With all due respect..........

[MikeZ28]

I think it's more that just nicotine addiction for many people too, a psychological/behavioral addiction also. For instance, I work a 12 hour shift and can't smoke at work. Time to smoke two on the way though so everyday, get in the truck and light up whether I wanted one then or not. Then it became every time I got in the truck on the way to work or not. Just an automatic habit. It's been 10 days off em now but I still reach for em. Thankfully I have my vape in their place.

Another thing to consider is that some people are more resistant to change than others. Quitting cigs is a major life change that takes time to adjust to, especially for folks that have probably spent more years smoking in their lives than not. vaping is as close to smoking as you can get but it's not exactly the same. It does leave a small scratch un-itched for for some.

 

[Moodyfisherman]

My ex-wife of 10 years is my roomate with her boyfriend.....that should give anyone a reason to keep smoking....they give me crap about my vaping.....that just gives me more reason to keep vaping....every time they don't have money for cigs I laugh at them and tell them how much money I have saved not smoking....some vape mail arrives..(spending money again?) they say....I say I am still money ahead
Do I want a cig...hell yes
Do they smell like crap....hell yes
Do I miss the 1000 chemical high...hell yes

Do I enjoy Vaping...........HELL YES to the 10th degree...not like smoking but one hell of fun ride beating the death sticks

 

[BillyWJ]

Everyone has their own triggers. I've actually heard more people say that their morning coffee or some alcohol is a stronger trigger than stress...

This, this, THIS.

The hardest cigarette to give up was the first one with coffee in the morning - it's pure habit of more years than I want to admit, and it just tasted good. I've broken that habit, but only with vaping - coffee and gum didn't do it, coffee and the patch didn't do it, but coffee and a couple of hits off my Kanger - works.

Habits are the biggest triggers. One is being in the car, I posted about that last week, and someone posted that was a hard trigger to avoid -and they were right.

 

[Mrs C]

First post this thread

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...ly-bad-day-but-so-far-i-have-not-strayed.html

Does that make it easier to understand ...

 

[omyeyes]

For those of you that did not get the point I was trying to make, I'll try again. I smoked for 47 years and I have tried quitting with patches, Chantix (twice), hypnosis, gum and all the other assorted junk. At that time I had the attitude that one more won't hurt and that started the chain reaction all over again.

When I started vaping, it was a whole different thing. It tasted great to me and more importantly I was nic satisfied. So, if it tastes great and you still get your nic fix, why go back to the old stinkies? I only tried it (in those 1st 2 months) to remind myself of how bad it was which only cemented the vaping thing even more. At this point, if I was stressed for some reason and all 14 batteries were dead, I would still not go back to smoking. How many people in this forum have you seen say that "vaping is awful" and that "they would rather have the stinkies?" Not many.......get my point??? Duh!

I feel bad for those who do still crave smokes but just hang in there. Don't let those stinky sticks have control over you. They were your friend once but not anymore. Besides, the health benefits are wonderful when you give it a chance.

 

[DenimFreak1993]

If anything i'm so used to the nicotine and the different flavors that real cigs don't affect me anymore lol. I.E being tired or dizzy.

 

[jffvera]

I work in institutional finance, I don't work at Goldman and never worked with mortgage backed securities, so please don't hate me. But it can be exceptionally frustrating and stressful job. The start of the 4th quarter is always the worst time of year, everyone jammming to get everything done so they can sail through December doing as little work as humanly possible. My smoking was getting out of control around the end of September and I was at full on chimney status by the middle of October. My chick got me an ego twist type setup on 10/27, which just happens to be the last day I had a cigarette. There's no way I could have quit without it. But not only was I able to stop I didn't get any of the intense hunger or grumpiness that I had previously experienced when using gum or the patch. The best part is I am no longer grinding my teeth in my sleep, which I had a serious problem with when I had quit cold turkey this summer.

 

[Mark Anthony]

Thank you..... No. I don't have the need to try one because I know from the stories here how disgusting they are. Almost 68 days in for me and I have never looked back. Congrats to you though for finding out on your own.

 

[hvac999]

I still find the smell of second hand smoke appealing. I just vape much more when I get the craving due to some situation or after smelling cigarette smoke.

 

[kronos01]

I smoked for 45 years. 142 days ago I stopped and began to vape. Haven't looked back.

Still crave a cigarette, particularly with coffee in the morning. But a few strong vapes with nic liquid kills off that craving. Tried a smoke a week ago and tasted like crap. Hate the smell and hate the taste.

Only thing now is to wean myself off the nic.

 

[SnowDog]

I've been fortunate enough not to have encountered any of those high stress situations that might make me want to smoke again. Yet.

Things have been pretty laid back for me since I started vaping about 6 months ago. I've been very happy with pretty much everything in my life. Nothing has gotten me depressed and nothing has stressed me out too much. I've been lucky. I'm not quite sure what I will do when the inevitable high stress situation presents itself. If it was bad enough I wouldn't be surprised if I lit up a Marlboro. I don't crave one at all but if something happens in my life that would make smoking again seem like the least of my problems, I would probably do it. I don't know how to explain why but I probably would. I know this because I have quit smoking several times before. The longest was 5 years and I did that twice. I always started back up again for various reasons.

In the meantime I know better than to take even one puff from an analog cigarette. If I do that I might not buy a pack that same day but for me, that one puff will eventually have me down at the gas station buying cigarettes.

 

[Notorious C.I.G.]

I agree with OP. After a week of vaping, I tried a cig again a few times just to see if I was really missing something, but I don't find them to be refreshing like vape, they made me feel a little crappy. The first week I had the most cravings. I associate cig smoke with suffocation in my mind now, a little extreme haha, but it works. It's been a few weeks since a cig, although I have recurring dreams where people offer me one and I eagerly take one, BUT I have started to vape in my dreams as of this week lol, so I am getting over that. I won't lie, I may accept a cig again one day while drunk, but I know I don't want to go back to full time cig smoking, just not worth it. If I really need to actually smoke something, I may on rare occasion smoke some herbs in a cigar wrap, but otherwise I am content with my vapor.

 

[ConradM]

I've been smoke free for 9 days. I had my last cig the day after picking up my e-cig. I agree with the OP, I have no idea how someone could go back to smoking. Mind you, I was a pack a day smoker that turned into a full on rage monster if I went longer than a few hours without a smoke.

For me the key was having enough nic and juice that didn't taste like crap. I found juice that I liked last saturday and haven't looked back. Vaping gives me all of the sensation of smoking AND it tastes 100x better. Not to mention the obvious health benefits.

 

[Huckleberried]

I'm so sorry DetraMental. I know that pain. Bless you.

 

[Ls1TransAM_850]

smoking for me was a way to take a break at work or pass time in the car. at home i would maybe smoke 3-5 cigs a day. on the other hand when i was deployed to sea i would go through a pack and a half a day. it was a social thing/ something to kill time. now that there is a few more people on my ship that vape i havent even wanted to get anywhere near a cig

 

[Burnie]

In the meantime I know better than to take even one puff from an analog cigarette. If I do that I might not buy a pack that same day but for me, that one puff will eventually have me down at the gas station buying cigarettes.

To me that is it also, NEVER want to put one to my lips as I don't know if I would like it again. Smoked for 40 years and it was my friend, now vaping is my friend, I'll stick to vaping.

Vape On

 

[UncLeJunkLe]

I'm just not getting why people are saying that "they get so stressed that they actually want to smoke again."

We are all different. Addictions are very complex and vary from one person to another.

My biggest problem with quitting analogs over ecigs is that my addiction to smoking is more physical than chemical Ecigs (cigalikes) weigh more than a cig, they feel nothing like a cig in your lips or in your hands, they are impossible to dangle from your lips as they are too heavy so you have to use your teeth to keep them in your mouth, and the drag is nothing like a cig, more like a pipe.

 

[BillyWJ]

I had a small cig craving last night. So I tried something I've never tried before, but read about here - lung hits.

Oh.

Wow.

Nic fit OVER.

I can't do them all the time, but man...talk about cravings satisfied!

 

[freeatlast!]

We are all different. Addictions are very complex and vary from one person to another.

My biggest problem with quitting analogs over ecigs is that my addiction to smoking is more physical than chemical Ecigs (cigalikes) weigh more than a cig, they feel nothing like a cig in your lips or in your hands, they are impossible to dangle from your lips as they are too heavy so you have to use your teeth to keep them in your mouth, and the drag is nothing like a cig, more like a pipe.

That was a big issue at first for me too. It became less and less important over a short time and now I simply don't care about that at all. Maybe you will find the same to be true for you soon. Good luck!

 

[freeatlast!]

I had a small cig craving last night. So I tried something I've never tried before, but read about here - lung hits.

Oh.

Wow.

Nic fit OVER.

I can't do them all the time, but man...talk about cravings satisfied!

I'll keep that in mind. What I've done lately when I get a small craving, is puff on a cigalike for a while. Six weeks in, those taste and feel enough like the real thing that it works for me.