This morning at 7:30AM, I passed the 14 days without a cigarette mark!!! 
I still can't believe that I was able to just stop like this after 30 years. I always had visions of this being a really difficult thing to do. I remember times where I had run out of cigarettes, and about how all I could think about was begging, borrowing, or stealing a cigarette until I had one firmly planted in my blow hole. I had worse withdrawals making it to the end of a work day without a cigarette than I have since I stopped smoking and started vaping 2 weeks ago. For the record, I haven't had the urge to smoke once since I committed to vaping. Not even a thought about it...
I had a very encouraging experience yesterday, a test. I forgot to grab my charger when I left for work yesterday morning. As it turns out, I had also left thehouse with 2 partially charged batteries, and one of them was much lower than I thought. Around 3:00 in the afternoon, BOTH of them died. I had been planning on picking up another charger for my car anyway, so I decided to stop by the vape shop on my way home from work to pick one up. I left work around 4:15, and walked in the door of the vape store at around 5:30 (yeah... DC traffic sucks...). There were 5 or 6 people vaping in the store. I hadn't had a hit in just about 2 hours. They have a liquid sample station on the counter, and I knew that they have the high nicotine juice in the tester tanks. All I had to do was ask to sample some flavors, and they would have handed me a working cig. The guy asks me what I need, and I tell him. He goes in the back, and then returns to tell me that they are out of car charger cords. I said "thanks", and left. I drove the rest of the way home and got there at about 6:30pm. I put a battery on my charger, and gave it 20 minutes to charge before "lighting up". As I sat there vaping, I realized that it was fairly easy to go over 3 hours and 45 minutes without vaping. I was shocked. Now I can tell you for sure that there would have been no way in hell that I would have ever made it that long without a "nic fix" if I was still on real cigarettes. I certainly would not have been able to stand hanging out near people smoking next to me for 10 minutes without caving in immediately.
Vaping is going to work! To quote Bart Simpson... Big tobacco - eat my shorts!
I still can't believe that I was able to just stop like this after 30 years. I always had visions of this being a really difficult thing to do. I remember times where I had run out of cigarettes, and about how all I could think about was begging, borrowing, or stealing a cigarette until I had one firmly planted in my blow hole. I had worse withdrawals making it to the end of a work day without a cigarette than I have since I stopped smoking and started vaping 2 weeks ago. For the record, I haven't had the urge to smoke once since I committed to vaping. Not even a thought about it...
I had a very encouraging experience yesterday, a test. I forgot to grab my charger when I left for work yesterday morning. As it turns out, I had also left thehouse with 2 partially charged batteries, and one of them was much lower than I thought. Around 3:00 in the afternoon, BOTH of them died. I had been planning on picking up another charger for my car anyway, so I decided to stop by the vape shop on my way home from work to pick one up. I left work around 4:15, and walked in the door of the vape store at around 5:30 (yeah... DC traffic sucks...). There were 5 or 6 people vaping in the store. I hadn't had a hit in just about 2 hours. They have a liquid sample station on the counter, and I knew that they have the high nicotine juice in the tester tanks. All I had to do was ask to sample some flavors, and they would have handed me a working cig. The guy asks me what I need, and I tell him. He goes in the back, and then returns to tell me that they are out of car charger cords. I said "thanks", and left. I drove the rest of the way home and got there at about 6:30pm. I put a battery on my charger, and gave it 20 minutes to charge before "lighting up". As I sat there vaping, I realized that it was fairly easy to go over 3 hours and 45 minutes without vaping. I was shocked. Now I can tell you for sure that there would have been no way in hell that I would have ever made it that long without a "nic fix" if I was still on real cigarettes. I certainly would not have been able to stand hanging out near people smoking next to me for 10 minutes without caving in immediately.
Vaping is going to work! To quote Bart Simpson... Big tobacco - eat my shorts!
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