Hi Everyone,
As the title suggests, we want to know how and why you started vaping. I’ll break the ice.
The evening before my twenty-ninth birthday, I noticed that I had five cigarettes left in my pack. In the months prior, I developed a cough, and I adopted hacking up black mucus as part of my morning ritual. At the time, I was working at a gas station, and every day I saw multiple examples of the physical toll caused by smoking. Seeing this on a daily basis, I knew I didn’t want to smoke cigarettes into my thirties. My girlfriend had recently quit smoking by taking up vaping, so the idea was not foreign to me.
I looked at the five cigarettes and told her that I was ready quit. She set me up with an eGo-C Twist, an iClear 16, and a bottle of tobacco flavored e-liquid. The next morning (March 6, 2013), I sat outside and smoked my last cigarette, knowing that it’d be my last. Since putting it out, I haven’t touched a cigarette. The first three months were, at times, difficult. These days, though, I don’t think about cigarettes. They’re no longer part of my physical or mental routine. My cough is gone, and I have much more energy at thirty than I did at twenty-eight.
How did you begin your vaping journey?
As the title suggests, we want to know how and why you started vaping. I’ll break the ice.
The evening before my twenty-ninth birthday, I noticed that I had five cigarettes left in my pack. In the months prior, I developed a cough, and I adopted hacking up black mucus as part of my morning ritual. At the time, I was working at a gas station, and every day I saw multiple examples of the physical toll caused by smoking. Seeing this on a daily basis, I knew I didn’t want to smoke cigarettes into my thirties. My girlfriend had recently quit smoking by taking up vaping, so the idea was not foreign to me.
I looked at the five cigarettes and told her that I was ready quit. She set me up with an eGo-C Twist, an iClear 16, and a bottle of tobacco flavored e-liquid. The next morning (March 6, 2013), I sat outside and smoked my last cigarette, knowing that it’d be my last. Since putting it out, I haven’t touched a cigarette. The first three months were, at times, difficult. These days, though, I don’t think about cigarettes. They’re no longer part of my physical or mental routine. My cough is gone, and I have much more energy at thirty than I did at twenty-eight.
How did you begin your vaping journey?
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) and then working at the kind of place where you can only get a break if you step outside for a cigarette. Everything was "fine" until about two years ago, when all of a sudden my throat started feeling alternately tender and raspy, and I started hacking. It was awful/disgusting, and I knew it was time to stop smoking.
The best part of ecf are all the wonderful people I have met. Good luck to you and your very smart girlfriend. 
