Your reason for quitting/switching?

[cy1970]

bcos of my 6 years old daughter..
she asked me a day, "Daddy, u always tell me to correct my mistake if I did somethings wrongly...den why are you smoking which my teacher told me that smoking is not good to our health.."
i told myself that i need to do something to show a good example to her....

 

[JaYBoNeS]

health and money..we are shortly up to a preposed 20 dollars a pack here in oz

20 dollars a pack!!! I thought 10 bucks for premium cigs here was bad.

For me, just like most of us, money and health. When I saw my first ecig ad online, I knew I had to try it. And about a month or so later actually finally finding a good ecig, I quit analogs. Aside from a month or so relapse during which time I got to know how much worse they were, I've been smoke free ever since. Something I thought would never happen, especially considering my girlfriend smokes still and lives with me.

Now it's not the money any more. I could quite happily spend the same amount on vaping, but have not yet.

 

[tnearing]

I was always concerned about the long term health risks but the short term ones were beginning to be more and more of a problem as I was coughing up phlegm all day and constantly running out of breath at work. The last straw was this most recent excise tax hike on cigarettes as I was already straining my budget with $8.40 packs so $10 obviously was untennable. I remembered seeing someone use an ecig at my last workplace in the checkout line and decided to look into it further. Two weeks of occasionally reading studies and reviews sold me on it though.

I started smoking cigarettes occasionally my junior year of high school and and got up to a half pack a day by the summer after graduation. I tried nrt gum 2nd semester at university but found that it made me want to smoke more. After smoking a pack a day for the next two years I tried Chantix (Verenicline) and was tobacco free for two months, problem was that it altered my sleeping state such that my conscious mind was overly active during dreaming which led to a lot of awesome lucid like dreaming where I was aware that I was dreaming but could not influence my surroundings (Inception was like watching one of my dreams) and extreme exhaustion. I was up to 8 to 12 cups of coffee a day plus the occasional diet pills. As the side effects got worse over the two months I realized I had to stop taking it and went back to smoking almost immeadiately.

I stopped smoking the very same day my joye 510 arrived, 7/16/2010. I feel great: cough is already a fifth what it was on Friday, work is far easier to deal with and my coworkers say I seem "like a totally different person, more cheerful and energetic"! I do get to vape in the back room of my cafe though I suspect my immeadiate supervisor would get in trouble for allowing the other vaper and I do so but it's not exactly noticable in a room full of steam and various food, coffee, trash et cet odors.

Looks like the only thing that could drive me back to cancer sticks is this moronic government...

 

[Veoto]

Well... Money I suppose is and always was an issue. But it wasn't what drove me over the edge. Not even the cough, or loss of breathe... Disgust made me hop over. And it wasn't even disgust aimed at smoking itself. I recently made several life changes, quitting medications I've been on for the past 6 years, different diet, quitting smoking.. basically told myself I'd try something completely new for the next 7 months until probation is over. I'm a little over a week without nicotine and its by far the hardest change I've made.

 

[LindaBurgh]

I never intended to quit like a lot of you even though I was beginning to experience breathing issues.

One day someone at work said...."You should see this crazy cigarette Tony has" so I went and checked it out. I was intrigued and figured what the heck, I'll order one and see what happens. That was in April. I had one analog the day after it arrived and none since. One of the best things that ever happened to me.

 

[qwertylesh]

Lots of reasons, the main being price, second is better health, third is freedom!!
I can vape in a tonne of extra places compared to smoking.

theres many reasons, those would be the biggest for me and probably the most common.

 

[markfm]

Common themes -- health and $, plus der wifey.
Overall I've always been pretty healthy, but knew it was dumb to smoke. Been there, done that, with the patches, gum, pills, but kept returning to a PAD habit (at least I switched from straights to filters after 25 years ). Fact is I like the nicotine and the rituals associated with smoking.
When the new NYS tax came up, I said to heck with it -- I could afford the $, but found the sin tax morally reprehensible. One of the comments in a local paper mentioned e-cigs, so I researched them, quickly bought one, then found this forum and switched to a KR808D-1.
It's only been a handful of days totally smoke free, but I haven't hit any real cravings, and I love being able to vape at work (including during multi-hour meetings with colleagues -- that's a priceless plus for me).

 

[kgeiger002]

I always knew one day I would quit. The problem is I'm a procrastinator and I just never got around to it. Then my Brother in-law was diagnosed with lung cancer (Nov 2009). He was 48 years old. I literally watched a seemingly healthy looking (young) man turn into someone I almost didn't recognize anymore. I watched him (and his Wife and Son) struggle an suffer. I watched him take his last breath in the hospital. All of this made me stop procrastinating and finally quit those awful cancer causing Marlboro's.

One poster mentioned earlier that they really weren't motivated (to quit) by the fear of dying. I guess I was the same way but what I realized dying from lung cancer is not like clicking a light switch off and your gone. The actual dying process is what scared the crap out of me. Nor do I want to put my family through that misery.

 

[lujin4]

With my regular analogs going for over $70 per carton, it was time to do something. Retirement forces you to make some changes. Also, my Dr. mentioned COPD and I figured time to nip that in the bud. Loving the vaping!

 

[Scucci]

Money and weather here. $5 a day in cigarettes really adds up... to a LOT. While I do seem to smoke my eCig more often than I'd smoke analogs, it's still much much MUCH cheaper. $15 (or $10 for the specials) bottle of 12mg and a $10 bottle of doubler and I'll be set for a looooong time.

On top of that, they passed "the law" a while back here in Tennessee where you're not allowed to smoke... well, pretty much anywhere. You can smoke in 21 and up bars... but that's pretty much it. So, tired of being cold in Winter and hot in Summer because I have to go outside all the time to smoke.

Health reasons didn't factor in to it for the most part... but being able to get back into running and losing some of the weight I picked up while I was in the military is going to be a plus too... but that didn't even factor into anything when I decided to give eCigs a try.

 

[blackwalk]

I had two reasons.

First, there was talk of increasing the cigarette tax in Florida again and I wanted a less expensive alternative. Basically, I wanted to reduce the number of analogs I was smoking and use a less expensive alternative to keep my nicotine levels high.

What pushed me over the edge to buying my first pv was a flight to San Francisco. Given the time I would spend in the air or in the airport, I knew I would be a basket case if I couldn't smoke for most of the day.

 

[iRouli]

If all you want to do is save money (directly related). . .

Using a baseline of PallMall greens at $4.00/ pack of 20 cigs at WalGreens -to-

Bali Shag RYO tobacco at <$25/ 5.28oz can that comes w/ 200 papers (so a carton) at your local tobacconist -to-

D&R Three Sails pipe tobacco (that you can RYO with; really a good Bali Shag Gold sub) at <$30/ 14oz bag that would make about 3 cartons worth on the internet since it IS exclusively for pipe tobacco -wink, wink, cough, cough-. Your local tobacconist might stock it and save ship charges but usually they only carry harsh pipe tobacco.

At this point (D&R) you'd be paying about $10/ "carton" with RYO overhead consumables (papers, filters, and roller aprons). Vaping isn't cheaper than that. Definitely not yet for me. Still on the capital expenditure phase. They got fancy "rollers" in the vaping world.

Things change. Yes, there something in congress going on to tax pipe tobacco like RYO tobacco, but there'll be a way, if there's a will; just like when congress taxed RYO tobacco last year, most hardcore RYOers went to pipe tobacco. Start RYOs with snus maybe. Not a bad idea since Bali Shag comes from the land of snus. Real snus. Peter Stokkebye probably already sells snus.

 

[Redwyvern]

Well, I live in NY, and the price where I'm at has gone up to $9.85/pack. Plus the fact that I suffer from asthma should have had me quit long time ago. Since I've started vaping 2 weeks ago, I can breathe again!

 

[MNdomer]

I was a Skoal man for about 10 years. I would smoke socially, but never really had a problem putting them down because I had the Skoal. A few months ago, I decided I was tired of dealing with that stuff, so I made a decision and quit. And bought a pack of Camels the same day...

I proceeded to smoke for about 6 weeks. I really wasn't that interested in continuing that habit. I had only meant to use them to take the edge off while I quit Skoal, but ended up just swapping one habit for the other.

I wanted to quit both smoking and chewing, but I really did not want to quit nicotine. I like nicotine. So I decided to look for alternatives and ended up here. 3 weeks ago I got my first PV (I have 3 now, hehe), and I haven't looked back!

 

[mookieb]

I've wanted to quit for quite some time because I knew it was affecting my health. But, as someone earlier mentioned, health alone wasn't enough of a motivation for me. I did try quitting about 7 years ago using Zyban and was able to reduce my smoking for about a year, but was never able to completely kick the habit. I loved smoking way too much to give quitting serious consideration after that and figured I'd smoke the rest of my life, even though I HATED the way it made me, my home and clothes stink.

My boyfriend who smokes was looking at the ecig online one night and I started doing some research and realized this might be the solution I was looking for... I COULD quit smoking without giving up the things I loved about smoking. Then I got really excited and searched for a week or so before I ordered my kit.

I got it last Thursday and I'm still smoking about 1-2 analogs a day, with the hope of quitting them completely very soon. It hasn't been a week yet since I started vaping, but I have such a positive feeling about this that I'm confident I'll be able to give up the analogs for good.

 

[blastfromthepast]

I never planned to quit really, just cut down. I tried the ecig I got at a tobacco store here in town...it was a NPro. Not the greatest ecig, but it got me started.

I started reading on the forum and got a 510 and since my first NPro, I haven't had a cigarette...about 5 weeks now...patting myself on the back! My husband is still smoking, but using the ecig every now and then. Hopefully, when he is ready, he will be able to quit too.

 

[Ms Kellie]

I wanted to quit for years, tried everything, could only slow down during my 3 pregnancies, and when hypnosis only lasted a few hours, I felt like, "how the heck am I gonna quit this nasty habit?? I just don't have it in me!" Nothing like feeling bad about yourself for doing something that you can't stop. I resigned myself to the fact that I was a smoker, had been a smoker since I was 17, always will be a smoker. *sigh*

Then, my favorite ex-sister-in-law died last year of lung cancer...they took the tumor out of her lung but it had already spread to her spine. She was only 48, with two of her kids still in high school. It is a horrible way to go and her passing was a relief - it was the end to her long and painful suffering. She was too good of a woman to have had to go through all of that...and her kids deserved to still have her around. Very sad and I miss her every single day. Yet...I kept smoking.

On a more positive note, when I got my much anticipated promotion at work earlier this year, I knew I had to find a way to quit. When you are now expected to go visit with clients and smelling like smoke or worse...perfume and smoke...was not considered professional or becoming - or so I was told. Crap! What to do...what to do...I remembered doing some online research about a year and a half ago about electronic cigarettes, but they had been kinda pricey. I thought to myself, "wonder if the prices have come down some?" Sure enough, they had. Since my $22/carton Misty Menthol Ultra Lights became my $42/carton Misty Menthol Silvers in the matter of a few months...I figured if I spent my $$ on ecigs and it worked, I might just stop this insane habit!

The rest is history...quit the day my Eluma arrived June 24th! I now have a KR8 and may just have to save my $$ to get a really kewl mod. I'm so hooked on vaping and those Mistys never tasted this good. My breathing has improved 500% and no more coughing attacks!! I smell better and can smell everything now...my car smells so bad to me now that I may go look for a new-to-me used car! My family and doctor is very happy that I have quit and so am I! The one frickin thing that I couldn't stop doing for 25 years - I can finally stop doing! Its very freeing and a huge boost to the old self-esteem. My favorite ex-sister-in-law would agree I think.

 

[jude8753]

Not sure why I quit actually. I had already cut down to a pack a day from 2.5 packs a year earlier. I was only spending 29 dollars a week. My partner was fine with my smoking and so was I. I wasn't worried about my health any more.

I am very curious though and thought I would try it out for when we rode the bike I wouldn't have to worry about ashes dropping on the leather and burning a hole and fighting the wind with a lighter.

Started with the 510 from TW and that was the end of cigs the same day. If there was no vaper and the mimic of smoking that wouldn't have happened though. I need the nic, but I don't miss all that other crap.

I now spend a lot more money and my last purchase was the 5 volt ST so I think I will just sit back awhile now and recoup all the initial layout from the past 3 months. I have finally stopped buying everything I see and should be set til next year.

I'm sure all of the new advances with vaping mods and products should be wonderful by then. Of course I will still need the occasional odds and ends.

 

[stormchas3r]

I've wanted to quit for a long time, but every time I tried to quit cold turkey or even ween myself off of analogs, it failed. I realized the reason for this, as when I was trying to quit I was subconsciously sucking on pen caps trying to get the inhale/TH feeling.

My fiancée and I recently found out that we're going to be having twins (she's officially 12 weeks along today), and with my recent discovery of PV's thanks to my long lost cousin, I've taken the plunge. I now get the inhale, TH, exhale, plume, and flavor of analogs, but none of the bad stuff (sans people's opinions on nicotine). Quitting has never felt so easy.

So what are the reasons you decided to quit analogs/switch to PV's?

I was tired of feeling like crap and smelling like &^%#.

 

[noss]

I use snus, and Iowa just banned shipping it into the state. *shakes fist* Plus, with PACT, it was hard enough getting my preferred brand imported.

Just ordered a couple of 510s today.