hadnt smoked in a year and a half

[funkybozu]

but i started vaping


but i missed this sooo much

 

[surbitonPete]

Well I wouldn't recommend a non smoker starts vaping but if it's only a choice between smoking or vaping ...I think vaping has to be the better one of the two....but in saying that, we could only really be certain it's true when people have been vaping for about 30 years or more.

 

[funkybozu]

i didnt quit for heath reasons, tell the truth i quit to prove i could.
then after more than a year, stress and what not caught up with me and i felt the need to lite up. just didnt wan to go back to analogs, i would of maybe if i hadnt heard of ecigs by chance. this is how i ended up here lol. i searched a lot.
i dont regret it one bit.

 

[dumwaldo]

once you become addicted to smoking I do not think it is ever possible to go back to being a "non-smoker'. Addictions don't really go away.

I have not had alcohol since around 1994 but I still get urges enough that I am not above drinking a non-alcoholic beer in some social situations because I am quite sure me and booze is still a REALLY bad idea.

Oh yeah, there is also the thing that I was off the cancer sticks for 3 weeks before I started vaping. According to everything I have read I was well over the physical nicotine addiction but if not for an e-cig I would have probably fallen back into smoking the coffin nails again. I was on the edge when I shelled out a buck and a half at the smoking everywhere kiosk and I kinda thought that was a feeling that most people on this forum would be able to relate to at least a little.

DW

 

[funkybozu]

yes . once you know what its like, there is no going back.
you can not do it again i suppose but you will always get urges, at certain times

 

[dumwaldo]

Do you have that avatar because the World Wildlife Foundation sued you and made you change it? 8-o

 

[surbitonPete]

I did once go through the hell of giving up smoking and managed to last a year but even though I was well over the bad part of giving up, it was as if I just couldn't stop feeling like there was something missing from my life and ended up smoking again.

 

[funkybozu]

lol nah i just found it funny

 

[funkybozu]

I did once go through the hell of giving up smoking and managed to last a year but even though I was well over the bad part of giving up, it was as if I just couldn't stop feeling like there was something missing from my life and ended up smoking again.

it was constant?......... i wouldnt of lasted a year if i felt the need all the time 8-o

 

[surbitonPete]

it was constant?......... i wouldnt of lasted a year if i felt the need all the time 8-o

It's hard to explain, I was over the 'need' for a cigarette after about four months of quitting cold turkey and I could even 'think' about them without getting 'any' of those terrible craving to have one.....yet the thing I never got over was as if there was something missing from life. I stupidly had a cigar one xmas, thinking that it wouldn't hurt.....but I soon ended up back on cigs after that........until e-cigs came along nothing could make me give up smoking again.

 

[Chorizo]

Me too! I hadn't had a real cigarette in about six weeks when I ordered my first e-cig.

I missed my habit, I wanted it back, I didn't want to smoke nasty, deadly analogs, the e-cigs have ALWAYS sounded great to me. So I got a bit of the habit back and feel like myself a little again.

So I get it, though I had not quit as long as you had, but I knew I would never touch another cigarette again. But I missed them terribly, it's dumb.