I had smoked Marlboro's since I was 13. I started buying them for 50 cents in Atlanta in the early 70's. In 2003 we moved from Chicago to South Carolina and cut the price of cigs in half but I gave up Marlboro's in January because of FSC and started rolling my own with pipe tobacco. At first this was okay but it took me a long time to roll them and I became interested in the e-cig as a solution to that. I had my first drag off an e-cig in the mall here about a month ago and knew it was time to get started. By that time I had been lurking here for 5 months.
I knew i wanted the eGo or Tornado because of the battery life but price was an issue so I ended up settling for the Joye 510. The day after I got it in the mail I knew I had to do something about battery life or this wasn't going to work. I found a good price on open stock eGo batteries and bought one with the charger (you can't use the 510 charger on an eGo or vice versa). The eGo battery is somewhat larger than the 510 but I don't mind; I think it will keep me from losing it so easily actually. In the first 2 days I actually put a lighter to my e-cig; I didn't light it but I took it out like I always did and seriously almost tried to light it as if it were a cig. I will laugh about that for a long time. But that habit has now come to a stop.
I smoked a few analogs the first 10 days...but usually only 1 or 2 a day and the last 2 days I haven't smoked a single analog. Every succeeding analog I've smoked since the days posted in my tag below has tasted a lot worse than the last.
Do you remember how cigarette smoke would make you tear up when it came back at you? I wanted to try an experiment...i put my hand up to my face so that the smoke would come back at me. No gagging, I felt nothing.
It seems like I sleep harder now and I quit coughing within the first days and a week later I realized I could sing without coughing through the lyrics. Now you might not want to hear that...hahaha
My husband is still smoking analogs and the smell of them really bothers me. He has had 2 drags off my e-cig and claims "it's not for him". I'm not pushing but when he can no longer inhale without coughing I think I will have a convert. He has asthma and COPD and the inhalers that go with them. I don't think it will be long.
Well that's my journey. I hope it inspires just one person to give this a try.
I knew i wanted the eGo or Tornado because of the battery life but price was an issue so I ended up settling for the Joye 510. The day after I got it in the mail I knew I had to do something about battery life or this wasn't going to work. I found a good price on open stock eGo batteries and bought one with the charger (you can't use the 510 charger on an eGo or vice versa). The eGo battery is somewhat larger than the 510 but I don't mind; I think it will keep me from losing it so easily actually. In the first 2 days I actually put a lighter to my e-cig; I didn't light it but I took it out like I always did and seriously almost tried to light it as if it were a cig. I will laugh about that for a long time. But that habit has now come to a stop.
I smoked a few analogs the first 10 days...but usually only 1 or 2 a day and the last 2 days I haven't smoked a single analog. Every succeeding analog I've smoked since the days posted in my tag below has tasted a lot worse than the last.
Do you remember how cigarette smoke would make you tear up when it came back at you? I wanted to try an experiment...i put my hand up to my face so that the smoke would come back at me. No gagging, I felt nothing.
It seems like I sleep harder now and I quit coughing within the first days and a week later I realized I could sing without coughing through the lyrics. Now you might not want to hear that...hahaha
My husband is still smoking analogs and the smell of them really bothers me. He has had 2 drags off my e-cig and claims "it's not for him". I'm not pushing but when he can no longer inhale without coughing I think I will have a convert. He has asthma and COPD and the inhalers that go with them. I don't think it will be long.
Well that's my journey. I hope it inspires just one person to give this a try.
