My name is McWhat, and I fell off the wagon. Mostly hardware issues, dead batteries, dying batteries, running out of juice away from home. I'm sure you know the drill. The dying batteries were the worst, when they delivered an unsatisfying hit, and I knew they were dying, but my PCC hadn't charged the other yet.
I had alot of hardware issues with my old 510, and I got tired of meddling with it. You know, modifying the old cotton cartidges, debridging atty's, etc. Oh yea, and waiting for shipping. I always swore I'd try ecigs again when they were more commercially viable. Local stores, better dependability, and other excuses. Some of my friends were trying the Egos, a local shop in town was pushing them on everyone who came in. I always swore they were too big and bulky, and looked too much like a sex toy. I had plenty of excuses.
Recently I've noticed I get winded too easily, climbing the stairs at work was starting to suck. My nephew was born, and I couldn't bear to be near him, I knew how bad I smelled. I did a pretty good job of quitting the hard way. I was down to 5-6 a day, and I grabbed one of those cheap disposables from Circle K. It helped alot, just a quick puff or two when I needed it.
And then I screwed up, big. I was late running out to meet some friends one Friday night. Instead of grabbing my usual two, I grabbed the entire pack. Walking to the bar I ran into my friend Daniel, who'd also had a 510 back in the day. I noticed his little sex toy in his shirt pocket, and asked if it was better than the old ones. He said it was, and let me hit it. I told him I'd think about it after I finished quitting. Well, we can't smoke indoors in Tucson anymore, haven't been able to for awhile.
I'm sure you remember the bar group smoke, one person lights up, everyone does. Well, here one person gets up, and all the smokers follow. Since I didn't want to sit alone at the table on the fbook, so did I. I tore through that pack. I hadn't smoked that much in a couple of weeks. The next morning I woke up, hit the snooze on my alarm, and ran for the bathroom. I coughed up all sorts of colors, and coughed my throat raw and bloody. By the time I got done coughing my alarm was ringing again.
I tried to smoke a cigarette on my back porch, and that went about as well as you can imagine. I went to the local store that day and walked out with an Ego-C 1000mah upgrade battery, a clearomiser, a drip tip, a cone and 510t atomiser. Oh, and five 5ml bottles of assorted flavors. Only had one any nic, and that was 5mg. That was three weeks ago. I have since switched my single nic bottle to 10mg, picked up a 900mah firefly batt, and some clearomisers. I can't handle anything stronger than 12ish. I think that's a good thing. I still smoke a couple a day, usually at work, or around smokers, but I'm getting there. I also don't see my cigarettes as personal failures like I did before. I'm just still getting there. I find holding my Ego like a cigar helps.
I had alot of hardware issues with my old 510, and I got tired of meddling with it. You know, modifying the old cotton cartidges, debridging atty's, etc. Oh yea, and waiting for shipping. I always swore I'd try ecigs again when they were more commercially viable. Local stores, better dependability, and other excuses. Some of my friends were trying the Egos, a local shop in town was pushing them on everyone who came in. I always swore they were too big and bulky, and looked too much like a sex toy. I had plenty of excuses.
Recently I've noticed I get winded too easily, climbing the stairs at work was starting to suck. My nephew was born, and I couldn't bear to be near him, I knew how bad I smelled. I did a pretty good job of quitting the hard way. I was down to 5-6 a day, and I grabbed one of those cheap disposables from Circle K. It helped alot, just a quick puff or two when I needed it.
And then I screwed up, big. I was late running out to meet some friends one Friday night. Instead of grabbing my usual two, I grabbed the entire pack. Walking to the bar I ran into my friend Daniel, who'd also had a 510 back in the day. I noticed his little sex toy in his shirt pocket, and asked if it was better than the old ones. He said it was, and let me hit it. I told him I'd think about it after I finished quitting. Well, we can't smoke indoors in Tucson anymore, haven't been able to for awhile.
I'm sure you remember the bar group smoke, one person lights up, everyone does. Well, here one person gets up, and all the smokers follow. Since I didn't want to sit alone at the table on the fbook, so did I. I tore through that pack. I hadn't smoked that much in a couple of weeks. The next morning I woke up, hit the snooze on my alarm, and ran for the bathroom. I coughed up all sorts of colors, and coughed my throat raw and bloody. By the time I got done coughing my alarm was ringing again.
I tried to smoke a cigarette on my back porch, and that went about as well as you can imagine. I went to the local store that day and walked out with an Ego-C 1000mah upgrade battery, a clearomiser, a drip tip, a cone and 510t atomiser. Oh, and five 5ml bottles of assorted flavors. Only had one any nic, and that was 5mg. That was three weeks ago. I have since switched my single nic bottle to 10mg, picked up a 900mah firefly batt, and some clearomisers. I can't handle anything stronger than 12ish. I think that's a good thing. I still smoke a couple a day, usually at work, or around smokers, but I'm getting there. I also don't see my cigarettes as personal failures like I did before. I'm just still getting there. I find holding my Ego like a cigar helps.
