I want to let you know that those polls and stories depressed me too, I got my first pv on June 1st, and just this week have been totally smoke-free since Wednesday. It was a combination of cigs still being around, not being able to give up the first-thing-in-the-morning smoke, and not having the right juice. Things are falling into place now, (Backwoods Brew!)but I am still really, really struggling with that morning craving and maybe I always will. My mother has a friend who is a long-time ex smoker who declares that she cannot wait to be diagnosed with a terminal disease so she can take it back up again. I am glad you posted, it made me feel better.
For me the morning craving thing comes and goes. But it does go! And I'm two months in now and I still get it, still know what you mean. I'm just used to getting up now, and starting on my stronger - for me that would be 30 mg liquids - stuff and vaping quite a lot before the coffee is ready. One I get my first few sips of coffee in "the urge" just seems to go away.
But is that pv sitting right there, bed side in the morning? You betcha!
And it may sound a little weird, but in these last two months I've never looked at smoking analogs along the way as a failure. This is truly unlike any other method to quit. Look at it this way: Where would you be
right now in context of your previous attempts with other methods? Already back to my PAD+ habit? Yup. Would I have been backsliding and using gum 80% of the time and only smoking 20% of the time? Well, it never did work that way. I would have been back to smoking full time.
I think I said it in an earlier post in this thread - I bought my cigarettes monthly, 4 cartons at a time. So I had a lot of analogs still on hand when I started vaping. It's been two months of allowing myself to smoke while vaping. And I didn't work very hard at it. I guess I really didn't have to because I like vaping so much. The desire to smoke and the frequency of the analogs just became less and less over these two months.
Yesterday was the first day I considered just throwing the rest of the butts away. Today - same thing. Or maybe I'll just leave those last six packs sit there because it honestly doesn't seem to matter now. I didn't have a single .... Saturday and don't want one right now.
Could you even imagine having cigarettes around and just leaving them sit there two months into your last quit smoking attempt with the conventional methods? I sure as hell couldn't have done it before vaping.
So, let's see... Smoking for 30 years. And this is where I'm at after two months of vaping. To me it's a success. But as we all know what the point of this thread is: No it didn't happen overnight for me. But I'm good with that.
That's my story, and I'm stuck with it.
Rick
