Hello folks!
Well, after lurking for a few days, I decided to sign on up.
I'm a 31-year-old woman from the middle of the Canadian prairie. Like so many people, I picked up smoking as a 16-year-old looking to gain acceptance, or to feel grown-up. It turned into a 15-year pack or pack-and-a-half-a-day habit (25 in a pack here, so that was 25 to 35 cigarettes a day) that, for the last five years, I tried helplessly to break. The most success I ever had was in October, where I made it just under a month after reading the Allen Carr book. Then after a night of drinking, I lost the quit, and couldn't get the mindset back. I felt helpless, ashamed, and horrible.
Smoking is the worst thing that ever happened to me. vaping, though, could well be the best.
I'd read about e-cigarettes recently, and tried buying a kit from the local drug store, though those ones distributed here contain no nicotine in the juice, and I lost interest before I even tried. But when a friend and even longer time smoker posted on Facebook his amazement at vaping, I decided not to think twice and jumped right in. I ordered a starter Evod kit that night.
It arrived on Saturday afternoon with two juices (smooth tobacco in 12mg and chocolate mint in 18mg) from what I now, thanks to ECF, understand to be a rather low-quality e-juice supplier -- happily, although I don't mind the current juices, I have shipments from Heather's Heavenly Vapes, Mt. Baker Vapors and Alice in Vapeland already on the way.
The last time I bought a pack of cigarettes was Friday. I had three cigarettes left when my Evod arrived, chain-smoked them on Sunday to get rid of them -- and although it's still new I am honestly in shock that I have no desire to buy any more. I have never been able to be off cigarettes this easily.
Best of all is the money savings -- cigarettes are $14 a pack where I live, and I was spending more on cigarettes in a month than my mortgage. In just five days, I've already saved up almost the entire cost of the starter kit and juices. By the end of next week, I'll have saved enough in not-smoking to cover all of my expenses, including the several months' worth of e-juices I just ordered.
Already, I feel so much better physically -- more active, less exhausted. My constant, chronic cough and phlegm has already begun to subside. My long-blocked sinuses are already opened up -- I can breathe better, and my chest doesn't rattle when I inhale deeply. I feel cleaner inside, somehow. My sense of smell is coming back. Every day I feel a little bit better. Best of all are all the little moments, the little things: instead of having to get up and schlep outside for a cigarette, I can stay in bed and cuddle with my boyfriend and have a little vape. The first time I did that, I almost cried, not having my addiction dent intimacy the way it always did.
My clothes don't stink anymore. My house doesn't stink. At the end of the day, my hair still smells great and my skin still smells like my favourite Lush lemon-coconut soap, instead of tar and tobacco. My breath is better, and I'm so much less self-conscious about talking to people or kissing my gentleman companion. It had gotten to the point where I felt ashamed and gross even walking past people, knowing they could smell the cigarette stink on me when I came in from a smoke. Now I never have to worry about that again -- most people tell me they can't smell the vapor, those that do think it smells nice.
Interestingly, my boyfriend told me yesterday he already sees immediate changes in me. Although I never noticed it, he told me he was aware of how I'd constantly be on a rollercoaster between cigarettes, and how after an hour since my last smoke he could see me getting more agitated, less focused, slightly more testy. Now, he says, I'm more relaxed, more even.
I'm so happy I discovered vaping. I'm so excited about what this is going to do for me.
My long-term plan is to settle in with vaping, then slowly stage down the nicotine levels. I'm starting with some at 18mg and some at 12mg. Eventually I'll move down to 12mg and keep slowly bumping it down until I can wean off nicotine entirely. That's the plan -- although if it doesn't happen, I think I can be comfortable just staying with vaping.
Thanks to all for reading, and thanks to all who contributed all the excellent information on this forum. I have been on here almost constantly for the last four days learning about vaping and e-juices, and am really excited to get started on this journey.
Well, after lurking for a few days, I decided to sign on up.
I'm a 31-year-old woman from the middle of the Canadian prairie. Like so many people, I picked up smoking as a 16-year-old looking to gain acceptance, or to feel grown-up. It turned into a 15-year pack or pack-and-a-half-a-day habit (25 in a pack here, so that was 25 to 35 cigarettes a day) that, for the last five years, I tried helplessly to break. The most success I ever had was in October, where I made it just under a month after reading the Allen Carr book. Then after a night of drinking, I lost the quit, and couldn't get the mindset back. I felt helpless, ashamed, and horrible.
Smoking is the worst thing that ever happened to me. vaping, though, could well be the best.
I'd read about e-cigarettes recently, and tried buying a kit from the local drug store, though those ones distributed here contain no nicotine in the juice, and I lost interest before I even tried. But when a friend and even longer time smoker posted on Facebook his amazement at vaping, I decided not to think twice and jumped right in. I ordered a starter Evod kit that night.
It arrived on Saturday afternoon with two juices (smooth tobacco in 12mg and chocolate mint in 18mg) from what I now, thanks to ECF, understand to be a rather low-quality e-juice supplier -- happily, although I don't mind the current juices, I have shipments from Heather's Heavenly Vapes, Mt. Baker Vapors and Alice in Vapeland already on the way.
The last time I bought a pack of cigarettes was Friday. I had three cigarettes left when my Evod arrived, chain-smoked them on Sunday to get rid of them -- and although it's still new I am honestly in shock that I have no desire to buy any more. I have never been able to be off cigarettes this easily.
Best of all is the money savings -- cigarettes are $14 a pack where I live, and I was spending more on cigarettes in a month than my mortgage. In just five days, I've already saved up almost the entire cost of the starter kit and juices. By the end of next week, I'll have saved enough in not-smoking to cover all of my expenses, including the several months' worth of e-juices I just ordered.
Already, I feel so much better physically -- more active, less exhausted. My constant, chronic cough and phlegm has already begun to subside. My long-blocked sinuses are already opened up -- I can breathe better, and my chest doesn't rattle when I inhale deeply. I feel cleaner inside, somehow. My sense of smell is coming back. Every day I feel a little bit better. Best of all are all the little moments, the little things: instead of having to get up and schlep outside for a cigarette, I can stay in bed and cuddle with my boyfriend and have a little vape. The first time I did that, I almost cried, not having my addiction dent intimacy the way it always did.
My clothes don't stink anymore. My house doesn't stink. At the end of the day, my hair still smells great and my skin still smells like my favourite Lush lemon-coconut soap, instead of tar and tobacco. My breath is better, and I'm so much less self-conscious about talking to people or kissing my gentleman companion. It had gotten to the point where I felt ashamed and gross even walking past people, knowing they could smell the cigarette stink on me when I came in from a smoke. Now I never have to worry about that again -- most people tell me they can't smell the vapor, those that do think it smells nice.
Interestingly, my boyfriend told me yesterday he already sees immediate changes in me. Although I never noticed it, he told me he was aware of how I'd constantly be on a rollercoaster between cigarettes, and how after an hour since my last smoke he could see me getting more agitated, less focused, slightly more testy. Now, he says, I'm more relaxed, more even.
I'm so happy I discovered vaping. I'm so excited about what this is going to do for me.
My long-term plan is to settle in with vaping, then slowly stage down the nicotine levels. I'm starting with some at 18mg and some at 12mg. Eventually I'll move down to 12mg and keep slowly bumping it down until I can wean off nicotine entirely. That's the plan -- although if it doesn't happen, I think I can be comfortable just staying with vaping.
Thanks to all for reading, and thanks to all who contributed all the excellent information on this forum. I have been on here almost constantly for the last four days learning about vaping and e-juices, and am really excited to get started on this journey.
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