Just about to hit the SIXTH month mark for being smoke free (7/3/11!)

[Olef]

Well done on your six months! vaping is the answer for so many of us, like you I took my first drag on a e-cig and realised it was how I could quit for good. Ecigs can be a bit of a fuss and mess until you find the system that works for you and the flavours and nic level you like, but one you have found the happy place it is awesome. Thirty-five years or so of tobacco and I have no desire to ever light another one as long as I have my PV.

As for the comments that were made to you, I too am appalled. Not only is that completely mean-spirited, it is also without any factual basis. I would take no more note of that than a passing fly.

Well Done.

 

[Drewps5co0tt]

I was thinking...it's probably fair to say that smoking has touched his life in a negative way and because of our past, I guess it just made him very angry at me and so I got the brunt of it. By no means am I accepting that as an excuse but I'm just trying to understand it. My struggle being paranoid and thinking I had cancer 24/7 started back in 06 and finally the switch happened just shy of 6 months ago...also found out in Feb that my maternal father died of LC last year...I've had a lot of .... to deal with...to say things as he said as losely as he said them is just wrong!

Like I said I've dealt with anti smokers in my past but never on that kind of level...I guess it's a good thing that 1,000 miles seperate us now.

But yea...obviously some people change and not for the best!

 

[Drewps5co0tt]

Thanks Olef...you guys made me feel so much better...I knew there was a reason why I brought my rant here! Just imagine the things he would have said if I was still smoking

 

[Olef]

My absolute pleasure This is a good place for us tobacco refugees, kind of a sanctuary against the hate some show against us who understand what it is like to smoke...

 

[CES]

Congratulations on 6 months!

(sorry that the person you used to like has changed so much over 15 years)

 

[Thulium]

I try to be empathetic whenever I can, but in this case all I can feel is pity for this "coulda been"/wannabe. People have a selfish tendency to believe they can shame people into doing what (they think) is best and the Anti-Tobacco "denormalization" campaign has only fed the lie.

I definitely know what its like to be reunited with a long lost someone special only to find that they've become...something else. I have someone I love dearly and has survived some horrible tragedies and learned some very destructive "survival skills" along the way. I think it is okay to still miss and care about the person they used to be and mourn the person they've become. I'm sorry your friend won't be joining the party but you can't let that stop you from celebrating your own success! Your own body is probably thanking you already for 6 months smoke-free.

 

[siddy]

that is fantastic each and every month you are free from ... ash

 

[Drewps5co0tt]

I try to be empathetic whenever I can, but in this case all I can feel is pity for this "coulda been"/wannabe. People have a selfish tendency to believe they can shame people into doing what (they think) is best and the Anti-Tobacco "denormalization" campaign has only fed the lie.

I definitely know what its like to be reunited with a long lost someone special only to find that they've become...something else. I have someone I love dearly and has survived some horrible tragedies and learned some very destructive "survival skills" along the way. I think it is okay to still miss and care about the person they used to be and mourn the person they've become. I'm sorry your friend won't be joining the party but you can't let that stop you from celebrating your own success! Your own body is probably thanking you already for 6 months smoke-free.

Yea I get that and I'm pretty much over the rush of it all and lets face it...it's been 15 years and 1,000 miles away...does it really matter what he's turned into? Not really...