If you look down, you will see two meters in my signature. You will also notice the rather large discrepency between the two numbers: the date I starting vaping, versus the day I smoked my last cigarette.
Like many, I had a lot of luck when I first discovered vaping, and cut my cigarette consumption from 20-30 a day immediately to 3-8 a day.
And there I sat.
I played with a lot of models: the penstyle I began with, a 901, a 401, a Prodigy, a 510, a 510 with a 306 atomizer. I tried many liquids from prefilled carts, to Johnson Creek, to EcoPure, from PG to VG and back to PG again. And I still smoked 3-8 cigarettes a day.
And there I sat.
I had minor victories. Some days, if I didn't leave the house, I didn't smoke. I went whole days without a cigarette! Sometime last December, I even made it 3 whole days. But I'd go to work, and cigarettes were part of my daily routine. One before work. Two at lunch. One after work. One before bed.... 5 most days. Some a few more. Some a few less.
And there I sat.
And then one day, much as what had happened in December, I had several days off from work. I didn't leave the house. I didn't bother to go smoke.
Two days went by.
The next day I was off, but would be hanging out with my family -- mostly smokers. I left my pack in the car. "If I really can't handle it," I thought, "I can always bum one."
Three days went by.
It was time to return to work, but I decided that, at the very least, there would be no more smoking in the car. I cleaned it out and went to the really fancy carwash to get it all vacuumed and smelling nice.
Four days went by.
Finally, I looked at the pack of cigarettes I had kept in my glovebox. It was half full. But I live just down the store from a gas station. If I got really desperate, couldn't I always nip by and grab a pack if I really needed to?
Five days went by.
And suddenly, I found myself telling people the impossible: Yes, I've quit smoking. No, I haven't had a cigarette for a week, a week and a half...
Two weeks have almost passed.
And here, almost a year and a half from the time I picked up my first e-cigarette, I am not smoking. And I'm doing great. I'm calm. Not too high-strung. Not feeling deprived. Not even really craving a cigarette.
And here I sit.
Like many, I had a lot of luck when I first discovered vaping, and cut my cigarette consumption from 20-30 a day immediately to 3-8 a day.
And there I sat.
I played with a lot of models: the penstyle I began with, a 901, a 401, a Prodigy, a 510, a 510 with a 306 atomizer. I tried many liquids from prefilled carts, to Johnson Creek, to EcoPure, from PG to VG and back to PG again. And I still smoked 3-8 cigarettes a day.
And there I sat.
I had minor victories. Some days, if I didn't leave the house, I didn't smoke. I went whole days without a cigarette! Sometime last December, I even made it 3 whole days. But I'd go to work, and cigarettes were part of my daily routine. One before work. Two at lunch. One after work. One before bed.... 5 most days. Some a few more. Some a few less.
And there I sat.
And then one day, much as what had happened in December, I had several days off from work. I didn't leave the house. I didn't bother to go smoke.
Two days went by.
The next day I was off, but would be hanging out with my family -- mostly smokers. I left my pack in the car. "If I really can't handle it," I thought, "I can always bum one."
Three days went by.
It was time to return to work, but I decided that, at the very least, there would be no more smoking in the car. I cleaned it out and went to the really fancy carwash to get it all vacuumed and smelling nice.
Four days went by.
Finally, I looked at the pack of cigarettes I had kept in my glovebox. It was half full. But I live just down the store from a gas station. If I got really desperate, couldn't I always nip by and grab a pack if I really needed to?
Five days went by.
And suddenly, I found myself telling people the impossible: Yes, I've quit smoking. No, I haven't had a cigarette for a week, a week and a half...
Two weeks have almost passed.
And here, almost a year and a half from the time I picked up my first e-cigarette, I am not smoking. And I'm doing great. I'm calm. Not too high-strung. Not feeling deprived. Not even really craving a cigarette.
And here I sit.
) More evidence that everyone is completely different, and what works for one person won't necessarily work for another. There should be an archive with one each of all the different types of "quit" stories, so people can see how individual the process can be. It could be called the "Stop Freaking Out and Relax" archive.
