Congratulations, NerdyCindy......putting that ashtray away is a giant leap! Hang in there. Before long you won't even be reaching for that cigarette at all. I promise.
Count me in as a chain vaper too.
I've smoked for over thirty years, putting away 2-3 packs a day, depending on what kind of day it was. In the past few years, I've tried everything to quit smoking. The patch, Chantix, gum, pills, Smoke-Away, hypnosis, you name it. What I finally realized is that the reason that these methods did not work for me is because they only addressed the nicotine addiction without addressing the habit itself. Which is a huge factor in my case.
I believe that, over the course of many years, the very act of smoking, the hand-to-mouth fixation, the holding the cigarette, the automatically lighting up, the whole inhale/exhale thing, it all becomes a part of our identity, our personality, an extension of our selves, so to speak. I know, with all of the other methods, I just honestly didn't know what to do with my hands all of a sudden, lol. I felt completely out of whack with myself, like a part of ME was missing, and extremely sad and depressed for reasons that I can't even explain except to say that it sort of felt as if I'd lost my best friend. In thinking about it now , I guess that the "lost" best friend was actually that part of me, the habit itself. Hope I'm making a little sense here, lol.
Although I'm not completely off the analogs yet, I hope to be soon. I am down to about 8-10 a day and that's enough to give me hope. The ecig is the only thing that has ever given me hope that I can quit tobacco altogether. And manage to stay sane while doing so.
Count me in as a chain vaper too.
I've smoked for over thirty years, putting away 2-3 packs a day, depending on what kind of day it was. In the past few years, I've tried everything to quit smoking. The patch, Chantix, gum, pills, Smoke-Away, hypnosis, you name it. What I finally realized is that the reason that these methods did not work for me is because they only addressed the nicotine addiction without addressing the habit itself. Which is a huge factor in my case.
I believe that, over the course of many years, the very act of smoking, the hand-to-mouth fixation, the holding the cigarette, the automatically lighting up, the whole inhale/exhale thing, it all becomes a part of our identity, our personality, an extension of our selves, so to speak. I know, with all of the other methods, I just honestly didn't know what to do with my hands all of a sudden, lol. I felt completely out of whack with myself, like a part of ME was missing, and extremely sad and depressed for reasons that I can't even explain except to say that it sort of felt as if I'd lost my best friend. In thinking about it now , I guess that the "lost" best friend was actually that part of me, the habit itself. Hope I'm making a little sense here, lol.
Although I'm not completely off the analogs yet, I hope to be soon. I am down to about 8-10 a day and that's enough to give me hope. The ecig is the only thing that has ever given me hope that I can quit tobacco altogether. And manage to stay sane while doing so.
If you were a 1 and 1/2 pack smoker what dosage and how many puffs should you be taking ? My husband seems to be off the cigs but now addicted to the juice? Why aren't the ingredients posted.. This stuff is like liquid crack.
Dave W.
