No Smoking - Day 2...
 

About 400,000 cigs since I was 13 years old - That's about NZ$500K at today's prices - Think of the money I will save...

It's not just the money I will save on the cigs - All my outgoings will drop dramatically in PRISON, because if I don't have a smoke in the next 10 minutes I might go on some sort of murderous rampage and kill all the neighbors.....

Just kidding of course - I can't go on a murderous rampage because I have EATEN EVERTHING in a 500 meter radius and can't get out of the chair...

this is more like it eddy lmfao.............. here have a benson & hedges on me

start vaping. I moved to e-cigarettes about a year ago. After 2 months, I stopped vaporing, I do not think about cigarettes or e-cigarettes now.

Nicotine dependency is an illusion...bartenders who do not smoke get so much second hand smoke each day that it amounts up to a pack per day...yet they never light a cig or crave for it...clubbers smell like ashtrays LOL...

It is a fake addiction...all imaginary...there is no real problem you just have to understand this...

Do this. No more cigs ever. Get a decent e-cig mod with 18 or 24mg nic and you'll never crave a regular cig.

Your lung cilia will begin to work again in about 2 weeks. And the purging of your lungs will begin, with a lot of coughing up bad stuff that'll give you a scratchy throat. Its what needs to happen. Hang in there. You'll feel 20 years younger and agree its the best thing you ever did for yourself.

Switched to an ecig due to getting a wisdom tooth pulled. Then went on vacation and said fuck it no stress see if I can go more than a few days. I'm around 2 months now without a real cig. Still love the smell of others smoking but I've been able to resist as not getting any younger. I smoked around 30 cigs a day for many years.

smell and taste will come back if you make 30 days. good luck!! hope you kick it's ass!!!
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And good for you.

However....my wife's entire family near enough have all been "vaping" for what seems like ever now and it looks fucking pathetic to be honest. Quite clearly they have no intention of giving up ever. But they think vaping the rest of their stupid lifes is fine.

We were all out for a meal recently and the fact they had to "vape" before ordering, then again after starters, and then again before the main course etc....i was ready for walking out. It just looked pathetic to me.

And i found it to be very rude infact.

Never again...

And yes i have smoked before anyone says "but you don't know what it's like.

Well yes i do actually. Infact if i really wanted i could smoke a cig right now. However i wouldn't be craving another tonight, tomorrow or whenever. For me smoking is like drinking. If i want a drink, i drink. If not, i don't.

Smokers use this full "but once you start......." bullshit.



I remember years ago we had not long moved into our new house and her family were wanting to smoke in our kitchen because it was raining outside. I refused obviously so they all took the huff and says i was being unfair.

Seriously ?? So my smoke free clean house should lose that because of your stupid 'habit' and because it's raining outside.

So ignorant...

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Congrats Eddy :thumbsup

congrats ,

i was heavy smoker, 2-3 cigarettes in a row , 20-35 cigarettes per day.,
2 cigarette each time i poop.

its been 6 years, i am clean.

Smoked cigs for over 35 years - and gave it up and switched to vaping about 4 years ago after a close friend died of cancer. I watched him deteriorate for a few years, including having his voice box removed and having to talk through a vibrator gadget.

At first I was reluctant to quit...I still drink a lot of beer and anyone knows how beer and cigs tend to go together. But after buyin' my first vape unit, we stopped on the way home and bought a box of beer. Plowed through the box that night and managed to stick with the vape without having a cig.

I was sold. Stayed with vaping ever since.

Well done now, just think, in about 15 years or so it will be like you never smoked !!!!

Pretty much the same, here.

After MANY failed attempts to quit smoking (you have to be ready) I decided to give vaping a try - the cheap jobs sold in convenience stores. Hated it. The taste, the harshness, everything. But, I was committed to using it rather than a cigarette. I was a pack a day smoker and a cartridge is supposed to be the equivalent of a pack but one would last me a week. So, I went through about 4 cartridges then carried it around in my pocket without using it for another month or so after that. That was about 5 years ago.

When I smell smokers now and realize I used to smell like that...:throwup

Good Luck... I mean That with the best intentions you can imagine.

Eddy, hang with my story, if it don't help you, perhaps it will someone...

Smoked from age 13 as well.
I had always known that I must quit by/before age 50...
only because I have known 'your body can recover better than it would have been if you had never smoked at all'. But you must quit before the body slows down and you are still healthy enough for the body to fully clean itself out. It does require some moderate exercise.

I had been smoking about 2 cartons a week for about 20 years (for some outside the us, thats 400+ cigs a week) and had always been at a 1 pk a day since a teen.
When after I realized, one week, I had finished the second carton in only 6 days... I remembered my age, just having had a birthday, and knew the time was now or never.
I was 53 at the time I stopped.
Here is how that went down...
I did have that last pack from the second carton. I told myself to ration it how ever I thought would be benefit but I was buying no more.
I had already limited smoking to just 2 areas in my house 7 years before just because I got tired of cleaning everything all the time and offending visitors.
SO I would go to the basement to finisih this last pack 1/2 to 1/3 of a cig at a time while everyday I was still smoking, I scrubbed something down with light soapy clorox water. The vapor will clear your lungs by the way.

Anyway, much to my surprise, I did not have any issues once that pack ran out about a week later. So for 3 days, no issues... I could not believe it because every time I had tried to quit in the past always at least came with a fever if you can believe that.
# days of this and no withdrawal issues. I had to just push my luck...

So... I went to the local watering hole a had my favorite... drank that down and still no urge.... give me anouther one I said with a very large smile....
Well,, about half way though that second, it hit me like a ton of bricks....
All of the anxiety and nervousness was all there all at once and I screamed s...
'someone give me a GD cig right now !''
I smoked half of it, finished my drink and went to buy a fresh pack.
I smoked about 2-3 of them from that pack 1/2 at a time.
So the next day I went to the vape shop.
Bought a variety of things to help me stop.

If you are considering the same, I will say, don't buy a toy.

Yes nicotine if addictive, but it really is not harmful unless you get to much.
Quickly lower the amount you vape with after you are well satisfied you will not smoke again.
Most of the dangers with smoking are everything but the nicotine and mostly the additives they have.
The RJR's of the world have done everything they can to stop the mass migration to vaping over smoking and much had little impact so they made it a kids issue.
In WV, vaping is worse than smoking pot ! Go figure.

Anyway, I did not smoke again. But, once a month while having a drink at that same watering hole for the last 4 years, I smoke one cigarette to tease myself.
I have no desire to continue a smoke more. But, as they say, my mouth tastes like a ash tray 10 minutes later.

Smoke free for over 3 years now, I like vaping but have cut the nicotine back to the minimum of 3mg and gotta say, still addicted to the nicotine, but it does not bother me like cigarettes did. I find other benefit from the vaping and the nicotine that I'm not willing to argue here, so I won't.

I CAN ONLY SAY, IF IT WORKS FOR YOU, DO IT.
It has to be clear that cigarettes are not your friend in old age.

Here is some science to put behind what some of you go through while quitting....

The weight gain some of you experience when you quit normally comes from the fact that after 2-3 months, your body has cleaned itself up for the most part but not entirely and all those calories you were burning unknowingly cleaning all that garbage out of your system are not getting burned off anymore and you can expect some weight gain if you fail to exercise. And I don't know why nobody is telling you that. It's the truth.

Yes some do eat more but not like you think. You are just paying more attention to it.
Try just switching off to eating better food. Fruit juices and veggy's a plus.

But as I say.. it's what you think will work for you.
If you must, read everyone's story and maybe you will find a method that works for you.

2 years off them with using lozenges. I had stopped for a few years with ecigs when they first came out but they strangely started giving me heart palpatations. Landed back on the cancer sticks for over a year. I love the lozenges but i should try give them the boot sooner or later

I tried smoking once when I was 13. I almost barfed. I have no idea how people can get addicted to that feeling. Pot I can understand. Crack & ecigs I can understand. Not cigarettes though.

Stick with it. Oh lord stick with it. I smoked since I was a teenager, and quit about eight or nine years ago. Best damn thing I ever did. After about two or three weeks you feel like a brand new person. You honestly have no idea how much damage smoking does to you. No more hacking, coughing, loss of breath when going up stairs... Suddenly that is all gone.

Stick with it.

Keep it up, stay away from smoking areas and break areas..lol

Did the same thing, wasn't able to vape with nicotine as it gave me terrible headaches. I only used the juice and that was enough.

when my grandfather was enlisted they pushed free smokes in your rations. :disgust

We didn't get free smokes when I enlisted at 17, but we were legally allowed to drink at that age in the military. And we still had an indoor smoking area in the barrack.

I'm on day 5293 now, after smoking 2 packs per day.... :)

Congrats. I gave up on September 20th 2014. I switched to 2 simple vapes. One to take out with me and one to use indoors. I didn't go for fancy mods or huge clouds of vapour or crazy flavours. Just a simple strong tobacco tasting vape to replace a cigarette.

Since then, according to a counter I set up, I have saved well over £10,000 that I would have spent on a pack of 20 a day...

I dont miss them at all.