Your first time around analogs since you quit?
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I was around smokers within days of switching to vaping. Truth is, and one of the most amazing things to me about switching, I had no desire at all to have a cigarette with them. Normally, with other stop-smoking programs, I would have wanted to tear someone's head off, or need to be physically restrained or something....
BTW, I kept to my regular little smoking 'rituals' after switching (with my coffee, going outside, after meals, taking regular 'vape' breaks instead of smoke breaks, etc.), which I thought helped tremendously. It became more like I had just "switched brands", rather than quit smoking. This thought was also very helpful, and really kept me off the stinkies.
Do what you have to do, play whatever mind tricks on yourself that you must, and tell yourself whatever lies you need to tell. vaping will successfully KILL the nicortine cravings (which is what it is ALL about, imo), and made it easier to quit cigarettes than anything I could have imagined in my wildest dreams.
BTW, I kept to my regular little smoking 'rituals' after switching (with my coffee, going outside, after meals, taking regular 'vape' breaks instead of smoke breaks, etc.), which I thought helped tremendously. It became more like I had just "switched brands", rather than quit smoking. This thought was also very helpful, and really kept me off the stinkies.
Do what you have to do, play whatever mind tricks on yourself that you must, and tell yourself whatever lies you need to tell. vaping will successfully KILL the nicortine cravings (which is what it is ALL about, imo), and made it easier to quit cigarettes than anything I could have imagined in my wildest dreams.
4 days after switching we had our 1st smoker friend over and we sat out back with her and vaped. It smelled strong, but not unpleasant. Yesterday was 10 days and was across the street at a buddy's while he was smoking menthol and I didn't even notice. I will say, I've quit for fairly long periods in the past, and it began to stink after about the 2 week point and continue to get more foul smelling up until about 2 months out. I'm expecting the same, but without the cravings. This has been far better than any other method I've ever tried, the best prior being Chantix.
I can tell everyone that smokes at work now by just being around them. Analogs just smell awful to me now. I think I have my sense of smell back. Out here, it's the end of skunk season and there's always a lot of roadkill. I never knew a dead skunk could smell that horrible. LOL
I agree, the smell alone was just gross to me. It was probably after about 1 week after we started vaping that i was around someone that was smoking an analog. It was just such a nasty smell. I actually apologized to my in-laws and my daughter that they had to be around us stinking like that for so long! Cant stand the smell at all now. Just loving my e-go twist!!!
I too have apologized to some of the people in my life. My son mostly. My mother quit smoking (cold turkey after 52 years!!) and every time I saw her she would tell me how bad I reeked. Every. Single. Time. Now I know why. I work in a hospital and these past 2 months I have been surprised many many times when I realize who the smokers are. Busted! lol
I've had one cigarette in the past month and had it about two weeks into vaping. It was absolutely disgusting. I hated it. I could taste every bit of ash and bleh. I prefer not to be around it as it stinks. My taste buds are back and so is my nose and I don't like it anymore, plus there is the temptation that I would be stupid and smoke one. I really enjoy vaping since the devices have improved and don't want to allow myself to get into those types of situations frequently. I'm not horribly worried about it but if nothing else the smell keeps me away.
Lol! Totally agree. Now that we're off analogues, we're able to detect smokers easily. Even a hint of cig smell will tingle our senses.
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Analogs smell so bad to me, I can't stand being around it anymore. I feel like I can smell it every where now. Yucky.
I smoked analogs for 15 years. Now I can smell them from 20+ feet away, every single time I catch a whiff of them a few things happen.
First, I am thankful I finally found away to get away from analogs.
Second, I think EVERYTIME "Those things stink like I'm sniffing on a muffler tailpipe"
First, I am thankful I finally found away to get away from analogs.
Second, I think EVERYTIME "Those things stink like I'm sniffing on a muffler tailpipe"
I've been a vaper since May 1, 2013, and I STILL enjoy the smell of second-hand smoke and am around smokers frequently. I won't smoke cigs again as long as e-cigs are available, though.
I've talked to people who have stopped for 30 years and they say that it still smells good to them sometimes.
I went out to the smoking section the first few days I started vaping, and just treated it like a regular cigarette and it didn't bother me much at all. But living in Arizona, the temperature is now above 105 and I have no desire to go out and sweat my .... off. The good thing too is there are about 8 of us in our office building that now vape instead of smoke, so we have made a vaping section on some nice leather couches that are in the lobby and in the A.C.
I have gone out to bars with family that smoke, which was my biggest trigger for smoking. I really had no desire, however there are a few friends of mine that we would have drinks and chain smoke outside and I am still too new to quitting that I will avoid those situations for a few more weeks. Plus, who wants to smoke outside in 105 when I can vape inside at a perfect 72.5 degree room.
Cheers
I have gone out to bars with family that smoke, which was my biggest trigger for smoking. I really had no desire, however there are a few friends of mine that we would have drinks and chain smoke outside and I am still too new to quitting that I will avoid those situations for a few more weeks. Plus, who wants to smoke outside in 105 when I can vape inside at a perfect 72.5 degree room.
Cheers
Will power!
I love the smell of real tobacco...not cigarettes, unless you roll your own, the commercial brand cigarettes smell like chemicals to me. I do love when someone is smoking a pipe around me, I don't get tempted but oh my I love the smell of a good cherry tobacco. Hookah's also smell amazing to me! Nothing tempts me anymore, even if for some reason I do get tempted, i just pull out the Pv and vape away.
I love the smell of real tobacco...not cigarettes, unless you roll your own, the commercial brand cigarettes smell like chemicals to me. I do love when someone is smoking a pipe around me, I don't get tempted but oh my I love the smell of a good cherry tobacco. Hookah's also smell amazing to me! Nothing tempts me anymore, even if for some reason I do get tempted, i just pull out the Pv and vape away.
I liked the smell of fresh tobacco smoke BEFORE I ever considered smoking, so I assume that I will probably always like it. Also love a good burning pipe tobacco!
I lived with a smoker (who did not switch to vaping until many months after I did) and the first night I did not notice but I did after I went all day not around analog smoke and when he lit up it was ghastly. I took a mediate dislike to the smell of other smoking, which I guess helped me in the long run having to be around a smoker. I guess he finally got tired of my complaining about how his clothes and he smelled and finally tried vaping 
I was around smokers since I first started vaping, I just concentrated on my vaping because I knew it tasted better than an analog.
Update from my last post about smoking at the bar and drinking well i went and I took my PV and didn't even want bum a cig or anything was great night overall
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I really thought I would get grossed out by the smell after my olfactories came fully back on-line, but I still like the smell of them, except pall-malls for some reason. :/ I liked the smell of fresh tobacco and cigarette smoke before I ever started smoking, though, so maybe it's a comfort thing?
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