Success for each of us is very individual. For some people so long as they aren't smoking they have succeeded, for others they want to put it all behind them, to include vaping someday. I am in the later category.
It has been brought to my attention that not everyone on the forum knows I stopped vaping. (Thanks @Katdarling ) So I thought I'd share with those who are old timers as well as newcomers my story; my own journey to a smoke free, and currently vape free life.
I began vaping a little hopeless. I had tried to quit smoking so many times, using every method known to man, quite unsuccessfully. So I had little to no hope vaping would actually help get me off the smokes and saw it as just another money pit.
However, my health had finally deteriorated to the point walking to my mailbox required rest stops to catch my breath, and doing simple housework was making my lips turn blue.
Something had to give so it was with desperation that I bought an Ego battery with a ce4 kit on June 4, 2014. My first ejuice was purchased from Carolina Flavors back then.. same day.
I was dying miserably, so I was giving myself one more chance to quit smoking. I had my doctors approval, she was very supportive and explained vaping was much safer than smoking, and that it was a valid way to quit. But I'm not sure it mattered, I wasn't personally hopeful it would work .
So, on the day the ego and ejuice arrived in the mail I charged the battery read the instructions and proceeded to put down a 32 year long 2 PAD smoking habit.
I didn't smoke for two full weeks and it wasn't always easy as my husband was a smoker who smoked around me. But I was determined. Through the coughing, hackin and withdrawal hell, which I had both in spades, I stood firm and chain vaped my rear end off.. I'm not even sure I put that ego down to sleep, it was my lifeline.
But I made it through. At the two week mark I had a moment of weakness and broke down and lit up. My God that was horrible. The taste? Wow..I hadn't remembered it tasting quite that bad, but my cinnamon roll and baked goods ejuice had me spoiled by this time. I put out that cigarette and didn't pick another one up again.
My health improved dramatically, I could breathe better than I could ever remember breathing. My blood pressure dropped and my unrelated pain levels dropped as well. I was a new person, with a new lease on life.
After a year of vaping I realized I was leaving the house without my vape and not missing it, that I was going longer and longer periods of time without vaping. And for the first time it struck me, I wasn't addicted to vaping the way I was addicted to smoking. And for the first time I realized, I can quit vaping! So the next day I threw away all my vape gear to make the break easier, and proceeded to attempt to quit vaping.
Well, there were many things I hadn't taken into consideration, the fact that I had a 32 year hand to mouth habit was definitely one. Quitting was more difficult than I had first imagined and I was ill prepared for the difficulty level.
At the first stressful moment I caved and bummed a smoke from my husband who was still smoking in the house... and one cigarette led to another which led to a pack which led to a carton and before I knew it I was smoking again.
At one point I realized I was stupid smoking when all I had to do was buy more vape gear, so i bought another ego etc (it worked the first time) and proceeded to quit smoking again. Yea! I was successful ... again.
This time I was scared to even try to quit vaping again. I saw myself as a hopeless addict and vaping as the only thing that stood between me and cigarettes. But that mindset isn't a positive one for my soul, so at one point I determined to try quitting vaping again. August 2016 I believe it was.. (I never wrote that down though so can't be positive)
I made a very serious attempt to quit that time, and I took lesson from my previous failure - i didn't throw away my vape gear, went a couple weeks without nicotine first, and was emotionally prepared for what was to come.
I succeeded... I was quit until about February 2018, about 5 months.. and then when I caved it was at least for a vape and not a cigarette.
When I came back to vaping last year i always said that one fine day I was going to wake up and be ready to put vaping behind me for good, I'd just be done, no warning at all.
That day was February 28 2018. I woke up and never took the first drag. I was, and am, just done. This is different than the other two quit attempts by far and that I can't explain. And while i can't promise that I'll never vape again, I've hit the pinnacle for me... I'm not smoking. I'm not an addict. I can walk away from vaping and it's not even that difficult this time. I'm satisfied.
Almost 4 years ago I was a smoker who was so addicted my kids told me I was going to die an old lady sucking on oxygen with emphysema still trying to suck down a cigarette... my son actually laughed when I told him I was going to try to switch to vaping.. said I'd never be able to quit.
And here I am today, just free. Free.
I have all of you long timers to thank, as all of you helped me learn and helped me get to this point. I have the inventors of vaping to thank as well, without them I'd be dead.
In short, if your on the fence about vaping don't be. It can save your life if you let it. You get out of it whatever you want to get out of it.
And I wanted freedom. I got it.
It has been brought to my attention that not everyone on the forum knows I stopped vaping. (Thanks @Katdarling ) So I thought I'd share with those who are old timers as well as newcomers my story; my own journey to a smoke free, and currently vape free life.
I began vaping a little hopeless. I had tried to quit smoking so many times, using every method known to man, quite unsuccessfully. So I had little to no hope vaping would actually help get me off the smokes and saw it as just another money pit.
However, my health had finally deteriorated to the point walking to my mailbox required rest stops to catch my breath, and doing simple housework was making my lips turn blue.
Something had to give so it was with desperation that I bought an Ego battery with a ce4 kit on June 4, 2014. My first ejuice was purchased from Carolina Flavors back then.. same day.
I was dying miserably, so I was giving myself one more chance to quit smoking. I had my doctors approval, she was very supportive and explained vaping was much safer than smoking, and that it was a valid way to quit. But I'm not sure it mattered, I wasn't personally hopeful it would work .
So, on the day the ego and ejuice arrived in the mail I charged the battery read the instructions and proceeded to put down a 32 year long 2 PAD smoking habit.
I didn't smoke for two full weeks and it wasn't always easy as my husband was a smoker who smoked around me. But I was determined. Through the coughing, hackin and withdrawal hell, which I had both in spades, I stood firm and chain vaped my rear end off.. I'm not even sure I put that ego down to sleep, it was my lifeline.
But I made it through. At the two week mark I had a moment of weakness and broke down and lit up. My God that was horrible. The taste? Wow..I hadn't remembered it tasting quite that bad, but my cinnamon roll and baked goods ejuice had me spoiled by this time. I put out that cigarette and didn't pick another one up again.
My health improved dramatically, I could breathe better than I could ever remember breathing. My blood pressure dropped and my unrelated pain levels dropped as well. I was a new person, with a new lease on life.
After a year of vaping I realized I was leaving the house without my vape and not missing it, that I was going longer and longer periods of time without vaping. And for the first time it struck me, I wasn't addicted to vaping the way I was addicted to smoking. And for the first time I realized, I can quit vaping! So the next day I threw away all my vape gear to make the break easier, and proceeded to attempt to quit vaping.
Well, there were many things I hadn't taken into consideration, the fact that I had a 32 year hand to mouth habit was definitely one. Quitting was more difficult than I had first imagined and I was ill prepared for the difficulty level.
At the first stressful moment I caved and bummed a smoke from my husband who was still smoking in the house... and one cigarette led to another which led to a pack which led to a carton and before I knew it I was smoking again.
At one point I realized I was stupid smoking when all I had to do was buy more vape gear, so i bought another ego etc (it worked the first time) and proceeded to quit smoking again. Yea! I was successful ... again.
This time I was scared to even try to quit vaping again. I saw myself as a hopeless addict and vaping as the only thing that stood between me and cigarettes. But that mindset isn't a positive one for my soul, so at one point I determined to try quitting vaping again. August 2016 I believe it was.. (I never wrote that down though so can't be positive)
I made a very serious attempt to quit that time, and I took lesson from my previous failure - i didn't throw away my vape gear, went a couple weeks without nicotine first, and was emotionally prepared for what was to come.
I succeeded... I was quit until about February 2018, about 5 months.. and then when I caved it was at least for a vape and not a cigarette.
When I came back to vaping last year i always said that one fine day I was going to wake up and be ready to put vaping behind me for good, I'd just be done, no warning at all.
That day was February 28 2018. I woke up and never took the first drag. I was, and am, just done. This is different than the other two quit attempts by far and that I can't explain. And while i can't promise that I'll never vape again, I've hit the pinnacle for me... I'm not smoking. I'm not an addict. I can walk away from vaping and it's not even that difficult this time. I'm satisfied.
Almost 4 years ago I was a smoker who was so addicted my kids told me I was going to die an old lady sucking on oxygen with emphysema still trying to suck down a cigarette... my son actually laughed when I told him I was going to try to switch to vaping.. said I'd never be able to quit.
And here I am today, just free. Free.
I have all of you long timers to thank, as all of you helped me learn and helped me get to this point. I have the inventors of vaping to thank as well, without them I'd be dead.
In short, if your on the fence about vaping don't be. It can save your life if you let it. You get out of it whatever you want to get out of it.
And I wanted freedom. I got it.
it's amazing!
