Has anyone managed to give up smoking by gradually swapping cigarettes for vapes
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Welcome to the VC, young lady! Or am I presumptuous? Christopher Maltasonti on The Sopranos is often called Chrissy. Do us all a favor and introduce yourself in the topic “Introductions”. Or something like that. Maybe “Introduce yourself”? There’s a magifying glass in the upper right corner so you can search for “introduction”.
I don’t think many of us would recommend that. You can simply replace the sinky’s with juice. Find a flavot you like and you’ll never look back! However, you can slowly reduce the Nicotine in the vape juice to reduce the desire to inhale what we we call the “stinky’s”
Another alternative is to do what I did. I made (but you can buy online) zero nic juices. I did the Nic patches and vaped. You get the hand to mouth, throat hit and the expanding lungs, but slowly reduce the nic. Do you have to reduce the nic? Nope. Give me one good reason not to. Nic raises blood pressure. Hypertension which can lead to death and a reduction of cognitive skills.
Patches run from 21 mg/24 hours, then 14 and then 7 mg. 14 patches over 2 weeks. I was smoking 10 swisher sweets a day. Google said 1 cigar is = to ten stinky’s. 5 Packs a day. I started at 21 mg AND 14. Then 21 and 7 mg. Then, 21, then 14, then 7.
I can’t say for sure as I don’t know what Country you’re in, but insurance co’s here in the US will give you nic patches free. Patches, are MUCH cheaper than Chemo. 
I wouldn’t know the ratio of stinky’s nic to vape juice.
Like how many mg of nic per stinky is = to vape juice. (And how many packs you smoke a day.) I’m sure someone here could tell you. Probably @SessionDrummer. It also depends on how much you smoke. Do you chain smoke and will you chain vape?
Note that I’m a noob, so I don’t feel comfortable giving a LOT of advice, BUT, were I you, I’d buy some juice with X mg of nic based on whatever others’ suggest. AS you ween yourself off the nicotine, learn to make your own juice!
Why? Making juice is COOL! Little bit of chemistry, a fair amount of experimenting. Best part, you can make any flavor you like! If you’re British, I imagine you like a cucumber and cream cheese sandwich. I had one of those on a flight from England to Italy and almost retched! Sounded good at the time…
Do you like the fruits, or desserts? I like Butter fingers, vanilla ice cream/butterscotch swirl, or malted milk and just plain brown sugar.
Fruits are what we call shake and vape. Mix a batch, shake it and vape it. Sweeter juices like custards, ice cream and Butterfingers take a MINIMUM of 2 weeks to steep. Like a spot-a-tea.
What’s a 100 ml bottle of juice cost in your neck of the woods? Here in the U.S. it runs around $30.00. I invested $100 in a scale, and liquids including flavors, bottles and nic and I calculated a 100 ml bottle cost $1.68. As you buy more liquids and bottles the price drops exponentially.
Note that there are pre-fab recipe’s here from mixologists that have been mixing for decades, Spot on! When you’re ready to make you’re own juices these sites have calculators. I want X PG/VG. flavor concentrates…etc.
Each and every one of them has a line item for desired strength. But they don’t say strength of WHAT? It’s desired strength of nicotine. Do you want, 24 mg, 18, 4 or 2…? There’s not a soul here that doesn’t want to help you quit smoking.
The trick is to be patient in your mixing adventure!
Ok, guys and gals, lemme know how far off my logic is!
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Hey @crissy first off, welcome to the VC.
As far as this, I can only tell you MY process, and yours may be different.
I was a heavy smoker, at least 2 packs a day (or so), for too damned long. Back in the WAY BACK, hehe, vaping equipment, ejuice was all (for the MOST part) pretty SUB-par compared to what we have now, including flavors.
I decided to TRY quitting smoking by vaping. I kept a FULL pack of cigarettes with me, JUST as a safety net, but steadily started vaping. I knew I could ALWAYS grab the pack if I needed to, but I never did. God only knows how, because dripping on a 510 atty back then, was a REAL PITA. I was hitting 24mg freebase juice, which is VERY strong for freebase, and I knew I needed to start out high, to be able to make the switch.
NEVER grabbed for the pack of cigarettes, and made SURE to have backup batteries, atomized, fully charged, so I was never left in a lurch.
For me, it worked out.
I’ve never tried to slowly shift from one to the other, so I can’t speak firsthand. Getting a good setup WITH a backup, and a HIGH enough NIC level so it won’t be a shock to your system.
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