Just yesterday I posted this reply in
this topic:
An anology: Smokers anonymous.
This is how you would be accepted at a certain quit smoking site that shall not be named.
Hi, my name is Hans and I’m a Smoker.
>Hi Hans!
So, where to start. When I was seventeen I talked my father out of smoking. Bad habit, unhealthy, smells bad, that’s what I told him. At the same time, I started smoking myself. Stole a lot of my father’s ultralights. I’m fiftytwo now. Funny how these things go.
>Know all about it.
>Say no more.
>Lifelong guilty feeling. M-mm.
When the ecig became available, I was interested. I first thought it was just a gimmick that wouldn’t work. Ordered one anyway.
>?
>??
>Where’s this going?
It took me some years, but by now I think this e-
vaping stuff is finally good enough to make me quit smoking.
>You in trouble now boy.
>Oh no.
>You’re still smoking.
It’s true, I’m still smoking the real stuff. But I think I finally found something with which I can actually quit: a VMax with a mini Vivi Nova.
>Oh @%Y% you in bad!
>Hope you ain't married.
>You're worse than my mother in law and shoes.
My plan is to gradually reduce the number of real cigarettes and in the meantime reduce the nicotine in the
eliquid.
>hahahaha
>hahahaha
>You one crazy^&* I've never seen a #$%&*5^&*()!! HAHA!!
>That’s not the way to do it!
>You must quit cold turkey! That’s the only way!
>Or an FDA approved cessation product! NRT by Big Pharma!
>You haven’t set a quit date!
>This is sooo wrong on so many levels!
>I’m proud of my quit! You’re forcing me to use ecigs! Now I want one!
>Nicodemon Nicodemon Nicodemon!
Excuse me? But the ecig is really helping me to reduce my smo...
>That’s junky thinking!
>You’re still smoking!
>e-sickarettes!
Well, actually it’s not smoke. There’s no burning
tobacco. It’s just water vapo...
>Still smoking! Because it LOOKS like smoke! Idiot, anyone can see you’re still smoking!
>That’s not a REAL quit! Hand to mouth! It’s the hand to mouth!
>You’re not truly free! Hand to mouth!
>You’re a SUCKER! You still SUCK! If you sucked your THUMB you would still be smoking! Junky!
Then I realized I would first stop drinking. Seemed to be a lot easier. So I went to the AA. At least they weren’t so .... about the hand to mouth thing. They allowed me to still drink water.