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.