Have you or a family member/friend beat their addiction by making the switch to a better, healthier lifestyle?
Success Stoires
- Thread starter Twiisted7709
- Start date
- th_trl_thread_readers 0
- Status
Me. My family don't seem to be very supportive of it. I have asthma but I smoked for 6 years. After switching to Ecigs for a few months, I've definitely felt better. My family believes that Ecigs are equally harmful as cigarettes which makes me kind of sad.
I know what you mean. I'm pretty much in the same boat, minus the 6 years of smoking and asthma. No amount of education provided with evidence to the contrary will change their minds. I told this story in another thread. I live in a suburb which is right next to the outer limits of Buffalo. In my suburb, there are a large amount of smokers. It's the type of place where everyone knows everyone, not literally of course.
If I walk down my street on a nice day, I'll see children playing outside and their parents on their porch. As stated previously, most of these people are smokers. I don't actively approach them, I've given up on that, but I'll intentionally take a hit off of my vape to show them that there's another way. I'll go out of my way to make sure that they're watching, but no one asks about it. Several of my close neighbours are chainsmokers. I've tried to convert them and only one's shown interest, and all of them have the same thing in their heads. E-cigarettes are worse than combustibles. I ask them why, and they can't come up with any accurate reason. "They keep finding things like antifreeze in those." Who's "they" and how do they mess up a research study so badly that they find something so farfetched in vapour? It's disappointing and breaks my heart.
On the other hand, if I take a walk down the street in the city limits, smokers are few and far between. While I'll see the occasional alcoholic or someone injecting something illegal off of tinfoil, every other house/apartment you'll see someone with a vape. They're a joy to chat to about all sorts of things, and it's always nice to show them something that they've maybe never seen before. It's amazing to see something like this and almost makes me feel better about my previous paragraph.
Switched over in the summer of 11' pretty darn smoothly, it helped that my first 808 kit cost my smoking budget for the next couple weeks so I didn't really have much of a choice. It wasn't hard for me though which I was fearing after trying the gum, and the lozenges and patches and what not. Then I found my self liking it quite a bit and didn't even think about it for months until I had an equipment failure at work on a stressful day and bumed a cig.
Dang, I could taste that cig for hours and it was not a good thing.
Quite a few folks in my department vape now, but most still smoke on the side, but vape indoors. One awesome guy quit smoking and started making his own hillbilly mods and made me an awesome unfinished wood 5v passthrough with an 8' cord I still have. Roommate vapes inside and smokes much less than she did. Vaping is fairly well accepted around these parts.
One last note, the gear these days is soo much better than it was back in 11', folks seem to be starting at least with ego clones and clearos these days for 40-50$, as opposed to the 80$ cig look a likes I and many others started with.
It's a good thing.
Dang, I could taste that cig for hours and it was not a good thing.
Quite a few folks in my department vape now, but most still smoke on the side, but vape indoors. One awesome guy quit smoking and started making his own hillbilly mods and made me an awesome unfinished wood 5v passthrough with an 8' cord I still have. Roommate vapes inside and smokes much less than she did. Vaping is fairly well accepted around these parts.
One last note, the gear these days is soo much better than it was back in 11', folks seem to be starting at least with ego clones and clearos these days for 40-50$, as opposed to the 80$ cig look a likes I and many others started with.
It's a good thing.
I made the switch in 1 day after smoking for 29 years and haven't looked back since.
Getting my ECF fix w/ my DNA30 & KFL+ loaded w/ strawberry fields from rocket fuel vapes sitting beside me
Getting my ECF fix w/ my DNA30 & KFL+ loaded w/ strawberry fields from rocket fuel vapes sitting beside me
Well, the earliest liquids were of very bad quality composed out of ..... No one used vg as a base these days and flavours were more like a burnt plastic. We tried e smoking when it all was starting and it was terrible.
A lot of people don't know that vaping technologies changed a lot during the last five years.
I made the switch accidentally - still have nearly 40 analogs at home. Bought an eCig just to see what my brother was going on about. Have had a few nigles here and there but a few vapes and I'm back. 25 days and strong.
My story starts with my brother starting to vape. He then got my dad, aged 67, smoker since 14, to try and he has also been smoke free for just over 30 days. I figured if those two could do it, so could I!
Our final mission is my mum. She's 67 as well, and has been smoking since her early 20s. She sees smoking as her "one vice", so is reluctant to cut out the analogs altogether, but she has swapped maybe 50% for vaping. It's a bit too gadgety for her (she's decided), so my dad has to refill her tanks and charge her battery, so she's definitely not taking ownership... but seeing as she sits on her ... all day chain smoking, I figure any reduction in number of death-sticks smoked is a win!
My story starts with my brother starting to vape. He then got my dad, aged 67, smoker since 14, to try and he has also been smoke free for just over 30 days. I figured if those two could do it, so could I!
Our final mission is my mum. She's 67 as well, and has been smoking since her early 20s. She sees smoking as her "one vice", so is reluctant to cut out the analogs altogether, but she has swapped maybe 50% for vaping. It's a bit too gadgety for her (she's decided), so my dad has to refill her tanks and charge her battery, so she's definitely not taking ownership... but seeing as she sits on her ... all day chain smoking, I figure any reduction in number of death-sticks smoked is a win!
Newbie here looking to make the switch from analog. Hope to be able to share my success story here soon!
- Status
Similar threads
