Vaping since Tuesday, little headaches...

[poppydaisyjulia]

Hi guys,

I'm new here *waves*

So I'm trying to quit smoking, I started smoking when I was 16 and I'm now 20, it doesn't seem like a long time but I found trying to quit cold turkey just made me irritable and snappy and I didn't want to hurt anyones feelings. 

I started vaping on Tuesday evening, so my first full day was Wednesday and I haven't had a fag since, I have had a few cravings to go and have one but I've stuck to my guns and had a little puff on my e-cig.

The thing is I keep getting little headaches and I'm pretty sure it's probably to do with the amount of nicotine in my vanilla flavoring... 18mg. I'm not totally sure how much nicotine is in a roll up, I smoked golden virginia and had around 8-10 fags a day. I didn't go and buy the e-cigs, my fiance did and I've only just realized today how many mg's are in the flavoring. So I ordered some bubble gum flavored stuff with just 8mg in and hoping that will work and not give me a headache, I never used to get headaches from smoking fags unless I smoked more than usual.

Any tips?!

Thanks!

[Karma]

Hello and poppydaisyjulia

well done stopping smoking

Vaping can be a bit dehydrating so try to up your water intake, that should help with the headaches. It doesn't sound like you were a heavy smoker so the 18mg may be too strong for you but also some people can get a bit headachey when quitting smoking so it may pass

[Deleted]

That sounds like perfectly normal newbie vaping stuff...

I had head aches when I first started vaping. Google nicotine overdose and see if there's any symptoms on there that are related to your vaping. Only sure fire way to tell if you are having a nicotine overdose or not (I generally puke when I have a nic OD). Also if you are concerned remember nicotine's half life is just 2 hours and if it's going to kill you it's going to do it in about 4 - so you're still alive so no worries.

You could try changing the nic/ml concentration but I don't know if that will really help or not. You may find you vape more than you smoked. Perfectly normal.

Whatever you find you're happy with stick with for a good wee while before reducing. Your body has to get all the gunk out from the stinkies and everything has to adjust....takes time

But even so you have made a fab decision and welcome to one of the friendliest forums online

Any questions (no matter how stupid you think it is) just ask away and one of our lovely peeps will get you an answer

Jane

[poppydaisyjulia]

I just hate getting headaches as I was a migraine sufferer when I was little and now a headache usually brings on a migraine :-( I did feel sick Wednesday morning, like I was going to throw up for about an hour when I woke up but then I was fine. Didn't even realize you could die from nicotine, scary stuff!

I am actually vaping less than I smoked, my coworker used to ask me to go for a fag every 1-2 hours and now I don't have anyone asking me to come for a smoke with them I just do it when I need to, I would say I've only used it about 4 or 5 times today and it's 16.50pm! I'm glad that my fiance is doing it too, even though he smoked less than me and could often go days without a ciggy (i don't really know why he wants to vape.. but oh well haha!) it's supporting rather than me just doing it by myself.

Thank you Jane, I found this forum by searching for information about vaping on the internet and it seems friendly already. :-)

[poppydaisyjulia]

Hi Karma,

Sorry I seemed to have scrolled past your post! I've only drank half a litre of flavoured water today so that's probably half of it! Feeling very tired and heavy eyes too, a little bit more hungry than usual but I guess that's to be expected, bit annoying since I'm also on a diet!!! Yes hoping this 8mg bottle of bubblegum I've bought will help!

[Karma]

Upping your water intake will help with the diet also poppydaisyjulia

I find fizzy water slightly more interesting

[djs]

If it helps...

I smoked twice as much as you and used 18mg liquid as soon as I threw away the cig-a-likes.

Welcome to AAEC

[poppydaisyjulia]

Yeah I've got some Blueberry & Raspberry sparkling water, when I'm at work, I tend to forget to drink! Silly of me really!

[poppydaisyjulia]

Mar 7, 2014 17:00:52 GMT djs said:

If it helps...

I smoked twice as much as you and used 18mg liquid as soon as I threw away the cig-a-likes.

Welcome to AAEC

Yeah I think the guy we bought them from just gave us a standard "starter" kit, most people we know smoke around 20+ fags a day so he was probably expecting us to, either that or my fiance didn't really understand what he meant if he got asked about how much nicotine he wanted, probably the 2nd one! ;-) Hoping that this bubblegum one comes by at least Monday, I'm going out tomorrow night for the first time in ages so it's going to be very hard to resist the urge to drink and smoke! Not sure about taking my e-cig with me incase I lose it or it leaks in my bag. :-(

[djs]

Mar 7, 2014 17:03:55 GMT poppydaisyjulia said:

I'm going out tomorrow night for the first time in ages so it's going to be very hard to resist the urge to drink and smoke! Not sure about taking my e-cig with me in case I lose it or it leaks in my bag. :-(

Take it ..

You'll be OK. I went to a Christmas party (lots of booze) with 10mg e-liquid - it did the job.

Drink and Vape.

[Deleted]

Hi
I'm not too qualified to advise as I'm new to this myself. Been vaping for 6 weeks to the day, quit the smokes 5 weeks ago. I was a 20-30 a dayer. I did find that i was also suffering with mild headaches and a sore throat but these have now dropped off so I put it down purely to the transition period. I am still on 24mg liquid but can only say that quitting has been so easy, can't really believe it as I have been an ardent smoker for nearly 40 years. A friend advised on what kit to get and I think this definitely helped.
Good luck, stick at it and keep up with the liquid intake

[poppydaisyjulia]

Mar 7, 2014 17:13:56 GMT @paulo said:

Hi
I'm not too qualified to advise as I'm new to this myself. Been vaping for 6 weeks to the day, quit the smokes 5 weeks ago. I was a 20-30 a dayer. I did find that i was also suffering with mild headaches and a sore throat but these have now dropped off so I put it down purely to the transition period. I am still on 24mg liquid but can only say that quitting has been so easy, can't really believe it as I have been an ardent smoker for nearly 40 years. A friend advised on what kit to get and I think this definitely helped.
Good luck, stick at it and keep up with the liquid intake    
        

Hi Paulo,

Thanks for sharing, I've just googled "nicotine overdose" and came across a post saying they experience, headaches, nausea and fatigue... I think I have had all three of these so far and think that 18mg is for heavy smokers, I should be on a much lower dose of nicotine. At the moment I feel tired, heavy eyed almost like I have a hangover, can't wait to finish work and go home to relax. Will probably only vape a few times tomorrow just to keep the fags away but so i don't cause a headache which will ruin my night out!

[Adam78]

Hi Poppy welcome to forum and congrats on not smoking since Wednesday

Find the right nic strength for you, don't over do it and the headaches will disappear.

I'd definitely recommend taking your vape on your night out, it's better than smoking and besides, someone might see you with it and decide to try it for themselves

[andy01424]

make you feel even better ,used to go through 12.5g[small pouch] of GV a day well in 14hrs rest was asleep lol headaches normal,over due vaping and you will get sick feeling,basic your chain vapig by sounds of it,if the icky feeling goes when you stop vaping for a while,we all done it,specially when stressed out on something,also theres a virus going round headaches icky feeling and loadsa sleep[ had it for past 2 days ] know few others with the same..also remember if your having sweet tasting juice your goona feel like a kid in a sweet shop over do it and feel ick! lol

If your still craving badly and sucking life out the ecig to combat it ,then ejuice level is to low up it a bit,just get one 24mg for emergency use.......

Now as for nic poisoning well you would have to drink it[ie self mix bottle] to do harm,10ml juic bottle may well make you hurl before you drunk it,also sign of over vaping ie chain vaping is icky /heartbeat raises.......basic remember the time you not had a ciggie for ages!!! then whoa ohhh yuk feel ick-works the same lol

And to calm your fears on Nicotine well you have some daily in food,only time you should be careful is A: keep juices out of reach of Animals and Children B: Same applies if you self mixing as nic content is a lot higher and is classed as a poison and treated with care,any form of liquid nic absorbs through skin contact,and yes we have all done it inhale juice just rinse/wash hands asap...now your panicking lol but remember this there are many vary many things that in life can harm you even you mobile can harm you,plus if none of us in the massive vape community had any real serious doubts then we would not be vaping,but we are and still here to lol

oh and welcome to AAEC the land of the nutcases and friendly bunch[stay of the Fasttech links you will spend money it will bite shinytitis has no cure]

[Deleted]

hi and . both overdose and diet can give you headache , drink water ,eat a lot of fruits ,rest your self a bit will help . how far i see you like to vape ,taste is nice and flavor also ....lower the nicotine from 18 to 12 or 9 and you can vape like a champ with no more headaches .... my opinion.