When did you stop smoking analogs?

When did you stop smoking tobacco cigarettes?

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  • On or after April 1, 2011


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catwoman

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coming up on one year in july. After 39 years of smoking, picked up an ecig and 4 days later i was done with cigs. I still can't believe it.
It would be interesting to ask How many folks who use ecigs have not quit, how many cigs they still smoke, and why they think they still smoke. And how do we find the ones who tried ecigs didn't care for them and went completely back to cigs.
 

clark8876

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coming up on one year in july. After 39 years of smoking, picked up an ecig and 4 days later i was done with cigs. I still can't believe it.

That's pretty close to my story as well.

Got my first ecig 3 May last year and had my last smoke a couple of days later. Had been a smoking 35/day for 40 years. So I'm looking forward to next 39 years smoke free to make up for the years I was hooked.
 
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.
 

VaporTrails

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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.

Nice work on nearing the two year mark! I agree, it would be really interesting to see the success rate of quitting tobacco from e-cigs vs. the others you listed.

I've also tried the gum, didn't work. Bought my first kit this past February, that same day I finished my last pack of analogs. Totally surprised by how effective e-cigs are! Definitely a life change change which has had so many positive attributes so far.
 

JC Okie

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After 40+ years of smoking, I've been smoke FREE for 1 year on the 30th of this month! And I have NO plans for EVER returning to cigarettes. Ever. Also, I started on 24mg, dropped to 18mg, and now vape 12mg nic or below. I'm not even trying to get off nic....I just think I'll continue lowering it until I find a place where it bothers me to not have it, then I'll adjust it upward if I need to.
 
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