I think there are as many ways to vaporize as there are to smoke. It's an amazingly personal thing isn't it? Some people take little hits and draw them deeply into their lungs, other people treat their PV's like oxygen delivery systems.
I have always been heavy smoke, light inhale. I know, I know I must have smelled so bad when I was a smoker, but I just love smoke.
Making the transition to vaporizing has been challenging on so many levels.
First, because I had really unrealistic expectations:
I thought that it was going to be just like a cigarette. I didn't anticipate a learning curve. Even after reading and reading this very forum I would get to the parts about how to inhale, how to drag, and encouragement about taking it slow, allowing myself to learn something new and think "yeah, yeah" and move right past it...
Vaporizing really is something entirely different. I am totally amazed by how much better I like it. There were a few moments after Q day (the day I said "no more analog cigarettes") where I really flooded my atomizer, or ran out of liquid, and freaked out and reached for tobacco. These moments left me baffled, and angry, sometimes in tears. I didn't like it. It smelled terrible, tasted terrible, hurt my throat and chest. Those were really lonely and terrible moments. I'm so glad this forum is here.
Second, because I didn't expect to go through withdrawl:
Strange as this sounds, and despite the high level of nicotine in my liquid, I have gone through withdrawl.
My skin looks noticeably different -- people I don't know very well have all made comments -- I have coughed up a heap of junk -- thankfully that seems to be settling down a lot now after a couple months.
I can smell everything. I think this is actually a bad thing. I had no idea so many people had such bad breath. I've taken to carrying mints around with me and offering them to people.
My chest and skin feel all tingly. It was pretty freaky at first, but it's begun to subside now. I was told it was blood flow, and the little hairs in my lungs coming back to life.
I have been a lot more emotional.
Not the quick tempered creep who has tried to quit smoking so many times before, no. Not that person. But tears, and laughter. Lots of feelings. I feel much less together, and a lot less cool now.
Honestly, I have experienced all of these symptoms before when attempting to give up cigarettes. Typically these are the feelings that have driven me back to smoking. Vaporizing is amazing. I am so amazed. I am getting through all of the physical issues, and moving past the emotional ones with a Joye 510 between my lips, plumes of vapor in the air, and while I am not "quitting" anything, I have replaced smelly, awful, choking cigarettes with steaming hot streams of delicious mist.
The main thing:
Take it easy. Really. Take a long walk. Take a hot bath. Open the windows. This is vaporizing, it is not smoking. There's a lot to learn, and it's a wonderful and exciting thing.
Going slow is a new and difficult concept for me too. I am sucking down my batteries in half an hour, and running through liquid like there's no tomorrow. SMoking and Vaporizing are such emotionally charged and personal experiences that there's no one right way. But definitely breathing in a little air, and taking it easy will only help things.
So go slow if you can, even though it's exciting and you want to go fast. Just take a long, deep draw off your PV and sit back... It's gonna be ok.
