Believe it or not, 7 months after I'm still smoking

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Racehorse

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Susaz, I just have one more thing to add.

Until I went home that day with no analogs, I can honestly say I was only so-so on vaping.

Funny thing happened over next few days. :) I started to ENJOY vaping, more than I had previously, as a matter of fact, I had a ton of fun and had 4 devices going with 4 different flavors, and then was dripping into an atty a 5th flavor.

Until I found myself at home, with no access to tobacco or analogs at all, I didn't really realize the full wonderfulness of vaping. I spent the next 3 days just enjoying the HECK out of vaping, which I had not done when I was still stealing a smoke here and there.

I don't know why that is, but that is what happened to me.

After that weekend, I KNEW I would never have another cigarette. And, I haven't. Once in a while, I get a little "grabby urge", but it goes away after a few minutes, as long as I don't dwell on it.

I wish you the best of luck, I do.
 

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I will recommend one of the best best best books ever written on quitting smoking. This book, if you read it dilligently, a little each day, will "prepare your head" for not smoking anymore.

It's a very famous book, and Carr has helped millions quit: 995 Five star ratings on Amazon, believe me, its a great book, I have it. :)

Allen Carr's Easyway to Stop Smoking: Allen Carr: 9780615482156: Amazon.com: Books

REad the 995 good reviews, and decide for yourself. It is the "easy way".....

I always find it interesting that on a vaping forum, only vaping more or differently is always offered as the cure, but there are a LOT of psychological aspects to smoking, and so just intaking nicotine and blowing vapor isn't gonna solve alll the problems.

Every once in a while I pop in and suggest this book, I think I will do it more often. :O)

I really can't explain it so you have to read the book. LIke one revieweer said: " His contention is that you already know those risks so why condescend and tell you again? He also suggests that you not quit smoking until you read to the end of the book because he is confident that once you reach the end that you will want to quit."

This book makes you want to quit, it's not about scaring you, or about using willpower, or any of that. It provides your brain with MOTIVATION, and CONFIDENCE.

I'll read it, thanks for the reference!

As for motivation, I have plenty. My mother died of a stroke at age 53, and my late beau's been in a coma for the past 3 years. Smoking was a ritual for us, both started smoking very young and shortly before the stroke we started vaping together. But he had to make a trip, ran out of supplies (or maybe too lazy to fill cartos) and a stroke hit him 2 days shy of his return home. Since then it's a constant reminder that either I stop smoking NOW or I'm in the same path. Two months short of 50, the dangerous age is arriving where all you do wrong (drinking, smoking, painkillers, junk food, etc), and I'm much too aware.

Smoking runs in my mother's family. Everybody smokes, and we've been in and out of cigarettes several times. We could say there's a smoking gene, as well as alcoholism runs in certain families. I see my godfather, an elder man, sneaking to smoke in the bathroom. He's had two strokes, fortunately mild enough to get out of, but have taken the toll on his health. That's another reminder that I must quit.

But the most terrible, at least for me, was when my father got sick. I smoked a whole carton in barely 4 days. When I reached out for the last pack I was astonished. Vaping is expensive here, but I couldn't go on smoking at that pace. Too much risk.

I'll have a serious conversation with the other in the mirror. Tell her of all the risks we run if we don't give up smoking. It has worked in other ocasions... ;)
 

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There are some people that never stop smoking completely. I am not one of them but I chose to stop completely. It took me awhile to find the right setup and juice so I did not crave analogs. There are a few members here that have no interest in quitting. They just wanted to cut back how much they smoked to save money.

To quit is a choice, and it's not an always an easy thing to do.
 

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Hang in. I just started and was a PAD easy and had high anxiety levels. If I'm at work I'm good because I'm very busy I would still find time to step out and grab a quick smoke though. This eek however I had broken it down to having 2 a day. My husband asked me to quit so the day before heart day I had my last one at about 2 pm. Im into my second day and really wish I had some stronger juice :( I'm goinna do it though. It's a lot of will power just to say no and vape instead Good luck and hang in there. You can do it
 

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yesterday we went to town ( 1.5 hours to the town) I thougth I was already to spend the day, had my clearo filled, fresh charged battery.. ready to go.. One hour into our drive my battery died...I was like omg now what... My mind started racing...What do I do... I was with my SO which had his battery and the same flavor thank goodness, but my mind was still in a panic. I had to focus, tell my self its ok, I can make it threw with not having my battery and using my SO's battery. It took about half an hour to bring it under control. But in all that not once did I think about buying a pack of analogs. And I was in a few stores that sold analogs before I got my self under control about it. I was more where can I buy single e-cig. It was my first real time since I started that I didnt have my own battery, using my SO's battery helped. So in my mind ive change what I have to have from an analog to a e-cig.
SO the moral of the story.
Have a back up with you always...
And take control of yourself if the worse happens. You can get threw it.

I absolutely love my PCC. Recharges 3 eGo 650 twists in a jiffy. At home I have a Kgo VV passthrough that gets me through the rough patches. This is the great thing of this time, not having to carry tons of batteries and having one always handy!
 

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I'll read it, thanks for the reference!

As for motivation, I have plenty. My mother died of a stroke at age 53, and my late beau's been in a coma for the past 3 years. Smoking was a ritual for us, both started smoking very young and shortly before the stroke we started vaping together. But he had to make a trip, ran out of supplies (or maybe too lazy to fill cartos) and a stroke hit him 2 days shy of his return home. Since then it's a constant reminder that either I stop smoking NOW or I'm in the same path. Two months short of 50, the dangerous age is arriving where all you do wrong (drinking, smoking, painkillers, junk food, etc), and I'm much too aware.

Smoking runs in my mother's family. Everybody smokes, and we've been in and out of cigarettes several times. We could say there's a smoking gene, as well as alcoholism runs in certain families. I see my godfather, an elder man, sneaking to smoke in the bathroom. He's had two strokes, fortunately mild enough to get out of, but have taken the toll on his health. That's another reminder that I must quit.

But the most terrible, at least for me, was when my father got sick. I smoked a whole carton in barely 4 days. When I reached out for the last pack I was astonished. Vaping is expensive here, but I couldn't go on smoking at that pace. Too much risk.

I'll have a serious conversation with the other in the mirror. Tell her of all the risks we run if we don't give up smoking. It has worked in other ocasions... ;)

You can do this Susz.
 

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I absolutely love my PCC. Recharges 3 eGo 650 twists in a jiffy. At home I have a Kgo VV passthrough that gets me through the rough patches. This is the great thing of this time, not having to carry tons of batteries and having one always handy!

The battery that died was a visions spinner, my SO pulled off the charger before it was totally charged, he thought it was charged. He has a pass through and that is how we got threw the day. Normally I get 36 hours out of my spinners.
 

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Hang in. I just started and was a PAD easy and had high anxiety levels. If I'm at work I'm good because I'm very busy I would still find time to step out and grab a quick smoke though. This eek however I had broken it down to having 2 a day. My husband asked me to quit so the day before heart day I had my last one at about 2 pm. Im into my second day and really wish I had some stronger juice :( I'm goinna do it though. It's a lot of will power just to say no and vape instead Good luck and hang in there. You can do it

Going from a pack to two day is AWESOME

Keep it up!
 

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I vaped and smoked for about 2 months before I completely quit the stinkies. One thing that helped me to NOT want the stinkies was by making it incredibly inconvenient to smoke a stinkie vs vape on my e-cig. The last 2-3stinkies per day were the most difficult to let go of. So, I started to keep them in my locked car, inside of the locked glove box and I kept the lighter in the garage, inside of a locked toolbox. If I really, REALLY wanted a stinkie, I had to go and get the car keys from my desk, walk out to the car, unlock the car, unlock the glove box fish out a cigarette.. and THEN go get the lighter from the locked toolbox inside of garage. It was a 5 minute ordeal to just lay my hands on a lighted cigarette! And then I had to smoke that sucker OUTSIDE no matter what the weather was like.


My vape rig, however, was always right next to me - charged, loaded for bear, and ready to go. Convenience is nice as is vaping from the comfort of being INSIDE the house. Watching TV, surfing the web.. whatever, while vaping.

~Tiger

EDITED TO ADD: And I was a 33 year smoker who smoked, the last couple of years 2 to 3 packs per DAY before I picked up an Njoy e-cig and when I did pick up that e-cig, I was not even TRYING to quit smoking, (it was for something to use when I was unable to smoke). It was only after I immediately dropped down to 10ish stinkies a day after using that first Njoy that the light bulb in my head went on and I thought, "hmmmm... I could quit smoking with the help of these things!!!"
 
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Susaz

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I know of someone who collected all the latest mods and had most of the flavors from all over. After two months, she's back to smoking again after our group lost contact.

I sincerely hope that won't be the case, but I'll love when I can vape all the time. At that time I'll be buying more sophisticated things. For the time being, just ego batts and T3!

Still, it's happened to me that I run out of money and start smoking again. Vaping here is 2 times more expensive than smoking.
 
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Still, it's happened to me that I run out of money and start smoking again. Vaping here is 2 times more expensive than smoking.
you could always try doing DIY for Juice. the Liquix app for iPad is $2, but it not only helps you figure out the correct ammounts, but once you have your stuff put in, it will tell you how much each bottle you make costs.
 

Susaz

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you could always try doing DIY for Juice. the Liquix app for iPad is $2, but it not only helps you figure out the correct ammounts, but once you have your stuff put in, it will tell you how much each bottle you make costs.

Materials for DIY here are hard to get, and about the same for eliquid shipped from the US. I buy 24 mg liquid and downgrade it to about 15, some vendors add extra flavor. That gets the mileage up a bit.
 
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