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Today marks 20 Months, no cigarettes ! Unbelievable !!
40+ years of smoking ... wow !
40+ years of smoking ... wow !
Congratulations!! I find it so great there is an alternative out there for us that used analogs for so many years but to hear in this forum from people that are HAPPY they aren't using them any longer is what I've found the most amazing. Met many an ex analog users in my life and it was common to hear 'I still miss it'. I havent read that longing refrain from vapers here in ECF. Very cool...
Well, I'm joining in late again. <who, me?> Every now and then I get some free time and start browsing through threads.
Diane, I'm one of those people who could say "quitting is easy, I've done it several times!" Quit for 9 months. Quit for 2 years. Quit for 4 years. Quit for 8 frickin' years and still missed them! The last time I quit was for 1 year.
This time I've only been "clean" for 3 months, but I DO NOT MISS them! At all. It was never the nicotine. It was something elusive, maybe the ritual. Maybe that feeling of "taking a smoke break." Never could figure out what it was. But so far the only feeling I get when I think about smoking (which is often because my husband is still smoking) is that the last cigarette I had tasted so disgusting and made me feel so lousy, I don't want another one! I wasn't one of those "I quit the day I got my PV" folks. It took me about 6 weeks to quit completely, although I cut down immediately and very soon was going days without. But that urge would still hit me, and I told myself when I started that I would not torture myself, so I'd have one. Now I don't get the urge. No torture. Just plain happiness
But I dream about vaping and mixing up new flavors in my laundry room turned lab 
Diane, I'm one of those people who could say "quitting is easy, I've done it several times!" Quit for 9 months. Quit for 2 years. Quit for 4 years. Quit for 8 frickin' years and still missed them! The last time I quit was for 1 year.
This time I've only been "clean" for 3 months, but I DO NOT MISS them! At all. It was never the nicotine. It was something elusive, maybe the ritual. Maybe that feeling of "taking a smoke break." Never could figure out what it was. But so far the only feeling I get when I think about smoking (which is often because my husband is still smoking) is that the last cigarette I had tasted so disgusting and made me feel so lousy, I don't want another one! I wasn't one of those "I quit the day I got my PV" folks. It took me about 6 weeks to quit completely, although I cut down immediately and very soon was going days without. But that urge would still hit me, and I told myself when I started that I would not torture myself, so I'd have one. Now I don't get the urge. No torture. Just plain happiness
But I dream about vaping and mixing up new flavors in my laundry room turned lab
Oh ! Missed this ! Yay Catmom !!!
(and I am a ding-dong...was 21 months, not 20...March 19 will be 2 years)
(and I am a ding-dong...was 21 months, not 20...March 19 will be 2 years)
Ihad a milestone today. I woke up late for work this morning and had 10 minutes to get there 10 minutes!
I started the coffee, grabbed my PV, puffed on it while walking ot the bathroom, brushed my teeth, splashed my face, through some clothes on, then back to the kitchen for my coffee. My daughter had left her pack of cigs on the counter. I looked at them, even picked them up and opened the box....
closed it and set them back down and grabbed my PV. At that point it would have been so easy for me to have one, as I was really stressed about being late.
I've got down to one smoke a week for the last 3 weeks and my last one was Christmas Day. This morning was huge for me.
I started the coffee, grabbed my PV, puffed on it while walking ot the bathroom, brushed my teeth, splashed my face, through some clothes on, then back to the kitchen for my coffee. My daughter had left her pack of cigs on the counter. I looked at them, even picked them up and opened the box....
closed it and set them back down and grabbed my PV. At that point it would have been so easy for me to have one, as I was really stressed about being late.
I've got down to one smoke a week for the last 3 weeks and my last one was Christmas Day. This morning was huge for me.
That's awesome EmmaJo! Stress is one of the biggest triggers for most of us, I think. I know it sure is for me! Congratulations!!!
Thanks all. I was proud of myself and all.....but, I look total ---- today. No makeup, my hair's all flat, and I threw on some clothes out of my laundry basket, yes I said it, LAUNDRY BASKET!!! LOL But you know what....they don't smell like smoke, just a little wrinkly.
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Wrinkled clothes is nothing compared to that awful stale smoke smell! You done good
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