Converting the most difficult Smoker of them ALL!

[Zutankhamun]

@stols001
Btw, did I ever tell you about my successful transition from cigs to vape. I haven’t failed yet after years.

Can I have this famed P3 you keep going on about?
Pretty please

 

[stols001]

I'll give it to you after you have completed eleventy-jillion chores at the house, not to mention a TON of stonework. LOL. The husband will have "earned" it (at some point, I'm gonna give it to him regardless) so no, not unless you want to compete against the crankiest yet most productive old man who should've wound up a quad, except he was like, "There has to be some type of experimental surgery I can get," and well, there was. The docs just didn't want to, but he insisted (they figured it wouldn't work).

Come at me with great functionality and whatnot, maybe you have a chance. But, until then, no. LOL.

Anna

 

[Zutankhamun]

Hmmm. This is going to be a pickle

You seem to have a little more admiration for your life-partner, father of your children and the person whom you’ve chosen to build a life and home with than I had presumed...

I can probably build a coil better and quicker than him!
My first real experience with tools has been vaping related and I’ve caused various damage with said tools.
I’m not very handy... I once laid some one-click laminate flooring that looked bomb though!
I put up some blinds. I beat my girlfriend time-wise and mine looked better than hers - if I do say so myself.

Holla if you need some laminate flooring laid and a single 28g macro coil built quick-smart. We can work out the charges another time (cough cough ((P3)) cough)

 

[stols001]

LOL, I have one kid, and my husband is not my baby-daddy. I have LITTLE admiration (in fact much hate) toward the kiddo's dad, but that's why you don't date and marry your dealer... and then get sober. LOL.

Although, I will say the husband did a great stepparent job on the kid.

Laminate? I'm sorry, even I can do that, LOL, that's gluing stuff to a floor. I mean, yeah, you have to make sure everything's level, but alas, even I can do laminate.

I just built 3 coils in quick succession for my Siren V2, so no, stick with the GF, LOL. I will give him the P3.... Once I stop finding cigarettes on the front porch. But, thank you for your kind offer, LOL.

Anna

 

[Zutankhamun]

Appreciate the snarky reply Anna

However, allow me to enlighten you.
Clicking 1 click laminate flooring = laminate flooring is a glueless, floating-floor installation system.

They did mention glue but we can avoid that for the sake of arguements. It deals with moisture to some degree but, I used not a drop of glue and my laminate is the best you’ll ever see. Me and the bed are bone dry

‘Stick with gf’
Me and the other half are no longer together. Something about moisture on the floors... blablabla.

I must say though, I’m not looking for a new girlfriend....

I only want the P3

 

[Zutankhamun]

Also.
I don’t believe you can lay laminate as I can lay laminate.

Pics or it didn’t happen.

looking good eh????

 

[stols001]

I deeply understand your desire. If the husband continues to dual use (HIGHEST RISK BEHAVIOR ACCORDING TO GLANTZ) and drops dead, you can have it then, @Zutankhamun , LOL.

Because, in such a circumstance I will be leaving Tucson at the highest speed, and getting rid of most of my possessions and etc. Including the P3.

Only, I don't think Glantz's claim of dual use being FIVE TMES MORE DANGEROUS THAN JUST SMOKING is real... It was backed up by nothing other than Glantz's desire for no one to try vaping, because it is the devil's tool. So, not super worried, etc.

Anna

 

[stols001]

It is lovely laminate, but I can do better, I'm pretty sure. I won't take a pic from after the fire, but that is some fine looking laminate, LOL, well done.

After the fire, I actually begged the husband if we could just relaminate, it's so forgiving of drops. When we redo the bathroom, I get to keep my "plastic" sink, because of my dentures, too. It's really no fun to break your dentures in two, although it's easily repaired, it's usually expensive. LOL.

Anna

 

[chellie]

Nope, he's fairly healthy and stuff, but he wants to quit (I think). .... I think he just wants to quit. Mostly.

Whether he will succeed or not, well, that's anyone's guess...

Anna
Anna

He sounds a bit like me -smoking from a young age --I think I read not into pharmaceuticals...no real health problems although I was told I might never walk again after an freak injury and beat every single obstacle they threw at me and am just fine -- walking and running.

I never really gave it a go to quit cigs --shoot if I ran out of cigs before bed I would wake up like a crazy person. I rarely bought cartons because I could smoke a carton in 3 days if I had it so I was constantly in the store. I think I knew that I could survive cold turkey ---but I knew it would be HELL and I did not want to go through it.

I firmly made up my mind when I learned about vaping and after nearly 4 decades of heavy analogs I quit. From the first day vaping I stopped analogs because I know myself and am an all or nothing person. If I was dual-using, I'd still be doing it.

It seems your hubby is coming around and making great progress so I wish him (and you) the best of luck. Looks like he will get some nice vape-related gifts from you.

Must have been hard for you to stop when someone in the house was still smoking analogs.

 

[stols001]

Actually, it surprisingly wasn't, but I had 18 mo straight of pneumonia, and the COPD dreaded diagnosis was approaching. If I want to do something, I do it. That's what it took, although yeah, I just had to keep reminding myself that regardless of all else, cigarettes were going to be available to me, in whatever fashion, for the rest of my life, probably. Etc.

Thanks for the well wishes.

Anna

 

[Zutankhamun]

@stols001
“It is lovely laminate, but I can do better, I'm pretty sure.”

You don’t have to make up stories about fires and things to get out of the picture. It’s fine. I doubted your laminate laying abilities as it is.

Also, I don’t think it’s fair to have this other P3 contender pulling out his laminate floor laying abilities.

You can keep the P3 as long as I’m recognised as the ‘undisputed laminate floor laying champion’ all is well.

 

[stols001]

K, Zutankamen, you are the undisputed champion of the world. LOL.

Anna

 

[ENAUD]

The husband is 55 and has been smoking since age 8. If he doesn't have a health issue on the horizon, he may well soon. But yes, I do think the early age has something to do with it. I know he is smoking MUCH LESS but I don't begrudge a little dual use here and there. I never had a "quit day" it just happened, but I was pretty determined.

I hope he is eventually successful, man. I really don't want to have to do a "health issue" with him, he is a bear of a patient. So, I'm still optimistic because I can tell he is smoking WAY less than he was.

I did not expect him to "declare" his quit in any other way than "feel sorry for me and etc." I did not expect him to succeed instantaneously. A bit unfair, since I didn't myself. Maybe I should give him his P3 now, so that he can enjoy it, but I don't have enough button top batteries, so it will be after I order some (today).

Anna

Pssssst....the P3 will work just fine with flat tops

 

[Possum64]

Hey @stols001 ! We need an update. How did your hubby get on today?
Catherine

 

[stols001]

He was fine today, actually. I even tried to give him his P3, but he didn't want it, and haughtily informed me he was "vaping" to "quit vaping."

LOL, this "last minute addition" kind of floored me... Either he is going to torture me with quitting every way he can until he or I dies, or something.

Believe me when I say that if I thought he was vaping to quit, I wouldn't have started him on WTA in order to ease his transition and enjoy vaping, LOL. I might hide the rest of it. He can "vape to quit" on straight nicotine alone.

Of course he may change his mind when he fully transitions to vaping and then tries to stop THAT, but right now I am not very impressed with him. LOL.

Anna

 

[numsquat]

Actually sounds like things are going well. He's going on day 5 now? On a little withdraw "rebound" so the whole "vaping to quit vaping" shows he's in a positive mind set (at least today) to just quit. Doesn't mean he will feel the same way after today but at least he's not in a "screw this quitting stuff" mode. You have been doing very dealing with the situation . Just remember his journey is his own and may be differently than how you may plan.

 

[stols001]

That's true. Also, the husband may be surprised at how difficult it may be to quit vaping after he's done it for a while. LOL, he does tend to approach these things on a utilitarian basis. Heh. I mean... if someone offered me a provari? I would take it. I suppose he doesn't know what he's missing and it's not like we need two vape enthusiasts in the family. And sure, if he gets to quit completely, that would be great. LOL. I just wish he would've told me his cunning plan, and yes, at least he is vaping pretty steadily at the moment... Although the cigarette on my porch is GONE. I'm going to pretend the bunnies took it. LOL.

It's all good, I guess...

Anna

 

[Sickbxy]

Oh, I am quite sure the husband will creatively obtain tobacco if he needs it. I was actually surprised his attempt to stop dual using is actually working. But, since the WTA suggestion (I didn't know what else to suggest since he was ALREADY using it in his vape) he seems rather chipper and has even emerged from the study/cave to tell me salient political "facts." So glad I got the air purifier since one of the best things ever for me with vaping was the ability to vape inside... Oh gosh, ESPECIALLY in the summers, LOL.... The husband seems to be using the same approach.

Thanks for all the well-wishes, I hope he is ultimately successful, but it's certainly WAY easier when he's vaping than those awful cold turkey attempts. I did ask him last night if he would prefer to "detox" alone (I could easily pack up and stay with the kid for a week) but he was highly offended at the suggestion, and my "abandoning him" in his "time of need." I just figured... Less irritants... But it seems to me that if he needs to blow off steam and be irritated, I should be just as good a target as anyone else. And I plan on NOT telling him to smoke, no matter how bad it gets. That was really wrong of me, although when you get to the point of THROWING stuff in a cold turkey attempt, well, that does tell me that "cold turkey' was no the approach required. LOL. So, provided nothing gets hurled, well, I can visit the kid if needed but I will NEVER tell him to smoke. Not this time around, this is the most successful he's GOTTEN yet.

Anna

My mom told me to smoke when I tried quitting when I was 20, she bought me the relapse pack.

 

[stols001]

Yeah, I do feel really bad about it. It was just.... at the quit times.... we were either moving around from the fire, or I was in the middle of oral surgeries and stuff. I wish I hadn't who knows, he might've been successful.

So glad I didn't get the kiddo the "enabling" pack of cigarettes, he did not reveal his cigarette addiction until he wanted an e-cig, which I happily procured for him (he was 18, just broke) cuz I'd dual used and knew it was a "better" alternative. I got parts of that setup BACK when the kid quit vaping, so it was kind of a "full circle" thing.

Just.... the husband cold turkey is AWFUL, but I should have just packed up and let him have at it. Oh well, hindsight is 50/50. I'm not really going to withhold WTA (though I want to) although I will have to explain to him that quitting vaping will probably be easier if he tapers to JUST nicotine, but it's probably not time for that talk... yet.

Anna

 

[Rossum]

SMH... 5 days off cigs (maybe) and he's talking about quitting vaping?

Can you say, "Horribly Premature"?