coralie

Originally Posted by coralie

I've told my story several times on ECF, so I won't go into a lot of detail. You can find it my posts. Suffice it to say, I've been vaping a year and a half; it took me 1 full year to quit smoking daily. I've been *mostly* smoke free for 6 months. I have caved approximately once a month in these six months, always at the same time of the month. But I haven't set aside my ecigs. I just pick one up again the next time and hit the ejuice. What helps me is having an array of juices and an assortment

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I began smoking at 22. I quit at 32. I quit smoking like I started, very slowly. I tried other ways first, but each time I tried to quit, I just ended up smoking more. About 2-3 years ago, I found the book, The Highly Sensitive Person and as I read it, I realized that what I'd always thought was wrong with me, wasn't *wrong*, but different. I think one's personality/nature is playing a role in smoking, and maybe this book would be interesting/useful to some. I will say that switching to vaping was ...

It took me about a year to wean off cigarettes, partly due to the other stuff. I first tried to switch cold turkey and ended up a teary mess while out of town with my mother and two sister in laws. I realized after caving that weekend at a bar that I needed to progress more slowly. I considered snus or snuff many times... but decided against adding something that I'd want to be rid of later. So each time I lowered my cigs, I used little tricks.

One that I used early on was switching ...

Now it's fall...I did indeed have a vapetastic summer. I got down to 1-2 cigarettes a day, one after they went to sleep at nap time and one before bed. Then I told my husband to stop leaving a cigarette for me at naptime. I shifted to wanting one as soon as he got home but after a few weeks of that, I just vaped like crazy right before he'd get here and then vaped while making dinner and got down to one when they went to bed and one right before I did. Then I dropped off the one when they went to ...

This will be my first vape-tastic summer. Summer is always harder for me regarding cutting back or quitting cigarettes. I smoke more out of boredom and I get overwhelmed by the kids, and need to take a break.

This summer will be different though. It's different already. For one, I've been vaping for 9 months or so. I started with the 901 but had some equipment problems and it wasn't the device for me. Then I got a 510. It was the device for me, but I wasn't ready to commit.
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