I remember last month I tried my first E-cig, a disposable 21st century non-menthol, that was almost enough to turn me off e-cigs forever. Those taste like iron and wax.
@Hydro - great post. You're right, I need that extra willpower. Vaping alone won't do it. I never lost my taste for cigs, remember, I am new at this, but I admit, they do taste worse than before.
Regarding the WTA, I read through a lot of that thread and I'm a bit concerned about the safety of WTA. I mean, I understand all that talk about "combustion" of chemicals in real smoking, but it seems to me that WTA could be just as bad and just as addictive as real smoking. Or maybe even worse. Who knows? Not that I don't appreciate their efforts, but personally, I just hate being the guinea pig for a few back room chemists making a potion. 10 years from now, I don't want to be 6 feet under and have people say, "Yea, he would've been better off if he kept smoking real cigs instead of that untested WTA juice."
I have more faith in standard e-juice, as I've seen quotes like this:
in articles like this one:
Propylene glycol in e cigarettes might keep us healthy, says researchers
So after my last post of me saying I was definitely going to buy WTA, and then subsequently doing some more research on WTA, I decided I'm gonna put the WTA off for a bit and keep trying different e-juices until I find one that works real good for me, and I'll just try to muster up a bit more willpower. And if I still can't do it, then I'll try the WTA as a last resort.
Correct me if I erred or missed something, I am still a newb after all.![]()
All smokers who are trying to quit must remember that the act is hardwired into our brains as a response to certain situations.....It is just a triggered reaction: fill the belly, smoke; have a fight, smoke; have a cup of coffee, smoke; you get the point.
Wow, more great advice - thx all. Yesterday was a 2 cig day, today only 1 (but smoked 1/2 this morning and the other 1/2 this eve.)
Since this weekend, I've changed my perspective on this whole thing. I think that maybe I was expecting too much. I mistakingly was looking for the magical cure, similar to my wife who keeps looking for THE diet pill that will make her lose weight. I always tell her, there's no such thing - just exercise and eat right. Yet, she still thinks someday she will take a pill and 40 pounds will magically disappear.
I too, have taken that same misguided approach with quitting smoking. I can't even count the times I have tried to quit in the last 20 or 30 years. I've tried Hypnotism, drugs, the patch, nicotine gum, nicotine inhaler, reduction filters, etc., and now vaping. But each time, I was expecting the "magical" cure, the one thing that would make me never want to pick up a cig again. And for me, just like the magical diet pill, it doesn't exist.
Not to say that vaping isn't great - it is - but I still have to treat it like I'm trying to quit cigarettes, instead of thinking that vaping will magically make me never want to have another one. Like @Hydrophoid said:
So I made a real effort this weekend to NOT smoke, and to only vape. As a result, my numbers are much better, and it is not as hard to stop smoking the real cigs as compared to those other methods I've tried in the past. The only thing that bothers me is what happened earlier today.......
Yesterday (Saturday), when trying very hard NOT to smoke real cigs, I vaped a lot. I mean, a real lot. I practically didn't breath real air most of the day. Okay, I'm exaggerating, but you get the idea. This morning (Sunday), when I woke up, my lungs hurt. Now if you ever had your lungs hurt before, you know what I'm talking about. It's kind of hard to explain, but if you never had painful lungs before, just try to imagine the feeling you get when you are sick with the flu and you cough over and over and over. After a while, your lungs begin to hurt, right? Now imagine having that pain constantly for 4-5 hours. That's what I had this morning. Determined not to smoke (trying to use my super-duper willpower), I vaped very little this morning, and only smoked 1/2 a real cig. By this evening, my lungs felt a little better, so I have been vaping lots ever since. Now they're starting to hurt again, even as I type this.
So I don't know if the pain in my lungs is from vaping too much, or from my lungs clearing up from not smoking many real cigs. I'm hoping it's the latter. So I put this here in case any of you have gone through a similar "cleaning out" of your lungs, maybe you can tell me how long that lasts, or maybe you'll tell me to cut down on the frequent vaping because that's the cause.
So that's my long winded story for the weekend. I do hope I can continue to cut out cigs as much as possible during this week, with work and all. I definitely think that it's easier on weekends to vape (instead of smoke) compared to weekdays.
Thanks again to all of you for your support!![]()
Yesterday (Saturday), when trying very hard NOT to smoke real cigs, I vaped a lot. I mean, a real lot. I practically didn't breath real air most of the day. Okay, I'm exaggerating, but you get the idea. This morning (Sunday), when I woke up, my lungs hurt. Now if you ever had your lungs hurt before, you know what I'm talking about. It's kind of hard to explain, but if you never had painful lungs before, just try to imagine the feeling you get when you are sick with the flu and you cough over and over and over. After a while, your lungs begin to hurt, right? Now imagine having that pain constantly for 4-5 hours. That's what I had this morning. Determined not to smoke (trying to use my super-duper willpower), I vaped very little this morning, and only smoked 1/2 a real cig. By this evening, my lungs felt a little better, so I have been vaping lots ever since. Now they're starting to hurt again, even as I type this.
So I don't know if the pain in my lungs is from vaping too much, or from my lungs clearing up from not smoking many real cigs. I'm hoping it's the latter. So I put this here in case any of you have gone through a similar "cleaning out" of your lungs, maybe you can tell me how long that lasts, or maybe you'll tell me to cut down on the frequent vaping because that's the cause.
I've been gaping at women all my life. Never helped me quit.
Sorry had to poke =) I also tend to have fat fingers lol