I love the responses! Basically, to some everyone's answers up; they want a better life. Period. I suppose the only downside is for some, the nicotine is still there and it still costs money, although greatly reduced. It would be nice if our leaders saw what this was doing for our health, families, jobs and communities..
Why did you start vaping?
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My dr told me too. She didn't actually have a big issue with my smoking because I'm generally half a pack a day or less but there are times where it's much more. I teach pole fitness and compete, I was always self conscious about being a smoker especially after I had quit for several months. It annoyed me to be at competitions and smoking when I should be acting like an example and promoting good health, ugh, it was just always hard. I still do both but more vape then smoke. I'm working through some emotional triggers that keep me smoking. I have rituals which have been hard to break. I smoke in the car and I cannot on any planet seem to listen and write choreography without one - after that one then I can vape.
I had tried cigalikes just out of curiosity before.
But as far as actually starting vaping, I started simply because I was going on vacation.
I was taking my family for their first trip into the mountains. My daughter had never seen a mountain before, and the wife only saw the dirt piles outside of LA from a distance one time. So I planned a week long vacation in a small cabin in a small town, many miles from the nearest city in Colorado. The closest McDonalds was 28 miles away if that tells you how remote it was.
So, we were looking at an airplane flight followed by several hours in a rental car to get to a cabin where smoking wasn't allowed and there was a severe fire hazard because of the pine beetles and years long drought. I convinced my wife that a couple of good ecigs and minimal smoking of real ones would be the best option.
We bought 2 SVDs, 2 extra iClear 30s tanks, 4 18650 batteries and a charger two weeks before we left. How's that for a "starter kit"?
But as far as actually starting vaping, I started simply because I was going on vacation.
I was taking my family for their first trip into the mountains. My daughter had never seen a mountain before, and the wife only saw the dirt piles outside of LA from a distance one time. So I planned a week long vacation in a small cabin in a small town, many miles from the nearest city in Colorado. The closest McDonalds was 28 miles away if that tells you how remote it was.
So, we were looking at an airplane flight followed by several hours in a rental car to get to a cabin where smoking wasn't allowed and there was a severe fire hazard because of the pine beetles and years long drought. I convinced my wife that a couple of good ecigs and minimal smoking of real ones would be the best option.
We bought 2 SVDs, 2 extra iClear 30s tanks, 4 18650 batteries and a charger two weeks before we left. How's that for a "starter kit"?
I started to get off the cigarettes. Quit smoking Aug of 13 and started out with blu ecigs. That was getting expensive(cartridges) and the experience wasn't that great. Moved on to real vaping about 3 months ago and love it.
For me it is more of the fact that I love to smoke, and vaping seemed a more sensible way of expanding where and how much I could smoke. I still like cigarettes, and never meant to stop them (although I don't smoke much anyway, because cigarettes seem to give me a natural limit of somewhere between five and eight - under five, I feel fine. Six, no problem. Seven, not so much. More than seven, and I know I will feel lousy the next morning). With vaping, I am pleased to say, I can vape all day long with no problem whatsoever.
I retired and was smoking like a chimney since I had no "rules" to obey. Costing a lot of money. Now have a greatly (oh so greatly) limited income. I also have quite a few dogs, all of which require grooming at $40 a pop, as well as trips to the vet. So I actually quit for them. The $$ I save (or should be saving once I stop spending on juice and toys) is more than enough for them to be groomed every 6 wk plus extra for whatever else is needed. The good thing is that isn't any kind of a sacrifice on my part--I love vaping much more than I ever liked smoking!!
I started Vaping to get away from paying $8.00 a pack and just the overall disgust. I really hating smoking for a while until I discovered vaping... Life changing stuff!
I think it's mental. I have crazy anxiety and OCD so at this point my mind is telling me its not enough. When I smoke it all hits me at once, vaping isn't the same but I prefer it and do find myself craving it. I think I over associate my creativity with smoking. I want to be rid of them completely but I'm getting in my own way. Smoking is also my quiet time, my time to get my head straight and focus. I need to figure out a way to make vaping the same. I smoke much less now and am seeing improvements. It's just those stupid triggers.
What kind of APV are you using? Is the strength high enough? Have you tried drip tips with a higher strength liquid? I had a hard time with e-cigs at first because I couldn't figure out what it was that was "doing it" for me. I found that a greater hit from higher strength from a drip tip gave me a great satisfactory throat hit. And a high. You can do a lot with e-cigs, don't give up on just one bad combo. analogues like blu cigs are probably a really bad bet as far as "doing it" for us.
Cos i tried to quit 14 times before and failed. Even nicotine gum did not work. Figured that i'll never succeed in quitting so i learnt to get used to vaping. Key is to be able to differentiate the craving from the cigarette. Started off as a few vapes per day n 20 sticks. An it eventually became 1-2 sticks +vaping. In about a month i did not need to smoke cigarettes anymore. Cigarettes are lying around the house daily but there was no feeling of picking it up n lighting it. Now i cant smoke any more. It tastes aweful.. coming from Mr Marlboro, which is me.
I have a good story.
I started smoking black and milds at the age of 16. Oh you know, I thought I was a cool kid. I though it was fun. I thought it tasted good. All those lovely things. Starting smoking packs of them a day, packs of five. Five black and milds a day! Next thing you know I am bumming cigs whenever I get the chance and later on I started buying cigarettes. Flash forward 2.5 years and I drank a lot of alcohol, smoked cigarettes a pack a day, and was an herb head if you know what I mean. I started getting irregular heartbeats one night while drunk. These kept happening whenever I drank and I knew my dad had A-fib which means I could develop it. I decided my heart health was more worth it then getting drunk, so I quit alcohol. I still smoked herbs and cigarettes like no other. I still had irregular heartbeat episodes.
Eventually I start dating this chick, she nagged all the time about the cigarettes. I researched the hell out of them, realized my heart health was also more important than cigarettes. I also wanted to please my girl. So I quit. Of course I felt better! Thing is...I still was an herbhead and still was getting irregular heartbeats, but less often. Not that long ago I decided it was time to quit herbs as well. I eventually quit everything everyone my age does. I felt alone, I felt sober, I felt like I was missing something. Then my buddy introduced me to the E-cigs, healthy vaping! Now I used to vape herbs for health benefits so I knew what vaping was all about, and I bought an E-cig nicotine free of course. Here I am 3 weeks later and I love the things! I feel like that missing element in my life is back! I feel like I can relate to people my age again! Oh, and not to mention I hardly have my episodes of sinus arrhythmia anymore, and when I do they aren't as bad! Yay for vapor!
That's my story, if anyone cares and reads it that is!
I started smoking black and milds at the age of 16. Oh you know, I thought I was a cool kid. I though it was fun. I thought it tasted good. All those lovely things. Starting smoking packs of them a day, packs of five. Five black and milds a day! Next thing you know I am bumming cigs whenever I get the chance and later on I started buying cigarettes. Flash forward 2.5 years and I drank a lot of alcohol, smoked cigarettes a pack a day, and was an herb head if you know what I mean. I started getting irregular heartbeats one night while drunk. These kept happening whenever I drank and I knew my dad had A-fib which means I could develop it. I decided my heart health was more worth it then getting drunk, so I quit alcohol. I still smoked herbs and cigarettes like no other. I still had irregular heartbeat episodes.
Eventually I start dating this chick, she nagged all the time about the cigarettes. I researched the hell out of them, realized my heart health was also more important than cigarettes. I also wanted to please my girl. So I quit. Of course I felt better! Thing is...I still was an herbhead and still was getting irregular heartbeats, but less often. Not that long ago I decided it was time to quit herbs as well. I eventually quit everything everyone my age does. I felt alone, I felt sober, I felt like I was missing something. Then my buddy introduced me to the E-cigs, healthy vaping! Now I used to vape herbs for health benefits so I knew what vaping was all about, and I bought an E-cig nicotine free of course. Here I am 3 weeks later and I love the things! I feel like that missing element in my life is back! I feel like I can relate to people my age again! Oh, and not to mention I hardly have my episodes of sinus arrhythmia anymore, and when I do they aren't as bad! Yay for vapor!
That's my story, if anyone cares and reads it that is!
I have a good story.
I started smoking black and milds at the age of 16. Oh you know, I thought I was a cool kid. I though it was fun. I thought it tasted good. All those lovely things. Starting smoking packs of them a day, packs of five. Five black and milds a day! Next thing you know I am bumming cigs whenever I get the chance and later on I started buying cigarettes. Flash forward 2.5 years and I drank a lot of alcohol, smoked cigarettes a pack a day, and was an herb head if you know what I mean. I started getting irregular heartbeats one night while drunk. These kept happening whenever I drank and I knew my dad had A-fib which means I could develop it. I decided my heart health was more worth it then getting drunk, so I quit alcohol. I still smoked herbs and cigarettes like no other. I still had irregular heartbeat episodes.
Eventually I start dating this chick, she nagged all the time about the cigarettes. I researched the hell out of them, realized my heart health was also more important than cigarettes. I also wanted to please my girl. So I quit. Of course I felt better! Thing is...I still was an herbhead and still was getting irregular heartbeats, but less often. Not that long ago I decided it was time to quit herbs as well. I eventually quit everything everyone my age does. I felt alone, I felt sober, I felt like I was missing something. Then my buddy introduced me to the E-cigs, healthy vaping! Now I used to vape herbs for health benefits so I knew what vaping was all about, and I bought an E-cig nicotine free of course. Here I am 3 weeks later and I love the things! I feel like that missing element in my life is back! I feel like I can relate to people my age again! Oh, and not to mention I hardly have my episodes of sinus arrhythmia anymore, and when I do they aren't as bad! Yay for vapor!
That's my story, if anyone cares and reads it that is!
Great story, man. Women are a good anti-smoking tool. I don't mean for that to sound misogynistic but, hopefully you know what I mean. They are a good motivation for things we want to change but just need that little extra "bump." Like I said in my OP, my girlfriend was the reason I had to find an alternative to smoking. I'm glad it happened for so many reasons.
All the articles in the press late last year lamenting the fact that the FDA wasn't doing its job regulating e-cigs got me curious and I figured I should check 'em out before the government ruined 'em.
I didn't intend to quit smoking; heck I didn't think I *could* quit smoking; I just wanted to see how much of my 2 PAD habit I could replace with vaping. On the first full day of vaping it was 90%; the day after that 95%, the following two days 97.5%, and then 100%..
I didn't intend to quit smoking; heck I didn't think I *could* quit smoking; I just wanted to see how much of my 2 PAD habit I could replace with vaping. On the first full day of vaping it was 90%; the day after that 95%, the following two days 97.5%, and then 100%..
Have always wanted to quit but my wife is a long time smoker and can't give it up as easy as I could. I would quit for weeks and she would struggle. I finally got tired of the stench and just joined her. A co-worker introduced me to vaping and now both the wife and I have switched!
I started to help me quit smoking. My 20+ year pack a day habit of American Spirits was now costing me $300 per month. My lungs are ...... off and sick of the tar and smoke and they remind me of this every time I do any sort of exercise. There's definitely no happy healthy future for me if I were to continue smoking.
After 25 years of smoking... it was enough. I started getting tight in the chest in the morning. After trying multiple times with moderate success it never resulted in anything permanent I turned to vaping. It worked and has been over a year.
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