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What vaping means to me (“happiness is”)…
• I can sing like Chaka Khan and Teena Marie again (well, almost).
• I can walk up the stairs with classmates half my age at the junior college, instead of being a wimp and taking the elevator.
• I can go twice as long on my HealthRider.
• I’m remembering to drink enough water now (have to – PG is like a sponge and makes me thirsty all the time).
• I don’t have to eat dessert anymore (craaaazy sweet tooth. But now, blueberry cheesecake? Snickers bar? Chocolate covered banana? Butter pecan ice cream? No problem. Just get the joose!).
• I don’t have to apologize for my house/car smelling like an ashtray.
• I don’t have to apologize for ME smelling like an ashtray.
• No more 2 a.m. runs to the 24-hour Walgreens out of town for a pack of smokes.
• No more $9 packs of stale cigarettes from the gas station that weren’t even my brand.
• No more waking up to hack up a lung at 4 in the morning.
• No more cigarette burns on my thigh (let alone all my good clothes) from lost cherries.
• Seeing that my dashboard is actually black, not an ugly gray from the ashes.
• If I can just stop eating while I'm driving, I’ll never have to vacuum out the car again!
• Not having to leave a dinner party early because I needed a smoke really bad.
• I can save tons and tons of money by vaping instead of smoking (HAH!).
but it also means…
• Spending almost all of my one day off reading the entire “Official Smokeless Image Thread” thread on ECF. Then turning into an ECF junkie.
• Cutting my own hair and letting my gray roots grow out so I can have more money for joose and new gear.
• Cheaping out on things like food and shampoo so I can have more money for joose and new gear.
• Everything/everybody stinks now (OMG there just isn’t enough Febreze!).
Vaping makes you…
• Nicer
• Cooler/hipper
• Sleeker
• Smarter
• Sexier
• A trailblazer
• Smell like blueberry cheesecake!
What got me started…
• Johnny Depp in The Tourist. YUM!
• Mr. Right fantasy (wouldn’t let me live in his mansion because I smoked)
• Debi the tracheotomy lady on TV
• I can sing like Chaka Khan and Teena Marie again (well, almost).
• I can walk up the stairs with classmates half my age at the junior college, instead of being a wimp and taking the elevator.
• I can go twice as long on my HealthRider.
• I’m remembering to drink enough water now (have to – PG is like a sponge and makes me thirsty all the time).
• I don’t have to eat dessert anymore (craaaazy sweet tooth. But now, blueberry cheesecake? Snickers bar? Chocolate covered banana? Butter pecan ice cream? No problem. Just get the joose!).
• I don’t have to apologize for my house/car smelling like an ashtray.
• I don’t have to apologize for ME smelling like an ashtray.
• No more 2 a.m. runs to the 24-hour Walgreens out of town for a pack of smokes.
• No more $9 packs of stale cigarettes from the gas station that weren’t even my brand.
• No more waking up to hack up a lung at 4 in the morning.
• No more cigarette burns on my thigh (let alone all my good clothes) from lost cherries.
• Seeing that my dashboard is actually black, not an ugly gray from the ashes.
• If I can just stop eating while I'm driving, I’ll never have to vacuum out the car again!
• Not having to leave a dinner party early because I needed a smoke really bad.
• I can save tons and tons of money by vaping instead of smoking (HAH!).
but it also means…
• Spending almost all of my one day off reading the entire “Official Smokeless Image Thread” thread on ECF. Then turning into an ECF junkie.
• Cutting my own hair and letting my gray roots grow out so I can have more money for joose and new gear.
• Cheaping out on things like food and shampoo so I can have more money for joose and new gear.
• Everything/everybody stinks now (OMG there just isn’t enough Febreze!).
Vaping makes you…
• Nicer
• Cooler/hipper
• Sleeker
• Smarter
• Sexier
• A trailblazer
• Smell like blueberry cheesecake!
What got me started…
• Johnny Depp in The Tourist. YUM!
• Mr. Right fantasy (wouldn’t let me live in his mansion because I smoked)
• Debi the tracheotomy lady on TV
One more bump for today!
Going to turn in early...gotta clean out those fence lines tomorrow!! Mowing done today...
GOODNIGHT all!!
Going to turn in early...gotta clean out those fence lines tomorrow!! Mowing done today...
GOODNIGHT all!!
I already posted my two entries quite a while back... but I just HAD to get this in somewhere!!!
I turned ECF Veteran on Aug. 3rd... and now THIS...
Life is Good, and Vaping only makes it BETTER!!!
I turned ECF Veteran on Aug. 3rd... and now THIS...
Life is Good, and Vaping only makes it BETTER!!!
I already posted my two entries quite a while back... but I just HAD to get this in somewhere!!!
I turned ECF Veteran on Aug. 3rd... and now THIS...
Life is Good, and Vaping only makes it BETTER!!!
CONGRATULATONS SK!!!!!
One day closer to the 16th everyone
I am going to add a link to the contest page but question.....does it end at 11:59 am or pm? And didn't you add more prized than three? I don't feel like searching....I am buzzing from a couple beers (yes I am a lightweight!)
Been "vaporizin'" as I like to call it - for 2 months or so now. For me it means......
~NO tobacco
~No second hand smoke
~No bad smell
~No complaints from others
~No ashes
~No butts
~No having to go outside all the time
What I gain:
~It's a lot healthier
~condoms & buttplugs LOL
~Happiness
Thanks for a great contest!!!!!
~NO tobacco
~No second hand smoke
~No bad smell
~No complaints from others
~No ashes
~No butts
~No having to go outside all the time
What I gain:
~It's a lot healthier
~condoms & buttplugs LOL
~Happiness
Thanks for a great contest!!!!!
My wife and son wanted me to get them a "free" e-cigarette. They had heard the advertisements, and thought free is good. Now I know that there is no free lunch, so I looked up e-cigs on the internet. A mountain of information followed. The first thing I learned was that "free" e-cigs will cost you about $130. I can go to the mall and be robbed.
Soon I found ecf. It looked interesting. I bought a kit for my wife and son. I bought them juice and cartos. So my future best friend (the mailman) brings them their gear a couple days later. I tried it out (to make sure it wasn't poison) and thought it not bad. I continued to vape and smoke for a couple days. Soon I found my cigarettes just tasted nasty. After a week, I was one of the many accidental quitters. I didn't try to quit, I didn't even want to quit. But quit I did.
Thank you ecf and all the vendors that made my story possible.
Soon I found ecf. It looked interesting. I bought a kit for my wife and son. I bought them juice and cartos. So my future best friend (the mailman) brings them their gear a couple days later. I tried it out (to make sure it wasn't poison) and thought it not bad. I continued to vape and smoke for a couple days. Soon I found my cigarettes just tasted nasty. After a week, I was one of the many accidental quitters. I didn't try to quit, I didn't even want to quit. But quit I did.
Thank you ecf and all the vendors that made my story possible.
I'm not sure why I waited so long to enter this contest; switching to vaping has meant so much to me it's almost hard to talk (type) about.
My husband and I moved in together in the late 80s and after many years together decided to have a baby and get married. We were not particularly concerned about the order, so we started planning the wedding and trying to get pregnant.
Six years later we had been married a long time, and it was starting to fray at the edges, because we could not apparently conceive. I felt then and believe now that our smoking, and mine in particular, was a contributing factor in our infertility.
Then, immediately after we gave up, a miracle happened, and I'll tell you the story of how that happened for my second post. Don't worry, I'll leave out the stuff you already know.
We were so excited to finally be expecting, and you would think that I would have given up cigarettes the minute I even suspected that something I had hoped for for so long had happened, wouldn't you? Well I couldn't. Beer? Bye Bye. Wine? Why? Sake? Sayonara. But cigs? I couldn't completely go without. I begged my husband for drags of his which he begrudgingly gave me. I stole his butts out of the ashtrays outside and lit them and put them out. I even bummed one off of a homeless guy downtown once and smoked the whole thing with him in the stairwell of a parking garage where noone would see me. I never smoked much, I went days and weeks without, but I never gave it up completely and it will haunt me until I die.
However, sometimes good things happen to us no matter how stupid we behave, and here he is:
This was taken visiting family. (my sister in law's place, meh. ) No one in my family smokes. No one. Just me. So I spent a lot of this day sneaking away to find a place down the street to have a quick smoke.
Here's another one. He was very cute this day with his cousins at my folks' place, but again, I spent a lot of the time trying to figure out when I could sneak away for a smoke.
This is one of my all time favorite pictures; since it was taken in my very own front yard you can bet I was smoking when I took it.
A few winters ago. Imagine, if you will, what I could have bought him for Christmas that year if we didn't spend so much on cigarettes.
And these days, an adolescent starting Junior High in a couple of weeks. He has been relentless in the last year in leaning on us to stop smoking, and he's smart and well-spoken enough to really make it sting. I have wanted to quit smoking desperately for several years, and as you can see, I have all it takes to motivate me. He's a great kid, and he's the only one I will ever have, and I love him like fire
and all I ever wanted to do was grow him up and marry him off to someone good who will make him laugh and love him hard.
I bought a Volt kit from Smokeless Image and broke my smoking addiction of 25 years in a matter of 2 weeks.
Now I've had 2 miracles, more than my share, and that's my story of what vaping means to me. It means everything.
My husband and I moved in together in the late 80s and after many years together decided to have a baby and get married. We were not particularly concerned about the order, so we started planning the wedding and trying to get pregnant.
Six years later we had been married a long time, and it was starting to fray at the edges, because we could not apparently conceive. I felt then and believe now that our smoking, and mine in particular, was a contributing factor in our infertility.
Then, immediately after we gave up, a miracle happened, and I'll tell you the story of how that happened for my second post. Don't worry, I'll leave out the stuff you already know.
We were so excited to finally be expecting, and you would think that I would have given up cigarettes the minute I even suspected that something I had hoped for for so long had happened, wouldn't you? Well I couldn't. Beer? Bye Bye. Wine? Why? Sake? Sayonara. But cigs? I couldn't completely go without. I begged my husband for drags of his which he begrudgingly gave me. I stole his butts out of the ashtrays outside and lit them and put them out. I even bummed one off of a homeless guy downtown once and smoked the whole thing with him in the stairwell of a parking garage where noone would see me. I never smoked much, I went days and weeks without, but I never gave it up completely and it will haunt me until I die.
However, sometimes good things happen to us no matter how stupid we behave, and here he is:
This was taken visiting family. (my sister in law's place, meh. ) No one in my family smokes. No one. Just me. So I spent a lot of this day sneaking away to find a place down the street to have a quick smoke.
Here's another one. He was very cute this day with his cousins at my folks' place, but again, I spent a lot of the time trying to figure out when I could sneak away for a smoke.
This is one of my all time favorite pictures; since it was taken in my very own front yard you can bet I was smoking when I took it.
A few winters ago. Imagine, if you will, what I could have bought him for Christmas that year if we didn't spend so much on cigarettes.
And these days, an adolescent starting Junior High in a couple of weeks. He has been relentless in the last year in leaning on us to stop smoking, and he's smart and well-spoken enough to really make it sting. I have wanted to quit smoking desperately for several years, and as you can see, I have all it takes to motivate me. He's a great kid, and he's the only one I will ever have, and I love him like fire
and all I ever wanted to do was grow him up and marry him off to someone good who will make him laugh and love him hard.I bought a Volt kit from Smokeless Image and broke my smoking addiction of 25 years in a matter of 2 weeks.
Now I've had 2 miracles, more than my share, and that's my story of what vaping means to me. It means everything.
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I tried to write my story once before, but it just wouldn't come out. So here I go again! I'm going to leave alot out because I won't do this if I don't.
I lost my best friend of over 20 years to cancer March 8th. I was lost- and I mean completely. I couldn't do anything that I normally do. No watching movies, reading, painting, nothing mattered. I went to work and came home and cried. Everyday.
I got on the laptop one night to pay a bill and magically ended up at ECF. Seriously, I wasn't looking for anything when I started, hadn't even thought quitting cigarettes was a real possibility for me after 30yrs of smoking. I really have no idea what put me at this site. Maybe my friend did it from the other side- that would be her way.
I kept reading because it was the only thing that kept me from crying. And it seemed like a tribute to possibly give cancer the finger by quitting.
I read everything I could. Bought a little fs510 kit because it was inexpensive and might tell me if this would work before I dove completely in. The kit came and I realized this vaping thing is the real deal! So, I joined ECF and bought an joye ego and never smoked again! There's a 5volt mod now and a 3.7 mod on the way.
I still miss my friend everyday, probably always will. But I have some new friends here and look forward to making more. There are so many people here, all working together just to make things better and knowing that it takes different things to make vaping good for different people- it is an exceptional dynamic and I am glad to be a part of it. I would never have started if this wasn't such a great forum- so thank you guys. Really, thank you all!
I lost my best friend of over 20 years to cancer March 8th. I was lost- and I mean completely. I couldn't do anything that I normally do. No watching movies, reading, painting, nothing mattered. I went to work and came home and cried. Everyday.
I got on the laptop one night to pay a bill and magically ended up at ECF. Seriously, I wasn't looking for anything when I started, hadn't even thought quitting cigarettes was a real possibility for me after 30yrs of smoking. I really have no idea what put me at this site. Maybe my friend did it from the other side- that would be her way.
I kept reading because it was the only thing that kept me from crying. And it seemed like a tribute to possibly give cancer the finger by quitting.
I read everything I could. Bought a little fs510 kit because it was inexpensive and might tell me if this would work before I dove completely in. The kit came and I realized this vaping thing is the real deal! So, I joined ECF and bought an joye ego and never smoked again! There's a 5volt mod now and a 3.7 mod on the way.
I still miss my friend everyday, probably always will. But I have some new friends here and look forward to making more. There are so many people here, all working together just to make things better and knowing that it takes different things to make vaping good for different people- it is an exceptional dynamic and I am glad to be a part of it. I would never have started if this wasn't such a great forum- so thank you guys. Really, thank you all!
Post #2:
I love vaping because I haven't smoked a cig since June and I've actually lost a little weight. I attribute this to the fact that I can vape ice cream and buttercream icing and rice krispy treats and snickers bars, so my late night munchies are satisfied!
Come on, random number generator, be my friend!
I love vaping because I haven't smoked a cig since June and I've actually lost a little weight. I attribute this to the fact that I can vape ice cream and buttercream icing and rice krispy treats and snickers bars, so my late night munchies are satisfied!
Come on, random number generator, be my friend!
On March 10th, 2010 my partner came home and told me about Rich (a guy she works with) who was outside and inside vaping on an electronic cigarette. I asked her oh yeah?! She got me the name of the place that was selling those and the juice etc....and went and bought a beginning set of 401's. They never lasted very long, but from that day on, until June 10, 2011 I had only smoked about a pack of "real" cigarettes.
I had wanted to stop smoking for myself, I was just wanted to stop having bronchitis 5 times every winter. I was so sick and tired of coughing all the time and coughing so that my bladder would leak on a regular basis. I coughed so hard that sometimes I thought I might lose a lung. I was sick all the time and never could catch my breath, it was terrifying and heartbreaking at the same time.
My daughter had quit hugging me or even sitting near me, because she said I stunk. On June 10, 2011 I had a cigarette at work that I had bummed from one of my co-workers. I couldn't even finish that cigarette. I then took a motorcycle class that following weekend and broke my tibia, I was grateful that I had an ecigarette then, because honestly I could not walk, not even a little bit.
I stopped smoking because it was best for me, I stopped smoking because if I didn't I would die the same way my father did, a massive heart attack that killed on the spot. I stopped smoking because I wanted my family to hold me again and let me cry on their shoulders and not stink so bad that I made my daughter gag. I stopped smoking because my partner of then 10 years cared enough and loved me enough to allow me to try a few different kinds of electronic cigarettes and cartos etc...When I broke my leg I wasn't making any money for almost 9 months. I stopped smoking because after 2 months of hacking up all the awful crap in my lungs that had accumulated there for the last 30 years, I could breathe, I could smell, I could taste again.
It has been 14months without any kind of tobacco, I don't use nicotine in my juice anymore, but I still vape, why? because I like to vape, I always liked smoking, too!
I stopped smoking so I could by my actions/example/story, help others who are having issues stopping the tobacco sticks learn they can get what they want from an electronic vaping device and never want another cigarette; or at least they would want to cut down. I have helped or changed the minds of least 10 people at the place I work now and the family of one of patients when I was in michigan. I got on the computer with his wife and now he is smoke free.
Do I plan one day to stop vaping, yes I do. However old habits are hard to break, but this habit is so much more healthful than the one I did for nearly 30 years. Nearly 30 years of smoking a pack or more a day, 30 years of coughing, hacking in the morning, 30 years of being very sickly.
I didn't stop smoking for anyone but myself, the benefits however are wonderful, my new friends wouldn't have let me smoke in their houses but they let me vape. I got my family back and now all of clothes have been washed and put away. There is not a single smell of smoke in anything I own or wear or breathe. I am so much more healthy, I was so close to having COPD, but now my lungs have never sounded better, said my doctor. She stated that she has never heard my lungs sound so clear without a bit of wheezing. I was proud at that moment because I knew I helping my lungs heal, by not putting anymore of that nasty tar in to my lungs clogging the bronchial tubes and making it almost impossible for me to exchange air.
I can walk my dog now without feeling faint, and needing a breathing treatment. I love my life now, now I work on losing wieght, that's my next goal.
I have other health problems that prevent me from doing hard work outs or running, but 14 months ago I could'nt even walk with out running out of oxygen. Today I live at just under a mile high. My doctor was once concerned about me moving back to my present place of residence, but my last check up- she said with lungs like that you, you should have no problem, please don't start smoking again.
I have been smoke free for 14 months, 14 months of only having bronchitis once, 14 months of not having to take rescue inhalers every 4 hours 24 hours a day 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year. 14 months of hugging and kissing and snuggling with my partner and daughter and now my other daughter and my grandson. 14 months of feeling alive with energy and best of all; 14 months of BREATHING and LIVING BETTER THAN I HAVE SINCE I WAS 17 (when I started smoking tobacco cigarettes at 1.50/pack)
I had wanted to stop smoking for myself, I was just wanted to stop having bronchitis 5 times every winter. I was so sick and tired of coughing all the time and coughing so that my bladder would leak on a regular basis. I coughed so hard that sometimes I thought I might lose a lung. I was sick all the time and never could catch my breath, it was terrifying and heartbreaking at the same time.
My daughter had quit hugging me or even sitting near me, because she said I stunk. On June 10, 2011 I had a cigarette at work that I had bummed from one of my co-workers. I couldn't even finish that cigarette. I then took a motorcycle class that following weekend and broke my tibia, I was grateful that I had an ecigarette then, because honestly I could not walk, not even a little bit.
I stopped smoking because it was best for me, I stopped smoking because if I didn't I would die the same way my father did, a massive heart attack that killed on the spot. I stopped smoking because I wanted my family to hold me again and let me cry on their shoulders and not stink so bad that I made my daughter gag. I stopped smoking because my partner of then 10 years cared enough and loved me enough to allow me to try a few different kinds of electronic cigarettes and cartos etc...When I broke my leg I wasn't making any money for almost 9 months. I stopped smoking because after 2 months of hacking up all the awful crap in my lungs that had accumulated there for the last 30 years, I could breathe, I could smell, I could taste again.
It has been 14months without any kind of tobacco, I don't use nicotine in my juice anymore, but I still vape, why? because I like to vape, I always liked smoking, too!
I stopped smoking so I could by my actions/example/story, help others who are having issues stopping the tobacco sticks learn they can get what they want from an electronic vaping device and never want another cigarette; or at least they would want to cut down. I have helped or changed the minds of least 10 people at the place I work now and the family of one of patients when I was in michigan. I got on the computer with his wife and now he is smoke free.
Do I plan one day to stop vaping, yes I do. However old habits are hard to break, but this habit is so much more healthful than the one I did for nearly 30 years. Nearly 30 years of smoking a pack or more a day, 30 years of coughing, hacking in the morning, 30 years of being very sickly.
I didn't stop smoking for anyone but myself, the benefits however are wonderful, my new friends wouldn't have let me smoke in their houses but they let me vape. I got my family back and now all of clothes have been washed and put away. There is not a single smell of smoke in anything I own or wear or breathe. I am so much more healthy, I was so close to having COPD, but now my lungs have never sounded better, said my doctor. She stated that she has never heard my lungs sound so clear without a bit of wheezing. I was proud at that moment because I knew I helping my lungs heal, by not putting anymore of that nasty tar in to my lungs clogging the bronchial tubes and making it almost impossible for me to exchange air.
I can walk my dog now without feeling faint, and needing a breathing treatment. I love my life now, now I work on losing wieght, that's my next goal.
I have other health problems that prevent me from doing hard work outs or running, but 14 months ago I could'nt even walk with out running out of oxygen. Today I live at just under a mile high. My doctor was once concerned about me moving back to my present place of residence, but my last check up- she said with lungs like that you, you should have no problem, please don't start smoking again.
I have been smoke free for 14 months, 14 months of only having bronchitis once, 14 months of not having to take rescue inhalers every 4 hours 24 hours a day 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year. 14 months of hugging and kissing and snuggling with my partner and daughter and now my other daughter and my grandson. 14 months of feeling alive with energy and best of all; 14 months of BREATHING and LIVING BETTER THAN I HAVE SINCE I WAS 17 (when I started smoking tobacco cigarettes at 1.50/pack)
I am so excited that we are getting more stories and might I add - they are awesome!
May I also add that I am getting so Giddy with excitement for whomever wins in this contest! It's like Christmas is around the corner for everyone (Well I guess 7 people) but it's so cool! I would really LOVE to be a fly on the wall to see the reaction of whomever wins the BIG prize!
May I also add that I am getting so Giddy with excitement for whomever wins in this contest! It's like Christmas is around the corner for everyone (Well I guess 7 people) but it's so cool! I would really LOVE to be a fly on the wall to see the reaction of whomever wins the BIG prize!
Now - aren't YOU glad the contest isn't over yet . . .
AND - BTW, Move on over my "Little Fly" - the "Big OLD Spider" wants to sit next to you . . .
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