This will be my first vape-tastic summer. Summer is always harder for me regarding cutting back or quitting cigarettes. I smoke more out of boredom and I get overwhelmed by the kids, and need to take a break.
This summer will be different though. It's different already. For one, I've been vaping for 9 months or so. I started with the 901 but had some equipment problems and it wasn't the device for me. Then I got a 510. It was the device for me, but I wasn't ready to commit.
I hoped vaping would be the quick fix for me with quitting cigarettes, but it was not to be. In the early days I got frustrated with equipment and blamed my continued smoking on the newness. At best, I put up with vaping during the workday in the beginning because I didn't want to stink and I didn't have time to come home for a smoke.
I read a lot, tried to make it work, but felt like a failure and a loner because no one I knew had ever even heard of vaping. I felt silly if I wanted to vape on a night out. So I contented myself with vaping in the car and in the bathroom at work and smoking while home or out at night for fall and winter. I dropped off reading and posting in the forum.
Then as spring came, I decided I wanted to give vaping a more concerted effort. I started reading the forums again, experimenting with juice, and equipment. I got a sidesho from modern vapor, and a chuck. Now I truly enjoy vaping more. Even now, I still smoke, but I've cut back and am liking cigarettes less and less. I've found some juices (mainly coffee and dessert flavors) that really work for me, upped nicotine content. It's all helping. It's the other things in cigarettes that are holding me back.
I'm learning new habits for dealing with stress, such as having a cup of tea, which relaxes me, and stopping what I'm doing to sit down (in the AC) and vape. I can easily go a whole day with only 2-3 cigarettes now. Sometimes even one a day. I don't get antsy or depressed without them as I did when I first tried to go 24 hours without back in November. I actually made it 28 hours, but was teary and emotional. I feared I'd never quit.
Now I know that I need to look at it differently. I'm weaning myself off the other stuff in cigarettes. I don't buy packs at all any more. My husband supports the last vestiges of that habit, and I support his new vaping habit as he makes the transition too. I just ordered a Riva kit, and I'm looking at getting a variable voltage mod to complement my arsenal and hopefully find something that will help him make the jump with both feet too.
At the very least, I make it through the summer maintaining the progress I've made thus far. And at the most, maybe in a few more weeks or months I'll be ready to let go of those nasty additives. I don't have a set day because every time I've set a quit date in the past, I stress myself out so much that I end up smoking more. Eventually I will be rid of tobacco, and with vaping, I won't miss it.
This summer will be different though. It's different already. For one, I've been vaping for 9 months or so. I started with the 901 but had some equipment problems and it wasn't the device for me. Then I got a 510. It was the device for me, but I wasn't ready to commit.
I hoped vaping would be the quick fix for me with quitting cigarettes, but it was not to be. In the early days I got frustrated with equipment and blamed my continued smoking on the newness. At best, I put up with vaping during the workday in the beginning because I didn't want to stink and I didn't have time to come home for a smoke.
I read a lot, tried to make it work, but felt like a failure and a loner because no one I knew had ever even heard of vaping. I felt silly if I wanted to vape on a night out. So I contented myself with vaping in the car and in the bathroom at work and smoking while home or out at night for fall and winter. I dropped off reading and posting in the forum.
Then as spring came, I decided I wanted to give vaping a more concerted effort. I started reading the forums again, experimenting with juice, and equipment. I got a sidesho from modern vapor, and a chuck. Now I truly enjoy vaping more. Even now, I still smoke, but I've cut back and am liking cigarettes less and less. I've found some juices (mainly coffee and dessert flavors) that really work for me, upped nicotine content. It's all helping. It's the other things in cigarettes that are holding me back.
I'm learning new habits for dealing with stress, such as having a cup of tea, which relaxes me, and stopping what I'm doing to sit down (in the AC) and vape. I can easily go a whole day with only 2-3 cigarettes now. Sometimes even one a day. I don't get antsy or depressed without them as I did when I first tried to go 24 hours without back in November. I actually made it 28 hours, but was teary and emotional. I feared I'd never quit.
Now I know that I need to look at it differently. I'm weaning myself off the other stuff in cigarettes. I don't buy packs at all any more. My husband supports the last vestiges of that habit, and I support his new vaping habit as he makes the transition too. I just ordered a Riva kit, and I'm looking at getting a variable voltage mod to complement my arsenal and hopefully find something that will help him make the jump with both feet too.
At the very least, I make it through the summer maintaining the progress I've made thus far. And at the most, maybe in a few more weeks or months I'll be ready to let go of those nasty additives. I don't have a set day because every time I've set a quit date in the past, I stress myself out so much that I end up smoking more. Eventually I will be rid of tobacco, and with vaping, I won't miss it.
