How has vaping saved you?

[Doctorvapes]

A little about myself, I'm in my mid 30s and have physical and mental limitations.

I have asthma since the age of 19 and rarely need my inhaler anymore.

I needed to switch to vaping for a medication that cannot be taken with traditional cigarettes.

I had tried quitting with gum, mints and patches but that never worked for me.

I have schizo affective disorder and my doctor straight up told me cigarettes were improving and balancing my mood. My psych told me e cigarettes would add a good 20 years to my life.

And a specialist I see said the e cigarette would reduce my chance of stroke to almost 0 versus cigarettes.

So two of my doctors suggested I stay on nicotine for mental health. And two suggested the e cigarette to add years to my life and reduce my chance of stroke.

I can breathe, big full breaths. Plus I might need another back surgery and for the healing part of that it's recommended you do not smoke because it is major surgery.

So all in all I had many, many benefits of quitting cigarettes and in a way vaping has saved me some health related risk.

 

[vapdivrr]

Was a 1.5 pad smoker for 30 years and it was definitely starting to slow me down, especially whenever I got a cold or flue. Switched to vaping as recommended by my sister in 2010 and haven't touched one since. It's a night & day difference, I now feel as if I never had smoked and my doctor has a hard time believing I ever did. The smell of cigarettes literally make me sick , I cannot stand them and would never go back ....I love vaping, for it had changed my life

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[tgs3]

I was a 20-30 per day smoker for 40+ years. After picking up vaping in August, I am now down to 1 or 2 cigs per day since mid December. Those cigs will also disappear in due course. They just don't taste good to me anymore.

Cutting way back on smoking has lead to a number of other changes as well - all for the better. After treating my body like a punching bag for all those years, I am now taking an active interest in what remains of my health - eating better, getting more exercise as well as researching and using vitamins and supplements.

 

[sk25411]

18 year, tin+ a day chewing tobacco here.

The straw that broke the camels back was needing an incisional biopsy on my gums. Thankfully, it was negative (just scar tissue).

Started vaping, enjoy the new hobby, especially building now.

Wife is happy, but still don’t vape around her, just keep it to myself at work and when the family isn’t around.

 

[Eskie]

I think there’s little doubt that vaping is far far safer than combustible tobacco. After smoking I can’t even add up the number of years smoking a pack and a half a day, there’s no doubt my health has improved after two years of vaping. No more chest colds turning into bronchitis and no morning cough are a great relief. I hope I finally stopped before severe illnesses associated with smoking developed, but two years is way too short a time to know.

However it turns out I’m still grateful to be off the smokes thanks to vaping, although my dry cleaner probably isn’t as happy as there’s less stuff requiring frequent cleaning due to the smell of cigarettes.

 

[coolerat]

I used alcohol and tobacco to make people tolerable.



It didn't really work, I still hated people, but it kept me from snapping.

20 years ago at the insistence of the State of New York i lost my right to chemical release.

I was on the farm so I was down for two packs a day if I was milking and 4+ doing tractor work. 20 years ago I moved into town and was driving truck which kept me at the 4+ mark. 10 years ago I started working inside and that kept me around 2ish PAD.



Been full time vaping 3 years and change now. I use lots of nic. It seems to help me. I don't have any answers about why. Driving I need alot of nic so its 100w's all the way baby. Watching TV its a tootle puffer. But always with the nic.

I've gotten better with the delivery systems. I can hit a high power system with 3mg a couple times and be good for hours without thinking about it. But sometimes I'm just mindlessly vaping and I switch to low power high nic.

But I admit after 3 years I am still a denizen of demon nic and his mad realm.

 

[HauntedMyst]

Vaping saved my life. A pack a day smoker for 20 years and my kid asked me to stop. I finally set a day and found ecigs and quit within a week. One day I was downtown and saw a crowd. The president was in town giving a speech in Grant Park near the bean. I'm not really interested in the president. Most presidents are putzes. But I saw the glint...a glint most won't notice but unless you've sat in a nest for days on end waiting for your target. You learn to see the glint of the enemy. It's one of the first things they teach you. So I ran right thru security and jumped...just as the shot rang out. In mid air the bullet caught me in the chest, right into my Titanium mech mod, which stopped the bullet. Like I said, I'm not really interested in the president. There was a pristine 63 split rear window Corvette parked on the street behind the president I knew the shooter would hit if he missed the president. Vaping saved me and that 63 Vette. Those things are a national treasure. Afterwards, the president thanked me and told me about what a fabulous job he's been doing as the nations best ever president while Melania rolled her eyes at him and silently screamed at her poor life choices.

 

[Letitia]

Vaping saved my life. A pack a day smoker for 20 years and my kid asked me to stop. I finally set a day and found ecigs and quit within a week. One day I was downtown and saw a crowd. The president was in town giving a speech in Grant Park near the bean. I'm not really interested in the president. Most presidents are putzes. But I saw the glint...a glint most won't notice but unless you've sat in a nest for days on end waiting for your target. You learn to see the glint of the enemy. It's one of the first things they teach you. So I ran right thru security and jumped...just as the shot rang out. In mid air the bullet caught me in the chest, right into my Titanium mech mod, which stopped the bullet. Like I said, I'm not really interested in the president. There was a pristine 63 split rear window Corvette parked on the street behind the president I knew the shooter would hit if he missed the president. Vaping saved me and that 63 Vette. Those things are a national treasure. Afterwards, the president thanked me and told me about what a fabulous job he's been doing as the nations best ever president while Melania rolled her eyes at him and silently screamed at her poor life choices.

Can't top that, I'll come back later.

 

[ENAUD]

Started smoking as a young teen, got real good at it in boot camp, learned how to hot box fourty cigs a day, that was some great times...years later I tried many times to quit, and Mr Hyde would come out to play, I was a danger to myself and those around me without the ole nico tickling my brain...after thirty five odd years of this game, and hacking myself awake half the night and all day long, Mrs. Hyde suggested I try a different way, and in no uncertain terms was it be without my " medicine"... So now I vape like a fiend most of the day and well into the night, I'm not so bad to be around, and the cough has dissapeared after four and half years without sucking on a burning tube of paper and industrially altered plant matter. Life is good. Take away my nico, and Mr Hyde just might do something drastically unpredictable.

 

[Doctorvapes]

Not that I took it too seriously but if it hit your mech mod your hand would be blown off... And why would you want to save the president?

 

[Letitia]

Not that I took it too seriously but if it hit your mech mod your hand would be blown off... And why would you want to save the president?

He was saving the corvette behind the president.

 

[Doctorvapes]

Ah.. It all makes sense now

 

[Eskie]

Vaping saved my life. A pack a day smoker for 20 years and my kid asked me to stop. I finally set a day and found ecigs and quit within a week. One day I was downtown and saw a crowd. The president was in town giving a speech in Grant Park near the bean. I'm not really interested in the president. Most presidents are putzes. But I saw the glint...a glint most won't notice but unless you've sat in a nest for days on end waiting for your target. You learn to see the glint of the enemy. It's one of the first things they teach you. So I ran right thru security and jumped...just as the shot rang out. In mid air the bullet caught me in the chest, right into my Titanium mech mod, which stopped the bullet. Like I said, I'm not really interested in the president. There was a pristine 63 split rear window Corvette parked on the street behind the president I knew the shooter would hit if he missed the president. Vaping saved me and that 63 Vette. Those things are a national treasure. Afterwards, the president thanked me and told me about what a fabulous job he's been doing as the nations best ever president while Melania rolled her eyes at him and silently screamed at her poor life choices.

After that heroic sacrifice of your mech, I sure hope they at least let you have the vette as a reward.

Oh wait, bet you were offered a 5% discount on one of his condos instead.

 

[jfcooley]

 

[BigEgo]

I have schizo affective disorder and my doctor straight up told me cigarettes were improving and balancing my mood.

Yep. About 40% of the cigarettes smoked in the U.S. are smoked by people with some form of mental illness. Not a fact that I think a lot of people are aware of.

 

[mountaingal]

I am sure vaping has stopped some of the damage done by 40 years of cigs. After 6 years of vaping and approaching the 60yr old mark, I am so grateful that I quit cigs. One of the main things vaping has done is make me richer, I have saved about $30 a week. For a total of over NINE THOUSAND DOLLARS!!!! That includes all the money spent on gear and DIY supplies.

 

[ENAUD]

I am sure vaping has stopped some of the damage done by 40 years of cigs. After 6 years of vaping and approaching the 60yr old mark, I am so grateful that I quit cigs. One of the main things vaping has done is make me richer, I have saved about $30 a week. For a total of over NINE THOUSAND DOLLARS!!!! That includes all the money spent on gear and DIY supplies.

4-1/2 years into vaping...aprox $19,700 not spent on smoke and ash...WOW! I don't do that math very often, but when I do my jaw hits the floor.

 

[Beamslider]

I smoked steady a pack to a pack and half for over 40 years. And before that about 1/2 pack a day for 10 years.

I have only been vaping for about 1 1/2 year at this point with not one cigarette since the switch. My health is far better than it was when I was smoking.

I no longer get short breathed with activity, I sleep much better, I don't cough in the morning and I don't hack up brown mucus. I haven't had a cold since I switched either. Used to get one every two or three months.

The doctor I go to completely agrees that it was a great choice to make. He agrees that all signs are for substantially improved health.,

 

[stols001]

I started smoking at 18... Around a pack a day, on an ever-increasing trajectory and I too have some mental and physical limitations. I will say, I tried everything but Chantix and hypnosis (manly not that because I am un-hypnotizable, otherwise I would have). Despite my ever worsening health, I don't think *I* or anyone else expected me to quit (although my docs were growing ever more urgent about it.)

I really was very, very close to COPD at the age of 42, and spent most of the last 18 months until I began vaping with pneumonia and increasingly awful, upsetting treatments. I think I finally caved when the NP I saw told me, "You can stop smoking, otherwise it's "evil abx with horrid side effects and more steroids....." Well, I went home still smoking but REALLY thought about that. I had horrible side effects from the meds and I've been terrified of COPD since the first time I saw someone with an oxygen tank and asked (not them) what that was all about. Slowly drowning over a decade held less and less appeal. I was a 3 ppd smoker by then and had to wear "adult undergarments" during that time as I was coughing THAT much. Just for those of you who may have stopped early enough-- I'm pretty sure you don't want to end up in "adult undergarments."

Things like kind of started sinking in, my smoking then vaping son actually quit vaping (successfully) and gifted me his setups, and I started thinking very hard about what a bad influence my smoking had been on him and HOW could I not try vaping one more time, when my 20 year old kid could QUIT completely and I couldn't even vape successfully.... Well, he was a sub0hm vaper and I couldn't make the gear work for me (I had MTL dual used in the past, but had gone back to just smoking) I arrived here, the rest was history.

I didn't believe I could quit. I was fairly certain I couldn't. But I kept learning and trying things, until one day, I had my first smoke free day. I nearly died of shock, I mean, it was unpleasant but NOTHING like quitting cold turkey is (I've done it once when I was pregnant, but I don't have that motivator any more).

I don't really care as much about the financial savings (although treating COPD is expensive and horrible) but MAN. I can breathe again, I don't cough, I don't smell, and I can wear regular underwear as I'm no longer trying to cough out dead lung tissue.

Not only that, vaping has a ripple effect! I don't think my husband expected *I* could quit either, and once I did began "cold turkey" experiments and other cessation experiments, and I think really did not want to be a vaper. I eventually just shut up about it and kept vaping, and he is in his first week of vaping (with about 4--5 cigarettes a day, yet) but he has found it really enjoyable compared to past attempts (he did gain my knowledge he wanted "tobacco" flavors so he is all set up with NETs and WTA.... And, admits that vaping has come SO far from the early days when we tried those dripper kits when things were somewhat new.

Vaping has not just saved my life, it is helping family members and friends (have gifted a couple setups in RL) and it's amazing. I can breathe, sleep (coughing fits would wake me up) move faster, do more, smell better, and most miraculously, vaping allows me to keep my nicotine (which I really feel my brain does need) and STILL enjoy life, having a hand-to mouth habit, and enjoyment of LIFE which no other replacement strategy has given me.

My son used to tell me as a kid, "I am going to start smoking then quit, just to show you it can be done." LOL, he did in fact do that (not for his youthful motivations, I'm pretty certain) but he was right.

Like Eskie said, I'm not out of the woods from a smoking-related dx, but I actually believe even if I got one, I would remain a vaper. Can't change the past, but I can sure move on from it...

I owe vaping so much I am just going to stop there. But I am so thankful for vaping ECF, and the wonderful people in my life (including my doctors, who were AWESOME) who helped make this happen for me.... I would never in a million years have believed a) I could STOP and b) I could be HAPPY stopped. Detox wasn't fun, it never is, but everything thereafter has been

Anna

 

[CMD-Ky]

That was you? I have wondered who that masked stranger was that rode into town that fateful day. I was there and saw the whole thing. In the resulting chaos, I stole the Corvette; parted it out for thousands. That money financed my first mod. I have wanted to thank the person who made it possible.

Vaping saved my life. A pack a day smoker for 20 years and my kid asked me to stop. I finally set a day and found ecigs and quit within a week. One day I was downtown and saw a crowd. The president was in town giving a speech in Grant Park near the bean. I'm not really interested in the president. Most presidents are putzes. But I saw the glint...a glint most won't notice but unless you've sat in a nest for days on end waiting for your target. You learn to see the glint of the enemy. It's one of the first things they teach you. So I ran right thru security and jumped...just as the shot rang out. In mid air the bullet caught me in the chest, right into my Titanium mech mod, which stopped the bullet. Like I said, I'm not really interested in the president. There was a pristine 63 split rear window Corvette parked on the street behind the president I knew the shooter would hit if he missed the president. Vaping saved me and that 63 Vette. Those things are a national treasure. Afterwards, the president thanked me and told me about what a fabulous job he's been doing as the nations best ever president while Melania rolled her eyes at him and silently screamed at her poor life choices.