3) Do you still have a cigarette every now and then? If so, what are your impressions when you have one?
I have not had one since April 6, 2014. I still have the occasional dream about smoking, although I've noticed more recently that, in such dreams, I have begun to mention that I vape instead of smoke, so I guess the psychological shift is still a work in progress. These dreams, perhaps, also go hand-in-hand with the rare urge or wistful memory of smoking, but all I need as a reminder to stay away from cigs is a walk past a smoking section at the mall... and the memory of one further experience that I had when I first started vaping:
I had an entire carton of cigs left when I bought my ego starter kit. Using smoker's logic, I was not going to let the cigs go to waste, but the more I vaped, the nastier the cigs began to taste. It looked as if quitting was going to be a real possibility--and that I would never reach the end of the carton. However, two weeks in, the heads in my clearos died and the B&M I had purchased the kit from was inexplicably out of replacements. I found that my cigarette intake, which had fallen to about 4-5 per day (and was continuing to head lower) quickly returned to nearly a PAD! That lasted for about three or four days until the replacements came in and I could finally finish the carton--and not purchase any cigarettes since. That experience proved to me just how easily I could slip back into the habit--and the best way to avoid such a fate is to have a vape at hand, several backups available, and refrain from even indulging in curiosity...
I have not had one since April 6, 2014. I still have the occasional dream about smoking, although I've noticed more recently that, in such dreams, I have begun to mention that I vape instead of smoke, so I guess the psychological shift is still a work in progress. These dreams, perhaps, also go hand-in-hand with the rare urge or wistful memory of smoking, but all I need as a reminder to stay away from cigs is a walk past a smoking section at the mall... and the memory of one further experience that I had when I first started vaping:
I had an entire carton of cigs left when I bought my ego starter kit. Using smoker's logic, I was not going to let the cigs go to waste, but the more I vaped, the nastier the cigs began to taste. It looked as if quitting was going to be a real possibility--and that I would never reach the end of the carton. However, two weeks in, the heads in my clearos died and the B&M I had purchased the kit from was inexplicably out of replacements. I found that my cigarette intake, which had fallen to about 4-5 per day (and was continuing to head lower) quickly returned to nearly a PAD! That lasted for about three or four days until the replacements came in and I could finally finish the carton--and not purchase any cigarettes since. That experience proved to me just how easily I could slip back into the habit--and the best way to avoid such a fate is to have a vape at hand, several backups available, and refrain from even indulging in curiosity...
