Why did you want to quit smoking ?

[rat6fink]

I was a pack a day smoker for 20 years. My dad (stepdad that raised me from a young pup) was also a pack a day for over 50 years. He suffered from congestive heart failure and eventually, kidney failure, which took him June of 2012. I started vaping that Thanksgiving, and haven't had an analog since. I've taken a couple drags, but only as a reminder to how much I loathe them. I quit because although he's my stepdad, and we don't share any dna, I don't wanna go through the misery he went through.


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[Bolivar]

I knew I needed to quit because it was beginning to catch up with me health wise, but that wasn't enough motivation. I have a friend who was a heavier smoker than I was, he quit with cigalikes. We had both bought e-cigs 3-4 years ago, but they were miserable failures and we both went back to cigarettes. He found another type and hasn't smoked in 15 months...that got my attention, but still not enough motovation. We both worked in healthcare, I shot x-rays for 30 years and he was a PA. We had both seen more than our share of smoking related disease, but not enough to motivate either one of us to quit. I'm not sure what his trigger was, but I know what the final straw was for me...my grankdkids would pull their shirts up over their noses when they were around me because I smelled bad.

I found this site, lurked and read for a week or so- soaking it in, seeing the success of people that had smoked longer than I had (40 years) and paying attention to recommendations. Tuesday I pulled the trigger, went to the local B&M and got an iTaste VV. Haven't looked back since. There is most of a pack of stink sticks laying around in the bedroom...I'm leaving them there for a while as a reminder. I've slipped siren tobacco's demanding and deadly chains, and I don't ever plan on putting them on again.

I'm FREE !

 

[cantmissamy]

When my 9 year old asked me to quit smoking. That was all it took for me.. 2 weeks now and going strong, some slips but doing it one hour, one day/night at a time.

 

[Epyx78]

I was beginning to have breathing problems, and this scared the crap out of me. Went to the dr for a chest x-ray, blood work, the whole 9. The greatest motivator in my case was fear.

 

[KiLLeRr KeN]

I got tired of smelling like stale smoke, the worst is when you smell someone else that just got done smoking and they smell rank and you think to yourself "do I smell like that when I get done."

As well as I quit for my two girls who cannot talk since they young and for my wife who has out up with me trying to quit before, I just became a gumpy ahole and got ...... off to a point where I just said forget it and picked it back up. Then a tried out the ego twist and I only smoked one since but it was just a drag since it smelled horrible to me, and that was two days after I quit.

Funny when your driving and you can smell the car in front of you lmao

 

[brian2778]

Smoked 2 packs a day for 19 years. Quit by accident when I tried my 1st vaporizer. Wife loves that I don't smell like cigarettes anymore.

 

[James Winkler]

Here is a weird one. I was a dipper/chewer for about 11 years. Saw a guy at work puffin on a Provari so I had to ask "dude what is that"? He was gracious enough to let me have a vape, whoa nicotine bliss! I had some major dental work looming and a desire to quit the dip so I dove into vaping. I have to admit the "nerdy" side was also drawn to all the cool mods around as well. Two DNA20 mods at home and a DNA30 on the way, I have been Chew free for seven months!

 

[PaulBHC]

I've tried a few times over the 40+ years. Tried vaping 3 years ago then did cold turkey and was fine for 6 months. Stress got me smoking again. Now I have slight high blood pressure. Cutting down on salt has helped but I know the nicotine isn't helping. I hope that I can continue vaping and lower the nic along with my BP.

 

[YsmirsBeard]

Health. This'll be my first real attempt, however.

 

[molimelight]

Both parents died from it.

 

[Traidnew1978]

Bad for the health and many other negative things.

 

[BostonJim]

I wanted to quit smoking cigarettes to stop giving my money to the government via taxes

 

[dead not sleeping]

36 years of pack+ a day. I started before people caught on to all of BT's lies. I ended up smoking unfiltered little cigars to save a few bucks - 2.99 a pack. (you cannot call a "little cigar" a little cigar if it has a filter, "little cigars" are taxed differently) So, first it was money. Next, I started waking up in the middle of the night unable to breathe, with mega anxiety. Still not enough motivation. I tried probably 10 or more times to quit - patches didn't work, gum tasted like yuk, switched to "light" cigs and more than twice the cost, and I just smoked way more. Finally, a couple TIA's (mini-strokes) woke me up. I had symptoms daily - blurred vision, parallax, loss of balance, tired all the time, angry, ornery, just a real a$$hole at times). I purchased a Triton kit and never looked back. It's only been a month since I quit, and the symptoms slowly went away for a week, and practically no symptoms since. Makes me wonder what kind of garbage chemicals are really in those analogs they aren't talking about. Thank you, big tobacco, I sincerely hope you die. After my latest doctor visit and tests, doc says a drastic improvement, and whatever I was doing to keep it up. I told him I quit smoking with e-cigs, he said, "I hear a lot of that".

dns

 

[HumbleTex]

My decision to quit was actually pretty easy. I spent 8 hours pushing my Dad around M.D Anderson in Houston in a wheelchair. He had a portable oxygen concentrator in his lap and at every specialist we saw during that day there was a mad scramble to find an electrical outlet so we could charge his concentrator.

When his appointments for the day were completed and I was walking to the parking garage I realized if I didn't quit smoking someone was going to be doing the same thing for me some day. I quit smoking on that walk to my car and have never looked back.

 

[Avi8tor]

I quit after 35 years of smoking when I ran out of breath walking up my stairs in my house. Tired of the cost, the smell, the packages, the lighters, burns, being glared at, and finally freezing my ... off outside.

 

[MrsPressley]

All of your stories,accomplishments, and life lessons are so amazing. For those of you who lost a loved one due to or related to smoking my heart goes out to you. I watched my grandmother deteriorate to nothing. She passed away in 2008 when my son was 5 months old. She had just turned a great grandmother and didn't get the chance to really hold my son and bond with him like she would've if she didn't have cancer. She was a great lady and died pretty early in life, but was smoking over a pack a day. My grandfather quit smoking before I was born, he's almost 80 now and has no health issues. I am so happy for each and every one of you who decided to change your life for the better. I hope we can all make it through this journey and never touch a cigarette or cigar or even dip again. Good luck !

 

[JenLK]

I've wanted to quit for a long time for too many reasons to think of but my BF did not, and being around him while he smoked made me want to. Recently we have had a financial setback that made the cost of cigs unfeasible, and were lucky enough to find a very satisfying type of e-cig - our previous attempts failed. Now neither one of us wants to smoke! His boss even offered to buy him a pack, but he said "no thanks, I like my e-cig better."

 

[ykalon]

In the beginning of october last year I was standing in the garden with my cig as usual, when my 5yo daughter came out to me. She was standing beside me not saying anything. Suddenly she said: "I don't want you to die, dad". That day in school they had talked about the dangers involved with smoking. Next day I bought my first starter kit....

 

[Haza]

In the beginning of october last year I was standing in the garden with my cig as usual, when my 5yo daughter came out to me. She was standing beside me not saying anything. Suddenly she said: "I don't want you to die, dad". That day in school they had talked about the dangers involved with smoking. Next day I bought my first starter kit....

Kids are intuitive aren't they? My son asked me why I was paying someone for a product that would kill me... Same thing here, told me that he didn't want me to die like his Grandpa did - Dad passed away with lung cancer 12 months ago - haven't touched one since

 

[Virtual Life]

I wanted (cough) to quit (wheeze) smoking (cough, cough) because I just (cough, hack) couldn't breath anymore.

OK, seriously, the (final) catalyst for me was helping carry a couch from the curb to a neighbors house. There was about 6 people there carrying other pieces of furniture and I was the only one straining for breath. Really? I can't even make it 50 feet? I was SOOOOO embarrassed! I had been playing with vaping and had an ego which wasn't cutting it, trying to decide what hardware I wanted. The next day I just picked one at a local B&M. Paid too much, knew it, didn't care. 3-4 days later was last analog.