i want to thank everyone for your comments and suggestions. i was never a big reddit guy until i found this forum and everyone is so supportive and helpful. i honestly dont know what i would do if i didn't find this group. certainly wouldn't be mixing and vaping. i always thought i wasnt smart enough to take it on but with help from everyone here it has been not only easier than i thought but dare i say, fun as well.

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thank you all!

What you need is 2 different attys filled with two different levels of nicotine. Make one a fruity/bakery/etc 3mg juice. Make the other a tobacco juice at 12/18/24 mg. Puff on the 3mg most of the day. But at those times when you really feel the urge for a cancer stick (after dinner, first thing in the morning, after whoopee, etc) hit the high nic tobacco juice. Over time, make a conscious effort to reduce the number of times you go for the high nic each day and taking fewer puffs when you do. Over time your desire for the higher nic will diminish.

I would start off using a higher nic level. 18mg or so. I know they make higher but that's the highest I used. I'm down to 3mg now, which is hardly anything compared to a full cigarette. I smoked cigs for 25 years, been vaping 5 years. Wife still smokes the cigs too. Once you get past that 2 week cig free mark, you will start to get your senses back. Vaping just tastes and smells better, for me anyway. Hope this helps.

1. Juice could be a reason. Visit your local vape shop and try out samples and figure out which flavor category/ies you enjoy.

2. It's also a question of will power. My friend and I started vaping at the same time (we decided to quit smoking and got the same vape devices together). However, our pods leak when placed in the pocket. I still haven't touched a cancer stick. He only smokes 1 or 2 when he's out. We both used to smoke a lot (he smoked 10/day, I smoked 15/day). (Higher than the national average.)

3. Your wife might be influencing you with smoking whether you like it or not. Speak to her re this and try to reach a compromise.

Hope you kick the cancer sticks for good and also, your wife makes the switch to a healthier lifestyle. All the best.

I'd definitely go for a higher nic content. IMO if you're a heavy smoker freebase nic isn't strong enough to fully act as a replacement to smoking. I recommend trying out 25mg nic salts, if you sub ohm you can dilute it with another juice to cut back the strength if it's too strong but when I swapped off from cigs to vaping 20 to 25mg juice was giving me basically the same effect as smoking, but I had smoked quite strong tobacco so YMMV.

When I started I couldn't get into deserts or fruits. I used ry4 with vanilla that was dry. I didn't want "wet" After a couple of months I experimented with non tobacco flavors and now love fruits and desserts. A lot of the vanilla custards can be dryish. Try that. I had smoked for over 40 years and was 2 to 2.5 packs a day. It took me 3 days to go total vape. When you get the urge to smoke, kick up the voltage and do a few chain hits and it will go away.

Blue raspberry bubblegum worked for me. The way I did it was just cut down as much as possible and only smoke when you can't stand it anymore. Vape the rest of the time. I finally worked my way down to 1 cigarette a day and that was the morning one. With a big push of will power you need to convince yourself before you even get out of bed that you won't have that first cigarette and just vape instead. I hope that helps. Thats exactly how I quit.

IMO if you are here then you are headed in the right direction. I found "99 juices" when I first started mixing, but is really not the best site for the power of today's devices. I noticed that snake oil clone has 11% TFA pear, which is insane to me. I usually use that in very low percentages. Some of those recipes are very old (5 yrs). I think you really need to vape something you truly enjoy, and don't want to put it down. I would not dare put a cancer stick in my mouth if I had a good recipe to vape. Try using "all the flavors", and try to mix a few different profiles with high ratings(eg. Cabin, Rainforest, or Daveberry cheesecake) just to mention a couple of great recipes. Sometimes less is more for a lot of flavors. I found that some of the profile's I liked with commercial juices weren't what I really loved. I was just finding juices that I could partially stand or did not hate. Look at the first order flavors, because they really "play well with other flavors", and give you many options. Try the diy discord and ask any questions you like. There are many knowledgeable individuals who would love to lead you in the right direction.

I was in the same boat until I actually tried mtl (the Ares rta was what did it for me). Mtl at 12mg is what finally got me off cigarettes. Before I was using 6mg in a big airflow tank but I kept going back to cigarettes. The juices that worked were from my local shop, one was Muffin Man which I've since discovered was literally the one shot you can buy at liquid barn, the other was something they called Cowboy, which I haven't figured out yet (but was myain juice at the time). It was somewhere between The Duke Clone and Western/Burley/DNB.

Edit: I wanted to add that after about 6 months my wife also quit smoking and now she also vapes.

Hello, i would highly recommend vanilla cuatard, called killa custard from psychobinny(srsly been vaping ut wvwr sunce i discovered it 6 months ago) or the classic, my previous allday vape-astire red

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Have you tried an MTL set up? Maybe mixing some 18 mg regular nicotine juice or a 35mg salt nicotine juice would help. (In an MTL setup) I really enjoy the uwell caliburn

Each cigarette you skip for vaping is a victory in itself. Don't beat yourself up. Your ahead of where you were, smoking all day.

Vaping has a learning curve. The setup definitely determines the amount of nicotine you need to satisfy that urge.

Years ago I started with a small ego battery n tank. Vaped 12mg and 18mg and still cheated with a smoke here n there. Then I bought a subohm tank and vaped 3mg on a .15 coil at 100w. That did the trick for me. Haven't smoked a cig in 4 1/2 yrs. Now I vape 3mg on a single coil alien .2 ohms at 65w in a rda. Also 12mg in a mtl tank at .8 ohms at 20w. I have also vaped hundreds of different flavors along my journey. Don't give up. Just keep experimenting until you find what satisfies your urge.

It may sound counter intuitive, but try ditching the flavors and switch to salt for one of your setups: I used what I call the "stop potion", 50-55mg NN VG Salt Smooth base in an all VG juice, you can add a couple drops of water or PG for wicking. My setup was b/w 0.7-1.0ohm and just chain vaped through the hard times with the lowest and coolest setting that produced adequate vape.

You will get used to the taste and it will emulate a clean cigarette without the paper and the rest of the junk, you will learn what nicotine actually tastes like. After a couple weeks my tolerance level dropped slightly to around 45mg and so on, but I made no effort to drop my nicotine level, it just happened by itself after every couple of months.

You should also have a second setup with lower nic for nighttime and less stressful times, I did this just by adding VG to my potion in my tank.

I think salt nic is awesome, it's much better then smoking by a mile, so don't hesitate to try it. I also think that flavors can can take your focus off of entirely letting go of cigarettes. Unflavored high salt nic will become your 'clean cigarette' and you can focus on your nicotine intake better. I could not tolerate freebase at higher levels it gave me a headache, nausea and insomnia. Salt nic was the missing link that made vaping work 100% for me.

With all that you can try a flavored commercial salt nic and magic might happen, if not, then try the above minimalist brute focus method.