a combo of a chest rattle, interrupted sleep due to coughing fits and the fact that my lungs were literally starting to hurt. i was only 32, waaaay to young to have crap like that in my life.
What was your "final straw" moment?
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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
amen lol. to keep it polite, lets just say i'm better now than i have ever been. the ability to breathe and have proper blood flow works wonders.
Guess my 'final' was simply the purchase of a 510 kit including pt and 60ml of juice after realizing I was spending over $350/month on poison. The pt is still right beside me, along with 3 Riva's, one for dripping and two with mega-cartos, always ready for outside trips. The savings in my sig are realistic, enough for an extra vacation for us - where-ever we want.
I think for me it was one long broken straw over time. I got tired of spending the money on them, huddled somewhere out of the view of the innocent and shunned by my wife for stinking. Over the last year I really had been feeling the want to get rid of the analogs but after so many failures in the past to do just that I ignored it. At a meeting a saw a friend of mine and this green glow in the dark. Been a match made in heaven ever since.
Great question, for me it was the wheezing. I knew if I didn't do something, I'd be heading for the hurt locker.
I didn't set out to quit, I stumbled on to vaping and jumped on it when I realized the benefit. I like it better than smoking and I loved smoking.
I didn't set out to quit, I stumbled on to vaping and jumped on it when I realized the benefit. I like it better than smoking and I loved smoking.
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OMFG! I knew smokes were expensive in NY and other places but geeeeze! And to think, my final straw was when the circle K raised the price of my favorite Marlboro 72s to $4.30 a pack! Holy crap.
My final straw was when ciggs went to $7.00, and due to (Mexico) border violence, I could no longer cross and buy them by the carton. Also, the coughing was rather annoying. I have been analog free for 13 days, and I have not coughed once (as a 1.5 pck/day smoker for 18 years). I love that my Beauti Control Chocolate Indulgence line actually has a scent...and it lasts. I can taste. I have always loved wine, but I can't even begin to describe the difference in the tastes of my favorites. I was actually able to taste them. Some I loved even more, and some I will probably not buy again...LOL.
Good friend retired from the Navy about a year ago. He's 42 yrs old, Wife, two teenagers. Diagnosed with Lymphatic Cancer which originated in his tonsils (most likely cause from doc...lifetime of smoking). Moment of realization; "Wait...I'm 42yrs old with a wife and three kids under 12, this can happen to me!" I like to say it's like playing Russian Rouellete with 5 rounds chambered...it's gonna kill you, just a matter of when. After never missing a cig break except when I slep for 23 yrs, two weeks after my buds diagnosis, I started vaping. My mom died of lung cancer 11 years ago, that didn't rattle me as much as "someone just like me" hearing the big C.
The nasty stuff I was coughing up every morning was getting harder and harder to look at...
I don't think I can pinpoint to just one thing that was my final straw, but more of a combination of things. The biggest thing for me was losing my singing voice. Granted, I'm not a professional singer, but I worked very hard to train my voice and was even featured in a video that a friend of mine made for film school. I smoked like a chimney back then and thought smoking would never affect it. I could not possibly have been more wrong. It got to a point where I had no breath control and couldn't sustain a note for more than a few seconds before I would either crack or run out of breath. Singing would make me cough. I thought I'd ruined my voice for good.
What got me started with vaping was the "no indoor smoking" clause of our lease. We either had to go outside, smoke in the garage or in the storage room. I got tired of freezing my .... off in the winter and a coworker introduced me to the "e-cig." I thought it would be a great thing to use in the winter since we wouldn't have to go outside and my fiance had been talking about quitting smoking. Both of us have quit smoking and I realized after a couple of weeks that it was easier to breathe. I started working on my singing voice again and it's starting to come back. I'm hopeful that I'll be able to regain the full strength soprano range that I once had.
What got me started with vaping was the "no indoor smoking" clause of our lease. We either had to go outside, smoke in the garage or in the storage room. I got tired of freezing my .... off in the winter and a coworker introduced me to the "e-cig." I thought it would be a great thing to use in the winter since we wouldn't have to go outside and my fiance had been talking about quitting smoking. Both of us have quit smoking and I realized after a couple of weeks that it was easier to breathe. I started working on my singing voice again and it's starting to come back. I'm hopeful that I'll be able to regain the full strength soprano range that I once had.
1. uncontrollable coughing at times i thought i was dying from suffocation
2. when i found out i was smoking CARPET GLUE.
3. when i found out the government is forcing the smokers to smoke carpet glue by banning non FSC cigarettes
4. when i found out the governemnt does everything to make sure we are taxed for smoking cigarettes, so those greedy a*$&% wont lose their skyrocket salaries.
2. when i found out i was smoking CARPET GLUE.
3. when i found out the government is forcing the smokers to smoke carpet glue by banning non FSC cigarettes
4. when i found out the governemnt does everything to make sure we are taxed for smoking cigarettes, so those greedy a*$&% wont lose their skyrocket salaries.
All your stories hit home for me...but my final straw was a very serious health scare which lasted 4 months. Smoking was like having a gorilla on my back. Mentally my brain was turning to mush from all the chemicals and I hated myself for being a prisoner
to tobacco. Vaping saved my life and gave me confidence...I thought I never had. I smoked for 35+ years and never tried to quit. Three months ago I tried my first ecig and never looked back. I own my destiny finally!!
to tobacco. Vaping saved my life and gave me confidence...I thought I never had. I smoked for 35+ years and never tried to quit. Three months ago I tried my first ecig and never looked back. I own my destiny finally!!
My final straw, was a trip to the hospital in an ambulance in June. For a possible Heart Attack.. 40 year smoker 1.5 - 2 PAD.. End result no heart attack, thankfully but COPD..etc that goes with smoking, PV and this forum have been a life saver for me. Thus the screen name SecondChance. Good luck to all on you path to being nonsmokers! Shout out if I can help!
I didn't have a last straw, I have wanted to quit for a long. I tried the patch and the gum with very little success. When I heard about e-cigarettes is seemed like something that would work for me.
Last straw was going cold turkey for 4 days (hospital wouldn't give me a smoking room ;-)),
after a smoking related operation. Struggled with crap mini and gum for the "fits" then found
ECF and no longer have serious cravings.
after a smoking related operation. Struggled with crap mini and gum for the "fits" then found
ECF and no longer have serious cravings.
Was not one defining moment but a series of small ones! My mom had 7 brothers and sisters and all except her died of cancer along with her mom and dad and yet I continued! My 6 year old loves to walk through the trails at the park...after a few minutes I would have to sit down and have her stay in my sight! Kept wondering daily if I would live to see her grow up! Still smoked!
My anti smoking father in law (cold turkey x smoker) Bought my wife and I a mall Kiosk E cig! That piece of crap E cig was the best investment ever made! 3 days later we both quit! Have upgraded since then but if it hadn't been for that crappy starter kit i'd still be smoking! I wonder how many people have been saved by the rip off mall kiosk guys LOL
My anti smoking father in law (cold turkey x smoker) Bought my wife and I a mall Kiosk E cig! That piece of crap E cig was the best investment ever made! 3 days later we both quit! Have upgraded since then but if it hadn't been for that crappy starter kit i'd still be smoking! I wonder how many people have been saved by the rip off mall kiosk guys LOL
Wasn't so much straw as I saw it an evolution of something. Nicotine delivery that doesn't make my clothes stink, I get increased lung capacity, and overall I'm a lot less self conscious.
I'm like alot of others here. I don't have a defining moment but many little moments. Ran across one of the expensive but cheaply made ecigs and once I had a good ideal these could help me quit never looked back. I have only had 1 time I have wanted an analog but didn't falter. I am glad I found them and never want to go back.
I didn't really have a final straw. My sinuses and breathing had been bad for years. But I heard someone my fiance knew online was having good luck with e-cigs so I started researching and found my way here. I'm a gadget lover and I love to shop so it didn't take anything to convince me to get one (actually 3.5)
My "Last Straw" moment was 9 years in the making.
My maternal grandfather wasted away with Cancer that started in his lungs, and spread throughout his body like wild-fire...at the time I was a 1 1/2 PAD smoker (down from 3 PAD at my worst)...I decided I was going to try and quit. 2 days after his funeral, my Mom was diagnosed with COPD (at the time of diagnosis, she had 73% lung capacity...she's now down to 46% and steadily decreasing...she hasn't smoked in 10 years)
I started to ween myself down, I tried everything! Cold turkey, hypnosis (and learned I can't be hypnotized...I've tried several dozen times since this, no luck), accupuncture, Laser Therapy, gums, patches, inhalers, Meds (Wellbutrin gave me REALLY messed up dreams, Zyban just didn't work, and Champix (Varenicline)...well...lets just say that after a brief psychotic break brought on by the medication, my Doc decided it and I should never be in the same room together.
I was convinced I would NEVER quit smoking. I had gotten myself down to a 1/2 PAD, but couldn't get rid of those ones. Then one of my Best Friends was diagnosed with Cancer...she lost her fight, and I was more determined than ever to quit, but I just couldn't seem to pull it off, and I felt like CRAP because of it.
Then one night last month (Dec 4th, 2010) we were at my Wife's staff Xmas party, and someone at our table pulled out an e-cig. We got to talking about them, and where they could be ordered in Canada, and I started researching...my wife and I ordered our eGo's on Dec 16th, and they arrived on Dec 22...which happened to be the Anniversary date of my Friend who had passed away's death...I haven't touched an analog since that day...today is day 12 for me, and I never thought I would see it happen
My maternal grandfather wasted away with Cancer that started in his lungs, and spread throughout his body like wild-fire...at the time I was a 1 1/2 PAD smoker (down from 3 PAD at my worst)...I decided I was going to try and quit. 2 days after his funeral, my Mom was diagnosed with COPD (at the time of diagnosis, she had 73% lung capacity...she's now down to 46% and steadily decreasing...she hasn't smoked in 10 years)
I started to ween myself down, I tried everything! Cold turkey, hypnosis (and learned I can't be hypnotized...I've tried several dozen times since this, no luck), accupuncture, Laser Therapy, gums, patches, inhalers, Meds (Wellbutrin gave me REALLY messed up dreams, Zyban just didn't work, and Champix (Varenicline)...well...lets just say that after a brief psychotic break brought on by the medication, my Doc decided it and I should never be in the same room together.
I was convinced I would NEVER quit smoking. I had gotten myself down to a 1/2 PAD, but couldn't get rid of those ones. Then one of my Best Friends was diagnosed with Cancer...she lost her fight, and I was more determined than ever to quit, but I just couldn't seem to pull it off, and I felt like CRAP because of it.
Then one night last month (Dec 4th, 2010) we were at my Wife's staff Xmas party, and someone at our table pulled out an e-cig. We got to talking about them, and where they could be ordered in Canada, and I started researching...my wife and I ordered our eGo's on Dec 16th, and they arrived on Dec 22...which happened to be the Anniversary date of my Friend who had passed away's death...I haven't touched an analog since that day...today is day 12 for me, and I never thought I would see it happen
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