100 Days without an analog! Thoughts...

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Parallx

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Exactly 100 days ago, I got my first 901 and have not looked back.

I thought for sure that I'd be a smoker for the rest of my life, and it would eventually kill me. I woke up every morning with coughing fits, and went to sleep every night with a gurgle when I tried to breathe deeply.

Thanks to my 901, I can breathe 100% again with no gurgle. I sleep better, and taste foods. Teeth whitening products actually work now. I no longer have to bring heavy coats for my outside cig breaks. I can play raquetball for an hour without feeling like I'm going to die. Best of all, I'm not supporting big tobacco, I'm supporting small businesses in the time when they need the most support.

Now, the bad part..... It should be obvious to everyone by now that all this attention to our devices is causing a few raised eyebrows with Johnny Law, and I'll never see the day when they don't try to ruin a good thing. I've decided that I need some sort of timetable for withdraw from my e-cig. While many folks may be completely content vaping for life, and as much as I enjoy it, it's still something I feel I'm a slave to.

How many people on this forum have no intention of EVER quitting vaping? I strongly encourage you to set yourself some limits. While noone will ever convince me that what we are doing is more harmful, or even as harmful as tobacco, it's still a habit. It's still a drug. It's still something that we need to perpetuate to feel normal. With the pending law battle, and the victory over tobacco, what more do I need with my e-cig?

Will quitting e-cigs be easier or harder than quitting tobacco? I've decided that it will be much easier. I can vape *very* low nic, or even my own PG blend all day and be fine, so at this point it's just going through the motions that comforts me.

Anyone else have any thoughts on this?
 

Tennisbob

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First off congratulations on the 100 days.....

Having only achieved 14 days so far I have a long way to go and am certainly not looking beyond by e cig at the moment, I am sure the time will come for me to try and come off the drug completely but at this stage I am just grateful to be off the analogues. When I 1st got my ecig neither atomiser was working effectively after a few days and both had to be returned.... I went back to analogues... but guess what... misssed my e cig and the taste it gace me (which I guess is good news)... the 2 weeks is since I got my replacements...

so in short.... happy to be off the analogues.... wish my e cig was more reliable more consistently.. and longer term would love to be completely smoke and nicotine free.
 

Lakota

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Exactly 100 days ago, I got my first 901 and have not looked back...

... I've decided that I need some sort of timetable for withdraw from my e-cig. While many folks may be completely content vaping for life, and as much as I enjoy it, it's still something I feel I'm a slave to.

How many people on this forum have no intention of EVER quitting vaping? I strongly encourage you to set yourself some limits....

Anyone else have any thoughts on this?
Congrats on the 100 day achievement! I am walking the same path, hoping to be a slave only to my coffee in the end.
 

JustJulie

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You raise some very good points. Before the FDA began its more serious sabre-rattling, I gave no thoughts at all to the possibility of someday not vaping. Oh, I figured I'd eventually get down to no nicotine vaping, but I love to inhale, and I thought I'd vape forever.

I still think I'll continue to vape unless it becomes impossible not to.

I have enough e-liquids that I can last for probably a year. If e-liquids containing nicotine are banned, I'll work hard to eliminate nicotine altogether.

I've been stocking up on parts in the hopes of being able to survive a long drought if parts become more difficult to find, but I know that won't be enough if the FDA becomes very, very serious.

I WANT to vape forever, but I know I may not be able to. However, I'm not giving it up until my last atomizer dies. :mad:
 

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Vaping is, as others have said here, my new habit.... I've been completely analog free for 3 weeks - never even WANT to look back at them....

With the studies I've read, the information I've absorbed here, there is no way anyone can convice me my new habit is more dangerous than the one I've given up.
 

The Wiz

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Exactly 100 days ago, I got my first 901 and have not looked back.

I thought for sure that I'd be a smoker for the rest of my life, and it would eventually kill me. I woke up every morning with coughing fits, and went to sleep every night with a gurgle when I tried to breathe deeply.

Thanks to my 901, I can breathe 100% again with no gurgle. I sleep better, and taste foods. Teeth whitening products actually work now. I no longer have to bring heavy coats for my outside cig breaks. I can play raquetball for an hour without feeling like I'm going to die. Best of all, I'm not supporting big tobacco, I'm supporting small businesses in the time when they need the most support.

Now, the bad part..... It should be obvious to everyone by now that all this attention to our devices is causing a few raised eyebrows with Johnny Law, and I'll never see the day when they don't try to ruin a good thing. I've decided that I need some sort of timetable for withdraw from my e-cig. While many folks may be completely content vaping for life, and as much as I enjoy it, it's still something I feel I'm a slave to.

How many people on this forum have no intention of EVER quitting vaping? I strongly encourage you to set yourself some limits. While noone will ever convince me that what we are doing is more harmful, or even as harmful as tobacco, it's still a habit. It's still a drug. It's still something that we need to perpetuate to feel normal. With the pending law battle, and the victory over tobacco, what more do I need with my e-cig?

Will quitting e-cigs be easier or harder than quitting tobacco? I've decided that it will be much easier. I can vape *very* low nic, or even my own PG blend all day and be fine, so at this point it's just going through the motions that comforts me.

Anyone else have any thoughts on this?
Very nice my friend..........Thank you for sharing your story here...I am rapidly approaching the 100 day mark myself....It IS a wonderful feeling to have the analogs out our lives....when one hits that mark they should all give themselves a pat on the back.....Continued Success!:)The Wiz!
 
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