I'm tired of the ones that say "I quit cold turkey" I didn't need any of that stuff! Well bully for you! I feel better and this works for me!
Ok.. You Stopped Smoking. When Are You Going to Stop THAT!? Anybody Else Getting This?
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You're not alone. My husband has asked when I plan on quitting the e-cig (he's never used nicotine in any form). I think of this scenario and it makes me feel a little better:
An alcoholic quits booze but starts to drink soda as a way of coping. Do you think their family is concerned with when they plan on giving up the soda?
I don't think so either.
An alcoholic quits booze but starts to drink soda as a way of coping. Do you think their family is concerned with when they plan on giving up the soda?
I don't think so either.
wow!!!! I hear that line.....all the time .......yeah they gave up in the 80s...........way easier then..........we all know why.....
I just say I quit smoking. Nothing more nothing less. I am doing this for me. After 50 years of being selfless... I am being selfish on this. I tell my mom, thanks for the 20 years of raising me.. I got this now.
My wife loves to drink wine. One night it came up about the vapin... I caved and said do you know what that wine is doing to your liver. Yes...the couch wasnt comfortable and the dog sneezed in my face.
Next time your hubby chuckles tell him if he can go up several flights of stairs better than you, you will stop, if he can't, he quits cigs and starts vaping.
Love that.
I started vaping with the idea that it would help me quit cigs/nic a step at a time, so I usually say "no time frame, every time I've set a date I've failed".
Gonaa add something here... this forum was one of the reasons as well. Instead of driving to the gas station for a 7 dollar pack of smokes.. i would read the forums... I love my wife dearly but. ......... sometimes I feel like I am talking to a wall.
Sometimes I don't know what's worse ppl who want u to stop smoking or smokers who dare to look at u and think Vaping is just "stupid"
I will admit when I first started Vaping with a cig sized pv I intended to quit or at least cut down. However about a month in and a second set up later that had all pretty much gone out the door. I was having too much fun. I sort of knew I was going to vape till I decided to stop just like I smoked till I decided to stop.
Chances are they won't change their minds, sorry to say. I still get "but I thought u were using these to stop and then u would stop vaping too" from my husband. At first I tried to share all my juices and gear with him so he felt included. That didn't work, he just flat doesn't care, and I have accepted that. I told him I would stop when he stopped watching football!!! Wanna know what he is doing?? Watching football, and guess what I am doing?? Vaping!
Try not to worry about pleasing everyone else too much, they just don't get it. But the thing u do have on your side is that there are more and more vapers everyday. Its getting bigger and bigger by the moment. To be honest is a very exciting time and I am proud to be a part of it!
I guess what I am trying to say is all of us think its great that u vape and we are happy u have joined all of us "outcasts" lol. It is bother some if u don't have support I know that to, at the end of the day u gotta do what u think is right and what makes u happy. U have stopped smoking, and u don't owe them anymore. Enjoy yourself, ur gonna be around awhile!
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I just say I quit smoking. Nothing more nothing less. I am doing this for me. After 50 years of being selfless... I am being selfish on this. I tell my mom, thanks for the 20 years of raising me.. I got this now.
SAY IT AGAIN!!!!!!! LOVE IT!!!!!! I'm going to print this out and make a banner!
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wow. awesome thread. I get it a lot. Smoked 26 years.... vaping 2 months now. Never smoked in my own house. Now, wife complains I vape everywhere. Guess what? That is part of the appeal. I really like the fact I can smoke in front of the computer, watching TV or a movie... heck at the kitchen table around ppl. No going outside in the rain or snow, shivering. I don't vape at other ppl's house without asking. After 26 years of being an outcast.... now I'm a new generation of outcast, with an attitude. We are the new minority.
BTW... got my sis to try volt. Showed it to her, when I went to her place. Just happened to bring along my CE's full of country, capuccino, and fruits. Of course I let her sample them all when she was about to light up. She liked the flavor from the CE's over the cartos. She was interested to try, just to cut down. I said sure, even if you smoke 1/2, and vape a little it will save money. Then she showed me 2 disposable ecigs she still had in her purse... Old, and she said it kinda helped. I puffed on it, and got a teeeny tiny amount of vapor, lol. Piece of junk!
The best part is I ordered for her during the thanksgiving sale. I got her about 20 cartos, 2 65 batteries [she liked the small size like real cigs]. I promised to fill 'em for her so I knew she would need a lot of cartos. With a little luck, I think she might kick her 30+ year habit. Then I get to have someone on my side. I'll get her on an x2 soon enough.
When she came by and I gave her everything, of course I showed her my x2's and clearos and let her try them out too. I'm sneaky, but its for a good cause. I figure I'll leave her husband alone until I have her firmly on my side.
BTW... got my sis to try volt. Showed it to her, when I went to her place. Just happened to bring along my CE's full of country, capuccino, and fruits. Of course I let her sample them all when she was about to light up. She liked the flavor from the CE's over the cartos
. She was interested to try, just to cut down. I said sure, even if you smoke 1/2, and vape a little it will save money. Then she showed me 2 disposable ecigs she still had in her purse... Old, and she said it kinda helped. I puffed on it, and got a teeeny tiny amount of vapor, lol. Piece of junk!The best part is I ordered for her during the thanksgiving sale. I got her about 20 cartos, 2 65 batteries [she liked the small size like real cigs]. I promised to fill 'em for her so I knew she would need a lot of cartos. With a little luck, I think she might kick her 30+ year habit. Then I get to have someone on my side
. I'll get her on an x2 soon enough. When she came by and I gave her everything, of course I showed her my x2's and clearos and let her try them out too. I'm sneaky, but its for a good cause.
I figure I'll leave her husband alone until I have her firmly on my side.
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my dad worked for a big tobacco company in late 70s to mid 8os.....as a young gal of 10.......my habit began....I had 1000s.........dad would bring home all these little sample packs of 4.......just ripe for the picking...and for all me mates...........now I know I was a bad girl...I would sell those sample packs...at school...........then I got bustered.....I was made to stand up in front of the whole school....the principal told everyone.......if this girl offers to sell you these cigarettes.........please report to office....
those were the days.....I remember very well.........the day dad came home...telling us all...........that's it....im quitting. smokes im quitting the job......dad went very strange...he had a huge secret to bare.......it took him many years to tell us...he new big tobacco companies were adding more chemicals...to keep us smokers on the hook...today hes still a very sad man....he carrys so much gulit.......I try to be understanding... but sometimes....it realllly gets me down.......how he begs me to quit.......20 plus yrs.....have took there toll....I was so happy to tell him I gave up cigs 5 mths ago.........and he was for a few mths......now he just thinks ive given up one for another ....
those were the days.....I remember very well.........the day dad came home...telling us all...........that's it....im quitting. smokes im quitting the job......dad went very strange...he had a huge secret to bare.......it took him many years to tell us...he new big tobacco companies were adding more chemicals...to keep us smokers on the hook...today hes still a very sad man....he carrys so much gulit.......I try to be understanding... but sometimes....it realllly gets me down.......how he begs me to quit.......20 plus yrs.....have took there toll....I was so happy to tell him I gave up cigs 5 mths ago.........and he was for a few mths......now he just thinks ive given up one for another ....Everything I had to say has already been said... :/
So big +1!
I always reply "There are no serious health risks and I have no plans to quit." with enough conviction and authority to end the conversation.
So big +1!
I always reply "There are no serious health risks and I have no plans to quit." with enough conviction and authority to end the conversation.
This site, specifically this subforum IS my support group. I don't know a lot of vapors IRL. I know everyone here understands.
I get "wellness" calls as a benefit of my job. When I admitted to wanting to quit, they gave me a full court press. On a follow up, I told them I quit, and started vaping, she asked when I planned to cutt down and quit vaping. I really let her have it. I explained I had no intention of quitting near term. She mentioned a hotline number for smokers to help quiting. And I mentioned these forums. All in all, I was respectful, but I really told her off. She was reading off scripts, and the "generalizations" are full of ignorance about vaping.... spoon fed from pharma and the smokefree PAC's.
I get "wellness" calls as a benefit of my job. When I admitted to wanting to quit, they gave me a full court press. On a follow up, I told them I quit, and started vaping, she asked when I planned to cutt down and quit vaping. I really let her have it. I explained I had no intention of quitting near term. She mentioned a hotline number for smokers to help quiting. And I mentioned these forums. All in all, I was respectful, but I really told her off. She was reading off scripts, and the "generalizations" are full of ignorance about vaping.... spoon fed from pharma and the smokefree PAC's.
my dad worked for a big tobacco company in late 70s to mid 8os.....as a young gal of 10.......my habit began....I had 1000s.........dad would bring home all these little sample packs of 4.......just ripe for the picking...and for all me mates...........now I know I was a bad girl...I would sell those sample packs...at school...........then I got bustered.....I was made to stand up in front of the whole school....the principal told everyone.......if this girl offers to sell you these cigarettes.........please report to office....
I ran across an article a few years ago that talked about secret memos that talked about the increase in chemicals and nicotine by the tobacco companies that kept us addicted to their product. I noticed the earlier attempts at quitting were a lot easier in years past (not that I ever completely was able to quit). And I'm angry at the medical community for the ignorance of the addiction. They could do better but chose not to.
theres a movie Russell crow did....few years back.....cant think of the name...........it says it all........
I'm so thankful for this forum... surrounded by folks who know EXACTLY... who really care... This is an ongoing saga that we all have to deal with every day but at least we have a means to laugh, share viewpoints and vent our frustration with people especially those in our lives who just don't understand what we have accomplished... Stopping the addiction to deadly, fireburning, smelly, nasty tasting tobacco cigarettes.
Me too lol I'm happy for those that have been successful in quitting smoking thru vaping. I tell everyone I can what a wonderful way vaping is to quit. But that's not my reason for vaping. I vape to cut down on smoking. I vape so I can have nic in places that smoking is not allowed (like my living room). What I find most fantastic about it is that when/if I get enough of a desire to completely quit the analogs, I know I can.....easily......with vaping.
For those who continue to smoke.... at least the number of cigarettes that you do smoke is greatly reduced. Vaping means different things to different folks.
You will NOT be put down here because you continue with cigarettes. Thank you for sharing!
You will NOT be put down here because you continue with cigarettes. Thank you for sharing!
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