Vaping to stop smoking. Has it worked for you?

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I have smoked on and off for years, mostly on. I do well with stopping and then I end up smoking socially and it starts all over again. I hate smoking, I hate the smell and the cost, and of course for health reasons.

I have used champix in the past and it works but then the social thing crops up again and it is all over. I thought I could get a vape and use that while I cut down and eventually stop. Then when I am in a social situation I will be used to the vape and will have that instead.

I don’t like the look of the big ones but I have seen a nice slim one. Has vaping worked for you and is it best to use nicotine juice or nicotine free juice?

Thanks

Ha ha thanks @queenofpain

I have a few packs of cigarettes left from Holiday duty free so I will start alternating between them and the vape and then I hope to not need to buy any more cigarettes ever. Really looking forward to feeling better, richer and nice smelling!

This may not be applicable to you as you’re not a heavy smoker. When I got my vape I didn’t try and give up smoking. If I really wanted a cigarette then I had one. But, I found I preferred the vape to the cigarette and gradually I cut right back until I wasn’t smoking anymore.
At the point I stopped smoking I was buying 20 a day, sometimes 40 so I was spending in the region of £60 a week . It costs me around £40 per month to vape. I’ve really seen the difference as I’ve always got money these days.
I kick myself it took me this long to give up.
Good luck OP

Thank you GenuineKlatchianPottery I sometimes smoke a lot and other times not so much so I will hopefully start preferring the vape to cigarettes too. The vape was nearly £30 and I got 3 liquids for £10 so I will see how I get on. They recommended I try 6mg and if that is not enough go for 12mg so I have both. If I find the 6mg is ok they will swap the 12mg when I next go in. I have tried it now and it will take a bit of getting used to as it feels different so I will keep at it and see how I get on. I have a social event in a few weeks and I would normally smoke a lot then but I am hoping that I can vape instead and feel a lot better the next day as a mix of alcohol and a lot more cigarettes than normal makes me feel shit the next day.

Yes. Over 2 years I have been smoke free now thanks to a vape but I now can't stop using the vape pen. So much cheaper though and you are still classed as a no smoker x

Nearly 3 years without a cigarette and will
Never smoke one again.
Switched to an e-cig because in don’t like those vape box things that hold liquid and produce obnoxious plumes of steam and sickly scents. It’s a very discrete looking thing, looks like a cigarette, feels like a cigarette.
Just buy filters for it and plug the battery into the wall.
The filters are more than likely terrible for the environment and I do feel guilty for throwing them away when I try hard in all other aspects of my life to be as green as possible but this means I just don’t smoke so for now it’s staying.
I’ve honestly never felt the desire to smoke a cigarette again and I was a heavy smoker but, and this is the crucial bit that often gets overlooked, I was ready to give up.
I wasn’t giving up for anyone else, I wasn’t doing it because I was specifically worried about my health or for financial reasons, I’d just had enough of smoking. And I had loved smoking for 20 years, could never have imagined myself not smoking again for the rest of my life. It was like a switch had been flicked for me.

I hated vaping i puffed like a train and got no relief i stopped with NRT i do have a crave away fake ciggie in my bag i occasionally use it.

My friend has a box her vape smells of a refresher sweetie and there is plumes of it

I smoked for 30 years.
20 a day or more if I was out having a drink.
I was going on holiday and didn't want to smoke anymore so I bought 2 packs of nicotine lozenges and a vape with low menthol liquid.

I used the lozenges when the cravings were bad and the vape for habit.

Not had a cigarette in 3 years.

I changed from cigarettes to vaping, then happened to stumble upon the most foulest blueberry flavoured liquid that actually made me retch. Completely put me off as I could not get rid of the blueberry horror so I quit with very little effort.

Nope.
I just wanted a real fag on any nicotine replacement.
I went onto champix and now I'm happily nicotine free

I gave up ciggies accidentally 4 days after my first puff of an ecig, 35 years a 20 a day smoker. Just meant to cut down but found it painless after multiple previous quit attempts.
7 years off the fags now, no cravings at all for tobacco.
If you want to give yourself the best chance of sticking with vaping always carry spare liquid, coil and if possible spare battery or another device.
Good luck!

I switched to vaping a few days ago and got some great advice on what to get from here and my local vape shop.

It's been a revelation tbh. I don't know why I didn't switch years ago but I'm only a few days in!

I think I will find it quite easy to get used to. I might end up giving away some of the cigarettes I have left.

It’s worked for every single person I know.

Nicotine is such a nasty drug. I started smoking when I was 18 and quit when I was 26 so 14 years ago. I did it because I’d just bought my own flat and was skint. Unfortunately vaping didn’t exist then.

I read up in addiction and worked out why I was smoking - it was comfort smoking for me, like how some people comfort eat.

I stopped using those Nicorette inhalators you used to be able to get. I fell off the wagon plenty of times and it took me about a year to quit properly. The physical cravings go away after a few weeks but nicotine hooks itself into your brain and the mental cravings take years to go, although they do get gradually less.

Good luck OP!

One thing that surprises me is that there is a lot of publicity about nicotine and lung cancer/heart disease but very little about bladder cancer. My cigar smoking DH died from this horrible cancer.

One thing that surprises me is that there is a lot of publicity about nicotine and lung cancer/heart disease but very little about bladder cancer.
No there isn't, nicotine isn't a carcinogen and has no bearing on heart disease or bladder cancer. It's the thousands of other carcinogenic chemicals in tobacco smoke that cause the issues, not nicotine which is relatively benign if highly addictive when found in combustible tobacco.

I’ve smoked since 13 gave up both times I was pregnant and in between children, but would start social smoking and then it would creep back into being full time. 20 a day B&H. 3 years ago I went with a friend to a vape shop and bought a cheap one and gave it a go and haven’t looked back.
I tried a couple of times to have one on nights out and just physically can’t do it anymore.
I loved smoking, it was the first thing I thought of when I woke up each day. I Would smoke through bad illnesses and hangovers, nothing ever put me off. Go for it, you’ve got nothing to lose.