Your last Analog Cancer Stick,, How was it? Why was it your last?

[seabs]

I still have over a pound of pipe tobacco (which I used to roll my own cigs). I bought an e-cigarette just to try out and to supplement my smoking (that sounds bad, ha). Haven't had a real cigarette in over two weeks though. So what do I do with all this tobacco I have sitting around?

 

[AttyPops]

IDK for now seabs. But if you can't sell it or give it away, when it gets old, you can soak it in water making a kind of tea and use it as bug killer around the outside of the house (use gloves)

 

[Bourbonman]

IDK for now seabs. But if you can't sell it or give it away, when it gets old, you can soak it in water making a kind of tea and use it as bug killer around the outside of the house (use gloves)

Yep. I have a friend who mists all new houseplants with a tobacco "tea" before they come into the house. Nicotine works well to kill spidermites. It's an eco-friendly pesticide.

 

[Rivaman]

Used to smoke rollups before I switched and sometimes wonder if they are like as I remembered them. I liked a strong throat hit,and used to microwave the tobacco beforehand to get it drier (this is probaly not a good idea!).
A few times since I switched I've tried a rollup at the same time as using the ecig.Surprising thing is they seem weak now in comparison, of course the taste is pretty bad as well, I just don't feel a need to go back to them.
It can be an idea to not rule out ever having a cigarette again,trying a few later can take away the fear you really want to go back to them.Then again you might just want to draw a line in the sand.

 

[Krabill]

I had been using my e-cig and continued smoking analogs for about 2 weeks. Skipped the analogs and used my e-cig only for about 2 days, then tried to have another analog. Tasted absolutely horrible. That was the last one I've had, which was about 7 months ago now.

 

[BHam]

Great story and great advice.

From my experience the first 3 days with no cig were the hardest. I have not smoked a cigarette, not even a drag, since 8/22/10. Yep the first 72 hours I was a cranky depressed sweaty nauseated insomniac! I was only vaping 6mg prefilled cartos in those days. It is truly a wonder that I did not relapse. But, I had flipped that mental switch that told me I would never smoke again. And by the end of that 72 hours I felt so much better and never looked back. Almost 2 years cig free now!! To everyone here, you can do this!! One day at a time. If you do have a stinkie, do not beat yourself up. Just get back on the vaping horse and take it one day at a time.

 

[wickedalibi]

I am addicted to nicotine and always will be. I am not the norm for people using ecigs or smoking for that matter. I had not smoked for 6 months stretches when I smoked. The first day or 2 were rough but doable, months 2 - 4 were pretty easy, months 5 + were horrible. @ 5 months I started thinking more and more about cigarettes until it totally consumed every minute of my life. I would finally give in and start again. Quitting with e-cigs is the same for me. I am 7 months cig free and for the last 2 months I have been in a depression thinking about analogs all the time. For the last month I have been seriously thinking of bumming one from my sister. Well last week I took a drag from one of hers and it was nasty. The licking the ashtray is an apt description. It has made things much more bearable. I know now that I can take one drag and not pick them back up and it sets my mind at ease. I still consider myself a nonsmoker.

Don't beat yourself up!! Every time you taka a drag on you e-cig it's 2,400 less cancer causing agents you are putting in your body!!

 

[BHam]

Is the number really as high as 2,400?

 

[wickedalibi]

I have read that it is but I am not an expert!!

 

[jtpjc]

It's something like 5000+ chemicals, of which about 60 are carcinogenic.

 

[erictho]

my last official cigarette was at the beginning of february, and it was a djarum that i took 3 smoke breaks to finish. after a night of drinking i was due to work two of my current jobs that day, and i left the house totally unprepared. i just brought my ego 1100 mah batt that i had been using the day previous with the attached carto i had also been using all night. that day i didn't even really bring any outdoor gear, and just wore my regular clothes with a sweater.
obviously it was delusional and unprepared on my part, and my battery died midshift at the organic store. so i bummed a djarum off a coworker. bleh. the last time i had pulled a similar stunt i just went 7 hrs without vaping.
tobacco (even cloves) are just not for me anymore. quite recently my boyfriend decided mid-cigarillo that he needed a bathroom break. he asked me to puff on it a bit (ie hold it) while he took care of his bladder. so i took literally one puff. no thanks.

 

[wickedalibi]

Just read some more and the consensus is that cigarette smoke contains 70 carcinogens and smokeless tobacco contains 28.

 

[Mac]

It's been so long that I honestly don't remember.

 

[BHam]

That's insane.

It's something like 5000+ chemicals, of which about 60 are carcinogenic.