Thanks for all the advice. I've bumped up the nic to 9-12mg and with a dropper its doing the job. Only had one stinky today. Feeling pretty proud of myself.
why cant i kick analogs?
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It's not really right to put the responsibility on them. Somebody asked me to do that and it kinda felt like a burden.
Coalyard had some good advice. Meanwhile, keep trying, I'm sure you will get there
you'll be completely off the nastalogs before you know it! 
Once when my father had quit smoking, he tried to bum one off me. I told him I didn't feel right, giving him a cigarette in what might be a weak moment. He thought about it for a minute, then agreed, it was just a weak moment, and thanked me for looking out for him. He ended up going back to smoking anyway, but, considering that he ended up dying of lung cancer, I'm glad I didn't "enable" him to do it. I just wish there had been e-cigs then; he might still be with us.
Andria
That's awesome! I know when I got down to 1 or 2 a day, I was amazed that it was possible to do that, without climbing the walls. Once you get down that low, your sense of smell will start inching its way back, and pretty soon, cigarette smoke will smell like burning tar to you, which serves as further motivation not to smoke them yourself! After just a bit over a month smoke-free, now when I smell cigarette smoke, I'm completely icked out by it, it just smells terrible, and certainly not tempting; I can't believe I walked around smelling like that for 39 yrs.
vape on!!
Andria
Don't smoke the brand you like switch to one you don't. If you're just bumming smokes pay them a dollar for each one, that will add up fast! I had to pay mind games with myself. I would allow myself a morning smoke then set my phone timer, I started at 4 hours and added 30 minutes every day at first 4 hours was terrible but by the time I got to 6 and half hours I found myself just resetting the timer and skipping it or lighting a smoke and putting it back out. Some days I couldn't make it the whole time but just reset my timer and didn't beat myself up over it. On my rough days I would take a puff of the cig and really think about the taste how it felt to inhale and smoke production then take a vape and compare it to the drag off the cig... each passing day the e-cig was more and more better when compared. I put a vape app on my phone that counted how many cigs I did without and even though I was still smoking a couple a day the amount I wasn't smoking was staggering!
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I had similar issues years ago with quitting cigs with smokeless tobacco years ago (which I found effective, but this time around I'm interested in vaping as a quit strategy). In dual use with cigs, cigs always win, most of the time, and you end up smoking cigs whenever convenient.
Awesome!!!! 1 away from perfection!! What you are smoking is now 66% less than you were just a couple of days ago! Think you can do it now? I know you can!
First congrats on getting down to 3 a day. I'd say upping your mg strength should help. I've just switched to 6mg and I've been vaping for 3yrs. Try lots of juices. If you have a decent vape shop they should let you try a lot of flavors for free. Try cutting the 3 cigs down to 2 for a couple weeks. Then down to 1 for a couple weeks or hell even a month. This isn't a race. Take it at your own pace.
38 yrs pad+. This time I wanted to quit for good. I had 1.5 packs left when I got my starter kit and juice in the mail. I stopped smoking on the spot. The cravings drove me absolutely nuts, literally. I must have looked like an idiot yelling at and dressing down a pack of cigs in my living room ( good thing I'm single and got away with it or I'd be somewhere else ... 'safe' ). I put the full one in a blender and frappe'd away laughing like a lunatic at it. I won. Came back down to Earth. I still have the opened pack on my desk reminding me. Every morning I taunt it with the word "blender". It cowers at the mere utterance of the word after witnessing its buddies being fed to the lions. Victory thru vengeance.
OP - Point is, get mad at them, not you. Its not your fault. Certainly you can get even at 3 of them. I'm sure you can think of something. Remember to laugh an evil laugh.
OP - Point is, get mad at them, not you. Its not your fault. Certainly you can get even at 3 of them. I'm sure you can think of something. Remember to laugh an evil laugh.
6mg is too low for an honest to goodness analog smoker.........
I was smoking for 30 years, a pack a day at least........... I
nothing worked......not nicorettes, not the patch, and those pills? ...almost committed suicide!
with vaping, I started at 18mg....... almost cold turkey...... you aren't getting enough nicotine I think.....
it took me about a month to decide to go to 12mg........ and now i'm thinking about 6mg, but not gonna be soon,
DO NOT DO IT TOO SOON....... take your time reducing...... but crap man, you don't quit smoking at 6mg
that's all I think the problem is......
take care, good luck,
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I did. 18mg and 12mg made me SICK AS A DOG. I smoked for 39 years. Not EVERYONE needs to start with huge whopping doses of nicotine, which can make you sick enough to give up on the idea totally.
Andria
I too have been pretty awful at the whole kicking tobacco thing.
If I ever feel crappy about it, I try to remember that I used to smoke about 30 cigs a day for 10 years, and now I probably only smoke a couple a day for the last few months. That's huge right there.
My biggest reasons for not being able to stop smoking are:
1 - The flippin thing CAN NOT leak in my pocket while I'm at work.
2 - I don't have the time/interest to be fiddling with the device during the day or taking hours to set it up at home.
3 - Battery life and/or charging needs to be a non-issue.
4 - It has to unquestionably satisfy me so that I can move on with my life and focus on getting s*** done.
Still haven't found a device and juice that can do ALL of these for me.
Hence, tobacco.
If I ever feel crappy about it, I try to remember that I used to smoke about 30 cigs a day for 10 years, and now I probably only smoke a couple a day for the last few months. That's huge right there.
My biggest reasons for not being able to stop smoking are:
1 - The flippin thing CAN NOT leak in my pocket while I'm at work.
2 - I don't have the time/interest to be fiddling with the device during the day or taking hours to set it up at home.
3 - Battery life and/or charging needs to be a non-issue.
4 - It has to unquestionably satisfy me so that I can move on with my life and focus on getting s*** done.
Still haven't found a device and juice that can do ALL of these for me.
Hence, tobacco.
No offense, but terrible advice. I've gotten several people off cigarettes and they could only handle 6mg-12mg.
I was over-nic -ed when I started here at 18mg. Anxious, nervous, could not put the cigs down.
Dropped my nic and was vaping full time and no cigs.
Disservice to tell people this myth, because you do not know their metabolism, only your own.
If you are having a tough time quitting check this thread out. You may want to try some WTA (Whole Tobacco Alkaloids) juice.
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...997-missing-urge-pleasure-something-else.html
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...997-missing-urge-pleasure-something-else.html
1 get a good tank. I'm currently using the Kanger t3d absolutely no leaking
2 a good tank and battery takes about 10 seconds to set up
3 get a vv device with a mah rating 1000mah or better and 1 spare battery you will have power all day
4 find the right level nic fine tune your vapor density with your vv device find a delicious flavor
5 ????
6 profit
Exactly. And with my own personal PHOBIA! about nausea/vomiting, those high levels nearly convinced me that I just couldn't do e-cigs. Fortunately I gave it one more try, with 6mg, and that did the trick.
Once I had actually quit the cigs, I discovered that I really need a little more, 8mg for a while, now trying out 9mg. But you can't usually get those levels pre-made, you have to do it yourself. If I hadn't stuck it out with the 6mg long enough to know I really could do this, I wouldn't have been around long enough to figure out that I actually need a little more than 6mg in the daytime, and long enough to purchase a lot of 6mg and a little of 24mg to raise the nic level a little.
Anything that causes nausea/vomiting (like nicotine OD!!!), COUNT ME OUT!!! Geez, I was a raging alcoholic and quit drinking when it was going to mean worshipping the porcelain goddess every day. If I never have to do that again, that will be just fine with me.
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