My Road To No Nic

[mcquinn]

I started vaping in June of 2009 to beat a ban on smoking at my work.I started at 24 mg with a Joye 302 ,and I still smoked in the free world for two or three months.I finally lost the desire for the analogs and went to 18mg for about three or four months,then 6-10 mg about three weeks ago I started ordering no nic and have been using it in the evenings.This week I am using no nic only and not really having much trouble.I have a few of the 3 ml bottles of 18 mg from AwesomeVapor on standby just in case I start having nic fits I can mix a little in .I enjoy the flavor and the act of vaping just as much as ever.

[Brian]

Congrats McQuinn - quite an accomplishment. Good luck!

[mcquinn]

I sleep a lot better at nights as well ,I guess the nic was keeping me wired.

[Brian]

I'll keep blaming the coffee and Pepsi. Not ready to consider the thought that it's the nic that keeps me up at night.

[FTJoe]

I'll keep blaming the coffee and Pepsi. Not ready to consider the thought that it's the nic that keeps me up at night.

LOL - nick at night...

mcquinn - I'm sure you've seen my pavlov posts. Nic withdrawal for me was very subtle when I cut down too soon, my family paid the price as I was a complete bear, nasty, snapping, etc. Went back to my 18mg and cut down to 0 via about 2mg per week. Then much better at 0.

[Brandon]

Thanks for sharing McQuinn. Besides slowly reducing your nic content, did you change anything else? Like get new flavors, or search out flavors with zero nic but still had a strong throat hit, etc?

@FTJoe - Would still definitely like to hear anymore about your experience that you'd like to share as well.

[FTJoe]

@FTJoe - Would still definitely like to hear anymore about your experience that you'd like to share as well.

Hopfully its okay with mquinn to put this here, just makes sense. I'm going lazy and just pasting a previous post..

http://www.vaportalk.com/forum/forum/index.php?/topic/3551-nic-or-non-nic/page__view__findpost__p__29842

The whole thread is pretty good. I think at the time, my biggest challenges as I went to 0 was missing the throat hit. But I'm menthol so spent a lot of time mixing different ones up and menthol kind of simulates a throat hit. Next challenge was finding juices, was tough at first, but now pretty prevalent. I posted this as my source of 0mg, many more available now like the rath juices...

http://www.vaportalk.com/forum/forum/index.php?/topic/4404-newbie-need-help/page__view__findpost__p__39528

Interesting threads on addiction and health

http://www.vaportalk.com/forum/forum/index.php?/topic/1920-lets-talk-seriously-about-nicotine/

http://www.vaportalk.com/forum/forum/index.php?/topic/3666-is-vapor-addiction-real-i-think-its-all-about-choices/

http://www.vaportalk.com/forum/forum/index.php?/topic/1934-why-we-choose-to-vape/

http://www.vaportalk.com/forum/forum/index.php?/topic/2812-nicotine-in-vaping-compared-to-analogs/

[mcquinn]

I have always had a variety of flavors ,as I feel if you vape one flavor too long you get aclimatited to it and the taste dimishes.My advice is go at your own pace and keep a little in reserve just in case.If you go off the nic altogether and do not have a little stash you might be tempted to go to Piggly Wiggly and gets some analogs for a fix and that would be way worse than just vaping a few drips of niquid .Every body is different and so is the way we aproach things.

[Mike]

Those are great stories. I can see myself leaving the nicotine behind someday also. I started out using 24, 36, and 50mg(homemade-don't try this!) and also no nic once in a while. I'm down to 18mg now and vaping a little bit less. I plan on continuing to vape after I reach 0 nic but even less often just for a speacial treat. I won't set a date or anything but I think that by the end of the year I will be nicotine free. To put that in perspective, I have been anolog free since the end of last year.