Greetings,
To quit smoking for a real nicotine addict is not an easy task. I have gone though many methods and technics over the years, ranging from cold-turkey to nicotine patch and gums and even champix. Some worked, for a time, others were simply ineffective despite real hard-willed mental approach.
Enter the e-cig. Late August 2013 I met a friend whom I knew was a hardcore smoker, pretty much same as I (not social, rather real visceral nicotine addict). He showed me his E-cig he purchased earlier in the month and really just had positive comments on the thing. He was still smoking, but had reduced to 1/3 to half a pack from 1+ per day. This E-cig was nothing like those cheap white plastic crap I had seen in convenient stores, it was a robust black-anodized aluminum casing.
That got me thinking, and I started looking it up on the web. Through several forum crawls and reviews, I settled on the Innokin MVP iTaste for a E-cig try. That was in late October. 3 weeks later (or was it a month?) I received the device. I smoked my packs last cig (hey you call the analogs over here?) on the way to the vapor shop to get some e-liquid.
On the way out I was already vaping some 18mg juice. That was on November 22nd.
Since then, not one smoke. Not one puff. Not one craving. I lived and party-ed through the holidays with more than enough occasions to fall back to a couple puffs, but I resisted thanks to the vaping.
Ive reduced my vaping from 18mg to 12mg in a month, from 12 to 6mg in another. Now vaping those e-liquids at 6mg, might lower to 3 mg or simply try to reduce my almost compulsive vaping habit.
67 days and counting.
Saved my wallet
Saved my marriage
Saved my sanity and my life, dare I say.
I understand its not for everyone, to each his own, etc. But for nicotine addicts that know themselves, that are not especially social smokers, E-cig can change and save your life.
This post was made to make sure I keep track of my progress. To keep counting, and gather some more momentum from the community. I am proud that I finally put down the burning crap.
Gamon
To quit smoking for a real nicotine addict is not an easy task. I have gone though many methods and technics over the years, ranging from cold-turkey to nicotine patch and gums and even champix. Some worked, for a time, others were simply ineffective despite real hard-willed mental approach.
Enter the e-cig. Late August 2013 I met a friend whom I knew was a hardcore smoker, pretty much same as I (not social, rather real visceral nicotine addict). He showed me his E-cig he purchased earlier in the month and really just had positive comments on the thing. He was still smoking, but had reduced to 1/3 to half a pack from 1+ per day. This E-cig was nothing like those cheap white plastic crap I had seen in convenient stores, it was a robust black-anodized aluminum casing.
That got me thinking, and I started looking it up on the web. Through several forum crawls and reviews, I settled on the Innokin MVP iTaste for a E-cig try. That was in late October. 3 weeks later (or was it a month?) I received the device. I smoked my packs last cig (hey you call the analogs over here?) on the way to the vapor shop to get some e-liquid.
On the way out I was already vaping some 18mg juice. That was on November 22nd.
Since then, not one smoke. Not one puff. Not one craving. I lived and party-ed through the holidays with more than enough occasions to fall back to a couple puffs, but I resisted thanks to the vaping.
Ive reduced my vaping from 18mg to 12mg in a month, from 12 to 6mg in another. Now vaping those e-liquids at 6mg, might lower to 3 mg or simply try to reduce my almost compulsive vaping habit.
67 days and counting.
Saved my wallet
Saved my marriage
Saved my sanity and my life, dare I say.
I understand its not for everyone, to each his own, etc. But for nicotine addicts that know themselves, that are not especially social smokers, E-cig can change and save your life.
This post was made to make sure I keep track of my progress. To keep counting, and gather some more momentum from the community. I am proud that I finally put down the burning crap.
Gamon
I quit cold turkey for 6 months and started again, a month or so later I bought my Ego starter kit and haven't looked back. The vaping world is an interesting one. Have fun with the awesome toys 
