Week 1 My Minds Failure (Or Did I Quit Smoking)

[P2PLeon]

Done my first day again.

 

[P2PLeon]

Day Three

 

[P2PLeon]

Nearly Day Four is over, so Day Five is upon me.

 

[P2PLeon]

It will be day Six in just over two hours.

 

[P2PLeon]

Five days done, in day six, so I hope for the best.

 

[P2PLeon]

Day Nine Now and I have not failed yet

 

[P2PLeon]

I must have made it a week again since smoking a few last week.

Thank god I can do this.

 

[Bliss Doubt]

My best advice to you is to keep your vape, or two vapes, filled, charged and ready, and keep your cigarettes a little further away from you. When an urge comes, try vaping first. Smoke only if you have to.

Dual use, both vaping and smoking, has helped many people quit cigarettes forever.

The only real failure would be to give up.

 

[gloopdegurp]

Yes, every time that you reach for your vape instead of a cigarette is a success!
Even if you give in to the cigs now and then, you are still reducing harm with those times you vape instead.

 

[P2PLeon]

Day Ten and no sign of cravings just yet.

 

[Lannie]

Here's some encouragement.

I smoked 2 packs a day for over 40 years, plus my mom smoked when she was pregnant with me, and I grew up in a house full of smokers. So basically I was a smoker from conception on.

Well, I was to the point of wheezing and crackling and I had no stamina whatsoever, and I really wanted to quit, but I was a slave to the tobacco. I'd heard of vaping, so I got a disposable (I know, right?) to try it out, and it kept me from smoking for the whole day. I'd never gone a whole day without smoking before. So then I got a pen-style vape (Kanger something) and quit cigarettes the day it arrived. I wanted to quit, so maybe that made it easier, but I never looked back. I found out I didn't even like the taste of tobacco. Or the smell. Ugh. I fell in love with fruit and mint flavored vapes, and went from there. It was SO different, but I still had the suck-and-blow going on, and that kept me from smoking.

Now, 11 years later, I went to the hospital for kidney problems and they asked me if I smoked. I said no. (Because I don't.) And that was it. They listened to my lungs, they were perfectly clear. They took x-rays of my chest, it was perfectly clear. It's like I never smoked at all, ever.

I don't know if you're having problems with breathing or heart or stamina or anything, but if you are, consider that it can all heal and be reversed if you can quit and stay quit. I know this sounds trite, but it's true: If I can do it, as hard-core as I was, anyone can. I have my fingers crossed for you.

 

[P2PLeon]

Day Eleven

 

[Bliss Doubt]

Here's some encouragement.

I smoked 2 packs a day for over 40 years, plus my mom smoked when she was pregnant with me, and I grew up in a house full of smokers. So basically I was a smoker from conception on.

Well, I was to the point of wheezing and crackling and I had no stamina whatsoever, and I really wanted to quit, but I was a slave to the tobacco. I'd heard of vaping, so I got a disposable (I know, right?) to try it out, and it kept me from smoking for the whole day. I'd never gone a whole day without smoking before. So then I got a pen-style vape (Kanger something) and quit cigarettes the day it arrived. I wanted to quit, so maybe that made it easier, but I never looked back. I found out I didn't even like the taste of tobacco. Or the smell. Ugh. I fell in love with fruit and mint flavored vapes, and went from there. It was SO different, but I still had the suck-and-blow going on, and that kept me from smoking.

Now, 11 years later, I went to the hospital for kidney problems and they asked me if I smoked. I said no. (Because I don't.) And that was it. They listened to my lungs, they were perfectly clear. They took x-rays of my chest, it was perfectly clear. It's like I never smoked at all, ever.

I don't know if you're having problems with breathing or heart or stamina or anything, but if you are, consider that it can all heal and be reversed if you can quit and stay quit. I know this sounds trite, but it's true: If I can do it, as hard-core as I was, anyone can. I have my fingers crossed for you.

Not at all trite, Lannie. When we give our histories and advice to someone who is struggling, it is support, and even if what we say doesn't lead to the completion of the final quit day right now, just knowing we have non-judgmental support from friends is something that lands in our souls and helps our resolve.

I would add, for you and anybody reading, be careful not to ever tell the doc, the hospital or the insurance company you vape, because many of them see it as the same as smoking. Both ignorance and hypocrisy pervade the medical racket.

 

[Lannie]

Yup, that's why I said "No" to the question. Now they try to trick you by asking if you "use nicotine" in any form, but since I quit putting nic in my juice years ago, I can truthfully answer no to that one, too.