The Top 3 Reasons Why Smokers Fail to Switch to Vaping

When electronic cigarettes first arrived in the scene in America in the late 2000s, they promised to end tobacco use forever by giving smokers a replacement that looked the same, felt the same and tasted the same – just without the smoke. If you’re a smoker who has tried an e-cigarette and didn’t enjoy it, though, you know that that the claims made about those early products were largely overblown. If the product that you tried was one of the very first e-cigarettes, your experience might have even been so bad that you never tried another vaping device again.

If your first experience with an e-cigarette was bad, you’ve probably wondered why so many millions of people around the world vape when you were never able to make the switch yourself. To a certain extent, switching successfully from smoking to vaping requires you to accept that vaping is very different from smoking in many ways. The product that you choose, however, can also make an enormous difference in the enjoyment you derive from vaping. Did you experience any of these things when you tried an e-cigarette for the first time? If you did, maybe you should give vaping a second chance. Many things have changed since the vaping industry began.

1. Using an E-Cigarette That Looks Like a Tobacco Cigarette

The earliest e-cigarettes were about the same shape and size as tobacco cigarettes, and that helped vaping gain mainstream acceptance. Smokers who saw the little devices in convenience stores immediately knew that they had something to do with smoking, and their curiosity was piqued. Today, though, virtually every smoker knows that e-cigarettes exist. There’s no longer any need for the devices to look like real cigarettes.

Why is that important? As it turns out, cigarette-shaped e-cigarettes are actually some of the worst-performing vaping devices on the market. Their small batteries aren’t strong enough to produce an acceptable amount of vapor or to last for more than a few dozen puffs between charges.

These days, new vapers are using more capable all-in-one devices like the Aspire Breeze 2. While these new devices are still sleek, They offer far superior vapor production and have up to 10 times the battery life of the earliest cigarette-shaped vaping devices. Most importantly, using an all-in-one device means that you can buy vape juice by the bottle – and use any flavor you want – rather than being stuck with just a handful of different pre-filled cartridge flavors.

2. Using the Wrong E-Liquid

Why is it so beneficial to use a vaping device that works with any e-liquid? The first reason is that the pre-filled cartridges for most e-cigarettes taste truly awful. If you tried vaping in the past and didn’t like it, you probably started with a pack of "Tobacco" cartridges that tasted like a strange mix of nicotine, mixed nuts and chemicals. It certainly didn’t taste like actual tobacco, and there’s a very good reason for that: Only tobacco tastes like tobacco.

When you explore the wider world of e-liquid, though, you’ll soon discover that a vape juice can taste incredibly delicious if it doesn’t try to taste like a cigarette. Do you like candy? Bubblegum? Soda? All of the natural and artificial flavors available to companies in the culinary world are also available to e-liquid makers. You can find a vape juice that tastes almost exactly the same as any popular snack that you can imagine – and the only way to experience those flavors is by using bottled e-liquid rather than pre-filled e-cigarette cartridges.

The second reason why it’s so important to use a vaping device that works with any e-liquid is because a new type of e-liquid is making it possible for millions of people with higher nicotine needs to finally make the switch to vaping. In the past, many heavy smokers found it difficult to switch to vaping because they couldn’t get enough nicotine in their systems to feel satisfied. At higher nicotine strengths, standard e-liquids can be harsh to inhale. The new type of e-liquid – nicotine salt e-liquid – has a more neutral pH, making it very smooth to inhale even at high nicotine strengths. The highest-strength nicotine salt e-liquids deliver nicotine almost as efficiently as tobacco cigarettes.

3. Giving Up Too Soon

Tobacco smoke is an MAO inhibitor. It alters your brain’s reward pathways and reinforces your addiction to cigarettes. Nicotine alone, however, does not have the same property – and that’s only one of the ways in which tobacco smoke differs from plain nicotine. Combustion of tobacco is such a complex chemical process that researchers still don’t fully understand the ways in which cigarettes affect the body. The fact that tobacco is so powerfully addictive isn’t something that you can attribute to the nicotine alone.

Did you try vaping and return immediately to smoking because you didn’t like the way that vaping made you feel? An e-cigarette can only replace the nicotine from tobacco; it doesn’t replace any of the thousands of other chemicals in tobacco smoke. When you first switch to vaping, you’re going to experience a few days in which you don’t quite feel like yourself. That’s normal. Although the fact that you’re still getting nicotine will definitely lessen your cravings for cigarettes, you will still have those cravings while your body works to clear itself of the other chemicals in tobacco smoke. If you’re willing to tough it out for a three-day weekend, you’ll come out the other side feeling much better.

Jason Artman is the owner and author of eCigOne.com. A professional freelance writer and SEO consultant with more than a decade of experience, Jason works with vaping companies around the world to increase their targeted web traffic.