How real is your cigarette cessation?

[Lombaowski]

I screwed around with Green Smoke and Vapor King for years really, using it at sporting events or other places I couldn't smoke. I enjoyed smoking, but it had become a crutch to the point of inconvenience. So I thought that if the right opportunity presented itself, I'd really try. I had only tried to quit once in 20 years of smoking, and that lasted two weeks.

My longtime friend owns Panama Vapor in Panama City, Florida and I was down there for a wedding so I stopped into his shop. I left with an eGo-T kit, an Artemas carto tank and some juices on a Thursday. I had 16 cigarettes left, and I told myself I was going to smoke them and that was it. On Friday I bought another pack, lol.

On Saturday my other buddy got married and he was always telling me that someone as smart as me, should have quit smoking long ago. So I told him I was going to quit the day he got married so I could always remember the date. I finished the last cigarette from the Friday pack on the way home from the wedding that night, been 7.5 months now. I've had one cigarette since that day and it was on the Tuesday after, nothing since.

I'm as an addictive person you will find. I've been addicted to gambling, fast women, partying, winning work awards, helping kill the enemies of America and a lot more. Now I'm addicted to vaping and it's better than smoking, so there is no reason to go back now. If I can do it, anyone can.

 

[Lombaowski]

I can't say absolutely I would never smoke again. But, I can say that I will never smoke again as long as I can vape instead.

Well said.

 

[ENAUD]

I don't kid myself on your question one bit. I didn't quit anything. I have made a healthier substitution for my addiction. I know because several years ago I quit smoking for about 1-1/2 years using nic gum and Welbutrin. One day after skiing, someone lit up next to me and I could tell by the smell it was my old friend ( Camel Light) and right then I decided to grab a pack at the first convenience store I came upon. Smoked 2-1/2 PAD for another 6 or so years after that. All I can say is, stock up when you can, and have back up supplies and devices. Without vaping I am pretty sure I would slip back into smoking at some point. I have been using nicotine for 41 years now, and I don't see that changing.
Nowadays I actually prefer vaping to smoking. I just feel so much better health wise. And it tastes and smells so good!

 

[aluren]

I still have a carton of cigs stashed up. I started vaping 2 weeks ago, and smoked about 4 cigs after my Protank 2 crapped out... I don't feel too bad if I had to smoke one here and there because I never thought I could cut down the smoking in such a short time. And vaping indoors is so enjoyable, I've even sort of enjoyed working at home at nights. lol.

 

[Rickajho]

How real is your cigarette cessation?

Very real. Whatever my banner thingee says down there? Haven't had one since nor do I want to.

But it did take me three months to get there so don't be so hard on yourself. If you have a genuine desire to quit you will. But you do have to be honest with yourself about that. Vaping cannot make you quit - it's only a tool to get there.

That, and as you just found out you have to stay ahead of your supplies. For most of us there isn't even a vape shop in sight - even in metro Boston - so you need to pace your orders and keep yourself stocked.

 

[Aviz]

Its though, but I promise you it gets better. I still prefer tobacco vapor as well, I found a couple that work for me (took a while and allot of help on the forum).
For me what worked was Zyban, patches, counseling (there are shrinks who specialize in smoking secessions) and cigars, for years, until finally I started Vaping - and now after a while I don't even think about smoking. Ask anyone in the forum - stick to it and it works.

 

[TheGirlfriend]

This always becomes a question I worry about whenever the preferred vape-thing dies, or batteries get lost, or the favorite ELiquid is not available--

What ensues is this

Except it's a grown-up bearded man who's about two inches shy of having me spank the .... out of him.

What? Temper Tantrums in an adult should absolutely allow domestic abuse in the one who is a freaking unholy terror because they can't get their nicotine fix. Instead I drive around town and go get batteries, and whatever else to just make that .... WORK because he is not fit company for anything but the tv. (Yes, that was my week, but to be fair, he's three weeks into vaping for the third time after having smoked pretty consistently for the last year. I think he's detoxing from the other junk in cigarettes.)

so.....it's still a crutch. absolutely. But he smells better, tastes better, doesn't feel as on the outs from having to walk outside (especially during winter) to smoke before a meal, after a meal, when he wakes up, before he goes to sleep, after connubial bliss, when stressed out, when bored, when hungry but not able to eat, etcetera etcetera etcetera.

Someday, after we've stayed well stocked in batteries, and multiple back-ups of vape-things, as well as Casablanca (woebetide if he runs out of that ...., because it will be the day Backwoods brew goes fishing for the next two weeks) then he'll eventually lower his nicotine and learn to not grab for his adult-pacifier....

but ultimately, if the rest of our lives, he continues vaping the amount he does--so long as he doesn't freak out from nicotine withdrawal if something bad happens and doesn't reach for a cigarette, I'm okay with that. As far as I'm concerned, that just makes him a walking aromatherapy vape-cloud.

 

[OBDave]

tl;dr in advance: Pretty much what everyone else says...

A month in I wouldn't be stressing about still smoking at all. After I tried vaping and it didn't work out about 4 years ago, I gave it another go last spring. I'd cut the smokes down from about 15 a day to 3-4 over the course of a month or so when one day my wife comes out back while I'm puffing away and manning the barbecue and says "We're going to quit smoking tomorrow. For real."

And it worked - since the quit date in my sig line I've lit up once - drinking with some buddies on the 4th of July. I got about halfway through my old faithful Marlboro and realized what a lot of other people have said - once you've broken the habit, they're just nasty. I snubbed the .... and pulled my vape out of my pocket and haven't looked back since. The wife had a similar experience a couple months later when an old friend who was still smoking at the time came to town to visit - funny enough, she was back again last weekend and freaking out because she'd left her Ego in Texas - luckily we have so many backups now we were able to hook her up with one of the spares for the spares to our spares.

It's been said a million times, but still bears repeating - don't beat yourself up over the ones you smoke, celebrate the ones you don't - especially only a month in, most of us aren't those miracle cases that pick up a cigalike and have an instant come-to-Jesus moment. That, and backups for backups for backups - on everything. I've got probably 300 ml of juice sitting around - I don't love all of it, but most is at least tolerable, and I re-order when either the wife or I get down to a 2 week supply of one of our favorites.

 

[Kentastic]

Smoked my last cig on the first. Didn't actually plan on quitting, just cutting down, but after trying/buying an ego twist and mini pro tank full of Frankenvape i have not had an analog since. A few (cough) hundred dollars later and I'm building my own RDAs, use a kayfun clone on an EA mod clone as my daily driver and trying to decide if I want to see if I can find a inexpensive (relatively) DNA 20 mod or save for a couple of months and see what comes out with the DNA 30. (Or go all out and just try and find/buy The Gi2 100 watt monster)

I figure as long as I keep vaping I will come out ahead in the end both in health and wealth.

Ken

 

[TigerLadyTX]

I started vaping early January 2012 on a whim - with a gas station Njoy.. I had been smoking for 33+ years and was up to 2.5 - 3 packs of yhe stinkies per day... on the day I started vaping, I smoked maybe 10 cigarettes. About a month later I bought some KGO batteries, a few EMDCC, and some juices online. My cigarette consumption decreased to 2 to 3 stinkies a day when I got the bigger batteries and such. By March 4th, I was stinky free.

As long as I can vape, I will remain cigarette free.

~Tiger

 

[K_Tech]

Way back in the 80s, I went through a smoking cessation course (worked for a while) and the motto there was You're one cig away from a pack a day. Seriously the truth. I have quit--for months and even years--and with that ONE cigarette that I just had to have because of stress or with a drink or whatever I was back to smoking full time again. I am not yet ready to say this e-cig thing is the answer to all things smoking related since it has only been 15 days, BUT for the first time I think it is something that will see me through any and everything without grabbing that first smoke.

I've known a couple of people that had quit smoking for anywhere from 5 to 20 years; I've seen more than one go from bumming a cigarette back to 1-2 packs a day almost overnight.

 

[partyannimal]

The last cigarette I had was the day after I started vaping because the first ecig I got was an ehookah with no nic. I don't have a B&M anywhere near me, so when I started using juice I had to use the nasty stuff my local tobacco shop stocks. I started DIY just to make something more palatable to vape, and have never had the issue of running out of juice. I always have at least 175ml of different flavors sitting here just waiting to be enjoyed.

 

[oxidus]

I quit 100% on jan 10th. I've had 2 cigarettes from then until today. I don't think it's too big of a deal to have it once in a while. But don't make a habbit of it

 

[Rickajho]

I've known a couple of people that had quit smoking for anywhere from 5 to 20 years; I've seen more than one go from bumming a cigarette back to 1-2 packs a day almost overnight.

Yup and that's always going to be a problem. I made sure everyone I know who quit the hard way knew about vaping as an option. Call me an enabler if you will, but it's a hella better choice than relapsing into smoking. My sister quit the hard way three years ago - she still runs around begging people to blow smoke in her face. I quit with vaping - smelling cigarette smoke outdoors even makes me want to puke. I would love to know the scientific mystery behind why that happens to so many of us that quit with vaping, but for now I'm more than happy to accept that it happened to me.

 

[certus11]

It could be like the popular saying goes: once you go BBBBB you can't go back?

Our fume smells better, our flavor tastes better, and our gear is reusable? Why go back?

Just my guess and I really hope there's not gonna be a world wide ban on ecigs or some stupid taxes/regulations making vaping tougher/more expensive.

Yup and that's always going to be a problem. I made sure everyone I know who quit the hard way knew about vaping as an option. Call me an enabler if you will, but it's a hella better choice than relapsing into smoking. My sister quit the hard way three years ago - she still runs around begging people to blow smoke in her face. I quit with vaping - smelling cigarette smoke outdoors even makes me want to puke. I would love to know the scientific mystery behind why that happens to so many of us that quit with vaping, but for now I'm more than happy to accept that it happened to me.