I quit!!!

[SweetPeaZZ]

you guys know what i mean... there are so may times that i want to use that phrase. with my job. with my friends. with my family. or at least i say that sometimes.

but i REALLY want to quit smoking tobacco. i had heard about the e-cigs a while back. went to atlanta, saw the smoking everywhere kiosk in the mall. decided to do some research. then i realized... i would have been a sucka to have purchased that thing from a kiosk... especially at that price and after doing research about other e-cigs.

i'm so glad that i decided to do my 24 hr cooling off period before blowing a grip of cash on an inferior product.

so... that being said, i have purchased an e-cig in an effort to quit tobacco. however, quitting cold turkey is like getting a sports car up to 100 mph and slamming on the brakes to see if you crash... chances are... YOU WILL. so i have decided to taper myself off analogs and use vaping as my method/device to quit.

i hope that i can stick it out this time. i always go back to tobacco. don't want to this time around.

[katink]

If that's the way you feel will work best for you, then I'm sure you are on the right track (for you). Good luck SweetPeaZZ!

[Rorschach]

Wishing you all the best SweetPeaZZ and glad you avoided those kiosks!

A lot of us have managed to kick tobacco with this device*

*This statement does not make any claims towards e-cigarettes being an approved modality of nicotine replacement therapy

[Drewsworld]

Good for you..Thats what I did and slowly but surely you are gonna start craving the ecig more than the analog...Good luck

[~kerri]

SweetPeaZZ- just taper off. really. That's what worked for me anyways, started vaping late feb-cut down to 2-5 cigs a day at that point. tapered off until i had my official "last" 4/11. tried to have one this last saturday and it tasted so foul I couldn't do it (which was rather depressing cause I remember how gooood they used to taste to me)
just a suggestion/your mileage may vary.
whatever way you approach this, just be gentle with yourself.

[SweetPeaZZ]

what's funny is this... i love smoking... or at least that's what my brain tells me... or part of my brain (right? left?) tells me that. so i definitely don't want to give up the action itself. i just need to "replace it" with something that won't have me sucking on an oxygen tank like the lil old people i see in the grocery store.

i went almost an entire day with no analogs... just the other day, actually. but the craving and need got sooooo bad that i had to go to the store. and when i lit that fag up... oh my jeeeebus! the taste was sooooo bad. and just in one day. so i know i can do this using the e-cig. and yeah yeah yeah, i know makes no claims, yada yada yada... but i know it works. people just don't want to get a lawsuit or whatever those yuppy lawyers do...

anywho, thanks for the support, yall. i'm gonna probably be needing a whole lot of it to get thru this quitting thing. (i wonder if i go into my bosses office and tell her that i quit; will she be supportive?)

i'll be seeing yall around the board. i'm a lil chatterbox and a social butterfly......

[prof beard]

It worked for me. I bought my first e-cig kit and used that instead of cigarettes. I'd smoked for 43 years. Never had a cigarette since.

I'm still addicted to nicotine, but feel much healthier and don't stink like an ashtray

[SweetPeaZZ]

i don't mind my addiction to nicotine. at least for now... i am gonna take each step one at a time. i know i'm addicted to smoking tobacco/nicotine - whatever. but i gotta get off the analogs first...

all of my friends that don't smoke tell me... "just don't buy them. just quit cold turkey." if it were that easy, i would have done it already. i know it's bad for me. I KNOW THAT SMOKING TOBACCO IS BAD FOR ME!! people don't have to tell me that. hell, i'm a smart girl!

but you guys "get it". and they don't.

[sherid]

I started using the e cig in Jan. I did not intend to quit smoking then, and frankly, I still do not intend to completely quit. However, like many here, I was amazed that I found myself preferring the e cig to the real thing most of the time. I believe that putting zero pressure on yourself to quit is exactly why the e cig works for so many. There is no guilt for me when I smoke the real thing. I just "smoke" what I prefer at the moment, and 9 out of 10 times, I will prefer the e cig.

[saintgadreel]

The irony in my "I quit" story is that I started using my E-cig because of all the ridiculous political controversy here in Oregon. I read another news article and BAM, I was really really angry. I had had enough (OR is passing laws to tack on a littering charge if you don't dispose of you cigarette properly, an issue that became worse after they imposed a smoking ban in a state with a notoriously high number of smoking bars. This law will allow them to "double tap" people for littering if it happens to be cigarette related).

So I started with an NPro (hadn't really researched enough, I now use a DSE901). It didn't work great, some parts were bad, and I had to line up replacement liquid, so my first week I was in and out of using analogs. Then I got my first 901. I haven't had a cigarette for a month now. I don't ever want to go back either. So now I'm fighting new political battles, but I feel a bit more vested in them, since its for my right to LIVE instead of my right to die .

Good luck to all those sharing this road with me.