I feel violated

[alanselo]

I just realized something that made me laugh. Since I started when I was 13 I had to hide it from my folks. I thought was so sneaky and careful about it and always wondered how they knew I was smoking. Duh!!!

Like everyone once our sense of smell improves there is no way to hide it. Not very sneaky of me now that I look back on it. Funny...

Thanks everyone for posting your stories.

 

[ColinMan]

Same thing happened to me! I've been vaping for a while now, but I can't get my friends to catch on. So they'll be smoking there cigarettes and offer me one every time. Well, last week a had one and it just tasted horrible! It makes me wonder if they always tasted that way but I never realized how bad they tasted..

 

[kilkennykats]

After smoking 40 yrs, in total (2 extended quits), I was finally set free only because of ecigs. First day without, 7-22-10, wearing nico patch I would've been out buying a carton if I hadn't had ecigs to carry me through! I've never been so grateful for this invention than almost anything else I can think of. Ten months later daughter and s-I-l moved in with me and both smoke like chimneys. I'm still not tempted to go back and I was a 3 plus pck a day smoker of Marlboro reds. Thank heaven for ecigs!

 

[dotma]

Same thing here! I think its a good thing you tried it, cuz now you know! Before when i would quit, it would drive me crazy. My husband would have to drag me away from a group of smokers because I would have to stop and try to breathe in their very essence (which must have been a strange sight!) AFter i started vaping, I tried a cig and for the very first time ever it was so disgusting! Now the smoke smell is disgusting to me too. Finally!

 

[Bluekivi]

About two or three weeks after quitting I was toying with the idea of having an analog until my son got into my car after just smoking one....I almost puked from the reek. That put it right out of my mind.

 

[Baldr]

today though I'd try a smoke. Well it was the most foul tasting thing I ever had

Congrats! To me, that's great. You're a pretty confirmed non smoker after that. I'm afraid to try a real cig. I think I would still like it, and I don't want to go back to smoking.

and still I smoke 3 or 4 cigarettes a day though usually I can't get through a complete one. The urge is still there but there is hope now and my focus is on how many I don't smoke.

When I started vaping, I was told not to push it, to vape when I wanted, smoke when I wanted, and it would all come around. I think that was good advice. After awhile, I was down to 10 or fewer cigs a day, but I couldn't get rid of them. My urges would come right after meals, and I would have to smoke several before the craving went away. Vaping through it did not help.

I was using 24mg nicotine juice. (And I still am.) I got myself some 30mg juice, and an atomizer/drip tip. I started using the 30mg when I would get the cravings, and using the 24 the rest of the time. That did the trick. The very day I started doing that, I quit smoking, and haven't had a cig since. Also, I didn't need the 30mg nic for long before I was able to quit using it and just use the 24 all the time. I still have it around, but I don't remember the last time I used the 30. Before long, I expect to start ordering a lower nic level when I get juice to see if I can cut down my nic level.