I hand-roll my own smokes, have for 37 years, using European-style tobacco (Drum, Bali Shag, etc.) A pouch lasts me about 24 hours and yields roughly 50 cigarettes. Which makes me a 2-1/2 PAD non-filter smoker. And no matter how or what ways I've tried to quit (about elebenty-faffillion times) I get utterly psychotic and depressed and wigged out and start smoking again. So I think I am pretty hard-core. I've tried every med and nicotine-replacement system and classes and Allen Carr and support groups I could find....but nope, I still go back to smoking. I've smoked since I was 17 and I am 54 now. My smoking habit has outlasted two husbands, several jobs, lots of vehicles and numerous apartments and houses in two continents and three US states. LOL.
After faffing around with disposable e-cigs for a few weeks, I finally got a "real" PV and some tasty juices. It's Wednesday evening now, I bought my last tobacco pouch about 1:30 pm Monday. Typically it would have been gone by the same time Tuesday and I would have been on my third pouch by now.
I still have half of that pouch left!!
I stopped by my little local smoke shop this afternoon, meaning to get more tobacco - then realised how much I had left. So instead, I bought 10 ml of vanilla juice from there (not very good juice as it turns out but I want to support local business and I like the owner) and didn't buy more tobacco.
I didn't even start this as an effort to quit, really. Just harm reduction by cutting down. My only "rule" has been no smoking while driving. But for the last week or so, at work and in the house, I have both my smokes and my KGO within reach...and I find myself reaching for a vape more often than rolling a smoke.
I'm still sorta terrified at the idea of quitting smokes altogether but for the first time in almost four decades I'm sort of astonished that without even trying, I've cut my smoking significantly. A month ago I would be climbing the walls with only 15 or whatever cigarettes per day. Yeah vaping still delivers nicotine and some unknown (flavoring) substances, but not the 3,999 other nasty and carcinogenic compounds in cigarette smoke.
And as soon as I fill up my dedicated "smoking drawer" with more juices and cartos and batteries and whatever, I might feel brave enough to exist without having tobacco in my life. <gasp> And this is a very cool thing!
After faffing around with disposable e-cigs for a few weeks, I finally got a "real" PV and some tasty juices. It's Wednesday evening now, I bought my last tobacco pouch about 1:30 pm Monday. Typically it would have been gone by the same time Tuesday and I would have been on my third pouch by now.
I still have half of that pouch left!!
I stopped by my little local smoke shop this afternoon, meaning to get more tobacco - then realised how much I had left. So instead, I bought 10 ml of vanilla juice from there (not very good juice as it turns out but I want to support local business and I like the owner) and didn't buy more tobacco.I didn't even start this as an effort to quit, really. Just harm reduction by cutting down. My only "rule" has been no smoking while driving. But for the last week or so, at work and in the house, I have both my smokes and my KGO within reach...and I find myself reaching for a vape more often than rolling a smoke.
I'm still sorta terrified at the idea of quitting smokes altogether but for the first time in almost four decades I'm sort of astonished that without even trying, I've cut my smoking significantly. A month ago I would be climbing the walls with only 15 or whatever cigarettes per day. Yeah vaping still delivers nicotine and some unknown (flavoring) substances, but not the 3,999 other nasty and carcinogenic compounds in cigarette smoke.
And as soon as I fill up my dedicated "smoking drawer" with more juices and cartos and batteries and whatever, I might feel brave enough to exist without having tobacco in my life. <gasp> And this is a very cool thing!
