I started smoking filter cigarettes in 1972. In the early '80s I quit cold turkey and have never been so sick in my life. Then I relapsed and went back to it inside a month. Around the same time I saw a TV documentary on tobacco that said that loose tobacco was less bad for you than factory-made cigarettes (also much less expensive) so I switched. I've smoked tens of thousands of unfiltered cigarettes of RYO tobacco since then. It got to where my lungs wheezed and I would break into a sweat going up stairs. I knew I had to quit, so I did some research and turned to vaping.
On February 2nd of this year, my PV arrived in the mail. I charged it up and began to use it, and never had the urge to smoke another cigarette. Now I'm off them completely, but I haven't got sick from withdrawals. In fact, I've had no adverse reactions to quitting, aside from a bit of acne I'm going through now. There have been no uncontrollable cravings to smoke, none of the feeling I remember from the first time, no climbing the walls. I've read of other unfortunate people on this forum who are having such a hard time getting off cigarettes that they need to vape WTA liquid, as the nicotine itself isn't doing enough to quell their addiction.
I don't have anything to back up this supposition, but I have to wonder if I've had less difficulty in quitting because loose tobacco lacks many of the chemicals that are added to cigarettes that suck people in and keep them addicted. There isn't the chemical sprayed on the paper and the tobacco to make them burn at an even rate, and neither the paper nor the contents now have the fire-......ant chemical that makes them go out if you're not actively puffing on them. Is it possible that it also lacks other dangerous properties that give many smokers of factory cigarettes such a difficult time in quitting?
My experience in quitting goes against everything I've read and heard. It has not been anywhere near as difficult as I imagined it would be. Nicotine is an addictive drug, but I haven't had any terrible withdrawal symptoms from stopping using it after 42 years. I would like to understand why. Does anyone have any ideas?
On February 2nd of this year, my PV arrived in the mail. I charged it up and began to use it, and never had the urge to smoke another cigarette. Now I'm off them completely, but I haven't got sick from withdrawals. In fact, I've had no adverse reactions to quitting, aside from a bit of acne I'm going through now. There have been no uncontrollable cravings to smoke, none of the feeling I remember from the first time, no climbing the walls. I've read of other unfortunate people on this forum who are having such a hard time getting off cigarettes that they need to vape WTA liquid, as the nicotine itself isn't doing enough to quell their addiction.
I don't have anything to back up this supposition, but I have to wonder if I've had less difficulty in quitting because loose tobacco lacks many of the chemicals that are added to cigarettes that suck people in and keep them addicted. There isn't the chemical sprayed on the paper and the tobacco to make them burn at an even rate, and neither the paper nor the contents now have the fire-......ant chemical that makes them go out if you're not actively puffing on them. Is it possible that it also lacks other dangerous properties that give many smokers of factory cigarettes such a difficult time in quitting?
My experience in quitting goes against everything I've read and heard. It has not been anywhere near as difficult as I imagined it would be. Nicotine is an addictive drug, but I haven't had any terrible withdrawal symptoms from stopping using it after 42 years. I would like to understand why. Does anyone have any ideas?
