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I didn’t think it would work well enough for me to quit, everything else I had tried had failed.
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i tried first a cgi-a-like (1st gen) and it didn’t worked (no satisfaction, nicotine craving, leaks,…). Then a few month later a friend told me about new models and he was tobacco free by this time. So i gave a second chance, without any expectations. 3 days after i crushed my last cigarette, and it’s been 2 years now.
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I hoped they would help me quit tobacco and save money too
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I was skeptical because of the lack of trustful information about it online.
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I was concerned about cost and taste
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I just said I’d give it a try. Never picked up anoth cigarette. Almost 3 months now
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I tried a variety of brands and methods until I found one I liked.
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Was the BEST thing to ever come into my life !!!
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I wanted to quit, and was determined to quit. I researched everything I could about it, to be sure I wasn’t jumping from one burning building to another. It was incredible – no desire for cigarettes at all. I knew my life had just changed.
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I thought it might help me cut down on cigarettes but it worked so well, I quit.
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I tried the cheap clearomizer with a very small battery, and silica wick. Was no problem quitting when I got proper equipment with regulated air intake.
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The first e-cig I bought was underpowered and unsatisfying. When I later tried a higher power device with adjustable airflow, then I quit immediately.
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It works, but is not effortless. I accidentally cut my smoking down and was ready to move to vaping only then the TPD happened. Knowing that I will probably have no choice but to smoke when the TPD Art 20 becomes law it is easiest for me to still smoke a few cigarettes a day. At 65 and smoking for al my adult life I think that the worst damage smoking caused will never be undone in my lifetime. I do enjoy smoking a few cigarettes. I have not found an eliquid that is so much better that I always prefer vaping to smoking but because I’ve cut smoking down so much I breathe better and feel healthier.
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It was kind of a no-brainer. Works like a smoke, feels like a smoke, tastes delicious and didn’t make me feel like crap? Where do I sign up?
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I started in 2008 when vaping wasn’t super efficient. In 2012 I got my first electronic mod and stopped smoking immediately afterwards.
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tried cig-likes many times did not work no satisfaction, then tried gen 2 ego/ce4 combination and it worked
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Not enough information at the time to be sure it was safe and efficient.
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I knew from my first puff on an ecig that this was a *wonderful* alternative to cigarettes. It felt “cleaner” (not as harsh on throat and lungs) and I loved the flavor (non-tobacco menthol). And it was every bit as satisfying.
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I wanted to understand what I was inhaling so I did research & wrote a paper, Vaping: The Truth, to educate others
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I started vaping about 3 years ago, and initially it didn’t work for me. However, that was due to a combination of lack of information, poor hardware availability and selection, poor liquid offerings and low nicotine strength. And I gave up on it for a while, until I did find better hardware, better and stronger nicotine strength liquids, and information. After some trial and error, I was able to quit tobacco with ease.
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i’m a gadget geek and that’s why I was so enthralled.
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I initially got an e-cig because it was supposed to be cheaper than smoking. It wasn’t until I started using it that I realized that it really could replace smoking all together.
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I had to find the right nic level, then it worked like a dream.
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I was going to stop but e-cigs made it easier and stopped me putting any weight on
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I didn’t expect it to work because I had tried to quit so many times before with different methods.
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I didn’t want to quit smoking – just wanted to both vape and smoke, but was taken by surprise – as the smoking tasted terrible on the second day of vaping
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My plan was if I could use the e-cig to replace some of my normal cigarettes. It turned out that I did not feel the need for normal cigarettes, when I stated vaping. I got of nthe cigarettes within 2 days.
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Although it was a first gen e-cigarette (5 years ago), I immediately noticed that here was something that might work, but I was also a little nervous about it now was more harmful a smoking, so I used months to seek information about it online before I bought my own.
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Smoked 22 years, quit easily in 1 day. Been a year and a half now
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After SO many failures I wasn’t 100% sure vaping would work. After locating the one vape shop at the time some distance away.. the owner educated me. I purchased a starter kit and e-liquid that appealed to my sense of taste. MUCH better than the taste of burning tobacco leaves!
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I knew nothing about e-cigs at the time and was a little leary of using it, but after the 3 day trail I realized very quickly that this could work!
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I tried 2 other ecigs and had no luck. Once I found the device that most closely mimiced my smoking style, I was able to throw away my last half pack of smokes!
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they saved my life!
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Didn’t expect it to work for me being such a heavy committed smoker of traditional cigarettes.
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No, I read a lot about it before i bought my starter kit.
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I just bought my PV for times when I couldn’t have a cig. After my first use, I never wanted a cig again. At first I used my PV compulsively – them started dropping nicotine levels and after 10 months I am down to “0” and just use it occasionally. It was literally that easy for me, with no expectations to quit at all.
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Didn’t think it would work, it didn’t give me the same feeling I had with snus, but it kept the “hunger” down.
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first time I read about electronic cigarettes, I had serious doubts about their efficiency to let someone quit smoking, maybe the choice of the name taken by the brand was sounding a little like “prestidigitation” and it had let me skeptical. At this time I wasn’t thinking about quitting yet (that was about 5 years backwards)
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First time i tried to vape there was only ciga-likes available.The diden’t deliever enough vape.Later on i bought an Ego-T model and i did it! Wasen’t an easy start for me, but i have been vaping for 2 1/2 year now 🙂
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I never thought it would be that easy.
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First time I tried it didn’t work at all but for the second time I kept at it and managed to quit smoking.
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I tried the cig-a-likes but they never worked and I returned to smoking repeatedly. It was only when I tried an ego that my cravings were satisfied.
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I wasn’t looking to quit, just to have something where I could get my nicotine without it causing health issues for my wife. After I started vaping, I just quit smoking without meaning to.
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I tried vaping and gave up cigarettes the same day. Now I find that tobacco products stink and so do the people who use them.
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I actually only hoped to cut down my cigarette consumption, which worked swimmingly. Within the first week I was down to a couple of cigarettes a day. This was back when the only styles available were cigalikes or pen styles, and it took the introduction of the eGo style for me to become totally smoke free.
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I first tried a cartmizer but never worked. With sub ohm vaping it defenitely works.
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I’m still concerned about what I may be inhaling! But it’s better than burning tobacco!
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Generation 1 cigalikes were too finicky and didn’t satisfy my cravings to smoke, especially while I was around other smokers.
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Smoke free since February 2014 thanks to ecigarettes!
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I started with a first gen in 2009 – it was horrible and too ‘figity’ for me. I had to constantly mess with it, it tasted awful. It was just horrible. I picked up a much better model in 2014 and its been fantastic! I quit all tobacco use within three days and never looked back!
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I wasn’t skeptical because it was guaranteed to be less toxic then what I was already doing. Had to go into hospital for an operation, so figured I’d vape until I was done, and then go back to cigarettes. This never happened cause e-cigarettes worked so well.
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First ecig was a cigalike & I didn’t use it for long. Resumed vaping when I bought a 2nd gen device 5 months later
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From my research on it I was confident that I was moving in the right direction. My only concern was if it would give me enough nicotine to benefit me. I understood that is was not like cigarettes and how effective they would hit your brain. I realized e cig would be slower so that was my main concern. Until I used e cig I wasn’t sure it would work the same way for my staying in focus and dealing with pain and other issues I have that smoking helped me with.
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I knew it had worked for my sister, but not for my daughter.
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I planned to use it during office hours, but ended up using it all the time.
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Vaping is what worked for me, my main concern was getting the `right` kit to start with, hence research via internet.
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Somewhat sceptical but decided they couldn’t possibly be more harmful, media hype had largely by-passed me as no interest at that point.
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Searched online and started with a good quality rechargable cigalike which was adequate.Was amazed that transfer to vaping was effortless.
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I laughed at the idea the first time. It sounded like a totally unrealistic BS just to get more money aout of people who want to quit. (Boy how wrong I were…)
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Having tried a much older device type first I was entirely sceptical as the older device was not sufficient to help.
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Tried and stayed with it 100% from the first inhale. December 21st 2014, 14:00.
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Absolutly astounded that vaping satified my needs that I got from smoking cigarettes.
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At first I looked at vaping as the ideal solution when non smokers were present for a smoke free cigarette I had been longing for instead of the “you must go outside while someone is here” story! That’s no longer a concern while I still remain around regular smokers who haven’t gotten it yet still thinking they have to light them up!
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I tried one out of curiousity so had no expectations about quitting (or not).
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It was new, had to research learn and try
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I’d love an update on Just how many people have taken the survey as of today,24th June 2015.
Absolutely!
677 as of a few minutes ago.
34 countries! 🙂
I tried, but question #44 would not let me leave an answer to any line item – it had symbol there instead – not a check box. Because of this i could not submit my survey.
There is a big problem with question #44 on this survey:
https://vapinglinks.wordpress.com/2015/06/22/the-vaping-truth-survey-is-now-live/
Because of the problem where I couldn’t select an answer at all – it would not allow the survey to be submitted.
Please fix it so I can get my opinion to the vaping world.