Hello,
I figured since I Need 5 or more posts to post in other threads I would introduce myself. I started smoking when I was 14 and quickly became a pack a day or more chain smoker. Smoking rapidly evolved from fun and enjoyable to disgusting, health obliterating but absolutely fiendishly necessary. I tried all the nrt products with pitiful results. Finally after multiple failed cold turkey attempts I succeeded, 8 years after my 1st puff, and only by literally staying inside and away from everyone and everything for the 1st few weeks. It took a full year for all the cravings, nightmares and general ill feelings to subside. And then it was great, I was a true non-smoker, I didn't want a smoke at all... That is until 5 years later one night and 25 ish drinks too many, a girl put a cigarette in my mouth and well... back to a pack a day in no time. Another 5 years passed hating every day as a smoker but unwilling to attempt another serious quit knowing what it took for me to succeed. I just couldnt do it, by now real life responsibilities demanded that I couldnt lock myself in a room for month just to get started. I did try the electronic cigarettes around 2007ish, the ones that looked like cigarettes, but they were absolute crap. Just when I was contemplating the idea that I might never be able to quit and that I would surely die before 45 from heart attack or cancer, I got myself an ecig starter kit and without even planning to quit right away I found that I loved it and I didnt want a cigarette. And so here I am. A vapor. Maybe I'll quit vaping at some point maybe I'll cut down, but I don't care, it doesn't matter. What matters is I'm not coughing up disgusting .... hoping no one saw it. My blood pressure doesn't feel like it's going to explode. I don't stink. I don't have that awful ashtray taste in my mouth that makes me want to brush my teeth all day long. And I'm not dropping 400-500$/month on a stupid habit that I hate.
It hasn't been long but there's no going back now.
Nick
I figured since I Need 5 or more posts to post in other threads I would introduce myself. I started smoking when I was 14 and quickly became a pack a day or more chain smoker. Smoking rapidly evolved from fun and enjoyable to disgusting, health obliterating but absolutely fiendishly necessary. I tried all the nrt products with pitiful results. Finally after multiple failed cold turkey attempts I succeeded, 8 years after my 1st puff, and only by literally staying inside and away from everyone and everything for the 1st few weeks. It took a full year for all the cravings, nightmares and general ill feelings to subside. And then it was great, I was a true non-smoker, I didn't want a smoke at all... That is until 5 years later one night and 25 ish drinks too many, a girl put a cigarette in my mouth and well... back to a pack a day in no time. Another 5 years passed hating every day as a smoker but unwilling to attempt another serious quit knowing what it took for me to succeed. I just couldnt do it, by now real life responsibilities demanded that I couldnt lock myself in a room for month just to get started. I did try the electronic cigarettes around 2007ish, the ones that looked like cigarettes, but they were absolute crap. Just when I was contemplating the idea that I might never be able to quit and that I would surely die before 45 from heart attack or cancer, I got myself an ecig starter kit and without even planning to quit right away I found that I loved it and I didnt want a cigarette. And so here I am. A vapor. Maybe I'll quit vaping at some point maybe I'll cut down, but I don't care, it doesn't matter. What matters is I'm not coughing up disgusting .... hoping no one saw it. My blood pressure doesn't feel like it's going to explode. I don't stink. I don't have that awful ashtray taste in my mouth that makes me want to brush my teeth all day long. And I'm not dropping 400-500$/month on a stupid habit that I hate.
It hasn't been long but there's no going back now.
Nick
I was 3 wks shy of 14 when I started... plus, 10 years later, I was diagnosed with adult-onset asthma. So all that you described, plus the constant threat of serious (requiring hospital) asthma attack, the added expense of inhalers, and certain knowledge that if cancer didn't get me (it got my dad in 2006), then COPD definitely would -- 39 yrs later, and that nice lady Alisa1970 recommended me to get an eRoll, since I was DEAD SET! that it had to be a cigalike... and the before-the-end-of-2014 deadline I gave myself turned into the end-of-February almost accidental quit -- when I got the eRoll and started vaping regularly, gradually replacing more and more of the cigarettes without much more than a "Let's try this...", till I was down to 3, 2, 1 a day, and I decided I might as well just quit, since I wasn't pining even for those last few I smoked -- they tasted like road tar or something. Anyway I got an iTaste vv/vw the same week I quit, and that was like night and day, from the cigalike -- which got me to quit, so I ain't knocking it one bit! I'm at a month now, and just can't believe how easy it's been, compared to all those other times I tried and failed. It's truly a miracle!! 
