Well it's been nearly a month since I've been back on my PV full time. I took a nine month break there where I stupidly went back to smoking. I don't know why I did that. But it is what it is.
Ive been having some breathing issues over the last couple of years. When I met my current girlfriend, she was a smoker and I hadn't had a cigarette in nearly 3 years. The longest I have ever quit. It wasn't that she pushed me back into smoking. In fact she was firmly against it. But one day at work I got some kind of bug up my ... and decided I wanted a cigarette. It was all down hill from there.
My girlfriend and her mom had introduced me to machine rolling bag tobacco. Something I had never seen before. I knew people who hand rolled but it was a messy thing that resulted in a tiny disproportionate filterless cigarette I had no interest in. But this was different, these looked like sotre bought cigarettes. So I bought a machine and some tubes and a bag of tobacco and I was off.
For nearly a year I smoked the Midnight Special and Rave bag tobacco. Then the government got strict and put taxes on the tobacco and the prices skyrocketed. Smoke shops started selling bag pipe tobacco that was just as cheap the the cigarette tobacco used to be. Putting the words "pipe tobacco" on the bag meant they could skate around the taxes. I was told by several store owners it's pretty much the same as the Rave stuff just cut slightly different. Well... that was a lie. It's definitely pipe tobacco and it definitely is stronger.
I found this out because after switching to the pipe tobacco and smoking (deep inhaling it) like a regular cigarette for nearly a year, I started having some breathing problems. I got a cold that turned into bronchitis. I've never before in my life had bronchitis. It went away but the next time I got a cold the same thing happened and I ended up in the ER needing a steroid shot to open my airway. I was that constricted. I also had to start using an inhaler here or there when needed. That was when I decided to switch to vaping.
I vaped for two months and then quit everything completely for a full month. Then for whatever reason I got stupid and stressed out at work one day and bummed a cigarette off a co-worker. I was back on the pain train smoking cigarettes again and machine rolling. But this time I decided I was going to pay the extra and but the Rave cigarette tobacco.
As months went by I found myself waking up in the middle of the night every night to take a hit of my inhaler. Finally I said, enough of this, I'm going back to vaping.
So here I am. 25 days without an analog. I can breath better, I have more energy and I can start to smell things again. But I'm still coughing a lot and I'm still needing to take hits of my inhaler, not every night, but at least every other night.
I'm wondering why this is. Am I just not fully recovered from my smoking days? Or are my lungs and throat just easily irritable from the PG and VG juice now? I don't know.
So I decided I would change my vaping habits. I have been using this thing like a pacifier all day long. So now I'm going to start using in like a real cigarette, taking breaks and puffing 12-15 at a time and then waiting while.
I also recently had a conversation with my mom who has been a smoker for over 40-50 years. She's never seemed to have these issues and neither has my older brother who is in his mid forties and smokes over a pack a day of reds. Turns out my mom doesn't deep inhale, never has. She pretty much just brings it into her mouth, lets it hit the back of her throat a little and out from there. No sucking it down into her lungs. So I figured I would try that as well. I'd weird and feels like a bit of waste, but if I get used to it and I'm getting my nicotine, I should be good.
Ive been having some breathing issues over the last couple of years. When I met my current girlfriend, she was a smoker and I hadn't had a cigarette in nearly 3 years. The longest I have ever quit. It wasn't that she pushed me back into smoking. In fact she was firmly against it. But one day at work I got some kind of bug up my ... and decided I wanted a cigarette. It was all down hill from there.
My girlfriend and her mom had introduced me to machine rolling bag tobacco. Something I had never seen before. I knew people who hand rolled but it was a messy thing that resulted in a tiny disproportionate filterless cigarette I had no interest in. But this was different, these looked like sotre bought cigarettes. So I bought a machine and some tubes and a bag of tobacco and I was off.
For nearly a year I smoked the Midnight Special and Rave bag tobacco. Then the government got strict and put taxes on the tobacco and the prices skyrocketed. Smoke shops started selling bag pipe tobacco that was just as cheap the the cigarette tobacco used to be. Putting the words "pipe tobacco" on the bag meant they could skate around the taxes. I was told by several store owners it's pretty much the same as the Rave stuff just cut slightly different. Well... that was a lie. It's definitely pipe tobacco and it definitely is stronger.
I found this out because after switching to the pipe tobacco and smoking (deep inhaling it) like a regular cigarette for nearly a year, I started having some breathing problems. I got a cold that turned into bronchitis. I've never before in my life had bronchitis. It went away but the next time I got a cold the same thing happened and I ended up in the ER needing a steroid shot to open my airway. I was that constricted. I also had to start using an inhaler here or there when needed. That was when I decided to switch to vaping.
I vaped for two months and then quit everything completely for a full month. Then for whatever reason I got stupid and stressed out at work one day and bummed a cigarette off a co-worker. I was back on the pain train smoking cigarettes again and machine rolling. But this time I decided I was going to pay the extra and but the Rave cigarette tobacco.
As months went by I found myself waking up in the middle of the night every night to take a hit of my inhaler. Finally I said, enough of this, I'm going back to vaping.
So here I am. 25 days without an analog. I can breath better, I have more energy and I can start to smell things again. But I'm still coughing a lot and I'm still needing to take hits of my inhaler, not every night, but at least every other night.
I'm wondering why this is. Am I just not fully recovered from my smoking days? Or are my lungs and throat just easily irritable from the PG and VG juice now? I don't know.
So I decided I would change my vaping habits. I have been using this thing like a pacifier all day long. So now I'm going to start using in like a real cigarette, taking breaks and puffing 12-15 at a time and then waiting while.
I also recently had a conversation with my mom who has been a smoker for over 40-50 years. She's never seemed to have these issues and neither has my older brother who is in his mid forties and smokes over a pack a day of reds. Turns out my mom doesn't deep inhale, never has. She pretty much just brings it into her mouth, lets it hit the back of her throat a little and out from there. No sucking it down into her lungs. So I figured I would try that as well. I'd weird and feels like a bit of waste, but if I get used to it and I'm getting my nicotine, I should be good.
