How many years WERE you a analog smoker?
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Started at 19, kept going for 43 years with a few short lived quits. Almost 6 months now, and for the first time ever I don't even want to smoke.
I started smoking at age 10. Started buying cigarettes by the carton ($4.50) and had a pack a day habit by age 13.
Smoked over 30 years, 10 of which I was trying to quit. Made it 2 weeks once using the patch. Finally quit my 1-3/4 PAD habit somewhere around last April or May, not sure exactly because it was a gradual thing for me.
Smoked over 30 years, 10 of which I was trying to quit. Made it 2 weeks once using the patch. Finally quit my 1-3/4 PAD habit somewhere around last April or May, not sure exactly because it was a gradual thing for me.
Started at 18, was a smoker for almost 16 Years. Most of it PAD, but for the last few years only half of PAD. Has been slightly more than 3 weeks that I started vaping and no urges to go back, 
I just voted for the 10-15 option, and I started smoking when I was around 15. I'm now 27, so I smoked analogs for around 12 years, I immediately stopped after getting my first cheap e-go starter from a local convenient store.
I smoked for 32 solid years. Started at 12 just to be "one of those people" that did things to irk others I suppose. Not much has changed...
I "started" smoking at 15, but it was a here and there type of thing whenever I had them, sometimes not smoking for over a month at a time, age 18 is when I started smoking much more due to availability, generally consuming over a pack a day. Voted for 10-15 years option, I had 11 years of at least a pack a day smoking and I've been free of cigarettes for 5 months now.
Started smoking at 13 (with time off for two pregnancies because I couldn't stand the taste/smell) and smoked until a month ago. That's a total of 58 years smoking and amazingly I'm still here to talk about it and I just took a breathing test that came back normal (hard to believe). There were times I smoked a lot...two or more packs a day and more recently about a pack a day. I never coughed, have never had bronchitis, but decided that maybe it was time to stop the insanity once and for all. So far so good....for today I am a non smoker. The beginning was very difficult but each day it gets easier and I can actually go for hours at a time where I don't even think about cigarettes.
Time goes by so fast. I still remember when I was 31 thinking OK I am gonna quit now bc I have smoked half my life. As it stands now, I have smoked for more than half my life. Thinking about that statement is sad honestly...the majority of time my lungs have been in existence in this world, I had been filling them daily with putrid and vile chemicals...I am SO glad I decided to start vaping..have only been doing it for 4 days at this point but have not had a single analog since and feel not only better physically, but emotionally I feel like I have been released from prison.
Started in my mid-teens "to be cool" and was unable to quit for decades. Knew it was not good for me, but I kept on buying them. Finally, for whatever reason, I had enough and about that time I was at a reception where I was introduced to an e-cig. That was it and I've never looked back or smoked for almost 4 yrs now.
Started at 13. I was at on a vacation with my parents when a girl at a campsite asked me [I am very tall and have been since a young age] to buy her/us a pack of cigarettes. My dad is a former smoker and both my parents flipped out when they found out but by then it was too late, I was on my second or third pack and loving inhaling stuff into my lungs. By 16 I was a full time smoker and by college it was up to two packs a day.
Started vaping with garbage from China [It was nowhere else to be found that early on] around the end of 2007 beginning of 2008 and stopped smoking analogs full time about a year later. Have had a few analogs since but only to remind me why I hate analogs and every time I try one I now feel sick. I think I have bought about three packs [about one a year] since 2010, the last being summer of 2013 when I spent a weekend camping with a girl who smoked. I broke it off at the end of the weekend because I couldn't take the fact she smoked analogs. Once in a while I will have some pipe tobacco in an old churchwarden pipe I own, but its very rare. I am now 35 and will never go back to analogs.
Started vaping with garbage from China [It was nowhere else to be found that early on] around the end of 2007 beginning of 2008 and stopped smoking analogs full time about a year later. Have had a few analogs since but only to remind me why I hate analogs and every time I try one I now feel sick. I think I have bought about three packs [about one a year] since 2010, the last being summer of 2013 when I spent a weekend camping with a girl who smoked. I broke it off at the end of the weekend because I couldn't take the fact she smoked analogs. Once in a while I will have some pipe tobacco in an old churchwarden pipe I own, but its very rare. I am now 35 and will never go back to analogs.
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14 years. I've now been vaping for 4 1/2 days and havent picked up a cigarette yet.
Started when I was 14 and I am 38 now so its been 24 years that I had been a smoke thank goodness for e-cigs! They may have just saved my life!
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