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LaserTagGuy

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Thanks to Vaping - Ive kicked it the BAD habit!
Today marks the 6th month of not smoking. 25 years (quarter century) of smoking and vaping broke the habit. Champix, Accupunture, nicorette (gum and patches), Quit sprays, cold turkey and even Zyban.

Notable differences...

I feel better physically have more energy! Stairs over the escalator or lift - no problem! And the best part is that Im not out of breath while doing it! And getting to the top and not panting like a horse after the Durban July feels great!

Food tastes better - I also found out that I dont like gherkins as much as I used to! ( may've put on a kilo or 8)...

I taste better - according to my wife (non smoker) who seems to want to kiss me a lot more these days. She says so and she is the boss - who am I to argue?!

No morning cough anymore! I mean gone.... completely - significant !!! My parrots (12 and 7 years old) still cough every morning. they sound like they're about to barf a lung! Hard to believe that was me!

Finally, medical check up done and the doctor couldn't believe the change! For the first time ever, I left the family GP without a script to collect. The doc says she'll be looking into helping more smokers make the switch! What makes it interesting is that she diagnosed Carbon monoxide poisoning (with a more latin name) in October 2015.

Like many others ... nothing has worked! Its just too easy to start smoking. Going to buy bread, having a few beers at the pub or any convenience store with walls displaying "death in a box" was once the reason for starting up. Now and nothing! not even a craving! Sad to see how much power and money they have and event more sad to see smokers standing in a corner outside in the rain for their coffee brea this morning!

Thats my story - Share yours if vaping made a positive difference in your life.
 
That would be somewhere in the last week of March 2014.
 
The most notable differences is being able to climb a flight of stairs without my lungs screaming.

And the glorious unbroken sleep now!

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Everything the OP said about the benefits.

My smoking career ended at precisely midnight on July 1, 2013 (our national independence day) after a 30 year PAD habit. The transition was astoundingly easy and thorough. No cravings - I simply fell in love with vaping instead of cigarettes. This, on a day full of triggers - booze, holiday, friends who smoked around me.
 
Had our (wife and I) last cigarette on 27 June 2014. Was not even planning on quiting smoking when we started vaping but I think as we stopped smoking together it helped a lot. I can now actually smell the coffee brewing in the kitchen ... from the bedroom :)
 
Oh and getting agro when I hadn't had a cig in an hour... I wanted to kill.

Just tonight, I sat through an hour and a half kiddies concert, my toddler bouncing all over me, no vape, and I was perfectly fine.

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Everything the OP said about the benefits.

My smoking career ended at precisely midnight on July 1, 2013 (our national independence day) after a 30 year PAD habit. The transition was astoundingly easy and thorough. No cravings - I simply fell in love with vaping instead of cigarettes. This, on a day full of triggers - booze, holiday, friends who smoked around me.
Normally the ex-smokers point out how bad you smell, I get that now - can you also pick up someone smokes as they walk through the door?
 
Had our (wife and I) last cigarette on 27 June 2014. Was not even planning on quiting smoking when we started vaping but I think as we stopped smoking together it helped a lot. I can now actually smell the coffee brewing in the kitchen ... from the bedroom :)
And what a smell that is!!! makes me feel like an espresso and a vape ritual should become a daily activity! Nice to see its ongoing success - thanks for posting! Its always a concern (going back smokes) to me when I got started out...
 
January 2016


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Oh and getting agro when I hadn't had a cig in an hour... I wanted to kill.

Just tonight, I sat through an hour and a half kiddies concert, my toddler bouncing all over me, no vape, and I was perfectly fine.

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I used to hate going to the movies because I wanted a smoke half way... So either I'd miss parts of the movie or just rent it when it came out.
The worst was waking up at night for a smoke too. Now I forget to vape when something interests me.

Or going for dinner with the family, I avoided spending time with them to go stand in a hidden corner somewhere!

Just me ?
 
My last cig was about two years and 3 months ago

Congrats on your achievements @LaserTagGuy

PS - I have moved this thread to General Vaporiser Talk. It was in 'Announcements'
 
After 34 years of smoking for me it was 5th December last year (Just 5 Days after getting my Istick 50W TC and Melo2 combo) and this time it has really worked. On 2 occasions just after the 5th I did slip up and light a ciggy but could not inhale. It was like intentionally trying to inhale the smoke from wood braai that just will not light no matter how much you blow, I just couldn't do it.

No more rasping chest when I lay down in the evenings and best of all no more panting like I had just run a marathon when my only crime was to have a shower. I actually take the dog for walks now.

The devices available today make it so easy. The last time I stopped vaping was because my NICotine got NICed by customs. It's so much easier now.
 
I used to hate going to the movies because I wanted a smoke half way... So either I'd miss parts of the movie or just rent it when it came out.
The worst was waking up at night for a smoke too. Now I forget to vape when something interests me.

Or going for dinner with the family, I avoided spending time with them to go stand in a hidden corner somewhere!

Just me ?
Lol I actually used to sneak out for a "toilet" break during the movie.



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I been off the smokes for the past 2yrs almost ,only started vaping about 4months ago.Needless to say that the benefits are absolutely astounding.Not to long ago i took a puff on a cig out of interest as to what got me so hooked and i tell you its like tasting death ,i mean all those chemicals ,that awe-full smell.That alone is enough for me never to smoke ever!!why i wasted 12yrs of my money, time and health beats me!!
Im Glad that "smoking is dead and Vaping is the Future" lol ;)
 
After a 10 year bad habbit, Last cig was on the 25th December 2015 and I feel awesome. No more chest pains lying in bed only downside is now I can smell the neighbour downstairs smoking he's cig while I'm sitting in my lounge. And the stench of a smoker talking too you :sick:
I can't belive I used to smell like that and didn't even know.
 
I smoked since I was 15 so that puts my habit at 20 years before I quit.
Took my last drag on a stinking December 11th, woke up December 12th and decided that's it time to quit.
Picked up an eVic mini and haven't looked back in 4 months+

I will forever be an advocate of vaping because like the OP I tried quitting many times unsuccessfully. Until vaping changed my life :D

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I chipped at smoking from about 1958, but started smoking full time in 1962, then added pipes in 1966. Then I stopped both cigs and pipes for good just over 3 years ago in 2013. I had ran out of stinkies, didn't bother to buy anymore and tossed out the pipe tobacco because I had made up my mind to stop. So I had no issues at all with stopping cold turkey. The flip side... I'll never stop vaping, it replaces the only thing with smoking that I missed... the mechanics of it. I don't use nicotine in my DIY liquids because I don't need it, and when I buy premades I get the lower nic levels they have, so I have bought 0mg, 3mg or 6mg.
 
Last time I actively smoked was around October 2014 sometime.

I have subsequently had a single cigarette sometime last year - but I was more than a little drunk at the time...
 
The 24th of April it will be two years that I stopped my 2 pack a day habit. It was a case of go buy a pack or buy a e cig. Was probably one of my best decisions I have made to date
 
10 March 2012 quit ciggies, started rollies, quit rollies early 2015 been vaping ever since :D
 
Two Years, 6 Months and 1 week for me. AFter smoking for 40+ years and trying every cessation aid known to man... best success was with Champix which helped me stop for 3 months... tried hypnosis, acupuncture, patches, gum and probably a few others that I have forgotten about... started on a Green Smok cigalike which didn't really work... then I got a Twisp and never smoked ever again. The Twisp lasted me about 2 weeks till I got an eGo with mPT2 and smoking was history forever.

Will I stop vaping... nope not ever!

Health benefits have been astounding and the taste and not stinking a massive bonus on top!
 
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