Hi, Just wanted to quickly introduce myself. I started using e-cigs about a year ago and stopped smoking analogs completely on 11/13/2010 and have been lurking around this forum for at least that long. Just like lots of other people here I never really intended to quit cigarettes just have a good substitute for when I couldn't smoke, can't believe that it was this easy. I really hope that government regulation doesn't totally mess this up.....
Oops, I quit smoking
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Welcome to ecf...Glad to meet you.....Good to come out of the shadows and enjoy the fun.......
Congrats on your year,,,,,me,,,not quite there yet..
Congrats on your year,,,,,me,,,not quite there yet..
Thank you for posting that, I am soooooo encouraged by all the positive stories here, and so glad I ordered my kit today.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Any side effects from quitting?
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Any side effects from quitting?
Hello all and thanks for the welcome! Just to clarify, I quit last November but had been headed that way since about April of last year, I quit when I thought my last 2 packs of cigarettes were stale but it turned out that they just didn't taste as good as my juice.
Alpha - No side effects other than being able to run longer than I used to and that I can smell a smoker a mile away. Seriously, it was ridiculously easy to stop analogs. The only thing I'd suggest is make sure that you get a high enough nicotine level juice that you get the nic you need, I was a dedicated, 26 year pack a day Marlboro medium smoker and when I first started using e-cigs I got the 24mg juice and it wasn't enough, it wasn't until I started using the 36 mg that I finally stopped analogs all together. Guess what I'm saying is that if it doesn't work for you at first try a different juice, a different battery, a different vendor.... eventually it will work. I was a dedicated smoker with no desire to quit and I have, e-cigs do work.
Alpha - No side effects other than being able to run longer than I used to and that I can smell a smoker a mile away. Seriously, it was ridiculously easy to stop analogs. The only thing I'd suggest is make sure that you get a high enough nicotine level juice that you get the nic you need, I was a dedicated, 26 year pack a day Marlboro medium smoker and when I first started using e-cigs I got the 24mg juice and it wasn't enough, it wasn't until I started using the 36 mg that I finally stopped analogs all together. Guess what I'm saying is that if it doesn't work for you at first try a different juice, a different battery, a different vendor.... eventually it will work. I was a dedicated smoker with no desire to quit and I have, e-cigs do work.
I'm looking forward to the benefits for sure. I will keep the levels in mind. I was reading in another post about nic levels and thought I should be careful not to go too high. Thanks for the tips.
Thanks for sharing a great story CAE. I still marvel how ecigs can replace analogs so easily and I share your sentiment when you say that you hope that the government doesn't mess this up. Congrats again on your success.
26 years?? did you start when you were 4??
seriously, great. My gf bought us a setup in May of last year when the smoking ban in Michigan went into effect, but I didn't really get into it too much until December, when I started hacking up a lung. I switched almost completely then. I still get a regular one every now and again, but it's usually weeks between. My battery+passthru just died, though, and I decided to spend April's e-cig budget getting a 510-Tank atty instead of replacing that battery, so i'm back to stock 510 batteries, which are garbage, imo, so I might find myself sneaking a hit off this pack of menthols that i've got that I bought in DECEMBER, when all my batteries are not cutting it. If I consider doing that with any regularity, i'm buying a replacement for that battery right away!
seriously, great.
My gf bought us a setup in May of last year when the smoking ban in Michigan went into effect, but I didn't really get into it too much until December, when I started hacking up a lung. I switched almost completely then. I still get a regular one every now and again, but it's usually weeks between. My battery+passthru just died, though, and I decided to spend April's e-cig budget getting a 510-Tank atty instead of replacing that battery, so i'm back to stock 510 batteries, which are garbage, imo, so I might find myself sneaking a hit off this pack of menthols that i've got that I bought in DECEMBER, when all my batteries are not cutting it. If I consider doing that with any regularity, i'm buying a replacement for that battery right away!
Very good! And yes the higher nicotine is a must, I know a pack a day smoker who started at 12 mg..and was 50-50 'better then before..but still she needed a higher nicotine to rid herself of the analogs.
Congrats on your oopsie.
I've got a friend who smoked around the same as I did. When I told him I ordered 12mg (this is based on one of the stickied guides to e-cigs (the 6 part?). In any case, 12mg worked fine for me. But for him, he needed 24.
I've got a friend who smoked around the same as I did. When I told him I ordered 12mg (this is based on one of the stickied guides to e-cigs (the 6 part?). In any case, 12mg worked fine for me. But for him, he needed 24.
Congrats! It's great to see so many people trying E-cigs for the bar or at work and throwing the packs of real ones away when they get home!
Awww, thanks you two. I started smoking when I was 16, you can do the math but remember that when you hit 40 you need to start counting backward, I plan to be twenty again in about 18 years......
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26 years?? did you start when you were 4??
seriously, great.
Those menthols from December are probably gonna be getting pretty crunchy about now.
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