I am 40 years old and been a smoker since I was 12 (28 years). I recently tried a friend's vape and loved it. I can't wait to get one of my own. Sadly, I live from paycheck to paycheck and sometimes have to put off bills because I just don't have the money. I can't wait until I get my taxes back so I can get my own vape.
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My mother saw my electronic the second day I started using it. She stole it from me and shoved it down her decolletage, daring me to try to get it back. Since I'm not going to feel up my mom, she got to keep that one.
But HA! I had a second in my pocket because I knew that would happen. I gave her the charger I brought with me because, again, I knew that would happen.
She was 68 at the time and took to vaping like a duck to water. She now has more devices than I do, and hasn't touched a cigarette since two days after my quit date.
But HA! I had a second in my pocket because I knew that would happen. I gave her the charger I brought with me because, again, I knew that would happen.
She was 68 at the time and took to vaping like a duck to water. She now has more devices than I do, and hasn't touched a cigarette since two days after my quit date.
Given that, eventually, vaping becomes cheaper than smoking, you should find your paychecks stretching a little further once you have your setup nailed down.
Frighteningly, vaping (total) has cost me less than 16% what smoking would have. That doesn't include the three sinus infections I would have gotten during that period as well...nor the extra laundry.
Or is it the fear of failure? I quit in private. If I failed, no one would have known.
So in my mind it is not the unwillingness of people to quit, it is the unwillingness of others to have others see them fail. They won't try to quit because they don't want to publically fail. And the older you get, I can see it getting worse. Old people are pretty sure of themselves. They are not open to new ideas. I understand all of that.
And studies show that support from peers helps. People who you can ask stupid questions too. People who are in the same boat as you. People that you don't even really know or ever really even think you will meet in person. Like the great people on the ECF. Who rarely judge and offer trainloads (no, boatloads! Big Boats!) of encouragement. More encouragement then a human being needs.
While quitting at my advanced age (57), I lurked. I don't think I joined until I was done with cigs. I didn't want to publically fail. I didn't buy an e-cig starter kit and join ECF the same day. I got the starter kit at a B&M after asking questions for an hour and I went outside to smoke a cigarette and thought up more questions. And they showed me how to use it and filled the tanks. I didn't even try it until I got home and turned on the TV and got a beer. And then I re-read the manual in Chinese.
And I tried it while smoking cigarettes watching TV.
I googled all kinds of stuff and always ended up here (ECF).
I joined the Forum and I am overwhelmed.
I am an Engineer. My brain is different. I don't know how to fix addiction, but the right tools and the right support is essential (from what I have read). I can't even fix me let alone anyone else.
So people try things for various reasons. Other people don't try things for various reasons.
If failure leads to ridicule, people won't try something new. If failure leads to an additional big boat or two of encouragement, people take chances to improve their lives.
We are the support group that the world needs to get off of cigs in private without the fear of failure or ridicule. And if successful, we are not only quitters but PROUD quitters. Sorry to interupt.
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It CAN be cheaper. Just don't get too crazy.. It's defiantly better if you have a few local shops that have vape bars for you to try different flavors to see what you like! You may have to take a step back to get a step a head. The ego starter packs seem to be getting cheaper all the time. Good luck to you!
It CAN be cheaper. Just don't get too crazy.. It's defiantly better if you have a few local shops that have vape bars for you to try different flavors to see what you like! You may have to take a step back to get a step a head. The ego starter packs seem to be getting cheaper all the time. Good luck to you!
I really like this, only because even after a year, I still have people telling me I cheated because I didn't really quit, and I'm still smoking. No matter what I try to say to them it's always the same response, and they obviously still view me as a smoker.
Then in the next breath they say that they are going to try laser or hypnotherapy and they will quit. Had it not been for this group and the ones I talked some sense into I may not have made it. Why is it that if it,looks,like smoke there must be fire? It's the same problem with the smokers that we have with the ANTZ.
Written in response to Art, someone posted in between.
Then in the next breath they say that they are going to try laser or hypnotherapy and they will quit. Had it not been for this group and the ones I talked some sense into I may not have made it. Why is it that if it,looks,like smoke there must be fire? It's the same problem with the smokers that we have with the ANTZ.
Written in response to Art, someone posted in between.
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Hello there, Art. And welcome aboard...
You have my support for ever and ever. What a moving post...
God I love this forum.
It never gets old....
Hello there, Art. And welcome aboard...
You have my support for ever and ever. What a moving post...
God I love this forum.
It never gets old....
I agree. At times I need it. I like reading about "stuff" and farkles and new juices. But I also like when people help me understand myself. And I like people who think they know everything and are in their twenties. Not that there is anything wrong with that.
The addiction thing has been my pondering point since I started e-cigs. How can I change my brain? Or everyone's brain for that matter?
I told a story early on about my pink Bic lighter. I carry it with me where ever I go. And when I watch TV, it is at my side. Right there within reach. And I am watching TV and my brain says, hey, you want a cigarette. And I say, yes, that is right. So I pick up the pink lighter and look for my cigarettes. My cigarettes have been in the bottom of the trunk underneath of stuff. They have been there for a month. There are no cigarettes in the house. I haven't smoked a cigarette in weeks. But my brain wants a cigarette and I pick up the pink lighter everytime. And it is sitting right next to my Vamo V5. I will pick the lighter up and get up out of my chair and look for my smokes. How crazy is that? I would put the pink lighter away, but it makes me vape less.
At times I get up and wash my hands so the nicotine stains on my fingers doesn't get worse. I don't even smoke anymore. I do this multiple time per day. I don't have stains on my fingers. I sit at the computer and I thought I was just smoking a cigarette and it isn't there so it must have dropped on the floor. So I look around for a lit cigarette. I do it all the time. I never find a lit cigarette.
If my words encourages one more person to quit cigs, I am going to heaven for sure. At least that is what I tell myself.
It really bothers me when people tell me what to do. Smoking sucks. Vaping is the same thing. You are weak. Pay me my sin tax. CVS will stop selling cigs. Thank god there will be no more smokers in the world. A victory for people who like clean air! Apparently when I smoked in the car at 60 mph with the window cracked, the smoke escaped and went into their car and caused them cancer. Shouldn't I have been dead years ago? I didn't realize that everyone only bought cigs at CVS and no where else. It is hard to believe there will be no more cigarettes in October and normal people can stand in the smokers only area without fear of second hand smoke (because CVS doesn't sell cigs anymore so there won't be anyone smoking anymore). I thought you could get them anywhere. I haven't bought any for a month, but I can remember way back then (I am old), you could get them at gas stations or 7-11. Did that all change? Since then CVS has the exclusive rights to sell cigs? And they decided not too?
What difference will it make? People will still smoke. And kill other people with impunity. And discard their butts because there isn't an ash tray. I agree that providing an ashtray in a smoking area is pandering to smokers, but I also think it would be cheaper to empty an ashtray then pick up butts. Does that make sense? Can we not be reasonable? And those crazy plastic smokeless standup ashtrays (or ash cans) are stupid. They always burn and smoke. Sand in an ashtray worked pretty good back in the day.
Why do people spend their life trying to get rid of chocolate milk just because they hate chocolate? Normal milk is good enough for them. Why do gay people make other people mad? Why is eating a double cheeseburger at MacDonald's worse then starving to death? Why is fast food bad unless you are looking for something fast to eat? Why is driving an SUV getting 18 mpg good, but smoking a cigarette in the middle of a field surrounded by guards is bad?
Why do some people vape Butterscotch or Pina Colada? It tastes like crap to me. But hey, whatever makes you happy.
The world would be better without sin taxes. It unfairly shifts the tax burden to others for the things that "we" want. If "we" want it, "we" should all pay for it. Then we can decide if "we" really want it. I am tired of your sin taxes. Pay for your own crap.
I am not a cranky old man. I don't want to tell anyone what to do. I am not fat (thank god). I am not a gun nut, but I understand. A gun is like a really nice APV. A really nice one. Crazy people kill other people at schools with guns. I am not sure how to fix that. Personally I think we should tax bullets. A bullet should cost the same as a pack of cigs (Marlboro Lights). As cigarettes get taxed to death, so should bullets. Guns don't kill people, bullets do. Remember that.
Everyone has vices and habits. Who cares? Do you think you can solve it? I live in Virginia. Tobacco made Virginia. And now it is worse then the devil? Go figure.
What were we talking about? The Vamo with a fresh battery and a clean tank is pretty damned nice. Am I allowed to say that?
In an earlier post I vowed to teach people how to make a steak. I will do it.
I really think this differs from person to person. I have encountered both old and young smokers that are skeptical about vaping. I would even say more so with smokers of my age and younger. Most smokers seem to think it's not so bad as long as you don't overdo smoking (a pack a day is overdoing it in their eyes). They think switching would be a hassle and seem to dislike the idea of ordering everything online.
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Im 36 and my parents are 57.
My mom had quit for three years, but july we loss granny, aka my best friend. Even tho she was 72 it was unexpected. She was hospitalized the same week she was diagnosed, and never came out. 30 days later she passed. And it wasnt peaceful.
That led mom to smoking again.
My mom tried my ego for awhile but it made her cough so bad she didnt like it, i then got her the kanger esmart kit two of them. And she does some vaping. I dont understand her, she says things like my life is too hectic right now. Or i have been so busy. Now keep in mind i have her tanks filled and her batteries charged. I even got her the ego ashtray for a stand.
My dad, said it was just another expense to add to smoking.
So for his birthday knowing he is an occasional pipe smoker, i bought him the kamry epipe and picked out two tobacco flavors and a banana nut bread, had it mailed to his house.
We skyped and i talked him thru the set up process. He isnt happy with the drip tip that falls off constantly, but he thinks its the best thing ever.
Atleast dad is liking it.
My mom had quit for three years, but july we loss granny, aka my best friend. Even tho she was 72 it was unexpected. She was hospitalized the same week she was diagnosed, and never came out. 30 days later she passed. And it wasnt peaceful.
That led mom to smoking again.
My mom tried my ego for awhile but it made her cough so bad she didnt like it, i then got her the kanger esmart kit two of them. And she does some vaping. I dont understand her, she says things like my life is too hectic right now. Or i have been so busy. Now keep in mind i have her tanks filled and her batteries charged. I even got her the ego ashtray for a stand.
My dad, said it was just another expense to add to smoking.
So for his birthday knowing he is an occasional pipe smoker, i bought him the kamry epipe and picked out two tobacco flavors and a banana nut bread, had it mailed to his house.
We skyped and i talked him thru the set up process. He isnt happy with the drip tip that falls off constantly, but he thinks its the best thing ever.
Atleast dad is liking it.
I started vaping last year at the ripe old age of 53 after smoking for 40 years.
It's not age, it's attitude. Go into vaping with a positive attitude and a willingness to experiment, you'll do fine. Many folks of all ages are resistant to change. It is what it is. I will show off my iTaste SVD and/or Hammer to whomever asks, I don't force it upon others. I am not 100% analog free but getting there. I have even found they just taste bad to me now.
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Hi. Dave from Belleville Ont. here. 60 years old, been smoking since I was 12 or so. Tried every quit smoking method around. I bought an Itaste mvp this sunday with 12 mg juice. WOW.. I KNOW I can easily quit analogs now, but will go nuts WHEN my government gets involved and makes it harder for me to find nicotine juices or taxes them way much. Vaping is so much more satisfying than smoking, and I'm positive that any harmful effects from them will be FAR less than me continuing to smoke.
I was born in 56 (do the math). My mom is 80 and my pops will be 99 next month. I just got pops into vaping in Dec last year. He was a pack a day Humpie unfiltered smoker since he was in his 20's. Started him with the disposables and now that he has taken to those, just bought him a starter kit and he is clam happy that he doesn't have to bundle up to go outside to smoke and that mom, who quit about 10 yrs ago isn't nagging at him any more.
My father is 67 and when I came home from A school in the Navy I showed him mine and he got one and he loves it. my mom was skeptical about it at first and told me she didn't want me doing it then we both talked to her into it. Now she has one too. I had been smoking for 3 years and quit, my dad had been smoking since he was 14 and quit at 67 due to e cigs and my mom is 56 and has been smoking since 18 and quit.
I am 70, heading for 71. Love this whole vaping thing--of course you need to know that I am a huge fan of "toys," especially electronics, and this vaping thing is just plain fun for me. I DID want to quit smoking, and about time, too. I have been really, really lucky to have smoked most of my adult life and still have no ill effects, but the time comes when you think maybe you don't want to press your luck any more. Also two things happened when I retired that made me think I needed to give up the smokes--since I was home all day, I was smoking more and more, and the cost of cigs just kept going up, which wasn't so great for that fixed income thing. I was spending a lot on cigarettes and that was $$ I could spend on things I wanted more. So the desire to quit and the factors that made it more appealing to quit led me to my very first e-cig and since then not even a thought of a cigarette. I doubt I am ever going to get into all this modifying and so forth (though you never know) but I am on the hunt for the best battery for my use (something that will last all day or at least most of it as opposed to a couple of hours) and the best tastes in juice. Old or young, though, I don't think anyone is going to give up the analogs for vaping unless they really want to quit smoking.
At that "awkward age" between 60 and 62, where you're a senior to some organizations, not to others (that start at 62) ... 
Quit smoking 9 months ago after 46 years of burning tobacco. Had no alarming ill effects up to then, but the chronic cough became more and more persistent, and a cold or flu was three weeks of misery ...
Vaping has given me renewed hope that I will match my Dad, and live to be 100 !
by the way, i think that seniors should be exempt from all vaping bans ...
Quit smoking 9 months ago after 46 years of burning tobacco. Had no alarming ill effects up to then, but the chronic cough became more and more persistent, and a cold or flu was three weeks of misery ...
Vaping has given me renewed hope that I will match my Dad, and live to be 100 !
by the way, i think that seniors should be exempt from all vaping bans ...
I now have electric books, electric cigarettes...all I need now is one of those Japanese toilets.
My neighbour's in his 70's - probably smoked for at least 60 years - and when I got home from shopping for some better kit today I gave him a couple of GreenSmoke batteries, charger and some cartos. I'm looking forward to see how he gets on. I'll let you all know.
My neighbour's in his 70's - probably smoked for at least 60 years - and when I got home from shopping for some better kit today I gave him a couple of GreenSmoke batteries, charger and some cartos. I'm looking forward to see how he gets on. I'll let you all know.
I'm 73, and smoked for well over 50 years. I've now been using e-cigs for almost three years, and I wrap my own coils and DIY my own liquids.
Eveyone is different, and it's no different with seniors than it is with young people. We all have the same issues with making the switch.
Making a big deal out of someones age is a mistake. In fact the one thing a senior might be offended by is the idea that you have to do things for them.
Eveyone is different, and it's no different with seniors than it is with young people. We all have the same issues with making the switch.
Making a big deal out of someones age is a mistake. In fact the one thing a senior might be offended by is the idea that you have to do things for them.
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