I've never actually blogged before, seems like it is just an online journal so that would be appropriate for what I want to do here. I think that using a PV is finally going to be the way I quit smoking and I am so excited about that! So for my own benefit I would like to keep track of my progress, hurdles and discoveries. If anyone else sees this, cool. If not, that's OK too.
History
I started smoking when I was about 16 because my best friend did. My father also smoked. It wasn't something I needed to hide and for many years it was socially acceptable. Heck I remember being able to walk into grocery & department stores with one. Restaurants allowed it. I could sit at my desk at work with one. Was no different than chewing gum or something. Of course all that changed. Sadly, it finally caught up with my father - he died of cancer in 1996 at 64 yrs old. Then my family started harping on me. One would think that losing a parent to that disease (and by now several other people) would have been enough to make me stop. But I didn't... half-heartedly tried several times, never lasted more than a day.
vaping
Christmas of 2010, Mom bought me an njoy Pro kit. I'd heard of e-cigs, saw one on TV, but knew nothing more. Tried it out and thought "hey this is pretty cool!" Even thought it tasted OK. This just might work! It came with 10 cartos. For the next couple weeks I used both those & cigarettes. Felt good about cutting back on the real ones, supplementing them with the e-cigs. When I started to get down to the last couple cartos, I started my search for refills. Discovered to my surprise you couldn't just go into any smoke shop and pick them up -- some had nothing, others had different brands. Sigh.
So began the great internet search. Found this site. Found out what I had was old-school. Found advise/recommendations. And so it began....
History
I started smoking when I was about 16 because my best friend did. My father also smoked. It wasn't something I needed to hide and for many years it was socially acceptable. Heck I remember being able to walk into grocery & department stores with one. Restaurants allowed it. I could sit at my desk at work with one. Was no different than chewing gum or something. Of course all that changed. Sadly, it finally caught up with my father - he died of cancer in 1996 at 64 yrs old. Then my family started harping on me. One would think that losing a parent to that disease (and by now several other people) would have been enough to make me stop. But I didn't... half-heartedly tried several times, never lasted more than a day.
vaping
Christmas of 2010, Mom bought me an njoy Pro kit. I'd heard of e-cigs, saw one on TV, but knew nothing more. Tried it out and thought "hey this is pretty cool!" Even thought it tasted OK. This just might work! It came with 10 cartos. For the next couple weeks I used both those & cigarettes. Felt good about cutting back on the real ones, supplementing them with the e-cigs. When I started to get down to the last couple cartos, I started my search for refills. Discovered to my surprise you couldn't just go into any smoke shop and pick them up -- some had nothing, others had different brands. Sigh.
So began the great internet search. Found this site. Found out what I had was old-school. Found advise/recommendations. And so it began....
