thanks,
I agree except NETs are a pain in the ass to vape they clog coils so fast....I've been thinking of going over to squoning for my NET juices....as it is easy to change wicks and dripping is just to much work for me annoying preoccupation....
I also stuggle with smoking even after years of vaping...I would strongly suggest you try WTAs whole tobacco alkloids...there are natrual occuring alkaloids in tobacco that are anti depressant...The other thing is ...tobacco is just fucking good...it is really delicious and sensual, nothing compares to a good NET.
First of all, you have to be determined to no longer smoke tobacco. Try to avoid those situations if You can and use your vapor device instead. I smoked for about fourty years, very heavily. I worked on a tobacco farm when I was 14. Started with Marlboros, went to rolling Bugler and finally I was smoking twenty coronella cigars a day, inhaling always. My initial vapor experience was a 'Blue' e-cig. It was gone within a day & completely unsatisfying. Well, last September 25th I bought a Kanger sub-ohm kit. I started using it the next morning after intentionally running out of cigars. At first, I chain vaped 18mg. juice, near constantly. Flavor was secondary for me- I needed harsh nicotine at first if I was going to quit smoking. What might make SOME people sick, I was taking in straight to lung 7 second blasts. OVER and OVER. That is what I needed and for me, it worked. I chose a tobacco flavored juice with high VG, like 80/20. The sub-ohm makes very big clouds and You can actually feel the effects of the nicotine. Don't smoke, keep vaping and it will replace smoking for You. When you think of smoking, distract your thoughts from it and make a huge cloud.. The obsessive- like cravings for tobacco will decrease with time. Then, You have the option to reduce Your nicotine levels by whatever increments You choose. Even to zero. I am down to 1.5 milligrams after just 6 weeks.(Trying Clapton coils) Keep trying until You find what works for You. Recently, I learned there exists a thing called a 'dry herb; vaporizer. How interesting. Good luck quitting, you are in the right place.
24 Mg's on nicotine from Caterpillar vapes, Hangsen Shisha Eliquid Cherry and Tobacco blends! Very strong flavor and strong e liquid. If you want to live longer you will fight for it! Its all in my mind at this point because you are getting the nicotine for you body and mind cravings. I used high nicotine e-juices that will make you sick after just thinking of a cig.
But I found it such a good substitute, I thought, I wonder how many cigsarettes I can replace with vaping? Over about a month's time, turned out, all of 'em. but I don't know any smokers or have to hang around them, I think cigarettes smell vile now.
I can smell a smoker 30 feet away. And I think.. omg.. did i smell that bad, and I already know the answer. Its a friggin wonder my wife put up with me for the 7 years we have been together, she even married me! I must have something she likes.. Well that's MY story and I'm sticking to it, no matter how much evidence comes out to the contrary.Being around smokers is a hard trigger to those who switched to vaping, but now that smoking is not allowed hardly anywhere public anymore I find it easy to avoid it, Now if I walk by a smoker I almost gag out loud, it actually has the opposite effect for me, I almost get ill being around it or smelling it on a person. Stay with it and limit your exposure to the smokers
When you smoke a cig, a pack, or a carton, you're not failing anyone, even yourself. Replacing that lighter and stick, that first hit, that constant holding in your fingers, and those final hits, is tough as nails and I originally thought it was impossible. Smoking has a 'dirty' feel to it and vaping seemed too clean for me. I guess also knowing I was burning tobacco and 7k chemicals was somehow more appealing to me then heating up a fluid containing 3 ingredients. It wasn't until I started with my protank 3 and tesla mod that I really began to like vaping, and it wasn't until I started dripping that I quit cigs (if I recall correctly). What was missing for me more often than not, while using the tesla, was smoke. The feeling of producing a fat ass fucking cloud is better than smoking now
Speaking of fat clouds, hang on, I have a couple amusing things I'll drop here...
Sent from my mind's rectum.
I can smell a smoker 30 feet away. And I think.. omg.. did i smell that bad, and I already know the answer. Its a friggin wonder my wife put up with me for the 7 years we have been together, she even married me! I must have something she likes.. Well that's MY story and I'm sticking to it, no matter how much evidence comes out to the contrary.
Needless to say, he is THRILLED with vaping. 
Determination!!
Though smelling the very first just-lit-up whiff smells way too good, and I have to RUN AWAY FAST!
The people I get at Family Dollar Smoke those 305 cigars they are not even cigarettes, a blunt here and there and a couple of cigarette butts they pick up and that's not counting the alcoholic beverages and wine.....I can smell it when I walk out of Walmart if anyone within 100 yds is smoking. It doesn't make me sick, but does make me a) wrinkle my nose, and b) realize how much my husband really loves me, to put up with that shit for 27 yrs.
Andria
Thankfully I controlled myself, except with those ill-advised people who were silly enough to spout some media drivel about the "dangers" of e-cigarettes. They got the whole book, chapter and verse!
Keep up the advocacy, I know how you feel, if someone asks me about Vaping....... Oh oh.... Here I go.......Yeah when I first started vaping and was able to quit so easily, I wanted to run around like a Jehovah's Witness and buttonhole everyone and ask if they'd heard the Good News about Vaping?
Andria
It was this part I was disagreeing with.
Yeah fair enough, I can agree to that.
Isn't that exactly what I said? When you vape you don't need the nicotine from the cigarette, it is all in your head at this point.
Agree for the most part. All I was stressing is try to go 2 weeks without any smokes, and then another 2 weeks, and so on. IF that doesn't work, then sure, take a puff when you can't stand it any more. That said, as long as you still smoke even 1 a day, you are at a substantially higher risk of returning to regular tobacco use than you would be if you just suffered through a couple weeks, taking a 5 minute mouth to lung "vape" break when you want to light up.
Congrats. Glad you made it no matter how you did it. Seems to be getting easier now to get the right set up and advice on quitting. Vape shop owner suggested a couple options for me according to which was best and which was cheapest, and a nic level to start off with. The BEST advice, I think, is talk to the vape shop owner or knowledgeable staff member. At my local shop, only one guy sells mechanical mods (beside the owner), and the part timer is learning as she goes. You really have to use the gear to know about it though. We all have different likes as far as mods and atomizers go, but that person behind the counter is probably your best source of info.
yeah, that sucks. It is getting better though. LOL around here, you see more girls vaping with pretty purple and pink mini mods, that are dainty and feminine. I tend not to buy mods online, unless I know exactly what i am getting. Like I might buy a regulated clone, but would seriously have to think about getting a cloned mechanical. I like the guy at the shop being able to show me how to get that battery out in a hurry if i have to.
Amen! I am totally with you. Suggesting that quitting cold turkey is the only appropriate way to go seems asinine. We are all different and have different needs. I think prof lies in the responses here. Most people had to quit usually a combo and gradually decreasing smoking. "Suffering through a couple weeks"... well some people don't want to suffer and a gradual switch is less stressful for them. I completely agree that every cigarette that is replaced by vaping is a victory even if it takes you a year to completely quit smoking. I was fortunate to pick up a vape and immediately quit without ever looking back. My hubs, on the other hand struggles and has relapsed. Every time I hear him vape, I feel happy and am proud of him.
i smoked for about 21 years. when i started vaping, i was still smoking/ vaping for about a year. then i was able to make vaping more of a hobby, thus quitting cigs. i was able to do it by making vaping a hobby. constantly rebuilding and experimenting and impulse buying lol. i feel so much better than i did when i was a smoker. i cant even try to put it into words. i lost alot of weight, i can exercise and do fast paced work etc without getting winded. i can taste my food and i can certainly smell a smoker a mile away!!! i dont miss that burnt feather smell whatsoever. i hope the best for you. maybe try my method of making vape a hobby instead of just an alternative. it worked for me. good luck to you
I'll look into that. I kind of leave him alone and make sure his vape is charged and full. He says he wants to quit, but I know nagging him will just aggravate him, so I figure making sure an alternative is always available for him is the best I can do. I'll look into the WTA though. Good tip! Thanks!Yep, exactly. If there was gonna be suffering involved, I simply wasn't interested -- when everyone kept asking me that asinine "When are you gonna quit?" my answer was "Never" or "when they turn off the incinerator after I'm dead and cremated." No interest in suffering in order to quit, whatsofuckingEVER. Which is why, after my appendectomy and relapse to dual-use, I required WTA -- I was vaping my face off, using 10mg, the highest nic level I could tolerate, and was STILL having the most ungodly cravings -- if I hadn't been able to get those other alkaloids and the MAOIs from WTA, I'd have gone back to smoking full-time. And that's also why it took 15 months of very determined effort to finally get free of WTA -- even dropping 1 percentage point was challenging, every single time I did it, and at the end, I had to slow it way down and drop by .5 of a percentage point, or even .2 or .1 of a percentage point -- because doing it any faster than that resulted in suffering.... which I simply will not tolerate, if there's any way I can avoid it -- such as smoking.
Both times I was able to transition over about a month's time, near the end of the smoking, I tried to enjoy the hell out of every cigarette I still smoked, because I could see that they were truly on the way out -- I did not want to ever feel deprived, and thus resentful; from my 24 yrs of sobriety, I know very well that resentment is the LAST fucking way one wants to feel, it's COMPLETELY counterproductive to the whole process, and shouild be avoided at any cost. That way, when you DO finally manage to quit, you know it was your own choice, no one forced it on you, therefore there's nothing to be resentful about. It's much easier to live with your own free choice, than coercion! And I do think that all the ANTZ yammering about smoking is one of the major reasons why a lot of smokers persist with smoking, even if they actually would really like to quit -- it's a sharp stick in the ANTZ's eye! (all those anti-smoking commercials just made me wanna smoke a whole pk in 15 minutes!). NO smoker wants to hear: this is what you SHOULD do... they'll probably tell you that what YOU "should do" is mind your own damn business!
Andria
ETA: your husband may be one of us who have that complicating dependency on the other alkaloids -- WTA might be very helpful for him.
