Hi, I'm The Cloud Minder, and I'm an alcoholic. No, wait, this is the wrong forum for that, and anyway, I'm not really an alcoholic. I am however, addicted to nicotine, which is why I eventually winded up here. I am a 46 year old male and was a 26 year (probably 23 when you factor out time I was quit during that span) smoker of ~1-2PAD (3 PAD when I was in the Army and paradoxically running 3 miles a day)
I started using tobacco products in the 7th grade. Snuff. (Yay, way to make your teeth and gums all sexy, and engaged in the sophisticated pass-time of projectile expectoration.) Anyhow, I tried various snuffs, sidechews and plugs. Smoked a few cigars here and there, once in a blue moon. In 11th grade, I took up the pipe. (No, not that kind, a tobacco pipe.) By the time I graduated at age 17, I had a nice collection of pipes, including one I picked up at an estate sale made of ivory. (I know, I know, but I was 17, it was 1984, and I didn't know all that much then)
So now I'm in college smoking this cool collection of pipes thinking I'm the bee's knees in cool. I go on a trip, ... They lose my luggage which include my pipe collection, letters from my then girlfriend, 6 pairs of jeans, and a fifth of 101 proof rotgut whisky. I was livid, i was complaining about the loss of all of these, but the people I was with fixated on my pipes, and offered me a cigarette. Thus began my 26 year and to this day use of analogs.
During this 26 years, Ive quit 3 times. Once I quit for a year (early on, about 1.5 years into this) cold turkey. Picked it back up, not so much from peer pressure, but rather, I couldn't stand to be around my 8 best friends, unless I was smoking too. Quit once by weaning my self to lites then ultralights. That lasted 3 months. And then I used Chantix. Worked like a dream, no side effect, stayed quit for 8 months, even while my wife at the time was still smoking. But there were some deaths in the family and I lapsed, started back up. A couple months later, I decided to quit again using Chantix again. Augh, didn't work out so well this time. I was having a lot of the side effects. Sure I quit smoking, but I was having crazy dreams, and every day, I felt more and more depressed, so I could see the end result was going to be me, wanting to snuffeth myself. I said screw this, stopped taking it and went back to smoking.
8 weeks ago, I discovered vaping when the bar I go, due to a change in ownership, to lost their ability to have people smoke in there, temporarily until they could refile their paperwork. During that time, a buddy of mine and a fellow smoker, bought a Bulldog vaporizer and was using that. Within 3 days he was quit. That inspired me, and 3 weeks ago, I purchased a Mini Pro Tank and slapped that on a Spinner Vision 2, pretty nice, no problems, vaping an18 mg 50/50 tobacco flavored mix. The first day my smoking was cut in half, to around 15 cigs. Over the course of the last 3 weeks I have weaned down to 3/day. The main problem I ran into, was when I was charging my Spinner, I would end up have 3 cigs. So, I set a quit date of 8/2 and to help facilitate that, I went out and bought an Itazte VV and got another tank, Kanger Aero mini, vaping a12mg 100%VG. (Miss the throat hit) This way I could always have one while the other was charging, and the Itazte is a passthru so I can vape it WHILE it charges.
I'm pretty confident, I could quit right now, but due to the way I do things (too long to explain) I am sticking to my Aug 2 quit date.
the only mistake I've made so far was buying a 3 pack of Voodoo disposable tanks so I could have different flavors easily changed to. So much for that idea. They didn't produce squat for vapor and they leaked all over my Spinner and I singed my lip with some 24 mg nic fluid.
Screw that, from now on, I'm sticking to my Kangers. Just ordered some new juices, and looking forward to being done with analogs.
tl:dr version: Hi, I'm the cloud minder, I'm getting into vaping.
sorry, could help it. (Sheldon said I had to do it.)
