Hi all!
This is my first post here but I've been lurking on the forum for the past 6 months since I started vaping.
I smoked 2 packs a day for about 14 years and during that time I tried to quit maybe 6 times, mainly due to pressure from my wife and family. I didn't really want to quit as I loved it but knew that it was the right thing to do so I tried everything, gum, patches, inhalers, hypnosis, etc. Everytime, I could only last 2 or 3 days without smoking and every time I started again I thought: Fk it! I don't care if I die from this, at least I'll die happy...
One year ago I had a panic attack and I knew it was due to my bad habits, little sleep, junk food, drugs, drinking, stress and of course, smoking. I decided I had to do something about it so I started eating and sleeping better and tried to avoid drugs and stressing but I was terrified to quit smoking, this time I started cutting back and was able to go down to 1 pack a day without much effort but lower than that was really difficult.
My first encounter with an e-cig was about 4 years ago when my mom gave me a Joye 510 kit that she had bought at the mall. The kit came with 2 cartomizers, one with nicotine and the other without, I tried it for a couple of days but it didn't do much for me, little flavor, little vapor and zero throat hit. Needles to say, I stashed it on the attic never to be seen again.
Then this past August while I was on vacation in France, I read an article on Gizmodo about the top 10 e-cigs (the disposable types) and it piqued my interest so I went to the tabac shop down the street and bought a disposable. It was better than what I remembered about the Joye, better flavor, more vapor but still no throat hit...
Once I got back to Mexico I started reading more and more about e-cigs and I found this forum, I was overwhelmed by the amount of information and the huge variety of products available but was encouraged by the results people were getting so I kept on reading and finally decided to place an order for a Lavatube, a Vivi Nova and a couple of juices in different strengths.
Once I got my kit I could not believe it! It was the same as smoking. No! It was better than smoking! From the start I was getting huge amounts of vapor, great flavor and shocking throat hit! I was getting dizzy, I could not stop vaping, that night before going to bed I discovered I still had 15 cigarettes left on my pack, I had only smoked 5! From then on, I kept alternating between smoking (between 3 and 5 cigs per day) and vaping for about a month and then one day I just stopped buying packs. The transition went very smoothly and there was no effort at all. To this day I still smoke a cigarette from time to time (one per week or less) when I'm with friends that smoke but overall I think that I'm already on the other side.
I think I've spent more on vaping than what I used to spend when smoking but I think that's mainly because there's so much stuff to try out and because I'm curious and I like to tinker with stuff. These days I'm vaping Halo's Tribeca and Torque 56 at 18mg on an Nhaler Curve with a Kick and a Phoenix V2 dripping RBA and I'm in heaven!
This is my first post here but I've been lurking on the forum for the past 6 months since I started vaping.
I smoked 2 packs a day for about 14 years and during that time I tried to quit maybe 6 times, mainly due to pressure from my wife and family. I didn't really want to quit as I loved it but knew that it was the right thing to do so I tried everything, gum, patches, inhalers, hypnosis, etc. Everytime, I could only last 2 or 3 days without smoking and every time I started again I thought: Fk it! I don't care if I die from this, at least I'll die happy...
One year ago I had a panic attack and I knew it was due to my bad habits, little sleep, junk food, drugs, drinking, stress and of course, smoking. I decided I had to do something about it so I started eating and sleeping better and tried to avoid drugs and stressing but I was terrified to quit smoking, this time I started cutting back and was able to go down to 1 pack a day without much effort but lower than that was really difficult.
My first encounter with an e-cig was about 4 years ago when my mom gave me a Joye 510 kit that she had bought at the mall. The kit came with 2 cartomizers, one with nicotine and the other without, I tried it for a couple of days but it didn't do much for me, little flavor, little vapor and zero throat hit. Needles to say, I stashed it on the attic never to be seen again.
Then this past August while I was on vacation in France, I read an article on Gizmodo about the top 10 e-cigs (the disposable types) and it piqued my interest so I went to the tabac shop down the street and bought a disposable. It was better than what I remembered about the Joye, better flavor, more vapor but still no throat hit...
Once I got back to Mexico I started reading more and more about e-cigs and I found this forum, I was overwhelmed by the amount of information and the huge variety of products available but was encouraged by the results people were getting so I kept on reading and finally decided to place an order for a Lavatube, a Vivi Nova and a couple of juices in different strengths.
Once I got my kit I could not believe it! It was the same as smoking. No! It was better than smoking! From the start I was getting huge amounts of vapor, great flavor and shocking throat hit! I was getting dizzy, I could not stop vaping, that night before going to bed I discovered I still had 15 cigarettes left on my pack, I had only smoked 5! From then on, I kept alternating between smoking (between 3 and 5 cigs per day) and vaping for about a month and then one day I just stopped buying packs. The transition went very smoothly and there was no effort at all. To this day I still smoke a cigarette from time to time (one per week or less) when I'm with friends that smoke but overall I think that I'm already on the other side.
I think I've spent more on vaping than what I used to spend when smoking but I think that's mainly because there's so much stuff to try out and because I'm curious and I like to tinker with stuff. These days I'm vaping Halo's Tribeca and Torque 56 at 18mg on an Nhaler Curve with a Kick and a Phoenix V2 dripping RBA and I'm in heaven!
