Hey all, I am newbie to vape experience. I really want to do e-cig helps to quit smoking or not?
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Do E-cig helps to quit smoking?
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After 18 years of 1+ pack a day smoking i bought a topbox mini starter set in February and haven't had a cigarette since that day. Bought alot more vape stuff though, but not any cigarettes.
My Fiance and I have been smoke free for 3 years. We quit on March 8th 2013 and have never looked back. 
50 years of 2 packs a day plus cigars tried every method to quit and nothing worked. . The day I started vaping I stopped smoking it's been almost 2 years now.
17 years of a pack+ been clean for 4+ years.
E-cigs made it super easy, while nothing else worked.
You do need to want to quit, to make it work.
E-cigs made it super easy, while nothing else worked.
You do need to want to quit, to make it work.
IMHO absolutely yes!
I smoked for 37 years, usually 1.5-2 packs a day. I quit smoking, as soon as I started vaping. I did enough research, to have bought the right devices, and liquids, in order to do so.
It's different for everyone, but personally think that the best way is to only vape, since if you keep doing both you're not really kicking the habit.
30 year smoker, 1-2 packs a day, depending on stress. Been smoke free 3 years and 3 days with the help of ecigs 
Smoked half a pack for 20 years. Started vaping 7 years ago. Never intended to give up smoking, just tried an e-cig and never looked back.
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I wasn't a cigarette smoker. I smoked cigars. Very expensive, very nasty habit. I haven't smoked a cigar in over a year since I started vaping.
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I was a smoker for 20+ years and tried many times to quit with gum and patches with no success but then I found vaping and it was sooooo easy for me to quit. I've got over 7 months under my belt now and still going strong.
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It's a lot more help than anything else I've ever tried. It's not a magic wand though; you really do need the commitment to sticking with it, to not smoking no matter what; to working out whatever problems may arise -- and they will, you can bet on that. And your own body will throw many hissy fits along the way, too -- some of it is actually withdrawal, and there are a lot of chemicals to withdraw FROM, in cigarettes -- replacing the nicotine is not really that much help, it's more the sensations and behaviors being mimicked, that help the most. Some of the difficulty may come from the brain itself, spoiled rotten with all those other chemicals, and determined to punish you for not giving it what it wants.
I would advise a slow and easy transition from smoking to vaping -- I made it into a game, called "how many cigarettes can I replace with vaping?" Inside a month, I replaced all of them, and didn't suffer too much from withdrawal or cravings. If you tell yourself "I'm quitting smoking," it will be hard. If you make it a fun and challenging new thing to try, and play with, it's not really hard at all. Don't let yourself feel deprived -- if you really really want a smoke, then smoke; vaping will still be there, and maybe next time you want a smoke, you can vape instead. But feeling deprived will cause stress and resentment, both very detrimental to the process.
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I never wanted to quit smoking I wanted my nicotine. I always joked that if I didnt smoke I would end up losing my mind with my kids. My neighbor brought the idea of vaping about 4 years ago. Said it helped her mom and we would still get our nic so I decided what the hell why not. Bought a battery and tank ego kit and a spare charger gave one setup to my neighbor and I kept the other. Next thing I know I didnt want to smoke and I loved vaping. I have tried in the past to quit everything from pills, gum, cold turkey you name it and it never worked because I never really wanted to quit I loved my nic. Vaping lets me keep my nic but is alot healthier and not when I am around smokers they stink and I don't crave one at all. I am very very content with my yummy flavored vape.
Vaping does help with quitting cigarettes.
However, a few things are needed to make it happens IMO.
1- make sure that there is no cig in your environment or you'll crave it
2- the moment you crave cig, keep on vaping, you'll find that you're no longer craving for a cig. everytime you crave for a cig, repeat step 2.
3- find the appropriate nicotine level for you
4- start with tobacco flavour.
5- make a deal with yourself. Let's say you've spent $40 on a mod = 4 pack of cig. If you smoke 1 pack per day. Then 4 days vaping and you already have your money back. Your choice to continue vaping or going back to cig after your deal is over.
However, a few things are needed to make it happens IMO.
1- make sure that there is no cig in your environment or you'll crave it
2- the moment you crave cig, keep on vaping, you'll find that you're no longer craving for a cig. everytime you crave for a cig, repeat step 2.
3- find the appropriate nicotine level for you
4- start with tobacco flavour.
5- make a deal with yourself. Let's say you've spent $40 on a mod = 4 pack of cig. If you smoke 1 pack per day. Then 4 days vaping and you already have your money back. Your choice to continue vaping or going back to cig after your deal is over.
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Number 1 is wrong for a lot of us -- we have to have cigarettes handy or we just freak right out, and have to get some, and then usually smoke them. Having them around is the only way I can make a FREE and unconstrained choice to vape -- take my choice away, even by something as simple as having no cigarettes around, and I panic, and then I get pissed off, and then sense goes right out the window.
I've had 12 in my last pk in a ziplock in the back of my freezer for over 2 yrs now. I don't crave them. But if they weren't there, I would.
Andria
32yrs pack+/day.. and no intention on quitting at all.
Saw a few ppl vaping, but didnt look into it at first. Then one day, watched a whole bunch of vaping reviews. The next day went to the local vape shop and got set up with a starter system. The last cig I ever had was just before I walked into the vape shop.
7 months now and happy as can be !
Saw a few ppl vaping, but didnt look into it at first. Then one day, watched a whole bunch of vaping reviews. The next day went to the local vape shop and got set up with a starter system. The last cig I ever had was just before I walked into the vape shop.
7 months now and happy as can be !
I smoked from when I was around 13 until I was 45. I tried the patch and the gum, neither worked in the least. At first (like a week) it was tough vaping, but I haven't had a single cigarette in almost four years now. My father quit when I did. He started smoking when he was 9 and smoked until he was 80. Most of that time he was two packs a day. He quit, and went to 0 nic besides. My wife has also quit, and her sister.
BUT, you have to want to quit. Not "I should quit", not "it's not good for me", "I want to quit, now, period".
Still have a half a pack of Marlboros I haven't touched in almost two years sitting on my desk.
Stopped smoking the same day I bought a cheap vaping device, after smoking a pack a day for 40 years.
Both you and gtrpickr (and others) agree on that, but I'll have to respectfully disagree.
I had, and still have no intention on "quitting". Yes, I quit smoking paper sticks, but (in my mind) I've really only switched methodology.
"Quitting" meant giving up habitual routine and a chemical dependence.. which I think I was afraid of doing.
Vaping is just a new crutch, same habit. I'm completely fine with this since it's healthier and cheaper.
Put a pack of smokes and a lighter in front of me, and Im fine with that. No desire at all.
Semantics, at best. I quit smoking. Absolutely, unequivocally, quit smoking. I started vaping. The two are not the same.
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For me, I'd been wanting to quit since approx 1984 (I started in 1975)... but the patch was so useless, I had completely given up the idea of quitting; if asked when I was going to quit, my answer was "never." Then I started vaping.... and it was allowing me to replace so many cigarettes with vaping, I wondered if perhaps it would enable me to replace ALL cigarettes with vaping. And it did. But I didn't start with any intention of quitting whatsoever. I just figured I'd be a total stupid asshole to pass up such a tremendous opportunity.
I wanted to be a non-smoker, but I wanted to get there without having to walk on hot coals. Vaping removed the hot coals... mostly.
Andria
Its possible that we vape differently.
For me, I vape within 30 mins of waking up, always vape with coffee, always vape when Im on the phone or driving, if Im about to have a serious conversation with someone, I'll try to navigate the meeting position to somewhere that I can vape, etc etc.. exactly the same patterns I had as with smoking the paper sticks. Note, that I do vape nic (6mg) and tobacco flav, and I do use a pen type device (except for drinking time !).
Maybe Im just not ready to say I "quit". To say Ive quit would mean I could go for a day or more w/o vaping, and that aint happening anytime soon.
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I've quit smoking. Totally and completely. But quit vaping? Only if I wanna go back to smoking... and I DON'T! It's nothing at all to do with the chemicals -- I'm at 3.5mg nicotine, and off WTA since march. But trying to dig a behavior out of my brain that I've been doing since I wore training bras? Fat fucking chance of that happening.
Andria
Some people build model ships or planes, others collect comic books and graphic novels, others garden, others ski or skydive or race stock cars. Just because they don't want to give it up, miss a model or issue or hybrid or weekend getaway, doesn't mean they're addicted. When looking at vaping from the perspective, I can honestly say I have absolutely no desire to give it up. And I won't, BUT, I don't always grab my PV as soon as I wake up, nor if I have a beer, nor after dinner. Sometimes I do, most of the time I don't around those triggers from my smoking days. I don't use tobacco flavors either, haven't for years. As for the nicotine, I don't get the familiar cravings at all any more. I want to vape, I don't need more nicotine. I do use nicotine, but in the same manner I use caffeine. Right now, my highest nic is at 3mg, and only because those places don't make lower besides 0. My DIY is mostly at 1mg for use, 3mg for flavor testing.
I hear what you're saying about addiction transference, and to an extent I agree. But a ****** or oxycodone addict who goes through a methadone program has still quit their drug of choice, even if they're using another drug to do so. And I guess that's where the gray area is.