I've been smoking 35 yrs, started at age 9 - STUPID kid! Use to raid the folks' ashtrays. Tried to quit smoking with Chantix & Zyban BUT had BAD reactions. Thank goodness I found the e-cig!
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i started at 12. gave up for a couple of years and then stupidly started again. hopefully the electronic age will save me from myself
I'm 27, started at around 23 after being a strict non-smoker my whole life. I found myself hooked on nicotine after 6 months of regularly smoking marijuana cut with tobacco. I easily gave up the weed, but the nicotine addiction was infinitely more difficult to shake. I tried quitting a few times, but it always resulted in bad moods and general .......ry on my part; it was never too long before I went back to my usual chilled out, smoking self.
Now I've had my egar for almost two weeks, I've only had three analogues, and the bad moods or .......ry are nowhere to be seen. I'm even finding that as the novelty of my egar is wearing off, I'm able to prevent myself from puffing on it 24/7 like I was at first. My ultimate goal is to break free of the nicotine shackles altogether, but I'm allowing myself to enjoy e-smoking for a while yet.
Now I've had my egar for almost two weeks, I've only had three analogues, and the bad moods or .......ry are nowhere to be seen. I'm even finding that as the novelty of my egar is wearing off, I'm able to prevent myself from puffing on it 24/7 like I was at first. My ultimate goal is to break free of the nicotine shackles altogether, but I'm allowing myself to enjoy e-smoking for a while yet.
I was 8 when I smoked my first cigarette
. My brother gave it to me to keep me quiet about his smoking. We stole them from our dad. He used to buy 4 packs at a time, but would only smoke about one cig a day - he preferred chewing tobacco.
I learned to inhale at age 12. By 13 I was at a pack a day. At 18, I got a job working graveyard shift and went up to 1-1/2 packs a day.
I am 35 now and smoking 1-1/2 to 2 packs a day for about 15 years now. I have tried Zyban (got a BAD case of hives), the gum (lasted about 4 hours), the patch (lasted about 3 hours), cold turkey (lasted about 14 hours), and Chantix (never quit, just didn't mind the smoking ban so much).
In the three days that my e-cig was functional, I only smoked 2 packs of real cigs. I see that as huge progress (that's about 13 cigs a day compared to 30 to 40).
I just gotta get this thing up and running again.
. My brother gave it to me to keep me quiet about his smoking. We stole them from our dad. He used to buy 4 packs at a time, but would only smoke about one cig a day - he preferred chewing tobacco.I learned to inhale at age 12. By 13 I was at a pack a day. At 18, I got a job working graveyard shift and went up to 1-1/2 packs a day.
I am 35 now and smoking 1-1/2 to 2 packs a day for about 15 years now. I have tried Zyban (got a BAD case of hives), the gum (lasted about 4 hours), the patch (lasted about 3 hours), cold turkey (lasted about 14 hours), and Chantix (never quit, just didn't mind the smoking ban so much).
In the three days that my e-cig was functional, I only smoked 2 packs of real cigs. I see that as huge progress (that's about 13 cigs a day compared to 30 to 40).
I just gotta get this thing up and running again.
I'm 31, and I started regularly smoking at 18, by that I mean buying 'em with my own money and having more than 5 a day, earlier than that probably at 16 or so. Typical story, stealing my dad's ultra light menthols (YACK!) Ultra light. Less tobacco, more paper!! MMMM!! It'd be like alcohol free gin, what's the point?? I tried these e-cigs so I could "smoke" in the house, no smell no mess. And at work and job interviews since I'm in the new-job market. Love it! I still have the occasional "real" cigarette, and cigar but this is just way better. I have to credit Leaford and his youtube vids for getting me into this. TIme to see if that battery's charged...
I tried these e-cigs so I could "smoke" in the house, no smell no mess. And at work and job interviews since I'm in the new-job market. Love it! I still have the occasional "real" cigarette, and cigar but this is just way better. I have to credit Leaford and his youtube vids for getting me into this. TIme to see if that battery's charged...
I still can't believe that I just turned 59, but they tell me it is true. I started smoking on weekends only at 17, but when I left for college, I became a full time smoker. I absolutely love smoking...the taste, the ritual, the smell, the feel. So far, I am healthier than most people I know and rarely get even a cold. I am assuming that I will probably pay for all those years of smoking in the near future, but as I said, I love cigarettes. That said, I became fascinated with e cigs when I read about them in a news story. I love the idea that I could still feel like I was smoking but not doing further damage. I definitely do not want to quit, so I would like to fool myself into believing vaping is the same thing. Long term smokers really need that psychological trick. Anyway, I have a couple of e cigs but nothing special. I have not really made any transition, but I keep trying. I need the taste of Marlboro Smooths, but I know that's not going to happen. I am getting ready to make the investment in a Janty mini fogger as soon as it becomes available....assuming it is affordable. If not, I guess I will buy the DSE901B. Those two seem to get the best reviews, and I do not have anymore money to waste on an e cig I will not use.
51 now. Started smoking at 13. At 16 I wasnt enjoying cigerettes and my only ever attempt at stopping took up roll ups thinking they would be inconveniant and horrible. Realy enjoyed them. Was smoking approx 25gms a day for many years now. Got an e-cig 6 days ago to cover me when I am working in no smoking venues. Just started smoking it all the time as a preferance. Havn't smoked 25gms since getting the e-cig, and most of that was when the battery was flat.
I'm 37 (and a half) and started smoking when I was 14 as I wanted to be a cool, moody bass player with a perma-... hanging out my mouth. Both my parents were non-smokers at the time, which was annoying as a). they could always smell the smoke and my excuse of 'there were only smoking carriage seats available on the train, honest' never quite worked, and b). I couldn't nick their cigs. Naturally, once I left home the parents divorced, mother took up smoking again and my younger brother and sister got to puff away undetected.
I absolutely /love/ smoking, but over the years have come to hate cigarettes, the stale smell of tobacco and accidentally knocking over ashtrays on the sofa. I needed an ash-trough when coding or gaming, and it all got a bit minging.
E-cigs are ace, been on them for nearly five weeks and have had 13 cigs in that time, which is normally, like, breakfast or something. Yay.
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I absolutely /love/ smoking, but over the years have come to hate cigarettes, the stale smell of tobacco and accidentally knocking over ashtrays on the sofa. I needed an ash-trough when coding or gaming, and it all got a bit minging.
E-cigs are ace, been on them for nearly five weeks and have had 13 cigs in that time, which is normally, like, breakfast or something. Yay.
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I will be 41 this Christmas. Smoking was our family tradition - if we had a dog, it would smoke too - and I used to nick fags from parents, grandparents, uncles... The only limit was kids were only allowed to smoke when they grew up, so I got recognized as an occasional smoker when I was 15 or 16. That was the first time I got regular pocket money - so I could buy my own fags. In 18 I went to the university as a regular packet-a-day smoker. Never managed to quit, never really tried. Couple of years ago my heart started doing tricks, blood pressure ditto, I had to cut down to 10 a day. Ordered e-cigs and had my last analog the night before the first batch arrived. I hope I will never light up again. I still have an unfinished packet at home and one cig in my car. If I did not, I would start fretting. But I intend to keep them at their place until old age
Anecdotal facts:
My grandfather stopped when he was 86. Never could explain why. Did not have any reasons apart from "I started at eleven, I had enough". Died at 98 from a pneumonia.
My father says to everyone willing to listen that nothing is easier than quitting. "I just threw them away and that was it". Not many outsiders know why the rest of the family are grinning. The other option for him at that time was to have his leg cut off (literally).
My stepfather got scared to death by an obsessive lung doctor who brought him to morgue showing him "his" lungs, tons of tar, ad nauseam. He quit cold turkey style and never relapsed. Still lives at 72 after smoking 40-a-day for some 30 years. The much younger anti-smoking fanatic doctor died some 10 years ago from a particularly nasty cancer.
When I was a kid, the pediatrist we went to used to smoke in his surgery. I still remember his very well after all the years. He was a very nice man and could make a sick child feel better just by describing how this perfect medication will help. Today he would probably be labeled criminal.
My grandmother suffered from old age dementia. One day she just came to unexpectedly. Sat up in her armchair, suddenly recognised all her children and
grandchildren and asked us for a cigarette. I had the luck to be nearest and give her one of mine and a light as well. She smoked it in extremely old-fashioned ladylike manner saying This is my last one, my dears. She lived a couple days, maybe even weeks longer, mostly in hospital, but that is how I remember her sort of going away.
We should also remember that these oldtimers smoked unfiltered cigs for most of their smoking lives. And I swear everything of the above is true.
Anecdotal facts:
My grandfather stopped when he was 86. Never could explain why. Did not have any reasons apart from "I started at eleven, I had enough". Died at 98 from a pneumonia.
My father says to everyone willing to listen that nothing is easier than quitting. "I just threw them away and that was it". Not many outsiders know why the rest of the family are grinning. The other option for him at that time was to have his leg cut off (literally).
My stepfather got scared to death by an obsessive lung doctor who brought him to morgue showing him "his" lungs, tons of tar, ad nauseam. He quit cold turkey style and never relapsed. Still lives at 72 after smoking 40-a-day for some 30 years. The much younger anti-smoking fanatic doctor died some 10 years ago from a particularly nasty cancer.
When I was a kid, the pediatrist we went to used to smoke in his surgery. I still remember his very well after all the years. He was a very nice man and could make a sick child feel better just by describing how this perfect medication will help. Today he would probably be labeled criminal.
My grandmother suffered from old age dementia. One day she just came to unexpectedly. Sat up in her armchair, suddenly recognised all her children and
grandchildren and asked us for a cigarette. I had the luck to be nearest and give her one of mine and a light as well. She smoked it in extremely old-fashioned ladylike manner saying This is my last one, my dears. She lived a couple days, maybe even weeks longer, mostly in hospital, but that is how I remember her sort of going away.
We should also remember that these oldtimers smoked unfiltered cigs for most of their smoking lives. And I swear everything of the above is true.
My Father smoked John Players, maybe 2 packs a day, my mother never smoked. I stole my first cigarette from my father at about age 12, was caught and made to smoke the rest of the pack!
I never touched another till about 22; never stopped since and now aged 52. My dad died at 40 from an embolism, never learnt my lesson yet but still trying!
I never touched another till about 22; never stopped since and now aged 52. My dad died at 40 from an embolism, never learnt my lesson yet but still trying!
I started in high school (18). Now I'm 52 and been on the "digirette" for 4 months. I've been waiting for something like this for a loooong time.
I'm 43, started at 25. I was the host at a Los Angeles restaurant called the Tam O'Shanter Inn and would hang with the waitresses after hours drinking free beers and shots and bumming cigarettes. Finally someone said "go buy your own pack." I got a pack of Benson & Hedges from the machine in the lobby (when's the last time you saw a cigarette machine?!) and the next morning still had 15 or so left. Well, you can't just throw 'em away, can you? Bought a pack of Winston two days on and was hooked thereafter... until recently!
I started smoking at 15. The high school had a smoking area for students to keep the smokers out of the restrooms. Back then buying cigarettes was easy at any store or a vending machine. I have been smoking about 34 years, and never have been able to stop or cut back significantly. My e-smoking supplies are on order and I hope to at least cut way back on smoking by Christmas.
27 now started at 13; the summer before high school. I remember stealing that first cig from a friends parents and sitting in their room in front of a mirror forcing myself to smoke that first cig so I could be "cool". *sigh* If only I could go back in time and sit down with my past self at that moment...
I thought it was asking what age are you now? Not when you started burning the nasties...
ah, working in a restaurant is the devil! it'll turn anyone into a smoker. same situation, different position in the restaurant. i just turned 18 and the stress of working in a restaurant was getting to me. seeing that everyone else got to sneak away and escape the chaos with a smoke got me hooked pretty quick. now, i'm 25 and glad that i can still calm my nerves but without the stink of analogs.
I'm 31, had my first smoke at 15, then habit kicked into high gear at 17......have been cold turkey now (with 0 Nic Juice E-cigs) almost 3 weeks!
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