I succumbed this week and feel awful

[joeybear]

After work on Monday I received a call telling me my brother died. He lived in DC and I had to be there ASAP, from almost 800 miles away. I packed my gear, my suitcase, and split pretty quickly. I discovered after going through Chicago that I forgot my kit and only had a fully charged MVP 2 and about 15ml of juice. The MVP lasted almost the whole trip, until the drive home, right when the juice ran out, so did the battery and I had no charger. I bought a pack and went through most of them on the 14 hour drive home. I tossed the remainder of the pack when I got home, but I feel like crap for needing to buy a pack.

 

[Ld3441]

It happens, don't feel bad.
You did what you had to but they are gone now and you are back on track.
Sorry for your loss!

 

[bookem]

I am so sorry.. My sincere condolences about your brother... I would have bought a pack too...

 

[Tinkiegrrl]

I'm so sorry for your loss. Don't worry about what you smoked from that pack. You threw the rest away, and went right back to vaping. Before you quit, do you think you'd have been able to throw ANY cigarettes away at a time like this? You're still going strong in my book.

 

[cags]

so sorry for your loss

regrets are useless! forget about it and keep moving!

 

[MorpheusPA]

After work on Monday I received a call telling me my brother died. He lived in DC and I had to be there ASAP, from almost 800 miles away. I packed my gear, my suitcase, and split pretty quickly. I discovered after going through Chicago that I forgot my kit and only had a fully charged MVP 2 and about 15ml of juice. The MVP lasted almost the whole trip, until the drive home, right when the juice ran out, so did the battery and I had no charger. I bought a pack and went through most of them on the 14 hour drive home. I tossed the remainder of the pack when I got home, but I feel like crap for needing to buy a pack.

I think under the circumstances, I wouldn't worry about it at all. You were (quite understandably) stressed, you forgot your kit, you made do under awful conditions. You'll get back on track.

My best to you and your family, and try to go easy on yourself for what was just a small accident that happened under circumstances that genuinely sucked.

 

[Truetopath]

So sorry for your loss, I wouldn't even worry about the smokes...


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[mcol]

Sorry for your loss. You did what you had to do under the circumstances.

 

[FlamingoTutu]

I'm so very sorry for your loss joeybear. Please forgive yourself. You only did it because of circumstances beyond your control and tossed them the minute you got back to your stuff. Most of us here that found ourselves in your position would have done the same thing. What else could you do? Please don't be so hard on yourself. You also get major bonus points for tossing them first chance you got.

 

[Amiaji]

Sorry for your loss.

You did what you had to do. Its not the end of the world. A few cigs doesn't make you a smoker again.

 

[SirSteve]

Sorry to hear about the loss of your brother. As for the cigarettes, let it go, wishing you the best.

 

[freeatlast!]

I too want to express my sadness for the loss of your brother....agree with everyone else that you should not beat yourself up over the lapse back to cigs - you did a really good job under the lousiest of circumstances!!

 

[Myrany]

SO sorry for your loss. These things are never easy and often seem so much worse at the holidays.

You did what you had to do. Nothing to regret in a few stinkies in a crises. You are back and vaping and that matters far more than 14 rough hours in a car.

 

[joeybear]

Thanks all. My wife thinks I'm gonna keep smoking, but I've had enough of that. She said she understands, but she still has everyone in her life and has no idea how rough this really was. At least I realized I don't want to smoke ever again. Yay for little victories

 

[WillyZee]

sorry about your loss, don't worry about the smokes ... you have no reason to feel bad for smoking.

 

[RoseB]

Thanks all. My wife thinks I'm gonna keep smoking, but I've had enough of that. She said she understands, but she still has everyone in her life and has no idea how rough this really was. At least I realized I don't want to smoke ever again. Yay for little victories

Even the little victories are still victorious. My heart goes out to you. The loss of a sibliling is a devistating blow

 

[beckdg]

more important things in life.

seems you got them covered. priorities straight and what-not.

my condolences.

 

[Peter_C]

Am sorry for your troubles.

There are some things more important than smoking vs not smoking at times in our lives.

The important thing to take away from this is your first choice was to vape. It was only when vaping wasn't a viable option that you switched to smoking.

When possible, having other available options to keep vaping is a good idea. But as this was unplanned, what could you do?

So you did what you needed to do, now reset and move ahead

 

[kyletstrand]

After work on Monday I received a call telling me my brother died. He lived in DC and I had to be there ASAP, from almost 800 miles away. I packed my gear, my suitcase, and split pretty quickly. I discovered after going through Chicago that I forgot my kit and only had a fully charged MVP 2 and about 15ml of juice. The MVP lasted almost the whole trip, until the drive home, right when the juice ran out, so did the battery and I had no charger. I bought a pack and went through most of them on the 14 hour drive home. I tossed the remainder of the pack when I got home, but I feel like crap for needing to buy a pack.

Given the circumstances, don't be mad at yourself. The fact that you feel bad for the caving is a step in the right direction to breaking analogs forever.

I'm truly sorry for your loss.

 

[HzG8rGrl]

Absolutely no reason to even think twice about the cigs.

The loss of a very close family member is very tough. I had 2 close calls right after I started vaping and had a few cigs, it is what it is (I had my gear with me). Some of us stumble more than others and it is OK.

Perhaps an emergency vaping pack list that you keep on file to print when you have the 'We gotta pack and go now' times.

Air the car out good, clean the windows and keep on vaping on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!