This is my first post. I smoked for 42 years, until February 2, 2015. That was the day my vaporizer arrived. I had one further cigarette on the 2nd, and not one since, nor any cravings. What surprises me the most is that I have had virtually no withdrawal symptoms. I can't figure out why. It's not like I want to get sick, but I was fully expecting it to happen, and so far... nothing. I am also just about completely off the e-liquid. After about three weeks, it got so my throat would clamp up and not accept any vapor going down. I went a few days without any nicotine, and still had no ill effects. I haven't had a nicotine fit, nor any kind of head rush from inhaling the vapor (I started at 2.4% and went down very quickly to 1.2). So I'm just going to vape what I have left, and that will be it for me.
I can't believe how easy this has been. People have been saying for years that trying to quit nicotine is harder than quitting [a nasty substance whose name begins with 'h' censored by the software] This is why I am baffled by my lack of unpleasant experience having stopped it. But hey, I'll gladly take it! I quit cold turkey once in the '80s, and what I know now is that while I was going through withdrawals, I also came down with the flu. I have never been that sick before or since. I thought it was the consequences of immediately stopping my intake. I was off cigarettes for maybe a month before I relapsed... hey, I'm all clean now, I can just have one... Since then, I hadn't tried to quit again because I was terrified to get that sick again. I know that the patch, gum, lozenges and whatever else Big Pharma sells has an over 90% failure rate, so I never gave them the time of day.
So far, this has been a pretty amazing experience for me. As of now, I have gone through a period of no nicotine longer than any time since before I had to shave every day.
(I love that emoticon!)
I can't believe how easy this has been. People have been saying for years that trying to quit nicotine is harder than quitting [a nasty substance whose name begins with 'h' censored by the software] This is why I am baffled by my lack of unpleasant experience having stopped it. But hey, I'll gladly take it! I quit cold turkey once in the '80s, and what I know now is that while I was going through withdrawals, I also came down with the flu. I have never been that sick before or since. I thought it was the consequences of immediately stopping my intake. I was off cigarettes for maybe a month before I relapsed... hey, I'm all clean now, I can just have one... Since then, I hadn't tried to quit again because I was terrified to get that sick again. I know that the patch, gum, lozenges and whatever else Big Pharma sells has an over 90% failure rate, so I never gave them the time of day.
So far, this has been a pretty amazing experience for me. As of now, I have gone through a period of no nicotine longer than any time since before I had to shave every day.
(I love that emoticon!)
