I started smoking cigarettes when I was 20 (now 23). I'm pretty into the rave/edm scene and always at clubs and shows, so most of my friends smoke analogs too which is probably how I started. I was never really in love with the idea of cigarettes, they just had a strong stanky grip on me, nor did I really have any intentions of quitting at this point. One day My dad (who was a smoker for 30+ years) was telling me about how he had started vaping and he unintentionally quit smoking analogs altogether. He was super excited about it and bought me a starter kit (V2 ecigs) I started smoking that and actually quit myself! I was so happy to have that monkey off my back and did some research into different PVs. Now I'm chillin' with my ego twists happily vaping away!
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I'm only 18 but was smoking before that unfortunately. I started vaping because I didn't want to stink anymore and now my house smells like cinnabuns mmmmmmm, my lungs were already starting to hurt and I'm diabetic. So needless to say smoking was gonna ruin my body even faster. I saw a blu commercial and started looking into more. Happy to say I'm off cigarettes!
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Your friendly nor cal dude
I started vaping to use as a crutch to stop smoking and I was able to quit... well at least for a couple months now. I love vaping and won't go back...
I smoked for over 30 years at least 2 packs a day and more during the weekends and vacations etc. I was afraid to quit because I had heard how people would crave a cigarette for the rest of their lives and how so many people don't succeed the first time and they start up, then quit, then start then quit. I just didn't want to go through all of that. What finally got my thoughts focused on even thinking about the possibility of quitting was the cost. So expensive! And I was also lying to my husband about just how much I was smoking. I was out of control. Now? I haven't had a cigarette in almost one year and I'm not missing it one iota. I really enjoy the way I feel, the way I smell, the way my car smells where we live. I can lend items ffrom our home. In the past I didn't even want give away anything or lend anything because it was all so stinky and smelly. So thankful for the people I have met here too and for all the posts I've read. I NEVER thought I would say "I used to smoke" but here I am!
Thank you for this type of posting. In my life I was ragged by seniors for smoking.
I started because analogs cost $10/pack in NY. I was buying them at a reservation, but there was so much uproar over sales tax, etc. they switched to only their own brands, none of which I liked. Now I can't stand to be around people who smoke. I can't believe that I, and everything around me, smelled like that. I tried one of my daughter's analogs the other day and put it out after one drag. After 35 years of smoking and 3 months of vaping, I know now that I will never go back to analogs.
Strangely, I started vaping after having quit cigarettes for almost seven years. The desire to smoke never went away. During a time of enormous stress I caved in and bought a pack of cigarettes... only to find that I found THEM disgusting but the nicotine to be exactly what I needed. I remembered the mall kiosk and bought my first crappy kit. I've been vaping happily for about two years now.
Started this past weekend, specifically to quit smoking cigarettes. Cost was not an issue as I was making my own, $30 a month for cigarettes in NY? Bargain. Better health and finally losing such a horribly selfish habit were my motivation.
I'm an odd duck here because i wasn't smoking cigarettes before i started vaping but i was in love with hookahs. But what i didn't like was the prices, HUGE setups, and you cant go anywhere with hookahs; your pretty much stationary. I wanted flavors and a hand held setup (not cigarettes) so in my research i found e-cigs but i wasn't completely sold until i discovered egos with clearomizers and tanks!
I had my first cigarette at the ripe old age of 12. I don't think that I became truly addicted until I turned 18 when I could reliably get cigarettes for myself instead of having to rely on others to purchase them for me. I fought to quit cigarettes several times, mainly out of consideration for my wife, but also for myself and because I don't like to be controlled. At one point, I manged to stop smoking for a bit over 6 months. But the cravings never really went away, so I always ended up smoking again (usually because of this stressful event, that stressful event, or simply going to a bar with an old buddy that smoked). I even used the patch and other smoking cessation tools but was never wholly successful in quitting. My most recent attempt to stop smoking occurred on September 4, 2012. I was using the patch, but after a few short days couldn't take it any more, so I stopped in at a Walgreens to get a pack. I saw the blu disposables and decided to try one instead of the analogs. The blu worked and I was able to avoid going back to the analogs, but it wasn't terribly satisfying. I did a bit of research, stopped in at a local B&M store and bought an overpriced (but totally worth it) ego-c kit with some stardusts.
I've not had the desire for a cigarette since. I even tried smoking a cigarette a couple of weeks back just as an experiment, and found it to be disgusting. That is a first - I distinctly recall being a tobacco afficianado and loving the taste of good tobacco.
Long story short, I started vaping because I didn't want to be a smoker for the rest of my life. It's working so far. Here's to the future of vaping!
I've not had the desire for a cigarette since. I even tried smoking a cigarette a couple of weeks back just as an experiment, and found it to be disgusting. That is a first - I distinctly recall being a tobacco afficianado and loving the taste of good tobacco.
Long story short, I started vaping because I didn't want to be a smoker for the rest of my life. It's working so far. Here's to the future of vaping!
I tried one my brother in law got from a local smoke shop and thought it might just be something that I could use to cut down on my smoking a little. That one was a POS and I ended up here looking for a cig sized thing that worked, came prefilled, and didn't cost too much because smoking tasted HORRIBLE once I started vaping.
I did go back to smoking during a family crisis I wasn't ready for and then came back to vaping a few months later. I'm still shocked that I quit smoking at all.
I did go back to smoking during a family crisis I wasn't ready for and then came back to vaping a few months later. I'm still shocked that I quit smoking at all.
One of the biggest reason's I quit was when the FSC cigarettes started up. I had known that cigarettes had all kinds of chemicals in them but it never dawned on me until they started putting that carpet glue in the paper to make the cigs stop burning if you did not inhale all the time. They tasted like crap and it caused more coughing. I started rolling my own with the little crank machines and did that for almost a year. I noticed the technology in ecigs started to get better and started vaping again. I have not looked back since. Been off of cigs for over 2 years now.
I find it funny whenever I get the question "so when are you going to quit that electronic thingy?" I just tell them "I never planned on quitting these. I like to vape" Hell, I liked to smoke, I just didn't like what it was doing to me.
I find it funny whenever I get the question "so when are you going to quit that electronic thingy?" I just tell them "I never planned on quitting these. I like to vape" Hell, I liked to smoke, I just didn't like what it was doing to me.
I wanted to quit smoking, so I tried an Njoy I bought from 7-11. It was fairly enjoyable, but died quickly, so I then tried a Blu. Also enjoyed it, but again, it died quickly. I was getting ready to buy another disposable until I figured, what the heck, let's buy a Volt kit from SI.
I was never a smoker, but always like pipes. My dad smoked one. I just never wanted the bad health effects and the smell of the smoke on my cloths. Then I discovered vaping and epipes. I am on my way now. Vaping a pipe and enjoying all of the wonderful flavors and the great people that I have met doing so. Vaping may not be totally healthy, but it is much better than smoking analogs. And the big benefit I get to vape a pipe. WeeeHooooo!!!!
For me I wasn't intending to stop smoking I had tried my friend's ecig and liked it and thought it'd be a great way to cut down especially since i was spending a small fortune on cigarettes. But the first day i got my Bloog i didn't find I wanted to smoke and eventually when the nicotine fix was required and I picked up a smoke I was shocked at the extremely gross taste. I mean like really i liked it the day before even the morning while waiting for the mailman but a mere 4 hours after having vaped boom I couldn't stand the taste of smokes. After that I was sold. went out and got some nic juice to wean myself off the nic and continue to vape. People ask me if I'll stop vaping but nope I love vaping as I once loved smoking.
Several reasons for me, health wise, I'm pretty sure I have the beginnings of COPD, and my grandfather died of emphysema when I was young, my only memories of him are being hooked to his oxygen, in his hospital bed in the den. Didn't want that to be me. My husband needs to quit, has several times, but always picked them back up because I couldn't quit. I kinda love him and want him around. His family history is full of heart disease, stroke, diabetes, lung cancer, etc. Umm, my kids were always asking me to quit. And it's shown that especially girls who grow up around smokers are more likely to start smoking as teenagers, I wanted the cycle to end before my daughter became part of it. Money was a big factor too, granted cigs are cheaper in Oklahoma, but being a military family we won't always be here (as a matter of fact, we move in 6 months). I really started paying attention to how much we were spending on cigs and couldn't stomach it anymore. And if we're being completely honest here, vanity played a role in picking up vaping and dropping the stinkies. I don't mind getting older, I've had health problems my whole life and as I gradually get the medical treatment I need for them, I feel healthier. But with age comes gray hair, wrinkles, etc. I started noticing the wrinkles around my mouth from frequent smoking and did not like that. A co-worker started vaping and since I had had a recent failed attempt at quitting, she helped me out, getting my first setup for me and getting me some juices. Took me a week to completely put the cigs away. I finally realized that I didn't NEED them anymore, that I was just holding on to a decade and a half long habit. Now my best friend is vaping, working on putting away cigs, my husband is still doing both, but I think if he thought I would go back to smoking if he doesn't quit, it would motivate him to try the vaping a little more. And I'm working on my parents, both who have cancer in remission. Md y mom had stage 2 breast cancer and my dad had renal cell carcinoma (kindey cancer). I want them off the cigarettes so they can be there for my kids as they are the only set of grandparents my kids have.
and want him around. His family history is full of heart disease, stroke, diabetes, lung cancer, etc. Umm, my kids were always asking me to quit. And it's shown that especially girls who grow up around smokers are more likely to start smoking as teenagers, I wanted the cycle to end before my daughter became part of it. Money was a big factor too, granted cigs are cheaper in Oklahoma, but being a military family we won't always be here (as a matter of fact, we move in 6 months). I really started paying attention to how much we were spending on cigs and couldn't stomach it anymore. And if we're being completely honest here, vanity played a role in picking up vaping and dropping the stinkies. I don't mind getting older, I've had health problems my whole life and as I gradually get the medical treatment I need for them, I feel healthier. But with age comes gray hair, wrinkles, etc. I started noticing the wrinkles around my mouth from frequent smoking and did not like that. A co-worker started vaping and since I had had a recent failed attempt at quitting, she helped me out, getting my first setup for me and getting me some juices. Took me a week to completely put the cigs away. I finally realized that I didn't NEED them anymore, that I was just holding on to a decade and a half long habit. Now my best friend is vaping, working on putting away cigs, my husband is still doing both, but I think if he thought I would go back to smoking if he doesn't quit, it would motivate him to try the vaping a little more. And I'm working on my parents, both who have cancer in remission. Md y mom had stage 2 breast cancer and my dad had renal cell carcinoma (kindey cancer). I want them off the cigarettes so they can be there for my kids as they are the only set of grandparents my kids have.
For me, cost was a huge factor. I was living in Colorado where a carton was about $50... I moved to New York and a carton here is $90. Not longer after I moved here, my dad got into ecigs, and I decided to give them a shot. That was nearly a year ago and I haven't looked back.
That's complicated. The first time I started vaping was because I felt like hell and had a sincere desire to quit. Living a high stress life and not having a reliable enough set up I eventually returned to smoking. This time I started vaping was initially because my insurance raised my rates. Right now we are paying as much for just me as my daughter and husband combined. So basically I was ...... and decided to give e cigs another go. My anger has turned to contentment. I know that this will work for me. I had a bad day on Wednesday and bummed a smoke. Gak!
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