Electronic Cigarette

Erme

There's already a forum on here for e-cigs...

It's - https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/1243625

and a very friendly forum - http://allaboute-cigarettes.proboards.com/index.cgi

Might be worth joining either/or....

I've been on them about 6 months and am gradually reducing my nic strength.

Some on the above have been on longer...

Not keen on the disposables though they work for some...You're best asking on the above for a newbie kit (thinking the riva 1100 with the 510 fitting for about £30 and a heap of e-liquid at various strengths to try - you should be able to get that for less than £20).

But yeah loads of myths and misinformation and also (when you can find it) some real experts on it...

Hope that helps

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jaywal321

whitty999 wrote: »

I Have Seen These I Think In Firebox But They Are Quite Expensive,i Would Be Interested To Find Out More About Them & Are They Any Good

Believe me whitty, compared to 'real fags', they are as cheap as chips|! I am saving about 30 pounds a week on ecigs!

jaywal

geneva

Vaping/Ecigs can be as expensive or as reasonable as you choose to make them . . . I was spending a good £70+ a week on ciggies a couple of years ago, I can vape very well for around £50 a month . . . what quite I've done with the money saved, is another matter.

prepareathome

I used to spend £42 a week min on real cigarettes and keep promising myself I will put the money away I saved after taking of costs of supplies for vaping, and have I nope. Yet by now I would have spend around £318 on real ones and have spent £128 ( not spent all at once) on supplies but the extra money has just disappeared into the housekeeping.

Mind you on saying that if I want something new now, not taking very expensive, I will buy it, have picked up some brand new dresses and bags in charity shops, now didn't need dresses just now and before I would have looked longingly and thought nope but now I don't feel guilty picking them up as still not spending more than would on real nasties and dresses will be used so saves me looking nearer the time I will want them.

I do thought want to get proper saving together as income gone down drastically yet its not what stopped me smoking I will be honest, I got e-cig thinking might just help me cut down a bit, never thought it would stop me with my first use of it, but it did and I was lucky. So I find the extra cash in my purse tends to end up being spent on whoopsies in SM, where as before I might only have enough for one or two I now can pick up say enough to feed us if they have them for a week or two ( main part I am talking about - meat/fish/quiche/sausages etc) so we are eating more expensive food - good quality meat and lamb say - for far less with being able to afford to buy them when available - so you could say I am saving using food as my currency.

So happily vaping - although for some reason this past week has been a bad one for wanting a nastie, oh wanted one so badly, but never for a moment though considered going and buying one, that is a total thing of the past. Might sound daft but I look on wanting a nastie as wanting my mum, who has passed, so I guess its a type of mourning for something gone and I know cannot be again.

Erme

Interesting pAh.....having probs with my latest reduction. Just not satisfied with it and ever so restless. Guess that's nic withdrawal but don't really want to go above 3ml a day so upping it for a little while...

Erme

Nic reduction going a lot better past couple of days. Thanks so much for everyone's prayers.

Was a major grump yesterday. Uber sensitive and defensive and aggresive. Took it out mostly online. Hope today is better

The thing is I've never before monitored it when I do a reduction. So I guess I shouldn't beat myself up so much? But I'm good at that LOL

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princess*daisy

Hi :wave:

Well done for thinking about quitting smoking!

I have tried quitting with an e-cig in the past. To be honest, it just wasn't worth it. Yes, it was fab at first but it was just a new "toy" really. It didn't help with actually breaking the addiction or challenging cravings head on, so in the end I just went back to real cigs. The problem is that it continues to perpetuate the HABIT of smoking - the repetitive hand to mouth action, the inhaling of a substance, the "going outside with my friends when they have a smoke, but just use my e-cig instead".

The only NRT product that I have genuinely ever found helpful for me is nicotine lozenges. They help you to completely break the habits described above, while curbing cravings and stopping you from replacing cigs with food (as each lozenge takes approx 30-40 mins to dissolve in your mouth). They aren't as harsh as nicotine gum. I have been smoke free since 2nd Jan using lozenges and to be honest, aside from the first two weeks I've barely even thought about smoking. I can't say I've missed cigarettes really. I have also managed to step down from 4mg lozenges to 2mg lozenges without noticing much difference :j

Good luck whatever you decide to choose

Lotus-eater

Well princess, it's the habit of smoking, that many people (myself included) find it hard to give up.
If the lozenges worked for you, then great, i have no problem with that, it doesn't mean that the e-cig doesn't work for others.

Erme

Lozenges and other forms of NRT weren't strong enough for me initially but glad they worked for you Princess :j...

Different folks, different strokes...

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prepareathome

I just could not stand the taste of the Lozenges, really tasted so horrible to me.