In just a few weeks I'll be at my two-year anniversary.
During the first year, I sneaked an occasional cigarette here and there.
Over some time, I lost the desire for a cigarette.
I smoked cigarettes from age 15 to age 52. That's 37 years of abusing my lungs.
I have tried repeatedly to quit using gum, patches, Chantix, even the Nicotrol inhaler. No go.
I would like to see the drug companies compare their two-year quitters to us. I bet most of their pharmaceutically-aided quits have dissolved. I feel confident our numbers are not only better but dramatically better. Without the necessity of our feeling wretchedly deprived into the process.
Indeed, I have a theory that people who've quit "conventionally" (i.e., pills, gum, patch) actually resent vapers for our sheer merriment and lack of apparent misery usually attendant to quitting. You'd think they'd be ecstatic but that's rarely seen. Dubious and grudging, more like.