168 hours and counting!!!

[sanneke]

Tomorrow morning, a week ago, at 9:00 am was the last time I lit up a cigarette, that's 168 hours without a "real" ciggy.

If you smoke a pack a day, over a time period of say 16 hours, you will light up about every 45 minutes, give or take.

In this one week, 7 days, I did not smoke 7 x 20 = 140 cigarettes.......

Imagine this, 140 smelly nasty yukky butts laying somewhere.

Not anymore.

It was trying at times, but not really.

My lungs feel better and so much lighter, I breath better, I don't have that smokers cough anymore, I do not hack, my husband tells me I breath lighter at night when I sleep.

Let's start "the quiting club", and support each other every day.

 

[ned Zeppelin]

Congratulations
in about two hours I will have done one month.
keep it now.

 

[DeviLFisH]

well done u have the will power I should said.

For my case , after 4 days of e smoke

I still cannot get ride of real cigarette ..

have to smoke few sticks to settle for the day.
the rest of the day is constant e smoke

thus it reduce my intake from regular 10++ to 20+ sticks guy
to now at most so far is 3 to 4 days per day

 

[sanneke]

Congratulations
in about two hours I will have done one month.
keep it now.

In about two hours................one month!!!

That's fantastic!

Can you feel the difference?

 

[sanneke]

well done u have the will power I should said.

For my case , after 4 days of e smoke

I still cannot get ride of real cigarette ..

have to smoke few sticks to settle for the day.
the rest of the day is constant e smoke

thus it reduce my intake from regular 10++ to 20+ sticks guy
to now at most so far is 3 to 4 days per day

When you wake up today don't even go there.

NO more ciggy's.

No more need for them, we have an other devise.
It's called the e--cig.

It can be done, one day at the time.

 

[TropicalBob]

Great attitudes! I applaud you. Last week was my first year off cigarettes. You can do it and e-smoking makes it much easier now. One day at a time. One craving at a time. Just e-smoke right through that craving and it will go away. As time passes, those cravings will come less and less frequently. Worst is awakening and after dinner. Defeat those devilish cravings and you've got it made!

 

[ned Zeppelin]

In about two hours................one month!!!

That's fantastic!

Can you feel the difference?

Thank you for the reply
I feel that I have more energy through the day now than I did before. sense of smell is much noticeable. Noticing other people that smoke smell them from a mile off. When near people who smoke I do find it annoying because of the smell but it doesn't make me crave. for one at all.
But I am now addicted to electronic cigarette and probably can't do without that so that's a good thing I suppose. All I wish for is a liquid that is a lot stronger with bigger hit that we usually get. Because when I used to smoke real cigarettes are used to smoke hand roll ups which are far far stronger than normal cigarettes I did a post on this which explains all about this.

 

[DeviLFisH]

Great attitudes! I applaud you. Last week was my first year off cigarettes. You can do it and e-smoking makes it much easier now. One day at a time. One craving at a time. Just e-smoke right through that craving and it will go away. As time passes, those cravings will come less and less frequently. Worst is awakening and after dinner. Defeat those devilish cravings and you've got it made!

actually it do?cos my intake of real cigarettes is low now
compare regular one pack to one and the half pack .?

sometime one pack last 1.5days

just that recently got e smoke for 5 days...my last pack still left 6 sticks I not sure how many actually here..

 

[nic]

it is great,i also want to quit smoking with e-cigarette,so i ordered a set from loongtotem two days ago.

 

[sanneke]

That was great to see this thread pop up.

I have not smoked one single cigarette for 2 weeks now!
I don't miss it at all.

I'm taking it day by day, then two, then one week, now over two weeks.

If I can go 2 weeks without cigarettes, I can go 3 weeks, then 4 weeks.
And so on.

 

[dnakr]

Congrats sanneke, just wait until you decide to try a real cig, just to see, and it is the most awful thing you have ever tasted and for the life of you, you can't figure out how you ever thought it was good. That is when you know that you won't go back - LOL

 

[ned Zeppelin]

It's my fifth week today and Miss Diane's fourth week Thursday just gone so things are going pretty good.
But I must admit we are addicted now to the electronic cigarettes and could not do without them. It's only when they fail with problems we look at a packet of cigarettes on the side.

 

[sanneke]

Ned, I went to a water park last week with my kids and grand kids.
I took two e-cig with me, fully charged batteries, so I thought.
I left one of them in the car and took the other one with me.
The battery of the one I took with me decided to quit working.

I was without a "smoke" for 8 hours.
To tell you the truth, it was "uncomfortable" for the last hour or so.

BUT I survived.

Thinking back, smoking real cigarettes, I could not go without one for an hour, let alone 8 hours.........

That tells me a lot.

 

[ned Zeppelin]

Ned, I went to a water park last week with my kids and grand kids.
I took two e-cig with me, fully charged batteries, so I thought.
I left one of them in the car and took the other one with me.
The battery of the one I took with me decided to quit working.

I was without a "smoke" for 8 hours.
To tell you the truth, it was "uncomfortable" for the last hour or so.

BUT I survived.

Thinking back, smoking real cigarettes, I could not go without one for an hour, let alone 8 hours.........

That tells me a lot.

I know how you were feeling it's just like that for me when travelling from the UK to the Caribbean between 8 and 10 hours flight and then when you land you're not allowed to have a cigarette till you get out of the airport. And you can guarantee that it can take over an hour to get through customs.
So when you do get outside have that first cigarette you'll bloody head starts spinning but the worst scenario is if they don't let you have time to have one before getting on the coach to your hotel. And then you can't have one on the coach neither.
So you pray that the journey to the hotel isn't to long.
We did all of the above one year didn't get a cigarette till we got to the hotel. Well we tried to have one. We got to the hotel in Barbados and pre-booked a smoking room from the travel agent got to the hotel .we were told no smoking in your room only on the balcony I thought bugger this. So there was me lay on the bed smoking my cigarettes a blowing the smoke up into the air conditioning unit and Miss Diane like a fool having hers sat on the balcony.


You could only smoke in designated areas.. All restaurants lobby bar etc was all in the open air and you could not smoke in those neither.

 

[Kit]

NICE ONE SANNEKE hope i can join you soon mate- would love to join the smoke free club

 

[karenwest1961]

I'm part of your "without cigarettes" club myself! And I'm your biggest cheerleader, friend!

 

[TropicalBob]

Sanneke and Ned, every single day is a victory, isn't it? A person who has never smoked doesn't have any idea what an accomplishment it is to push aside a long-time habit/addiction for even a day or two, much less a week or month. Well done.

A new world opens up, too. You can go a movie without wanting a cigarette halfway through. You don't have to break away from non-smoking friends or relatives for your cigarette break. And you won't stink of stale cigarette smoke.

The smoker's cough is gone for good after 7 days. Numerous people here have addressed that. The next time you're around smokers, listen. Listen to the coughing. Listen to laughter that always ends the same way ... cough, cough, cough, cough.

Congrats again on your accomplishments. Others have succeeded and you're showing the way for still more to follow your examples.

 

[timonette]

I haven't had a real cig in almost 8 weeks! True, I can tell when someone is smoking for at least 1/2 a block! & the smell is TERRIBLE! Trad. cigs & Areos (smokess cigs with .05mg nicotine) to me not only smell terrible BUT also leave a dirty taste in my mouth & send me into a coughing fit. I use Smokers Option & e-cigs for "bad days" - when I crave "smoking" or the hand/mouth ritual. For my e-cig, I use the 0 nicotine cartridge. My only regret is not finding the e-cig months or yrs. sooner!

 

[dimebagdave]

well congrats to you all on your great accomplishments!!!!!!!
i received my very first ecig on monday, my last real cig was at about
4pm on monday. it is now 5pm on wednesday, 49 hours and no real bad cravings yet. the ecig is a godsend!!!! i thought it was still gonna be fairly
tricky quitting even with the help of the ecig but i'm well on my way and
dont plan on looking back!! a pack a day for 17 years, wish i coulda found these things years ago.

 

[sanneke]

Cool, I forgot about this thread.

I'm still smoke free, 1248 hours later, 1040 cigarettes not smoked by me.

No point of going back to smoking cigarettes now.
To be honest sometimes I do want to smoke one, but I have no cigarettes in the house, and I am not going to buy any either.
So there.

It was a bit of a challenge this week, we where on vacation for a couple of days this week and I was out of my normal routine.
But the UBS cord connected to my KISS classic really helped during the long hours driving in the car, because there was no worry about an empty baterry.