Perhaps you FEAR cigarrettes so much, you can't tolerate them in your house because you are AFRAID you would smoke them.
It takes more courage to avoid a present danger, than to remove the danger.
I must make the choice
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Perhaps you FEAR cigarrettes so much, you can't tolerate them in your house because you are AFRAID you would smoke them.
It takes more courage to avoid a present danger, than to remove the danger.
Yes, definite motivator. Go out and do some research on smoking and what it does to the body every time you think you want an analog cig. Emphysema, lung disease, the list goes on.
DIY juice is a "no brainer" for the vaper on a budget... I too spend around 10 to 20 bucks per month now that I'm all set up. Your batteries are fine, as is your clearo! Just make sure you keep an extra charger in the house/car, or wherever you might need it. You can do this!!! All you have to do is DO IT!!! Now, go do it.
Rebuild coils and DIY your own liquid. It becomes much cheaper especially if you like the 1 flavor mix or go unflavored.
No reason to be scared. If everyone was always scared to do something we would never accomplish anything. If you want to quit you will find away.
No reason to be scared. If everyone was always scared to do something we would never accomplish anything. If you want to quit you will find away.
Did you not just say yesterday that you would break even in 2025?(This from another thread where he was poking fun at himself so please, no one take offense.)
When you quit smoking and start vaping, you have a way better chance to break even! Lot's more days to divide by!
Yeah, me too. It kinda sorta jumped to the top after living for six months with my dying-of-lung-cancer (yet still smoking) stepfather. I'm not going out that way. If it comes to that, I'll take the emergency exit, thanks.
In all fairness, I don't think that's what he wants at all. He sounds like someone who is still "high," and in disbelief/shock, on having kicked a 40 years habit. I sure as hell don't want you to fail and didn't see it as him wanting you to fail when reading his post, though I had to reread the beginning twice to make sure. I think he misread your post and got overenthusiastic rallying you on to continued success.
They're behind the box that contains my small bottles of nicotine -- so the only time I even see them is when I'm increasing my stash -- and then I just smile, since I feel zero compulsion to grab 'em and fire one up.
Andria
They're behind the box that contains my small bottles of nicotine -- so the only time I even see them is when I'm increasing my stash -- and then I just smile, since I feel zero compulsion to grab 'em and fire one up.
Andria
Apart from the usual "they taste like crap" they probably taste extra like crap now, being so old.
Just telling a fear "go away" does not make it go away.
When I quit the first time, at the end of Feb, I kept a no-need-to-panic stash for 56 days, then, because I had a neighbor at the time who was CONSTANTLY badgering me to bum a smoke, I gave them to him. Not even a week later, this BUM sees me at the mailbox, and sez "so, you don't have anymore cigarettes?" Man, I went off like Vesuvius -- "I TOLD YOU I HAD QUIT, THOSE I GAVE YOU LAST WEEK WERE THE VERY LAST I HAD! EITHER GET A JOB OR QUIT SMOKING!!!"
But, all in all, I did ok without that panic stash -- no compulsions, no resentments, just deliriously happy about having quit. I began suffering some problems with foot/ankle swelling, which I thought might be related to vaping, but I wasn't sure how. But I kept on vaping, even as the problem got worse and more painful every day that went by.
When I had been smoke-free for 109 days, I suffered a full day of abdominal pain and nausea, and that night the abdominal pain became UNENDURABLE AGONY so I went to the hospital -- acute appendicitis. I was in the e-room about 9 hrs before they FINALLY got me to surgery, but since the treatment e-rooms in my local hospital are pvt rooms with doors, I was able to stealth vape, once the morphine sank in enough that I could MOVE without screaming. They did a laparoscopic surgery, so, because I had been smoke-free for 110 days at that point, and had clear lungs and ZERO complications from surgery, I got to go home the same day. Feeling fine -- thank you, morpine and residual sodium pentothal. Naturally, I'm vaping away, happy as a non-smoking clam.
Now... let's skip right over the next 4 days of nausea/vomiting hell, when I could not vape, did not want to vape, got sick all over again just from the THOUGHT of vaping, I was so godawful sick. See me sitting at the kitchen table, finally able to get out of bed (shakily), somehow make it to the kitchen -- with vape in hand! -- but every hit tastes like tee-total dog poop, because EVERYTHING! tasted like tee-total dog poop at that point. I try to eat, because after 4 days of eating NOTHING, I *have to*. I can get maybe 3-4 bites down before I'm completely full; even one more bite would make me sick all over again. So I drink some pepsi, just to give my body some sugar if nothing else -- still trying my damndest to vape, but it STILL tastes just godawful. Not in pain... the nausea has mercifully abated... but I can barely eat, vaping is horrible, I have ........ from hell... and guess what shows up? Cigarette cravings, I don't mean the thought, "oh, a cigarette would be nice," I mean the demon-from-hell voice that ROARS "SMOKE RIGHT NOW SMOKE SMOKE SMOKE SMOKE RIGHT NOW SMOKE SMOKE SMOKE SMOKE RIIIIIGHT NOOOOOOOOOOOW!!!!" And it suddenly occurred to me... I HAD NO CIGARETTES IN THE HOUSE!!!!!
Instant, massive, panic. Instant, massive rage. Instant, massive tearful breakdown, after all I had been thru in the last week, NOW the damn cigarette cravings are hitting and hitting and hitting, and I DON'T HAVE ANY CIGARETTES I CAN EVEN BARGAIN WITH MYSELF WITH! So I ran to my husband and SCREAMED "I quit with e-cigs because it was EASY!!!!!! BUT I DIDN'T SIGN UP FOR THIS!!!!!!!" So, he went and got me some cigarettes, and I smoked them, and although I didn't quit vaping, and within a couple weeks, it started tasting ok again, and I discovered coconut water and got the foot/ankle swelling under control... it still took me a month to go back to not smoking. And when I finally smoked my last one, I had the same number of cigarettes left in the pack as I had given to that next-door dummy, and I thought, this can't be a coincidence -- so I stuck them in a ziplock and put them in my freezer. So that if there is EVER a "next time" of cravings like that, I can bargain with myself, and very likely, bargain myself right out of smoking them. Because during that month of smoking, I acquired some WTA, and when those awful cravings came back at 10 days smoke-free, I added WTA -- and the cravings COMPLETELY DISAPPEARED. I didn't panic, I didn't get mad, because I knew it if got bad enough, I had some cigs I *could* smoke... but the WTA meant I didn't have to.
So, please don't tell me how to work my non-smoking. I know what works for me, and what absolutely DOES NOT work, and getting all the cigarettes out of my house would just make me PANIC, and then make me MAD!!! And then I would get cigarettes and smoke them because I refuse to be coerced!
Andria
I still have a pack of smokes in my truck that have been there 7 months! I simply forget they are there. Just make sure your batteries are fresh and that you have spare everything Cigs are way easier of course but vaping is way better for you. There is always give and take with everything. Cigs are worse for you but very easy. Vaping is better for you and requires more attention ... I'd make that trade any time
I simply forget they are there. Just make sure your batteries are fresh and that you have spare everything Cigs are way easier of course but vaping is way better for you. There is always give and take with everything. Cigs are worse for you but very easy. Vaping is better for you and requires more attention ... I'd make that trade any time
When I stopped listening to my head, and started listening to my body.
Head: You need an analog
Body: You need food
Head: You need an analog
Body: You need a cold glass of water
Head: Your lungs want the analog feeling
Body: Your lungs feel SO good you don't want to ruin that now!
That and vaping has kept me off analogs.
Head: You need an analog
Body: You need food
Head: You need an analog
Body: You need a cold glass of water
Head: Your lungs want the analog feeling
Body: Your lungs feel SO good you don't want to ruin that now!
That and vaping has kept me off analogs.
I dunno, to be honest. My dad always kept his cigarettes in the freezer, so I figured if there was any way at all to keep them viable, ziplock in the freezer was probably it. I hope I never need to find out; just knowing they're there, takes the pressure off. That, and the WTA.
It's a multi-pronged assault on this so-and-so of a habit. Frankly I never imagined I'd be free of it, so I count my blessings every morning when I'm topping off my tank, changing my battery, changing my carto, or whatever needs doing -- there is so little pressure to hurry up and vape, compared to the old days when I could barely stand the delay just to dress so I could go outside!Andria
After a week of no cigarettes I still had a carton in a drawer which I would give away about a pack a week to visitors.
My backup plan was disposable cigalikes which I had a few and which were available a pharmacies..
Now;; cigalikes would be a backup plan anymore lol!
I've got a 5-pack of miniaerotanks for that.
(and 4 protank2's.... and a 10-pack of replacement glass for the protank2's.. and 10 spare protank coils in original sealed package).
My backup plan was disposable cigalikes which I had a few and which were available a pharmacies..
Now;; cigalikes would be a backup plan anymore lol!
I've got a 5-pack of miniaerotanks for that.
(and 4 protank2's.... and a 10-pack of replacement glass for the protank2's.. and 10 spare protank coils in original sealed package).
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