E-Cigarette Forum Discussion Thread

[ShannonA]

Don't leave Nate for the most part things have settled down there's just a few of them that just don't want to live and let live

 

[LibertariaNate]

Don't do that! It's really just one or two people now. Kill 'em with kindness and they'll only make themselves look bad if they keep attacking us. I just don't deal well with confrontation and people being mean to me, so it got my blood pressure up, lol!

I never registered over there. I stuck around mostly to give moral support, but it doesn't look like it's really needed anymore. Like you said, it's only a couple people still fighting tooth and nail against the change.

 

[ShannonA]

oic so you don't like general bs and chat....lol

 

[phonedude]

I'm going to bow out of this thread...

I wish you guys all the best over at QSMB. I haven't been there in a while, but I can feel by BP rising just reading the comments here about some of the posts over there. I'm sure I'll see you guys around the forum.

Good luck!

Bye Nate stop in sometimes

 

[phonedude]

welll shoot now im not sure if that's her or not she hasn't replied since the start of thet thread but the wording seems like her and is from Canada...hmmm

are you referring to a friend request you got by any chance?

 

[Randyrtx]

She was browsing here a few minutes ago.

 

[phonedude]

are you referring to a friend request you got by any chance?

Nevermind .. figured it out .. it was some chinese merchant

 

[kristin]

I got that too. They be banned soon enough! lol

Nevermind .. figured it out .. it was some chinese merchant

 

[mgordon1100]

I messed up bad the other day. Now I really know the pains in quitting, failing, then quitting again. I'm sorry. I wrote this on the other board.

So, just when I decided to join this board, I also made the decision to buy a pack of cigarettes and smoke them. Now, I've been off of cigs for 2 months now. I'd been using the e-cig, and it worked very well for me. I started out with a higher nic dosage, something closer to what the cigs contain (but just not as much). After a while, I stepped down the dosage by 6mg (per ml of liquid). Doing great. Never did I feel the need to smoke, and withdrawal symptoms were nonexistent. I was on my way to stepping down yet again.

I don't know why I did it. I was having a bad day. I was having fights with my friends. In the past, when this happened, I'd start smoking again. But, that was from quitting cold turkey, and I never made it past two weeks. I was on two months without the need to smoke again. I just fell back into an old quitting routine of mine. See a problem in life, go out and buy cigarettes again. Quitting must be the problem. However, it wasn't quitting that was the problem. For those of you who think e-cigs are exactly like regular, they are not. It may be closer to the truth if the user is vaping the maximum nicotine level sold, but I think most people (and definitely not me) are doing that. My levels are way way down from the regular analogs, not to mention all the additives are gone.

Anyhow, I did this for one day. Today, I'm cigarette free again. I'm vaping the lower level, and not intaking the additives. Boy did I notice it today. That day of bombarding my system with all the chemicals in those things really took it's toll on me when I went for none of it today. I've been tired all day long. I didn't want to get out of bed. I messed up at work badly. I had no focus. I have a feeling that I went through major withdrawal symptoms, and I was still vaping. Stepping down is the key to avoiding them. If you want to go through them, and can survive, all my best to you.

Now, if you all want to kick me out because I smoked, fine. That's your choice. I just wanted to tell people this, and hope that newbies that haven't put them down yet read this. This is very real, and very fresh in my mind because it happened to me today. I was not feeling right, and I should have never picked them up again. Don't blame the e-cig either. It was a step down program that was working for me, and I said f.u. to the thing that was working. Had I been quitting cold turkey, I would have still bought the cigs. If I were on the patch, I would have still bought the cigs. It wasn't the quitting method, it was all me.

 

[phonedude]

I got that too. They be banned soon enough! lol

I banned them from my friend list for sure ... self moderation

 

[ShannonA]

are you referring to a friend request you got by any chance?

no new member deuxtrouble think its positivity....maybe

 

[kristin]

I'm sorry to hear you were having a bad time of it. But DON'T beat yourself up over it. Just brush yourself off and do what you have to do to make yourself happy again!!

I messed up bad the other day. Now I really know the pains in quitting, failing, then quitting again. I'm sorry. I wrote this on the other board.

 

[ShannonA]

I'm sorry to hear you were having a bad time of it. But DON'T beat yourself up over it. Just brush yourself off and do what you have to do to make yourself happy again!!

Yepp if you don't allow yourself to be human you're setting yourself up for failure.

 

[mgordon1100]

Thanks Kristin. I'm not beating myself up, though. I know what I need to do. That's stay off of the cigarettes. The e-cigs don't put all that crap into my system. I think it was a combination of the crap, and the higher level of nic from the cigs that made my body feel weird today. I'm not stepping my nic level back up, so I just have to ride this out, and hope it's all over by tomorrow.

 

[kristin]

Not sure who else would have that story!

no new member deuxtrouble think its positivity....maybe

 

[phonedude]

Good Lord

buy a pack
smoke em
pick your e-cig back up

No problem

 

[kristin]

Well, your posts at QSMB sure sounded like you were beating yourslef up a bit - glad to hear you're working through it!

Thanks Kristin. I'm not beating myself up, though. I know what I need to do. That's stay off of the cigarettes. The e-cigs don't put all that crap into my system. I think it was a combination of the crap, and the higher level of nic from the cigs that made my body feel weird today. I'm not stepping my nic level back up, so I just have to ride this out, and hope it's all over by tomorrow.

 

[kristin]

Hush you!

Good lord
buy a pack
smoke em
pick your e-cig back up
No problem

....

 

[Trbobitch]

I can't keep up with "you ecig people"!!!!!!!!

 

[phonedude]

Hush you!

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just my way of saying don't beat yourself up about it .. I learned it from you