polecat Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 Forgot how many times I tried to give up and failed, feels like I was born smoking Had tried every type of NRT - patches, gum, inhaler, lozenges, cold turkey none of them worked Now the bit that sounds like an advert A friend at work told me to have a puff on a long silver thing with a bit like a smokers pipe on the end ?I was amazed how much like smoking it was and found it hard to believe it was actually Vapour, so I went home and researched E-cigarettes and E-Juice and went and ordered myself a Phonton Tank Anyway Soon as it arrived I smoked my last cigarette and have not touched one since (3 weeks !)The longest I lasted previously was 4 days and I was like a bag full of tigers for three of them The crazy thing is I can not even entertain the idea of smoking a cigarette since starting on Vaping The health benefits speak for themselves but the money I am now saving is huge not to mention the fact is I am no longer paying backy tax to the government anymore (which feels Very good !)The reason for this post is none other than if one person reads this and Converts from smoking to Vaping and lives longer then it will be worth while Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NearOn Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 Good work mate, these e-lights seem to be taking off now. Some people at my work who have had similar past when comes to smoking as you have gone onto them and given up real cigarettes. I bet the companies who make cigarettes are getting a bit worried about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polecat Posted March 19, 2013 Author Share Posted March 19, 2013 Good work mate, these e-lights seem to be taking off now. Some people at my work who have had similar past when comes to smoking as you have gone onto them and given up real cigarettes. I bet the companies who make cigarettes are getting a bit worried about it.Thanks Some countries banned them which I can only believe is because a) they loose tobacco tax and b) because the large companies which produce Nicotine patches and the like are loosing money, not to mention the big deals done between them and the NHS to promote NRT products on the National Health (which only have something like a 20% rate of success )I think the man who invented this product should get a Nobel prize for the potential Lives he will no doubt save Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OhJay Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 I bet the companies who make cigarettes are getting a bit worried about it.British American Tobacco are trying to develop their own and get it registered as an official stop smoking aid...Well done Pole, keep it up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 Well done Think I have stopped 4 years now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megawatt Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 Very well done mate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastanglianbiker Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 well done mate i know how u feel i gave up new year 2012 from 20 a day to zero so know how you feel keep it up just dont make the mistake i made and compensate with food Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
priest Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 well done Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 Well done Now join a gym for all the weight you will pile on Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tango Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 Nice one mate....... Funnily I was thinking the other day about the effect that smoking could have on drivers......it is after all a relaxant.....so can it impair reaction times? Just thinking is all....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrissb6 Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 Well done its a big ask l'm sure! My brother has not long packed up, he's putting the money he use to spend on fags in a jar! he's gob smacked on how much he was spending a month on fags Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiggie Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 nice one! years ago when I quit I was working in a newsagents and for the first week I felt like telling every customer who bought cigs to F off! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techno Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 Well done Now join a gym for all the weight you will pile on It works lolWish I could get wife to stop but I'm coming upto a year, did it before and started again not this time totally over it, no stop smoking aids required. Well done for quitting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klingelton Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 i think it was 2006 or 2007 i quit. i was a 20 a day person and it was the days before e-cigs.what i did was to chart 3 different distinct good reasons for giving up, then pinned a chart to the kitchen door. each day without a cig, i got to mark on the chart with a big X, if i cocked up that day, i put a banana on there (slip up lol). the important thing was even if I slipped up, the next day was a new day. i think i managed about 6 weeks without a slip up. then had the very occasional cig for a couple of years after. I don't think i've touched a cig since about 2009 and the thought of it now makes me wretch a little!I still refuse to be one of those ex-smokers that refuses to be around other smokers, so if my friends go out for a cig at a bar, i will go with them - just not smoke. I only have a couple of friends who smoke regular.I don't mind the occasional cigar!the short of it is, don't give up giving up. so cliché, but so true! well done so far! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grumpy Old Git Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 If more of you smokers give up, my taxes are bound to increase!!!! But, well done that man! Hope you can stay off them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polecat Posted March 20, 2013 Author Share Posted March 20, 2013 Nice one mate....... Funnily I was thinking the other day about the effect that smoking could have on drivers......it is after all a relaxant.....so can it impair reaction times? Just thinking is all....... Funny enough Tango I did some research on Nicotine and it actually increases reactions considerably Thanks for all the comments BTW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fast Eddie Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 Good One Adrian. Is this a long term alternative or a stop gap? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tango Posted March 23, 2013 Share Posted March 23, 2013 Nice one mate....... Funnily I was thinking the other day about the effect that smoking could have on drivers......it is after all a relaxant.....so can it impair reaction times? Just thinking is all....... Funny enough Tango I did some research on Nicotine and it actually increases reactions considerably Thanks for all the comments BTW So....it increases or decreases reaction times then?......Just curious......could of course look it up myself...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polecat Posted March 23, 2013 Author Share Posted March 23, 2013 Good One Adrian. Is this a long term alternative or a stop gap?well funny you should ask but I have read about people wanting to give up "vaping" but apparently its easier than giving up smoking.The plan is to keep off the smokes as long as possible using the E cigarette then reduce the nicotine down to 0 gradually !Still hard because I miss the arsenic, formaldehyde, lead, hydrogen cyanide, nitrogen oxide, carbon monoxide and ammonia quiet a lot still Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karimura Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 Well done, glad it actually can be done then : )For me, i've only had 1 puff, to see if i liked it. (which i didn't) but since then, i've never touched them... ^^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XmisterIS Posted March 27, 2013 Share Posted March 27, 2013 Well done! the best bit will be when you no longer have to put nicotine into your body - then you will be truly free.I quit 12 years ago, long before E-fags were available. I did it cold turkey and it was awful! Mind you, the experience of just how much power nicotine had over my body and made me never want to go back, not even for a single puff of a cigarette. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
min200 Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 Keep it up! Im about 6 months or so in myself but I cut down to 3 cigs a day for 3 months before stopping. Exercise really helped mr when I was in the grips of withdrawal!You will feel a real difference around the 3 month mark health wise Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lonely old bob Posted April 28, 2013 Share Posted April 28, 2013 I gave up smoking in 1975 after being a 30 a day man.I gave up because I could no longer afford the 30 pence a packet of 20 Players no6 as I had a morgage of £8,000 Sadly my brother Dave (Lonely Old Dave) a member on here for many yearslost his short battle with lung cancer in July 2012. He gave them up about 20 years ago but the damage was already done.He loved riding his bikes if you smoke think long and hard when you light the next one.http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p52/loneleybob/Last%20rideout%20of%202011/PB130009.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tango Posted April 28, 2013 Share Posted April 28, 2013 I gave up smoking in 1975 after being a 30 a day man.I gave up because I could no longer afford the 30 pence a packet of 20 Players no6 as I had a morgage of £8,000 Sadly my brother Dave (Lonely Old Dave) a member on here for many yearslost his short battle with lung cancer in July 2012. He gave them up about 20 years ago but the damage was already done.He loved riding his bikes if you smoke think long and hard when you light the next one.http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p52/loneleybob/Last%20rideout%20of%202011/PB130009.jpgI'm really sorry to hear about your brother mate....... Yep...the best solution is not to start in the first place...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rennie Posted April 29, 2013 Share Posted April 29, 2013 I'm sorry to Hear about Dave!WAS HE THE ONE WHO SHOUTED ALL THE TIME?RIP Lonely Old Dave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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