This is my story...
I finally decided to make an account after browsing this forum for several days...so hello!!! I am a 43 yr old "small town" country girl who has been a smoker off and on since I was about 15. I never had a problem quitting the five times I was pregnant with my children; however, I always went back to the nasty stinkies when they were out of the baby stage. In my mind, since I could always quit so easy before, I figured I could quit easy again...not so!
So move ahead about 12 years, and I start having a small midlife crisis and decide I want to get healthy and take better care of myself. My children and grandchildren mean the world to me, and I refuse to let them see me go down the path I have seen my mother go through with her cigarette smoking. She has chronic COPD and was told that she HAS to quit smoking...but she won't and continues to get sicker.
So anyways...
I woke up April 23rd early in the morning in alot of pain (I have fibromyalgia). I was crying and very sad...I looked back on the last ten years of my life and realized that I had let my life be ruled by all of the medications that were over prescribed by my doctor (which weren't working obviously), my nasty cigarette addiction, and my 3 pot a day coffee addiction. I had had enough and decided that right then and there something was going to change! How could I possibly be healthy, have energy, and be pain free by putting all of these poisons into my body??? I wanted to be healthy for my husband, my children, and my grandchildren.
So...that morning, I guess you could say, I had a revelation. The first thing that I did was to throw the nasty cigarettes away! The next thing I did was to make a hot cup of tea with a splash of milk and honey (no coffee!). Then, I spent a long time googling all of my medications to make sure I wasn't in danger to go off of them cold turkey. I wasn't, thank goodness. Looking back, I should of consulted my doctor, but I am very stubborn, and I knew that she would talk me against doing it "my way!" So, down the toilet my meds went!
I laid back down that morning with a new sense of pride...knowing that I would be ok. However, when I woke back up, I kind of had an "oh my gosh, what did i do moment!" LOL. Giving up the coffee and meds wasn't hard at all believe it or not...I had no withdrawals to speak of, which is a miracle in itself considering the amounts and types of meds my doctor had me on. However, I still wanted a darn cigarette. But, I made a promise to myself that I was done smoking, and as stubborn as I am, I was going to stick to it.
So...to the local gas station I went and ended up with a very expensive chinese made ego pen with a very nasty bottle of chinese juice that was supposed to be cherry flavored.
Let's just say...that was NOT going to work! Living in a small town, I didn't have many options, nor did I know much about the whole e cigarette thing at all. Well, I found V2 online. I ordered a nice kit, and that worked well for the first week until the cartridges started running low. Then the little box at the top of the V2 website that said "Vapor Couture" called to me...
I clicked it and saw all the pretty, blingy, flashy cigarette batteries. I had to have that kit!!! I am a very girly girl, and anything with pink or bling...well, it is hard to say no to! I had smoked Virginia Super Slim Menthols, So skinny cigarettes was my thing. Soooooo, I ordered another kit. I was so sure this would be it, that I ordered a few of each of the different colored batteries. $$$$$$$$
I did love Vapor Couture; however, I went through a few boxes of cartridges a day, and at $13 a box, I was not going to be able to justify spending that much for long....plus, the VC batteries didn't last long at all, and I found myself charging them non stop. So, I found Bullsmoke...and they had cartridges that fit on my old V2 batteries. They had a great sale where their boxes of carts were $4! I thought...wow! So I stocked waaay up. Well, I was using upwards to 15 cartridges a day because they must of been very old and dried out. Ugh!!!
I had to figure something else out...and fast. Well, my daughter informed me that there was a vape shop in the nearest city...so we took a short trip and visited my first vape shop. Oh, it was so fun! I got my first set up (I don't even know what it was called...just a simple stick looking thing with a button...lol). The juice was to die for and didn't even compare to the cartridges. Oh what I had been missing! I vaped all the way home and could of sworn I was in Heaven. Until that night! Having fibromyalgia, my muscles hurt alot and I get very weak...especially now that I'm off of all of my meds and just doing the vitamin route. The vaporizer that I had purchased was just to heavy and the button was way to hard to push, and I couldn't even move my left arm. So I took all my new juices and refilled my old burned out cartridges with them...yuck. A few days later, I went back and got a smaller Evod battery which is better, but I really want to just find that "dream" vaporizer for me. In time I'm sure I will...
Anyways, it's now been a month and a half since I started on this journey to new found health, and I have to say that I feel great! I'm still in pain alot of days, but atleast I'm in pain and have energy...I go on walks every day and never get out of breath. My kids all have been so proud of me and see me as a much happier person without the baggage of the cigarettes, coffee and meds. I don't regret buying all of the kits in the mail because it did help me quit smoking, but darn, I think of the many pretty pink Provari's I could buy with that money...LOL. I'm now down to the 4mg nicotine in one of my juices that I use just a few times a day, and the others are all zero. I hope to have eliminated the 4mg juice by next week.
Thank you for reading my story, and I do apologize for it being so long.
I finally decided to make an account after browsing this forum for several days...so hello!!! I am a 43 yr old "small town" country girl who has been a smoker off and on since I was about 15. I never had a problem quitting the five times I was pregnant with my children; however, I always went back to the nasty stinkies when they were out of the baby stage. In my mind, since I could always quit so easy before, I figured I could quit easy again...not so!
So move ahead about 12 years, and I start having a small midlife crisis and decide I want to get healthy and take better care of myself. My children and grandchildren mean the world to me, and I refuse to let them see me go down the path I have seen my mother go through with her cigarette smoking. She has chronic COPD and was told that she HAS to quit smoking...but she won't and continues to get sicker.
So anyways...I woke up April 23rd early in the morning in alot of pain (I have fibromyalgia). I was crying and very sad...I looked back on the last ten years of my life and realized that I had let my life be ruled by all of the medications that were over prescribed by my doctor (which weren't working obviously), my nasty cigarette addiction, and my 3 pot a day coffee addiction. I had had enough and decided that right then and there something was going to change! How could I possibly be healthy, have energy, and be pain free by putting all of these poisons into my body??? I wanted to be healthy for my husband, my children, and my grandchildren.
So...that morning, I guess you could say, I had a revelation. The first thing that I did was to throw the nasty cigarettes away! The next thing I did was to make a hot cup of tea with a splash of milk and honey (no coffee!). Then, I spent a long time googling all of my medications to make sure I wasn't in danger to go off of them cold turkey. I wasn't, thank goodness. Looking back, I should of consulted my doctor, but I am very stubborn, and I knew that she would talk me against doing it "my way!" So, down the toilet my meds went!
I laid back down that morning with a new sense of pride...knowing that I would be ok. However, when I woke back up, I kind of had an "oh my gosh, what did i do moment!" LOL. Giving up the coffee and meds wasn't hard at all believe it or not...I had no withdrawals to speak of, which is a miracle in itself considering the amounts and types of meds my doctor had me on. However, I still wanted a darn cigarette. But, I made a promise to myself that I was done smoking, and as stubborn as I am, I was going to stick to it.
So...to the local gas station I went and ended up with a very expensive chinese made ego pen with a very nasty bottle of chinese juice that was supposed to be cherry flavored.
Let's just say...that was NOT going to work! Living in a small town, I didn't have many options, nor did I know much about the whole e cigarette thing at all. Well, I found V2 online. I ordered a nice kit, and that worked well for the first week until the cartridges started running low. Then the little box at the top of the V2 website that said "Vapor Couture" called to me...I clicked it and saw all the pretty, blingy, flashy cigarette batteries. I had to have that kit!!! I am a very girly girl, and anything with pink or bling...well, it is hard to say no to!
I had smoked Virginia Super Slim Menthols, So skinny cigarettes was my thing. Soooooo, I ordered another kit. I was so sure this would be it, that I ordered a few of each of the different colored batteries. $$$$$$$$ I did love Vapor Couture; however, I went through a few boxes of cartridges a day, and at $13 a box, I was not going to be able to justify spending that much for long....plus, the VC batteries didn't last long at all, and I found myself charging them non stop. So, I found Bullsmoke...and they had cartridges that fit on my old V2 batteries. They had a great sale where their boxes of carts were $4! I thought...wow! So I stocked waaay up. Well, I was using upwards to 15 cartridges a day because they must of been very old and dried out. Ugh!!!I had to figure something else out...and fast. Well, my daughter informed me that there was a vape shop in the nearest city...so we took a short trip and visited my first vape shop. Oh, it was so fun! I got my first set up (I don't even know what it was called...just a simple stick looking thing with a button...lol). The juice was to die for and didn't even compare to the cartridges. Oh what I had been missing! I vaped all the way home and could of sworn I was in Heaven. Until that night! Having fibromyalgia, my muscles hurt alot and I get very weak...especially now that I'm off of all of my meds and just doing the vitamin route. The vaporizer that I had purchased was just to heavy and the button was way to hard to push, and I couldn't even move my left arm.
So I took all my new juices and refilled my old burned out cartridges with them...yuck. A few days later, I went back and got a smaller Evod battery which is better, but I really want to just find that "dream" vaporizer for me. In time I'm sure I will...Anyways, it's now been a month and a half since I started on this journey to new found health, and I have to say that I feel great! I'm still in pain alot of days, but atleast I'm in pain and have energy...I go on walks every day and never get out of breath. My kids all have been so proud of me and see me as a much happier person without the baggage of the cigarettes, coffee and meds. I don't regret buying all of the kits in the mail because it did help me quit smoking, but darn, I think of the many pretty pink Provari's I could buy with that money...LOL. I'm now down to the 4mg nicotine in one of my juices that I use just a few times a day, and the others are all zero. I hope to have eliminated the 4mg juice by next week.
Thank you for reading my story, and I do apologize for it being so long.
Good for you. I think...yeah...this is good. Right? I mean, it's coffee! How could you? I have Coffee Espresso juice. Two kinds. I guess my problem wasn't analogs after all.
