How many years WERE you a analog smoker?

[Kate51]

I started smoking in 1965, when I was 18 yrs old. That's all I'm gonna say about that.
I quit March 9th 09, the day my NPro arrived. That's 44 years of heavy smoking.

 

[Stric9]

I started at 15 with my "cool" buddies, so just shy of 31 years. After 2 days of vaping I give up analogs completely. I'd also like to add that, although for years I'd felt the physical, financial and social negative of smoking, I had NO DESIRE to give them up. I have always enjoyed smoking. I just wanted an alternative due to the "suffering" I went through when I had to spend time in one of a bizillion banned areas. Now, I'm a former smoker and never conceived it to be a possibility. ALL HAIL THE MIGHTY VAPORIZER!!!

I think we maybe twins?..... Heh, Heh, Heh

 

[Scottbee]

I think we maybe twins?..... Heh, Heh, Heh

Perhaps triplets. 37 years of smoking here... and I never had any intention to quit.

I bought a carton 4 weeks ago, just about the same time that I got my 510. Normally that carton would have lasted me 5 days tops. Sometime yesterday or the day before.. I smoked the last analog of that carton. Didn't freak out about it.. didn't feel like I had to run to the corner and buy a pack or a carton so I had something in my pocket. Calm.

Last night we had a group over for drinkin' and card playin' (in that order, don't care what the wife says). Didn't have any analogs on me and it didn't bother me one single bit. Calm.

Very, very weird sensations.

 

[nycityjeff]

I am 43 and had been smoking since was 15, so that's 27 years. Started vaping a month ago and haven't looked back. I prefer vapes to smokes.

Oh and I smoked a pack of non-filters a day.

 

[cassavetes]

11 years. Quit 2 weeks after receiving my first 510.

 

[cyberwolfrob]

Exactly the same for me.

same with the exception that i have only been smoking for 6 years. The day I got my 901 is the day i started living my life again.

 

[Wlfwo]

I smoked for 27 years, 2 weeks after I got my 901 I just stopped, in fact I quit on Mother's Day, made my son very happy. He keeps telling people about the e-cig, in fact he tells more people than I do. LOL

 

[Col. Gaunt]

Started smoking regularly when I was 18 and smoked for 29 years.

 

[e-pipeman]

Well - I'm 49 and started smokin' when I was 12. Started vapin' last October - no baccy since then.

 

[beecee]

started when I was 12....have been free of 'em since Dec 4 2009..24 years

 

[olderthandirt]

35 years give or take.

Chain-vaping 3 to 4ml of 36mg a day kept me at 1 or 2 analogs a week.

Snus and 1ml or less of 36mg a day I haven't smoked at all for just at 2 months now.

 

[DC2]

Started when I was 16 and smoked for 27 years.
Stopped smoking six months ago.

 

[Ea87]

I started smoking when I was 12, quit when I was 16, picked it up again when I was 21, and am quitting as soon as my new e-cig shows up (I'm 22 now). So technically, 5 years of smoking all together.

 

[Scottbee]

I started when I was 13 and smoked for 37 years. You can do the math.. but that makes me 29.... ;-)

 

[SBRFC]

Only 2 months

 

[BigBaddBossyDogg]

I started when I was 13 and smoked for 37 years. You can do the math.. but that makes me 29.... ;-)

Yeah, me, too. I'm 29 and I smoked for about 45 years. 2-3 packs a day.

I never even wanted to quit. For years, I've been ordering cigs online and saving a ton of money, but when S-CHIP passed, that was IT FOR ME!!!!!

 

[jlmanno]

Started at 15, now 47 that's only 32 years of 2+ packs a day until I found e-cigs and this forum. Tried everything possible to quit, only ecigs worked on day 1!

 

[Lit]

almost 30 years, I can't believe it.
So, I have to choose the last option.

 

[mpetva]

I started smoking at 19 and will be 60 in January 2010. I had to force myself to like it and get used to it. All my friends smoked, so I did too.

In April 2009 I ordered my first e-cig, stopped smoking VA Slims (used to smoke Marlboro before that) completely after only 3 days and have been totally tobacco cigarette free ever since.

So after many tries of all the NRTs (which never worked at all for me), hypnosis, magnets, gum, lozengers, inhaler etc., I finally managed to quit a 4 pack a day habit.

I certainly regret the 41 years it took me to stop smoking cigarettes and it did take a heavy toll on my health, but hopefully things will not get any worse from here on in.

 

[Qriz]

I started with 13 and stopped with 34 after a severe asthma attack. The bad thing is, first I just did it without much thinking about it ... and as i actually understood what was going on inside my chest, I couldn't be without em anymore. But luckily I didn't touched an old fashioned one since my blucigs came. (8 weeks now!)