I smoked for 25 years, have been quit now since November of last year. Wasn't really trying to quit when I did. Me and my wife had been trying the convenience stores disposables. Her mother had bought a vaporizer and we tried it and really liked it. Then made a trip to the vapor store in town, once I ran out of my last pack I just didn't buy any more. The rest is history.
How long did you smoke for? Why did you smoke? When did you quit? Just curious!
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Hi first post. I started when I was 12(rebelling Army Brat). I quit last June 4th. I am 52 now, so I smoked heavily for 39 years.WOW! Just realized that is a long ... time. I can't imagine smoking a cig again, not when the smell makes me sick now. So glad I found the e-cigs and now the more advanced stuff. Lord knows I tried to quit a bunch of times. Need to add my wife quit a week after I did.
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Started in 1974, in high school. Cause every one else smoked, finally started gaping January 9th of this year, and feel great!, it was rough the first month, having smoked nearly 3packs a day, but now I'm down to 6mgs Nicotine, and vape more for the flavor, and of course the shiny toys to collect!
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O gosh...started as a 'social smoker' in the USN. 'Graduated' to a 'smoker', every time i hit writer's block during my undergrad. Became a 'chain smoker' when i wound up in a really crappy situation known as a bad marriage.
I smoked for 16 years.
I quit smoking July 14, 2006. My twin brother and sister's birthday. I was in the Navy when they were born (i guess my parents weren't done yet)
I chewed peppercorns to kill the cravings. When i began a night shift gig, i started chewing nicotine gum. Alot. One night, i picked up a Blu. Now, i'm a rebuildable atomizer addict lol!!
Always helps to have 'quit buddies'!!
I smoked for 16 years.
I quit smoking July 14, 2006. My twin brother and sister's birthday. I was in the Navy when they were born (i guess my parents weren't done yet)
I chewed peppercorns to kill the cravings. When i began a night shift gig, i started chewing nicotine gum. Alot. One night, i picked up a Blu. Now, i'm a rebuildable atomizer addict lol!!
Always helps to have 'quit buddies'!!
I smpked for 25+ years. 1-2 packs a day. Quit because of health reasons. As for my lungs I have coughed up so much tar and crap and I can breathe sooooooo much better now!
I can't edit my post because i posted on a tablet. I forgot to add that i have been quit for a little over 2 months now.
I started smoking as a teenager - everyone was doing it. I smoked for 40 years. I quit a zillion times.. One time even for a year.. Tried nic gum, patches, lozenges. Chantix made me very sick.
Kept seeing these Blu ads pop up on the internet. Finally gave them a try. Of course, that started a progression of things. But, for 5 years I've been smoke free.
For those who are just joining the fray - and quitting smoking - you have so many much better options in vaping than we did five years ago. I'm glad of the progress, and the number of people who have quit as a result.
But, it's a little crazy. Some people I know think that vaping is weirder than smoking. However, it works for me.
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Kept seeing these Blu ads pop up on the internet. Finally gave them a try. Of course, that started a progression of things. But, for 5 years I've been smoke free.
For those who are just joining the fray - and quitting smoking - you have so many much better options in vaping than we did five years ago. I'm glad of the progress, and the number of people who have quit as a result.
But, it's a little crazy. Some people I know think that vaping is weirder than smoking. However, it works for me.
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I'm 50, have smoked since I was 12, a pack a day most of my life.
My parents were smokers, and Mom just died of complications from COPD. I picked the 1 month anniversary of her death and my late father's birthday, to quit last month. Not totally quit, but pretty darn close at one cigarette a day or less. That last one will come shortly. I loved smoking- in all my years, smoking NEVER judged me or let me down. It's insane the way you rationalize things. My brand of cigarettes just recently went up to $16.70 and I could either feed my animals well, or smoke-- so I picked that day and bought my last pack, which still has 3 in it and my husband stole a few. I have tried everything except Champix (Chantix in USA) and never, ever thought I would be able to stop. But in the past month my husband says I am LESS cranky, more positive and just full of hope, and it's true- I can see light at the end of the tunnel. I do not have to be a slave to cigarettes. I'm pretty healthy, but certainly feel healthier, can walk further and look forward to being able to sing on key again. My biggest fear now is that it will become illegal or highly difficult to continue to deliver nicotine to my body in a relatively safe way- that would just SUCK. I plan to stockpile a few more batteries and then add as many different juices as a 3rd world country, just in case. Would love to make my own juices down the road a ways as my palate matures.
My parents were smokers, and Mom just died of complications from COPD. I picked the 1 month anniversary of her death and my late father's birthday, to quit last month. Not totally quit, but pretty darn close at one cigarette a day or less. That last one will come shortly. I loved smoking- in all my years, smoking NEVER judged me or let me down. It's insane the way you rationalize things. My brand of cigarettes just recently went up to $16.70 and I could either feed my animals well, or smoke-- so I picked that day and bought my last pack, which still has 3 in it and my husband stole a few. I have tried everything except Champix (Chantix in USA) and never, ever thought I would be able to stop. But in the past month my husband says I am LESS cranky, more positive and just full of hope, and it's true- I can see light at the end of the tunnel. I do not have to be a slave to cigarettes. I'm pretty healthy, but certainly feel healthier, can walk further and look forward to being able to sing on key again. My biggest fear now is that it will become illegal or highly difficult to continue to deliver nicotine to my body in a relatively safe way- that would just SUCK. I plan to stockpile a few more batteries and then add as many different juices as a 3rd world country, just in case. Would love to make my own juices down the road a ways as my palate matures.
I'm new to the forum and new to vaping, as well. I was addicted to cigs by the time I was fourteen. Back then I started with Doral full flavor 100s, then moved to the lights then the ultra lights. Then, when I was around 21, I switched to I think it was the Carlton 120s (supposedly an extremely low level nic cigarette) because I wanted to wean myself off cigs. They were expensive and I smoked A LOT of them. So I switched back to Dorals for awhile, then when I was 22, I noticed how sick I felt. I couldn't eat or really stand to be awake because everything smelled and tasted metallic and strange. So, I quit cold turkey, and managed about 4 years of being cigarette free until about two years ago, when I started up again this time with Marlboro SB, then L&M blues.
I haven't had a cigarette for about 4 days now. I just got tired of it, and decided to switch to vaping (luckily my former brother in law, who's started vaping, had gotten us into them, so I already had everything. I use the evod bcc, and like the model. When I was looking at them, the one thing I didn't want for me was a look alike, only because of that sense of violation of expectation). Three days in, I was stressed out, chain vaping and making myself sick in the process, just hoping to get through it, and refusing to eat anything, because I remember how the last time I quit I ate *everything* and gained so much weight that I had JUST managed to lose. I was freaking out, but I had gotten some unflavored WTA and put that in there last evening, and whew. I don't need cigarettes.
Four days in, and now I feel like a normal person (and adoring all the flavors, got a tobacco flavored juice in one and apple cinnamon in another). I've got more juices coming and a protank mini 2 coming and I'm liking where I'm at now, and feel better about my choice to switch for my personal health and for the health of my three little nieces who live with me
I haven't had a cigarette for about 4 days now. I just got tired of it, and decided to switch to vaping (luckily my former brother in law, who's started vaping, had gotten us into them, so I already had everything. I use the evod bcc, and like the model. When I was looking at them, the one thing I didn't want for me was a look alike, only because of that sense of violation of expectation). Three days in, I was stressed out, chain vaping and making myself sick in the process, just hoping to get through it, and refusing to eat anything, because I remember how the last time I quit I ate *everything* and gained so much weight that I had JUST managed to lose. I was freaking out, but I had gotten some unflavored WTA and put that in there last evening, and whew. I don't need cigarettes.
Four days in, and now I feel like a normal person (and adoring all the flavors, got a tobacco flavored juice in one and apple cinnamon in another). I've got more juices coming and a protank mini 2 coming and I'm liking where I'm at now, and feel better about my choice to switch for my personal health and for the health of my three little nieces who live with me
tatiana, Your subsequent post with all the !!!! made me giggle. I knew I've been quit for about a month, but after consulting the calendar it's been six weeks!!!! So I am also very excited!!!! I have absolutely ZERO desire for a real cigarette. None. Zip. Zilch. Nada. In the six weeks since I started vaping, I've had four real cigarettes only because of "technical difficulties" with my e-cig. There is definitely a learning curve. Now I'm sitting here with my two standard flavors and six little sample bottles, wondering how I'm going to keep them straight. I really only wanted menthol - I smoked Camel Menthol. But after developing "vape tongue" (boy, did that ever get a strange look and a, "You have WHAT???" from my local vape shop), I switched it up with a Strawberry Ice and seem to have fixed that problem. Every week, something new seems to pop up; I've visited these forums several times, scrounging for clues. Some of these folks get way too geeky for me, but I've pretty much found what I needed. If it's discovered/determined e-cigs are not as wonderful as I think they are, I'm simply going to cry. Inhaling anything more than fresh air into my lungs can't be good, but e-cigs cannot be anything as bad as those effing cancer sticks. So, I'd really like to see the powers that be get off their collective butts, make some rules, tax them as they see fit (seriously - even at 100%, it's still cheaper and better than smoking, right???), and fix it so I don't still have to go outside and stand with the nasty smokers. Let's get on with it.
I'm breathing better and I don't stink. Can't wait (!!!) to try exercising. If I don't keel over, I'll know I've got this.
My only concern... I don't have any problem taking a vape break at work. But at home, in the car, etc., I have the dang thing in my hand all the time like a pacifier or security blankie. It's creeping me out. lol
To answer your questions...
I smoked for 36 years minus ~18 months. I started smoking when I was 13 - three years after my mother died of lung cancer and I was told her mother died at 49 of lung cancer. I'm 49 and I hope I'm not too late. Smoked about a pack a day, a little less in the last few years - maybe 15 or so a day.
I smoked because I'm a dumb-*ss, of course.
What other reason could there be? I don't remember why I started, although I do remember when. I continued because I was addicted. End of.
My last voluntary cigarette was on February 17, 2014. As I said, I had four over about the first three weeks, because of something that went wrong or something I was doing wrong with my e-cig. They were yucky.
I knew I've been quit for about a month, but after consulting the calendar it's been six weeks!!!! So I am also very excited!!!! I have absolutely ZERO desire for a real cigarette. None. Zip. Zilch. Nada. In the six weeks since I started vaping, I've had four real cigarettes only because of "technical difficulties" with my e-cig. There is definitely a learning curve. Now I'm sitting here with my two standard flavors and six little sample bottles, wondering how I'm going to keep them straight. I really only wanted menthol - I smoked Camel Menthol. But after developing "vape tongue" (boy, did that ever get a strange look and a, "You have WHAT???" from my local vape shop), I switched it up with a Strawberry Ice and seem to have fixed that problem. Every week, something new seems to pop up; I've visited these forums several times, scrounging for clues. Some of these folks get way too geeky for me, but I've pretty much found what I needed. If it's discovered/determined e-cigs are not as wonderful as I think they are, I'm simply going to cry. Inhaling anything more than fresh air into my lungs can't be good, but e-cigs cannot be anything as bad as those effing cancer sticks. So, I'd really like to see the powers that be get off their collective butts, make some rules, tax them as they see fit (seriously - even at 100%, it's still cheaper and better than smoking, right???), and fix it so I don't still have to go outside and stand with the nasty smokers. Let's get on with it.I'm breathing better and I don't stink. Can't wait (!!!) to try exercising. If I don't keel over, I'll know I've got this.
My only concern... I don't have any problem taking a vape break at work. But at home, in the car, etc., I have the dang thing in my hand all the time like a pacifier or security blankie. It's creeping me out. lol
To answer your questions...
I smoked for 36 years minus ~18 months. I started smoking when I was 13 - three years after my mother died of lung cancer and I was told her mother died at 49 of lung cancer. I'm 49 and I hope I'm not too late. Smoked about a pack a day, a little less in the last few years - maybe 15 or so a day.
I smoked because I'm a dumb-*ss, of course.
What other reason could there be? I don't remember why I started, although I do remember when. I continued because I was addicted. End of.My last voluntary cigarette was on February 17, 2014. As I said, I had four over about the first three weeks, because of something that went wrong or something I was doing wrong with my e-cig. They were yucky.
I smoked for about 11 years. Quit smoking for a year and a half and started vaping because it was that or start smoking again.
Smoked for about 12 years. I quit smoking about 2 years ago, and i've been vaping ever since
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