Been vaping for a month and a half now. During that time the longest i have been able to go without a stinky has been two weeks.
After smoking a stinky today, i did the usual vaper thing and started ordering (haha that's mostly me.) Ordered wta juice and stronger 36mg juice (which i'm now sure is going to be too strong, i beleived my 24 was too strong 18 too strong, 12 okay. But i was vaping a lot; chasing that fix. So the juice i ordered is probably too strong, unless i cut back on vaping, which i hope i do... but i'll fix it with mixing if needed. 36mg 'might' come in handy during smoke breaks at work though, seems the more alternatives the better anyway.).
But now the exciting part, the Snus! Swedish Snus.
I went to a semi-local cigar store and after barreling through the smoke stink (about a dozen guys smoking cigars watching football game in this place) i purchased general white portion mint and general white portion mint (un-tested so far). I plopped the white mint in my upper right gum. Wow that first part was strong, then it subsided and i left it in there. My headache, fuzziness, fog, craving, desire, want, edginess, irritability, annoyance, struggle.... it all started to subside (better than the cigarette had done a few hours earlier). I left it in for over an hour; i could definitely tell it still had potency to it... dare i say it almost felt too good, so i removed it. I think i will look into the mini's.
So i do of course have the safety questions, the health concerns, which i will research and come to my own conclusions on. Mostly i just wanted to say wow that stuff works. My biggest concern is that all the people i've known to use chew had terrible teeth/gums/oral cavities.... from quick research skimming it appears this isn't the case with this swedish snus. Or at least it is an improvement.
If wta juice comes close to snus, i'll be off 'tobacco' completely finally. If it doesn't, i will be 'snus-ing' whenever i get the bad withdrawal feelings, and juice doesn't hack it for me. I knew it wasn't just nicotine i am addicted to.... 25 years of inhaling smoke as fast as possible couldn't possibly lead to dependence of only one chemical. I would like to get off tobacco for sure, i would like to get off wta's and whatever junk i seek, i would like to get off of nicotine. But for now being off the stinkies is my goal, and with all of the great alternatives to use, i think i can do it now. Weird because i had tried replacing smoking with chew (and every other alternative) before; so the e-cig must be an important stepping stone on my quest to clean up.
So it seems my state (Maryland) doesn't allow Snus to be shipped to it... if any one knows a way around this so i can get my Snus cheaper, let me know here or by PM, thanks. Well actually, maybe $7 for a tin (24g) is an ok price???? i don't know, sounded high to me. Looks like online it's about $4.50 so with low->moderate use... i guess i won't care. But i would like to get some weaker and smaller Snus.
I do feel that this is cheating, not really fixing the problem, not quitting, just switching.... but it's better than returning to stinkies, i hope; heck anything has to be better than the stinkies right?. I do feel that what i used was too powerful for me, as now, having been about half an hour after removing the Snus... i'm getting a smidge light-headed. But it feels so much better than i did the last few days, chasing and craving. My biggest problem with vaping has been still having that dependence on being in a place i can vape... and usually i would also have been able to smoke in the same places. I don't see there being any real limits to location for Snus-ing; and the 'terror' associated with not being able to vape (same terror as not being able to smoke).
After smoking a stinky today, i did the usual vaper thing and started ordering (haha that's mostly me.) Ordered wta juice and stronger 36mg juice (which i'm now sure is going to be too strong, i beleived my 24 was too strong 18 too strong, 12 okay. But i was vaping a lot; chasing that fix. So the juice i ordered is probably too strong, unless i cut back on vaping, which i hope i do... but i'll fix it with mixing if needed. 36mg 'might' come in handy during smoke breaks at work though, seems the more alternatives the better anyway.).
But now the exciting part, the Snus! Swedish Snus.
I went to a semi-local cigar store and after barreling through the smoke stink (about a dozen guys smoking cigars watching football game in this place) i purchased general white portion mint and general white portion mint (un-tested so far). I plopped the white mint in my upper right gum. Wow that first part was strong, then it subsided and i left it in there. My headache, fuzziness, fog, craving, desire, want, edginess, irritability, annoyance, struggle.... it all started to subside (better than the cigarette had done a few hours earlier). I left it in for over an hour; i could definitely tell it still had potency to it... dare i say it almost felt too good, so i removed it. I think i will look into the mini's.
So i do of course have the safety questions, the health concerns, which i will research and come to my own conclusions on. Mostly i just wanted to say wow that stuff works. My biggest concern is that all the people i've known to use chew had terrible teeth/gums/oral cavities.... from quick research skimming it appears this isn't the case with this swedish snus. Or at least it is an improvement.
If wta juice comes close to snus, i'll be off 'tobacco' completely finally. If it doesn't, i will be 'snus-ing' whenever i get the bad withdrawal feelings, and juice doesn't hack it for me. I knew it wasn't just nicotine i am addicted to.... 25 years of inhaling smoke as fast as possible couldn't possibly lead to dependence of only one chemical. I would like to get off tobacco for sure, i would like to get off wta's and whatever junk i seek, i would like to get off of nicotine. But for now being off the stinkies is my goal, and with all of the great alternatives to use, i think i can do it now. Weird because i had tried replacing smoking with chew (and every other alternative) before; so the e-cig must be an important stepping stone on my quest to clean up.
So it seems my state (Maryland) doesn't allow Snus to be shipped to it... if any one knows a way around this so i can get my Snus cheaper, let me know here or by PM, thanks. Well actually, maybe $7 for a tin (24g) is an ok price???? i don't know, sounded high to me. Looks like online it's about $4.50 so with low->moderate use... i guess i won't care. But i would like to get some weaker and smaller Snus.
I do feel that this is cheating, not really fixing the problem, not quitting, just switching.... but it's better than returning to stinkies, i hope; heck anything has to be better than the stinkies right?. I do feel that what i used was too powerful for me, as now, having been about half an hour after removing the Snus... i'm getting a smidge light-headed. But it feels so much better than i did the last few days, chasing and craving. My biggest problem with vaping has been still having that dependence on being in a place i can vape... and usually i would also have been able to smoke in the same places. I don't see there being any real limits to location for Snus-ing; and the 'terror' associated with not being able to vape (same terror as not being able to smoke).