Hello all!
So, I have spent roughly the last three hours on here lurking the forums, reading posts, and watching a few videos. The topic of electronic cigarettes has recently been popping up in conversations at home-I've heard my mom mention it a few times, just very briefly. She has heard about it, heard that it is smoke-less, and less expensive than keeping up with the analogs-look! I've even picked up terminology
I am going to appologize in advance if this is a somewhat-lengthy post; I have a habit of going into detail about things and ramble.
Anyways. As it happens tonight I was on twitter and someone marketing "Smoke Sticks" had decided to follow me. I found out that they were some sort of sales rep for these electronic cigarettes, and followed through to their website, which caused me to search on google for reviews of electronic cigarettes, and eventually my long travels though the internet taiga of electronic cigarettes led me here.
I have come to the conclusion, after reading through both horror stories and wonder stories, that this is most certainly something I would like to try out, and of course, share with my family. So, to start things off, I will introduce to you my wonderful smoking habits; I smoke roughly a pack of camel lights (and sometimes marlboro lights) a day. It has been this way for about seven years. I have attempted to quit a few times-the most successful of which was about two years ago while using Chantix-it worked scandalously well, with the exception of the fact that it made me feel terribly ill. I took the medication for about three weeks (and then halted it) and hadn't smoked a cigarette at all in those three weeks! It was marvelous! My wonderful 100% cigarette and nicotine free life continued on for a total of 3 months until, for reasons unknown to me, I found myself smoking again.
Now, I'm not looking to use these cigarettes to quit, and I'm not, of course, expecting a miracle to happen. However, I am incredibly intrigued by them and their smoke-less, odor-less, tar-less ways....but where to start?
My biggest worry is, of course, overdosing on nicotine. It has indeed happened to me before, so I know what to expect-but of course I want to try my best to avoid it. Considering I habitually smoke a pack of day, and after reading a few very insightful posts and watching a number of videos I have come to the conclusion that starting out low sounds like the best way to go...but how low? I'm looking at 11mg and that seems to be suitable, but I suppose I am looking for some input on that as well. I would like to be able to puff more than less, so that means to go with a lower dose....but I am honestly terrible with math so when it comes to ANYTHING dealing with numbers my brain seems to run in the opposite direction.
Also-what to buy!!! It seems there are so many types and styles of these. I have to say that I am infatuated with the way the Janty kissbox looks, and would like to find something similar to that (apparently these are difficult to buy because of high demand? am I wrong? Their website is not working at the moment...) Are there others which look similar to these?
Please pardon me if these are questions which can be easily answered by looking through the forum some more (which, I'm sure they are). I suppose I also felt a need to introduce myself instead of remaining a lurker! There is just so much to learn and the information that I am finding here seems to be invaluable-so thank you very very much to all of you out there.
-Kaetlyn
So, I have spent roughly the last three hours on here lurking the forums, reading posts, and watching a few videos. The topic of electronic cigarettes has recently been popping up in conversations at home-I've heard my mom mention it a few times, just very briefly. She has heard about it, heard that it is smoke-less, and less expensive than keeping up with the analogs-look! I've even picked up terminology
I am going to appologize in advance if this is a somewhat-lengthy post; I have a habit of going into detail about things and ramble.
Anyways. As it happens tonight I was on twitter and someone marketing "Smoke Sticks" had decided to follow me. I found out that they were some sort of sales rep for these electronic cigarettes, and followed through to their website, which caused me to search on google for reviews of electronic cigarettes, and eventually my long travels though the internet taiga of electronic cigarettes led me here.
I have come to the conclusion, after reading through both horror stories and wonder stories, that this is most certainly something I would like to try out, and of course, share with my family. So, to start things off, I will introduce to you my wonderful smoking habits; I smoke roughly a pack of camel lights (and sometimes marlboro lights) a day. It has been this way for about seven years. I have attempted to quit a few times-the most successful of which was about two years ago while using Chantix-it worked scandalously well, with the exception of the fact that it made me feel terribly ill. I took the medication for about three weeks (and then halted it) and hadn't smoked a cigarette at all in those three weeks! It was marvelous! My wonderful 100% cigarette and nicotine free life continued on for a total of 3 months until, for reasons unknown to me, I found myself smoking again.
Now, I'm not looking to use these cigarettes to quit, and I'm not, of course, expecting a miracle to happen. However, I am incredibly intrigued by them and their smoke-less, odor-less, tar-less ways....but where to start?
My biggest worry is, of course, overdosing on nicotine. It has indeed happened to me before, so I know what to expect-but of course I want to try my best to avoid it. Considering I habitually smoke a pack of day, and after reading a few very insightful posts and watching a number of videos I have come to the conclusion that starting out low sounds like the best way to go...but how low? I'm looking at 11mg and that seems to be suitable, but I suppose I am looking for some input on that as well. I would like to be able to puff more than less, so that means to go with a lower dose....but I am honestly terrible with math so when it comes to ANYTHING dealing with numbers my brain seems to run in the opposite direction.
Also-what to buy!!! It seems there are so many types and styles of these. I have to say that I am infatuated with the way the Janty kissbox looks, and would like to find something similar to that (apparently these are difficult to buy because of high demand? am I wrong? Their website is not working at the moment...) Are there others which look similar to these?
Please pardon me if these are questions which can be easily answered by looking through the forum some more (which, I'm sure they are). I suppose I also felt a need to introduce myself instead of remaining a lurker! There is just so much to learn and the information that I am finding here seems to be invaluable-so thank you very very much to all of you out there.
-Kaetlyn
