I do have to ask, do you feel like you’re getting as much nicotine as you were with cigarettes?
I am 46, started smoking when I was 19 because I worked in kitchens and smokers got breaks but non-smokers didn’t. I found I liked the stimulant effect, but after my dad, a 40+ year Pall Mall unfiltered smoker had to have half of one of his lungs removed due to cancer, and my father-in-law died of esophageal cancer after years of constant cigar smoking, and then I my wife got pregnant and I didn’t want a kid growing up seeing me smoking like I did with my dad, I quit. I miss it, and just loved pipe smoking, but I like to inhale and really feel it, not just taste it. I tried vaping when it became popular here last year, and at first it was great, but within about two months, I just wasn’t getting anything from it. I wasn’t craving, but it was like my body adapted and vape or not vaping, there wasn’t the alert/stimulant/little bit of buzz to it. I always got that when smoking pipes or cigarettes. I tried pretty high nicotine content juice, but adapted to that, too. Also that made me dehydrated as hell.
Try vaping a tobacco flavored Whole Tobacco Alkaloid (WTA) juice, gives you a few more of the tobacco chemicals but again without the tar.
I’ve actually cut the nicotine from 1.8 to 1.2 and then to .6 - I do remember that nice little buzz when lighting up now and then but don’t miss it. I’m not sure if it can be duplicated with vaping. I actually didn’t realize that doesn’t seem to happen with vaping until I read your post - I hadn’t thought about it.
The secret to my enjoyment of vaping was finding a flavor I really liked and getting a higher-end battery and tank. The e-cigs just didn’t cut it as a replacement for cigarettes.
Squid, I think there is something else in cigarettes that make them even more addictive. Other chemicals. Besides nicotine.
I quit smoking 7 years ago with the Commodore 64 versions of e-cigarettes. Everyone is different and what works for someone might not work for someone else.
I still love the smell of burning cigarettes. It smells like freedom. :-) i’ll hang out with people smoking just to get a whiff.