Sonic. I'm not sure if this may help you or not or if you've already started vaping or what's going on.
I'm pretty sure you've just had enough personal information and I'd like to tell you about my vaping "almost-success" story and tell you a little about myself.
I'm only a mere 20 years old and I don't have much to offer to society. After graduating High School I tried going to college to become a Psychological Therapist I wanted to deal mainly with people that have had horrific things done to them. (ie: Rape, murder witness, etc) I got scared and decided not to do it (thankfully before I filled out anything) I got a job at a parking garage called "Standard Parking" in Windsor Locks, Connecticut. I basically sat in a small 5ft by 5ft booth with heating & AC and a hot/cold water machine. I started smoking the beginning of my senior year. I was about 1 pack a day until my job at standard parking. Oh, I also forgot to mention that this was a third shift job, 5 days a week 12am - 8am. Anyways, during my first month I was already up to 2 packs a day. As you could imagine, not many flights come through Bradley Airport at night. I only averaged maybe 30-40 customers per night. Maybe 20 minutes worth the work. I was allowed to step outside my booth and smoke a cigarette if I wanted. So whenever there wasn't a customer you could sure as hell bet on your life I was standing right next to that sand-filled bucket chain smoking away on my Marlboro Menthol 100s. I quickly realized I needed to roll my own cigarettes. I decided to be a real cheap-o. I bought a crank roller (30 bucks) 5 (5ounce) bags of mint pipe tobacco (6.59 each) and 3 cartons of menthol tubes (2.50 each) So, as you could imagine I pretty much had an army of cigarettes just begging me to smoke them and I did. I went from 3 packs a day from that first month. The NEXT day I smoked 4 and a half packs. The next? 5 and a half. The next day was a full 6 packs. I had a cigarette in my mouth from when I woke up right up til I went to bed. Even while I smoked a cigarette in my garage I decided to pee outside (I live in a pretty concealed house, nobody can see you from the road) in the bushes. just to avoid having to put my cigarette out and go inside.
I also have chronic anxiety which is the reason for my speech impediment. My anxiety is just all the time. I always have to play with something. As a kid I always chewed on pencils or pens or any type of plastic whether it was a McDonald's straw or a Coca-Cola bottle cap. I always had to have something in my mouth at all times or I just freaked out. I never wanted to start smoking but ever since I was 16 I always had the feeling "One day this pen cap or straw is going to turn into a cigarette" Two years or so later it did. One of my newer friends saw me chewing a pen cap and just offered me a cigarette. You know Big Dan wanted to look cool "Hell yeah I'll smoke it!" I lit it up and smoked it like a champ. I coughed a couple times but I managed to finish it even though it looked disgusting. I regret doing that every day of my life. From that day on I was a smoker. I'm completely aware that one cigarette doesn't make you addicted but now EVERYBODY who was at that party was going to offer me cigarettes when they saw me outside of school. Sure enough they day. I decided to call myself a "social smoker" I was only letting it happen and I gave it a loose-ended term with loose-ended boundaries. So I decided I would only smoke when I hung out with my friends and only if they offered me one. Which wouldn't have been that bad if I didn't live in the town of Tobacco Barons. You see, I live in Suffield, Connecticut. This is a small town of about 13,000 people and there's a tobacco farm or more on almost every street. Just to give you an example, I passed by 7 farms on my 5 minute drive to school every morning. Anyways, with that being said. All of my friends were fairly well off and had 20 dollars a day for "lunch money" So they had no problem giving me cigarette after cigarette after cigarette. I was smoking a pack of my friend's cigarettes whenever they hung out with me which was all day all the time because what else is an 18 year old in a farming town supposed to do? The only local entertainment was the local skate park and I don't even skate board.. So life was boring.
I find that now is a good time to say that I also have a very fast-paced racing memory. I think of one thing, then I think of another in a snap. So that's why my story is kind of jumpy. I apologize for that. Back to the story.
Anyways. So you can see that I was an 18 year old teenager with NOTHING to do but hang out by the rail road tracks (maybe a 300 yard walk from my friend's house) We had about 10 lawn-chairs set up, a BBQ Charcoal grill and a fire pit. After we got out of school we would go home, take a shower do home work (if we even felt like it. I sure as hell never did) Then go to Chris' house and chain smoke around the fire. I quickly learned that my parents could never find out about my smoking so I always carried Listerine and body spray/deodorant in my backpack to get rid of the smell on my body and in my breath when I went home. I kept on 1 pack a day until I got my job at Standard Parking. The mere isolation just made me smoke cig after cig after cig after cig and I couldn't stop. After my first month I told my mother that I was a smoker and she was very angry of course. But my mother basically said "Go ahead, but I hope you know you're killing yourself" and me being myself was like "whatever, I'm gunna go smoke one right now in the garage" and she said "ok have fun!" I went and smoked one. That was the same day I went out and bought my rolling stuff (as stated before) After 7 months of smoking 6 packs a day I got laid of from Standard Parking. They closed down one of their many lots, Lot 5B. They had the parking garage, Lot 1, Lot 3, 4, 5A, 5B and 5C. 5C and 5A were rented out to a Taxi Company and the others were used. Lot 5B, being so far from the air port was usually never used and was shut down. Since this company was 24/7 with one booth there were 3 shifts that covered it. I was 2nd last in the seniority ranks. Only one person was hired after I was. So I got the boot. I now had to depend on my poor mother to spot me ( I did the math, about 7 dollars a day) to support my filthy habbit. It's been a year since Sept. 23rd.
It has been 24 days and 21 hours since my last ENJOYED cigarette. (approximately) I've smoked cigarettes since then, but they were disgusting and I didn't even like them.
Anyways, I'm sure everyone reading this is getting very bored and wants me to sum it up so here it is. On that day, my grandmother randomly showed up at my house with an electronic cigarette from "Nicotek" that she purchased at a gas station. The kit came in a little aluminum box and came with three cartomizers, 1 battery (automatic) and a USB charger. I tried it and it took some getting used to but I stuck with it and vaped until the battery died. I immediately went outside and chainsmoked while the battery charged. After 2 hours I went back inside and vaped some more. The next day I begged my mother to buy me another gas station eCig so I wouldn't have to smoke analogs during charge-ups.
I've accumulated 1 Nicotek battery 1 nicotek carto (it's still going strong, haha. I lost the other two.) 2 Cig2o Batteries and 20 cartos (still going) and a Revolver Infiniti Ion Deluxe Starter kit (don't buy this, it's horrible) with a PCC, 5 cartos, 5 carts and an atty w/ wall adapter and mini-usb cord to charge the PCC. The revolver is gross but it came with 30mLs of menthol which have lasted me this long.
I have just ordered the
E-Power 14650 1050mAh Kit I just gave you the link because I didn't feel like typing the stuff that came with it. I also purchased some juices in 3mL samples (total of 10 flavors) which are still being shipped along with my e-power.
Anyways, I just wanted to let you know that if I can quit smoking almost on the dot via an electronic cigarette when I was a 6 pack a day smoker for almost a year. I would recommend an electronic cigarette to anybody I know.
I hope you're able to quit soon,
-Dan
EDIT: Wow after reading that, I realized how many typographical errors are in there. I apologize, haha. To get the summary. I was smoking 6 packs a day for almost a year and I pretty much switched to electronic cigarettes the day I got my first one.
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