Wow. I would sure love to hear from the folks in the 46-50 and over 50 years of smoking brackets. What's your story?
MYTH - E-cigarettes aimed at non-smokers
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I'm 52. Started smoking about age 12... but not seriously smoking until about age 19. I was up to between 2 and 3 packs a day when I got my e-cig several weeks ago. I didn't buy it to stop smoking. As a smoker I was just thinking "oh cool, another way to smoke."
Long story short... haven't had an analog since the day I got the e-cig. If they ban them I will surely go back to the analogs as I never intended to quit in the first place.
E-cigs are just better tasting. The fact that they are probably a lot healthier is just a side bonus to me. LOL
Long story short... haven't had an analog since the day I got the e-cig. If they ban them I will surely go back to the analogs as I never intended to quit in the first place.
E-cigs are just better tasting. The fact that they are probably a lot healthier is just a side bonus to me. LOL
Here I am
Smoked for 35 years (started @ 15). Tried to quit several times, once using Nicotrol w/wellbutrin-managed a whole year and was miserable till the last day of nonsmoking. I heard about e-cigs last summer and bought some cheap crap from Amazon.com. That was a total disaster and lasted a week or so. But I got an idea, and after intensive research (this forum helped ALOT!) I found the one I like. I've been vaping for 2 month, tobacco free and not looking back. Can't even stand the smell now.Hope the damn FDA doesn't ban this great thing and stops customs restrictions. Thanks for reading, and thank you for this poll!
Sorry, perhaps I'm just reading this wrong, as other people seem to have understood.....
but how are you 29 and smoked for 45 years?
I think part of the problem is the name E-cig. We should have been touting them as Personal Vaperizers. NO ONE cares about personal vaporizers. As soon as cigarettes are mentioned ,or smoking sessation, flags are going up everywhere.The verbage is as important as the product. The truth is:many people prefer this to smoking . The ad should read: ...I don't bother smoking any more... or ... far more convenient than smoking tobacco...
This would have made life easier for us vapers. Probably still could if we could refrain from any mention of cigs or e-cigs. I am for less regulation in my life, not more.
This would have made life easier for us vapers. Probably still could if we could refrain from any mention of cigs or e-cigs. I am for less regulation in my life, not more.
That was my issue. I hit it more when I start on 12oz curls, but now I keep a dropper of 18mg unflavored around (clearly marked) to add a drop or two when topping off for when the need arrives (3ml 24mg + 1mg PG = 18mg 4ml). I was topping off with 24mg +flavored (like 1-4mg) homebrew juice when having a few. I am trying to drop the top-offs-ads to 8mg, but it's hard.
One thing I noticed is even ejuice I cut to about 4mg or less used to choke me so I dropped it down more. I needed more nic, but was choking off the juice because it was too much. It doesn't bother me as much now. Just tough to drop it down, just like dropping down the number of smokes a day or smoking Calrtons instead. hehee.
I was an Doral/PallMall Ultra-Light smoker of about 30/day.
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Do you ever ask a woman her age?
As long as you don't ask, she is 29, because the answer was volunteered.
It's a stretching of the truth, by about "a year or two++".
One year my MIL found the perfect birthday card for me. The cover read "Happy 29th birthday." Inside it said, "We know you really are 29. You've been saying it for so many years that it must be true."
They say that all it requires for a lie to turn into "truth" is to repeat it often enough. Hey, if the anti-smoker movement can get the world to believe in stuff like the dangers of 3rd-hand smoke, why can't a gal hang on to her youth a little longer?
They say that all it requires for a lie to turn into "truth" is to repeat it often enough. Hey, if the anti-smoker movement can get the world to believe in stuff like the dangers of 3rd-hand smoke, why can't a gal hang on to her youth a little longer?
One year my MIL found the perfect birthday card for me. The cover read "Happy 29th birthday." Inside it said, "We know you really are 29. You've been saying it for so many years that it must be true."
They say that all it requires for a lie to turn into "truth" is to repeat it often enough. Hey, if the anti-smoker movement can get the world to believe in stuff like the dangers of 3rd-hand smoke, why can't a gal hang on to her youth a little longer?
hahaha! I really wasn't thinking about that. I just got confused because i'm a pretty literal person. I'm not trying to get you to give up that info! PS. my mother in law is 29 as well
I did it a little differently-
I just celebrated the 21st anniversary of my 29th birthday! (insert your favorite years)
For being on topic: I was 35 years a smoker; three days after my first 510 arrived in the mail, I smoked my last analog.
However- after 40+ attys, more than a dozen batteries,6 customs, DIY stuff, etc... I keep saying "I'll break even any day now". Then something new comes out!
The second best thing that has ever happened in my life (I'm a Dad)
I just celebrated the 21st anniversary of my 29th birthday! (insert your favorite years)
For being on topic: I was 35 years a smoker; three days after my first 510 arrived in the mail, I smoked my last analog.
However- after 40+ attys, more than a dozen batteries,6 customs, DIY stuff, etc... I keep saying "I'll break even any day now". Then something new comes out!
The second best thing that has ever happened in my life (I'm a Dad)
I did it a little differently-
I just celebrated the 21st anniversary of my 29th birthday! (insert your favorite years)
For being on topic: I was 35 years a smoker; three days after my first 510 arrived in the mail, I smoked my last analog.
However- after 40+ attys, more than a dozen batteries,6 customs, DIY stuff, etc... I keep saying "I'll break even any day now". Then something new comes out!
The second best thing that has ever happened in my life (I'm a Dad)
That sounds very very familiar, except that I just celebrated the 5th anniversary of my last birthday. In a nod to Logan's Run (& "Free Enterprise"), I did not have a birthday party after my 29th--I had a "Last Day" party instead.
I haven't been using the 510 quite as long, and I'm not certain that I've smoked my last analog quite yet, but the few I've tried to smoke since getting some new juice to try last week have been surprisingly disgusting to me...One drag and I'm ready to be done with the nasty thing.
Before I got my 510, I had a Smoking Everywhere model that had a bad atty and was mostly unused except when I ran out of analogs. My daughter spotted it one day and asked, "Isn't that better for you? You should use that instead!" I think she likes that I don't have to leave the room or push her away every time I want a smoke. So, it might be the second best thing that has happened in my life...the first best thing appreciates it too.
I have wanted to quit smoking for several years now, but couldn't convince my wife to quit. I would quit for a week and then start smoking hers. I had given up on quitting until she quit. Until I found the e-cig. I tried to smoke one of hers the other night, because I had left mine home. After 2 or 3 drags I stomped it out, and went home to get my e-cig. I ain't never goin back.
Smoked for 3 years on and off. My girlfriend hates it and can't stand to be around it, and has asthma to boot, so I decided to kick the habit. I tried 4 times with no luck but witht eh e-cig it's been easy.
I smoked for 46 years, I started in high school when I was 14, they let us have a cigarette break after lunch, but that ended with the first Surgeon General's report on smoking.
I like the law that prohibits those under 18 from smoking, but I still see kids smoking, one even asked me for a cigarette, but I refused and told him he was too young to smoke. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
Like many of you, I didn't intend to quit smoking when I bought my first e-cig two months ago, but the more I used the e-cig, the less I liked analog cigarettes. It has been two weeks since I lit up!
I was going into a store yesterday, and I could smell cigarette smoke before I even got close to the entrance! Sure enough, there was a woman smoking a cigarette near the front door. I had to hold my breath when I passed her, because I couldn't stand the smell. Can you believe it! After smoking most of my life and only two weeks not smoking, I can't stand the smell anymore!
Vocalek, I voted in your poll and I sent you a couple of PM's.
Joye 510 and a KR808D-1
I like the law that prohibits those under 18 from smoking, but I still see kids smoking, one even asked me for a cigarette, but I refused and told him he was too young to smoke. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
Like many of you, I didn't intend to quit smoking when I bought my first e-cig two months ago, but the more I used the e-cig, the less I liked analog cigarettes. It has been two weeks since I lit up!
I was going into a store yesterday, and I could smell cigarette smoke before I even got close to the entrance! Sure enough, there was a woman smoking a cigarette near the front door. I had to hold my breath when I passed her, because I couldn't stand the smell. Can you believe it! After smoking most of my life and only two weeks not smoking, I can't stand the smell anymore!
Vocalek, I voted in your poll and I sent you a couple of PM's.
Joye 510 and a KR808D-1
I started smoking about 16 years ago - averaged a pack per day (as high as two packs at times) until june of this year. I have quit analogs all but entirely - one here and there if I run out of juice or a battery dies. I have smoked less in the past five months than I smoked in any week prior to receiving my 306.
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