Loved it. I can totally relate; the note from mom, the vending machine, hiding to smoke in shame during my pregnancies... it's like I was there. Oh, wait, that was my life too. Thanks for sharing it so eloquently.
Glowgirl you go girl!
Isn't too hard to remember when everybody smoked! Now it's a social sin of some kind.
Funny how everything works, isn't it! The victims become the problem somehow.
vaping works!
Thank you so much for sharing your story - what an inspiration!
OK, I admit, I cried too. I can relate to so much in what you said here, down to starting at a young age - Though neither of my parents smoked, I tried it at 13, & realised at 15 when away on holidays with family, that I was addicted. I thought the same, 'don't smoke one, or you will never quit' I tried & failed many quit methods, smoked during pregnancy, scheduled so many things about my ciggies, & dreamt of smoking during my quits. Then found myself hooked again. Now at age 42, I have discovered e-cigs.
I know I already sound like an ex-smoker/current-vaper, but in reality I am waiting on my first kit which should be here (provided customs doesn't hold it) within the next day or 2.
I have tried cold turkey, patches, inhalers, gum, lozenges, & (uop to 6 months success with) Zyban & Champix (US Chantix) For the first time ever, I am actually so excited & can't wait to quit this time! I know this is the answer I have been looking for. Every other time, besides the obvious nicotine addiction, it was the habit, ritual & visible plumes I missed with smoking, & that was what always brought me back - even when they tasted like cr@p after so long of not smoking. Slowly & insidiously, even with my thoughts of 'I can stop at one...or two' they always brought me back.
I just KNOW this time will be different...
Wow, Haytoni, an extreme example of the power of human endurance.Great success story, thanks Glo Girl.............After over 60 years of being a slave to cigarettes, I also have been lucky to have found this site and E.Cig. Lets pray that the powers that what to stop this fantastic journey of freedom from government lettuce, read some of these stories.
We could take a walk down memory lane, recounting all the horrible things we did to smoke...........MeeemmmoOOrrrrrriieeeeeeeeeess like the corner of my mind.......twisted, terrible, smoky memories...of the way we were..... (what? those aren't the right lyrics?).