I have wanted to stop smoking for a long time.  I am looking into the E-cigarettes, and I am wondering if anyone has ever tried them.

They're FANTASTIC! I love mine. I can get any flavor, any strength, and I can plug it in! So cheap, so lightweight/small, no lighters, no hassle, and if someone wants to bum a cigarette, we can just share. A 5ml bottle of fluid was only about 5 bucks, and it's the equivalent of a carton.

The only thing you want to watch for is "overdosing". That's what we called it. I did it, my buddy did it, quite a few people I know have done it. Its not as harsh or as 'filling' while you're getting used to it, and you don't have the 'oh, I ran out of cigarette' visual. Meaning, you don't have to put it out. You can just smoke and smoke and oh man, I don't feel so good, why is my head spinning. It takes getting used to. But once you do it's awesome. $5 for a carton, any flavor combination you could ever hope for, less carcinogens. For me, that was enough said, hahaha!

Haven't tried those and probably wont, because I've been 2 weeks now without smoking 

Hopefully that stays like that for the rest of my life.

I sampled a bunch of them and settled on V2 cigs. They had every flavor you could think of and some you can't and they had no nicotine, lights, and regulars. The throat hit seemed harsher than a regular cigarette, so it took some time getting used to them. The first drag always made me cough it was so hard but after a day it didn't bother me anymore. And the vapor was about as much as a regular cigarette.

The only downside I found was the weight. They're a lot heavier than a cigarette so you have to hold them differently. And the flavor can leak out the back if you forget to do that. Batteries lasted forever though. Came with 2 batteries and each one lasted a few days. Five cartridges to a "pack" and each cartridge is equivalent to a full pack of smokes.

I took Chantix for two weeks and haven't smoked in about 3 months or so. I took it for a week before quitting and it made quitting a lot easier because the cigs start tasting bad and it blocks anything you get from the nicotine. I took it for another week after quitting and it wasn't that hard.

I've tried them and found them difficult to get the hang of. Without the feel of smoke and like was mentioned the lack of visually running out of cigarette it can be hard to know when you're finished. They're so much less smelly and offensive to people though and if you're careful not to overinhale you feel better after one than after a normal cigarette.

So yeah they didn't really work for me but I'd definitely recommend giving them a chance.

I am in love with my EGO-T battery and 6ml tank!

I got them from Vapor 4 Life.  It's nice for me since they are in my area and I get very good service and turn around.  One time I ordered a new battery and it was non-functional.  I called them in the afternoon and the replacement arrived the very next day!  Nice people, nice site.

I use Cowboy Menthol 19mg nicotine.  I haven't had an analog cig in over 4 months and I don't miss it a bit!

I vape just about everywhere.  I can even get away with it at my desk and in the ladies.  There is no smell and the vapor is hardly noticeable if exhaled quickly.

Much cheaper than cigs and the sensations are just the same.  And I got better breathing, my sense of smell back, and much less smelly clothes as a result.

I use the version where you press the button to get the vapor rather than auto inhaling type.

http://www.vapor4life.com/shop-our-products/v4l-omg-mods/ego-102-kit.html

PM me if you have any specific questions.

-Sandy

I tried them, and found them to be helpful when I tried quitting smoking... however...

... the cartridges discharged some type of debris, which chipped a tooth.

I gave it the benefit of the doubt when it happened, as I was working with steel and thought that a piece of metal had got in my mouth - but proceeding with caution, it happened a second time (sans the chipped tooth).

I have tried everything to quit and so far nothing has helped. 

Quote from: TessaM on January 07, 2013, 07:21:17 AM
Hmm. I quit cold Turkey but it was like my 7th attempt. Maybe keep trying? E-Cigs I suppose are "healthier" than regular cigarettes. This is no alternative to actual quitting however.

Have you tried Champix? Other than cold turkey this is the only thing ive heard that has generally worked.

Tried it twice. Patches (I blister), gum, lozenges, even cold turkey.  BTDT.   This would be my 15th attempt.

Quote from: TessaM on January 07, 2013, 07:02:02 AM
You guys are just kidding yourselves here.
The E cigs still have NICOTINE. You are all still intentionally poisoning yourselves and getting all the negatives that nicotine has to offer. Your still a "slave" to your addictions, sorry.

Not 100% accurate. There are lot of brands of them where you can order them as nicotine free. I tried it that way thinking it would be easier to keep the habit without the nicotine then just stop the habit and it didn't change anything. I still ended up running out to buy another pack cause of the nic fits.

Liggett Menthol.  I tried the go lighter too.

Quote from: Ms. OBrien on January 07, 2013, 07:26:34 AM
Tried it twice. Patches (I blister), gum, lozenges, even cold turkey.  BTDT.   This would be my 15th attempt.

I had tried all the gimics too as well as cold turkey with no luck. I was a 1.5-2 pack a day smoker for about 25 years. What I found was that the frequency that you try to quit helps a lot. I was on quit attempt 25ish when it finally happened.

Here's what I did:
1. Quit cold turkey Saturday morning. If I had any smokes left, I broke them into thirds and threw them away. If I had unopened packs, I'd open them and do the same. I threw away the lighters and the ashtrays. I also threw away the ashtray in the car. First time I ignored it and smoked in there, then realized I had to pick them out by hand because of it, I stopped smoking in the car.
2. Next day I'd buy a pack and a lighter and smoke for the week (because I gave in to the nic fits not because of a rule).
3. Repeated that every week.

Each week, it took longer for the nic fits to get to me. The first time Saturday felt like one giant nic fit. By about the 3rd week, Saturday was a joke and I even went into Sunday. Eventually I was able to go 3 days without a nic fit and the 4th day was hell. I figured I got through 3 days I must be close to being off the juice so the time I got to the 4th day was the time I actually quit. That was a few months ago.

It also helped that I was throwing away any I had left instead of doing the "not wasting them" thing. And having to buy a new lighter each time. And that it costs about $12 for a pizza and I was smoking about $15 a day ($7.50 a pack) and thinking it was too expensive to order out. I'd rather each Thai food twice a week than smoke 7 days a week. I also stopped driving to the store, which is about a mile away. If I needed smokes, I walked there.

Of course it does not free you from nicotine addiction. Like gum and patch it gives your brain what it is addicted to. But that's all. It does not give you tar, carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, or the thousand or so cancer causing agents you get with burning tobacco

You can also get juice in various nicotine concentrations from 32 mg down to zero, so if you want to step yoursef down, you can.

There is no such thing as safe smoking, but this is much less harmful than smoking. And though the FDA does not like it, vaping is no more harmful than gum or patch. 

-Sandy


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It's interesting to read other peoples experiences in regards of quitting smoking. I have smoked for 20 years and I was prepared to a horrible struggle to stop smoking. However, this was probably the easiest thing I've done, I only used 6 pieces of gum during the first day and that was it. I still have the thoughts of smoking, but no actual physical need for it.

What I've read is that people are quite different. Some develop addiction quickly and it's hard to get rid of it and some, like me it seems, don't really develop an addiction at all. I would have not believed it from myself.

I hope I didn't come off sounding like an a* *. I know it can be a hard thing and I've watched people fighting against several different addictions. Wishing you best of luck and strength in quitting! 

Quote from: Sandy on January 07, 2013, 06:00:36 AM
I am in love with my EGO-T battery and 6ml tank!

+1 Joyetech EGO! Only I use the EGO-C with A style cart. 10 months and going strong!

My favorite flavor right now is Midnight Apple 50/50'd with Green Pear Tea

The quality and details between the different brands and models vary greatly. I started out with Vaporsmiths using disposable cartemizers, tried an Ego-C with refillable fluid, but ended up switching back to Vaporsmiths once they introduced a clearomizer which seems to work much better than others. It rarely seems to have a leaking problem. I can't imagine how a piece could come off in your mouth for instance. The ones in convenience stores and malls tend to be significantly more expensive and of a lower quality than the many options available online. The success rate of e-cigs for quitting smoking is about 70% compared to 5% for just about any other method including cold turkey.

I have never smoked. Yuck, yuck. I just like e-cigs. And I never bothered with tobacco flavors since I was never a smoker. They do offer several different tobacco flavors. I pretty much only like the minty-mint flavor.

Nicotine all by itself is not problem-free by any means, but by comparison to all the crap in commercial cigarettes, it is night and day. The vast majority of health problems from cigarettes come from other things than nicotine, like inhaling super-hot smoke from a burning plant into your lungs. The vapor from e-cigs is warm but not at all to a dangerous degree. It's not burning the cilia in your lungs which I understand take six months of no smoking to grow back and are a crucial part of your immune system. It's not coating your lungs in tar.

Quote from: dalebert on January 07, 2013, 02:08:50 PM
It rarely seems to have a leaking problem. I can't imagine how a piece could come off in your mouth for instance.

You know... I'm really not sure. I could find no instances, online, of this happening to anyone else - but the best evidence I have seems to indicate that this was the case. As said, it happened the first time resulting in a chipped tooth (which occurred in the course of "post-vaping mastication "  ), which instance I viewed with skepticism and continued using the e-cig, remaining alert to the possibility of a second occurrence of tooth-endangering foreign matter - which followed.

I'm not entirely certain what the substance was, or from where it originated; but it seemed like a fine prompt to discontinue use of the e-cigs. 

Quote from: TessaM on January 07, 2013, 07:02:02 AM
You guys are just kidding yourselves here.
The E cigs still have NICOTINE. You are all still intentionally poisoning yourselves and getting all the negatives that nicotine has to offer. Your still a "slave" to your addictions, sorry.

At best, these "E-Cigs" should be used as a stepping stone to outright quitting.

FWIW, I used to smoke and i just found "analog" (lol whoever called them that) so much more satisfying for whatever reason. Must all be in my head.

Just quit outright!

Tessa I think everybody is talking about using them as a stepping stone to quitting.

Quote from: Felix on January 08, 2013, 02:31:12 AM
Tessa I think everybody is talking about using them as a stepping stone to quitting.

I don't know about that. I know plenty of people who just switched and are content to keep using them as a much healthier (note the "er") alternative to tobacco. But I have heard of people who just eventually stopped using e-cigs. It wasn't like a serious effort. It was more like they just eventually didn't desire them that badly.