The talk about rituals resonates with me as well. Ten weeks ago, I was fortunate to have a very quick, very seamless transition from a 39 year/2+ pack per day habit to vaping -- except for the rituals.
Most prominent, my entire sense of Time shattered when I began vaping.
Previously, my life had been calibrated to the seven minutes needed to smoke a Parliament 100. "I'll go to bed after this cigarette", or "My dinner should be fully cooked when this cigarette is done". A 15 minute break at work was "two cigarettes long".
Even vaping off cheap cartomizers on stick batteries holding 90 minutes of life, my fastidiously punctual self consequently became highly unreliable for a couple of weeks, and I ate a lot of semi-burned lasagna.
I suppose one day, someone will ask me, "Didn't you simply trade one habit for another by taking up vaping?" I look forward to answering that, yes, I most certainly had to get into the habit of looking at my wristwatch again.
Most prominent, my entire sense of Time shattered when I began vaping.
Previously, my life had been calibrated to the seven minutes needed to smoke a Parliament 100. "I'll go to bed after this cigarette", or "My dinner should be fully cooked when this cigarette is done". A 15 minute break at work was "two cigarettes long".
Even vaping off cheap cartomizers on stick batteries holding 90 minutes of life, my fastidiously punctual self consequently became highly unreliable for a couple of weeks, and I ate a lot of semi-burned lasagna.
I suppose one day, someone will ask me, "Didn't you simply trade one habit for another by taking up vaping?" I look forward to answering that, yes, I most certainly had to get into the habit of looking at my wristwatch again.
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