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[starsong]

I started smoking in high school around 1970 because all my friends did. So did my father, grandparents, aunt & uncle. I remember smoking in places that today would make your jaw drop today - during a job interview (I got the job), in JCPenney's, in the grocery store, etc. It was no big deal, everyone did it, wasn't much different than chewing gum. I remember being outraged when the price of a carton shot up to $6.00 - if it ever gets to $8.00 I'll quit!! Yeah right.

1989 Dad gets throat cancer. They catch it early so he's good for now. 1991 Mom gets breast cancer. They catch it early so she's good for now. They start looking at me, begging me to stop smoking since the deck is stacked against me. But I just can't.
I half-heartedly try a couple times, the last attempt was January 16, 1994. Had 2 smokes left in the pack, and that would be it!! At 5:00am the next morning was the Northridge earthquake (7.2 I think). A liquor store around the corner was one of the few places in any condition to be open. I'm in line with mothers looking for any food/drink for their children, but all I want is 4 packs of smokes.

1996 Dad's cancer is back, but now in lungs, liver, bones, and finally brain. If seeing that doesn't make you want to stop, then nothing will. But I didn't stop, I couldn't. I beat myself up for being stupid and weak.

Also, I'm single. Friends of friends don't want a smoker. Doing a search on those dating sites for men in my area who don't mind a smoker, I get about 5 results. Do a search for men who don't want a smoker, I get about 200 results. But the cigarettes still won.

Last summer Mom was visiting (she's still doing great!) and she mentioned some friend of hers or something that used an e-cig. I'd heard of them briefly but never really gave it any more thought. I said if she wanted to buy me one for Christmas I'd try it. So she ended up buying an njoy kit. I actually didn't think they were half bad, not knowing any better. It was kind of fun to use as a supplement to real smokes.

Once the 10 cartos were used up I thought I could just pop into any smoke shop and get some replacements. Ordering from them online was too expensive - $20 for 5 cartos. After going to about 10 stores I realized these weren't as easy to find as I thought. So I started searching the web and quickly found ECF.

I read & read & read and decide I'll try a KR808 and some Wowboy. OMG! This is nothing like the NJoy! Hot damn, I really like these. Still smoking though, just not as much. Read & read some more, and was brainwashed into trying a Riva 910. Meh.

Then I ordered the, um, Volt sold by someone else The clouds parted, the angels sang, and on January 20, 2011 I could finally say I am a non-smoker! 40 years of smoking ended in less than a month. I would never have believed it. Just had to find the right product.

After a few months of turmoil with that vendor, I checked out Smokeless Image on the recommendation of couple friends that became refugees. With the recent addition of their new and cartos/juice I was familiar with, I feel I've found my home.

My mother was just here last week, and she practically cried she was soooo happy that her gift turned out to be the gift of life a 2nd time. In a few days I'll celebrate 6 months smoke-free. I just wish these things had been invented 20 yrs ago. Now maybe I can get a date, even though I'm old and decrepit.

 

[Bardolf Blaze]

OK. Short and sweet... Vaping for me means more time with my son. And it gives you real incentive to make the switch when you have a 4 year old yelling at you "Real cigarettes will make you SICK!"

 

[webbcm127]

vaping has changed my life, i have more time to spend with my 4 kids and wonderfull fiance, i have more energy and seem to get out more. i sleep better wich is awesome, my medication seems to work better now, and my blood pressure has gone down, so in short my health, socail and personal life have all became better in many ways and not only am i thankful for vaping but so is my family! great contest, hope everyone is having a good one!!!!!!-)

 

[Sethari]

In early 2010 a nation-wide ban was enacted on flavored cigarettes. The measure, presumably meant to protect children, included clove cigarettes. Overnight, the cigarettes I’d smoked for decades became illegal. I stocked up but, as supply dwindled, I became desperate. I tried cigars and cigarillos, but I just wasn’t enjoying them. Just as I was beginning to seriously consider going back to traditional cigarettes, one of those ubiquitous Blu advertisements caught my eye. On May 15th I smoked my last Djarum on my front steps while waiting for the mailman. He handed me the package from Blu and, even though I very quickly upgraded to another device, I haven’t smoked since. I am an asthmatic so I really needed to quit anyway, but I just couldn’t bring myself to do it. E-cigs changed everything. My wife soon tried my e-cig and she’s been smoke free for over a year now too. From us, one of our best friends gave it a shot as well. Last month, she weaned herself off of nicotine entirely. She, in turn, spread e-cigs to two of her co-workers. So, it just goes on and on, one life at a time.

 

[dragonlover]

subscribed and liked--will post story later have to go to work!

 

[Imagine]

 

[figment_oyi]

I smoked for 25 yrs. and at 39 that means I started early..yes I was one of those smokin in the girls room high school kids.. Through my life I have seen an Aunt die of a brain tumor she got because she had lung cancer and when they operated they missed some primary cells. Then 9 years ago I held my daddy's hand as he left this world, he had struggled with emphysema for years. He had even quit 15 years prior because he had to choose ...he could continue smoking or stop and be able to breathe well enough to keep fishing. The fish won as he was a true fisherman. I promised him I would quit smoking but never did because I did not think I could live without my smokes. Now thanks to these awesome little devices I have done it. To make it even better so has my mother after smoking for 60 years ( we were the last two smokers in my family ) and really had no plans to stop. Her breathing is better and she has lost a terrible hacking cough that had become a part of her everyday life. So I say hooray to the whole world of Vaping !!!!

 

[FunkyVapes]

I first discovered vaping, through some girl at my school during a film festival.

She was wearing a red dress and was absolutely stunning. Throughout the videos, she was vaping an old 650 mah eGo and blowing clouds of peach vapor through the auditorium. It smelled so good. My friend recognized her, and she let us try this 'vaping' for the first time. I wasn't too keen on it, but it was much better than I expected and I was spending so much on analogs that I decided to order a kit when I got home.

Suddenly, a loud buzzer sounded over the intercom and a group of free-lance, android, Albanian terrorists descended from the air conditioning ducts and commandeered the film festival projector. At gunpoint, they forced us to watch cigarette propaganda and exposed the woman in the red dress as an operative for the vapor movement.

Hell-bent on making an example out of her, they forced her to the front of the auditorium, got her to her knees and dared her to take one last vape. A voluptuous cloud of peach rose from her lips and a single tear rolled down her cheek. I couldn't let it end like this.

Thinking fast, I hardwired my phones speaker to the PA system and played "Strange Animal" by Gowan as loud as I could. The mellow but persistent 80's tones must had discombobulated the androids bio-programming, because they started dancing and playing air guitar. The riff even inspired them to make VV box mods from their mechanical arms and spare pieces of wood from the auditorium. I still have mine.

Luckily, the lady in red had plenty of peach to go around and we all had a groovy vape, rocking out to Gowan.

http://youtu.be/lAxlmdTJ7S8

~But seriously, I ordered an eGo-T kit that night, and three days later I had my last analog and haven't gone back since. Vaping is such a diverse option, compared to smoking analogs and is a hobby too. There is so much customization available and I still can't get over the lack of guilt I feel, sitting down to a smooth vape, as opposed to the sick feeling I used to get when I smoked.

 

[Pamdane]

Once upon a time there was a young good looking girl. As she grew up, she did all the popular things girls her age were supposed to do. She started smoking around middle school age. So did her older sisters. She drove young men crazy. As time passed, she got married. Then research began to come out on how bad cigarettes were for people, and how it effected pregnancy. The beautiful woman chose to have children. She did not smoke for most of her first pregnancy. She had no problems. Life was good, she went back to smoking. All was well in her world. Along comes pregnancy #2. By this time, the woman could no longer make herself stop smoking. She had a very rough pregnancy and her child was born premature by c-section. This took its toll. Doctors advised the woman to quit smoking for her health....fast forward 20 years...The woman is getting older and smoking more. Her breathing is suffering. She is advised that though she is in her 40's she needs to stop smoking or she could damage her lungs permanently. The woman tried everything: pills, patches, hypnotism, company provided medical support. Over and over the woman failed after periods of time. The womans children had gone on to become smokers as well. When they saw what was happening to the mother, they too decided to stop. A few short years later the woman was told by her doctor that she had emphysema and lung issues. If she did not stop smoking, she would not have long to live. The woman tried, but was unable to stop smoking. At age 52, while driving home with her husband the woman pulled over to the side of the road, told her husband she was dying, and breathed her last breath. Autopsy showed the woman had literally blown a hole in her lungs. The woman children no longer smoke at all. The oldest quit cold turkey and did not touch tobacco for year. When she got married, her husband would occasionally have a cigar. The daughter became a cigar smoker. Flavored cigars of any kind and Maduros were her choice. The daughter decided to have her family at age 39. She did quit smoking for both her children, but alas, she too had c-sections. The husband requested that she stop smoking again. At this point, the woman's health was suffering. Asthma was flaring up, and chronic bronchitis was a norm every winter. For my sake and my childrens sake, I found e-cigarettes.
And lived happily ever after.
The truth. The End.

 

[Bwig]

So hertes my story,
I had been smoking 2pad for 25 years, have tried everything from will power, chantixs, patches, ect. and the evil kept it holds. I even was on life support for several days because of respitorty failure due to smoking and still could not give up the cancer sticks. Then March 01, 2010 I was playing in the floor with my new grandbaby Braxton, and after some 5 mins. I was out of breath and had to stop, after resueing myself to the laxyboy I thouth to myself, "here I have a grandchild at forty and I can not enjoy a playful game? I was heartbroken, and just then a commericial came on tv about electronic cigarettes. I order a kit and to day I remain smoke free and I'm in vaping heaven.

 

[2tone]

I started smoking at age 14 in 1965. The only reason I smoked was to learn how to blow smoke rings. Things became serious in 1965, at 15 I asked my parents permission to smoke. My mother gave me a carton for my birthday.
In 1969 I joined the Navy and when I got on board the ship I was assigned to I could buy cartons for $2.00. Whoopee!!! I bought a case of cartons.
Over the years I tried hundreds, maybe thousands of time to quit with no success. I couldn't go a day without one. During those many years I gravitated between 2-3 packs a day. The only times I didn't smoke was when I was sick, and even then I'd force myself to have a few.
I have to say that my father is the one who finally got me to make a serious attempt to quit. For 20 years or so, every time I called him on the phone, the first words out of his mouth was...ARE YOU STILL SMOKING! Nag, nag, nag.
Last year an ecig store opened on my island of Kauai. On December 21, 2010 on the advice of some co-workers, I bought a (I didn't know it at the time) ridiculously priced 901 and some juice. HOLY MOLY! IT WORKED!
I began researching online and lurked on the ECF, finally joining.
I skipped the 510 and went with an Ego, Ego T, and finally a Silver Bullet.
I enjoy them all, but, I needed something dressier, something I could vape comfortably in a restaurant or bar. I believe I found a reference to the Volt on the Deal and Steals thread. I tried it, I loved it, and I bought a kit for my sister, who also loves it.
That's my story, and I'm sticking to it!

 

[Timothy Cullen]

Just liked you on Facebook thx for the contest


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[skh]

My vaping venture.
As from Norway, vaping is not very common yet. Some people buy ecigs going out of the contry, but its not easy to get a hold of. We can import though.

Anyway - I didnt know ecigs existed until about... 4 monts ago. I red something on the internet and one thing led to another.
I started out with a 401 - then got on with reading in the forums and watching videos on youtube, and started with 510. I used 510 for short while, but it was just not working right. The carts was so annoying. I went to buy different fillings and spent hours and hours, watching videos trying out bluefoam, teabags, polyfill.... OMG - what a mess.

Well - after I bought all these things I heard about cartomizers. So - I started with the cartomizers. My 510 batteries lasted about a half hour and I had to fill the cartomizers with a syringe!!! or use the carts and bluefoam/polyfill/teabags - whatever.

Just not for me, to much stress and I kind of felt as a "user" of some kind. Didnt like it. My closets were filled with different fillers for cartos and syringes for cartomizers. And with the short battery life, I needed like 5 from the beginning. Sigh..

Still. I didnt want to go back to smoking cigarettes so my search continued. I found the 808d1 and got peace! The 808d-1 is the thing, the best. No - grown women like myself really dont feel like using any of the huge things you all love so much , a tiny, elegant, pretty sig, with a mouth peace - that is what I want.

Still - very hard to get a hold of, as I am still in Norway. But I can buy from US.

During this time I have spent a lot of energy on the ecigs, resulting in me "turning" 10 of my coworkes into vapors - they dont want to spend hours on internet and figuring things out, so I need to act as an expert while I am really not. But - I feel pretty safe with recommending the 808d-1, they cant get a better start. And they liked it no hassle, no syringes, no teabags.

Also - today I found smokelessimage.com, and even if I havent been able to try them out yet, they seem to be the supplier to go for. I've red a lot about suppliers for the 808d-1 and smokelessimage.com is the most affordable supplier, and the shipping costs are only 20% of what other suppliers I've used charges.

So as soon as I get confirmation that they can provide me with what I need for customs.. Im going to try the products And I really, really like that they have several colours on the battery.

 

[Lambch3p]

I started vaping when I received my first e-cig as a Christmas gift from a good friend who was concerned for my health. I never looked back. With-in 12 hours I had found a site that sold e-liquid and placed a large order. I never really intended to quit smoking but with e-cigs it was easy and just kind of happened. It has been 7 months now for me. I have slowly been converting all my friends. Trying to pay forward the gift my kind friend gave to me. I smoked for 22 years and never thought I would be able to quit. To be cig-free is an amazing gift. The best gift I have ever received!

 

[Phroge]

How I got started vaping-
A few months ago I was woken up in the middle of the night by my wife. She was complaining of chest pains and had difficultly breathing. On go the clothes and off to the hospital we went. She was diagnosed with congestive heart failure and diabetic liver disease. The doctors told her no more smoking. She has been a smoker for over 25 of her 45 years. I myself had been a smoker, but had switched to dip in an effort to save my lungs. I felt it was time for both of us to get rid of the tobacco and I was off to find something else to replace it with. I had ruled out patches and gums, and then I found out about electronic cigarettes. I found the site for Smoke Tip and thought that it might just do the trick. I ordered 2 started kits and they arrived the same day I brought her home from the hospital. After a couple weeks and more research, I upgraded to eGo-T and I haven't looked back. I've now been tobacco free for over 3 months, unfortunately my wife hasn't had quite the success that I have, but she is down to 2 packs a week from a pack a day. If I can ever find her that one special flavor... maybe she'll be able to stop with the analogs completely. I myself am happy vaping plain old menthol... except when I switch to cherry... or watermelon... or coffee... or chocolate... oh yes, chocolate is wonderful... but so is menthol. And apple.... And.... well, you know how this story goes.

 

[GolemGolem]

Well my story isn't going to be the most compelling or interesting. Heck, I'm a 29yo produce boy with no dependents in fairly good health. I'm just hoping the random number picks me. Anyway, I heard about e-smokes when I was working a second job frying chicken in a truck stop about a year back. Didn't make much of an impression (Njoy), I'm glad it didn't from what I've read. Hasn't made much of an impression on much of anyone in my town far as I can tell. My friend who still works that poo-hole says they sold one kit a few months back.
It was time for me to make another attempt at quitting though. The only time I tried to go cold-turkey was the only time I spent a night in jail. I tried the gum, and chew, and patches and they kept me just calm enough to go and bum a couple smokes when I could until I broke down and just bought myself a few packs. One for me, the rest to repay the dozens of smokes I've bummed from each one of them over the previous week. I was gonna take a week off work and just lock myself in the house and go cold turkey again...but then I used this years vacation to visit my dad for the first time in a couple years, and well, that required smoking, lots and lots of smoking, oh heck, how that required smoking. So, there went that plan. Fast forward a few more months
Girlfriend suggested e-cigs a few months after that, guy at work talked about his kin selling e-cigs and I thought cool..I'll...wait...why does he only sell it w/o nicotine...no that wont do. Went online to research, and found ECF.. after finding many newb traps (green cigs, blu, smoke anywhere rating sites that don't have awesome folks like SmokelessImage.com). Thank goodness the traps are not terribly good at hiding that fact. If it didn't work I would of had a month of ketchup soup to look forward to. However it did, pretty much painlessly other than a couple nights pacing the floor a couple weeks in. Awesome.

 

[starsong]

My previous extremely long-winded post counts as the 'how you found vaping' (with my whole life story thrown in just to be annoying)

This will be the 2nd post describing what vaping means to me.

1. Friends, family, co-workers, doctor, dentist are genuinely thrilled that I finally quit smoking. It's not "oh that's good", it's "that's wonderful, I'm so proud of you!!" Self-esteem increased.

2. My voice isn't raspy anymore. I can sing along with the radio and hit high notes without going hoarse. So whatever damage that was done to my vocal chords has already repaired itself.

3. I'm not putting my or my cat's health at risk anymore (she has asthma)

4. I'm thrilled to tell smokers about vaping and get them interested in trying it for themselves. Maybe save another life.

There are numerous more superficial benefits, but these are the biggies, up there as life-changing.

 

[punkflute]

Vaping has made an incredible change in my life. Vaping means that my son gets the best of his mommy now. I can play with him without gasping for breath. I no longer have to hide outside to smoke, taking time away from him. He's no longer exposed to the smell and second-hand smoke that lingered on my clothing, in my hair, and on my breath after smoking a cigarette.

Of course, vaping also means that I'm healthier, happier, and not a total witch like I would be if I quit cold turkey. My son is grateful that I don't smoke "stinky real cigarettes" and is constantly telling everyone else to smoke e-cigarettes, not real ones. Vaping has shown my son what a horror cigarettes are and guaranteed that he will never light up an analog. Vaping has saved my family from a lot of pain and suffering.

That is what vaping means to me and my life.

 

[Imagine]

 

[Lauralie]

Well I started sneaking my mom's cigarettes at 16 years old - she kept them in the freezer, Pall Mall golds. Started smoking regularly at 18 and never looked back. Though about quitting when I was pregnant but my doctor - yes my doctor told me 10 a day would be fine. OK then. Well I will quit after I have her, nope, didn't quit then either. Then my mom got lung cancer and everyone could not believe I didn't quit, well my nerves were worse then ever and I just kept smoking. She died at 65, 3 years ago, and I kept smoking, nerves even worse right, well no excuse, gotta quit!

I saw an add on some web page and thought WOW I need to check that out, but I have never trusted those odd adds that pop up on the side of articles and such so I researched a little but then I kinda forgot about it. Well one day at a convenience store I saw a disposable one so I bought it. It was "ok" so then I decided to research them further, must be something better out there. That is when I found ECF, my second family and I have NO doubt in my mind if my mom was still here she would be vaping right along side me!

My Mom was my best friend and I miss her every day, wish we would have both found vaping a lot sooner!