I had no intention of quitting. After 35+ years of smoking and numerous quit attempts over the years, I had quit even trying to quit. I only tried an e-cig to satisfy my son who asked me to try it. I only did it so I could honestly say I had tried, fully expecting to fail. Again. But with the first puff of the e-cig, I became an ex-smoker. Just like that. I am still amazed.
Who among us have quit tobacco use by way of the e cig that DID NOT INTEND TO QUIT?
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All these stories sound very familiar 
. I've been smoking since I was 17 and tried quitting many times using all NRTs ever created, including gum, lozenges, patches, nasal spray, inhalator, but also acupuncture and hypnosis. None of those attempts lasted more than a few months.
I then first tried ecigs in 2009 (one of those China cigalikes) and it was a total flop. At this point I was resigned to remaining a smoker for the rest of my life. And I did enjoy it, the ritual, the tobacco selection (RYO), the taste. Then, in 2010 I gave ecigs another try with a new brand of cigalikes ("Smoking Everywhere"). again, no dice, went back to analogs after a few weeks.
Finally, in early 2011, I found out about these new innovative ecigs called eGo and bought one. But this time I did not intend to quit smoking tobacco, thinking it's just gonna be another failure like before. I started "dual use" for a few days, then out of the blue, one morning I noticed that tobacco smoke tastes awful. I put out that last cig and have been vaping ever since. I actually still have that last, half-used pouch of RYO tobacco, and have had no temptation to roll one for over 3 years now.
. I've been smoking since I was 17 and tried quitting many times using all NRTs ever created, including gum, lozenges, patches, nasal spray, inhalator, but also acupuncture and hypnosis. None of those attempts lasted more than a few months. I then first tried ecigs in 2009 (one of those China cigalikes) and it was a total flop. At this point I was resigned to remaining a smoker for the rest of my life. And I did enjoy it, the ritual, the tobacco selection (RYO), the taste. Then, in 2010 I gave ecigs another try with a new brand of cigalikes ("Smoking Everywhere"). again, no dice, went back to analogs after a few weeks.
Finally, in early 2011, I found out about these new innovative ecigs called eGo and bought one. But this time I did not intend to quit smoking tobacco, thinking it's just gonna be another failure like before. I started "dual use" for a few days, then out of the blue, one morning I noticed that tobacco smoke tastes awful. I put out that last cig and have been vaping ever since. I actually still have that last, half-used pouch of RYO tobacco, and have had no temptation to roll one for over 3 years now.
Pictor - I love your story!
Give yourself permission to accept your new status: ex-smoker!
Thanks so much! Sorry not to respond sooner - hadn't opted to receive notifications then! Aren't we lucky - we didn't even have to make an agonising decision to try and give up
OK then, I'm an 'Ex-Smoker' - I think - still feel a bit bemused by this incredible (impossible) thing!
Since starting on this unexpected journey, I've obviously read a lot here and elsewhere, and been really surprised by just how many people seem to have stopped using cigarettes/tobacco by trying electronic cigarettes or similar. There are probably far more than we realise.
Any government or profession who would resist or deny the obvious evidence and confirmation that it is indeed effective, needs to read and understand more, research the subject, and hopefully learn more about it - that way they can perhaps stop trying to govern & regulate too much and let us get on with it.
If made aware of all these facts, health professionals couldn't fail to assist and encourage.
My nurse practitioner was delighted, and has no issues whatsoever - in her view it's just another form of nicotine replacement. She may eventually prefer is I cut the nicotine down sooner rather than later, but I'm only going to deal with this in my own way.
Add me to the list. I intended to avoid smoking at home (not at work) because my wife has asthma. I smoked for over 40 years. My last cigarette was September 16, 2013. I really did quit overnight.
A friend of mine with a health plan, she and I were both smokers. She had put "non-smoker" on her health plan info the year before but last August, she told me that "in a month when we renew, they are giving the cotinine test this time and you have to be off smoking for like 10 days for that to be clean! It's going to cost me $600 more a year!" And later I thought, "couldn't a person try one of those e-cigs and use that for the 10 days before the test?" (I didn't even know they had nicotine if you want it!) So I looked online and found this forum and found a B&M and got an Evod kit and started.
I was NOT planning to quit smoking just to test a "theory" and then tell my friend about it. But within a couple of weeks I was down from 2 PAD to like 2 or 3 cigarettes a day! I mean I really couldn't believe it and it just took a little effort and dumping my habits of wanting to go in the back room and smoke or go outside with the dog and smoke, and I was done! I just like it lots better with all the flavors and you can do it in the house--no standing outside sweating or freezing--and there's no ashtray smell about you or the furniture!
I assumed I would be a smoker to my grave, they would take me there with a .... in my fingers! For so many years (approx 30 of smoking 2 PAD or more) I "loved" smoking and now I've found something I love better.
As far as my friend, when I told her about it, she was not interested at all! Said she'd rather pay the $600 than try an e-cig. So here she is, putting out $600 more a year in addition to the cost of her plan…and here I am, counting up the dough I don't spend smoking, all by accident! I'm glad to be in this group. All the same, I feel bad for the people who we "meet" in the new members forum, "trying" to quit smoking with e-cigs and having a rough go of it
I was NOT planning to quit smoking just to test a "theory" and then tell my friend about it. But within a couple of weeks I was down from 2 PAD to like 2 or 3 cigarettes a day! I mean I really couldn't believe it and it just took a little effort and dumping my habits of wanting to go in the back room and smoke or go outside with the dog and smoke, and I was done! I just like it lots better with all the flavors and you can do it in the house--no standing outside sweating or freezing--and there's no ashtray smell about you or the furniture!
I assumed I would be a smoker to my grave, they would take me there with a .... in my fingers! For so many years (approx 30 of smoking 2 PAD or more) I "loved" smoking and now I've found something I love better.
As far as my friend, when I told her about it, she was not interested at all! Said she'd rather pay the $600 than try an e-cig. So here she is, putting out $600 more a year in addition to the cost of her plan…and here I am, counting up the dough I don't spend smoking, all by accident! I'm glad to be in this group. All the same, I feel bad for the people who we "meet" in the new members forum, "trying" to quit smoking with e-cigs and having a rough go of it
I had absolutely no plans to quit smoking analogs, in fact I loved everything about it. To be honest, cigarettes were "my best friend" and had seen me through so many tough situations. But unlike many smokers, I had always kept my consumption fairly low, about half a pack a day, for many years. I badly wanted to smoke more, but health, social, and financial considerations kept me at half a pack. I started hearing about e-cigs about 4 years ago and started doing research on the net. I quickly realized cigalikes were not for me, but started reading about mechanical mods and read many reviews. Finally ordered one, thinking that I would continue to smoke my half a pack and add e-cigs for extra enjoyment. The day my set-up arrived I rather absent mindedly put the thing together (I'd already watched several videos on how they worked) and took my first hit. Wooooow--I couldn't believe it--I was instantly in love. I had about half a pack of analogs at the time which I finished during the next week. For the last 3 and a half years I've been vaping to my heart's content and enjoying every drag. Still at 24 mg nic and don't plan to change--The 16 mg doesn't quite do it for me, I do love my nic.
Wow! What is this? Anja appreciation day? Well, thank you!
And congratulations for making the transition!
Yes:
There are those who bought an e-cig in order to quit smoking. Nothing wrong with that.
And there are also those who bought an e-cig without the least intention to "quit smoking".
Those who never ever - not once in their lives - even entertained the thought of "quitting smoking".
Like myself.
I bought my first e-cig in late 2011, to use in the evenings. So I would smoke less in the evenings. I had been smoking too much in the evenings, and it was not doing me good. I was a 1 PAD smoker for 35 years. And late in my smoking "career" I smoked one big pack a day (24 cigs) and sometimes even more, up to one more whole big pack in the evenings.
Well, I started up my first e-cig (an eGo T, best model at the time) on 4 November 2011. I remember thinking "WOW! This rocks!!!" - and I made the transition to vaping immediately, effortlessly and 100%. I had found a wonderful alternative to tobacco cigarettes. Something that gave me all I wanted - the handling, the inhaling, the slow and delightful exhaling, the nicotine - plus a great taste. But without the harmful smoke itself that was not doing me good.
I was elated.
I remember thinking very often "Wow! This rocks!!!" when I used my e-cig, especially in the beginning, when the comparison tobacco cig / e-cig was still fresh in my mind. No smoke, no stinky house, no smokers cough in the mornings (that was gone after 3 weeks, when my lungs had cleaned themselves), better skin, I could breathe again ... and no more carbonmonoxide poisoning from smoking too much. And carbonmonoxide poisoning is most unpleasant. Feels like a hangover. Nothing you really need, especially when you have only been drinking tea.
Yes, I am one of the people who bought an e-cig to cut down on smoking. As in "cut down on smoking too much".
And that transition to vaping, it came as a side effect. It just happened.
I have been smoke-free since 4 November 2011. After 35 years as a heavy smoker. Who never had any intention of "quitting smoking".
And without that e-cig, I would still be a smoker.
I was one of the people who thought - when seeing "quit or die" scaremongering - "To hell with it! I'll die. Gotta die sometime anyway. So what?" (actually: I did not think "to hell with it", I thought something else. Some profanity directed at the scaremongers. But that is not nice to say here
)And I made the transition to vaping because the time was right. And I had found a much, much better alternative. All the joy, without the negative side effects. And I love it. Love it to this day.
This is my story.
And there are many like me, in my home forum in Germany. And in Europe.
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This story may go a little way toward explaining why I am so adamant in fighting that ridiculous EU regulation that is intended to take away my healthier choice. A decision made because tobacco sales have dropped. And tobacco tax income has dropped likewise.
A decision made because people have done exactly what they have been told to do all this time: They have quit smoking.
After nearly 20 years, I didn't have any intentions of quitting either. Smoking relaxed me. Every smoker knows that feeling. Someone at work or on the road ...... you off? Light up. Troubles go away. My kids made stinky faces at me after coming inside from a smoke for a long time but that didn't really affect me. Hell, sometimes they were the cause of going out for that smoke! I did a bit of reading on vaping and how it could be done indoors without staining anything or be harmful to those around especially since winter was looming. Ordered an ego twist and a t3s with some juices that had funny names (unicorn blood and rasta blood from fuzion) to give it a go. October 6, 2013 was my last analog. Go figure.
I'm one that did not intend to quit smoking when I got into this. My reasons were different, I intended to use the ecigs when in my truck, in the house, and in my office. I didn't smoke in the house simply because it's basically nasty, going out on the porch in the winter months to light up ain't much fun! I knew my office would smell much better if I didn't smoke in it, same goes for the truck.
I guess the reason that held the most weight was to not to be smoking so much around my Daughter, she was about 5 or 6 years old when this began.
Well, after using these things for about a week or so it got to where I would just use it instead of lighting up, within two weeks I never lit up again! Pretty proud of myself on that!
I smoked for about 41 years, Marlboro Reds, Camels, and Lucky Strikes...oh how I used to love those Lucky's!
Now it's really tough for me to be around people smoking, I'll never utter a word about it to them, that would be calling the kettle black....
I guess the reason that held the most weight was to not to be smoking so much around my Daughter, she was about 5 or 6 years old when this began.
Well, after using these things for about a week or so it got to where I would just use it instead of lighting up, within two weeks I never lit up again! Pretty proud of myself on that!
I smoked for about 41 years, Marlboro Reds, Camels, and Lucky Strikes...oh how I used to love those Lucky's!
Now it's really tough for me to be around people smoking, I'll never utter a word about it to them, that would be calling the kettle black....
I never intended to quit, to be honest. It just... kinda happened. I started to use PVs so my SO could quit. She wanted to stop smoking, but I knew that if I kept smoking in the house, it wasn't going to happen. I noticed two weeks later that I hadn't purchased a pack of smokes. Two years and counting, and I still haven't bought a pack. She was able to quit without all the issues, and she says it was much easier than when she tried earlier. She'll still "borrow" a PV when we've got beers on the table, but that's the only time she ever gets an urge. Hell, and I'm better off for it. I still have all my pipes, my humidor, and my lighters, but they're now like memorabilia (especially my meerschaum pipe collection).
A friend of mine with a health plan, she and I were both smokers. She had put "non-smoker" on her health plan info the year before but last August, she told me that "in a month when we renew, they are giving the cotinine test this time and you have to be off smoking for like 10 days for that to be clean! It's going to cost me $600 more a year!" And later I thought, "couldn't a person try one of those e-cigs and use that for the 10 days before the test?" (I didn't even know they had nicotine if you want it!) So I looked online and found this forum and found a B&M and got an Evod kit and started.
I was NOT planning to quit smoking just to test a "theory" and then tell my friend about it. But within a couple of weeks I was down from 2 PAD to like 2 or 3 cigarettes a day! I mean I really couldn't believe it and it just took a little effort and dumping my habits of wanting to go in the back room and smoke or go outside with the dog and smoke, and I was done! I just like it lots better with all the flavors and you can do it in the house--no standing outside sweating or freezing--and there's no ashtray smell about you or the furniture!
I assumed I would be a smoker to my grave, they would take me there with a .... in my fingers! For so many years (approx 30 of smoking 2 PAD or more) I "loved" smoking and now I've found something I love better.
As far as my friend, when I told her about it, she was not interested at all! Said she'd rather pay the $600 than try an e-cig. So here she is, putting out $600 more a year in addition to the cost of her plan…and here I am, counting up the dough I don't spend smoking, all by accident! I'm glad to be in this group. All the same, I feel bad for the people who we "meet" in the new members forum, "trying" to quit smoking with e-cigs and having a rough go of it
This is a great testimonial - amongst so many wonderfully affirming stories of unintended consequences of success!
I think it's funny you found a new life by trying to scam the exam
But I have 2 questions:
1) do you miss your quality time with the dog?
2) Is the dog enjoying its new smoke-free life too?
Seriously though, regarding your co-worker - what in the world do you think she was brain-washed with to so willfully ignore your successful experience, and so 'happily' spending the extra money on the insurance?
It would be interesting to gain some insight on what has even turned a smoker into such an adamant e-cig denier...
Congrats to you and the dog too!
I smoked for 25 years, not very heavily (half a pack a day, give or take), never made any attempt to quit, always figured I'd stop if and when I no longer found it enjoyable, but that never happened.
I was at the smoke shop buying my Winstons one day and, totally on a spur-of-the-moment whim, decided to buy a Blu starter kit. I did it mostly out of curiosity, just to see what the fuss was all about. I actually knew next to nothing about e-cigs in general, and this was only about eight months ago.
Long story short, I wound up never finishing the pack of smokes I bought that day. I found the e-cigs to be actually more enjoyable than the analogs, in addition to having none of the health hazards or inconveniences. The third day after buying the Blu kit was the last time I smoked tobacco, and the transition wasn't even difficult at all. Though I had previously harbored no intention of quitting, I decided with my 40th birthday coming up, that was a nice round number and as good a time as any.
I was at the smoke shop buying my Winstons one day and, totally on a spur-of-the-moment whim, decided to buy a Blu starter kit. I did it mostly out of curiosity, just to see what the fuss was all about. I actually knew next to nothing about e-cigs in general, and this was only about eight months ago.
Long story short, I wound up never finishing the pack of smokes I bought that day. I found the e-cigs to be actually more enjoyable than the analogs, in addition to having none of the health hazards or inconveniences. The third day after buying the Blu kit was the last time I smoked tobacco, and the transition wasn't even difficult at all. Though I had previously harbored no intention of quitting, I decided with my 40th birthday coming up, that was a nice round number and as good a time as any.
I smoked for 35 years with the last 5 or so at 2 packs a day. It wasn't that I didn't want to quit, I just thought I couldn't quit. I played around with e-cigs, but they just didn't compare to the real thing. But then I found a Swisher Sweet disposable.... it was close! So I researched and wound up with Ego batteries, a couple of Evod tanks and a bottle of 18mg menthol liquid. Three days later, I smoked my very last cig. Going on.... 5 or 6 months now, I think.... No plans on ever lighting up again unless I luck up on a really nice Cuban cigar!
It is really enjoyable to read all these testimonials from those who - like me - stopped smoking "by accident". Where it just happened.
We simply stopped consuming the harmful stuff when we had found something that is so much better.
Aren't we the lucky ones?
Congratulations all around!
We simply stopped consuming the harmful stuff when we had found something that is so much better.
Aren't we the lucky ones?
Congratulations all around!
I was outside at break with my brother and all the smokers when a person we worked with pulled out a 510 ecig and started puffing on it,we asked her about it just being curious.She told me it was something she had just bought to try and quit smoking and was a lot cheaper.She let me try a puff and I coughed like crazy,I took lighter puffs and thought it was OK but not close enough to a real cigarette for me to quit. Another co-worker that had become a regular ecig only user told us that he had to try several different types before he found one that he liked,he recommended a Joye Ego with a 1.5 atty and 18-24mg ejuice.I just said naa and kept smoking,tbh I still loved smoking. My brother on the other hand decided to try it without telling me ,a week later he finally mentioned it and showed it to me.He said it was perfect and was just like a real cigarette only better,he gave me a Joye Ego kit and a bottle of Marbelo he had bought online. I tried it and I was like wow it is just like a regular cigarette only better,I still get the same throat hit and a better taste. Why smoke cigarettes when I can vape for ALOT cheaper,the health concerns never entered my mind. I haven't had a cigarette since that day.
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Me. I liked to smoke, I had no plans to quit. I ordered an e-cig online because I was bored and wanted a new toy to play with. I figured it was a gimmick. When I tried it, I thought the clouds were pretty cool and somewhere along the way I forgot to smoke again.
I never intended to quit smoking, the thought hadn't ever occurred to me but a friend had been trying an ego setup for a while and said how she'd managed to (nearly) quit the cigs so I thought I'd give them a try. I bought an e-roll and gave up the real smokes immediately and have never looked back.
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