Aww thanks! That's fairly recently though. About a month ago I was still smoking a pack a day. I see so many people who have stopped completely with vaping but I feel a little bitter/angry toward myself since I'm not in that same crowd. Another issue I have is not being able to find flavors I like. Not sure if that's due to me still smoking or something else.
I know what you mean about being angry with yourself; I managed to quit very easily back in Feb, no problem at all; but in June I got very ill, and very dehydrated, and ended up smoking again while I tried to recuperate and fix the dehydration problem. I'd see peoples' banners around the forum with x amount of time smoke-free, and remember that I was actually here before them, with x amount of time smoke-free before they ever got here, and just feel like slapping myself. But it's not a competition, I had to keep reminding myself; if I had kept vaping after my illness, when I was so dehydrated, likely I would have ended up back in the hospital with needles in my veins, and that was no fun even for 1 day with a laparoscopic appendectomy, so I sure didn't want to have to return as an in-patient!
Finding the right taste can be the crux of the matter; it was for me, back in Feb, and it was again a couple days ago when I had finally reacquired my taste for vaping vs. cigarettes -- until I got back to the point that I actually liked my regular all-day-vape Virginia, I couldn't return full-time. Definitely branch out, try some different flavors! If you have any vape stores near you, maybe you can taste some without having to invest in them "blindly". I find all the RY4 flavors much too sweet, just can't stand 'em, so I had to try quite a few tobacco flavors to find one that really suited me -- I smoked Virginia Slims for 30+ yrs of my 39 total as a smoker, so I was QUITE attached to that taste -- when I had my first 30 days smoke-free, someone joked that when I first got here, all I really wanted was a Virginia Slim on a battery!
But when I found the PG-blend Virginia at MyfreedomSmokes.com, I was like "EUREKA!" I knew I had finally found the way to quit smoking -- so imagine my chagrin after my illness, when I tried to vape, and it tasted as awful to me as everything else did at that point.
The main thing about vaping though, is harm reduction, and it sounds like you're doing very well on that, reducing your smoking so drastically because of vaping, so vaping is doing its job. Many of us have found that vaping is the ONLY way we could ever have finally quit smoking, so that may still come true for you, but like Shari said, it's kinda like leaving behind an old friend; only natural if it takes some people longer than others to finally say goodbye, I'd got a new friend that won't kill me!
hang in there!
Andria
