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Vaping satisfies me to a certain point and I also really enjoy it, I prefer the tastes I've got now too and this is what I don't understand. Why am I still getting this desire (not sure that is the correct word) to smoke when it doesn't taste as good but it does somehow just seem right. When I smoke then I can really feel that I'm inhaling something and it's doing something but when I vape, I'm just not getting that same feeling from my lungs. There's loads of vapour when I exhale, as much vapour as smoke but not the same feeling - does that make sense?

Graham

I'm really disappointed with myself but in another strange way, I'm not. I'm very confused at the moment.

On Wednesday lunchtime I had such a strong urge to have a real smoke and I sat in the car park in the hope that having some 24mg would help me through it but it didn't. I made the decision and bought 20 JPS Blacks and sat back in the car and chain smoked 3. It felt so good but I felt terrible in the fact of what I had just done.

I am now back to smoking 3 a day, one in the morning, one at lunchtime and one on the way home, if my wife found out (who has also given up a week after me) then she will go berserk. I really, really don't want to start smoking again after being so successful so far - what on earth has happened and what can I do? I need some help and advice here people. :-(

I can't really smoke at the weekend as we are both together most of the time so this weekend will be interesting to say the least. I have been vaping all the time since I got up this morning and it seems to be OK at the moment with no real desire to smoke yet, I just hope that it lasts. I've got all my batteries charged, plenty of juices and all carts full and ready to use so that I should have no need to smoke.

I just went to preview this post and saw my sig pic at the bottom showing me how much I've saved (I've actually got £300 in cash saved in a box) and that's made me feel even worse as I feel like a cheat. Arrrrrgh!!

Sorry about the sob story!

Graham

Hi addict,
I won't give you any more advice on what to get as I think it may confuse the issue but just to say that I had the same mentality as you before starting to vape. Because I has a very heavy smoker ( more than what you smoke a day and probably for a lot longer too) and I just didn't think that a e-cigarette would cut it for me - how wrong I was!!

Like you, I wanted to still feel as if I was smoking but not and the biggest thing that worried me when I look back was the Nicotine hit - or the lack of it, would I have enough.

I started off with the one's you buy in Tescos etc but within a couple of days being on here I had bought a Riva and started on 18mg Nicotine juices which after a while I found that I was vaping this stuff virtually all day long, I then changed to 24mg Nicotine and that was much better.

I went from 60+ a day (sometimes 80 at weekends) to zero 4 weeks ago today. If someone had said to me that that was going to happen then I just wouldn't have believed them but it did. I still can't believe that I gave up something that I thought I really loved and needed virtually overnight when everything else had failed but I did. I actually enjoy vaping now more so than I did smoking strange as it may sound.

Oh, and don't worry if like me, you fancy a real smoke a week or so later - I did and as I still had an 'Emergency' pack still at hand I took one out and lit it up - it tasted really horrible and I just kept asking myself how on earth did I smoke at least 60 of those a day and for so long.

You're probably not going to get the right tasting juice for you straight away unless you're lucky but if like others have said you get some different flavoured tobacco and either 18 or 24mg then you won't be too far off the mark. I have about 5 - 6 batteries always charged up and plenty of my favourite juices (always tobacco flavoured) so I'm never without and that simple set-up satisfies my needs at the moment, I might go for the more exotic stuff a bit later on but at only 4 weeks into vaping then I'm quite happy with what I have .

Good luck in whatever you decide on getting and let us know how you get on.

Graham

I just looked at my sig pic and it shows that I've avoided 660 cigarettes since I quit, so 659 avoided is better than none.

Can't believe that - 660 fags not smoked, I really don't feel guilty now.

And I've been putting £50 away each Sunday and now have £200 in my 'Reward' box and that's a major incentive to keep going.

Graham

Well that response has made me feel so much better, thanks pepes for the support - I really needed that.

It's nice to know that I'm not the only one that this has happened to and that it's not unusual - not that I'm going to make that an excuse and light up at every opportunity though!

Silly thing is that I didn't even like the taste - which is a good thing.

Onwards and upwards as they say.

Graham

...and had a cigarette.

I had to go out lunchtime and for some inexplicable reason I had this overwhelming desire to have a smoke, I still had the old packet of fags left in my car which I haven't touched for three weeks and lit one up.

I felt really bad about it and still do tonight, I'm vaping away now and have no desire at all for another cigarette but I just don't know why this incredibly strong feeling came over me after three weeks without them.

I really don't want to start smoking again and I'm sure I won't but it just kind of shocked me at how strong this was and how incredibly quick it came on. Has this happened to anyone else?

Graham