...and I'm now about 2 weeks away from my 7-mo milestone.
It's so weird--those first few months, I was practically counting the days and weeks since I quit (July 9th, 2010). Somewhere between Halloween and New Year's, I completely stopped focusing on the quit date and instead settled comfortably into the rhythm of vaping.
What a relief.
Almost 31 years of obsessing about cigarettes, and most of those years I was just scraping by, all the while making sure I always had the money to spend on my addiction. With children. Talk about guilt.
Yes, I still spend money on my addiction...but at a greatly-reduced price. Reminds me of what I used to spend, monthly, in 1985.
Why did I quit? Money concerns, for one. Overwhelmingly because my lungs were completely failing. Yes, I had a chronic cough for many years, but after a particularly rough bout of influenza around Christmas '09, my respiratory function never recovered.
I didn't want to be a slave to inhalers. I also didn't want to get as bad as my mother, who has been slowly dying of emphysema for many years. I saw my future...and it scared the holy
out of me.
It was actually my mother who first mentioned ecigs to me, about a year before I switched. I shrugged it off...it sounded pretty stupid at the time.
When she mentioned it again (she had a friend who started using it), I decided to look into it further, and that fateful Google search led me here to ECF.
I spent several hours NOT working
, scouring thread after thread, writing down PV models, researching them in different windows. I tallied up my Wish List, broached the subject with my husband, and placed my first orders.
Three days later, I finally, miraculously became a FORMER smoker. Me, the woman who previously couldn't go more than 3 hours at home without a cigarette. I still have to pinch myself.
My husband has still not switched to vaping 100% of the time, but now that I've switched to cartos (wth took me so long??) he's finally taking the spare eGo to work with him. Joy!
Many, many thanks to everyone on this forum, for your inspiration, tips/tricks, suggestions, humor, and passion. This community has been so instrumental in helping me persevere, especially during that odd first month when nothing tasted right, my analog cravings were at their peak, and when I almost gave up the whole thing for being too much hassle.
Thanks again, everyone. I finally feel like I'm living again.
It's so weird--those first few months, I was practically counting the days and weeks since I quit (July 9th, 2010). Somewhere between Halloween and New Year's, I completely stopped focusing on the quit date and instead settled comfortably into the rhythm of vaping.
What a relief.
Almost 31 years of obsessing about cigarettes, and most of those years I was just scraping by, all the while making sure I always had the money to spend on my addiction. With children. Talk about guilt.
Yes, I still spend money on my addiction...but at a greatly-reduced price. Reminds me of what I used to spend, monthly, in 1985.
Why did I quit? Money concerns, for one. Overwhelmingly because my lungs were completely failing. Yes, I had a chronic cough for many years, but after a particularly rough bout of influenza around Christmas '09, my respiratory function never recovered.
I didn't want to be a slave to inhalers. I also didn't want to get as bad as my mother, who has been slowly dying of emphysema for many years. I saw my future...and it scared the holy
out of me.It was actually my mother who first mentioned ecigs to me, about a year before I switched. I shrugged it off...it sounded pretty stupid at the time.
When she mentioned it again (she had a friend who started using it), I decided to look into it further, and that fateful Google search led me here to ECF.
I spent several hours NOT working
, scouring thread after thread, writing down PV models, researching them in different windows. I tallied up my Wish List, broached the subject with my husband, and placed my first orders.Three days later, I finally, miraculously became a FORMER smoker. Me, the woman who previously couldn't go more than 3 hours at home without a cigarette. I still have to pinch myself.
My husband has still not switched to vaping 100% of the time, but now that I've switched to cartos (wth took me so long??) he's finally taking the spare eGo to work with him. Joy!
Many, many thanks to everyone on this forum, for your inspiration, tips/tricks, suggestions, humor, and passion. This community has been so instrumental in helping me persevere, especially during that odd first month when nothing tasted right, my analog cravings were at their peak, and when I almost gave up the whole thing for being too much hassle.
Thanks again, everyone. I finally feel like I'm living again.
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When someone ask me how long it's been since I quit I have to count how many months....LOL Congrats!!!!
