I quit!!!

[SweetPeaZZ]

you guys know what i mean... there are so may times that i want to use that phrase. with my job. with my friends. with my family. or at least i say that sometimes.

but i REALLY want to quit smoking tobacco. i had heard about the e-cigs a while back. went to atlanta, saw the smoking everywhere kiosk in the mall. decided to do some research. then i realized... i would have been a sucka to have purchased that thing from a kiosk... especially at that price and after doing research about other e-cigs.

i'm so glad that i decided to do my 24 hr cooling off period before blowing a grip of cash on an inferior product.

so... that being said, i have purchased an e-cig in an effort to quit tobacco. however, quitting cold turkey is like getting a sports car up to 100 mph and slamming on the brakes to see if you crash... chances are... YOU WILL. so i have decided to taper myself off analogs and use vaping as my method/device to quit.

i hope that i can stick it out this time. i always go back to tobacco. don't want to this time around.

 

[katink]

If that's the way you feel will work best for you, then I'm sure you are on the right track (for you). Good luck SweetPeaZZ!

 

[Rorschach]

Wishing you all the best SweetPeaZZ and glad you avoided those kiosks!

A lot of us have managed to kick tobacco with this device*

*This statement does not make any claims towards e-cigarettes being an approved modality of nicotine replacement therapy

 

[Drewsworld]

Good for you..Thats what I did and slowly but surely you are gonna start craving the ecig more than the analog...Good luck

 

[~kerri]

SweetPeaZZ- just taper off. really. That's what worked for me anyways, started vaping late feb-cut down to 2-5 cigs a day at that point. tapered off until i had my official "last" 4/11. tried to have one this last saturday and it tasted so foul I couldn't do it (which was rather depressing cause I remember how gooood they used to taste to me)
just a suggestion/your mileage may vary.
whatever way you approach this, just be gentle with yourself.

 

[SweetPeaZZ]

what's funny is this... i love smoking... or at least that's what my brain tells me... or part of my brain (right? left?) tells me that. so i definitely don't want to give up the action itself. i just need to "replace it" with something that won't have me sucking on an oxygen tank like the lil old people i see in the grocery store.

i went almost an entire day with no analogs... just the other day, actually. but the craving and need got sooooo bad that i had to go to the store. and when i lit that ... up... oh my jeeeebus! the taste was sooooo bad. and just in one day. so i know i can do this using the e-cig. and yeah yeah yeah, i know makes no claims, yada yada yada... but i know it works. people just don't want to get a lawsuit or whatever those yuppy lawyers do...

anywho, thanks for the support, yall. i'm gonna probably be needing a whole lot of it to get thru this quitting thing. (i wonder if i go into my bosses office and tell her that i quit; will she be supportive?)

i'll be seeing yall around the board. i'm a lil chatterbox and a social butterfly......

 

[prof beard]

It worked for me. I bought my first e-cig kit and used that instead of cigarettes. I'd smoked for 43 years. Never had a cigarette since.

I'm still addicted to nicotine, but feel much healthier and don't stink like an ashtray

 

[SweetPeaZZ]

i don't mind my addiction to nicotine. at least for now... i am gonna take each step one at a time. i know i'm addicted to smoking tobacco/nicotine - whatever. but i gotta get off the analogs first...

all of my friends that don't smoke tell me... "just don't buy them. just quit cold turkey." if it were that easy, i would have done it already. i know it's bad for me. I KNOW THAT SMOKING TOBACCO IS BAD FOR ME!! people don't have to tell me that. hell, i'm a smart girl!

but you guys "get it". and they don't.

 

[sherid]

I started using the e cig in Jan. I did not intend to quit smoking then, and frankly, I still do not intend to completely quit. However, like many here, I was amazed that I found myself preferring the e cig to the real thing most of the time. I believe that putting zero pressure on yourself to quit is exactly why the e cig works for so many. There is no guilt for me when I smoke the real thing. I just "smoke" what I prefer at the moment, and 9 out of 10 times, I will prefer the e cig.

 

[saintgadreel]

The irony in my "I quit" story is that I started using my E-cig because of all the ridiculous political controversy here in Oregon. I read another news article and BAM, I was really really angry. I had had enough (OR is passing laws to tack on a littering charge if you don't dispose of you cigarette properly, an issue that became worse after they imposed a smoking ban in a state with a notoriously high number of smoking bars. This law will allow them to "double tap" people for littering if it happens to be cigarette related).

So I started with an NPro (hadn't really researched enough, I now use a DSE901). It didn't work great, some parts were bad, and I had to line up replacement liquid, so my first week I was in and out of using analogs. Then I got my first 901. I haven't had a cigarette for a month now. I don't ever want to go back either. So now I'm fighting new political battles, but I feel a bit more vested in them, since its for my right to LIVE instead of my right to die .

Good luck to all those sharing this road with me.

 

[jtc_333]

Gratz and good luck, im sure your stick with it

 

[belevitt]

I guess I am not the only person who has no tolerance for the taste of traditional cigarettes anymore. The day I received my e cig in the mail (late March) was the last time I smoked an analog all the way through. I have tried smoking analogs on two different occasions since and I wasn't able to have more than a puff because the taste was repulsive.

 

[tamiflu]

All great stories. I am tapering off myself. I limit myself every day one more cig. Today I can have 18 (yesterday was 19 and I only had 16) so.... I guess the e-cigs are doing it.
Good luck to both of us. Its hard for me...even with the e-cigs. Part of that is Hubby still smokes.

 

[rejoice]

Been vaping since January. Had to find me some good PV and some kind of liquid that I liked. Didn't find this until April. I used to smoke 2 packs a day. Went down to 1 pack a day in January. Than February down to 15 a day. March I was smoking 10 a day. April is when I found my stuff. Went down to 5 a day. In May I was smoking around 2 or 3 a day. June is now here and maybe I will be able to do it. Still want my morning cigarette.
Hopefully that will leave soon. I could not just quit. I had to bring myself down. I don't like any pain. This all has been easy. Super easy. Live with a smoker. That smokes like a train. With no help or support from him.

 

[dumwaldo]

What model of e-cig did you get?

DW

 

[rejoice]

I love my GG and secondson2929 e-cig "The lightvaper". For car driving my Vapor King.
For public use and just want a regular e-cig" Dura c". I also like my box mod. I bought from a forum member.

 

[ohionana]

Hi SweetPeaZZ
This is my first 24 hours using the e cig. I had 1 analog today and it was NASTY, the smell was even nasty. I really like my dse901 and just holding it in my hand and I know this may sound stupid but putting it in my mouth HELPS. Seeing the vapor, so much like smoke, I'd rather vape than have the analog. Its only been 24 hours and I think anyways FEEL I'm on my way to being smoke free.
Good Luck

 

[effigi]

Hi SweetPeaZZ
This is my first 24 hours using the e cig. I had 1 analog today and it was NASTY, the smell was even nasty. I really like my dse901 and just holding it in my hand and I know this may sound stupid but putting it in my mouth HELPS. Seeing the vapor, so much like smoke, I'd rather vape than have the analog. Its only been 24 hours and I think anyways FEEL I'm on my way to being smoke free.
Good Luck

Good luck to you ohioana. SOunds like you are off to a good start. Keeping the 901 close to you is good until it is more familiar like the old analogs were.
Keep up the good work!

 

[hobson]

I started using the e cig in Jan. I did not intend to quit smoking then, and frankly, I still do not intend to completely quit. However, like many here, I was amazed that I found myself preferring the e cig to the real thing most of the time. I believe that putting zero pressure on yourself to quit is exactly why the e cig works for so many. There is no guilt for me when I smoke the real thing. I just "smoke" what I prefer at the moment, and 9 out of 10 times, I will prefer the e cig.

That's exactly right! If I even THINK I can never have another cigarette I'll smoke a pack within an hour. So, no self imposed pressure for me. I've smoked MAYBE 20 cigarettes in the last month and most of those were due to equipment issues.

 

[sherid]

That's exactly right! If I even THINK I can never have another cigarette I'll smoke a pack within an hour. So, no self imposed pressure for me. I've smoked MAYBE 20 cigarettes in the last month and most of those were due to equipment issues.

I am with you completely.