This is my first smoke-free day in 52 years.
I am stunned.
After trying every way there is to quit and failing more times than I can remember, I had resigned myself to a future of increasingly severe COPD, and days ahead when I'd be dragging an O2 tank around with me, turning it off only long enough.. to have another cigarette.
As an RN, I know how miserable a way to die this is, but I'd simply accepted my fate. THIS addiction was simply bigger than me, and MUCH bigger than my addiction to alcohol and drugs once was. I've been able to pile up 29 sober years, but no way could I give up my smokes. I decided to try
vaping only as harm reduction: I had no illusions left about ever be able to quit.
Got my 510 just 8 days ago and was amazed to see my cigarette intake halved within a few days, all on it's own. Then it was five cigs a day, then four, then three, and then came this morning, when I sat here holding my beloved morning cigarette, staring at my 510, and discovering that of the two options, I wanted my 510 more than I wanted my cigarette.
Not much can make me cry, but this did, because it feels like literally a life saving miracle. I can feel a difference already. I am breathing easier, coughing less, have had no need for the inhaler, am not so short of breath on exertion, and food actually has some taste to it! It's all almost too good to believe.
So let me thank all of you for simply being here and sharing, so I could read and learn from you, and make this incredible discovery.
(Now if someone could just please promise me they won't ban this option.....?????)
