When can you legitimately call yourself a NON-smoker???

[Silence]

Is it as soon as you make the decision to quit and you put the cigarettes down or do you need to wait and have been quit a certain amount of time first?

For me, I took a couple months before I began calling myself a non-smoker, even though I wasn't smoking. Why? I'm not sure. Fear of failing maybe...
Thoughts?

 

[Tranquility Base]

Haven't had a smoke in over a year. But I'm still a smoker even though I only vape. "Once an addict..." you know.

Kind of a mental trick I use that helps keep me from smoking cigarettes. "Sure, I'm still a smoker at heart. But I just vape now." That says it best for me.

 

[Cullin Kin]

My doctor classified me as a non-smoker two days after I had quit (had an appointment then). It really depends on the person, I was good with what my doctor said. Now, in January, I'll have two years with no cigarettes!

 

[Recycled Roadkill]

I couldn't decide at which stage I called myself a non smoker. It was either when I quit hacking up stuff or stopped smelling like a cigarette.

 

[VHRB2014]

I am no longer a smoker, thank God. I knew this truth about 3 months in. A substitute has been offered, and I find it much better for my body and soul.

Its as alien to me as ANTZ.

 

[TFL!]

If you are talking for insurance reasons that is up to them most consider nic use as a smoker.

 

[FlamingoTutu]

Took me a while to call myself a nonsmoker too. Don't remember at what point I did but now I say it with emphatic conviction. 20 months on Friday. It takes a while to really believe you won't fall of the wagon again when you've tried so many other methods to quit and failed, at least for me.

 

[Norrin]

Well I took up vaping to cut down, but 1 week later I had stopped and after about a month I was sure I would never smoke again because it tastes horrible (although still like the smell of tobacco). So am I a non smoker? It really depends on how you look at it, if I couldn't vape would I start smoking again? Probably...OH OK definitely just maybe not for some time, so really I'm a smoker that doesn't smoke. At the end of the day does it matter what you call yourself? If your happier, healthier and smell better call yourself a potato and smile.

 

[Andigaut]

I call myself a non-smoker but when I say that, my friends and family makes comments like, "Well, not really because you still use an e-cig." Ugh. whatever, I am a non-smoker!!!!

 

[Davey59]

One of the first threads I started was this topic.

Any time you want to label yourself as a non smoker is good for me. I would even call my self one if I had a few today. I think it is all about the "habit" and if you still have it. Habit is not the wanting but the doing again and again.

I expect if they can't outlaw us vapers activities then they WILL attempt to define us. More than likely give us the Scarlet Letter for life and therefore making us responsible for any and all costs they can falsely blame on us.

 

[r77r7r]

If I NEED nic and it's easier to get by smoking, I'll probably smoke. A non-smoker would have a different choice.

That's in MY inner world. In my outer world, I'm all non-smoker to the rest of the world.

 

[WharfRat1976]

I don't call it "smoking." Smoking is too nice of a word. Smoooookiiiiiiing.....See. It just rolls off the tongue.

I no longer put poison into my body so I am an ex poison taker. Works for me.

No more poison. Take the word "smoooke" and "smoooooking"m out of your vocab...

 

[Alien Traveler]

Some insurance companies will not call me non-smoker because I still consume nicotine and will fail their test. So, I am a bit confused.

As for self-labeling, I am non-smoker for 3 months (did not smoke for 6 months but still was not sure for a while...)

 

[AndriaD]

I was a non-smoker when I went my first 24 hrs not only not smoking, but not even WANTING to smoke, because that state of affairs had not happened since 1975, when I started smoking.

When I briefly went back to smoking in the summer after my illness, I temporarily became a smoker again, since I *was* smoking. But when I laid them down again and didn't smoke/didn't WANT to smoke for 24 hrs, I became a non-smoker once again. When I had been smoke-free that 2nd time for about ten days, the cravings started hammering me again, but I really wanted to STAY a non-smoker, so instead of going back to smoking, I added WTA, and remained a non-smoker.

If there is no smoke, then there is no smoking. If there is no smoking, then one is a non-smoker.

Andria

 

[Bernard Marx]

When I finally threw out my half-opened pack from my sock drawer after 11 months.

(Gad were they dry!)

 

[rusty zipper]

A few weeks ago my wife left her smokes on the coffee table when she went to bed, and I didn't want one. Not even slightly. That's when I called myself a non-smoker. Every now and then I'm tempted, but the temptation isn't a brain-stem thing like it used to be. I've been vaping for almost 6 months, after smoking a pack a day for 45 years. I've tried to quit for what seems like hundreds of times. Vaping got me off the smokes, nothing else worked for me.

 

[HauntedMyst]

When can you legitimately call yourself a NON-smoker???

About 20 to 30 minutes after the crematory is turned off. They are pretty efficient these days and there isn't a lot of smouldering.

 

[DT Artisan]

Kids....Smoking is baaad..mmmmkay? Really baaaad. Mmmmkay?

I consider myself a non smoker now since there's not a glowing hot ember in my hand or mouth causing a noticable combustion. Although I didn't seem to mind that for 20+ years...

Bri

 

[samturdo]

i consider myself as a smoker because i think vaping is a form of smoking (yes i know it isnt smoke, its the act)

so im a smoke-free smoker, if that makes any sense

 

[WillyZee]

you are a non-smoker after you have quit and had your last cigarette ... a minor relapse does not qualify you as a smoker again.

relapse daily or weekly ... you are still a smoker.