Do you now consider yourself a Non-Smoker?

[Tiny]

Is being a smoker something you eventually get over? Or is is like alcoholics where we'll always be smokers we just found a way to stay away from cigarettes?

After 40 years of analogs, vaping is an enjoyable alternative to smoking, but I know if I quit vaping today I would be back to smoking tomorrow. I am also very early in the process so maybe I will see myself differently in the future.

If you don't still consider yourself a smoker, when did your mind set change?

 

[Tokemiester]

Well, smoked 45yrs of coughin'nailers....vaping 6+mos. If my vape gear disappeared tomorrow, yeah, I'd probably drift back to "real" smoke,... 'an all the while be disgusted with myself.

 

[ambientech]

I am at about 6 months into vaping and could drop it today if I wanted. I smoked just a hair under 20 years and the last 11 was a 2+ PAD habit. At first I needed to vape to stay away from analogs but now I can go all day without vaping which is something I could never do smoking. For me vaping isn't near as addictive as smoking was. I was also addicted to other stuff years ago that was much tougher to kick than smoking. Addiction is tough and it is something you will deal with for the rest of your life but with time it gets so easy it is of no concern. Non addicts can play with addictive substances with no problem while us addicts can't so we must never play otherwise we will fail.

 

[Iffy]

After 45 years of 2 PaD and now a year 'bakky free, I certainly hope so. BUT, TBH, I couldn't swear to it. AND I don't want to ever find out!

 

[CountSmackula]

I don't smoke anymore. I'd call myself a recovering smoker.

 

[luvinit]

I'm a true addict... was addicted to analogs and now addicted to vapor. If I couldn't vape, I'm relatively certain I'd eventually be back on the nails. Not a doubt in my mind.

 

[sumoman25]

I've been told I'm still a smoker, kinda bugs me. I say I'm a vaper, but in my mind I'm a nicotine addict. Just like many are caffeine addicts, alcohol addicts, other kinds of addicts... you get the picture. Most everyone is addicted to something, unfortunately nicotine has a severe social stigma, and we'll likely never rid ourselves of that.

 

[Suicidebob]

I don't know what to call myself.. Either way, I need me my fix.

 

[erictho]

i am a vaper, not a smoker. if all technology would disappear magically tomorrow i'd be just as ...... as if i were still a smoker and all tobacco crops were wiped out, cig manufacturing facilities blown up, etc.
but both of those things likely won't happen. it would be a huge problem (for me) if i couldn't vape, but i don't foresee a return to tobacco.

 

[blkhwk07]

Like you Tiny I've only been off the smoke
a short time. But after 35yrs of it, I guess I'm a
former smoker. That would be current smoker
if I couldn't vape.

 

[Dana A]

I'm a vapor... and so are you..

 

[throatkick]

Do you now consider yourself a Non-Smoker?

Absolutely!

 

[1stGenRex]

I certainly do. I don't see myself going back to smoking any time soon. I'd quit for over a year, cold turkey, before coming back out to Afghanistan, where I picked it back up (stupidly).

 

[Myk]

It's only been a couple weeks and I still plan on smoking a pipe and an occasional cigar. But I do consider myself not to be a cigarette smoker.
I'm fairly sure about that because I'm so far over it I've decided if I do need one I'll use a pipe and the e-cig instead.

 

[Andy Thatcher]

Definitely no longer a tobacco user.

In fact turning into the type of ex-smoker I used to despise as a smoker. But then I didn't understand how bad tobacco smelt.

Oh how quickly that turned around.

 

[MickeyRat]

My Dr. says I'm a former smoker. I'm not planning to try it but, I did actually quit smoking for 10 years and just about every day for that 10 years, at some point I wanted a cigarette. It might be an interesting experiment to find out what I'd want for 10 years, if I quit vaping. No plans to try it for the moment.

 

[LeDean]

Is being a smoker something you eventually get over? Or is is like alcoholics where we'll always be smokers we just found a way to stay away from cigarettes?

After 40 years of analogs, vaping is an enjoyable alternative to smoking, but I know if I quit vaping today I would be back to smoking tomorrow. I am also very early in the process so maybe I will see myself differently in the future.

If you don't still consider yourself a smoker, when did your mind set change?

That's a really great question. I don't believe that I could ever be a smoker again. I tried to smoke an analog after 3 weeks and exclusive vaping. I actually had to admit to my mother that when I said, "I like the taste of cigarettes," I had been lying. I just didn't know I was lying until I had time away from them. If vaping went away, I would just miss vaping. I couldn't go back to the cigarettes. I always felt so bad when I smoked them in the first place, but I couldn't stop. To be done with them has really been a self-esteem boost for me personally.

This is still a great question for everyone to ask themselves. Answers will always vary.

 

[tinajfreeman]

I'm definitely not a smoker. I am a former smoker, an ex, a recovered smoker. But I think of myself as a Vaper!

I don't know what I would do if vaping vanished from the face of the earth. I don't worry about that because I don't think it is possible to put the toothpaste back in the tube at this point. The only thing they could do is regulate the sale of nicotine...and if that was passed, I would stock up on a 10 year supply and put it in my freezer

 

[VaporPhreak]

I do consider myself a non-smoker. I used to smoke, then I stopped. I am non-smoker in the same sense as anyone who uses snus or ther smokeless tobacco products. I still enjoy the use of nicotine, but I am no longer dependent on it. I can, and have, gone long periods without vaping. I'll admit I wasnt the nicest person when I did go long periods without, but I also didnt go grab a pack of smokes either. Just my story, YMMV.

 

[Loveridden]

As someone who now vapes I consider myself an "ex-smoker" as opposed to a non-smoker, who has never smoked, if I have to be specific.