35 years of tobacco one day with out any

[tims]

Well I started smoking when I was 10 years old, and I'm now 45 years old, so I've been smoking for 35 years.

Today I made it all day with no tobacco, just my prodigy V2 to get me through the day, well I made it and it feels odd not smoking a tobacco cig. It's not bad painful but it's not very great, I miss my tobacco cigs but I can deal with this.

One day may not seem like much, but for me it's some thing big, it means I can go tomorrow and the next and next day with out one. 35 years of smoking tobacco, is not just going to go away ecig or not, I feel like I'm missing some thing.

The ecig is not the same but it will do, I'll have a empty spot for a long time I'm sure, but after one day of no tobacco, I know I can live with out it and make do with my ecig, at times it feel like my head clears up.

It's at them times I miss tobacco the most, it's kind of like waking up from a dream, and I would normally reach for a tobacco cig, but now I grab the ecig and puff on it but it's not the same, then I think about why I want to stop smoking.

It seem like tonight is the worst so far though, I'm thinking I should of got some nerve pills from my DR, but I guess I need to just deal with it. I'll see how things keep going, I can always get some nerve pills if I have to I guess. 1 small step and a day for tim, tomorrow another small step and a day for time.

 

[ejoker]

i smoked for 30 years, and just quit tobacco on monday. can't say i don't miss tobacco, but don't have cravings to smoke like the other times i tried to quit (patch, gum, lozenge, wellbutrin, etc). i think i'm really on the path this time, and eventually will start to cut back on the nic levels.

best of luck to you tims!!

 

[athlon14]

Stay with it!! You might need to up your nicotine level? I smoked for 35 yrs and had to go from 11mg to 18 mg and all is good Good luck and "Vape for life"

 

[four2109]

So, do you want to quit smoking or not? If you don't, you won't.
If you do, I think it's pretty easy to pick up an ecig instead of a cigarette.
I wanted to quit for a long time and knew I couldn't. Until I bought an ecig instead of a carton of cigarettes. That was it for me. The cost alone was the major factor for me, I got mine when the April tax went into effect. It just works, but only if you want it to. I smoked for 35 yrs, 2+ packs a day, full flavor menthols. It was OK for years, but suddenly, it was killing me, crackeling chest at night, wheezing, racing heartbeat, ......

 

[tims]

I want to stay stop smoking tobacco, my neurosurgeon told me I had to stop smoking, for a operation I have to get plus it's been getting to me smoking so long.

I could tell it was hurting my lungs, I started getting pain in them, and hacking up brown stuff in the morning, I wish I would of stop sooner then this.

 

[eGeek]

I think you've done a great job tims, just hang in there. Just when I was on the verge of quitting completely I kept going back for the odd cigarette. Smoked for 35 years also and figured I needed to slowly convince myself that an ecig was enough. Thankfully it was and have been smoke free for over 6 months now. You can do it to.

 

[TaketheRedPill]

congratulations, tims! take it a day at a time. Try to exercise the cravings away. Don't get discouraged (or mentally beat yourself up) if you grab a smoke in desperation - it took you 35 years to get here, you may need one or three more along the way. Try to keep your nicotine down - nicotine doesn't contain the MAOI inhibitors cigarettes do, so it's just a plain old addiction you're feeding with nicotine. Your body is going to react to not having the other alkaloids that are in smokes, might be foggy for a while, but, trust me, breathing again will be worth it. Keep focused on up to a 30% increase in lung capacity within 5 months once you break free from that cigarette. Have some 0mg for vaping if you need to use the PV as a pacifier. Like I said, take it one day at a time. You're doing great!

TTRP

 

[AlexTM]

Don't push the nicotine down too much yet, there are 3999 other chemicals you are not getting as well, and this one makes for the worst withdawl. You can always do that later.

It is most likely far too early to tell whether your reaching for analogs is actually from a need for other things in tobacco proper, but if it does not cease, try some smokeless tobacco instead. Works for quite a few people. I'd try to get by for a few days without, though, to make sure its not just habit that lets you think about analogs.

 

[Sign-Man]

AWESOME !!

 

[techtony]

Congradulations TIMS

You took the first step and probably the hardest, that first day bacco free!

I'm right there with you on day 3, We can do this!

 

[tims]

Yes we can do it, I've made up my mind I'm doing it, no matter how hard it gets.

 

[lostdaze]

So, do you want to quit smoking or not? If you don't, you won't.
If you do, I think it's pretty easy to pick up an ecig instead of a cigarette.
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I think this says it perfectly

 

[PlanetScribbles]

Dont be afraid to put on a low level nic patch too. That may well give you the steady flow of nic to make the e-cig work at those times you just want to feed the habit of picking up and drawing.

 

[Sandi]

Tim, I'm with you... just made it through day one. Like you, yesterday and last night was a bear, but I made it and I pray you did too. Looks like our "tabacco" habit was about the same except I was 13 when I started...

Sucks to be here, but sucks even more to think I'd (we'd) be crazy enough to keep going down the same road to nowhere! Especially knowing what the benefits of analogs are!!! Hang in there, before you know it we'll both be posting 1,3,6,9 month clean!

 

[shortwing]

Tims:
Great job on day one. I just started vaping last Sunday. Been smoking 36 years now, since I was 14. Pack to two packs a day full-flavor, last ten years a can of rolling tobacco a week of Bali Shag. Trying the e-cig at first I thought, "I just wasted my money on this?" Then I remembered my transition from regular cigarettes to rolling my own (when they raised the taxes on cigarettes, which totally ...... me off.) It took several weeks to a few months to get used to them. Finally I got to the point that I never wanted a regular cigarette--I really liked my rolling tobacco.
I was still smoking my tobacco and vaping also, until Wednesday night when I ran out of papers. Instead of buying some, I began using the Janty eGo I got. Thursday morning was the first time I've gone to work in years without being armed with all my tobacco supplies. I felt virtually naked, wondering if I could get through the day. I bummed a couple of analogs off a co-worker. Friday I vaped only. Yesterday my wife and I were in the car for an 8-hour trip....vaping only. I never thought I'd be able to drive w/o a cigarette. In fact, there are so many things I associate with smoking I thought I would have to go through a complete lifestyle change. Third day clean now, and no real urge for a real smoke.
You can do it, Tims. Don't beat yourself if you have an analog once in a while--it's a heckuva lot better than what you were doing before.
Finding this forum, and the people on it has been a life-altering experience for me. I never realized how many people were in similar situations.

 

[tims]

Shortwing yes I also remember the move to roll our own, and felt the same as you then, and also got to where I would not even take a packaged cig.

I had forgot all about that till you posted, this is now my 3rd day with out a tobacco cig, I felt very odd this morning but after some vapin, I now feel back to my self more or less.

 

[Scooter Bob]

OK I'm going to be probably chastised here, but I give myself the right to have an analog even now after going nic free juice for 2 months. I have even smoked a pack on pool playing nights(once a month at most) and went straight back to the 901, like I'd never smoked the analogs.

Way I look at is...the more you resist, the more it persists. IMO, if the real cig "happens" at a particular moment down the road, then I feel you have that right without feeling miserable to light up. E-cigs make for a super recovery, even after the sin of having one or two real ones.

The most important thing is that the e-cigs are so cool for recovering, be it 35yrs, or 35 days, or 3 days, or 3 minutes. Just don't beat yourself up for an analog or two. JMHO Bob

 

[AlexTM]

Around 17% of all vapers here do not make it entirely tobacco-free, and that's just those that take part in polls and therefore admitt it. So anybody who chasties those people should remember that it is not just a tiny minority or anything. And on the other hand, those people should know they are everything but alone out there. The forum has 27,380 members, of whom 6,770 are active. That would be 4,654 and 1,150 people respectively who still use tobacco in one form or another - and probably quite a few more, since I suspect unter-reporting.

 

[shortwing]

Tims:
The first two days w/o an analog I felt like I was in a dream state or something--or like I was watching my alter-ego go through life.......weird. Not a good feeling. I did plenty of drugs in my younger years and never felt that. Now things feel much more normal. We'll see how it goes. I might wake up tomorrow with an insatiable urge for an analog.....but I doubt it. I really am beginning to enjoy my PV-- it's different, with a learning curve all it's own.
A day at a time.

 

[rosesense]

WTG Tims and I am glad someone mentioned the fog. I had to give a presentation in front of a group and writing on the white board I suddenly blanked on how to spell symptoms. It was scary but I am certain it is getting off cigs. I have been totally off for 1 week and it is getting better. I had a slip the first week after being off analogs for 5 days but got right back to it. I have smoked for 35 years as well.