Couple months in

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hippiebrian

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It's the middle of the night, o.k. morning, at work and I haven't posted for a while, so here's a little update a couple months into vaping after 35 years at a pack and a half of analogs a day.

I have never felt better! I looked in the mirror this afternoon before work and noticed a remarkable change in the color of my skin...I never realized how gray my skin had become! I hate to sound "girly" here, but I do look years younger!

I ride a bicycle everywhere after deciding in October to try and go car free. I used to have to walk my bike up several hills here...not any more! I can ride harder and longer than I could in my 30's, and I'll be 49 next week. Who'd have thought? O.K., when you consider I'm no longer inhaling all those poisins, any fairly intelligent person might have figured it out, lol. Still, it never ceases to amaze me.

One good and sometimes bad thing is that my sense of smell has returned, and I never knew it had left! I say bad because my comute to work has me bicycling over the L.A. river. The first couple days I noticed the smell, I thought something was going on because the river really stank more than I thought it ever did. It took a few days before I realized that it always stunk, I just couldn't smell it.

I had a heart attack a year abnd a half ago. I tried every way possible to quit! Chantrix, gum, losenges, patches, calling hot lines, joining on line quitters clubs, you name it. Nothing worked until I took to vaping! I owe my life to e cigs! I had, prior to switching, pretty much figured that I'd just keep puffing those nasty things until they killed me. Seriously, I thought it was a lost cause for me, but now! Man, I can breathe, I can now laugh without coughing, I don't caugh in the morning, my clothes and breath don't stink, and I can really taste food again! I always knew I dug Indian food but, man, I never knew how much!

I already have two friends off analogs and vaping, and I have several others on the fence at least!
 

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Congrats hipppiebrian, that is wonderful! Know what you mean about smelling things. I have always had a keen sense of smell for stinky things (mold, mildew, dog poo, ect) so I was just about gagging when I stopped smoking. Now 7 weeks (today) of no analogues and I am getting use to it. Still not pleasant, but not making me want to carry around a thing of VIcks either. :)
 

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Yup... I just spent an hour emptying trash in the kitchen... that wasn't it... emptied/refilled the dishwasher... that wasn't it... trying to figure out this faint scent I was picking up that was making me sick. I believe I finally found it - hubby will put stuff in the sink/disposal, but not RUN it ... GAH!

Febreeze is a good thing... I think I have a can/bottle in every room now. ;)
 

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It will keep getting more and more accute. I was smoking 2 packs a day on average... 3 packs a day on weekends... 6 months after I quite I had to pay to have my car detailed to get the smoke smell out of it.

Now I can use my redbull at 6 volts and fog the car to kill the smell from lunch, haha. Another use of a bad ... vaporizer:air-freshener.
 

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It will keep getting more and more accute. I was smoking 2 packs a day on average... 3 packs a day on weekends... 6 months after I quite I had to pay to have my car detailed to get the smoke smell out of it.

Now I can use my redbull at 6 volts and fog the car to kill the smell from lunch, haha. Another use of a bad ... vaporizer:air-freshener.

Ooh, another redbull fan ;) We went to a restaurant a while ago - I got out of the car and ICK, it smelled like the entire world population had all just flicked their butts and went *poof*... I swear we were sitting in the middle of the worlds largest ash-can.

Luckily, this car I bought just over a year ago... I kept myself from smoking in it - so it does not smell. Yeah, I think I had a total of 5 cigs in it over a year, that were just unavoidable (did not have time to sit around outside the car before or after, so I knew it was my only chance. Thankfully, it never picked up the smell (or any burns LoL). But, vaping... nonstop ;) I will crack the window, but have found I need to open it more - so I can SEE it open and remember to close it. We had some bad storms last week, and all day long thru it at work - the window was open that tiny lil' centimeter crack. Seat was quite damp!
 

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6 months after I quite I had to pay to have my car detailed to get the smoke smell out of it.

Now I can use my redbull at 6 volts and fog the car to kill the smell from lunch, haha. Another use of a bad ... vaporizer:air-freshener.

Oh crap, I hadn't thought about that :facepalm:
looks like I'll be doing the same soon.
Also: +1 for the redbull juice :), I'm pretty thoroughly addicted to the taste of that so I picked up some "red cow" :laugh: flavoring for my DIY juice so I can drop that habit too.
 
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