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[LoriP1702]

So my wife just headed out to the airport to fly to Austin for the week, and she needed my phone charger, as usual, because she forgot hers at work. My phone is now out in the garage with the car charger plugged into it, and a set of clip leads hooked up to a scavenged power supply from an old computer tower and she has the nerve to call me a geek

...my DH does stuff like that. He'll say, "what, don't laugh, it's working now isn't it?"

in 29 days exactly, it will be 5 full years since I had a smoke. Note ONE in five years. For me that's a miracle. I couldn't do what you just described. I could not, nor would I want to smoke a cigarette. More power to you if you can have one occasionally, but I know myself to well. And myself, who quit many many many times before, could go quite a long time without a smoke, but all it took was one to make me want more.

That's AWESOME!!!!
4 Years for me this Sept. 10th. Not even one, in four years.
But as much as I hate to say it, if they take vaping away completely from us, I can say I'd never go back, but I know in my heart I probably would.
...I'm planning for a 10 year stash, placing my last nic order tonight or tomorrow. Hoping my gear all holds out, may pick up a few more odds and ends, but fingers crossed...

I went a year and half one time, mind you, it was very different from this time, because with vaping I have stopped smoking and don't feel the tug anymore. Previous quit attempts I would catch myself looking at the rack of smokes in the stores, feeling a little bit envious when I would see a smoker. It was like a persistant itch...vaping is the first thing that scratches that itch and I don't even miss smoking anymore.

That year and a half went up in smoke one day, because after a great day of skiing, I was having a beer and getting ready to head home. A smoker near me lit up and the smell went right to my head, I recognized the brand from the smell, I remember asking him, hey, is that a Camel Light? Yeah, you want one he asked...nah, I just like the smell I told him, and chuckled...but I knew right then what was next.

On the road I stopped at the very first gas station and grabbed a pack. Yeah, I'll just have one or two I told myself. That worked for a couple days...then it was a few more, and within two weeks I was smoking even more than before I had quit. That was about ten years ago, and I had decided that time was it, I just knew in my heart that I would be smoking till the day I died. Why fight it, I thought.

Nowadays I feel different about the whole smoking thing. Part of me knows that vaping keeps the beast at bay, and is so much less harmful to me. Part of me thinks I could actually have and enjoy a cigarette and that would be that, and I could just keep on vaping. I hope I never listen to that part because truth be told, I think it's the old smoke demon whispering in my ear again, only this time around it's a lot easier to not listen

You just described me to a "T". Except the longest I ever quit for was 6 months.
Made me laugh too because when I did smoke, I was outside where I was getting my hair cut smoking, and a little old lady, I mean 80 to 85 if she was a day, stood across the way from me, she just wanted to "smell it".
She said she'd quit 20 years prior, but knew if she did more than just smell it, she'd be right back at it.

she'll find her charger in her purse when she gets to the airport

Well people, the thing is (most of you already know this), I have COPD, emphysema, pulmonary fibrosis, heart failure and am O2 dependent. Smoking on a regular basis would kill me FAST! But... having one last Sept. and two this weekend isn't going to.

I have absolutely no desire to have another one because of vaping.

THIS IS WHY I HATE THE FDA SO MUCH and am having a hard time flying my flag but have to have one flying above my KISS Army one. Lol

God bless America

(((HUGS)))
They just have no clue what they're doing to us. Just soooooo wrong on sooooo many levels!!!


...sorry for the mega.

 

[BreSha6869]

Well people, the thing is (most of you already know this), I have COPD, emphysema, pulmonary fibrosis, heart failure and am O2 dependent. Smoking on a regular basis would kill me FAST! But... having one last Sept. and two this weekend isn't going to.

I have absolutely no desire to have another one because of vaping.

THIS IS WHY I HATE THE FDA SO MUCH and am having a hard time flying my flag but have to have one flying above my KISS Army one. Lol

God bless America

I have at least 3 friends that quit smoking cold turkey every time I do and that is only because the cheap buggers only smoke when they bum them from me. At bars, golfing, etc. I used to bring 2-3 large packs (25 cigarettes per pack) every time I went out with these clowns. I love them like brothers, but my point is that I really wish I could have smoked like that, but I obviously couldn't.

If you can have the very odd smoke, good on you. It isn't gonna kill you unless it puts you right back on the wagon. I would never recommend it to anyone, but we aren't all perfect and you could do worse than a few smokes in a year.

 

[APF]

A few cigs a year? You will ingest more contamination from that diesel pickup in front of you at the light.

 

[Jim-]

You'ld be surprised. Us older folks have seen enough history to know the need for independence.

Got that right. And unlike past generations of old folks I embrace change rather than fight it. Especially when it comes to tech.


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[Jim-]

Sunday Afternoon Heaven. 32 ounce Tomahawk ribeye. Hit tip The Meat Cellar. Claremont CA

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[BreSha6869]

Sunday Afternoon Heaven. 32 ounce Tomahawk ribeye. Hit tip The Meat Cellar. Claremont CA

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What cha drinkin'?

 

[rbrylawski]

Ah, Come on RB...

A lil poison ain't gonna hurt ya.

LOLz

Nope. Not nevah gonna happen.

I went a year and half one time, mind you, it was very different from this time, because with vaping I have stopped smoking and don't feel the tug anymore. Previous quit attempts I would catch myself looking at the rack of smokes in the stores, feeling a little bit envious when I would see a smoker. It was like a persistant itch...vaping is the first thing that scratches that itch and I don't even miss smoking anymore.

That year and a half went up in smoke one day, because after a great day of skiing, I was having a beer and getting ready to head home. A smoker near me lit up and the smell went right to my head, I recognized the brand from the smell, I remember asking him, hey, is that a Camel Light? Yeah, you want one he asked...nah, I just like the smell I told him, and chuckled...but I knew right then what was next.

On the road I stopped at the very first gas station and grabbed a pack. Yeah, I'll just have one or two I told myself. That worked for a couple days...then it was a few more, and within two weeks I was smoking even more than before I had quit. That was about ten years ago, and I had decided that time was it, I just knew in my heart that I would be smoking till the day I died. Why fight it, I thought.

Nowadays I feel different about the whole smoking thing. Part of me knows that vaping keeps the beast at bay, and is so much less harmful to me. Part of me thinks I could actually have and enjoy a cigarette and that would be that, and I could just keep on vaping. I hope I never listen to that part because truth be told, I think it's the old smoke demon whispering in my ear again, only this time around it's a lot easier to not listen

I am similar.

I quit for almost 4 years thanks to Zyban (terrible stuff), lost 60+, ran a marathon and a few halfs and thought I was smoke free forever. The smell and thought of smoking grossed me out. I was free. Finally!

A drunken night waiting for a taxi at a buddy's bar, I had one smoke. Bought a pack the next weekend and had a few. A month later I was back up to a pack a day.

I know I can never have another smoke just like a really bad alcoholic can't have just one drink or a junkie can't socially use. Weirdly, I still like my cigars. I don't inhale, but they don't make me want a cigarette in any way.

Duane and Brent, your stories are so similar to mine. I had used every method possible, without success and then so desperately wanting to quit, I finally bit the bullet and went cold turkey. I went through such awful withdrawal as every cold turkey person does, lived through the months of living life in a fog and slow motion, but was finally off them for a full two years. During those two years, I joined a gym, got in great shape, lost a lot of weight. I was doing the elliptical 5 times a week for an hour or more each time. I was lifting weights and even hired a trainer. I was really proud of myself. I didn't cheat once in that two year period. When the economy crumbled in 2008 and I lost my high paying job of 16 years, all I thought about was having a cigarette. Leaving my office that afternoon, I walked up to the first smoker I saw and bummed one. I knew the guy and I'm pretty sure what I said was "give me a cigarette or die." It tasted great, but I was so disappointed in myself. On my way home, I bought a pack. Smoked two more, then threw the pack away. The next day, I bought another pack. Smoked a few, threw the rest away. It wasn't until Charlie smelled smoke on me, that I admitted defeat and was a smoker again. I quit the gym, put some weight back on and kept smoking. Over the next 3 years, I tried cigalikes and bummed smokes. It wasn't until a guy at my then new job gave me an Ego system that I found the courage to give up smokes and become a vaper full time. Vaping has saved my life.

I know myself too well. I simply can never ever bum a smoke. I'm am a tobacco-holic. And to this day, when I see someone light up and show that ahhhh look of relief on their first drag, I am still envious. Though I must admit that after five years, the smell of smoke is repulsive to me.

 

[Jim-]

It's a Paul Delane sparkling rose. Nothing fancy just tasty.



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[BreSha6869]

Duane and Brent, your stories are so similar to mine. I had used every method possible, without success and then so desperately wanting to quit, I finally bit the bullet and went cold turkey. I went through such awful withdrawal as every cold turkey person does, lived through the months of living life in a fog and slow motion, but was finally off them for a full two years. During those two years, I joined a gym, got in great shape, lost a lot of weight. I was doing the elliptical 5 times a week for an hour or more each time. I was lifting weights and even hired a trainer. I was really proud of myself. I didn't cheat once in that two year period. When the economy crumbled in 2008 and I lost my high paying job of 16 years, all I thought about was having a cigarette. Leaving my office that afternoon, I walked up to the first smoker I saw and bummed one. I knew the guy and I'm pretty sure what I said was "give me a cigarette or die." It tasted great, but I was so disappointed in myself. On my way home, I bought a pack. Smoked two more, then threw the pack away. The next day, I bought another pack. Smoked a few, threw the rest away. It wasn't until Charlie smelled smoke on me, that I admitted defeat and was a smoker again. I quit the gym, put some weight back on and kept smoking. Over the next 3 years, I tried cigalikes and bummed smokes. It wasn't until a guy at my then new job gave me an Ego system that I found the courage to give up smokes and become a vaper full time. Vaping has saved my life.

I know myself too well. I simply can never ever bum a smoke. I'm am a tobacco-holic. And to this day, when I see someone light up and show that ahhhh look of relief on their first drag, I am still envious. Though I must admit that after five years, the smell of smoke is repulsive to me.

Amazing how a "simple excuse" can set us off even after years. Lost job, fight with spouse, money, etc. Almost like we are wired regardless of how long we stay away from the butts. Crazy.

I hate to dwell on it but without vaping, I would be smoking right now as would many of us.

 

[rbrylawski]

Amazing how a "simple excuse" can set us off even after years. Lost job, fight with spouse, money, etc. Almost like we are wired regardless of how long we stay away from the butts. Crazy.

I hate to dwell on it but without vaping, I would be smoking right now as would many of us.

So true. I just realized that when I got the call two weeks ago my father passed away, I didn't even for a moment think about having a smoke.

 

[BreSha6869]

So true. I just realized that when I got the call two weeks ago my father passed away, I didn't even for a moment think about having a smoke.

"Liked" obviously because you didn't think about having a smoke.

 

[rbrylawski]

"Liked" obviously because you didn't think about having a smoke.

Thanks. I didn't think about not having a smoke until I just thought about it!

 

[ENAUD]

Thanks. I didn't think about not having a smoke until I just thought about it!

I have come to a point where I feel sorry when I see a person smoking. The feeling of being envious passed a long time ago, when I accepted that vaping was a miracle to me. Now I see them and wish they could know what I now know. I also know how resentful I was as a smoker to anyone who tried to talk to me about quitting. In a perfect world, vaping would be praised and recommended to smokers, and even be subsidized to make it affordable to those less able to afford it. I t would be readily available and made to be as appealing as possible to attract people away from burning tobacco. as to those opposing it:

 

[Jim-]

I have come to a point where I feel sorry when I see a person smoking. The feeling of being envious passed a long time ago, when I accepted that vaping was a miracle to me. Now I see them and wish they could know what I now know. I also know how resentful I was as a smoker to anyone who tried to talk to me about quitting. In a perfect world, vaping would be praised and recommended to smokers, and even be subsidized to make it affordable to those less able to afford it. I t would be readily available and made to be as appealing as possible to attract people away from burning tobacco. as to those opposing it:

Quoted for truth my brother. [emoji106]


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[rbrylawski]

I have come to a point where I feel sorry when I see a person smoking. The feeling of being envious passed a long time ago, when I accepted that vaping was a miracle to me. Now I see them and wish they could know what I now know. I also know how resentful I was as a smoker to anyone who tried to talk to me about quitting. In a perfect world, vaping would be praised and recommended to smokers, and even be subsidized to make it affordable to those less able to afford it. I t would be readily available and made to be as appealing as possible to attract people away from burning tobacco. as to those opposing it:

Sadly, we'll never have the perfect world when Big Money is the motivator. To your comment about feeling sorry for someone smoking, I do too. But smoking was such an intensely personal addiction that I also have some jealously wrapped in there as well. It's hard to explain in words that make sense.

 

[ENAUD]

Sadly, we'll never have the perfect world when Big Money is the motivator. To your comment about feeling sorry for someone smoking, I do too. But smoking was such an intensely personal addiction that I also have some jealously wrapped in their as well. It's hard to explain in words that make sense.

I know what you mean, our old friend, so to speak. Funny thing, after day three on the vape, I had smoked my last cig the night before, I went out and bought a pack of Winstons. My Memere smoked Winston's and I remember sneaking packs to her sometimes up on the old farmhouse when Unk and Pepere weren't around. I decided to smoke one last Winston using the ashtray that I wound up with that was hers, it was made from an end cap from one of the big rollers that the wool was wound on from the wool mill she and Pepere worked at many years ago. I guess a whole bunch of them things got turned into ashtrays in the mills machine shop, maybe they were lunchtime projects. But the reason I chose to have that last one was very symbolic to me, a tie to my past, and a cut from it into my future. I still have that pack with 19 coffin nails up high in a cabinet. If I ever decide to have a smoke, I told myself I'll have to start with those, now almost three year old cigs. Bet that will be a treat

 

[rbrylawski]

I know what you mean, our old friend, so to speak. Funny thing, after day three on the vape, I had smoked my last cig the night before, I went out and bought a pack of Winstons. My Memere smoked Winston's and I remember sneaking packs to her sometimes up on the old farmhouse when Unk and Pepere weren't around. I decided to smoke one last Winston using the ashtray that I wound up with that was hers, it was made from an end cap from one of the big rollers that the wool was wound on from the wool mill she and Pepere worked at many years ago. I guess a whole bunch of them things got turned into ashtrays in the mills machine shop, maybe they were lunchtime projects. But the reason I chose to have that last one was very symbolic to me, a tie to my past, and a cut from it into my future. I still have that pack with 19 coffin nails up high in a cabinet. If I ever decide to have a smoke, I told myself I'll have to start with those, now almost three year old cigs. Bet that will be a treat

I can only imagine how awful those 3 year old Winstons would be at this point. I hope you never decide to try one.

 

[ENAUD]

I can only imagine how awful those 3 year old Winstons would be at this point. I hope you never decide to try one.

Ya think they'll make me cough?


Another funny thing just came to mind, I had a friend who would say to me," Your too young to smoke." This puzzled me so one time I asked, so how old should I be before it's OK to smoke. He said, you will always be too young to smoke... funny the things that our brains retain amidst all of the useless information we are bombarded with.

 

[BreSha6869]

I think I will be finding BIC lighters in every corner of my house for the rest of my life. How come I could never find one of the damned things when I smoked, now that I vape they are everywhere?

In any case, I smoked my last cigarette at 9:00am-ish almost 7 months ago, picked up a vape kit an hour later and never smoked again.

I forgot all about the fact that I was travelling for a few days with a 26 year old girl from work who was a fitness freak but a good friend last November. A couple of days before we left (3 days together in a car) I was stressing about how I could smoke. Almost embarrassed. How would I go 6 hours in a car without a smoke? How could I smoke when we had customer meetings all day and events at night? Also, isn't getting dressed up to take the elevator to go outside every time you want a smoke a treat?

Long story short, once I fired up that iStick, I didn't smoke or even want to again. Also, I suddenly could vape in the car, between meetings and hell, even in hotel rooms in my underwear if I felt like it. No washing my hands and chewing gum every hour, no stinky suits... Y'all get the picture.

Glad this was brought up as it makes me happy thinking about how much more I enjoy vaping over smoking.

 

[ENAUD]

Glad this was brought up as it makes me happy thinking about how much more I enjoy vaping over smoking.

As it should be! Kudos for walking away from the coffin nails!