I'm no longer addicted to Nicotine !!
Wow, I can't beleive I can write those words !!
I bought my first PV four months ago to use as an alternative when it was more convenient than smoking, and the first day decided to totally give up smoking.
A few weeks later the thought crossed my mind that if I could actually give up analogs (I'd been a 2+pad smoker for over 30 years) maybe I could really become nic free someday. I didnt give myself any pressure of a timeframe but only a promise that I would attempt to lower my nic levels along the way and see what happened. Even though I hadn't given myself a timeframe I still had in the back of my mind it would likely take a year if I was lucky enough to succeed.
I had been doing quite a bit of 0 nic vaping lately but also still using my 6 and 8 mg juice with an occasional 12 mg use although admittedly that was most often because I still have some 12 mg and not because I needed that 12 mg level. I certainly would not have considered myself free of my nicotine addiction until this past Thursday. I'd been sick for several days and vaping mostly o nic as any juice with nic made my already sore throat even more sore. While on antibiotics for only the second day and feeling a bit better but still confined to home i got a call from the nursing home that my elderly Dad was having some problems. Not wanting to take the chance of giving him my strep throat I sat at home ALL day on the phone coordinating family to stay with him and interacting with the nursing home staff to take care of him. After about the first 4 hours had passed I realized that I'd never reached for my nic juice and never had an urge for my nic in what for me was a very stressful situation. I HAD chainvaped 0 nic through those 4 hours. Even after realizing I'd never reached for my nic juice I still had no desire to vape nic. I still need the actions of smoking that vaping allows me to have, but I'm no longer addicted to nicotine.
I can foresee continuing to vape for quite some time as I am still very addicted to the actions of smoking that vaping allows me to continue. I'm just going to have to see where this new phrase of vaping takes me.
Wow, I can't beleive I can write those words !! I bought my first PV four months ago to use as an alternative when it was more convenient than smoking, and the first day decided to totally give up smoking.
A few weeks later the thought crossed my mind that if I could actually give up analogs (I'd been a 2+pad smoker for over 30 years) maybe I could really become nic free someday. I didnt give myself any pressure of a timeframe but only a promise that I would attempt to lower my nic levels along the way and see what happened. Even though I hadn't given myself a timeframe I still had in the back of my mind it would likely take a year if I was lucky enough to succeed.
I had been doing quite a bit of 0 nic vaping lately but also still using my 6 and 8 mg juice with an occasional 12 mg use although admittedly that was most often because I still have some 12 mg and not because I needed that 12 mg level. I certainly would not have considered myself free of my nicotine addiction until this past Thursday. I'd been sick for several days and vaping mostly o nic as any juice with nic made my already sore throat even more sore. While on antibiotics for only the second day and feeling a bit better but still confined to home i got a call from the nursing home that my elderly Dad was having some problems. Not wanting to take the chance of giving him my strep throat I sat at home ALL day on the phone coordinating family to stay with him and interacting with the nursing home staff to take care of him. After about the first 4 hours had passed I realized that I'd never reached for my nic juice and never had an urge for my nic in what for me was a very stressful situation. I HAD chainvaped 0 nic through those 4 hours. Even after realizing I'd never reached for my nic juice I still had no desire to vape nic. I still need the actions of smoking that vaping allows me to have, but I'm no longer addicted to nicotine.
I can foresee continuing to vape for quite some time as I am still very addicted to the actions of smoking that vaping allows me to continue. I'm just going to have to see where this new phrase of vaping takes me.
