Hey All
I had a very insightful and rather eye opening experience today, and figured it would be worth sharing as I found it to be a real eye opener.
We do a annual medical checkup at work, included in this checkup is a lung capacity test. I have been keeping a eye on my annual results as a heavy smoker, figuring that I would quit once the results scare me enough... this has been my modus operandi for the past 11 years of working. Now I have noticed a small decrease in capacity over the years, but seeing as I was a 30 a day smoker, the decrease was never "that" bad...
I did the same checkup and test today, and boy oh boy was my mind blown...
I had a test capacity of 84%. Last test in 2014 was at 79%. so I had a increase of 5%...
The nurse on site asked me if I had quit smoking, to which I replied "no, not really, why?"
She then explained how the 5% increase was a huge deal and what not, especially for a smoker.
Seems that with just a months worth of vaping, I have already made a huge improvement in my general health. Now don't get me wrong, I still smoke ( down from 30 to about 6 a day) and I see these kind of results...
Imagine the possibility a year from now
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I am posting this as encouragement to not only myself, but everyone else on the forum who just switched to vaping, even if we can't kick the stinkies cold turkey, we are still making a massive improvement to our health and quality of life.
I hope this will encourage everyone to keep vaping on and eventually be stinkie free for life.
vape on.
I had a very insightful and rather eye opening experience today, and figured it would be worth sharing as I found it to be a real eye opener.
We do a annual medical checkup at work, included in this checkup is a lung capacity test. I have been keeping a eye on my annual results as a heavy smoker, figuring that I would quit once the results scare me enough... this has been my modus operandi for the past 11 years of working. Now I have noticed a small decrease in capacity over the years, but seeing as I was a 30 a day smoker, the decrease was never "that" bad...
I did the same checkup and test today, and boy oh boy was my mind blown...
I had a test capacity of 84%. Last test in 2014 was at 79%. so I had a increase of 5%...
The nurse on site asked me if I had quit smoking, to which I replied "no, not really, why?"
She then explained how the 5% increase was a huge deal and what not, especially for a smoker.
Seems that with just a months worth of vaping, I have already made a huge improvement in my general health. Now don't get me wrong, I still smoke ( down from 30 to about 6 a day) and I see these kind of results...
Imagine the possibility a year from now
.I am posting this as encouragement to not only myself, but everyone else on the forum who just switched to vaping, even if we can't kick the stinkies cold turkey, we are still making a massive improvement to our health and quality of life.
I hope this will encourage everyone to keep vaping on and eventually be stinkie free for life.
vape on.
glad to see there are others who like me still smoke 6-7 stinkies a day while on the vaping journey to kick the habit
(two months) i was almost at the point of asking myself why i vape if i am then struggling to kick the stinkies...... 
and then i read ur post
