I started smoking again...

[LaceyUnderall]

Actually, Lacey, I think the FDA will move slowly against alternatives like snus and dissolvables. Star Scientific's dissolvables were on the market long before February 2007, so they should be grandfathered into legality. Those are the ones I use. I can do without American snus, and no one seems to know what the FDA will do about imported snus from Sweden.

I'm stashed for a year or two of non-availability of anything. But not a happy camper, mind you. To throw a blanket ban on harm reduction products is to sacrifice the health of millions for the profits of a few.

Well thank god because when I read through the Waxman bill, I got very nervous for you... thinking oh my... I hope TB is stocked up! Hopefully you are right and they do move slowly. But, you never know.

[katink]

Welcome back Spider

[nitewriter]

Welcome back Spider. Glad to see you're back on e-cigs too. Don't beat yourself up, be proud of yourself that you're back!

I've been off analogs since New Years Eve. It will be 4 months the end of this month.

..That creepy spider sig still bothers me though.

[BARENETTED]

May 5th will be 4 months for me.

Dont be too hard on yourself. I quit once for 4 years. After that, I quit every week for a few days, using the patch and smoking!

If at first you don't succeed........................................... .

[Spider]

Just when you thought you wouldn't see the crawling spider again!

Thanks to everyone for your support and updates. I'm so glad there are still so many people going strong and more every day. Especially TB, who is both knowledgeable and inspirational.

Although I can't remember exactly, I think I started smoking again when I'd had quite a few drinks and thought one wouldn't hurt, because I felt I was missing out. Then I starting having just 1-2 cigs per day until I was back on 10 a day again.

The thought of quitting again was in my mind ever since, like a nagging feeling - but it didn't bother me so much because I knew I'd found it easy to quit for 3 months and thought I could quit anytime I wanted. That's probably why I was away for so long, I was enjoying smoking believing that I would give up soon anyway.

Then a friend of mine decided to give up using patches and I thought it was as good a time as any, and by that time I'd realised it was now or never. I've gone cold turkey this time because I couldn't find my charger! I had my last 'analogue' cigarette last Sunday, so I'm almost at the end of my first week.

I will be using my e-cig now though as I've found my charger now.. I must say though I feel so great since quitting I don't know how I ever started again!

Just as a side-note: Someone from the NHS came to my workplace to get people onto the various NRT treatments available and I told her I'd be using e-cigs and she looked very disappointed and sort of smug while she proclaimed that they are untested and have 'all the same chemicals as cigarettes'.

I was so annoyed that she was being so ignorant, and for the first time since I became aware of e-cigs it seemed that some kind of negative propaganda had spread.

Obviously I told her I'd be using them anyway, and had found them to be the most effective.

Again, thanks to everyone - this community is fantastic!

Spider

[Kit]

Hello Stranger

[TheEmperorOfIceCream]

Eeeeek!

Oh, it's you again.

I got buttonholed by an NHS bod who was working all the smokers outside a tube station (I was with a hot-smoking buddy). She'd never heard of e-cigs but was intrigued by my SD (and very receptive). So yours coulda just been a hear-nuthin-but-evil zealot.

Welcome back, eight-eyes.

Emp

[techtravis]

some days are rough. I've found I prefer SNUS with my 14mg nicotine e-cig liquid.

Helps on those bad days

[Spider]

I'm glad everyone is still on here - Hi Katink, Kit, Emp! Glad you eventually joined Rita!

I usually only get comments about my eight legs Emp!

Spider

[TropicalBob]

You smoked 'em out, Spider. Emp has returned, but rarely posts (he knows better than to jump into frays). Hadn't seen Kit for awhile. Good to see all of the oldtimers rallying around here.