I've had my M401 since Wednesday of last week, and so far I've been tobacco-free ever since.
I have been researching the personal vaporizer (I do like that name better, not for distancing the devices from cigarettes for the public, but for distancing the devices from cigarettes for my own psychological needs) for a long time. I've been a lurker, reading up on as much information as I could, checking out resellers, you name it, and I spent weeks looking at it. I have been looking at these for well over a year, biding my time and waiting to take the plunge into vaping until it seemed the right time to do so. With the perfect storm of an increase in cigarette price, a particularly nasty bout with bronchitis, and my father in the hospital with heart trouble making me face my own mortality, I realized that there wasn't going to be a better time to start than now.
After one week, I feel better. I don't seem to be as rundown as I used to be. I don't wake up in the morning and go into my hacking and wheezing routine. I'm breathing a lot easier now. I'm guessing that I no longer reek of cigarette smoke, simply because I can now smell it on my co-workers when they come in from a break. I wonder to myself, did I smell like that? And speaking of smells, I've begun to notice more vivid smells and tastes lately.
I'm noticing lots of little changes in myself, as well. I'm a little more focused. I'm doing more around the house than I used to. I've begun working out at the gym, and today was the first time in a long time I've pushed myself physically that I wasn't gasping for breath after minutes. I definitely don't get up and go outside as often as I did before I dropped analogs, although I do still perform the ritual with co-workers from time to time.
And that, I believe, is why I've been successful these past 7 days. For me, I honestly believe that the most addicting attribute to smoking is the fact that I thoroughly enjoyed the act of smoking. Yes, I'm pretty sure I need the nicotine fix. Yes, I'm sure those 4 trillion other things in cigarettes played its part in keeping me hooked for 17 years. But for me, it was the act of smoking, the social aspects, the ritual that kept me coming back. The PV gives me that, without many of the harmful aspects of tobacco cigarettes.
So thanks, everyone, for all of the information you've provided here, both factual and anecdotal. I look forward to graduating from a lurker to a participant in these forums, and hopefully will have something positive to add to this community. If it weren't for this site, I may not have made the change to PV's yet, so in a way I owe you all a big one, so once again, huge thanks.
Ivisi
I have been researching the personal vaporizer (I do like that name better, not for distancing the devices from cigarettes for the public, but for distancing the devices from cigarettes for my own psychological needs) for a long time. I've been a lurker, reading up on as much information as I could, checking out resellers, you name it, and I spent weeks looking at it. I have been looking at these for well over a year, biding my time and waiting to take the plunge into vaping until it seemed the right time to do so. With the perfect storm of an increase in cigarette price, a particularly nasty bout with bronchitis, and my father in the hospital with heart trouble making me face my own mortality, I realized that there wasn't going to be a better time to start than now.
After one week, I feel better. I don't seem to be as rundown as I used to be. I don't wake up in the morning and go into my hacking and wheezing routine. I'm breathing a lot easier now. I'm guessing that I no longer reek of cigarette smoke, simply because I can now smell it on my co-workers when they come in from a break. I wonder to myself, did I smell like that? And speaking of smells, I've begun to notice more vivid smells and tastes lately.
I'm noticing lots of little changes in myself, as well. I'm a little more focused. I'm doing more around the house than I used to. I've begun working out at the gym, and today was the first time in a long time I've pushed myself physically that I wasn't gasping for breath after minutes. I definitely don't get up and go outside as often as I did before I dropped analogs, although I do still perform the ritual with co-workers from time to time.
And that, I believe, is why I've been successful these past 7 days. For me, I honestly believe that the most addicting attribute to smoking is the fact that I thoroughly enjoyed the act of smoking. Yes, I'm pretty sure I need the nicotine fix. Yes, I'm sure those 4 trillion other things in cigarettes played its part in keeping me hooked for 17 years. But for me, it was the act of smoking, the social aspects, the ritual that kept me coming back. The PV gives me that, without many of the harmful aspects of tobacco cigarettes.
So thanks, everyone, for all of the information you've provided here, both factual and anecdotal. I look forward to graduating from a lurker to a participant in these forums, and hopefully will have something positive to add to this community. If it weren't for this site, I may not have made the change to PV's yet, so in a way I owe you all a big one, so once again, huge thanks.
Ivisi
