So, what were your last days of smoking analogs like? What made you finally take the plunge into vaping?
I was a 1.5 pack a day smoker for 30 years. Up till the last few years, things were about as normal as could be as a smoker in a world where smoking was tolerated.
In the last few years though, intolerance reached a level of ridiculous that is almost laughable in many ways. Here's what my life was becoming...
Socially... nothing less than a second class citizen...
Health
Everything stank of smoke. My car, my cloths, my hair, my skin, my house... my walls and ceiling and windows were stained yellow, stinking ashtrays... always making sure my budget was worked around buying smokes, going to the store at all hours to get smokes if I needed them, always having to make sure I had smokes and fire to light it, finding that I left a pack in my pants... after pulling them out of the washer... on and on with absolute bull.... that all revolved around my incredibly crappy habit...
Needless to say, finding vaping is the best thing (all things considered) that I could have found...
It's been almost 3 weeks without an analog and I don't miss it AT ALL!
So what was the final straw for me? Knowing that I have to get my double hernia fixed and worrying myself sick that I might die on the table cause I couldn't breath and/or coughing in the middle of the operation and squirting my intestines all over the table while they had me laid open...
Nice, eh?
I was a 1.5 pack a day smoker for 30 years. Up till the last few years, things were about as normal as could be as a smoker in a world where smoking was tolerated.
In the last few years though, intolerance reached a level of ridiculous that is almost laughable in many ways. Here's what my life was becoming...
Socially... nothing less than a second class citizen...
forced to smoke outside
Comments, innuendo and outright ridicule for smelling like smoke
endless comments about how and why I should quit
Always looking for the place you were forced to go smoke
Not wanting to go some places because you couldn't smoke
Just not going places where you couldn't smoke
Dreading driving with non smokers on long drives
Making non-smokers wait for you so you could go out and smoke and then listening to their complaints about it
etc
Comments, innuendo and outright ridicule for smelling like smoke
endless comments about how and why I should quit
Always looking for the place you were forced to go smoke
Not wanting to go some places because you couldn't smoke
Just not going places where you couldn't smoke
Dreading driving with non smokers on long drives
Making non-smokers wait for you so you could go out and smoke and then listening to their complaints about it
etc
Health
Waking up and coughing for the 1st half hour of the day
Loss of smell
Loss of taste
Out of breath
Coughing so much that I got a double hernia... seriously
Not able to really have a good belly laugh without coughing
Constant stress and worry about my health
Constant stress and worry about my breathing
Constant stress and worry about where and when I could smoke
Constant stress and worry about what my smoke was doing to my family and others
Coughing
Knowing that with every smoke, I was further damaging myself and the helpless feeling of not being able to do anything about it
My thumb with a callous on it where it flicked my lighter
Nicotine stained snot
Nicotine stained fingers
Coughing up all kinds of nicotine stained crap
etc
Loss of smell
Loss of taste
Out of breath
Coughing so much that I got a double hernia... seriously
Not able to really have a good belly laugh without coughing
Constant stress and worry about my health
Constant stress and worry about my breathing
Constant stress and worry about where and when I could smoke
Constant stress and worry about what my smoke was doing to my family and others
Coughing
Knowing that with every smoke, I was further damaging myself and the helpless feeling of not being able to do anything about it
My thumb with a callous on it where it flicked my lighter
Nicotine stained snot
Nicotine stained fingers
Coughing up all kinds of nicotine stained crap
etc
Everything stank of smoke. My car, my cloths, my hair, my skin, my house... my walls and ceiling and windows were stained yellow, stinking ashtrays... always making sure my budget was worked around buying smokes, going to the store at all hours to get smokes if I needed them, always having to make sure I had smokes and fire to light it, finding that I left a pack in my pants... after pulling them out of the washer... on and on with absolute bull.... that all revolved around my incredibly crappy habit...
Needless to say, finding vaping is the best thing (all things considered) that I could have found...
It's been almost 3 weeks without an analog and I don't miss it AT ALL!
So what was the final straw for me? Knowing that I have to get my double hernia fixed and worrying myself sick that I might die on the table cause I couldn't breath and/or coughing in the middle of the operation and squirting my intestines all over the table while they had me laid open...
Nice, eh?
