Today is my first day vaping. I had quit smoking for a month. I started again a few days ago.
I quit smoking while still in china. It was not for financial reasons, I'm 31 and feel like death has crawled into my chest, I've smoked since a kid. In china cigarettes are cheap and ecigs look cheap. My main aversion to them is that smoking isn't merely a hit of nicotine each time my crazed brain desires it but a structure to my day, giving it a series of mini rituals. And what I had seen there was the cigarette look one. It seemed like a toy. Light, cloud of smoke, and your hit of nicotine.
That was my impression until a few days ago, that was the second day I was back into cigarettes, the first back into my cough. A toy that delivers me nicotine started seeming good. Now I have always quit smoking cold turkey. What gets me is that I am a smoker. Each time I quit I feel Mark Twain smacking the backside of my head saying you sell out. But I can no longer be a smoker as I'm too lazy to lead an otherwise healthy lifestyle. And then I saw this woman on a patio making a big pen glow blue by sucking on it and a cloud wisp across her face and I was in love.
I've been on this site since then and the community around here is extremely my kind of people. I met with Switched from JRCustomTurning today at his facilities and never felt better about buying anything. He could have made me empty my pockets selling me stuff, but I guess he figured I'd be back so he's taking it slow. He showed me how to do everything, he was patient and a sage. I saw his 50 caliber and if it ever goes on sale, I'm getting one. So you can say I'm hooked.
I think that the ritual factor in vaping is much more so than smoking. The control over the experience, the time that can be put into preparation of the consumable, the broadness of consumption methods and consumable items make for a much more individualistic experience over smoking. The social and hygienic factors join financial and health factors to make it more sensible.
But don't listen to those lies, I like the idea that people vape without nicotine. vaping is and of itself a suitable replacement to the drug. Now I'm an addict and I would much rather be a person addicted to flavored vapor than cigarette smoke.
I would like to thank everyone who posts instructive comments on this site.
I quit smoking while still in china. It was not for financial reasons, I'm 31 and feel like death has crawled into my chest, I've smoked since a kid. In china cigarettes are cheap and ecigs look cheap. My main aversion to them is that smoking isn't merely a hit of nicotine each time my crazed brain desires it but a structure to my day, giving it a series of mini rituals. And what I had seen there was the cigarette look one. It seemed like a toy. Light, cloud of smoke, and your hit of nicotine.
That was my impression until a few days ago, that was the second day I was back into cigarettes, the first back into my cough. A toy that delivers me nicotine started seeming good. Now I have always quit smoking cold turkey. What gets me is that I am a smoker. Each time I quit I feel Mark Twain smacking the backside of my head saying you sell out. But I can no longer be a smoker as I'm too lazy to lead an otherwise healthy lifestyle. And then I saw this woman on a patio making a big pen glow blue by sucking on it and a cloud wisp across her face and I was in love.
I've been on this site since then and the community around here is extremely my kind of people. I met with Switched from JRCustomTurning today at his facilities and never felt better about buying anything. He could have made me empty my pockets selling me stuff, but I guess he figured I'd be back so he's taking it slow. He showed me how to do everything, he was patient and a sage. I saw his 50 caliber and if it ever goes on sale, I'm getting one. So you can say I'm hooked.
I think that the ritual factor in vaping is much more so than smoking. The control over the experience, the time that can be put into preparation of the consumable, the broadness of consumption methods and consumable items make for a much more individualistic experience over smoking. The social and hygienic factors join financial and health factors to make it more sensible.
But don't listen to those lies, I like the idea that people vape without nicotine. vaping is and of itself a suitable replacement to the drug. Now I'm an addict and I would much rather be a person addicted to flavored vapor than cigarette smoke.
I would like to thank everyone who posts instructive comments on this site.
