I had my last cigarette 2 months 21 days ago. I smoked well in excess of 20 a day for over 40 years and I'm frankly amazed at how the chance purchase of an e-cig has changed my life. Somehow though I'm not confident about calling myself a non-smoker yet. It isn't that I have a single urge to return to analogues, nothing would persuade me to go back there so how long did it take others on here to believe they are now non-smokers?
When do you dare call yourself a non-smoker?
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I think it's when YOU feel you've turned the corner. I knew once I had a couple of weeks analog-free that I was never going to smoke again and it was at that point that I started to consider myself a non-smoker.
I think you have answered your own question. 
If you are doing this good with the PV and are not having any urges for a real cigarette for that long, I believe you are in the clear.
Congratulations and celebrate with a vape!
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If you are doing this good with the PV and are not having any urges for a real cigarette for that long, I believe you are in the clear.
Congratulations and celebrate with a vape!
-Jason
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when you feel the urge to try a ciggy and give in light it and find out it taste bloody awful 
Haven't done it and wouldn't dare. Still too scared I'd enjoy it and determined never to go back.
For me it was after the first time I went to the local watering hole (they still allow smoking) and vaped away without any urge to smoke. Next day I smelled something awful, reminded me of back when I would military field strip smokes and stick the .... in my back pocket so as not to litter and forgot them till it was time to do laundry. I realized it was really 2nd hand smoke stuck to my clothes. Funny, I had never noticed it before....
I believed it after a few months, simply because I had no desires anymore to smoke. It has been over 2 years now, and from what you say it sounds like you dont crave cigs anymore either, so i reckon you are a non smoker already.
All the stuff in tobacco that can cause problems, the chemicals that your body may crave somewhat, should have worked their way out your system now, so if you feel ok now, likely you will stay that way!
well done...good job!
All the stuff in tobacco that can cause problems, the chemicals that your body may crave somewhat, should have worked their way out your system now, so if you feel ok now, likely you will stay that way!
well done...good job!
You lot are making me feel so good I've tried every method going over the years and never managed to give up. Part of the problem in believing the success this time is that it was painless, even enjoyable in some ways. I feel a bit of a fraud when people say well done.
I've tried every method going over the years and never managed to give up. Part of the problem in believing the success this time is that it was painless, even enjoyable in some ways. I feel a bit of a fraud when people say well done.
I consider the following as minimal for 'non-smoker' status:
vaping satisfies your ol' urges and habits.
No desire for 'bakky.
By my standards, you're a non-smoker!
vaping satisfies your ol' urges and habits.
No desire for 'bakky.
By my standards, you're a non-smoker!
I was a non smoker the day I began vaping and had smoked 1 PAD for 44 yrs. As for feeling complete confidence in my ability to stay away from the stinkies I'd say about 30 days in. What bothered me for the first 4? months was, by habit, I was continually looking for my ashtray, analogs and lighter. Not to say I wanted an analog but just the fact that analogs had become such an integral and important part of my life. Note the past tense 
A HUGE congrats on 21 days and the Best of Luck going forward.
A HUGE congrats on 21 days and the Best of Luck going forward.
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i fell off the wagon a couple of times during some turbulent periods in my life that happened when i first started vaping. now i'm back on the wagon, and have been thru a few more rough patches without wanting an analog. So far, i'm almost 6 months in and not looking back. i'll probably never call myself a non-smoker due to the associations i have with that term, but i'll certainly say i don't smoke anymore, and feel great about it.
Never. I am an EX-smoker, and I will always be so, unless I start smoking again. In which case, I will be a smoker. I can never consider myself a non-smoker.
I think I'll always be a smoker, in the same way that an alcoholic will always be an alcoholic regardless of how long they've had a drink. I made the decision to stop analogues once my nicotine flavours arrived, and they got here 2 hours ago, so I guess I am now a recovering smoker.
I did think that way at the start but it isn't the same. I'm a nicotine addict without a doubt and I haven't given that up but if it were only about the addictive substance then patches or gum or any of the other replacement therapies I tried should have worked. They were pumping far more nictoine into my system than I'm getting from vaping. In my case I reckon it was all about the habit, the action and to an extent a certain 'ceremony' surrounding having a cigarette. When I first started vaping I did miss the whole process of lighting up.
Months after beginning vaping I asked to hit a friends analog and wow it was nasty. I guess for me it was when I realized I had left it behind and now enjoy vaping more then the real thing.
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