Welcome to the site and whatever way you choose to stop smoking if it helps you and works for you then carry on just remember to keep hands and mind busy when a craving hits reading and posting on here will help or playing online games (that helped me to pass some of the time)
the cravings will get weaker over time and before you know it you will go a whole day without even thinking of a ciggy :eek: i kid you not
Vik are you hoping to quit nicotine or are you wanting to switch from smoking to vaping?
If you want to quit nicotine I don't think e cig is going to be the way to go because:
The e cig will deliver as much nicotine and maybe more than a normal cigarette. OK you're in control of how much you vape but how will you know how much you're getting - chances are you'll vape until you have satisfied your craving.
People use NRT to help them break the smoking habit and deal with the triggers before dealing with the nicotine addiction. With the E cig you are positively reinforcing your smoking habits and won't break them.
If you do want to switch to vaping then good luck because it is probably not as bad for you as smoking. My worry would be that you go out and forget your ecig or it runs out of charge, you run out of cartridges and hey presto you smoke a real cigarette.
Thanks for the welcome and the tips Carol and JoC, I really appreciate your concerns JoC because they are my concerns also! I have really attempted to think this through and having taken all my circumstances into account, e-cigs seem the best option for me at this moment in time. I'm thinking more damage limitation I suppose and using them when I become desperate, mostly after meals, but that's not to say I wont attempt quitting nicotine in the future.
Today is hard......I'm still on annual leave and with so much chocolate and alcohol left from Xmas it's tempting to eat, smoke, drink, smoke (and repeat all day) :eek:
just about s - c - r - a - p - p - ing through day 4 with only one vape visit so far and gonna be occupied for the next couple of hours at least so no worries until the late evening.. b lucky peeps
Good luck vikitori on the quitting. The Ecig is a very cool invention I hope u draw up a plan to lower the doses of the cartridges ur using, that way it wud be a simarlar approach to using NRT. Lowering the cartridges after 8 weeks like u do with the patches. That's the way I wud go if I was in ur shoes. I used to like puffing on my Ecig wen I was a smoker. Good look and all that!!
Hi Vik and welcome to the forum. I use the loz but on ocassions i like extra strong mints ive not tried the e.cig but go with what you feel comfortable with. Good luck in your quit. And keep posting and reading posts. Jacqui. Quit:14.11.11.
A friend of mine quit using a e-cig so it can work. She just gradually cut down how much she used it over a period of about 6 weeks and has now been quit for a few months
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