Not a single cigarrette since 24/12/09
Not to shabby... much better than gum, patches, lozenges and inhalers.
Not to shabby... much better than gum, patches, lozenges and inhalers.
How long have you been analog free?
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Took my first puff off of my Joye 510 on April 5th around 4 p.m. and haven't smoked an analog since. I will admit that I got caught in a situation without my PV and lit up an analog 5 days after I started vaping but I couldn't handle the taste and threw it away after 2 puffs. I gave away a full carton and kept one full pack along with a half pack "just in case." They're still in the freezer and I don't even think about them. I smoked close to two packs a day for 7 years, after falling off the wagon from quitting for nearly 14 years. I remember having those vivid smoking dreams during those 14 years and I'd wake up panic stricken that I had started smoking again and was going to have to go through the suffering and agony of quitting again. I never thought I'd light up again but got caught in one of those weak moments going through an emotional upheaval in my life and thought I'd smoke "just one".....didn't happen. I headed straight for the nearest store and bought a pack and the rest is history until I learned about E cigs and got enough useful information at this forum to give them a try. It has been a very easy transition for me, I think because I was more addicted to the "action" of smoking than the nicotine. However, I do use 24-26 mg. of nic juice and don't give it a second thought. I think the nicotine is very low on the list of concerns when compared with the smoke and chemicals in a burning analog. My husband has successfully quit analogs right along with me and he smoked 3 packs a day. Between his heavy smoking, my heavy smoking and the fact that we spent 90% of our free time in a small room smoking together, we were getting a massive dose of poisons. I was having horrible respiratory infections about every 6 months and last fall it was borderline pneumonia which knocked me down for over a month. My doctor told me during my last visit in February with bronchitis that I was going to have to quit smoking or at least cut down to less than a half a pack a day. I walked out of the office with no intentions of trying to do either one because I just didn't want to go through hell again. My PV is an absolute miracle and I'm converting every smoker who will listen. I even pass it around for people to try. I'm probably considered a radical vaper but that's fine with me. I can LIVE with that! 
My sig shows my stats also. I went from two and a half packs a day cold turkey. I started with Nirdosh Herbal ( no tobacco) cigs. Found e-cigs and have only smoked one Nirdosh since. I needed real throat hit!
I'm also looking for the ultimate Kools flavored e-juice. I primarily vape 0 nic juices, and mostly fruity flavors.
I'm also looking for the ultimate Kools flavored e-juice. I primarily vape 0 nic juices, and mostly fruity flavors.
my sig shows when i stopped ish i say that as when i first started e-cigs i was having one roll up tobacco then 2 e cigs(15 puffs) it was 2 days after that that i ran out of baccy and never looked back, i was at my girlfriends last week end and i only bought one tornado batt with me by mistake a took a drag on her analogue and it made me feel sick i hate the tast and would never go back.
i used to smoke a 50g pouch in two days.
i used to smoke a 50g pouch in two days.
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I started vaping on an 801 penstyle and an m401 in February of last year. I didn't quit cigarettes entirely until April, 2009--two months later--so it's been 14 months for me.
My furry housemates and my lungs thank me every day.
Susan
My furry housemates and my lungs thank me every day.
Susan
Look at all of these AMAZING success stories. I quit 4/3/2010 after pack a day for 28 years. I also have a spread sheet of money spent on my Tornado and TV juices. After deducting money not spent on cigs, I will break ever...........................probably never!!!!
I've had one pack of analouges since whenever my signature says
(I went on a weekend trip and forgot my e-cig)
(I went on a weekend trip and forgot my e-cig)
65 days since I got my second order of 510 gear. (My first one died and I was stuck with no back up)
I'll be 6 months smoke-free on June 15. I'm starting to back off on the nicotine concentrations (from 24 to 18 and 12) , since I'm noticing that, except for mornings, I get a little agitated with the higher concentrations.
I quit analogs the first time I tried a 510. On monday April 12 @ 1:03 pm 2010
I am still amazed that I did it, after 50 years of chain smoking. I get very happy when I hear of a noob quitting. Really makes my day.
Now If they can come up with digital Vodka. LOL
I am still amazed that I did it, after 50 years of chain smoking. I get very happy when I hear of a noob quitting. Really makes my day.
Now If they can come up with digital Vodka. LOL
I have basically been analog free about 2 months now! Since I had quit analogs I'd been chewing nicotine gum like a banshee (without the nicotine I was simply a mean b*tch to those around me) but after the first week or two I'd still been craving a smoke. Every day was a war inside me...go buy smokes, don't go buy smokes. Twice I actually picked up my husbands cigar and took a puff. I finally realized, after so many stints trying to quit, that it wasn't just the nicotine I was addicted to. I enjoyed the act of smoking. I'd been doing it for more than half of my life and it was, in a way, part of me. I'd seen e-cigs at a local gas station and started researching them which led me to lots of info including this forum. After talking to my husband I decided to give the disposable from the gas station a try. It was a local brand e-cig and, though I didn't know at the time it was a huge under-performer, I finally had no urge to get a real cigarette. A couple days later, after more research, I ordered my Joye 510 and I've been in heaven since. Finally, I can still "smoke" without nasty tar, etc. and I'm not dealing with an internal war every day. I really think with my vp I'll be able to slowly kick nicotine itself. Either way, there's no going back to analogs this time!
123 days, 13 hours, 25 minutes.
That's about a month longer without cigarettes for any period in my life since I was 16 years old! And for the first time, I actually believe it. I had made dozens of serious attempts to quit smoking over the past 40 years, lasting anywhere from three days to three months. But each of those times, I never really believed, deep inside, that I'd never smoke again. And each of those times I was depressed, self-pitying, and ornery as an angry porcupine.
But my health problems are so bad and I knew I really had to quit. So I set the date and started collecting all the support tools I would need: gum, lollipops, rubber bands, nicotine lozenges, "fake" cigarettes (you, know, that just draw air -- I had three different models), etc. I had heard of an e-cig and thought it would just be another, little fancier, version of that fake cig. Despite the price, I ordered a couple. Anything to help the impossible task I was facing.
My e-cig came four days before my big quit day. I opened it up and looked it over and took a drag. Whoa! I took another drag, and I realized, then and there, that I could quit. For real. Forever.
Like many others have related, I gave up cigarettes immediately. It only took two drags for me to KNOW, in my heart of hearts, that I could quit this thing that had me in its grips for so long. So I did. On the spot -- with an open, half-pack of smokes on the desk in front of me.
I gave up tobacco -- that golden leaf that had sustained my life, my hometown and my state for years -- with no regret. I vape joyously, with little spite for those long, hot, sticky hours in backbreaking rows of tobacco, pulling prime leaves from tall stalks. I still get goosebumps when I open a pack of dark tobacco cartridges and get a whiff that smells just like that tobacco barn full of flue-cured leaves, and like the warehouse where my family's destiny for another year would be determined.
Ah, the golden leaf, sustaining my livelihood while destroying my health, leeching poison into my lungs with each breath. What irony.
So here I am today, 123 days later. I am not a smoker who is just trying not to smoke today. I am a non-smoker. An avid vaper, perhaps forever; or not. But I will never smoke another cigarette.
My first grandchild is due in September and I want to live to hold him in my arms, to read Dr. Seuss to him, to go watch him play t-ball. I know that the damage I have done to my lungs is real and irreversible, but, God willing, I can maintain my current level of health for some years yet. The e-cigarette is a miracle to me. I truly believe it saved my life.
That's about a month longer without cigarettes for any period in my life since I was 16 years old! And for the first time, I actually believe it. I had made dozens of serious attempts to quit smoking over the past 40 years, lasting anywhere from three days to three months. But each of those times, I never really believed, deep inside, that I'd never smoke again. And each of those times I was depressed, self-pitying, and ornery as an angry porcupine.
But my health problems are so bad and I knew I really had to quit. So I set the date and started collecting all the support tools I would need: gum, lollipops, rubber bands, nicotine lozenges, "fake" cigarettes (you, know, that just draw air -- I had three different models), etc. I had heard of an e-cig and thought it would just be another, little fancier, version of that fake cig. Despite the price, I ordered a couple. Anything to help the impossible task I was facing.
My e-cig came four days before my big quit day. I opened it up and looked it over and took a drag. Whoa! I took another drag, and I realized, then and there, that I could quit. For real. Forever.
Like many others have related, I gave up cigarettes immediately. It only took two drags for me to KNOW, in my heart of hearts, that I could quit this thing that had me in its grips for so long. So I did. On the spot -- with an open, half-pack of smokes on the desk in front of me.
I gave up tobacco -- that golden leaf that had sustained my life, my hometown and my state for years -- with no regret. I vape joyously, with little spite for those long, hot, sticky hours in backbreaking rows of tobacco, pulling prime leaves from tall stalks. I still get goosebumps when I open a pack of dark tobacco cartridges and get a whiff that smells just like that tobacco barn full of flue-cured leaves, and like the warehouse where my family's destiny for another year would be determined.
Ah, the golden leaf, sustaining my livelihood while destroying my health, leeching poison into my lungs with each breath. What irony.
So here I am today, 123 days later. I am not a smoker who is just trying not to smoke today. I am a non-smoker. An avid vaper, perhaps forever; or not. But I will never smoke another cigarette.
My first grandchild is due in September and I want to live to hold him in my arms, to read Dr. Seuss to him, to go watch him play t-ball. I know that the damage I have done to my lungs is real and irreversible, but, God willing, I can maintain my current level of health for some years yet. The e-cigarette is a miracle to me. I truly believe it saved my life.
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