Posted on 10/04/2016 3:15:43 PM PDT by rdb3
I was a 2-pack a day smoker, mainly Kool Blue 100s or Newport 100s. Menthol was my taste, but would sponge a Marlboro while in the field in the Army. After switching to vaping Halo Sub-Zero 24mg, my taste for analog cigarettes vanished. Some time later, my desire for hitting my cherry bomber deminished. So I ask my fellow FReepers and FReepettes, do you vape? Has it helped you kick the habit?
Jesus Christ: You can't impeach Him and He ain't gonna resign.
Try cigars.
Seriously. Start with three or so an day and then cut down to two a day, then to one a day. And eventually to one every so often and to none.
Worked for me several of the times I quit smoking.
I have been vaping for 4 years (after smoking for over 25 years). I started with 24 mg Nicotine bottles of juice and am down to 6 mg strength now, after ratcheting down over time. I really haven’t been able to tell a difference, but one thing that really grosses me out now is someone’s cigarette breath when they talk to me right after finishing. I started with a tobacco flavor, and moved on to fruity flavors like peach and pineapple. Spend a little extra and buy yourself a nicer unit with big battery life and keep an extra on hand in case it breaks. I reveled in the tax money that BIG GOVT Inc. wasn’t getting anymore, until here in NC they started taxing E-cig liquid in nicotine. I am well on my way of getting to 0 mg liquid, but I am sure by the time I get there, BIG GOVT Inc. will have figured out a way to tax it anyway.
I started vaping 7 years ago, have not had a cigarette since. My wife has been doing the same for 3 years.
Try essential oil black pepper, use a difuser, in you recipes requiring black pepper
Vaping is great. I can’t stand the taste, or odor, of real cigs anymore.
You can vape indoors, where it’s warm/cool. No odor, no staining.
I think to succeed you need to change to vaping all at once, no tapering off cigarettes.
And, once you get the stuff, it’s a hell of a lot cheaper.
Tried vaping and then started mixing my own juice.
Testing all the different flavors and working on my own recipes got me cut way back on the cigs.
About a month after noticing I was almost never smoking I decided to just quit.
Had a few urges for a week, then that faded over about a month.
Never going back.
Vaping made it E-Z.
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No, but people have I’m sure. You have to really want to quit to be successful, in my opinion.
Vapping is gay
Quitting smoking is easy... I’ve done it hundreds of times. /sarc
Instead of “vaping,” I over-eat. Must more pleasurable.
Yes. Going on five years for me. Feel great, the challenge is learning what works best for you and learning the ropes of vaping. I have not had cigarette since two weeks after vaping. Advice is to go between cigs and vaping for a while also do not think you will find a product that tastes like a cigarette but realize the advantages. Cost, health, odor, able to smoke in house and car etc
Quitting was very easy for me, too. Vaping did the trick!
Jesus Christ: You can't impeach Him and He ain't gonna resign.
Just quit, period. It’s more a mental thing than a physical need.
In 1987 I was told I had throat cancer, that instant I quit, I have not smoked since. Once you are mentally tuned into quitting, as I was, the actual physical withdrawal is just but a few days, the rest is habit.
Quit torturing yourself with all the gimmickery, just stop it.
Before quitting I could not climb a set a stairs without stopping and trying to catch my breath. After a couple of years I could climb all I wanted to.
But in later years COPD will catch up with just about any smoker. It’s so important to just quit right now.
I quit smoking the hard way. Cold Turkey. It works the best by far and is well worth the few weeks of suffering.
I smoked for 30 years, I quit two years ago using the electronic cigarette known as Blu. Actually I think its been almost 3 years now. They also have the more traditional vaping tools.
Bought the kit, started with the cartridges of highest strength, and stepped down from there.
I was down to zero strength within two months, and then quit totally by month four.
Best thing I ever did. :-)
The “Uncle Buck” plan?
My brother vapes, but I can’t ask him how it’s going. He’s got a gynocologist appointment today...*BADUM TSSSSSSS* :D
Going cold turkey is tough and like any drug withdrawal takes about 3 days to get over the psychical need/effects. After that it’s all mental and behavioral modification.
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