My First Month - A Reflection

I started vaping just over a month ago. A lot has happened in a month. Most markedly, I have not had an analog in three days now. Not that I was smoking more than one a day, but that single analog was staining what would have otherwise been perfect happiness with myself... Today, I feel a whole lot better about myself and where I am now.

I am so PROUD of my husband, who has not had a cigarette in over a month now. He was well known by his coworkers and our community as a definite chain smoker. In fact, it used to be my joke that he would die at a wonderfully old age with a cigarette in his mouth, a glass of sweet tea in one hand, and a handful of a pretty nurse's rear in the other. I have to modify that now. That analog has now become an eGo filled with some exotic, tropical juice.

I am proud of ME. Though I was not able to stop all at once like him, I look at the benefits I have gained, and the discomforts I have gone through. Analogs are not a pure driving need now... They are merely a temptation, and a nasty-tasting one at that!

I chose my signature to help me remember when I got serious about vaping, not necessarily to show a quit date. My quit date was three days ago. I am still unbelievably stoked by the analogs I have NOT smoked... Over 900 now!

My children are happy. Our home does not reek. I am able to feel perfectly fine with a non-smoker coming into my home. I get tickled when a smoker opts to step out the door to smoke, rather than to light up in my living room. I love smelling good, having better breath, and having hair that smells good at the end of the day rather than smelling like a bar room.

The things I can taste! The smells I can smell! The energy I have to MOVE! All of these things and more. My doctor even congratulated me on quitting, though he did not really take the time to ask me how. My coworkers past and present are happy and proud of me.

I even have a renewed relationship with one of my sisters because of ecigs, and things can't get much better than that.

After a month of vaping itself, I can say I am as blissed out as a girl can be. I have discovered great flavors and DIY, made some great friends, and am discovering amazing things that I wish I had known about all my life! Each new smell post-smoking and each new flavor of food or drink is an adventure, and I love the unexpectedness of it all. I love finding out that I really like something I disliked while smoking.

I can't wait to find out what I discover in a month after no smoking at all. I wonder if I will continue craving analogs like I have, or if vaping will chase most of the ghosts away. In any case, I am still grateful for vaping, and still definitely consider it one of the best friends I have ever had.

God bless ECF for being here when I needed to find answers, and for the fine people that run it and use it. I could not have found all of the things vaping afforded without all of them, or the specialkind of peace that I am feeling frombecoming an EXsmoker...

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