A Painful Success

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badinfluence357

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Im Badinfluence357,
Eleven years ago my wife came home with a blue cig-alike that she got from a coworker. She gave it to me to try because I was smoking two packs aday and blues we're the new hype and they even had commercials on tv supporting vaping at the time.

I immediately took a liking to the new technology and did alot of research. Shortly after I purchased two started kits with cartomizers and ego pens. One kit for me and one for her. The learning curve was a little rough with all the leaking in the pockets as supposed to smoking but I was determined to get it right. My wife decided that she couldn't vape because it was to difficult to maintain. I offerd to do everything for her, cleaning, refilling and purchasing everything necessary for us to continue vaping.

She was adamant that it was easier to smoke and that she didnt like the vaping. Over the course of the eleven years I have been vaping I've tried over and over to get her to stop smoking and vape with me but to no avail.

Here's the kicker, I feel like she saved me from smoking but couldn't save herself from the addiction. November 30th 2022 my wife went to the hospital to get a cat-scan for a small hernia in her stomach and an annual breast check up. The xray tech must have been heaven sent because he noticed something else and ask her to get back on the machine. It was bad news, she has renal carcinoma from smoking with high blood pressure. The cancerous tumor has consumed her entire right kindy with very little good tissue left. She is so so lucky that the cancer hasnt spread into her lymphs and veins. November 30th 2022 was the last day she had a cigarette.

Shes going into surgery mid January and it sucks that this had to happen for her to quit smoking. Do yourself a favor if you still smoke and cant quit, vape and dont quit learning about vaping. Its probably bad too but it will never be as bad as smoking. I rather have a little lung inflammation then cancer or an organ removed.

Sincerely,
Badinfluence357.
 
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Im Badinfluence357 and this is my story. Eleven years ago my wife came home with a blue cig-alike that she got from a coworker. She gave it to me to try because I was smoking two packs aday and blues we're the new hype and they even had commercials on tv supporting vaping at the time.
Blu disposables were my first, similar time frame (Nov-2011). They were good but the regulars didn't work well for me. No matter - it got this crazy ball rolling for me too.
 

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Good luck to your wife Bad. Is her other kidney OK?

I sometimes I get sad when I think about friends and family that smoke, but people aren't going to quit until they're ready. When I first made the switch, I was really gung ho about getting everybody I knew to make the switch too. I once had someone call me the E-cigarette Evangelist.

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I wish your wife well.
A close friend had kidney cancer (though not from smoking) and had one kidney surgically removed. She's doing fine now.
Be aware that kidney cancer immunotherapy [not chemotherapy] is very successful in case it has spread elsewhere in her.
Best of luck.
 

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    So sad about your wife. Hope the other kidney still functions well.
    Lesson well learned.

    I too started out with a Blu, but no one told me about juice in a bottle. So when the little carts ran dry the Blu went into the bin.
    But then, I remember the day when the dr. said that my future life span would be measured in weeks, rather than months or years if I continued to smoke.
    I was 68 years old at the time. I'm now 81 years old thanks to finding this little vape shop (Electronicstix) just blocks from my house. (I bought an eGo and a bottle of juice)
     
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