How many years WERE you a analog smoker?
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started @ age 14, am now 58....WOW...vaping now for about a week...only symptoms are GOOD symptoms
Started in high school at 17 and stopped for 9 months once but about a pack a day on average for 14 years... uggh I can't believe it's been that long. vaping is really nice tough and I hope to never touch a regular cigarette again!
I started smoking analogs when I was 18. One pack a day since then. I'm 33 now, so that's 15 years and 6 months. I'm so glad I tried e-cigarettes. Nothing else ever worked for me. I tried the gum, the patches, Chantix, all of it. I've only had my 510 for 9 days. I tried an analog on day 6 after my battery died while I was out and about. **GROSS** I can't believe I smoked those things for 15 years!!
I started inhaling in 1967 when I was 13 yrs old. I was puffing for two years before that. I have never even tried to quit before. I've had my 510 for a little over a week now. Haven't completely quit the analogs, but have gone from 1 1/2 - 2 packs a day of American Spirit Mediums down to 3-7/day. Big improvement and hope to do even better as the weeks go by.
Great - hang in there !!!!Just noticed - tomorrow is my ONE MONTH MARK - never thought I'd make it this far !
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I was just looking at the poll results and it's almost 50% that had been smoking for 25+ years ( me too - 43 yrs. ). I guess that should make me feel better.. Sometimes it freaks me out to think that I'd been smoking that long.
I think I'm gonna start another poll to see how much a pack of cigarettes were when you started smoking - not a poll, but maybe just a thread.
A pack cost .35 when I started and you can buy them anywhere including vending machines just like buying a canned coke !
I think I'm gonna start another poll to see how much a pack of cigarettes were when you started smoking - not a poll, but maybe just a thread.
A pack cost .35 when I started and you can buy them anywhere including vending machines just like buying a canned coke !
My dad quit smoking when the price of smokes went up to 35 cents a pack. Thought they were too expensive!
He's 86 now and would probably keel over if he know how much they are now. He asked me when the last federal tax increase went into effect how much a pack cost and I told him "you don't want to know."My dad quit smoking when the price of smokes went up to 35 cents a pack. Thought they were too expensive!
That would be at interesting poll - just to have an idea as to how much they've gone up - ( wish we could take a poll to see how much the croney's in Washington have made on all the taxes - now that would be enlightening !
Been puffing those arsenals of junk for over 60 years. Back when I started it was cool.. didn't know any better.
I can't remember, what they were in the late 40's when I started, I was a soph. in High..........grad. in 50...does anyone remember, I know I started on Philip Morris. Do they make P.Ms any more?
That's almost semi- complicated math for me. DO we count the times we quit?
Started to be a "regular" smoker at 15, tried it for the first time at age 13. Quit the first time for 1 year when I was pregnant with my first daughter (age 20) went back to it after a stressful up all night crying session (of hers) This is when I started smoking just outdoors so I wouldn't expose others to second hand smoke. Stopped the second time When I was pregnant with Daughter number 2 (age 26) Quit for 18 months. Started again when my husband got back from a deployment (stress and was gaining too much weight). Quit time number three for 4 months, but fell on 'em again. I'm 33 now, if anyone feels up to the math. I just know with this tool I'll actually be able to STAY quit. It's the hand to mouth urge for me. Thus far, no weight gain, no urges to go back, AND I have been able to get my hubs on the bandwagon (for the first time EVER) of quitting with me and staying quit.
Started to be a "regular" smoker at 15, tried it for the first time at age 13. Quit the first time for 1 year when I was pregnant with my first daughter (age 20) went back to it after a stressful up all night crying session (of hers) This is when I started smoking just outdoors so I wouldn't expose others to second hand smoke. Stopped the second time When I was pregnant with Daughter number 2 (age 26) Quit for 18 months. Started again when my husband got back from a deployment (stress and was gaining too much weight). Quit time number three for 4 months, but fell on 'em again. I'm 33 now, if anyone feels up to the math. I just know with this tool I'll actually be able to STAY quit. It's the hand to mouth urge for me. Thus far, no weight gain, no urges to go back, AND I have been able to get my hubs on the bandwagon (for the first time EVER) of quitting with me and staying quit.
16 years. I was 17, and it was the only way to get frequent breaks from my burger flippin' job. Bummed them for two years before my friends screamed at me to buy my own, so I've been buying them regularly for 14 yrs. Don't buy them anymore but do bum one or two from my wife every day.
Bummed them for two years before my friends screamed at me to buy my own, so I've been buying them regularly for 14 yrs. Don't buy them anymore but do bum one or two from my wife every day. 
Haven't seen them in years (and last under the name "Commanders"). That was my mother's brand for many years until she finally switched to something filtered in the late 1960s. Before that, I think dating back to pre-teen years in the early '30s, she'd smoked Camel NF. She told me she switched when she decided one day that the camel picture on the pack was disgusting.
Probably tried my first at 11 or 12. First figured out inhaling at 13, and vividly remember my first craving a bit later. But didn't hit 1ppd until college at about 19-20. 56 now, and still up in the air between vap & smoke.
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