Quitting smoking tobacco.............
 

Hi folks,

I'm sure most of you will find this as strange as I do/did......... :yikes:

I have been a smoker for 22years, a heavy smoker at that, I have been smoking Golden Virginia tobacco for the last i'd say 5 years anyway, as I could not keep up with a 30plus a day habit with regular cigs.

I happened to be out for lunch in a cafe last week (for a full irish breakfast) lol, and reading a newspaper there came across an advert for one of those e-cigs. A gimmick i assumed, but at £20 delivered with the alleged equivilent of 240 cigs, I decided to give it a go.

So wed morning it arrived.......

I have to admit I was pleasently surprised, the only downfall is (well maybe its just me being virtually a chain smoker) the equivileent amount of cigs was greatly exagerated. I estimate the 240 was closer to 140, and there is a 4 hour wait on the single battery I got to charge.

In all fairness, in between charges I did not want a real cig, and by saturday, the real cigs I was smoking during the charge cycle where starting to disgust me.:confused:

So me being me, decided to do some google searching to see where I could get another battery or 3 and cheaper refill cartridges, only to find that there is actually a massive community of people growing on a daily basis.

Some of which havent smoked real tobacco in 4 plus years. To me this is pretty awesome, as I have tried everything and never managed to stay off the cigs for any length of time, in actual fact I had long since given up on giving up.

Anyway after some long talks and plenty of reading and advice from others that have chosen this path and stayed off the stinkies I have got a proper kit, and so begins my journey to stop smoking tobacco.

Hopefully a step in the right direction lol.

Anyway, just though I would share! :lol::lol::lol:

Dan.

I was out in Asia for a fair bit of the 3years from 2008. Cigars became a necessity as well as a pleasure. Olfactory assault is NOT the invasion of old industrial buildings.

Having been to Cuba in the last year, it became evident why there are sufficient Cuban virgins upon whose thighs cuban cigars may be rolled. It also explains why certain brands of cigars are more wrinkly than others.
Some of these 'girls' are robust in ways that hummers can only dream of.

As we are in a sharing mood!;)

oh DAN, not you TOO!!>>

"In all fairness"

:wall:

:lol:

get to the quack and try champix - both bolly and my dad were on the fags for years and they went to the doc and he put them on this stuff - fags totally repellent within 2 weeks and smoke free ever since!!

craig

:tup:

lol at Mark! :lol:

Went down that road Craig, something in the champex I'm not allowed according to my doc for some bizzare medical reason best known to himself :wall:

Champix have so far killed 3 and caused life threatening effects on 220 Danes... It is now a high control perscription drug in Denmark.

Good show Dan:tup:
J.

Good for you if you can quit and keep it going, patches and nhs support worked for me, went to see nurse at my dr's got a months supply of patches on prescription (cheaper that way), got the dossage a bit too high to start with then was ok eventually forgot to the things on of a morning and that was it.

Like most ex smokers there are times when you feel like having one but you don't have the craving that you do when you smoke.

good luck it ain't easy but i guess you know that already.

Jim

good luck on quitting the weed. I tried all sorts and failed. Managed it in the end by downloading a little ticker counter thing and making a big comittment on here to make myself accountable.

http://www.classic-audi.co.uk/forum/...itting+smoking

Been quit 4 years now and learnt that ultimatley it's in the mind. If you want to stop you will find a way. It takes the body about 8 weeks for the brain to wean itself off the nicotine which is the addictive part, and the routine cigarette stops. After that you are pretty much home and dry.

Got my life back in so many ways and now I have two classic cars to play with from the money I saved. I still consider myself a smoker..the only difference is I choose not to partake :)

Good luck

and i wonder how many tobacco has killed over the years?!!

:eek:

I tried the electric fags about 3 months ago. There's a small shop in our local town that sells a variety of flavours!
I bought one of the Totally Wicked Titan tank kits. Used it for about 3 weeks, but it's just not the same! Clothes don't have that horrible smell afterwards and you don't stink of fag ash!

I'm not a heavy smoker by all accounts, but a smoker non the less so this seemed a sensible option. It was weird at first when you inhale on an e-fag as you still get that 'hit' and you get a mouthful of vapour which does look like smoke, just rather odourless.

Thanks for the support guys!

I agree Coxy, It isn't the same, but it feels pretty close, althought I'm telling myself it is better 3000odd less chemicals inhaled, and for the most part it has been a painless transition. I was still smoking what I call the important fags ie wake up, after meals and bedtime. for a few days, yesterday was my first day with no real ones. And as yet today no real ones lol (its early yet lol)
I'm sure I had folk tortured on an e-cig forum for a few days asking a load of questions and done a lot of reading.

So the kit I ended up with going on the experience of others was this

http://www.vapeescape.co.uk/the%2Dve...xe%2Dkit%7E151

I did spend quite a bit extra and get a few of different types of cartridges, tanks etc to try and find what worked best for me, so I have wasted a bit of money on one hand to find a soloution, hopefully tho it was a good plan as I seem to have found something that works. (for now atleast)

I also got the high nicotine strength e-liquids for it to give myself a fighting chance.

With this kit instead of a few hours I was getting out of the cig-a-like style kits you get, I am still using one of the batteries from 11 am yesterday without having had to re-charge.

Awesome, I have no excuse to go back to real cigs for now lol :lol:

Dan.

Keep us posted Dan

i need to give up on health reasons have tried the patches an those losingers sweet type things that the dr gives out they didn't work i found i wanted a fag more on the patches then i did without having the patches on, sometimes i have 4 to 5 a day sometimes 10 depends how stressed i get but no more than that. Im now finding that if i have that 10th one i have trouble breathing in the mornings an coughing all the time so i need to try something .

keep it up Dan :tup:

I have tried everything over the years, except the tablets which I'm not allowed for health reasons.

I think smoking is as much a comfort thing to me as an addiction, and this is maybe why this seems to be working so painlessly for me.

It is definately worth a try for health reasons alone, I just took the attitude that if it works it works, If i badly want a real fag i'll have one, but as yet no, on my second day with no tobacco and not even wanting one with this. Which is great, as there hasnt been one out of my hand in my waking hours for years lol.

Thanks
Dan.

The hardest thing for me giving up was breaking the fag break habits, those times in the day when you routinely stopped for a cig break. So there would be times like first thing in the morning, mid morning trip to the smokers shelter etc. The hardest point was always the time when I got in from work because that was the time I usually reached for a smoke because I needed to wind down. But I also figured out the craving moment went very quickly if I did something. So being concious of those fag break times meant I could take concious avoidance actions and within minutes the craving feeling was gone.

In essence there is the nicotine addiction to break and the routine habit to break and for me the routine was the harder nut to crack because that was driven by an emmotional response.

It really is about not letting your emotional mind (go on, have a smoke, one wont hurt, your doing all right your not smoking as much, at least youre cutting down) win the argument againsts your rational mind (these things are bad for you in every way).

Conciously supporting your rational mind against your emmotional mind will see you win the day and give them up

Dunno why you lot started in the first place....crazy feckers!
My mother kindly smoked all the way through her pregnancy with me. Had some serious illnesses as an infant, as a result , I think.
My immune system seems to be crap and any good disease seems to delight in flattening me !
She and my Stepfather smoked like chimney's through to my teens which appears to have given me a lung capaciity of an asthmatic ant !
God bless Silk Cut. :grr:

Well here we go day 1 of no smoking not even wanted one today so far. im hoping the kids don't stress me out with their parents evening tonight :eek:

Our first came as sort of a surprise, smoking, drinking and partying.... She's got a rock solid health.. Our second was planned and "grown" according GP's orders... He's got allergies and asthma... Immune tests from their navel cord thingy both came out 100% wrong... Figure that...

Guess I am just the runt of the litter then.....:tup:

youve got to want to stop. thats the key.
i dont want to, but then i dont smoke much. 6-8 a day, and golden verginia at that.

tbh i dont think id have much difficulty in stopping. i mean if ive got a cold i stop smoking while it passes and then go back to it..... :hmmm:

Left alone i smoke 20+... Sitting in a meeting with pocket full of cigarettes for 5 hours - no problem, no craving... Sitting in the garden out of smokes i start to panic... Weird...

1 Week in................So far so good! It has been a painless transition!

http://i1235.photobucket.com/albums/...bell/1week.png

4 months............. Who'd av thunk it lol

http://i1235.photobucket.com/albums/...psb8927812.jpg

well done that man!! my dad and bolly were off the smokes after a couple of weeks on that champix - remarkable stuff!

:nod:

I stopped when I was at uni. Found the most effective way was to run out of fags and money in the same week :lol:

I spent about 6 months constantly on the brink of smacking someone, and after that I was fine.

I still like a cigar though! :nod: I've had my current pack since September and I've still got 4 left, so I'm not exactly addicted.