How long did it take you to get rid of your ashtrays, etc?

[Rainbowz]

My husband quit smoking in November last year, and I quit with him for 30 days but went bonkers and smoked some for a few weeks after that until I found this forum and got my Joye 510 just over a month ago.

We used to smoke in the garage or on the porch, as our house and cars have always been non-smoking. Since we live in high-desert Oregon, we smoked pretty much full-time in the garage except for a few months of the year because it's so cold at night here, even in the summers.

Anyhoot, our smoking area in the garage still exists with our smoking chairs, our ashtrays and etc. I just can't bring myself, and neither can my husband, to go out there and clean the danged stuff up!! I hate looking at it but somehow cleaning it up means it's really over???

Every time I go out there to get in my car I tell myself I'm going to donate the chairs, the ashtrays, all the magazines I used to read there, the candles and candle holders and all the other myriad stuff that ended up on the smoking table, but it just doesn't seem to be happening. Anyone else have trouble "letting go?"

 

[Dudeman]

My desk ashtray has be come a holder for all my carts. I kind of like it as a reminder of how nasty those burning things are.

 

[Scott EE]

I got rid of mine over a year ago when I stopped smoking in the house. So when I smoked on the back porch I would "field strip" my cherries off the smokes anyway and throw the .... into a trashcan. Habit I picked up in the army. Have to police your own butts lol.

 

[liafdzs]

it took me more than two years to get rid of smoke, and switched to vapor now, is that too long?

 

[Uncle Pennybags]

Got rid of the ashtrays the day I got my first e-cig!

 

[CaptJay]

I'm a pack rat. I get rid of nothing.

 

[Scrimshaw]

Been well over a year now and haven't touched an analogue since day one. Still got a stack of ashtrays sitting on top of the fridge in the kitchen though!

 

[Fire N Ice]

I emptied mine out the day I got my 510. There are currently 6 butts in there at this moment (only one of which is mine). I like to keep it there as kind of a reminder of just how many analogs I'm not smoking anymore (used to have to dump it every other week or so, and it's one of those nice big plastic ones you see in bars).

 

[River]

I only got rid a few of mine the ones I still use hold carts, liquid, and whatever.

I like doing it that way because then I don't leave my in use PV stuff laying around the house, it's all in one spot.

 

[Lightgeoduck]

I cleaned them out, but still have them where they usually are... I still carry a lighter... and I have the last 2 cigs from the box I had when I switched to ecigs 7months or so ago

 

[Fire N Ice]

I cleaned them out, but still have them where they usually are... I still carry a lighter... and I have the last 2 cigs from the box I had when I switched to ecigs 7months or so ago

haha *nod*

 

[MacArthurBug]

Well- I went about halfway. I repourposed my favorite pretty green cut glass ashtrey into a cart and battery holder. But my garage smoking area is still sort of there. The can I put butts in is stink and eew. It's like I'm afraid that just being near it will tempt me to smoke again even though I havn't been tempted at all thus far.

Perhaps it's the itamicy that area represents? Did your hubs and you used to hang out there and be together while smoking? Mahap it's time to revamp it into a vaping area. Dump the butts- give it a good fabreeze but keep the habit of vaping there together.

 

[Lightgeoduck]

haha *nod*

*nod* .

 

[AlexTM]

I still use the ashtray at my desk for crud like used filling etc. The one in the kitchen now serves as a good place to let washed PV bits dry. My neat little boxes for analogs now hold PVs or parts or liquid.

Why should I let go of anything?

 

[tunabubblegum]

Well- I went about halfway. I repourposed my favorite pretty green cut glass ashtrey into a cart and battery holder. But my garage smoking area is still sort of there. The can I put butts in is stink and eew. It's like I'm afraid that just being near it will tempt me to smoke again even though I havn't been tempted at all thus far.

Perhaps it's the itamicy that area represents? Did your hubs and you used to hang out there and be together while smoking? Mahap it's time to revamp it into a vaping area. Dump the butts- give it a good fabreeze but keep the habit of vaping there together.

I like this idea.
One does make associations with things, and if you both smoked there, talked, had a relaxing time, had company, etc. the association would be very strong.
So, just find the nerve, clean it up, and continue to use it as a vaping area
And, if your friends smoke, introduce them to e-cigs

 

[Jaganic_Solitude]

I never really used an ash tray, I just used old soda cans. I kept a little soda in there to put the butts out when I was done with the analogs

 

[TheBlueAdept]

it took me more than two years to get rid of smoke, and switched to vapor now, is that too long?

Any victory counts, perhaps even more so when it is harder fought?

Good job I say!

 

[THeGAMe]

Im renting a condo that I cant smoke in, so Id go out on the patio, or out front in the parking lot and flick the butts in the garbage can.

So my ashtray is on the patio, and my windows and doors are taped with platic till it gets warm out. Itll be another few weeks before I can get to it, lol.

 

[MsSki]

Well I just moved everything out back, baby steps, this weekend they are going in the trash, but it has been a week that i have been anolog free, and hubby said he done when this pack is gone so im getting rid of it all this weekend.
tara

 

[VaporHeaven]

Been well over a year now and haven't touched an analogue since day one. Still got a stack of ashtrays sitting on top of the fridge in the kitchen though!

That's exactly where my as sitting. But they have only been there two weeks.