168 hours and counting!!!

[dnakr]

Congrats sanneke, just wait until you decide to try a real cig, just to see, and it is the most awful thing you have ever tasted and for the life of you, you can't figure out how you ever thought it was good. That is when you know that you won't go back - LOL

[ned Zeppelin]

It's my fifth week today and Miss Diane's fourth week Thursday just gone so things are going pretty good.
But I must admit we are addicted now to the electronic cigarettes and could not do without them. It's only when they fail with problems we look at a packet of cigarettes on the side.

[sanneke]

Ned, I went to a water park last week with my kids and grand kids.
I took two e-cig with me, fully charged batteries, so I thought.
I left one of them in the car and took the other one with me.
The battery of the one I took with me decided to quit working.

I was without a "smoke" for 8 hours.
To tell you the truth, it was "uncomfortable" for the last hour or so.

BUT I survived.

Thinking back, smoking real cigarettes, I could not go without one for an hour, let alone 8 hours.........

That tells me a lot.

[ned Zeppelin]

Ned, I went to a water park last week with my kids and grand kids.
I took two e-cig with me, fully charged batteries, so I thought.
I left one of them in the car and took the other one with me.
The battery of the one I took with me decided to quit working.

I was without a "smoke" for 8 hours.
To tell you the truth, it was "uncomfortable" for the last hour or so.

BUT I survived.

Thinking back, smoking real cigarettes, I could not go without one for an hour, let alone 8 hours.........

That tells me a lot.

I know how you were feeling it's just like that for me when travelling from the UK to the Caribbean between 8 and 10 hours flight and then when you land you're not allowed to have a cigarette till you get out of the airport. And you can guarantee that it can take over an hour to get through customs.
So when you do get outside have that first cigarette you'll bloody head starts spinning but the worst scenario is if they don't let you have time to have one before getting on the coach to your hotel. And then you can't have one on the coach neither.
So you pray that the journey to the hotel isn't to long.
We did all of the above one year didn't get a cigarette till we got to the hotel. Well we tried to have one. We got to the hotel in Barbados and pre-booked a smoking room from the travel agent got to the hotel .we were told no smoking in your room only on the balcony I thought bugger this. So there was me lay on the bed smoking my cigarettes a blowing the smoke up into the air conditioning unit and Miss Diane like a fool having hers sat on the balcony.


You could only smoke in designated areas.. All restaurants lobby bar etc was all in the open air and you could not smoke in those neither.

[Kit]

NICE ONE SANNEKE hope i can join you soon mate- would love to join the smoke free club

[karenwest1961]

I'm part of your "without cigarettes" club myself! And I'm your biggest cheerleader, friend!

[TropicalBob]

Sanneke and Ned, every single day is a victory, isn't it? A person who has never smoked doesn't have any idea what an accomplishment it is to push aside a long-time habit/addiction for even a day or two, much less a week or month. Well done.

A new world opens up, too. You can go a movie without wanting a cigarette halfway through. You don't have to break away from non-smoking friends or relatives for your cigarette break. And you won't stink of stale cigarette smoke.

The smoker's cough is gone for good after 7 days. Numerous people here have addressed that. The next time you're around smokers, listen. Listen to the coughing. Listen to laughter that always ends the same way ... cough, cough, cough, cough.

Congrats again on your accomplishments. Others have succeeded and you're showing the way for still more to follow your examples.

[timonette]

I haven't had a real cig in almost 8 weeks! True, I can tell when someone is smoking for at least 1/2 a block! & the smell is TERRIBLE! Trad. cigs & Areos (smokess cigs with .05mg nicotine) to me not only smell terrible BUT also leave a dirty taste in my mouth & send me into a coughing fit. I use Smokers Option & e-cigs for "bad days" - when I crave "smoking" or the hand/mouth ritual. For my e-cig, I use the 0 nicotine cartridge. My only regret is not finding the e-cig months or yrs. sooner!

[dimebagdave]

well congrats to you all on your great accomplishments!!!!!!!
i received my very first ecig on monday, my last real cig was at about
4pm on monday. it is now 5pm on wednesday, 49 hours and no real bad cravings yet. the ecig is a godsend!!!! i thought it was still gonna be fairly
tricky quitting even with the help of the ecig but i'm well on my way and
dont plan on looking back!! a pack a day for 17 years, wish i coulda found these things years ago.

[sanneke]

Cool, I forgot about this thread.

I'm still smoke free, 1248 hours later, 1040 cigarettes not smoked by me.

No point of going back to smoking cigarettes now.
To be honest sometimes I do want to smoke one, but I have no cigarettes in the house, and I am not going to buy any either.
So there.

It was a bit of a challenge this week, we where on vacation for a couple of days this week and I was out of my normal routine.
But the UBS cord connected to my KISS classic really helped during the long hours driving in the car, because there was no worry about an empty baterry.