house, i wouldnt smoke any

 

[starchelle]

I still have trouble with the morning analog, the after meals analogs, and the before bed analogs....

 

[Valhalla1]

You just gotta say No for the morning smoke. Trust me it will work. You just have to have the will power.

I agree, I think you need to just really cross that bridge in your head and decide that you've smoked your last and you are just going to continue vaping instead.
I missed the first cig in the morning simply for the head buzz it gave me, but I only missed that the first week or so. Then I realized I was much better off without shocking my system with toxic chemicals and choking my brain of oxygen within minutes of waking up every day, and my mornings now start out more pleasantly and without a lingering sense of grogginess like I was used to.

 

[Switched]

I now what you mean.

I have been vaping for 11 days now. A little easier transition than I thought. Smoked for 40 years, I consider this a break through. From 1 pack a day down to 5 or 6. I fell of the wagon waiting for supplies, ran out of carts, snow storm delayed delivery. When they arrived I had an orgasm. That night went to the garage for my after dinner cig. Took 2 drags and put it out.

The morning cig is the tough one but I know that as soon as my 510 gets here with cappucino juice, I will be enjoying that in the morning.

I was also a premium cigar smoker and enjoyed my Cubans. I have some Cuban cigar juice coming as well for after dinner. Down the road I know I will be enjoying some good flavours, blackberry comes to mind

Does anyone remember what good tobacco tasted like? Before all the BS they put in cigs now. I remember those days, I enjoyed the flavour, that's what got me addicted to smoking more than the nicotine. Now we do it out of habit more than anything else because I sure hate the taste of analogs.

Many folks say that far too many folks vape tobacco flavours etc... in the beginning and to go to flavours and the transition is a whole new experience. The best way I quit a couple of years ago was lazer therapy, no cravings and they killed the refirgerator as well. I did good! Until on a morning commute where I wanted to eat the steering wheel. That commute was usually 6 sticks. The worst facet of quiting is getting rid of the psycological triggers, which like and alcoholic you never rid yourself of.

A rememebr a few years back at the cottage for a long WE, when I enjoyed a good Havana after supper. One of our guest decided he wanted to walk supper off. ON the Monday he admitted that although he hadn't smoked for 18 years, he wanted to rip that cigar out of my hands and eat it, and this from someone who smoked cheap cigars.

The long and short, he hasn't smoked for 32 years. To this day he states he never quit smoking, he just doesn't smoke anymore.

 

[trailblazer6]

Direct dripping worked for me for my need to have the first AM analog. It was that after dinner one that seemed to linger. Right from the very first moment I try ed vaping I could see the benefit for me. Smoked around 50 analogs a day be for. As soon as I started vaping that amount went to less then ten a day. Then 2 -3 a day. Now, Going into day 3 with 0 analogs. Yes you got to want to quit the analogs. But if you do have one. Don't dwell on it. Don't look at it as a failer. Sorry, I'm going to be alittle redundant here.Think about all the ones you didn't have.

 

[stormlover]

Does anyone remember what good tobacco tasted like? Before all the BS they put in cigs now. I remember those days, I enjoyed the flavour, that's what got me addicted to smoking more than the nicotine.

OH BABY! YES! I'm smoking RYO (roll your own) and definitely know what you're talking about with the good old fashioned tobacco flavor. I think that's playing a part in my not being able to kick the analog habit.

I still have trouble with the morning analog, the after meals analogs, and the before bed analogs....

I know what you mean. I've been vaping for a bit over two weeks now, but I still smoke the analogs.

I'm considering this a process and not making a competition out of it. I vape most of the day at work because I don't like freezing outside. However, I found I missed the comraderie of talking with the smokers too much, so I would smoke one at breaks with them. Vaping doesn't seem to be as satisfying during those breaks.

But it's a personal process and I've successfully conviced myself to stop making it a contest. I look for my own successes and don't worry about what other people have done (like stop smoking the analogs on their first vape).

My blessings? I no longer worry about the boss catching me sneaking a cigarette between breaks (like he caught my buddies yesterday) and having to sit through the dreaded meetings about how we're lucky to even get breaks and how we shouldn't be abusing them. I no longer need to smoke two cigarettes in my car on the way to work anymore because that's the last I'll get of them before 10:00. When I eat lunch at my desk, I no longer need to hurry out at 12:50 to make sure I get that last cigarette in before 3:00.

My boss is famous for his 3-hour (plus) long meetings where he drones on and on and on. No one gets a break unless they have to run out to the bathroom really quick. I never knew when I'd get pulled into those meetings and how long it would last, watching the clock and thinking, "I need to smoke, this guy is driving me crazy, how long is he going to go on repeating the same thing over and over, when will this be over, I need to smoke".

I no longer fear those meetings. I can run to the bathroom, vape my brains out, and get back into the meeting room without smelling obviously of smoke.

So if you're still on the analogs, find a way to count your blessings. I thought I'd take up vaping instead of smoking and was looking forward to not having the wheezing, the coughing, the improved lung function, all the things that come from being a non-smoker. The result was that I set myself up for a horrible depression when I just couldn't make the change on that Friday night when I got my first Blucig.

I now consider vaping something I do during work hours and, occassionally, at home. I went from 2 packs a day to less than one pack. My RYO supplier hasn't seen me in a month. I make a carton of cigarettes every 2 weeks instead of every one week.

Find a way to count your blessings instead of trying to compete and feeling like a failure and you'll get there. When it's my time to give up the fags completely, I'll do it. I'm just doing it gently right now because that seems to be my nature.

Wow. Long post. Sorry 'bout that.