Hi everyone, here's my story.
33 year smoker...started at age 12 (but who's counting anymore right?) All I'm interested in counting now, is how many ciggs I'm NOT smoking!! A much more productive thing to count.
Anyways I've tried everything over the years. first it was the gum....I found myself one day with 4 pieces of gum in my mouth, contemplating a 5th while lighting up a smoke....yeah that didn't work so well for me...
Next it was Hypnosis...spent some money for a seminar... attended... totally believed I was cured while I found myself pulling over to buy another pack of smokes on the way home (because I had thrown mine away during the seminar.... as instructed)....moving on..
Lets see... Wellbutrin...uhhh yeah, that didn't work either, I found myself sneaking around the side of the house to smoke...??? this was worse than being a smoker!!!! Now I was a 40 year old smoker who felt like I had to hide to smoke like when I was 12....LOL...
NEXT!!!........ Chantix...OMG... that was a fun scientific expirement!!! It turned me into a chick!!!! All of a sudden I had feelings....LOL I wanted to talk... and not just to my wife...but to anyone who wanted to listen...I remember one day I was at my dentists office talking to the girl who ran the office about all these new found feelings and she jokingly said, "Hey, would you like to go to the craft fair with me and a few of my girlfriends this weekend?"...LOL... I almost said yes!!!.. That's when I knew Chantix was seriously affecting me, in a not-so-good kind of way... Not Good...LOL I almost ended up in divorce court....not good .....really....not good.. Finally my wife ( who hates smoking with a freaking passion...said "Please go get some cigarettes!!! My response was, "What.... you'd rather me smoke....than... feel things???....LOL
After that episode< i was convinced, I would be a smoker for life and there was no help for me.... but I'm a very active person and at 45yrs old, I still think I'm 21... but my body was at the point where I was beginning to really feel the effects of smoking for 33 years... So I knew I had to do something..
I saw a co-worker with one of these crazy e-cig things... I talked to him about it, he sent me to a website, I read and read, watched some youtube videos and 2 hours later I'm placing a 149.00 order for some type of ultimate joye510 kit... (yeah, I know I probably paid a little too much, but I got a bunch of stuff I probably would have skimped on and tried to get by without) it came with 4 complete rigs, a bunch of chargers, a bunch of spare empty and prefilled carts...
I really like the 510, but just ordered an Ego/ with the bigger cartomizer...can't wait...
I'm 2 weeks and 1 day analog free....I love it!!!! so does my wife...
I'm just rather amazed with my experience with this forum and e-cigs so far.
