New day starts to vape

[P2PLeon]

For those who were wondering what my threshold is to smoking. I have still been doing the no-no.

I just cannot get past not smoking, and will try my hardest not to touch another cigarette.

Even if I can do a few hours I would like to do more. But with the quick release of nicotine from cigarettes, I am lacking willpower alone.

So as of 7:30 PM, I will only be vaping and hope I can do a day, as I need to with my health as I have narrow airways and smoking just exacerbates it.

 

[UncLeJunkLe]

Even if I can do a few hours I would like to do more. But with the quick release of nicotine from cigarettes, I am lacking willpower alone.

Do you have any hard scientific evidence that smoking nicotine in tobacco is released faster than vaping it in a PG/VG solution?

 

[P2PLeon]

Considering it is seconds to get into the bloodstream as opposed to 5 minutes of vaping.

I can see your argument as it is topped up by continuing to vape, as opposed to lighting another cigarette up to get the same amount.

 

[P2PLeon]

2:30 in and I am dying for a ciggy.

But I must continue.

 

[smacuser]

Go Leon!

 

[P2PLeon]

Only lasted 3:30 before I took up smoking again.

Today I bought a disposable vape from Elfbar. Strawberry and banana.

2% and it must be salts.

I like the flavour and is not evasive to kick me off coughing.

 

[P2PLeon]

So far I have had 6 in the space of 5 hours.

I am now going to vape because flavourful.

 

[UncLeJunkLe]

I am now going to vape because flavourful.

That's right, cigarettes taste like a. Stick with vape.

 

[UncLeJunkLe]

My best friend/roommate in college, his parents went to a hypnotist (16 years prior to when we were roommates) to quit smoking and it worked for them. Perhaps this is something you can look into? I don't normally suggest things like this but being in your situation I would personally at least consider it.

 

[DaveP]

Only lasted 3:30 before I took up smoking again.

Today I bought a disposable vape from Elfbar. Strawberry and banana.

2% and it must be salts.

I like the flavour and is not evasive to kick me off coughing.

I quit my two pack a day smoking habit using 24mg vape juice, which is approximately comparable to a Marlboro Red or a Winston. The first week I'd vape and smoke and I smoked only 3 cigs a day by the end of the first week. As time went on, I got used to the vape and just quit smoking. 24mg juice satisfied me at that point. I finished my last pack and never bought another. Over the next few months my ability to walk distances and maintain normal breathing under load increased noticeably.

That was back in 2010 and I haven't smoked a cigarette since. It wasn't long after starting to vape that I began to reach 98%-99% oxygen levels using a finger tip Pulse/O2 sensor. I still get those O2 levels today. I really wish I had tested my Oxygen levels before quitting smoking, just for comparison.

The real benefit was that I could tell a real difference during exercise. I could go much longer without getting winded.

 

[P2PLeon]

@DaveP can you remember the date you quit.

I would have quit in 2016 from 5th October to 14th November.

I just wish I never took up smoking again.

 

[DaveP]

@DaveP can you remember the date you quit.

I would have quit in 2016 from 5th October to 14th November.

I just wish I never took up smoking again.

As my tagline says in my post ... I remember the day, but not the actual date.
"Vaping since 2010. Not one cigarette smoked since then!"

I started vaping in early 2010 and dual used for part of my first year vaping and finally decided that I didn't need the nic from burning tobacco. By that time I was only smoking after a meal and one before I turned in for the night.

Once I tapered down on the cigs, it was easy to toss them as long as I could vape. I just decided to finish the last pack of Marlboro Lights and never bought another.

 

[P2PLeon]

I think I am in a state of repetition as no matter what I do I always smoke. And smoking is not good, and my lungs are not good, and also my throat.

Each time I light a cigarette, I can inhale but try and kick back I cough to a state that I either go out of it or I just profusely cough.

Same with Ecigs.


This is because I want to quit smoking but my determination has plundered a lot. And I am forever seeing myself as a failure.

No matter what I do I cough. Mother says I inhale too much in vapour or even cigarettes. And she is determined that I have ....ed up my throat because of ecigs.

True that I could once smoke 40 in a day and not cough. And that was when I relapsed into a state of paranoia.

Deep down inside I either know that I will never quit or I am destined to fail no matter how long I go without smoking.

 

[Territoo]

No Leon, your mother is wrong. You ed up your lungs from smoking, not vaping. I don't know what it's going to take to get you to quit smoking. Maybe this pic of a man on oxygen using an inhaler will help.

 

[UncLeJunkLe]

No Leon, your mother is wrong. You ed up your lungs from smoking, not vaping. I don't know what it's going to take to get you to quit smoking. Maybe this pic of a man on oxygen using an inhaler will help.
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And this is coming from a mother who makes her desperately-trying-to-quit son go buy her cigarettes for her. What a terrible situation.

 

[P2PLeon]

I wonder how many people on this forum have parents that will not quit smoking even if you tell them the truth. And then turn around and give the emphasis of faked news articles about COPD, cancer, second-hand smoke, or any other concocted findings.

My father died of a smoking-related illness, my nana & grandad also on my mother's side. My dad's dad died of smoking with a heart attack.

I guess I will be destined to die from the same thing.

My happy memories of vaping were in the 2nd week of quitting and I thought I might aswell do this. Or else I will be forever smoking.

When I was very active on UKVAPERS.ORG I created a Stoptober thread, in which I quit on the 5th October, as I tried to tally down my smoking in the early days, of the nation no smoking month here in England.


This was back in 2016 and did not believe I could go a whole month and a bit without smoking, right up until the 14th November of the same year. As I wicked and tried a friends juice. I could not get any flavour and I still had 8 in my mothers pocket.

And you know the rest.



Even as I type I am fighting back the coughs from smoking and vaping.


Now that I have made the switch I will have to persevere and not smoke any more.

 

[UncLeJunkLe]

And you know the rest.

Boy, do we ever

 

[zoiDman]

I think I am in a state of repetition as no matter what I do I always smoke.

It really just gets this P2PLeon...

Your Need to Quit has to be Greater than Your Desire to Smoke.

Deep down inside I either know that I will never quit or I am destined to fail no matter how long I go without smoking.

So what would be wrong with Excepting the Fact that Maybe you are Not Ready to Quit Yet? And just Focus on Only Smoking 5 or 6 Cigarettes a Day.

I Didn't pick up and e-Cigarette, take 3 Hits, and then Never Smoked again. I needed to get to where I used the e-Cigarette 1/2 of the time. Then 3/4 of the Time. Then Only Smoking 2 or 3 Cigarettes a Day. Then maybe going a Full Day. With 2 or 3 Cigarettes the Next Day.

It Wasn't Until I went 3 Days without a Cigarette that I Knew Quitting 100% was Possible. And it took me about 6 Months to get there. So Quit Kicking Yourself.

Start Looking at ANY Amount that you Don't Smoke as a Victory. Instead of Any Amount that you Smoke as a Failure.

You Can Do It P2PLeon.

 

[smacuser]

It took only 7 years just to get to this point .

 

[ShowMeTwice]

@P2PLeon, I'm not going to go back and read this thread from page 1.

So, I have a question, one that has very likely been asked more than once. Have you tried increasing the nic in your vape juice?

Also, I am 1000% certain this has been said, and likely more than a couple times, zoiDman just posted the same thing...

You Have To Want To Quit Smoking Cigs!!!

From the posts of yours I've read, you currently are making excuses in order to continue smoking.

Quitting smoking cigs is a mind game. You need to be the one in control of the game. Not your cigs. As it is now, your cigs have more power over you than you over them.

As others have already said... You can do this! Many have. So can You.