My wife detests smoking and we had a long struggle over my smoking habit. That she is a nurse and very health-conscious made this an issue beyond just that she hated the smell. I'd try to quit, and fail, and she'd get hurt and angry, and the cycle would begin all over again. Eventually, we achieved a form of detente: I "secretly" smoked, although she knew it. So long as she never saw it or overtly smelled it, she wouldn't make an issue of it.
Still, it was a secret activity, a kind of ongoing lie even though she did know about it. It was a constant strain on our relationship, detente or no.
When a friend of mine gave me an eGo, I immediately switched to vaping exclusively. It was trivially easy for me. Frm my first puff on the eGo, I never looked back to cigarettes. I still kept the whole thing a secret from my wife, and it was MUCH easier to do since the odor is much, much more manageable. Nonetheless, I wanted to rid our relationship of my only secret.
So last week, I came clean. I asked her if she'd noticed that she hadn't even caught the slightest whiff of cigarettes on me for a long time, and she said "yes," and that she was extremely proud of me for finally quitting. Swallowing hard, I said "let me tell you how I did it" and explained vaping to her.
To some extent, the groundwork had already been laid. She had gone to CES with me this year, where there were pvs everywhere along with several booths demonstrating them. We had recently watched "The Tourist," where Johnny Depp's use of a pv figured into the plot, and she'd commented, not in a negative way, about how she's been seeing those things more and more.
Her response was absolutely fantastic. She said that she was aware that the ingredients of the juice did not pose any major health concerns, or at least not as major as smoking, and if that's what it takes to keep me off cigarettes, then she's happy with it. She's also thrilled that my "secret" is finally dissolved once and for all.
So, this is my success story. Not of quitting (that was too easy for me to call it an accomplishment), but of bringing my wife and I closer together and improving our relationship a great deal.
I am so grateful to have found vaping. Even before I came clean, it had improved my life immeasurably. This was just icing on the cake.
Still, it was a secret activity, a kind of ongoing lie even though she did know about it. It was a constant strain on our relationship, detente or no.
When a friend of mine gave me an eGo, I immediately switched to vaping exclusively. It was trivially easy for me. Frm my first puff on the eGo, I never looked back to cigarettes. I still kept the whole thing a secret from my wife, and it was MUCH easier to do since the odor is much, much more manageable. Nonetheless, I wanted to rid our relationship of my only secret.
So last week, I came clean. I asked her if she'd noticed that she hadn't even caught the slightest whiff of cigarettes on me for a long time, and she said "yes," and that she was extremely proud of me for finally quitting. Swallowing hard, I said "let me tell you how I did it" and explained vaping to her.
To some extent, the groundwork had already been laid. She had gone to CES with me this year, where there were pvs everywhere along with several booths demonstrating them. We had recently watched "The Tourist," where Johnny Depp's use of a pv figured into the plot, and she'd commented, not in a negative way, about how she's been seeing those things more and more.
Her response was absolutely fantastic. She said that she was aware that the ingredients of the juice did not pose any major health concerns, or at least not as major as smoking, and if that's what it takes to keep me off cigarettes, then she's happy with it. She's also thrilled that my "secret" is finally dissolved once and for all.
So, this is my success story. Not of quitting (that was too easy for me to call it an accomplishment), but of bringing my wife and I closer together and improving our relationship a great deal.
I am so grateful to have found vaping. Even before I came clean, it had improved my life immeasurably. This was just icing on the cake.
