Any smokers here?

[DTR]

Must admit you have funny ecigs in the US. Most I've seen on sale in the UK in pharmacy's actually look like regular cigarettes, like these:






http://www.e-lites.co.uk/e80-e-cigarettes-kit.html

It is not a US thing. The ones you showed a picture of are probably very similar to a company here called blue. They are in just about every store or gas station you walk in. They are owned by a cigarette company. They suck. People try them and go back to smoking. They have three flavors and they all taste like burnt ass. I think it is a very good strategy by the cigarette company as people hear about others quitting with ecigs then see these in the stores try them and say "man they must be nuts" and go right back for a pack of cigs.

There are smaller mods but the larger ones take big batteries and last longer between charging and you can get tanks that hold a good deal of fluid and pump a massive amount of vapor. Plus the selection of real good quality eliquid gives you the ability to find something that you like as opposed to dried out cartos with a limited number of terrible flavors.

[shrad]

Guys,

It is quite usual to hear that after three days, the toxins replacing original chemicals between your neurons and which are deposited there when you smoke a cigarette are evacuated through normal degradation process.

That means you are freed from the chemical need produced by the brain clogging is over, and after three days, the sole thing preventing you to quit smoking definitely is the other side of your brain, the one you can master and direct, your will.

Once these three days have passed, you just have to find other rituals to get relieved from your stress or your need of social relations...

I know it needs a trigger of some sort, usually the fear of cancer or death of a relative who smoked, but once you have set your mind up on this, it is quite a straight line to never smoking again!

I personally quit smoking like this, throat pain and cough making me really worried about the fact I could have developed cancer...

I quit abruptly and never smoked a cigarette since then, and I know I'll never do it again...

At first it is quite hard especially since I quit just before christmas and new year, and everyone was smoking outside when we were only a few inside... but it rapidly began funny to talk about this between us non-smokers and I actually enjoyed it after a few hours, as it was distracting my mind from the envy...

Then, I started as many others to smell and taste again, and was really upset about others not being looking after non smokers when they were smoking in the street or so, and started enjoying more and more of those moments when a cigarette would really have wasted all the pleasure... like the smell of flowers at easter, the smell of tomato plants when I walk across them in my garden, and even the smell of soil between my fingers which had aromas I was not reminding anymore and that made me think about my childhood, when my lungs were as clean as they could be, and I was picking flowers to smell them or when I was smelling the bakery or something like this...

The most important thing to remember is that in your life, you have battled and fought over things that were thousands of times more hard than the fact of quiting smoking.. either money problems, health problems, love problems have all been once more hard than this, and you have passed through till now...

As some can say, to quit smoking will increase your income in such a way that you'll be able in less than a year to buy a brand new TV or to repair your car or even to have a nice amount of money to gift holidays to your children and wife...

Now that I'll have a son, I realize that more and more, and I'm disgusted when I think about things like his first steps, or his first adventures in moist sand at the sea, or all those things he'll do for the first time with a dad smoking near him...

I'm really proud I can say that and will say it again, never more smoking for me!

Quiting is nothing more than more time, more money, less stress and a better life after all, and it is easier than most of the bad times you have had in your life...

Three days, and you're freed from the physical need... one week and it's already feeling better... one month and you're actually enjoying things more than before... one year and you're still figuring some things ameliorate each day

After almost a year and a half, I still cough sometimes and evacuate tar from my lungs.. my parents quit the same way, without any outside help or medicine, and they haven't smoked for 5 years now... and they still evacuate sometimes... but now they ride 40km with their bike, or walk 20km, or do anything like this with no pain

Believe me, the most important thing is that you have already faced worse than quiting smoking, it just takes time to realize that and make the setp

[steve-o]

I've been "vaping" at work for about 2 years now (they banned smoking there) and I like it. I've got these:
It's a Joye E-Go and I get Backwoods Brew 555 and Casablance e-juice and mix them together. I get the fairly high amount of nicotine in the e-juice.
I still smoke regular cigs too but down to less than a half-pack a day. Do need to quit tho ..
Nice to see other smokers and vapers here supporting each other.

[Bradfo69]

Well... the four basic food groups for me are: caffeine, nicotine, ranch dressing and croutons.

I look at it this way. I gave up drugs between 11th and 12th grade. I am a recovering alcoholic and while there have been a couple brief relapses, I've been sober basically about 26.5 of the last 27 years, including the last 8. I haven't had sex in 5.5 years (not by choice) so, my 1/2 pack a day habit is the only remaining vice - that and Diet Pepsi. I know I should quit and tried the e-cigs but, as some have mentioned, that brand called Blu is only a crutch. I'll get there someday but, congrats to you all that are making it. Maybe a better brand of e-cig would help.

[dnar]

Well... the four basic food groups for me are: caffeine, nicotine, ranch dressing and croutons.

I look at it this way. I gave up drugs between 11th and 12th grade. I am a recovering alcoholic and while there have been a couple brief relapses, I've been sober basically about 26.5 of the last 27 years, including the last 8. I haven't had sex in 5.5 years (not by choice) so, my 1/2 pack a day habit is the only remaining vice - that and Diet Pepsi. I know I should quit and tried the e-cigs but, as some have mentioned, that brand called Blu is only a crutch. I'll get there someday but, congrats to you all that are making it. Maybe a better brand of e-cig would help.

No sex in 5 years?

Sex. The best fun money can buy.

[JohnYayas]

Well... the four basic food groups for me are: caffeine, nicotine, ranch dressing and croutons.

I look at it this way. I gave up drugs between 11th and 12th grade. I am a recovering alcoholic and while there have been a couple brief relapses, I've been sober basically about 26.5 of the last 27 years, including the last 8. I haven't had sex in 5.5 years (not by choice) so, my 1/2 pack a day habit is the only remaining vice - that and Diet Pepsi. I know I should quit and tried the e-cigs but, as some have mentioned, that brand called Blu is only a crutch. I'll get there someday but, congrats to you all that are making it. Maybe a better brand of e-cig would help.

I challenge you to just quit. You won't die. You won't explode. You'll immediate start feeling better. You will be very tempted for a couple weeks but then it will die down unless you are constantly around other smokers... then it becomes only a test of will power. Eventually, your mind will switch so those who smoke are "dirtbag smokers" and you will become disgusted. This is how most non-smokers view smokers these days. Best way to not find a mate is to be a smoker. If you don't quit, you will have health problems eventually. So, why do it.

So, I challenge you to quit cold turkey at least until SELEM. If you can make it that far, feel free to light up. And, if you do make it that far and you DO light up, the nicotine will be completely out of your system and it won't take but a few puff to feel sick and have the worst possible taste in your mouth. Then you'll be able to feel/taste what you are giving up and why it is a good thing.

So, just do it. I don't think you can.

[Bradfo69]

No sex in 5 years?

Sex. The best fun money can buy.

Nope... Jan 16 2008. Broke up after a long term relationship where she had moved 500 miles away. Got involved in the work I do now not long after that and, simply have not had time to pursue anything. Kinda hard when you work the kind of hours I do. Might be getting close soon though. And yes money is kind of indirectly a motivating factor. Long story but, I'm in sort of a strange relationship with a good friend that, we both know may become more serious but, there is also the fact that she owes me a fortune.

@Gary - Thanks. I'll give it some consideration but, you may be right that between now and SELEM may be difficult. In theory it should be easy since there are days when I only have 1 or 2. I don't smoke around my mother so, if we're together for the day, it's not even an issue. And the girl referenced above doesn't like smoking so, that would make it easier. I may be living with her as a room mate every other week in the near future (again, long story).

[jeejeedr]

Me too, I quit smoking. It's been about 4 months now and still I feel the urge for a smoke now and then.
Not only for the nicotine, because my body got used to the nicotine free diet, but because I really liked smoking. It was a bit like breathing. Eating delicious food, ...
The first week of being a non smoker I realised how dull life for non smokers is. You miss the social contact when hopping outside for a sigarette, the release of endorfines when you light up your first one in the morning, the one after dinner, the one after souper, the one after...
The easy way out is eating. That is the only thing that can trigger a feeling that comes somewhere near, but still...

Anyway, I feel healthier now. A lot healthier. Knowing what I know now, I would have quit years ago.

Ah yeah, before I forget!
To all wifes, girlfriends, ... that want their partner to quit smoking:
Don't repeat this uncountable times each day! It will only push him in the other direction. Been there, done that. Be suportfull and one day they will say, "hey I quit".