Today I come off of tobacco

[Chewyorphan]

Im 24 days off of tobacco cigs myself (after 16+ years), and am excited to be so close my 1 month mark, which i am confident will be cake at this point.

Addicted to vaping now? More than likely...lol! But I really dont feel terrible about it at all.

I am vaping mainly 12-18mg juice and I dont think it will be that hard to move down to the 6-9mg range. I plan on going to 6mg overall, unless i find something that i really like at a higher nic content.

A week into my quit, I lit and took a few drags off of my GF's cig, same brand I smoked, and was surprised to find it completely nasty!

During that first week though, the hardest part about no cigs was after meals, and when I was getting into the car. Youll be surprised at the little things that used to trigger when you would reach for an analog!

I was 1.5-2 packs a day. I went from 30+ cigs a day down to 5 on my first day vaping. Second day i had 4. Third day I had 2 as that is what I had left in my pack. After that I havent had another since (except the little experiment lighting my gf's cig there )

 

[MrBeo]

Congrats for not bumming a Cig! I started Vaping just over a year ago after a 38 year struggle with analogs and it just keeps getting better and better!!! Try a lot of juices and have fun vaping and your Smoking days are OVER...enjoy the forum and help other who are starting out where you were a week ago and you will have TONS to be proud of. cheers...

 

[Forkeh]

I went into Walgreens today to buy a heating pad, the cig counter had me practically drooling. God I'm pathetic lol. But I did resist! *sigh* It's just so weird to not have nic fits, and still have cravings like this. How long before they go away? It's annoying. I'm keeping myself occupies with lots o' flavors though.

 

[Ladypixel]

What I'm most excited about, in the future, is being able to breathe better and have more energy. I've very outdoorsy, I love hiking and rock climbing, but I always winded so darn quickly.

Wait until you again get hit with that overwhelming smell of fresh trees, warm dirt, and just nature in general. I got overpowered by the joy of actually smelling fresh-mown grass PROPERLY the other day, rather than dampened down by cigarette-stink. Not only do you breathe better, but oh, nature smells wonderful...!

 

[Forkeh]

Wait until you again get hit with that overwhelming smell of fresh trees, warm dirt, and just nature in general. I got overpowered by the joy of actually smelling fresh-mown grass PROPERLY the other day, rather than dampened down by cigarette-stink. Not only do you breathe better, but oh, nature smells wonderful...!

I can already smell the stench of cigs. It's not pleasant. I can't believe I smelled like that and didn't even know it!

 

[Ladypixel]

Also, I think you and I quit on the same day, going by our banners. (But as I used to roll my own cigs, you've saved more money than I have.)

I still get hit with the cravings, usually right after meals. In fact, I'd be very tempted to say that after breakfast and after dinner are my two hardest moments of the day insofar as cigarette cravings go, because those two cigarettes were ones I looked forward to daily. (The breakfast one was part of the 'waking up' ritual, the dinner one part of the 'winding down' ritual.) And in both cases, I now vape heavily, using something that's got a reasonable throat-hit, and it seems to make the craving go away after about 5 minutes.

I don't look at cigarette counters like a lot of former smokers do, probably because I hated those commercially-available cigarettes already. Rolling your own'll do that. But I also haven't walked into a tobacconist's, or else I'd probably go wide-eyed and would be sniffing the air for the aroma of fresh, slightly-moist tobacco. Everyone's a bit different!

 

[bladesmithh]

Congrats!!! I am on day 4 myself and still going strong.

 

[Newwell]

Congrats to all of you!!!! Excellent job & stick with it, you are worth it.

My DH & I have been smoke free for going on 3 months now. My gosh, what a difference Yeah, the 1st week was a bit rough, but well worth the struggle. We both smoked for 40+ years, 1 1/2 packs each @ day. Whew, the cash we went through paying for cigs. If you double the amount of $$$ saved by me, that is the actual amount that we have saved altogether. It's a really nice perk.

I can tell you that after just 2 weeks, the AM coughing fits were gone, the PM wheezing was gone, no more gurgling sounds. My smell & taste started coming back & breathing was a whole lot easier. My DH & I don't snore anymore. I can hit the high notes again when I sing. I don't stink, my house doesn't stink, my car doesn't stink. I stacked an entire full cord of wood in the cold by myself without so much as a wheeze, a cough or shortness of breath. How's that for awesome!!!

What an absolute blessing to have finally found something that truly worked. And we had no intention of quitting just substituting when we were out and about. We'd both tried numerous times to quit & always failed. But...Got out kit, ran out of cigs, neither of us wanted to go to the store. End of smoking

So, keep up the great job, don't pressure yourselves, enjoy vaping, make it a hobby, & think of it as just switching brands, no big deal

Come back to the forum often for encouragement & friendship because most if not all of us have been there, done that too. Luv you guys.

 

[Ladypixel]

*grin* I don't think of it as just switching brands, admittedly. I think of it as quitting cigarettes, because I'm rather proud I quit. Of course, now that I'm actually experiencing some detox symptoms (I have the worst case of quit zits... omg, it's horrible), I'm doubly sure I'm not going back to those horrible coffin nails.

My hope is that, when I'm doing the 5k run I'm signed up for in the first weekend of September, I won't get winded within a minute and a half. Physically, I have the stamina. I just couldn't BREATHE after 25 years of smoking, and between that and trick knees, I stopped running a long time ago. And I really, really miss running. Looking forward to being able to do that again.

 

[Forkeh]

To be honest, this forum really helps keep me going. Thanks guys

 

[Forkeh]

Update! I have my ups and downs, but I'm not smoking and haven't had a cig in quite a while. Can't argue with them results.

 

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[gjshaw29]

I like looking at cigarette counters, I like seeing all the ecigs back there