Hello all.
I'm new to these forums and relatively new to vaping. I started off quite a few years ago, with a Totally Wicked set which was definitely basic and suited my needs at the time. At that point in time, I didn't really use vaping as a full time harm reduction strategy and neither did I wish to give up smoking analogs - it was merely just to try out this new and blatantly awesome technology. After just a few months, I ceased to use the kit and carried on with my analog smoking.
Fast-forward two years and, at the age of 18, I was now smoking anywhere from 30 to 40 cigarettes per day (and on rare occasions, a whole lot more). I'd now reached the stage that eventually almost every analog smoker reaches at some point in their life: the want and the need to quit. Due to spiralling monthly costs to live, it was easy for me to see that I needed to adjust my budgeting and make a few changes to what my money gets spent on. Half of my weekly income went on cigarettes, which really wasn't something that I could justify as a necessity to survive. In fact: I was spending half of all the money I earn on poisoning myself and gradually making it harder for myself to breathe.
My grandfather passed away from lung cancer, which had spread to his spine and the bones in most of his limbs. He had been a smoker until the age of around 75 but quit when he started experiencing simple colds at a much higher severity than he used to. Of course, he related the smoking to the worsening of coughs and chest infections but he put the rest down to old age. Around 6 years later, he was diagnosed with cancer and he died a couple of years after that. He'd quit smoking but, very unfortunately, he did so too late. That was just over 1 year and 2 months ago.
So my motives for leaving those dirty, smelly, expensive and unnecessary analogs in the past were both financially and medically based. Over the past year I have tried pretty much all NRT products available on the market: patches, gum, oral spray, inhalator, lozenges and the horrible nasal spray. I've even been to an Allen Carr's EASYWAY seminar and that, though effective for a day or two, didn't work as well as I'd have liked.
There is another answer though, which may not help me to completely leave the nicotine trap, but to lower both the cost and the harm of smoking whilst still continuing to consume nicotine in a way that replicates smoking to the finest details: vaping. I decided to invest in a new Vaping kit and 48 hours in I couldn't be happier. Since I've started Vaping full-time, I haven't touched a single one of those horrible analogs and I feel safe in the knowledge that I won't need to touch one in the future.
I'm not a smoker - no smoke enters my lungs now. I'm a member of the Vaping community and, because of that, I'm going to be a healthier individual.
Here in the UK, there are no laws regarding e-cigarettes as of yet. However, many businesses have now banned the use of e-cigarettes in their premises'. This is a terrible injustice and as such I am deeply annoyed and empathetic with the news of the possible bill to ban online sales of ejuices and such in the state of California. I've encountered a few youngsters to buy e-cigarettes and use them for a short time before no longer using them but they didn't buy them online! They bought them from the convenience stores. I'm sure that the vast majority of online sales of ecigs and juices are in fact made by people at the age of 18 and over.
This is kind of a sensitive issue to bring up but I believe it is of relevance. I asked my psychiatrist whether there would be any possibility of trying Chantix (Champix here in the UK and Europe) or switching my antidepressant to Wellbutrin to help with quitting smoking at my most recent appointment. As I'd expected it was a categorical "No." Chantix is in fact not suitable for people with a history of suicide attempts and mental illness, especially for illnesses such as Bipolar Disorder, which I am diagnosed with. Now this is why this is relevant: the NHS does not recommend the use of electronic cigarettes whatsoever and staff of the NHS aren't supposed to recommend their use. My NHS psychiatrist, however, recommended that I try to use an electronic cigarette as an alternative to smoking tobacco. I believe that this shows at least a partial increase in support for Vaping and the benefits over tobacco smoking it provides.
Nice to be on the forums.
I'm new to these forums and relatively new to vaping. I started off quite a few years ago, with a Totally Wicked set which was definitely basic and suited my needs at the time. At that point in time, I didn't really use vaping as a full time harm reduction strategy and neither did I wish to give up smoking analogs - it was merely just to try out this new and blatantly awesome technology. After just a few months, I ceased to use the kit and carried on with my analog smoking.
Fast-forward two years and, at the age of 18, I was now smoking anywhere from 30 to 40 cigarettes per day (and on rare occasions, a whole lot more). I'd now reached the stage that eventually almost every analog smoker reaches at some point in their life: the want and the need to quit. Due to spiralling monthly costs to live, it was easy for me to see that I needed to adjust my budgeting and make a few changes to what my money gets spent on. Half of my weekly income went on cigarettes, which really wasn't something that I could justify as a necessity to survive. In fact: I was spending half of all the money I earn on poisoning myself and gradually making it harder for myself to breathe.
My grandfather passed away from lung cancer, which had spread to his spine and the bones in most of his limbs. He had been a smoker until the age of around 75 but quit when he started experiencing simple colds at a much higher severity than he used to. Of course, he related the smoking to the worsening of coughs and chest infections but he put the rest down to old age. Around 6 years later, he was diagnosed with cancer and he died a couple of years after that. He'd quit smoking but, very unfortunately, he did so too late. That was just over 1 year and 2 months ago.
So my motives for leaving those dirty, smelly, expensive and unnecessary analogs in the past were both financially and medically based. Over the past year I have tried pretty much all NRT products available on the market: patches, gum, oral spray, inhalator, lozenges and the horrible nasal spray. I've even been to an Allen Carr's EASYWAY seminar and that, though effective for a day or two, didn't work as well as I'd have liked.
There is another answer though, which may not help me to completely leave the nicotine trap, but to lower both the cost and the harm of smoking whilst still continuing to consume nicotine in a way that replicates smoking to the finest details: vaping. I decided to invest in a new Vaping kit and 48 hours in I couldn't be happier. Since I've started Vaping full-time, I haven't touched a single one of those horrible analogs and I feel safe in the knowledge that I won't need to touch one in the future.
I'm not a smoker - no smoke enters my lungs now. I'm a member of the Vaping community and, because of that, I'm going to be a healthier individual.
Here in the UK, there are no laws regarding e-cigarettes as of yet. However, many businesses have now banned the use of e-cigarettes in their premises'. This is a terrible injustice and as such I am deeply annoyed and empathetic with the news of the possible bill to ban online sales of ejuices and such in the state of California. I've encountered a few youngsters to buy e-cigarettes and use them for a short time before no longer using them but they didn't buy them online! They bought them from the convenience stores. I'm sure that the vast majority of online sales of ecigs and juices are in fact made by people at the age of 18 and over.
This is kind of a sensitive issue to bring up but I believe it is of relevance. I asked my psychiatrist whether there would be any possibility of trying Chantix (Champix here in the UK and Europe) or switching my antidepressant to Wellbutrin to help with quitting smoking at my most recent appointment. As I'd expected it was a categorical "No." Chantix is in fact not suitable for people with a history of suicide attempts and mental illness, especially for illnesses such as Bipolar Disorder, which I am diagnosed with. Now this is why this is relevant: the NHS does not recommend the use of electronic cigarettes whatsoever and staff of the NHS aren't supposed to recommend their use. My NHS psychiatrist, however, recommended that I try to use an electronic cigarette as an alternative to smoking tobacco. I believe that this shows at least a partial increase in support for Vaping and the benefits over tobacco smoking it provides.
Nice to be on the forums.
