whoo hoo! its here !
hello sweet sweet cantaloupe and hopefully a permanent good bye to my analogs; which i have currently have baking in the center console of my car parked out in scorching central valley heat. they should be dry and nasty in case i have the urge to smoke them.
i realized i never told the story of why i decided to make the switch from analogs to vaping
since i started smoking my family has always told me that i should try quitting. everyone has heard the speech, it's bad for you , you can get lung cancer, gives you a higher chance at heart disease (which actually has a roll in my nick name being "heart attack" but thats for another story), dangers of second hand smoke, yahdah yahdah yahdah. my father even at times would cut out articles about the danger of smoking and even pictures of lung cancer victims and their lungs and tape them to my bathroom mirror. not the best thing to see first thing in the morning but i didnt care.
i tried all the other quitting methods just so i could say that i tried and the method failed. in truth i just did not want to quit because i enjoyed smoking way too much and was miserable when i didn't.
about two weeks ago i went camping with a couple of friends and my brother. he got a little drunk and started preaching to me about why i should quit. he was going on and on about how it was bad for me, blah blah blah then he suddenly got serious. he said "if you don't quit for yourself, quit for Ethan." Ethan being my two year old nephew. "i don't want him to be visiting you in the hospital because of a stupid habit. and i dont want to try to explain to him why you even felt the need to smoke."
what he said really sparked my interest in really quitting and not just cutting back.
when i got back home, the first thing i did was go on google and search "quit smoking -pill -patch -cold -turkey -hypnosis" and some others. so of course e-cigs came up. at first i was a little apprehensive because ive tried those cheapo e cigs in the past. but under the video results i saw a thumbnail of this blonde hair guy w/ a fohawk holding what looked like a bomb detonator to his mouth. and in another thumbnail i saw a husky looking italian fellow w/ a beard holding a similar device in his hand but blowing a huge cloud of smoke. if you havent guessed who i'm talking about, these two are better known as grimmgreen and pbusardo.
i watched a bunch of their vids found ecf and thought, "wow, e cigs have come a long way since i tried them."
i remember watching grimgreen reviewing the kgo as becoming his daily carry, from their i went to hoosierecigsupply and put the kgo kit and some supplies in my cart. but before i checked out i decided to go out for a smoke or two... or three
when i got back in the first thing i hear is "TITO!" which means uncle in tagalog and is what my nephew calls me. then i see him running toward me so i pick him up and tell him to give me a kiss on the cheek. after he does this he pulls back and says "ewww... tito, you stinky." after he said that everyone had a laugh including me but when i put him down i immediately went to my laptop in my room and clicked the checkout button.
so if your eyes arent sore from reading that novel of a post, that's the story of why and how i decided to quit smoking and start vaping. not only am i doing this for me i'm also doing this mainly for my nephew.
