How many years have you been smoking ?

[rzil]

how many cigs for a day? which brand? and how did you discover e-cigs?

I've been smoking for almost 9 years , for the first 8 I had about 1 pack a day and on the last year I smoked about 5-10 each day ,
mostly LM light , Winston Light and Next

I heard some1 talk about e-cigs a year ago and it trailed in my mind 6 months later when I really wanted to quit smoking and the gums didn't do the trick for me so I ordered a cheap ego-c,ce4 and some disgusting Chinese tobacco juice which was suppose to feel like Winston cig.
Don't know how could I enjoy that liquid but it helped me quit , after few days I ordered some more juice and forgot about what was killing me for so many years.

And today I'm over 6 months without smoking even a single tobacco cig , a week ago I purchased my first Mod (after using ego-twist for about 5 months)

 

[Elizabeth Baldwin]

I smoked for a little over 20 years at a pack and a half a day. I've been vaping and not smoking for a year. I wasn't even trying to quit. I loved my Marlboros. I just wanted to try vaping because I like to try new things. Once I tasted eliquid I was done smoking. Vaping has too many delicious flavors. I've been happily vaping now for a year and I feel like a new person. I can breathe now. I can run again.

 

[Newportlocal]

Approximately 30 years. Started with export As, Sobraine Black Russians, and Marlboro Reds. Finished with a minimum of 2 packs of Marlboro medium 100s a day. Had a few periods of abstinence. Mark Twain said quitting is easy I have done it a thousand times.
Vaping has been way better for me than smoking.

 

[NC_Fog]

I was a very heavy smoker for 33yrs. Before I started vaping on March 31, 2011 I was up to 3 1/2 packs a day. I was sick of smoking but I was mainly sick and tired of the government and their endless tax increases. Vaping saved me from dying with a cigarette in my hand. I tried everything and had finally given up on quitting until the e-cigarette came along.

I ordered a kit for Myself, the wife, and the oldest daughter. I'm glad to say that we all succeeded with vaping. The thing is, it wasn't that hard at all to make the switch.

I mostly smoked Merit Menthol Lights or Doral Menthol Lights. I now vape unflavored.

 

[Northern-Lights]

Since I was about 12, so 7 years, not a long time comparatively but also around 40% of my life. Newport Menthol 100's.

Now I smoke maybe 1 or 2 times a month when its handed to me? (Complete honesty)

 

[monkey39]

24 years, mainly Camel and Marlboro lights. I've tried gums, lozenges, patches, Chantix, etc. in the past to quit smoking, but none of them every stuck. Tried V2Cigs (Blu-type e-cigs) about a year ago, didn't last more than a few days before I went back to smoking.

Went into the doctor's office about 7 weeks ago with a 5-week cough and 2-week wheezing issue - 3 hours later, after being on a nebulizer most of that time and being sent home with one for 4 more days of treatments, finally had my wake-up call. Luckily about that time, I ran into a co-worker who had a more advanced VV mod setup around the office - I had no idea that stuff even existed! Order a VV starter kit, and had quit smoking within a few days (after I finished my leftover cigs ).

Anyway, have been smoke-free since; my wallet has taken a severe beating though - just have to have new toys!

 

[six]

Camel Filter hard pack... pack a day for twenty years. Well, 19 years if you count the one year I had quit but then started smoking again about 15 years in.

A local lady here used to sell some cig-a-like 901s or something and she showed them to me when I was fixing her computer sometime in 2009. I wasn't so sure about them, and I didn't end up buying. A few months later, I traded an old cowboy a new lariat he saw in my truck window and admired. I gave him the lariat - he gave me an original rough stack, a bottle of chinese juice, a couple of used attys, a couple of batteries, and a hand carved wooden drip tip. That was during roundup in the late Spring of 2010. I stopped smoking the very same day. Within a couple of days, I found better juice on the internet and better batteries + some new attys... By the end of that week, I was fully involved in vaping as a hobby as well as a method of stopping smoking.

 

[DrMA]

About 15 yrs at about 12-15 cigs per day. Started with prepackaged then switched to RYO for the last 8 yrs or so.

Smoke free for 3y 5m thanks to vaping.

However, FDA wants me to return to smoking by proposing regulations that would ban >99% of all vaping gear, including e-liquids. If you would like to continue leading a much healthier life by vaping instead of smoking, now is the time to take action. Tell FDA how vaping helped you quit and that you oppose deeming e-cigs as tobacco products.

Click this link to submit your comment: Regulations.gov

Read more here: http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...fda-deeming-comments-im-starting-worried.html

 

[Susan~S]

15 years the first time, 2 packs/day, Marlboro Lights. I quit smoking cold turkey when I discovered inline skating and got hooked. It was so easy!! I was basically "vaping fresh air" as I flew down the trails (out in nature, lots of deer, wildlife & birds, rivers along the trail) at 15mph 15-30 miles a day. Hooked up with others, raced short-track/long track locally and raced in 26 mile marathons around the county. That was without doubt, the happiest I have ever been. 10 years of pure bliss!!

Unfortunately, life has a way of derailing the best laid plans. 9 years ago I was diagnosed with Primary Progressive MS. I quickly progressed, loosing my ability to balance myself, to use my left hand (to write, to eat, to do anything with that hand that required fine-tune manual dexterity) and eventually was forced to quit working by my employer. There was no way they could accommodate all of the disability issues I had. There are just too many issues when you have PPMS - no treatment that works and no cure. Needless to say, I took to smoking again. Right back up to 2 packs/day.

I can't remember how I discovered e-cigarettes (must have been on youtube or the internet). But it was 8 years ago - at the very beginning. No forums, no brick & mortars, very little information. But I got a cig-a-lite type of kit (ordered from China) with disposable cartridges, and it worked for me. Looking back (compared to what is available today) I was lucky that I never gave it up. That's not to say I have never had a cigarette in the past 8 years (I have 3 siblings who smoke), but I have never had a problem getting back on the wagon (so to speak) after a few.

Fortunately today there are such great choices in both eliquid and hardware. No more boiling tea bags, hunting down carto filter at aquarium stores and buying crappy juice from China. I actually really enjoy vaping today (much more than I ever really enjoyed smoking). Though I would give it up, in a heartbeat, if I could inline skate! Maybe one day, at least that's my dream.

 

[williebb123]

camel box and then later on camel wides 1-1 1/2 packs a day for 32yrs but quit the first time with an ecig now im 4yrs vapin and never miss the cigs

 

[Ryedan]

I smoked for 37 years at about a large pack a day of 'light' cigs. I couldn't quit smoking even though I knew smoking was killing me.

Two weeks after starting to vape I quit smoking for good except for 2 cigs in the next couple of months.

I can breath again and that works for me

 

[dragonpuff]

18 years. I started smoking when I was in middle school, and I smoked a pack a day almost that entire time.

I quit 5 times. First time chantix, yikes! Back to smoking in a month. Next two times, gum and patches. Only lasted a few days each time

Fourth time, i discovered e cigs. That was the smoking gun! (Get it? Smoking gun! Ha!) I quit for the longest time ever, 5 months I think? Unfortunately, i stuck to cig styles and had constant technological issues - batteries that died on a whim, cartridges that leaked all over, atomizers that couldn't tolerate dripping... you name it, I had that problem. I used to help people here all the time cuz I had the same problems... between that and personal issues I started smoking a few cigs a day in addition to vaping. In a few months my personal issues turned into a nightmare, I lost my home and was forced to move in with my mother in a tiny apartment that wasn't big enough for the two of us. She was still smoking a pack a day and wasn't ready to give it up. In the house. I started back up too, pack a day. My barely useful vaporizer was tucked away in a tiny case at the bottom of a basket of stuff.

Fast forward 3+ years... I went to my brother's house for thanksgiving and he was showing off this giant PV. He told me he got it at a local store and he was hoping it would help him cut back. He let me try it, and I kept taking it from him and puffing on it for the rest of the day a few days later I got my own. As soon as I started using it I didn't want any more cigarettes. I quit right then and there been smoke free ever since! (except for the occasional party cig, of course...)

... and my mother bought a PV when she saw how successful I was, and she quit too

 

[K_Tech]

I tried my first cigarette when I was still a pre-teen; it was a Kool that my friend stole from her mother.

I experimented with smoking a few times here and there from about 8th grade on, and started smoking pretty regularly around the senior year of high school.

And so it went for another 30 years (Newports, then "generic" menthol cigarettes) until I started vaping last year.

 

[Towmotor]

34 years of analogs, the last 10 of those smoking unregulated "native" cigarettes...cause if you're gonna kill yourself slowly you may as well do it thoroughly and at as low a cost as possible.

 

[tj99959]

How many years have you been smoking ?

Not "have" ..... HAD!

Close to 60 years.

At about the age of nine I discovered that if I swiped one of my fathers cigarettes I could make the throat tick go away (Tourette's syndrome), that was in 1949 or 50. As a result I found myself addicted to smoking by the time I outgrew the Tourette's as a teanager. Then for years I never gave smoking much thought because it was "the thing to do" anyway, and by the time I did think about quitting I found that I could not.
Since then I failed at trying to quit smoking far more times than I would care to admit to. Even after triple bypass surgery I was unable to quit, and finally just came to the conclusion that "these things are going to kill me" ..... and they almost did.
In April of 2011 a friend introduced me to e-cigarettes, and I found the transition from smoking to vaping literally seamless. So I know that vaping works, because it already has ..... I'm still alive!
Now at the age of 73, I just might get to hang around for another decade or two.

I'm Proof

 

[jm1974ri]

Wow tj. 60 yrs! Now smoke free! [emoji122][emoji122][emoji122]

 

[jm1974ri]

24 yrs here. Newports from day 1. About a PAD sometimes a little more. I discovered vaping through a old friend who now lives in florida (he came home to visit) and owns a shop in florida. He kinda preached to me a little lol but I was ready and willing. Almost 2 months now I haven't bought a $10 pack.

 

[Ken_A]

Um. I don't smoke. And haven't for a year and a half now.
When I did smoke, I did it for 30 years. Never went more than a week without smoking though... Maybe only 3 days...
I stopped vaping for two weeks, but I enjoy it so still vape.

And no, I didn't restart smoking during those two weeks

 

[bluecat]

Around 30 years. At first around 2 packs a day.. Weekends could be more depending on what we doing and if we went out to a bar that night (basically if we hit happy hour at 4:00 for 1.00 pitchers). Towards the end of the 30 years I was down to around 5 packs a week.. again depending on what I did on the weekend with the wife and kids... Fortunately no more happy hours.

I smoked Marboro Winston Camel Camel Non filtereds.... At the end I was stuck on Salem Lights. A friend told me that menthol smokes would help you quit. Guess he was wrong.

I was discussing cigarettes vs another substance on some site with a dude from CA. Legality issues. He mentioned the e cigs.. so I googled them and 3 months later after researching about the on the web and basically reading ECF from top to bottom, I purchased a set. 2 years or so later...

 

[Princessooppers]

My first cig I was 9 and smoked off and on until I was 15 that's when I started full time smoking, 35 yrs old now so 20 years.. At least a pack a day but we roll, still smoking but slowly cutting back with vaping..hard to quit with 2 other smokers in the house..but I figure any time I pick up the vape over a cig is a win


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