Have you gone back to cigarettes?

[CMMACKEM]

Has vaping help you quit smoking? If so at at step of your vape journey have you had a cigarette or have you gone back to smoking?

How did you feel afterwards?
Did you feel a need carry on smoking cigs?

Yesterday I had my first and only cigarette since November. During my smoke I kept on taking double puffs as I felt there wasn't enough smoke going into my lungs and exhaling out of my mouth.

After my cigarette I felt nausous, dehydrated, smelt like a camel's arse and was left extremely unsatisfied as I felt that I hadn't received my nicotine fix.

After that experience yesterday,I can say without any doubt that I will never touch those things again.

 

[Rob Fisher]

I have to say I have not touched a stinky since I gave up and switched to vaping nearly 4 years ago... and I have only been tempted once and I resisted.

 

[CMMACKEM]

I have to say I have not touched a stinky since I gave up and switched to vaping nearly 4 years ago... and I have only been tempted once and I resisted.

Good man, honestly there is nothing that you should be tempted by.

Something I forgot to mention, is that there was almost no throat hit. I honestly felt like I put my lips around an monkeys arse and inhaled

 

[RichJB]

I haven't had a cigarette since 3 Jan 2016. I quit cold turkey for a month, then started vaping. Since then, I haven't had the urge to smoke. Oddly, I did dream about it once. There was a cigarette lying on a table and I absent-mindedly picked it up and lit it. In my dream, I immediately felt anger that I had undone all that work in giving up. Then I woke up and felt disturbed for a while. The sense of failure, even from just a dream, was palpable.

I think it's a good idea to go cold turkey for as long as you can. It meant that my body was already weaning itself off nicotine so there was less of an urge. The nic from vaping was enough to keep me going. I think trying to transition to vaping immediately would be harder and more likely to result in dual use of cigs and vaping. But then you're not giving up, just cutting down.

Sadly, I find myself re-hooked on nic now. For the first year or so of vaping, I never took my vape out of the house. If I went for a three-hour business meeting in Pretoria, I'd do without vaping for five hours and didn't feel any the worse for it. Now I'm taking my vape with, which is a worrying development. I've reduced my nic to 2mg and want to gradually wean myself off it again. The ideal, for me, would be to vape only when I become anxious and start feeling withdrawal symptoms. And then to vape only enough to allay the symptoms. But vaping is so pleasurable that it's really hard. Nevertheless it needs to be done.

 

[Rob Fisher]

Good man, honestly there is nothing that you should be tempted by.

Something I forgot to mention, is that there was almost no throat hit. I honestly felt like I put my lips around an monkeys arse and inhaled

Hehehe... I can only imagine!

 

[Grimes]

Has vaping help you quit smoking? If so at at step of your vape journey have you had a cigarette or have you gone back to smoking?

How did you feel afterwards?
Did you feel a need carry on smoking cigs?

Yesterday I had my first and only cigarette since November. During my smoke I kept on taking double puffs as I felt there wasn't enough smoke going into my lungs and exhaling out of my mouth.

After my cigarette I felt nausous, dehydrated, smelt like a camel's arse and was left extremely unsatisfied as I felt that I hadn't received my nicotine fix.

After that experience yesterday,I can say without any doubt that I will never touch those things again.

Hi there

I have been vaping for more than a year now. Would have been longer, but in the beginning I had one of those thin eGo e-cigs which I didn't smoke that often as I didn't get that 'satisfied' feeling after a real cigarette.

I met a person with a proper mod and then got exposed to real vaping. I invested in a Kangertech Dripbox (maybe it was a bit hectic for my first proper device, but it did help me to learn to build my own coils which is a big bonus now ). Systematically I started reducing my cigarettes per day. Until recently I only smoked my two routine cigarettes (one in the morning at home and one with coffee when I get to work).

Now I have quit completely (about six weeks) after I've upgraded my mod/tank. I have had the occasional craving, but it goes away when I think of the smell or the taste I will get from the horrible cigarette.

 

[SmokeyJoe]

Havent for more than 4 years ago, and the transition for me was actually very easy, which surprised me as I was a 2 pack a day smoker
I do once every few months have a cigar and cognac with my brother. It tastes horrible (not the cognac) and I also feel very sick afterwards, but i do it for brotherly love. Its a bonding thing.

 

[Jones]

I honestly felt like I put my lips around an monkeys arse and inhaled

the fact that you know how this tastes/smells is the scary part

 

[zadiac]

Nope. Never and never will.

 

[shaunnadan]

id like to share an old post of mine.... 23042016

The first few days you have the "novelty" moments. Like the day you sign up for gym you really WANT it to work!

You may find there are a few cigarettes that are hard to leave..... The morning smoke and after meals were the hardest for me.

After a week it's much harder...

Eventually around the 4th or 5th week you find the cravings going away.

I remember almost 2 to 3 months after I quit smoking I went out for my birthday party at a club and I was severely DrAnK ! I was starting to speak fluent Russian with the amount of vodka I was consuming...

Walking around the club with my little bdc aspire and spinner battery at full tilt while surrounded by smokers. I felt like I was drawn to them... Not to smoke but by that glowing ember floating in their hand. I wanted to just grab it !

I survived the night and the next morning when we all were attempting to find out just how far we had thrown out names down the gutter at least I didn't sound like I was part grizzly bear!

It's an uphill battle climbing the mountain of non-smoking success but at least there are clouds ontop

i consider myself rather lucky, i quit smoking back then on a rather mediocre device and kept to it! in all of my time vaping i am fortunate that i have never been tempted to light up a smoke.

 

[BioHAZarD]

quit cold turkey and have not had a cigarette since. was tempted a couple of times in the first 2 years but not to the extent that I needed a nicotine fix

 

[Eisenhorn]

Only been Vaping and offthe stinkies for 4 months now. Had an incident at work yesterday so went for a smoke before I used someones head as a trampoline. Immediately regretted it as the taste was atrocious. Killed it halfway through and I think that will be my last ever smoke

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[ASCIIcat]

When I first tried vaping which was on one of these:

I lasted about 2 weeks with just the vape, then it became a couple of smokes a day and vaping in between.
Which eventually led me back to smoking two packs a day for another four years without touching my vape.
This time round I quit smoking again (after a total of 13 years) and picked up a vape that could give me a bigger cloud. After a month of having not touched a smoke and the fact that the smell of smoke was more than enough to make me feel nauseated, I decided that I could expand on my collection.

Now I am more than two months into not having touched a smoke and I can honestly say I don't think I ever want to touch another one again.

 

[Silver]

Glad to hear you had a bad experience trying a cigarette @CMMACKEM

I have not tried one since I stopped. And that was nearly 4 years ago.

Part of me doesn't want to try a cigarette again in case I like it and want to continue. (even though most people have your kind of experience)

The other part of me doesn't feel the urge.

I did feel the urge in the first year or two but resisted. I had an urge to have a cig about 3 months ago when someone near me lit one up and I got that initial whiff - but I just took out my Blackbird 18mg and had a few toots and I was fine

 

[RichJB]

On a related note, how many vapers still enjoy tobacco vapes? I couldn't vape tobacco at all initially. Then I went through a phase where it was my favourite type of vape. Now I'm back to the point where I can't face it. I suppose it will come and go in phases.

 

[ASCIIcat]

On a related note, how many vapers still enjoy tobacco vapes? I couldn't vape tobacco at all initially. Then I went through a phase where it was my favourite type of vape. Now I'm back to the point where I can't face it. I suppose it will come and go in phases.

I like some of them, mostly because I have always liked the smell of tobacco. Not so much when it is burning, but like those bags of roll-your-own or tobacconists, that slightly sweet smell is nice.

 

[SmokeyJoe]

On a related note, how many vapers still enjoy tobacco vapes? I couldn't vape tobacco at all initially. Then I went through a phase where it was my favourite type of vape. Now I'm back to the point where I can't face it. I suppose it will come and go in phases.

Nope, cant stand the stuff, even though i vaped tobacco liquids exclusively for the 1st year

 

[Silver]

On a related note, how many vapers still enjoy tobacco vapes? I couldn't vape tobacco at all initially. Then I went through a phase where it was my favourite type of vape. Now I'm back to the point where I can't face it. I suppose it will come and go in phases.

Ooh I love my tobacco vapes @RichJB
I think in the first few weeks of vaping I didnt want tobacco because I was immersed in all the other flavour possibilities - but I soon craved that tobacco(ish) taste - and I still always have at least one tobacco in rotation. (More strong MTL but the last year warming up to lung hits for tobaccoes)

 

[Petrus]

Hehehe... I can only imagine!

The throat hit or the monkey Oom Rob

 

[craigb]

The throat hit or the monkey Oom Rob

Well there was that one time at vape camp...

 

[SmokeyJoe]

Well there was that one time at vape camp...

HAHAHAHAHA

 

[Cespian]

Forgive me Vape Padre for I have sinned... roughly 6 times in my 3.5 year vaping journey.

The first time (after I started vaping that is), was probably over a year into vaping. Old twisp clearo battery died (I think all twisp users have experienced a sudden death Ego battery) while I was in Paarl. I was hooked on nic, decided to buy a "losse". It tasted disgusting and I felt disgusting.

Fastfoward a few months later: Hosting a braai. Theres just something about tossing a chop with a cigarette hanging on the side of your mouth. And it was freakin delicious. Needless to say I smoked roughly 4 more cigs after that within a 7 day period. I immediately gave the smokes away before completely relapsing again.

Anyways, 6 cigarettes in the past 3.5 years... I aint going to kick myself about that.

 

[Raindance]

Seems there are two camps of quiters in the vaping world. Took me a year to drop the stinkies completely while vaping. Would fall offthe wagon occasionally but each time for a shorter period. Just realised i have not had a sigarette craving since Feb this year. Can not actually remember the precise date or time i became a non smoker. Lit a smoke a few weekes back out of curiosity, could not even take a full drag. Awefull! Guess thats what monkey's ass tastes like... Think that may actually be the official date i became a certified non smoker! I know now that there is nothing left for me in it. Some of us may just need some more time, and that's ok too.

Regards

 

[craigb]

Let's not kid ourselves... There is still that romanticized idea related to stinkies. They're horribly bad for us, taste foul but do have a certain hook to them (besides the nicotine)

I find myself wanting those nice parts (probably caused by the trillion other chemicals) but the thought of the taste and the second hand stink coming from my clothes and skin... Yech.

Love the smell when someone is smoking though, that smell of the smoke.

But not difficult for me to not light up, on aggregate I'm just not inclined.

 

[RichJB]

I dunno, I've felt no attraction to them since quitting. I think a lot depends on your state of mind when quitting. Some quit because they want to, some because they feel they need to but don't really want to. I quit because I'd just had enough. Oddly enough, my brother had exactly the same thing. He was about to light up one morning and just decided "No, I've had enough of this now". It wasn't even really a health thing, he just got tired of the habit, the dependence, the expenditure, the need to accommodate it in his routine.