No intention of quitting smoking...
- Thread starter simplyxtwisted
- Start date
- th_trl_thread_readers 0
- Status
Please, everybody, go to CASAA - The Consumer Advocates for Smoke-free Alternatives Association and submit your success story to their collection. If we had 100,000 success stories nobody and never could say "there is no evidence that e-cigs help to quit".
I havent read all the other responses, but it sounds like (and I'm not trying to sound negative) you have a hard time letting things go and maybe you arent ready to quit, really. Cigarettes are a crutch, and they have you by the balls. Its like trying to ditch that ex that you keep holding on too when the relationship has been over for a long time.
Cigarettes kept me awake at night. The constant fear of dying. Even with that obsession, I couldn't quit smoking, so I certainly understand. I spent thousands of dollars trying to quit on Chantix, hypnosis, acupuncture, and nicorette. It wasn't until I tried vapors that I finally freed myself from the insanity. Why would ANYONE smoke another analog after trying this? If I can quit, anyone can.
Cigarettes kept me awake at night. The constant fear of dying. Even with that obsession, I couldn't quit smoking, so I certainly understand. I spent thousands of dollars trying to quit on Chantix, hypnosis, acupuncture, and nicorette. It wasn't until I tried vapors that I finally freed myself from the insanity. Why would ANYONE smoke another analog after trying this? If I can quit, anyone can.
I am another one that tried everthing, OTC, perscriptions, hypnosis, you name it to get off analogs. Nothing worked, then I found vaping, tried a gas station sold cigalike - meh, it was a bit of nicotine and sufficed if I didn't have a pack of analogs handy but, I still wanted to smoke. Then I found the 510 - ah ha, no more wanting analogs but, there was better to be had. Hello Stardust (ego w/claromizer) nice, beat the 510 and then, my Provari and protank - DUY juice, rebuilding them myself and - Hey, you know analogs taste bad, stink to high heaven and, just annoy the tar out of me - where's my vape, for that matter you smoke, you visit me, you now vape - have an Ego on me.
(Yes I have egos with clearos on them for house guests, if they like it, I give them one with a charger and teach them to use it or, if they have a decent paying job, send them off to the local vape shop to buy their own (ego is the shop's primary brand so, easier to start newbies out on those and let them find the really cool mods on their own later.)
(Yes I have egos with clearos on them for house guests, if they like it, I give them one with a charger and teach them to use it or, if they have a decent paying job, send them off to the local vape shop to buy their own (ego is the shop's primary brand so, easier to start newbies out on those and let them find the really cool mods on their own later.)
Ech. I lived in Long Beach (then Norwalk a while) around a decade. Wasn't around any of the fires but I remember how wild they got. Remember seeing Los Padres look like something out of a horror movie after one of the big ones up there. Ours was... fun. Ripped right through a heavily populated area. This is a snip from somebody on the other side of our little semi-suburb facing my direction. Still get the willies seeing this pic:
View attachment 233730
Yeesh! My house was about two miles from... um... that.
Well, I like bacon but not like that. The idea of a bacon vape kinda makes me feel a little... ill?
Though, I am a little tempted by this one:
Pizza Flavor e-liquid
That pic almost leaves me speechless, it gives me the willies too, that will take a lot of time to recover from, if ever.
I'll pass on both the bacon and the pizza, they both sound a bit nauseating to me. lol
That was Labor Day weekend 2011. The Austin area had a half dozen wildfires going at once. It was insane. That one started out where I live but the high winds drove it so hard, we didn't get any ash or smoke. Just this huge wall of gray passing by. Turn the other way, it was blue skies and sunny. Very, very weird.
Light a match now and half the neighborhood shows up to douse you with water.
I don't look at the pics often but once in a while end up staring and going "boggle". It was really surreal. The wind was so strong, the thing cut right past us but we got no smoke, no ash. Turn one way, blue skies, birds chirping. Turn the other way, Giant Wall Of Gray. Weird.
Good news is--and hope this works for you too--getting off cigs has helped. Cigs seem to calm some stress in the short run but I have to wonder if they agitate it in the long run. I started noticing an improvement in mood over time.
Heh, also helps I don't feel the need to double check I put my cig out.
So far, I've passed. Get tempted but think, ya know, that might not work well...
I have some issues concerning fire too, for one I have been here in TN for 15 years now and I am still very much on edge on the 4th, I just can't get comfortable with fireworks. The truth is here that is normally a rainy time and everything, including the air, is so wet that you would have trouble starting a fire with Napalm, but I still can't enjoy the fireworks. I guess living in what has been described as a small island in the middle of a lake of gasolene for most of my life just isn't going to ever go away.
Some interesting things I've noticed even though I am still smoking 4 cigs a day, I've had some stomach problems for the last 3 years and have had to be very careful what I eat, although eating anything causes problems to some extent, lots of extremely uncomfortable bloating.
Almost from day one that is gone completely and I am feeling real hunger for the first time in years, not just gripey and weird from low blood sugar. Also I've been having a lot of pain in my legs and back, that is almost non existent now, and I find my mood has lifted a lot.
I'm hoping that when my kit arrives I will be able to get off the cigs completely, but if not I'm ok with that as long as I can keep it to this low level.
Success! After I purchased the iTaste 510 I've been analog free since Friday the 19th. Ironically it was my youngest daughters one-year-old birthday!
2 cool hu?
Awesome!!!
Congrats.
What a great birthday present to give your daughter!
Day #18 suddenly. Its been relatively easy. One or two moments have come up where I've been like....boy that sounds nice....but nah.
I'm still not quitting, but I have stopped...completely. And I'm certainly not letting some silly momentary temptation sway this momentum that is going. Life is full of choices, this is not one of the more difficult ones.
Thanks goodness for MtBakerVapor and their brilliant Butterscotch liquid. It never leaves me wanting a stinky.
Congrats to everyone and all their awesome stories in this threat, truly inspiring.
I'm still not quitting, but I have stopped...completely. And I'm certainly not letting some silly momentary temptation sway this momentum that is going. Life is full of choices, this is not one of the more difficult ones.
Thanks goodness for MtBakerVapor and their brilliant Butterscotch liquid. It never leaves me wanting a stinky.
Congrats to everyone and all their awesome stories in this threat, truly inspiring.
Oh. Lovely. We've been having a drought and the grass is best described as "crunchy". I thought it'd be nice to live a bit out from the city and have some trees. Now they look more like really tall kindling.
It's really annoying how this played out. I mean, Katrina was just off the scale. I expected some kind of after effects. Everybody had trouble. But when I got here, way, way away from any coast line, my idiot PTSD latched onto wildfires. I didn't used to have any particular panic about them before. Then, suddenly, I did. Yippee.
Then almost exactly the scenario my idiot "locked into alert mode" brain kept throwing at me happened in the real world. I wasn't home. I was at my mom's fixing part of her fence the high winds blew over. I found out about the fire after it was freaking too late. If it hadn't been driven by the winds past my neighborhood, I would have already been homeless.
So... fortunately (?) for us at least here, the high winds sent it right by us on its way to take out hundreds and hundreds of homes.
Anywhichever, the nasty side was my gradual recovery from the mess in New Orleans was set back really bad. I couldn't argue down the fear of X, Y, and Z happening as "unlikely" because, well, one of the worst scenarios actually happened and was a serious "near miss".
Fortunately, Xanax. I don't take it a lot nor often but if this mess flares up, my doctor will give a scrip.
Still. Despite it all, I'm still here. I guess that counts for something?
And I'm serious, I have noticed an improvement since getting off cigarettes. Not like, poof, I'm fine. But it's better. Noticeably. I definitely sleep much, much better. And that's a big help.
Yeah, I think that's the attitude to take. Try for better but be glad with the progress you got. My smoking dropped like that the first week. I decided if that was all I got, that was great. I mean, two packs a day to maybe four, six at the most? Very cool. The more I found juices I really liked (especially blueberry flavors, I love my blueberries
), I just sort of drifted further and further away from the cigs. Until I mostly lost interest in them.Had to go up to my mom's a little while ago to take her a few things. Had the impulse to stop and get a pack of cigs on the way back. Not sure why. Just did. But it was mild. And I reacted to it with a kind of... I don' wanna.
(And didn't. Seemed too much trouble for something that tastes so bad now.)
I still do that. Get these weird almost... wistful feelings? Like, "gosh it would be nice".
Not sure what the heck that is. Though somebody commented to me a while back that cigarettes were my constant companion for over thirty years. Maybe it's missing an "old friend"?
Weird.
Thank you for the awesome success story, I'm on day 5 being analog free and lemme tell ya, just because I'm learning quick all the ins and outs of vaping it was NOT easy, still isn't entirely but it's getting better with every passing hour. The third night was plain awful with out my smelly's, stinkers, dog crap, analogs whatever you'd like to call them. I thought about buying a pack and then remembered what some here have said. If it weren't for those Contributing to this forum I don't know that I would have stuck it out this long. I just kept telling myself while I vaped, it's getting better, it's getting better. Ive spent 20 years and probably $10,000 of my money on those damn things and their not getting another red cent outa me!
Thank you so much to everyone who gives their time, wisdom and friendship here to new plp looking to get free, you've helped to give my children and wife more years of my life. I just wish my Dad could've caught on to this before he died in 2011 with a cigarette in his hand. RIP Pop.
Last edited:
My father also passed away in 2011, smoking until he basically was unconscious for the last week or so. Cancer of esophagus, bladder, stomach, all from smoking. He tried the early ecigs with no luck. I refuse to go through that.
Oh. Lovely. We've been having a drought and the grass is best described as "crunchy". I thought it'd be nice to live a bit out from the city and have some trees. Now they look more like really tall kindling.
It's really annoying how this played out. I mean, Katrina was just off the scale. I expected some kind of after effects. Everybody had trouble. But when I got here, way, way away from any coast line, my idiot PTSD latched onto wildfires. I didn't used to have any particular panic about them before. Then, suddenly, I did. Yippee.
Then almost exactly the scenario my idiot "locked into alert mode" brain kept throwing at me happened in the real world. I wasn't home. I was at my mom's fixing part of her fence the high winds blew over. I found out about the fire after it was freaking too late. If it hadn't been driven by the winds past my neighborhood, I would have already been homeless.
So... fortunately (?) for us at least here, the high winds sent it right by us on its way to take out hundreds and hundreds of homes.
Anywhichever, the nasty side was my gradual recovery from the mess in New Orleans was set back really bad. I couldn't argue down the fear of X, Y, and Z happening as "unlikely" because, well, one of the worst scenarios actually happened and was a serious "near miss".
Fortunately, Xanax. I don't take it a lot nor often but if this mess flares up, my doctor will give a scrip.
Still. Despite it all, I'm still here. I guess that counts for something?
And I'm serious, I have noticed an improvement since getting off cigarettes. Not like, poof, I'm fine. But it's better. Noticeably. I definitely sleep much, much better. And that's a big help.
Yeah, I think that's the attitude to take. Try for better but be glad with the progress you got. My smoking dropped like that the first week. I decided if that was all I got, that was great. I mean, two packs a day to maybe four, six at the most? Very cool. The more I found juices I really liked (especially blueberry flavors, I love my blueberries
Had to go up to my mom's a little while ago to take her a few things. Had the impulse to stop and get a pack of cigs on the way back. Not sure why. Just did. But it was mild. And I reacted to it with a kind of... I don' wanna.
(And didn't. Seemed too much trouble for something that tastes so bad now.)
Can't describe the grass as crunchy here this year, more like walking on a wet sponge. I'm glad you survived Katrina and the fire and are getting better. I have times when I have to resort to half a Xanax too but they get less frequent and there are longer intervals between, on an average a 30 day prescription will last me about a year.
Now for the breaking news, my kit and first order of juice arrived, I got a few extra clearomizers and a pack of replacement coils along with a 5 pack of Boge cartomizers. I didn't know whether I would like the sweet juices or not but ordered a few anyway and the two I've tried so far are quite good. I have another order of juice from MBV coming and can see that I will be making another order soon of some lower voltage juices.
Thanks to you and others here getting this up and running was a snap, thank you for all of your help, I really appreciate it.
Now my artists' mind is thinking of ways to dress this up a bit, hmmmmmmmmm. I do have a paper/vinyl cutter that is computerized and I can draw my own designs and then cut them out of vinyl, and I have a ton of nice vinyl. I also have a ton of nice silver and gold plate wire and gemstones from a stint of jewelry making a few years ago.
Good for you and thanks for your service to our country! I am so happy to hear that you have moved on. Sounds like you needed an extended decompression time for yourself.
I haven't thought about buying a pack, but I have found myself wanting to reach for a cigarette. Yep, it sure was an old friend (?) of 46 years. Sometimes I just want a "smoke" without any hassle. I handle it the same way I handle the thought of having a drink: "I don't do that anymore". That just about does it for me, everytime. I reach for my iced tea, diet Pepsi, my PV and the world is in focus once again. I haven't had a drink or drug in over 29 years but that doesn't mean I don't think about a nice scotch on the rocks now and again. I don't expect it will be any different for smoking. But since, "I just don't do that anymore", I guess it will be just fine!
- Status
Similar threads
- Locked
