Well let me start off by saying I have smoked cigarettes for 35 years (at one point in my life 3 packs a day) recently 2 packs a day, full flavoured canadian natives. I always considered smoking as something I chose to do, and thought I could quit anytime I liked....figured it would be easy!!!! Haaaaa......NOT!!
A couple of months ago someone told me about e-cigarettes......I wasn't interested and had never even heard of them before.
But for the last two months I have been trying to quit smoking, I have tried champix...with horrible results, tried the gum and patch, tried the inhaler (it worked about the best but never actually quit smoking).
I had gotten myself down to about 4 cigarettes or less a day which I thought was pretty good....then last Mon I found myself without any cigarettes in the house....I went to bed and laid there for a couple of hours ..all I could think about was cigarettes. So went to my laptop and started researching these e-cigarette things. Tuesday morning was hell...ended up going and buying a pack of smokes and smoked the whole pack in about 8 hours while doing e-cigarette research.
Tues morning I put a call in to a person that sells e-cigarettes, ended up getting a starter kit Tues night, spent 2 hours with the seller teaching me the basic ins and outs. Got myself an ego with the 650 battery (excuse me I still don't know all the lingo here lol).
Well Wed morning on my way to work I bought a pack of smokes (worried this e-cig wasn't going to work) I work 12 hour shifts and was scared the batteries would not hold out for me. Wed I smoked about 6 cigarettes along with the odd vaping (quite frankly was kinda embarrassed to vape in front of anyone). Thurs I had 2 cigarettes...one on the way to work and one on the way home..at work people had heard I was trying to quit and that I had this fake cigarette thing lol. Hahah the smoke I had Thurs night was my last one so far...........still have the pack in my lunch kit, but haven't touched them since.
I remember when I lit the last cigarette I took a couple of drags and thought now what I don't wan the rest of this, so I put it out and relite it later and finished it............quite honestly it tasted rather nasty.
So here I am 3 days without a cigarette...........I can honestly say it has been over 30 years since I have had a day go by without a cigarette. And man the cigarettes and ashtrays are just nasty!!!!
However I am having problems with the vaping which I have no doubt the folks in here can help me with.
Looking forward to learning lots. And then the next step is to help some very heavy smokers in my family maybe also get off the cigarettes.
A couple of months ago someone told me about e-cigarettes......I wasn't interested and had never even heard of them before.
But for the last two months I have been trying to quit smoking, I have tried champix...with horrible results, tried the gum and patch, tried the inhaler (it worked about the best but never actually quit smoking).
I had gotten myself down to about 4 cigarettes or less a day which I thought was pretty good....then last Mon I found myself without any cigarettes in the house....I went to bed and laid there for a couple of hours ..all I could think about was cigarettes. So went to my laptop and started researching these e-cigarette things. Tuesday morning was hell...ended up going and buying a pack of smokes and smoked the whole pack in about 8 hours while doing e-cigarette research.
Tues morning I put a call in to a person that sells e-cigarettes, ended up getting a starter kit Tues night, spent 2 hours with the seller teaching me the basic ins and outs. Got myself an ego with the 650 battery (excuse me I still don't know all the lingo here lol).
Well Wed morning on my way to work I bought a pack of smokes (worried this e-cig wasn't going to work) I work 12 hour shifts and was scared the batteries would not hold out for me. Wed I smoked about 6 cigarettes along with the odd vaping (quite frankly was kinda embarrassed to vape in front of anyone). Thurs I had 2 cigarettes...one on the way to work and one on the way home..at work people had heard I was trying to quit and that I had this fake cigarette thing lol. Hahah the smoke I had Thurs night was my last one so far...........still have the pack in my lunch kit, but haven't touched them since.
I remember when I lit the last cigarette I took a couple of drags and thought now what I don't wan the rest of this, so I put it out and relite it later and finished it............quite honestly it tasted rather nasty.
So here I am 3 days without a cigarette...........I can honestly say it has been over 30 years since I have had a day go by without a cigarette. And man the cigarettes and ashtrays are just nasty!!!!
However I am having problems with the vaping which I have no doubt the folks in here can help me with.
Looking forward to learning lots. And then the next step is to help some very heavy smokers in my family maybe also get off the cigarettes.
