6 mos gone, and fast!

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t9c

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At first I didn't really think I'd make it this far, but here I am!!! Yipeeeee!!

Last analog: July 14, 2010...R.I.P.

Although I quit smoking the day I got my first PV, a 510, it was still sketchy till I got the eGo and some good flavored juice I liked. I stuck with it, came to ECF everyday, read as many posts as I could and learned a heck of a lot, then started championing PV's among smoking friends and then strangers.

I have benefited from the PV in soooooo many ways, I can't begin to think of the number. The thread on "what has changed since you started vaping" says it best. Almost all of the things brought up there I have experienced.

The thing I'm most proud of is having the opportunity to help add a few more years to my elderly Mom's life by giving her a couple of my eGo's and mixing her favorite juice for her every couple of weeks (Mystical Menthol).

One thing that I expected before the switch to the PV was to save money, but of course that didn't materialize due to the enormous (and constantly growing) amount of product to be found out there on the internet - all of it learned about here too.

If the tobacco industry had come out with the e-cig and ruled the market before the "Mom & Pop" industry, I feel fairly certain that there wouldn't be all of this growth in innovation and product. Consequently, we all wouldn't be here learning, helping each other and discussing everything related to personal vaporizers and juice.

And I also think, speaking for myself, that I wouldn't have gotten through 6 months so easily w/o an analog.

So, my hat's off to you, fellow ECF'ers. Thank YOU! Together we have enabled each other to prosper beyond all our expectations!

Let's all have a :toast: !!!!
 

Lisa B

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Thanks guys! Congrats Hiram on 8 mos. Gee, that seems so long and yet it'll be here b4 I know it. Agreed on yesterday/thousand years. And they're both good as gold.

Yeah Lisa, it's almost too hard to believe..pinch me. Above all, I can't believe Mom dropped the stinkies on her first day too.

That's great for your mom too, you have a lot to celebrate.
 

Fudgey

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Thanks guys! Congrats Hiram on 8 mos. Gee, that seems so long and yet it'll be here b4 I know it. Agreed on yesterday/thousand years. And they're both good as gold.

Yeah Lisa, it's almost too hard to believe..pinch me. Above all, I can't believe Mom dropped the stinkies on her first day too.


Congrats to your Mom!!!!!
 

hiram13pm

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I have these vague memories of craving/liking the smell of tobacco, even being proud of being a smoker... but now it's like it's someone else's memories, you know? I'm so disconnected from that mindset, I can't even relate to it... I remember it as an event or events that happened in my past, but I don't relate to whatever it was I was feeling at the time, so when I replay those memories in my mind, it's almost like I'm watching some stranger.

I spent 12 hours today at a site for work, installing cash registers in a new grocery store. Of course, the registers are right up front, and as the other vendors/suppliers/contractors would go outside for a smoke, the cold air outside would blow it back in at me. The "me" of 8 or 9 months ago would have loved that smell; the me of today wanted to puke. I swear, I'm not going to be one of those preachy ex-smoker zealots. I'm sure I irritated everyone nonsmoker around me for 26 years, so I really don't have the room to ..... in any way, and I won't.

But it is truly amazing to see how much I've changed since I took up vaping. If I met myself 9 months ago, I wouldn't even know me.
 

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It seems like yesterday and a thousand years ago at the same time....
I'm closing in on 19 months now, and something about the whole thing still feels sort of weird.
And it never occured to me until you said it, but that is so true, and must be why it still seems so weird.

I have these vague memories of craving/liking the smell of tobacco, even being proud of being a smoker... but now it's like it's someone else's memories, you know? I'm so disconnected from that mindset, I can't even relate to it... I remember it as an event or events that happened in my past, but I don't relate to whatever it was I was feeling at the time, so when I replay those memories in my mind, it's almost like I'm watching some stranger.
Wow, that's exactly what it's like!!

I remember when I used to see a smoker, I felt a kinship with them, even if I didn't know them.
Like we belonged to a shared brotherhood.

Now when I see a smoker I just feel sorry for them.
And I wonder how long they will keep on killing themselves without realizing there is something better.
 
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