That's definitely a good way to put it.
I'm addicted to nicotine, but not a smoker. I quit smoking over two months ago.
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I consider myself a non smoker. I think I am addicted to the ritual, not the nicotine. It was very easy for me to put down the analogs the day I started vaping. I like the act of vaping, just like I enjoyed the act of smoking, only vaping tastes way better.
I diy, so the other day, I mixed up some 0% nic juice, and I found that I enjoyed it just as much. I still have some nic, so I'll use it til it's gone, but I'm pretty sure I'd be okay without it.
I diy, so the other day, I mixed up some 0% nic juice, and I found that I enjoyed it just as much. I still have some nic, so I'll use it til it's gone, but I'm pretty sure I'd be okay without it.
Now that I am nicotine free I consider myself a nonsmoker. Until I could pass a nic. test I still secretly considered myself a bit of a smoker. I know, I know, it doesn't make sense and it's not logical but that's how I felt.
Four of the people who came over on Sunday for Mother's Day are still active smokers (including my backsliding baby brother, who I thought I'd converted to vaping), and although I didn't have any issues with it while they were here, as soon as they left I was overwhelmed with the smell of the stale tobacco smoke in the room. It made me feel ill, and I had to open all the windows, light scented candles everywhere and febreeze like a madwoman. Emptying the dirty ashtrays grossed me out so much, and I cannot imagine ever wanting to smoke again- my throat is sore today from breathing all the second hand smoke, and my living room still smells bad to me. I think part of it has to do with the fact that I was really sick when I finally quit, and the few times I cheated, it made me feel sick all over again- my subconscious associates cigs with being sick now.
So although I've only been off them a month and a half, I'm pretty sure I'm an ex-smoker. And I'm pretty sure that I'm the snotty, self-righteous, fascist, holier than thou kind of ex-smoker that I used to roll my eyes at, but I'm trying to hide it.
If vaping were gone tomorrow, I'd probably switch to nic lozenges and rot my teeth out on lollypops, but I dunno. As others have mentioned, my addiction to vaping is a kinder, gentler addiction. It doesn't rule me like smoking did, so I might be able to let it go gracefully.
So although I've only been off them a month and a half, I'm pretty sure I'm an ex-smoker. And I'm pretty sure that I'm the snotty, self-righteous, fascist, holier than thou kind of ex-smoker that I used to roll my eyes at, but I'm trying to hide it.
If vaping were gone tomorrow, I'd probably switch to nic lozenges and rot my teeth out on lollypops, but I dunno. As others have mentioned, my addiction to vaping is a kinder, gentler addiction. It doesn't rule me like smoking did, so I might be able to let it go gracefully.
I would consider myself a former smoker who wishes her husband wouldn't chain smoke in the house all day.
The taste is sooo much better. I love vaping fruity flavors. It weirded me out at first but now I hardly vape tobacco flavors.
Nope, I'm not a smoker, I'm a VAPOR, I'm not burning up ANYTHING and I'm not inhaling the SMOKE from burning anything!
Nope DEFINATLY not a smoker!
Nope DEFINATLY not a smoker!
Honestly Tiny, I think it is more a state of mind.
If you ask a good portion of the general public we still smoke because they primarily relate smoking to nicotine, which we still do intake of, but we just are acquiring it without burning the tobacco to get it and we do still exhale something that looks like smoke...
If you look at it in the definitive sense - then we stopped smoking once we picked put out our last cigarette. I tell people I quit smoking, because I am not burning tobacco and I am avoiding the other carcingens in cigarettes. I show off my PV at that moment. Shoot I am breathing better, my lung capacity has increased by 18% - I gotta be doing something right...
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