Okay...this is a somewhat difficult post for me because I don't tend to get emotional, but I had a great experience due to cutting back on cigarettes, which is attributed to the e-cig. I wasnt' going to share at first because it's sounds a little lame, but for someone like me this is HUGE. So, what the hell....I wouldn't have been turned on to e-cigs if not for previous posters, so I guess this is for viewers coming up behind me who may get something from my experience as I got from all of you before me
So, here's my quick experience that I decided to share. After breathing complications, I was recently given two potential diagnosis. One is "the one" all smokers dread and the other is long term. Anyhow, I'm fighting to quit smoking. I discovered the e-cig previously, ordered, and vaped away.
Here's the thing, I haven't had a decent breath of air in a while. I've just become accustomed to it and go about life as usual. I don't know how or why this SUDDENLY happened. 9 months ago I was trekking kids up mountains most adults gave up on and now I can't climb a flight of stairs. I get winded, scared because I can't breathe.
Because I'm very active in that I work two jobs, have four kids, and am a full time student, I'm always go-go-go. It's good and I like it. Until, like I said, a few months ago, my breathing felt like it was at, like, 70%. Don't know what happened. It was very sudden.
I smoke 3 or 4 pks a day (depending on whether it's a work day or not). Yeah, I know, it takes a special kind of stupid to smoke that much and not think something won't go wrong. Truth is, we all know, "something can go wrong at any given moment. That's the price to pay for this addiction/habit."
Anyhow---since I started getting the hang of vaping, I've cut my cigs down to a third to a quarter. Basically, that's a pack a day. I know that seems like a lot to some, but for me...and my family....ME smoking "only" a pack is like a miracle.
Ok...my whole point to this: Saturday, I was waking up next to the hubby, groggy and all (I'm pretty fugly in the AM). Not thinking...And something was wrong. I sat up and took a deep breath. YEP--Something was definitely wrong. I swung my legs over the side of the bed and took another breathe, one hand to my chest. WTF???
I must've had some kind of look on my face because my husband jumped up and put his hand on my back, asking, "What's wrong? What's wrong?"
And I'm a little embarrassed to say there were tears in my eyes. I wiped them away and said in complete astonishment, "I can breathe...I'm breathing!"
I know it may seem lame to most, but I cannot explain that moment. I was taking deep, full, without straining, FRESH breaths of air. I was breathing! Like I used to!
Of course, I'm not saying that the e-cig helped me breathe!
What I am saying is this: I am the poster child for cigarette smoking. I have friends that don't smoke all year round, until they come to my house. I often feel bad that so many non-smokers are compelled to smoke around me!
And finally, FINALLY, I have found something that COMFORTABLY helped me cut WAY back. So much so that symptoms I previously have are dissipating because I've cut down. And I've cut down because of the e-cig. I know this doesn't cure me in any way, but to find something like the e-cig that improves your quality of life is, for me, a miracle.
I can not possibly express to anyone here how awesome my last two days have been!
And, again, I'll reiterate, the e-cig DID NOT help me breath better, but, my God, it's the best thing I've ever done that has helped me COMFORTABLY cut back on real cigs. And because I've cut back, my health has improved (obviously)
I'd been so accustomed to NOT breathing, that when I woke up breathing normally, I thought something was wrong!
When I think of the founders and regulars on this list that really calrified and educated me on vaping, I am so grateful, you guys have no idea.
So, not only is this an e-cig triumph, it's also a thank you to everyone on this list who has been so helpful to those of us not it the know.
My husband (who I lovingly refer to as "the tight-wad") is so grateful he sprung for a new another e-cig kit for me, yet another atomizer, and some extra juice.
Like I said, I know it sounds lame, but this product and everyone who has laid the yellow brick road for it, is really making differences in people's lives.
So, thank you SO much! (but let's not let the word get out that I was actually tearful over it
)
So, here's my quick experience that I decided to share. After breathing complications, I was recently given two potential diagnosis. One is "the one" all smokers dread and the other is long term. Anyhow, I'm fighting to quit smoking. I discovered the e-cig previously, ordered, and vaped away.
Here's the thing, I haven't had a decent breath of air in a while. I've just become accustomed to it and go about life as usual. I don't know how or why this SUDDENLY happened. 9 months ago I was trekking kids up mountains most adults gave up on and now I can't climb a flight of stairs. I get winded, scared because I can't breathe.
Because I'm very active in that I work two jobs, have four kids, and am a full time student, I'm always go-go-go. It's good and I like it. Until, like I said, a few months ago, my breathing felt like it was at, like, 70%. Don't know what happened. It was very sudden.
I smoke 3 or 4 pks a day (depending on whether it's a work day or not). Yeah, I know, it takes a special kind of stupid to smoke that much and not think something won't go wrong. Truth is, we all know, "something can go wrong at any given moment. That's the price to pay for this addiction/habit."
Anyhow---since I started getting the hang of vaping, I've cut my cigs down to a third to a quarter. Basically, that's a pack a day. I know that seems like a lot to some, but for me...and my family....ME smoking "only" a pack is like a miracle.
Ok...my whole point to this: Saturday, I was waking up next to the hubby, groggy and all (I'm pretty fugly in the AM). Not thinking...And something was wrong. I sat up and took a deep breath. YEP--Something was definitely wrong. I swung my legs over the side of the bed and took another breathe, one hand to my chest. WTF???
I must've had some kind of look on my face because my husband jumped up and put his hand on my back, asking, "What's wrong? What's wrong?"
And I'm a little embarrassed to say there were tears in my eyes. I wiped them away and said in complete astonishment, "I can breathe...I'm breathing!"
I know it may seem lame to most, but I cannot explain that moment. I was taking deep, full, without straining, FRESH breaths of air. I was breathing! Like I used to!
Of course, I'm not saying that the e-cig helped me breathe!
What I am saying is this: I am the poster child for cigarette smoking. I have friends that don't smoke all year round, until they come to my house. I often feel bad that so many non-smokers are compelled to smoke around me!
And finally, FINALLY, I have found something that COMFORTABLY helped me cut WAY back. So much so that symptoms I previously have are dissipating because I've cut down. And I've cut down because of the e-cig. I know this doesn't cure me in any way, but to find something like the e-cig that improves your quality of life is, for me, a miracle.
I can not possibly express to anyone here how awesome my last two days have been!
And, again, I'll reiterate, the e-cig DID NOT help me breath better, but, my God, it's the best thing I've ever done that has helped me COMFORTABLY cut back on real cigs. And because I've cut back, my health has improved (obviously)
I'd been so accustomed to NOT breathing, that when I woke up breathing normally, I thought something was wrong!
When I think of the founders and regulars on this list that really calrified and educated me on vaping, I am so grateful, you guys have no idea.
So, not only is this an e-cig triumph, it's also a thank you to everyone on this list who has been so helpful to those of us not it the know.
My husband (who I lovingly refer to as "the tight-wad") is so grateful he sprung for a new another e-cig kit for me, yet another atomizer, and some extra juice.
Like I said, I know it sounds lame, but this product and everyone who has laid the yellow brick road for it, is really making differences in people's lives.
So, thank you SO much! (but let's not let the word get out that I was actually tearful over it
)
