For me it was when the wheezing started (which is like 96% better already). I would lie in bed trying to sleep and all I could hear was the sounds of marlboro's whistlin'
What was yours?
What was yours?
What was your "final straw" moment?
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My final straw moment was after my heart attack my son asked me if I was planning on being around to see him graduate high school.
I noticed I was starting to get a "smokers" voice, and I had had it with my smoke smell on my hands.
Mine was when I couldn't smoke I'd go out by other people who did so I could breathe in their second hand...
This has been a long time coming for me. My grandmother passed away due to lung cancer from smoking her whole life. It was horrible. She was so lucid all the way up until she passed. At one point, she looked directly into my eyes and asked "I'm not going to die am I?" It broke my heart. Even THAT didn't stop me from smoking. My sister and brother had both quit and I was still smoking. I went to the doctors a couple months ago and my cholesterol was off the charts. I'm 24 years old! I'm not fat, I don't eat bad, but I just have bad genetics. He told me smoking highly increases the risks of me having a heart attack. I still smoked. Then I went home for Christmas. I don't smoke in front of my parents and try to be as discrete as possible. I had been chewing nicotine gum which is horrific. I decided to do some research here on the forums and went ahead and ordered one. Two days ago, I got it. I hadn't told myself "hey, I'm going to quit!"....it just kind of happened. I feel so good about myself now.
Overview for the lazy readers:
Grandmother died of lung cancer
I'm 24 and at a high risk for heart attack
Chewed a bunch of nicotine gum and was desperate for an alternative
Tried an e-cig with no real plan to quit....don't even want an analog anymore
Overview for the lazy readers:
Grandmother died of lung cancer
I'm 24 and at a high risk for heart attack
Chewed a bunch of nicotine gum and was desperate for an alternative
Tried an e-cig with no real plan to quit....don't even want an analog anymore
When I was smoking a cig and freaking out tearing my car apart and searching all my coat pockets looking for a piece of nicorette. Right then I knew something had to change. Luckily next day at a local gas station I saw a el cheopo disposable e-cig and the journey began.
My final straw moment happened about 20 years ago when I first tried to quit smoking after I realized I had been doing it for a year. I was being controlled by cigarettes. I had no way out. I finally found a way out, and am so thankful!
Maybe this is a silly reason, because I had no real concern for my own health, but I started dating a girl who I really, really liked a lot after getting out of a nasty 6 year relationship and she told me that cigarettes are a deal breaker for her. She lost a lot of family members due to complications from smoking. I also lost 3 grandparents from smoking. Thought it was about time to give it up. Been smoking for about 16 years.
I recently had to have a sleep study done and while I don't stop breathing (which is what the doctor assumed was happening) my oxygen level dips dangerously low causing headaches in the AM and wasn't helping my mood, which caused me to be irritable which caused me to smoke more, which caused more wheezing and less sleep... I am waiting for my super sexy CPAP machine, and am hoping that I won't need it for long. I am banking on the vaping to help me completely quit the analogs, get more energy, lose weight and not need the CPAP at all.
Call it disgusting.. but I found myself downtown and broke one day... no cigarettes.. I asked more than a few people for a cigarette and no one would give me one, 'too expensive'.... Instead of continuing my search for someone to give me some sweet sweet nicotine.. I Bent over and picked up a half smoked cigarette of a high traffic sidewalk.. and without a second thought I lit it up....
I'm one of those guys that had a terrible experience with 'Blu-cigs' (garbage ... device) and that was before I hit this low-point. But it was enough for me to take a second look at vaping. Next pay-day I bought myself a kr808 and it was enough to get me down to around 5 cigarettes a day. (I'm an ex-pack-a-day smoker) and than I discovered the Ego with the concept of dripping and I haven't looked back.
I'm one of those guys that had a terrible experience with 'Blu-cigs' (garbage ... device) and that was before I hit this low-point. But it was enough for me to take a second look at vaping. Next pay-day I bought myself a kr808 and it was enough to get me down to around 5 cigarettes a day. (I'm an ex-pack-a-day smoker) and than I discovered the Ego with the concept of dripping and I haven't looked back.
I didn't have a "final straw", at least not on a conscious level. Like others, I had been concerned by wheezing/gurgling when I lay in bed. I was also aware of decreased lung capacity, and my diminished senses of taste and smell.
But, I didn't consciously decide to quit smoking cigarettes ... even to the time my first PV was delivered it wasn't in my plans to quit.
Considering the fact that I then quit immediately, I must've had my mind made up on some level though. That still doesn't constitute a "final straw" though.
But, I didn't consciously decide to quit smoking cigarettes ... even to the time my first PV was delivered it wasn't in my plans to quit.
Considering the fact that I then quit immediately, I must've had my mind made up on some level though. That still doesn't constitute a "final straw" though.
I haven't been on the boards for a long time because after successfully quitting (vaping) for many months, I fell off the wagon and started smoking again.
A few weeks before Christmas I ended up in the hospital for a week with severe pneumonia. The day I was released I pulled out all my vaping supplies, charged up the batteries and I haven't even had the urge for an analog.
I'd say my "final straw" moment was a week in the hospital with pneumonia. When they also diagnosed me (again) with COPD it really hit me. I'd be a fool to turn back now. I LIKE Vaping more than I ever loved smoking!
Remie
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A few weeks before Christmas I ended up in the hospital for a week with severe pneumonia. The day I was released I pulled out all my vaping supplies, charged up the batteries and I haven't even had the urge for an analog.
I'd say my "final straw" moment was a week in the hospital with pneumonia. When they also diagnosed me (again) with COPD it really hit me. I'd be a fool to turn back now. I LIKE Vaping more than I ever loved smoking!
Remie
(It's good to be back, btw
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After 26 years of smoking I finally admitted to myself that my life was revolving around cigs. My performance in the bedroom was going downhill. It was time to quit & I went with vaping to get me off the cancer sticks. My GF is happy in many ways
I am 28, had smoked for 15 years, and in the past 2 years I have had pneumonia 4 times!!! Even when I had it, I would still suck back a few smokes a day, wheezing and coughing so hard I was throwing up. I kept thinking to myself, what the heck am I doing this for?? After each time I had it, I tried a different way to quit, Zyban, the patch, the pill, and even laser therapy, and it never lasted more than a day. Thanks to my PV, I have been smoke free for 8 days, the longest I have gone in 15 years withuot a smoke, and I don't even want one, vaping is soooooo much better!
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