Does your SO still smoke?

[Karltinsly]

My wife and I took up vaping a couple of years ago. I started first, but a month or so later, she had to spend some time in the hospital, and borrowed my ego for the stay. When she got out, she continued using it, so I bought another for myself. Over the next nine months, we vaped exclusively, and I bought a lot of different cartos, clearos, and tanks, plus a couple of different mods - torpedo, gripper, screwdriver. Whenever I'd buy/try something that worked well, I'd turn my wife onto it as well.

After nine months, my wife started sneaking a cigarette here and there, then buying packs, and eventually cartons, and I ended up joining her back on analogs - in part because the smell of them makes me gag, but if I smoke them, I don't smell them anymore. So I smoked with her most of last year, but during the holidays, I decided I wanted to quit again, even if she didn't. Before the end of the year, I ordered a Vamo v5, a VTR, and some juice. On New Year's Eve, I had my last analog.

I've been happy using my vamo and vtr, mostly with iClear 30s and occasionally some older tanks or clearos I have lying around, but she's still smoking like a chimney, and the aforementioned smell is noisome, but I'm determined to power through it.

So I was wondering, does your significant other still smoke? Does it bother you? I don't intend or expect to persuade my wife to switch back to vaping again if she doesn't want to, but I wonder if others have tried or found a strategy that worked for them.

 

[twgbonehead]

Yes. She vapes a little too, though.

We don't smoke in the "house". Strictly outside if the weather is tolerable, and down in the basement when it's bitter cold.

That helps a lot (except that when I go down cellar to work on something I often wind up having a ....!)

 

[Raths]

Have you tried (ever so nicely!!) to ask her to smoke outside? We moved about a month after we started vaping and were forced to smoke outside. It still took a month for me to quit completely (my "official" quit date will be April 1st, if I make it LOL) and today my wife told me she hasn't had an analog in 2 days! I was shocked and proud. No pressure, just the occasional "WOW I can really smell that" when she came back in.

Oh and welcome to the forums!

 

[jannodude]

I'm on the same boat with you. I quit smoking entirely and never enjoyed smoking anymore. I tried once with my best friend about 3 months ago and couldn't take more than 2-3 puffs. My lady smokes during her work breaks (nurse), about 1-2 cigarettes a day. I offered her one of my mods but refused it. I personally feel she likes the rawness of a cigarette. She tried vaping but complained that it is a little harsh/itchy on the throat even with various nicotine levels. She mainly smokes with coworkers which I think is the biggest reason why she smokes.

 

[30+Years]

Unfortunately it will have to be her idea. Maybe in time she will come around?

I was lucky enough that when I started vaping that my wife showed interest and when I bought her her own PV ( I asked her if she would like one) she quit smoking about 10 days after me.

 

[Karltinsly]

We've never smoked in the house, though she'll go in the garage if the weather's cold. We vaped in the house when we both vaped, and I still do. She might get interested again eventually - I'm starting to get into RDAs and RBAs, and maybe the clouds I'll be putting out will get her attention lol.

It's not so much the smell in the house as the smell on her and her clothes. She'll go have a smoke before bed and when she comes in the bedroom, it smells (to me) like someone just wheeled in a 55 gallon ashtray. I think that ex-smokers are more sensitive to the smell than non-smokers. I hope so anyways - I'd hate to think I smelled like that to everyone I met for the 33 years I smoked!

Thanks for the welcome!

 

[30+Years]

I think that ex-smokers are more sensitive to the smell than non-smokers. I hope so anyways - I'd hate to think I smelled like that to everyone I met for the 33 years I smoked!

I know some non-smokers that opened up to me after I quit smoking and made mention of how cigs stink to me now and yeah we smelled like that to them also, they were just kind enough to not say anything.

 

[jaysix]

She did but I got her a Vamo and some protanks that she used for about 4 months and then quit both all together for about 2 months now.

 

[Ravensfan]

My girlfriend still smokes. I've bought her an Evod kit, but she says she's waiting to finish the last two cartons of cigarettes we bought on a cruise last month. I'm not going to pressure her, but I am making her go to Vapefest with me tomorrow.

 

[FlyD]

My other half still smokes and thinks the whole vaping looks "funny". She did, however, started smoking much less as she's not anymore tempted in joining me outside for a cigarette.

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[Guitarguy365]

My wife and I both started vaping at the same time. After about four months she stopped vaping. Occasionally when we are out drinking she'll ask to have a vape off my kit. But other than that she has pretty much quit both. Good for her. Thankfully she is cool with me vaping. I feel horrible that for the first six years of my daughter's life I smelled like an ashtray.

 

[AthensGa]

My husband still smokes. We've been under a lot of personal stress, and he says vaping just doesn't give the stress relief that smoking does. He used to at least try a vape on occasion, but now he doesn't want anything to do with the vaping supplies that I have. I think he likes the "break" feeling that smoking gives. That's the one thing I had problem with when I transitioned. Since we never smoked in the house we'd go outside and smoke between activities...a break of sorts.

I've mentioned WTAs to him, but he hasn't shown any interest in that either.

I have no interest in smoking: He has no interest in vaping. Neither of us nags or pressures the other, so it works out alright.

 

[djsvapour]

Yes.

I'm sad about it.