Re: Vape!!!
ok first things first.sorry for letting my posts get out of hand I should know better.now back to the original intent of this post.my question is do you stop smoking right away when you vape or do you gradually cut down?where can you find them? I apologise for even arguing about smoking as that was not the original intent of op,s thread.better go ski-doing ive been in the house to long I believe,lol.
I'll be happy to give you what i know from my experiences. I have smoked for well over 50 years and have quit many times, once for almost 2 years. I know a few people who have successfully (so far) quit by switching to e-cigs. It's all about commitment to do quit. I also know people who have quit without any aids, just decided to do it. The e-cig is a bit of crutch just like gum, patches or in my case, eatin' tobacco. I thought the gum was nasty and friends who tried patches told horror stories of trying to go to sleep with their teeth grinding. Chaw is better, although I don't really like it either.
The problem, in my opinion, is NOT replacing the nicotine, it's replacing the smoking activity. Firing up a cigarette, taking a drag and drawing it into your lungs and then gently exhaling. THAT'S the fun. That's what you miss when you quit. The e-cig comes closest to duplicating that, but not quite, at least for me. I use e-cigs some but I still prefer a real smoke.
Basis of my theory: My Dad was a heavy cigarette smoker until his mid-40s when his uncle died of lung cancer. He quit cigarettes and switched to smoking a pipe figuring no inhaling, probably better. 60s wisdom. In late 2000 he moved into assisted living due to the effects of a stroke. They didn't allow smoking in the building so when he wanted to smoke the pipe, he had to be wheeled outside to the smoking hut. He had smoked the pipe basically non-stop for 35 years up to this point and since he didn't really want to spend all his waking hours in the smoking hut, he decided to quit. A few weeks after we were talking and he said the funny thing was that when he quit cigarettes, all the tension was in his lungs, craving the smoke. When he quit the pipe, all the tension was in his arms, missing the filling, tamping, lighting, etc.
tl;dr: It ain't the nicotine, it's the fun.
