I have been analog free since the minute my ecig arrived.
They actually smell disgusting now that I've quit!
They actually smell disgusting now that I've quit!
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Bought an NPRO instead of cigarettes on 4/21/09. Smoked one analog with the only smoking friend at dinner one night. Out of sympathy I think. I don't want one. But I have quit twice in the last 35 years, and if the urge ever arises again... I will always have an E-cig! Unbelievable! As long as I have wanted to "not smoke" I never wanted to "never smoke again". But I can settle for vaping!! I love it!
After 20+ years of a 1-2 pack a day habit I've quit. I knew when my e-cig was due to arrive and didn't buy smokes that day.. Waited and waited.... AND WAITED. Finally the postman came and I unpacked my Njoy and started vaping immediately. Both my husband and I have quit completely and we love it. Our friends love it too, they come over more. We've also gotten 20 of our other friends to quit using e-cigs too- including a 3 pack a day menthol smoker who said he'd never use an e-cig. Now he loves it!
These things work! It's been over 2 months since I quit smoking and started vaping.
As far as the cost savings, hmmm. I'm a collector by nature and I think I own 7 different e-cigs. Each has their own personality and I don't recommend e-cigs to friends if I haven't used them personally! Lets just say I've spent quite a bit experimenting as well but it's been great fun!
These things work! It's been over 2 months since I quit smoking and started vaping.
As far as the cost savings, hmmm. I'm a collector by nature and I think I own 7 different e-cigs. Each has their own personality and I don't recommend e-cigs to friends if I haven't used them personally! Lets just say I've spent quite a bit experimenting as well but it's been great fun!
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After 31 years of four to five packs per day, I got my e-cig kit an April 24, 2009. I really didn't intend to stop smoking, but I thought if alternately vaping and smoking could get me down to a pack or two, I'd be ahead. I found out that I liked vaping, though, and I smoked my last (complete) cigarette late on the evening of April 30, 2009. Since then, I've taken three disastrous puffs (Yuk!) of a real cigarette and threw a new pack away. Oddly, that was right on the three-week mark.
I've attempted many times to stop before. I've tried Zyban, patches, gum, lozenges, and Chantix (wretched stuff that Chantix) and have been hospitalized twice with pneumonia. I stopped once for six months in my mid-20s, but resumed when I changed jobs.
I was amazed that my smoker's cough went away after three or four days. It had been as much of my morning ritual as reaching for the first smoke. I've gone to bed and have had to find a position that was not necessarily comfortable, but one in which my own wheezing didn't keep me awake. For years, a forced, deep exhalation has ended in a bubbling, nasty, whooshing sound.
Not anymore! I'm not coughing, not wheezing, and I feel some my old stamina returning. I actually feel younger now, or at least, Im not feeling old beyond my years.
I think that e-cigs have been the least inconvenience of any stopping method I've tried before. It's like one day I smoked, and the next I didn't - I vaped.
I figure that even if used strictly prefilled cartridges, I'd only be spending about $3/day on this new habit. It's wiped out a $20/day habit I used to have, so vaping can be looked at as better deal cost wise.
Big Tobacco? I don't feel badly for them. Nobody made me smoke that first cigarette, and I had no illusions that smoking would be good for me in the long run. The tobacco companies have diversified and have lots of other ways to make money now. And lost taxes? I doubt that it matters much to a government that can print unending money, but since NONE of the cigarette taxes are being spent on cigarette smokers or smoking cessation programs, why should vapers care? In fact, maybe it will be made up for by the better health of those that switch to vaping.
Is it trading one addiction for another? No! It's the same addiction. I think that e-cigs succeed where other NRTs fail because they continue not only the nicotine we desire, but also the rituals we're accustomed to. I know that with the gum and the lozenges, I avoided smoking only as long as I was using them continuously. Stepping down didn't work for me. Sometimes I've end up with two lozenges in my mouth or chewing a big wad of gum that I'd subconsciously added.
I had a friend who told everybody that he'd stopped smoking. Actually, he'd stopped buying cigarettes. Anybody else's cigarettes were fair game for bumming, though. I told myself that if I ever quit, I wouldn't be like that.
I can definitely attest that e-cigarettes and vaping have let me switch away from tobacco smoking without pining or depression. I like vaping, and I like diddling around with hardware. I can see me vaping as long as I can. Right now, Im vaping 24 and 36 mg, but I have some low and some unflavored low coming, and Im going to experiment with reducing the nicotine. Wouldnt it be great if vaping is finally what it takes to get me off nicotine?
But that's on down the road. Right now, since the nicotine transfer appears to take place in the oral and nasal mucosa, I need to work on vaping more shallowly. It's great fun dragging in a huge lung-full of flavored cool vapor, but that's just psychological. There's really no great benefit in it. We do it just because we can.
I've attempted many times to stop before. I've tried Zyban, patches, gum, lozenges, and Chantix (wretched stuff that Chantix) and have been hospitalized twice with pneumonia. I stopped once for six months in my mid-20s, but resumed when I changed jobs.
I was amazed that my smoker's cough went away after three or four days. It had been as much of my morning ritual as reaching for the first smoke. I've gone to bed and have had to find a position that was not necessarily comfortable, but one in which my own wheezing didn't keep me awake. For years, a forced, deep exhalation has ended in a bubbling, nasty, whooshing sound.
Not anymore! I'm not coughing, not wheezing, and I feel some my old stamina returning. I actually feel younger now, or at least, Im not feeling old beyond my years.
I think that e-cigs have been the least inconvenience of any stopping method I've tried before. It's like one day I smoked, and the next I didn't - I vaped.
I figure that even if used strictly prefilled cartridges, I'd only be spending about $3/day on this new habit. It's wiped out a $20/day habit I used to have, so vaping can be looked at as better deal cost wise.
Big Tobacco? I don't feel badly for them. Nobody made me smoke that first cigarette, and I had no illusions that smoking would be good for me in the long run. The tobacco companies have diversified and have lots of other ways to make money now. And lost taxes? I doubt that it matters much to a government that can print unending money, but since NONE of the cigarette taxes are being spent on cigarette smokers or smoking cessation programs, why should vapers care? In fact, maybe it will be made up for by the better health of those that switch to vaping.
Is it trading one addiction for another? No! It's the same addiction. I think that e-cigs succeed where other NRTs fail because they continue not only the nicotine we desire, but also the rituals we're accustomed to. I know that with the gum and the lozenges, I avoided smoking only as long as I was using them continuously. Stepping down didn't work for me. Sometimes I've end up with two lozenges in my mouth or chewing a big wad of gum that I'd subconsciously added.
I had a friend who told everybody that he'd stopped smoking. Actually, he'd stopped buying cigarettes. Anybody else's cigarettes were fair game for bumming, though. I told myself that if I ever quit, I wouldn't be like that.
I can definitely attest that e-cigarettes and vaping have let me switch away from tobacco smoking without pining or depression. I like vaping, and I like diddling around with hardware. I can see me vaping as long as I can. Right now, Im vaping 24 and 36 mg, but I have some low and some unflavored low coming, and Im going to experiment with reducing the nicotine. Wouldnt it be great if vaping is finally what it takes to get me off nicotine?
But that's on down the road. Right now, since the nicotine transfer appears to take place in the oral and nasal mucosa, I need to work on vaping more shallowly. It's great fun dragging in a huge lung-full of flavored cool vapor, but that's just psychological. There's really no great benefit in it. We do it just because we can.
But that's on down the road. Right now, since the nicotine transfer appears to take place in the oral and nasal mucosa, I need to work on vaping more shallowly. It's great fun dragging in a huge lung-full of flavored cool vapor, but that's just psychological. There's really no great benefit in it. We do it just because we can.
I have been working on my french inhale, but it really tickles my nose!
Oh... have been analog free since the 2nd of this month after 20 years+ smoking a pack+ a day on average.
I got my first e-cig on 3-15-09! Have not smoked ONE analog since my first vape. **
**Important note- The e-cig is NOT and should not be marketed as a quit smoking device. It is NOT guaranteed, however, if you COMMIT to it to as being your replacement it CAN be VERY SUCCESSFUL.
**Important note- The e-cig is NOT and should not be marketed as a quit smoking device. It is NOT guaranteed, however, if you COMMIT to it to as being your replacement it CAN be VERY SUCCESSFUL.
I bought my first e cig kit from Intellicig last October,i had 8 or so "real" cigs left,so i smoked them along with the e cig, and i haven't bought any since, nor have i had any urges to do so. In all honesty, when i first bought the e cig kit last year and being a pack a day smoker for 30 odd years, i thought it would be a 5 minute wonder, and that in a couple of weeks i'd be back on the old cancer sticks, but amazingly here i am 7 months later still vaping, i've got 4 e cigs now, i'm better off financially, feel healthier, and i just love vaping!!!
I am also an accidental quitter, I just like the e-cig better. Lost my interest in tobacco almost immediately after 45 plus years of dedication to the weed. I still feel a bit guilty....like ignoring a wife for a sweet new girl....who also smells better.....and you don't have to feel bad if you are seen out with her.
David
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And the new gal is a cheaper date, and she tastes better. <rim shot>
Almost a week off of analogs here. A nice caveat that I didn't give much thought to -- my teeth are whiter, aside from the obvious more important bonuses.
Be very carefull! More women will enjoy kissing you, this could spread germs and disease, WARNING!
David
Another accidental quitter. My last analog was 4/3/09. The reason I decided to try vaping was because if I don't smoke, I eat. I can't afford to gain any more weight. I haven't gained any weight it 7 weeks. I love this stuff!
I quit smoking, but I still vape of course. I feel better than ever!
Ooooh, and I do have a new addiction! Internet shopping and building mods...but it's definetely a healthy addiction.
I quit on February 20th (well, a bit earlier than that, but that's when the joint effort of my husband and I both).
Ooooh, and I do have a new addiction! Internet shopping and building mods...but it's definetely a healthy addiction.
I quit on February 20th (well, a bit earlier than that, but that's when the joint effort of my husband and I both).
Hey Jangler, I smoked my last analog same day as you (12:05am..had to finish the last one I had. Tried to smoke it before midnight the 12th but work got in the way..lol). It was also my father's 75th birthday (he said it was the best birthday present I could have given him). They even sent me a congratulatory card for 30 days analog free..lol
I've spent about the same as you also 8-o and although I don't have any analogs in the house now, It used to cost me about the same per pack (ordered a bunch before the tax hike
). I did find however that the K808D is the one that gives me the best throat hit so far (I have 3 of them and another hopefully on the way) as well as an M301 that I now only use for tasting new juices that I buy or make so I don't waste precious cartomizers). Haven't found a recipe or juice that gives me enough of a hit yet
(like the flavors but NEED that analog type throat hit).I've smoked a pack a day for 40 years and can't believe once I got the right nic strength (16-24mg) (I stupidly tried to start off with zero and 6mg) that I don't crave analogs anymore...well, I shouldn't say that...on the rare occassion that I actually put my ecig down, I sometimes instinctively look around for my pack of analogs then realizing (technically, spotting my ecig) I don't smoke anymore, just grab my ecig and within a couple of drags I'm good
.I'm still in awe of these little devices (I'm like a walking commercial when someone asks me about them
). I can't believe anyone would want to ban them. Some things just don't make any sense. I'd love to be able to relax and KNOW I can order what I need or want, when I need/want it and stop feeling like I'm hoarding them, fearing I'll never get any more "parts" etc.I don't ever want to go back to analogs and I don't think my animals want me to either. They don't even flinch when I vape, even when the vapor ends up right in their faces. Smoking an analog used to be the quickest way to get any animal in the house to "go away". They're all much happier now.
Congratulations and good luck to you and everyone else out there that either quit or cut down.Happy Vaping,
-Pam
Haven't smoked a cigarette since the morning my ecig arrived in the mail 4 weeks ago on tuesday. Now gradually lowering my nicotine level so I can hopefully get to a happy 0mg.
Got my 901 this past monday. I haven't had a single analogue since tuesday, still have half of the pack I bought on monday before I went to the post office. I was previously a pack a day-er. I guess I'm an accidental quitter too. (-:
Got my RD E9 on Monday 5/4/09 and have not looked back.
The JC Tennessee Cured that I got on the 7th has helped me along
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