3 weeks into vaping

[zafirovp]

Hi all,

Last 3 weeks Im smoke free. I light a cigarette 2-3 times a week but generally stick to vaping only. The problem is that I dont feel any difference. I dont feel any improvement in breathing, tasting stuff or whatever else. Is this normal?


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[The Cromwell]

Depends on several things.
Like how long you smoked and how much you used to smoke.

 

[mattdarat]

Congratulations. Yes this is normal. I think for me it was 6 months until I noticed a difference and every time you light up it's more or less resetting. That's what took me so long to notice a difference. Breathing happens when you cough up a lot of vulgar junk. The tasting and generally feeling better follows that. Just keep your head up and try to give up cigarettes as soon as you are ready. It's a challenge but with vaping it can be a lot easier.

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[zafirovp]

Yes, first week was really easy, when I have new gear also. As soon as I start loosing interesting in vaping I start to smoke.


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[JuicyLucy]

every time you light up it's more or less resetting.

This is especially relevant

I dual used for over 2.5 years but the best benefits occurred once I put the smokes down for good

In my personal experience, I didn't stop coughing etc while vaping till I'd been free of cigarette smoke for about a month or so

 

[Cosmic]

I had to transition or dual/use for awhile, it was pretty tough after 30 years of smoking. About a month after going all vaping I wasn't coughing my brains out every morning, and it was a slow improvement after that, eventually could breathe a lot better, plus not reeking was really nice. My sense of smell and taste took a long time to come back, but as I said I was a heavy smoker for tons of years. At first I had to have pretty strong juice and higher nic, this slowly changed. New vapers seem to need higher nic to satisfy the cravings. Depends on how much you smoked. If you listen to some of the young dudes at the vape shop who might have only smoked half a pack for one or two years they might act shocked if you want something stronger than 6mg. You will find your own level. When I first started I needed 16 or 18mg juice...but a few toots of that and I was good to go for a half hour. I slowly weened down, now I generally vape 9mg in either tanks or drippers, anything less and I'm chain vaping. I use 12mg at work when I can't run outside very often. If you are wanting higher nic juice you're going to have to search the web....not as plentiful as it used to be but you can still find it...most shops only carry 3 or 6 mg these days.

 

[mattdarat]

Yes, first week was really easy, when I have new gear also. As soon as I start loosing interesting in vaping I start to smoke.


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I am not sure why you lose interest. There is a lot to learn. A trick I have found to help keep feeling like I belong and I am a true vaper when I tried quitting was watching Grimm green or pbusardos videos from the beginning. What type of setup do you have? If you have an RDA or RDTA you can experiment with builds. If not maybe pick up a DIY mixing kit and try mixing your own juice. That would keep the interest a lot longer so to speak it's at least it did for me.

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[Real Extract in Seattle]

It is helpful to know that nicotine, when smoked, gets to your brain within seconds giving you a head rush. When nicotine is vaped it takes a couple of minutes for the nicotine to have the desired effect - but without the head rush.
You should recognize this physical sensation as your body is addicted to the head rush. When I had this realization it helped me to plan my transition from smoking to vaping. My body now no longer is craving the immediate effect. When I want nicotine I plan on taking a little break, and puff for 2-3 minutes until I am satisfied. Then I can go back to whatever I was doing.
It helped me a lot to remember that a little patience gave me more control over the transition process.

 

[Whitesoxfan2579]

It takes some time. Stick with it and you will notice the differences.

 

[BCBuch]

I dont feel any improvement in breathing, tasting stuff or whatever else. Is this normal?

I don't know how long you smoked, myself I smoked 41 years. 9 years ago I was in a pretty serious accident that took sometime to recover from. A couple of the consequences of the accident were the loss of my sense of smell and a severe impairment to my ability to taste. Both of these were results of the head and brain trauma I sustained. One of the side effects of this was I put on a considerable amount of weight basically eating everything that wasn't nailed down trying to find something I could actually taste and enjoy.

You started vaping 3 weeks ago. I only have about a weeks jump on you. I haven't picked up a cigarette since I put the last one out at noon on June 3rd. Have I wanted to smoke? Hell yes a couple of times because of some stressful stuff going on. I vaped through 15 ml of juice in a 12 hour period one day to keep from smoking. As far as feeling better goes I'm not sure what you expected to happen because you started vaping. Physically I'm a 54 year old man who has basically let himself go to shit over the last 9 years. I realized that quitting smoking isn't going to fix everything there. That is going to take a considerable amount of effort on my part to get back into some kind of reasonable shape. When it comes to taste you need to take into consideration that your tastes changes about every 7 years. So for the most part in the short term meaning over a couple of months or so you can probably expect that what ever improvement you perceive will be because your tastes isn't being dulled by the tar and other chemicals from cigarettes. Breathing is going to take time because your lungs will have to start cleaning themselves out from the crap that you have put into them as well as regenerate as much as is physically possible for them to do depending on the years you smoked and the damage that has been done to them.

All of that was basically to say have some realistic expectations of what to expect from starting vaping to quit smoking. Vaping will help you quit, but you are going to have to want to quit and make the determination to quit. Vaping is not a Golds Gym or magical physical cure in a watery mist. For the most part it is a way to transfer a destructive addiction to a healthier alternative that's about it. If you want to you can wean yourself off of the nicotine later and quit vaping also. In my case I'm taking it all in a day at a time and am very determined and thankful I switched to vaping. In the short time I have quit smoking I can tastes a little more than I could before. Not much just a little. My tastes has recovered some since the accident but nowhere near what it was prior. I attribute the improvement to the fact that I have noticed I can very faintly smell stuff. I don't know what the hell I'm smelling. Believe it or not your brain forgets what stuff smells like when you loose your sense of smell. That doesn't matter though because there is a little something there that was missing for the last 9 years. I guess where I was going with this was you have to have a real picture of what you are trying to accomplish. You need to also have a real understanding of what to expect and the fact that nothing is going to happen over night.

Keep your chin up. If you want to quit smoking for good you can make it happen. I'm sure there will always be someone here at this forum to encourage you in your journey.

 

[JuicyLucy]

I don't know how long you smoked, myself I smoked 41 years. 9 years ago I was in a pretty serious accident that took sometime to recover from. A couple of the consequences of the accident were the loss of my sense of smell and a severe impairment to my ability to taste. Both of these were results of the head and brain trauma I sustained. One of the side effects of this was I put on a considerable amount of weight basically eating everything that wasn't nailed down trying to find something I could actually taste and enjoy.

You started vaping 3 weeks ago. I only have about a weeks jump on you. I haven't picked up a cigarette since I put the last one out at noon on June 3rd. Have I wanted to smoke? Hell yes a couple of times because of some stressful stuff going on. I vaped through 15 ml of juice in a 12 hour period one day to keep from smoking. As far as feeling better goes I'm not sure what you expected to happen because you started vaping. Physically I'm a 54 year old man who has basically let himself go to shit over the last 9 years. I realized that quitting smoking isn't going to fix everything there. That is going to take a considerable amount of effort on my part to get back into some kind of reasonable shape. When it comes to taste you need to take into consideration that your tastes changes about every 7 years. So for the most part in the short term meaning over a couple of months or so you can probably expect that what every improvement you perceive will be because you tastes isn't being dulled by the tar and other chemicals from cigarettes. Breathing is going to take time because your lungs will have to start cleaning themselves out from the crap that you have put into them as well as regenerate as much as is physically possible for them to do depending on the years you smoke and the damage that has been done to them.

All of that was basically to say have some realistic expectations of what to expect from starting vaping to quit smoking. Vaping will help you quit, but you are going to have to want to quit and make the determination to quit. Vaping is not a Golds Gym or magical physical cure in a watery mist. For the most part it is a way to transfer a destructive addiction to a healthier alternative that's about it. If you want to you can wean yourself off of the nicotine later and quit vaping also. In my case I'm taking it all in a day at a time and am very determined and thankful I switched to vaping. In the short time I have quit smoking I can tastes a little more than I could before. Not much just a little. My tastes has recovered some since the accident but nowhere near what it was prior. I attribute the improvement to the fact that I have noticed I can very faintly smell stuff. I don't know what the hell I'm smelling. Believe it or not your brain forgets what stuff smells like when you loose your sense of smell. That doesn't matter though because there is a little something there that was missing for the last 9 years. I guess where I was going with this was you have to have a real picture of what you are trying to accomplish. You need to also have a real understanding of what to expect and the fact that nothing is going to happen over night.

Keep your chin up. If you want to quit smoking for good you can make it happen. I'm sure there will always be someone here at this forum to encourage you in your journey.

Well said

 

[The Cromwell]

Yep a 40+ yr 1.5 PAD smoker. Off of cigs and into vaping in one week.
4 weeks later I noticed I could shovel the snow off of my entire walk without having to stop wheezing and gasping 5=4 times like I used to.

If a light or non long term smoker I doubt that you will notice much difference other than not smelling as bad.

 

[zafirovp]

Im currently 25 and been smoking since 15, one pack a day. Mainly Malboro Gold. Didnt know that few cigarettes a week will make any difference.



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[strigamort]

I've noticed a couple of things.

I was had to stop smoking for a week while I was in the hospital. Fortunately I was able to vape. When I got out I figured that I felt no better at all so went back to smoking. I realized immediately that there were drastic improvements, I just couldn't tell until I started smoking again. I knew then that I was was actually breathing better and coughing less vaping. I was surprised because I truly thought it was nonsense.

One thing I'm doing while I'm transitioning (and it sounds like you are already past this point, but I figure I'll throw it out there for others) is, when I go outside to smoke I force myself to vape a couple of goons of juice before lighting up. Vaping is literally ruining my smoking and it's awesome.

Lastly, my gf and I were just discussing this... We are treating vaping like we do smoking in that we'll excuse ourselves from whatever we are doing to go vape. We vape after meals (and other stuff), and vape while driving. We both see that smoking is more than just smoking. It's ingrained in how we act socially and habitually. So replacing those actions with the same actions, only with vaping in place of smoking, allows the brain to make the replacement or substitution easier. I feel that we have a great chance of quitting smoking by being smart and not trying to change everything all at once.

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[BCBuch]

Im currently 25 and been smoking since 15, one pack a day. Mainly Malboro Gold. Didnt know that few cigarettes a week will make any difference.

I started when I was 13, 54 now. When I quit I was 1 PAD. At different times over th years I've been as high as 3. Theres a handy little app if you have an Android device you can install from the Play Store called Quit Tracker. You plug in how many years you smoked, when you quit, how much you were smoking, and the price of cigarettes when you quit. It gives you some pretty eye opening statistics about how much money you've wasted, how many cigarettes you have smoked, and how much of your life you have lost because of that habbit.

Here's somethng to think about. I smoke 41 years.
That is roughly 299,300 cigarettes smoked
$78,566.25 spent on that habbit
As a result I gave up 6 years 4 months, an 6 days of my life
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Please tell me that isn't a little sobering to think about.

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