It's been nearly 2 weeks with my PV, and the same amount of time smoke-free.
After the first few days, cigarettes started smelling absolutely terrible. Almost to the point that it made me nauseous. It's leveled out a little, and now cigarettes smell maybe slightly worse than they did when I was a non-smoker. So, bad, but not as unbearably bad as they did in that first week.
I've been kind of curious to try a cigarette, wondering if it will taste bad to me now. I still have all my rolling stuff, including tobacco (if somewhat old, but that never stopped me from smoking it before).
But every time I got curious, I thought about it, and said "Eh... maybe tomorrow." The idea of trying to smoke a whole cigarette just seemed not worth the effort to me.
Which, in and of itself, is pretty amazing. If you'd asked me a month ago if I'd ever turn down a cigarette out of simple lack of desire, I'd have laughed in your face.
But tonight, I was hanging out with a friend of mine who smokes. We stepped outside for his smoke break.
I asked him if I could take a drag. He passed it to me, and I took a tiny, tiny puff. Nothing like the sharp, ridiculous power-drags I used to take. I could suck down a cigarette in a couple minutes if I was having a bad day.
It was like huffing pesticides. It had this weird, chemical-y taste to it, like the feeling you get in your throat after accidentally getting bug spray in your mouth or something. I don't know if it was that FSC crap or if it had always been that bad and I didn't notice, but it was pretty bad.
I had typically smoked rollies for the last few months, but I'd bummed tailor-made cigs off people once in a while, and I don't remember them tasting THIS bad. If anything, they seemed to have less taste than my rollies. So much so that when I would wind up smoking a tailor, I would often trim down the filter with my Leatherman to try to get more out of it.
Once it was in my lungs, it wasn't so bad. The exhale also wasn't so bad. But that taste stuck with me. I also started to feel kind of sickly and strange. Like a bad high.
I passed it back to my friend, now completely dissuaded from actually trying to choke down an entire cigarette, and went back to my PV.
The sickly feeling lasted for a few minutes. But I spent the next the couple hours coughing on and off. It wasn't the chesty cough I had when I smoked (which is now gone!), but more of a throaty cough. I felt like my airway was tightened.
One drag on a cigarette had me coughing for hours. And I used to do that about 400 times a day (30 cigs x 13-14 drags per cig).
So, that's my experience trying a cigarette after about 2 weeks of my PV.
Ugh.
Love,
Cassie
After the first few days, cigarettes started smelling absolutely terrible. Almost to the point that it made me nauseous. It's leveled out a little, and now cigarettes smell maybe slightly worse than they did when I was a non-smoker. So, bad, but not as unbearably bad as they did in that first week.
I've been kind of curious to try a cigarette, wondering if it will taste bad to me now. I still have all my rolling stuff, including tobacco (if somewhat old, but that never stopped me from smoking it before).
But every time I got curious, I thought about it, and said "Eh... maybe tomorrow." The idea of trying to smoke a whole cigarette just seemed not worth the effort to me.
Which, in and of itself, is pretty amazing. If you'd asked me a month ago if I'd ever turn down a cigarette out of simple lack of desire, I'd have laughed in your face.
But tonight, I was hanging out with a friend of mine who smokes. We stepped outside for his smoke break.
I asked him if I could take a drag. He passed it to me, and I took a tiny, tiny puff. Nothing like the sharp, ridiculous power-drags I used to take. I could suck down a cigarette in a couple minutes if I was having a bad day.
It was like huffing pesticides. It had this weird, chemical-y taste to it, like the feeling you get in your throat after accidentally getting bug spray in your mouth or something. I don't know if it was that FSC crap or if it had always been that bad and I didn't notice, but it was pretty bad.
I had typically smoked rollies for the last few months, but I'd bummed tailor-made cigs off people once in a while, and I don't remember them tasting THIS bad. If anything, they seemed to have less taste than my rollies. So much so that when I would wind up smoking a tailor, I would often trim down the filter with my Leatherman to try to get more out of it.
Once it was in my lungs, it wasn't so bad. The exhale also wasn't so bad. But that taste stuck with me. I also started to feel kind of sickly and strange. Like a bad high.
I passed it back to my friend, now completely dissuaded from actually trying to choke down an entire cigarette, and went back to my PV.
The sickly feeling lasted for a few minutes. But I spent the next the couple hours coughing on and off. It wasn't the chesty cough I had when I smoked (which is now gone!), but more of a throaty cough. I felt like my airway was tightened.
One drag on a cigarette had me coughing for hours. And I used to do that about 400 times a day (30 cigs x 13-14 drags per cig).
So, that's my experience trying a cigarette after about 2 weeks of my PV.
Ugh.
Love,
Cassie
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), and I now constantly vape. Before I was only a light smoker only smoking a half dozen a day. But now that I can "smoke" inside with no ill effects, I find myself constantly vaping. I have to puff at least every 15 minutes, but don't really find myself Jonesing if I have to go without for most of a day. That has me a little concerned.
