jonnoh

It has saved my life,I used to be very overweight and I smoked a pack a day.I have since lost 40 pounds and have completely kicked the nasty habit of cigarettes.I've been vaping for almost a year and its the best thing to ever happen to me.I could stop vaping tomorrow and I would be just fine,but i enjoy it and its more of a hobby to me now.It makes me happy to help others with the overwhelming endeavor of quitting cigarettes. Because I know first hand like others on this forum that it is not easy.With support and the right information it can be done.That is what vaping means to me.

I really should check it out.  I've got so many bottles open and going at the same time as well as so many tanks full, 1/2, 1/4 full.  I never know how much I use.  When I was smoking is was so easy.  2 packs a day unless drinking then it's more.  I guess it would be nice to know.  

Yeah, it seems I gave b-i-t-c-h a whole new and improved definition when I was without smokes.

When I quit cold-turkey all those years ago, my wife told me "I hate your nasty habit, but if you don't start smoking again, one of us is moving out!" The next day she came home with a carton of my favorites Apparently I was a grizzly-bear to EVERYONE during that time...

38 years. For the last ten I was trying everything I could to get off of them. The only thing that worked for any length of time was going cold turkey. That lasted about six months before I fell off the wagon. The next time I tried cold turkey again, my SO asked (very enthusiastically) if he could go to the store and get me a pack. Boy, talk about a foul mood... LOL.

Nothing worked for long until I found a co-worker puffing on an e-cig one day. It's a miracle that I haven't wanted to go back to smoking.

Don't know exactly, but over 50 years. Started way too early, but it's never too late to quit. Put nasties down the same day I bought my setup - Apr, '13 - and haven't looked back. Made a lot of people happy that day.

Oh, I do remember those days... dad would give me $1, and I'd ride my bike to the little corner store with one gas-pump and buy him two packs of Viceroy, and there was always just enough left over for a candy-bar or RC-cola. I guess he knew the bribery of a candy-bar or cola was enough to get me to go to the store for him (because mom never let us have candy/cola except on rare or special occasions).

I never started smoking that early (was actually 17 when I started buying them for me), but back then, there was nothing to stop a 7-yr old from buying a pack and lighting-up... Let's face it, up until the late 70's, practically 2/3 or more of the population smoked! And, it wasn't uncommon when I was in HS for a teacher to bum a smoke off students between classes or before/after school....

I'm 61 and been smoking 2 packs of Marlboro a day for over 40 yrs..my grandson introduced me to vaping 2 yrs ago and I haven't smoked that nasty tobacco ever since..my COPD has improved and I hardly need to use an inhaler anymore.. Started off with a spinner/protank and now dripping on mech mods and RDA's..truly vaping has saved my life..

I never actually thought of smoking at that time...but it obviously showed me nothing was wrong with it. So once I started hanging out with friends and becoming more independent, we all smoked. This was back when you could smoke in public places. We were all 15 and 16, one of my friends had a car first and we would go to the local mall, hang out outside the arcade and smoke like crazy.

One of those friends was actually allowed to smoke in his house at that age, his folks were split up and after school we'd usually go to his house, listen to our 80 metal music and smoke like morons. We spent a lot of time at his house.

I was the same getting them for my Dad. I would change the number on the note and get one for myself too. I was a bad boy.

Same ages for me, too. I remember being 11 or 12 and riding my bike to the store to buy smokes for my mother. Gee, I wonder where I picked up the habit.

Thirty years... pack-a-day average, and pushing 2-pack-a-day in the last year of smoking...

I stopped once before for several months, roughly 16-17 years ago, but could never kick the cravings... Gum, patches, Chantix... all garbage in my book. Vaping has been the ONLY salvation!

For me it was about 7 yrs of cigs. I went through some pretty bad family issues and I felt at the time it was either that or drinking, and I haven't ever drank! Lol. It was in fact 7 yrs of shame because I was really ashamed of myself that I stooped to that point. I also at that point was dealing with bleeding stomach ulcers. Now with no cigs and 2yrs in and out of the hospital 9 times I am feeling better. It was pretty rough and still hard some days but I don't want a cig at all, don't miss it, don't crave it and don't intend to ever go there again.
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Every time this question is asked I always mean to start keeping track.

It hasn't happened yet.

Still have no clue how much I vape per week or even per day. At any given moment I'm dripping my ADV and switching between 6 - 10 different tanks. It all depends on what I feel like at the time.

I think the original 20 Istick and tank I had must have really malfunctioned and spilt lots of burning liquid into my mouth. Not good kids. Almost put me off vaping for good. Thanks for all the help and advice guys 

If you haven't already, then you should vote on this topic here discussing this exact request  http://www.vaportalk.com/forum/topic/26843-marijuana-sub-category/ 

Just vape gear...lol...i will go back and change it.

Damn, dude...what were you reviewing?!?

For me, smoking was always about more than just getting a "fix". In fact, I actually enjoyed the act and the sensation more than the nic fix. The nicotine was obviously addictive, but in just a couple of short weeks I've dropped from 18mg nic to 12mg nic in my "commuter" setup, and I'm at 6mg in my "kick back with a beer or three in the mancave" setup.

I have every intent to get to 0mg, but I'm a gadget geek and I legitimately enjoy the sensation. No, I have no intention of stopping vaping.

This

I loved smoking and I dropped that and I feel great. I started vaping at 24ml then down to 18 now im at 6 and Im very happy with it. I may go down to 0 but not likely to quit vaping i love it more then I ever loved smoking its amazing

I dream of being nic free, habit free, and becoming a "social" smoker only. (Social Vaper in my case) . I always wished to see what that felt like lol. Then i will decide whether or not my body did better with or witout nicotine. I know it helps calm & focus me... like an Olympic Athlete, it gives me a cheating edge lol, (can you believe they actually want to ban nic from athletes for that reason lol) .

Some great ideas here and the 420 or THC based sub forum is being heavily discussed by the staff at the moment as it's the taboo topic no other forum wants to discuss. (And interestingly Vapor Talk was started once upon a time after some disagreement with ECF members. May as well keep the controversial roots going ) At any rate if we did include such a sub forum it would likely have it's own category with a heavily regulated set of rules to ensure those topics didn't leak out into the main forum.  

At this point I think some topics that will engage discussion would be good for the forum and bring activity levels back up where we used to be. For a lot of us, our questions have been answered and we have answered the same ones about a thousand times. I know that is the purpose of the forum in the most basic explanation and we will keep doing this BUT I think some ideas I like  would be
 
Picture Subforum: Post pics of anything not indecent (or indecent if you are hot) lol
Politics Discussion Subforum
"In the news..." Subforum
Sports Subforum
"420" Forum? (I know this goes against forum guidelines BUT it would be optional to visit and is a very interesting topic to many here I think anyway)
 
etc.....

Nope I think that's a good idea. It might drum up some more topics. As for California at this point I'm voting we're earthquaked' out of the country too