Congrats to you and your wife!! My wife quit smoking over 2 years ago on the patch and has never picked it up since and I applaud her. I just couldn't grasp the concept of not having anything to do for my lonely hands!! I've been off the stinkers for about 3 weeks now, and my wife loves the fact that i don't smell like an ashtray anymore!! She says she loves the fact that I vape because it makes our house smell better, like an air freshener!!That first week was the best, and really informing myself, and being able to inform others about it to get the "stigma" of "your not quitting anything by vaping" crap non-smokers talk about. This is something healthy, inexpensive, and fun for us ex-smokers when NOTHING else worked. I'm grateful for vaping and I'm sure you will too!
I know exactly how you feel. We tried the gum, patches and everything else, it just wouldn't work at all for us, it just made the urge even higher to have a real cig and have something enjoyable to do. I guess we weren't "ready" to quit, we still found it enjoyable and was fun to have something to do on breaks, kill time or whatever.
Now with ecigs, we still have something fun to do, get our sensation, no idle hands. We now like ecigs, the gajillion of flavors to try, it's awesome, we're so excited to keep trying new flavors.
When we smell our smoking coworkers we're like PU, that stinks!
Thanks again everyone!