Hello from Las Vegas, NV! I guess I should make a quick "about me" post so I can eventually post in the other areas of ECF. Here goes...
I'm originally from NYC. I enlisted in the USAF in 1989, spent 20 years working for God and Country, and retired 4.5 years ago to start working in the civilian workforce. I smoked (yup, past tense, but don't get ahead of me) for some 25 years and quit a few times during that period. The longest was for about a year after using Zyban.
I decided to quit smoking... again last month. I have a few friends in the area who own e-cig stores so I figured I'd chat with them to see if e-cigs were right for me. I'm glad I did because I bought an eGo Twist starter kit and haven't touched an analog for the entire month of March. I still have cravings every so often, but I reach for my e-cig instead when I do. I recently upgraded to a longer lasting yet still relatively inexpensive APV--the SmokTech ACE. Hopefully, it'll last a while. I'm still debating on getting into rebuildables, but my hands were never too great with fine detailed work and are now rapidly deteriorating with arthritis.
One last thing before I close. My sense of smell has definitely returned. If you've ever been to Las Vegas, you know much of it is smoker friendly. I kept away from bars and the like for this past month to help ease my transition and decided to go to a movie this weekend. Many movie theaters are in casinos here, and yup, they really do smell as bad as my nonsmoker friends told me. But I'm not a whiny nonsmoker. I'm a happy vaper!
TLDR: From NYC, live in Las Vegas now, smoked for 25+ years, happy vaper for the past month, and my sense of smell has returned.
Cheers,
Pugs
I'm originally from NYC. I enlisted in the USAF in 1989, spent 20 years working for God and Country, and retired 4.5 years ago to start working in the civilian workforce. I smoked (yup, past tense, but don't get ahead of me) for some 25 years and quit a few times during that period. The longest was for about a year after using Zyban.
I decided to quit smoking... again last month. I have a few friends in the area who own e-cig stores so I figured I'd chat with them to see if e-cigs were right for me. I'm glad I did because I bought an eGo Twist starter kit and haven't touched an analog for the entire month of March. I still have cravings every so often, but I reach for my e-cig instead when I do. I recently upgraded to a longer lasting yet still relatively inexpensive APV--the SmokTech ACE. Hopefully, it'll last a while. I'm still debating on getting into rebuildables, but my hands were never too great with fine detailed work and are now rapidly deteriorating with arthritis.
One last thing before I close. My sense of smell has definitely returned. If you've ever been to Las Vegas, you know much of it is smoker friendly. I kept away from bars and the like for this past month to help ease my transition and decided to go to a movie this weekend. Many movie theaters are in casinos here, and yup, they really do smell as bad as my nonsmoker friends told me. But I'm not a whiny nonsmoker. I'm a happy vaper!
TLDR: From NYC, live in Las Vegas now, smoked for 25+ years, happy vaper for the past month, and my sense of smell has returned.
Cheers,
Pugs
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