As I vape at my desk

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oxygen thief

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My desk, which is where I spend many hours a day, used to have ashes everywhere. I guess I'm not much at housekeeping, or wasn't.
Since getting off of the cigs everything, not just my desk, is clean. I have more energy to do things.
Anyway I keep an ashtray on the desk and every once in a while I look at it and realize that it hasn't seen a .... in three months. It's a major accomplishment and the time has gone by quickly.
Cigarettes were getting to me mentally and emotionally as much as physically. Two days before I tried an ecig I told a friend, I don't give a **** about quitting, I'm going to smoke myself to death like literally all my family did. I meant it because I didn't care.
Will vaping extend my life? Maybe, maybe not. But I've won this game no matter what because when I die, I die a non-smoker.
I wish my family would have cleaned their desk's. I wish they had the option of the ecig. I wish they were here.

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My Dad died a long, slow, agonizing death from pneumonia induced ARDS (Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome). One day while I was sitting with him (he was in an induced coma while they were trying to save him) one of his Nurses came in and asked me "How long was your Dad a smoker?" I just kind of laughed...'because he never once let a cigarette touch is mouth and railed against cigarettes and the fact that I did smoke. When I told her this, she said "Oh, I'm sorry...it's just that this commonly occurs to people who are smokers".

That kind of haunts me now...was it a message or sign somehow meant for me? I dunno, I do know I never forgot that conversation and over the years that followed, it consciously & subconsciously drove me to give up smoking. It took a while, and discovering vaping to finally be able to do it. I, like you, figured my fate was sealed. I'm not one of those people to give a crap about what others think of me or what I do...but he's one person I would've liked to see live long enough to know that I was finally able to quit. It would've meant the world to him.

ETA: Oh and, Congratulations by the way!
 
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My Dad died a long, slow, agonizing death from pneumonia induced ARDS (Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome). One day while I was sitting with him (he was in an induced coma while they were trying to save him) one of his Nurses came in and asked me "How long was your Dad a smoker?" I just kind of laughed...'because he never once let a cigarette touch is mouth and railed against cigarettes and the fact that I did smoke. When I told her this, she said "Oh, I'm sorry...it's just that this commonly occurs to people who are smokers".

That kind of haunts me now...was it a message or sign somehow meant for me? I dunno, I do know I never forgot that conversation and over the years that followed, it consciously & subconsciously drove me to give up smoking. It took a while, and discovering vaping to finally be able to do it. I, like you, figured my fate was sealed. I'm not one of those people to give a crap about what others think of me or what I do...but he's one person I would've liked to see live long enough to know that I was finally able to quit. It would've meant the world to him.

ETA: Oh and, Congratulations by the way!

Many think, we'll what did you expect? That's when I can get very nasty. Ten percent of lung cancer deaths were non-smokers. A nurse should know that but having experience with nurses I'm not surprised. Thanks!!!
 
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