So first off, I keep picturing this huge group of people, all either sat in front of their computers vaping away or reading everything they can while waiting for their order to come in the mail. Gives me a giggle when I think of the humongous cloud of vapor we are all collectively exhaling.
My intention, when I bought an e-cig was not to quit smoking, but to stop smoking around my husband and in the house, and that has been a spectacular, almost miraculous success.
But now, completely stopping is suddenly right there in my grasp, I still have a major trip-up and that is work. I still smoke about 4-5 analogs during the workday, mainly to get that break away from my desk. I can vape at my desk, but I've come to associate the traditional outside smoke break as a true break from working and it's almost impossible for me to stop. If I take my e-cig outside for the break, I don't get a real break, because folks I break with either, a) ask me a bazillion questions about it, or b) make fun of me. I don't like or want either, I just want my break, and a chance to socialize without all the questions or ridicule. So I keep a pack of analogs in my desk drawer at work.
Here's the thing - it's getting harder and harder to smoke them. I don't like them anymore, I much prefer vaping Riskee to the taste of a cigarette.
So what to do? I'm thinking maybe taking a break periodically outside with the smokers (who are my friends) without taking either a cigarette or my e-cig. Would that stop the fuss do you think and still give me a break? I don't want to become some kind of weird pariah and I don't want to be an advertisement for e-smoking nor some kind of high-tech e-smoking evangelist, I just want a break. Then I'll just vape at my desk.
It's just plain weird to think that I've put myself in some kind of weird no-man's land. I don't seem to fit in with either the smokers or the non-smokers anymore. Hmmm...maybe that's why this forum becomes so important.
When away from work, I do not smoke analogs at all.
My intention, when I bought an e-cig was not to quit smoking, but to stop smoking around my husband and in the house, and that has been a spectacular, almost miraculous success.
But now, completely stopping is suddenly right there in my grasp, I still have a major trip-up and that is work. I still smoke about 4-5 analogs during the workday, mainly to get that break away from my desk. I can vape at my desk, but I've come to associate the traditional outside smoke break as a true break from working and it's almost impossible for me to stop. If I take my e-cig outside for the break, I don't get a real break, because folks I break with either, a) ask me a bazillion questions about it, or b) make fun of me. I don't like or want either, I just want my break, and a chance to socialize without all the questions or ridicule. So I keep a pack of analogs in my desk drawer at work.
Here's the thing - it's getting harder and harder to smoke them. I don't like them anymore, I much prefer vaping Riskee to the taste of a cigarette.
So what to do? I'm thinking maybe taking a break periodically outside with the smokers (who are my friends) without taking either a cigarette or my e-cig. Would that stop the fuss do you think and still give me a break? I don't want to become some kind of weird pariah and I don't want to be an advertisement for e-smoking nor some kind of high-tech e-smoking evangelist, I just want a break. Then I'll just vape at my desk.
It's just plain weird to think that I've put myself in some kind of weird no-man's land. I don't seem to fit in with either the smokers or the non-smokers anymore. Hmmm...maybe that's why this forum becomes so important.
When away from work, I do not smoke analogs at all.
. You've got to just let them go and tell yourself no more! It'll be easier than you think I promise! I didn't want to let them go for a week or so after I got my e-cig, and kept having 1-2 a day. I told myself after my 1/2 pack I had left was gone that would be it. Haven't had one since! 
