After just 12 days, I CAN NOT smoke an analog!

[Angelz]

Heres another one:

After 25 years, 2 packs a day - I loved my tobacco. Daily brands like Marlb, exotic from Russia and India you name it. I really loved my tobacco.

Although, there was trouble in my smoke filled paradise. My daughter has begged me to quit. To the point of tears and anger. Her birthday wish (12th) was for me to quit smoking. Thats all she wanted. "...use the gum, a patch, even chew it but stop smoking Pleeeease...its nasty and it stinks...pleeeease stop..." This really tore at me, but I have never lied to her and had to tell her that I enjoyed it too much and I was way too addicted. I couldn't make her a promise I could not, or had no intention of keeping.

After seeing en e-cig at a kiosk and a smoke shop - I looked this stuff up and ended here. I thought "Wow - if this works I can get my nic at work and not have to clock out." After lurking here for a while I decided on a 510. Remember, my thoughts were to use it as a SUPPLEMENT to my smoking. I had read the stories of quitting. I started using my 510 right away. I loved it. The flavor was great and it didn't smell. I hadn't showed my family. That night I reached for an analog, lit it and gagged.

I asked my daughter what she would think if I used an electronic cigarette. She immediately spent about 3 hours Googling info about it and then announced that she thought this would be great - no different than nicorette or patches...

Thanks to everyone here, I have my 510. Her 13th birthday is next week. I told my princess that she got her wish. I haven't had a whole cigarette in days. I was now able to look her in the eye and say that I have the chance to quit. She was so happy she started crying and hugged me like she hasn't hugged me since she was 7 or 8. She went and called all of her friends and was telling then what a great surprise she got for her birthday.

I have told her that I have had a few analogs, but not because I wanted them, but because they happened to be handy, and I lit it without thinking. Within 2 drags I was gagging each time. Today, being home from school she noticed that I hadn't had a cig all day - and she came up to me all bubbly and told me, "Daddy, I really want you to know how happy I am. You REEEALLLLY didn't have a cigarette allllll day. Thank you sooo much!" and I received another bunch of kisses and hugs.

Now my skeptical wife is actually starting to use it more and more and I can see that she too is just unconsciously smoking less.

So I want to thank everyone in this forum for making my daughter so happy!

Coming from someone who didn't WANT to quit, this is nothing short of a miracle.

I actually got a tear in my eye reading this. What an amazing gift for your child, and for you and your wife. These things rock!

 

[bigbear8481]

Hey,

its hard for me to tell my friends who do smoke YUK because i only stopped about 2 weeks ago. But the smell of a log is (insert swear here) gross. i gagged on the smell.

i took one drag to see what it was like after vaping, i got sick. I see people smoking when Im out & about & I want to scream at them to stop!!!

Im so glad I found this forum & just want to send a thank you out for the help this forum gives.

Bear

 

[AngusATAT]

Yesterday at work I went down to the smoking area to vape a bit, since a couple smokers at work expressed an interest in seeing what an e-cig is, and noticed something strange. The second hand smoke they were giving off smelled absolutely vile. I wasn't expecting that. I had to stand upwind of them because it was making me a little nauseous.

I didn't say anything, of course. I don't want to be one of "those" ex-smokers. But I doubt I'll be making many more trips to the smoking area. Especially since I can stealth vape in my cubicle.

 

[maf2k8]

Awesome story! Reminds me a bit of mine. I quit about 3 weeks ago and it was on a wednesday. I was talking to a friend and telling him how i quit, etc, etc and how i got into the E-Cig. Well the weekend was coming up and i like to go out and drink with friends, Well my buddy informed me that it would be a BAD idea since i was still in week 1 of quiting.

I went out the past 2 weekends, drinking and not 1 cigarette and all my friends smoke ( hell some even tease me )

I think the ultimate test for a smoker when he quits and goes to E-Cigs is a night at the bar or after dinner ( thats if you drink ) those are the 2 times i would ALWAYS crave a cigarette and the fact i can do both now and not crave one is awesome!

Hell, I still have half a carton of smokes in my drawer untouched! Never tempted! Just keeping them to sell off to a friend! lol ( i live in chicago so throwing out hald a carton is about 40.00! )

 

[Angelz]

Yesterday at work I went down to the smoking area to vape a bit, since a couple smokers at work expressed an interest in seeing what an e-cig is, and noticed something strange. The second hand smoke they were giving off smelled absolutely vile. I wasn't expecting that. I had to stand upwind of them because it was making me a little nauseous.

I didn't say anything, of course. I don't want to be one of "those" ex-smokers. But I doubt I'll be making many more trips to the smoking area. Especially since I can stealth vape in my cubicle.

Just out of curiosity as to how it would taste now, I asked the husband last night for a drag off his Camel, a brand I never minded much before if I was out of my usual brand. Wow. I may as well have rolled up a newspaper and set it on fire and took a drag off that. Now I know I'll never smoke again.

 

[paulyc44]

I got my first e-cig yesterday. Whle it is not the model that will work for me, I know this is going to change my life! I get so excited about it that it makes me gitty! Can't wait to get my Joye 510 that I have read so much about here in ECF! Also, this forum has the most friendly communities that I have come across through all the internet forums I have been to. No condescending, sly, holier than thou attitudes here! Love the support and encouragement. I think it has to do with our common ground to live a healthier life style and doing what we love!

 

[Angelz]

I got my first e-cig yesterday. Whle it is not the model that will work for me, I know this is going to change my life! I get so excited about it that it makes me gitty! Can't wait to get my Joye 510 that I have read so much about here in ECF! Also, this forum has the most friendly communities that I have come across through all the internet forums I have been to. No condescending, sly, holier than thou attitudes here! Love the support and encouragement. I think it has to do with our common ground to live a healthier life style and doing what we love!

Congratulations, paulyc44!
Yeah, this place rocks, doesn't it? Everyone is totally cool, and not afraid to help a newbie out!

 

[AngusATAT]

I got my first e-cig yesterday. Whle it is not the model that will work for me, I know this is going to change my life! I get so excited about it that it makes me gitty! Can't wait to get my Joye 510 that I have read so much about here in ECF! Also, this forum has the most friendly communities that I have come across through all the internet forums I have been to. No condescending, sly, holier than thou attitudes here! Love the support and encouragement. I think it has to do with our common ground to live a healthier life style and doing what we love!

The 510 is a good choice. I'm stealth vaping on one right now (don't tell my boss!) and love it. So far it's been a great little device.

 

[MREXE]

Stealth vaping!!!! lol, yep, did that at the Air Force football game! pretty funny, and no one said anything..........

 

[beckah54]

Reading all these great stories makes me even madder at the anti-smokers that want to ban ecigs. Ecigs are doing so much good for so many people.

 

[doyourideabike]

Isnt it nice to know that many of us now will not be financing the cigarette companys VIP,s vacation fund!!!

 

[optsmk]

I sure hope I have the same problem as the OP.

 

[Porphy]

It blows my mind after trying so many other ways to quit.

That sums it up for me. I just can't get over how easy it was to start living a happier healthier life. I kept thinking "this is too good to be true" but I still, after a few months, cannot find the "catch" it's just not there.

...it blows my mind.

 

[ProfessorDaffy]

Now that's rich. "I was hiding the smoking from her..." First off, she's a woman. It's like trying to hide an elephant in your mailbox.

Second, we old smokers thought we we're so clever, but wait until your sense of smell comes back. You can smell smokers just walking past them in the hallway. No amount of soap or breath mint can hide that! We really were kidding ourselves.

The best part is when you realize that the taste of cigarettes hasn't change. They always tasted like that.

--Prof Daffy
P.S. And don't even think about changing a smoker's opinion. They have to find their own way. They get hassled enough. Just enjoy yourself and they'll find you when they're good and ready. People stop me at work all the time now. Yes, I was the first.
P.P.S. If you vape it they will come!

 

[nmewarlok]

i havent smoked a single analog since i got my kit last sat morning. I live next door to heavy smokers and ive spent a good deal of time over there in the midst of cig smoke, and never asked to get a real one. I thought about it though, but it smelled so nasty I could only imagine how it would taste again. I even gave them my last pack of marbys. They have too invested in a solution that has both cleared up my breathing, and made me not miss the mess or having to step outside for a cig break. I carry mine in an empty pocket and can pull it out whenever i want too. If i can keep supplies coming, this could be a very good thing for me, only a smoker of a year and a half, and for them, smoking for 12-17 years. And were saving quite a bit of money in the process. Just an upside to what appears to be a healthier alternative. I wouldnt care if it cost the same, the apparent health benefits are nice. I too have seen a positive change in my blood pressure

 

[lordmage]

moved out of newbie section

 

[Kate51]

Welcome Poor_Red_Neck, What a nice story!! You will never be sorry! And the tabocco cigarettes always tasted awful, we just never knew that!
And Rave your story would be funny if it wasn't so serious! Those Meds could have killed you!!
I smoke for 44 years, quit on day one with my NPro. I thought that juice was awful, till I lit my last cigarette when I had to charge batteries. AUGHHHH, it STUNK! Over six months now, without so much as a bad day.