I responded by saying I know about 10 people who quit by vaping. Doctors should be encouraging this as a way to quit smoking. Keep up the greatness.

Here, you can get smoking cessation aids for teh cost of a prescription fee (about $12). The NHS has been looking into the logistics of adding ecigs and liquid to it's smoking cessation aids. My own doctor, having seen the success of myself and a couple of others, now is recommending them to people having problems quitting (which is most people who try and quit).

It really is fun vaping because of the plethora of flavors and the fact that we're "cheating" by getting our nic fixes without all the toxins getting in the lungs, with good taste as a benefical side effect. This pisses off the ANTZ (anti-nicotine and tobacco zealots), who want to see nicotine criminalized, and Big Tobacco, who want the competition (e-cigs) eliminated. Well, screw youse, Big Pharma and Big Tobacco!


Vaping should be promoted as a quit-smoking method, not demonized as a nonexistent gateway to smoking and drug use.

The research says that the number of people who vape without first being smokers barely exists. There's one or two, sure, but very, very few.

The ability to get out from the corporates helped me with this. I'm extremely anti-corporate (to the point of banning them if possible) and the lovely thing about vaping is that most of us aren't using Big Tobacco's shitty disposables, we're buying from the internet equivalent of mom n' pop start-ups.

But some "experts" with an ideological agenda are lying to the public trying to sell us on a gateway that doesn't exist.

I was playing to the gallery, didn't mean to imply you were uninformed on the topic.

don't give in ever again!

Sold all my tobacco stash off, emptied my tobacco tin. Keeping my lighter as they're generally useful though.

I'm going to reward myself for six months by upgrading my ecig kit and trying out a few new flavours.

one thing I did was to take my smoke money and invest it. It was incredible what it grew into in 20 years.

it grew to after a MONTH.

Sadly, I went back to smoking but I'm getting closer to quitting. The 20th time just might work!

- that is usually something you have to go looking for, it's higher than normal.

Get a couple of good, cheap e-cigs (my Pro Tank II and batteries are about $30 on ebay) and just try it for a week or two. It is clumsy, and will take some adjustment, making sure things are charged (get 3 batteries so you always have one).


See what happens. I didn't intend to quit, and the first 2 or 3 ecigs didn't do much. Then a person running one of these stores suggested the above, and 3 days later I realized I had laid my cigs down that day and forgot them for the first time in 40+ years.

That was last year, I haven't gone back. It was a pleasant surprise, since, like you, I had tried to quit multiple times, but you have to replace the nicotine you are taking in, and much of the ejuice that is out there won't.

For what it's worth...

I have tried to go cold turkey but I think I may have to ween myself off.

I've quit for months at a time but have always gone back.

to quit multiple times doctors should recommend that they consider an e-cig.

My experience was similar - multiple tries over 40+ years. We aren't alone, either. Before stop smoking efforts really ramped up, about half the country smoked. With all those efforts it dropped to about 15%, and has sat there for roughly a decade. So they got the easy pickings, now for the hard core.

So you need different tools. This vaping pipe - ecig - is one.

That this worked came as a surprise, but I'll take it. I have spent time learning more about it since. We could save ourselves billions of dollars (quite literally) and at least a couple hundred thousand early deaths every year if we would just buy these as a country and give them away.

Note: I found myself reaching for my lighter more than a year later, just before I get out my e-cig. 40+ years of smoking is hard to walk away from, and most party smokers and non-smokers don't know enough to help. Glad I found these things.

If you want more info, feel free to post here or pm me - I will share whatever I can. It really is a moment, when you figure out you aren't attached to those things any longer. Then although you want that pipe close, you find you aren't as attached to IT And perhaps from there...?

is exactly what the NHS here (UK) is considering doing. There's loads of smoking cessation stuff available on the NHS for the cost of a prescription (about $12; poor, old and disabled are exempt). But treating smoking related illnesses costs the NHS about £7 billion a year. Obviously, they'd like to reduce that so they're investigating the logistics of adding e-cigs to the smoking cessation aids.

I can pick up a basic e-cig kit and 10ml of basic juice for around £20. Given that the NHS buys in bulk and negotiates prices, I'd imagine they can slice a good 30-40% off that. So, let's say £14 for a kit and a starting bottle of juice. That's got to be cheaper than what the average smoker will cost the NHS in treatment.

Essentially, toy soldiers with complicated rules that I build and paint. Lack of smokes lets me buy a few more models.

like stale smoke!

I thought I had a really good reason to stay awake at the time. I am about to do it again, but putting non-smoking 1st. My cravings at 6 months were not bad at all, but I was still chewing the gum.

If you can, buy yourself a lanyard so you can keep your ecig handy for those long drives. I have no cravings at all because I'm still getting teh nicotine.

Sending good vibes your way.

But I know, one cig and I'm a pack a day, so I use a vape pen every now and then. Good luck, it's a struggle.

you identified a trigger so come up with a plan on what you will do next time if a similar situation arises - learning from losing a battle is how you will eventually win the war

And cheap enough that I'm not constantly feeling horrible about giving money to big pharma for their smoking cessation products that IMO don't work at all.

I'm at least a year smoke free, and have basically stopped counting days because I have zero desire to ever smoke again. First time that has happened.

Keep it up, I know you can and will!

It's like, I can keep the nicotine gremlins shut up but puffing cinnamon steam is a pleasure. I've stopped counting days and started counting months now. Mainly so I can reward myself every six months I don't want to smoke, I have no need to smoke.

No idea if the smoking cessation aids work or not, I never tried using them. But the NHS is looking into teh logistics of adding ecigs to it's smoking cessation aids (meaning you get a cig and juice for the prescription fee, roughly $12 and the poor, sick and old are exempt).

PEACE!

I wish you much continued success!

I started ecigs almost 3 years ago after smoking (and enjoying it!) for 33 years.
I can walk up the steep hill by my house without huffing and puffing. I laughed the first time I stopped to catch my breath at the usual spot, I was breathing fine!

I sure don't miss the ashes and yellow stains all over wherever I smoked.
I am seeing more and more people out in public using them and I feel very happy for them that they found these amazing devices.
If anyone here on DU is smoking PLEASE give these e cigs a try!

but that's because of the arthritis in my knees and back (and I'm only 38!), not because of being short of breath.

I'm like, "why would I still want to smoke?". I get the nicotine I'm addicted to but in lots of tasty flavours. Plus, I'm a techie and it's a toy to tinker with.

to do with all that extra money?

Wargaming is toy soldiers with complex rules. Video gaming will soak up as much money as I can spare.

Whatever way works is the best way.

Way to go! Keep going.

Six months was a big milestone for me. One of the things that I missed (and still do, actually) was seeing the genuinely nice gentlemen who run the smoke shop where I was a twice-a-week regular and I waited until my six-month anniversary to stop in to let them know that I missed seeing them and that I had not, in fact, taken my business elsewhere. Didn't trust myself to go in there until I'd made six months.

And yes, my critters don't miss my smoking and, like you, I don't have to worry about what it's doing to them anymore and that feels especially good.

Hang in there. It keeps getting easier.

I used to go to a really nice old-style tobacconist but they're seeing the market shift so they've started carrying high-end liquids, totallywicked and imported juices. They also brought up the adjoining coffee shop and turned it into a vape & coffee shop.

I'm celebrating six months by upgrading my kit and indulging in a few of the expensive imported liquids.

I know where you are at. Keep up the good fight!
You prove that sometimes it is good to be a quitter.

BEST thing I ever did! Ecigs scratch every itch a smoker has and make real ones so unappealing by comparison. I was a packnahalf smoker for over forty years, and I quit in FOUR days. I lit up my last one, took two puffs, and stubbed it out in disgust. Only time I ever quit before, I tried hypnotism, and I was a wreck...crying all the time.
I don't cough any more, I don't have to sneak around, no more air freshener, no tobacco stains on the walls...and I've gotten back my singing voice. I can breathe deeply and my adult daughters aren't grossed out or embarrassed around me. And I'm actually finally losing my extra ten pounds. Next week will be 3/4 of a year for me. Cannot recommend it more! I just wish Democrat legislators would see what a life-saver it is.

I didn't go into this intending to quit but the cig shut up the nicotine gremlins and came in such lovely flavours that, in the end, I just didn't need to smoke anymore. It's a fucking revelation, it really is.

Here, the NHS is investigating the logistics of making them available on the NHS. That means your doctor writes you a prescription and you get a cig and some juice for just the $12 prescription fee (poor, sick and old are exempt). I've become something of an evangelist and my own doctor is now recommending them to anyone trying to quit.

Keep it up.

I just hit the year mark in August and still have no desire to go back to cigs. With my husband and I quitting, we saved over $4 grand last year.

I only noticed it when my current study module (I'm doing a Forensic Psych degree) ended last week.

My car is finally not smelling like smoke and neither are my clothes. The best thing, I set aside the money I would have spent on cigs in a week to a savings account....$1600 later, I have a nice holiday fund!

Congrats to you!

I could probably have afforded those computer upgrades I've been thinking about.

Thanks for your kind words and glad it's working out for you too.

Good luck to us!

I love my vape.

I'm celebrating my six months by upgrading my kit to the new bottom-coil tanks and a bigger battery. It's been a revelation, it really has.

Good luck to us both!

You're right, while not ideal, getting your nicotine in steam is much better than getting it in the concentrated smoke of burning leaves. In addition, you tend to taper your nicotine dose without realizing it as you take fewer hits off the gizmo instead of compulsively smoking a butt to the end because, hey, those things are expensive!

I'm sure everybody around you including friends and folks at work have been overjoyed since they no longer have to smell the reek of burned tobacco to enjoy your company.

You're going to be around to help fight the Koch boys a lot longer already. And you'll be able to YELL.

I'm on disability due to physical and mental health issues. Friends have mostly faded away. That's the price of mental illness, the isolation.

But I'll fight the corporates, always.

And yeah, I get chronic pain, arthritis in my knees and back. Fun, isn't it?

We'll get through. Best to you and yours.

on so many levels.

And I don't find it weird at all. But then, I am insane.

And you went through the trouble of creating an account just to shit on this person?

WTF is wrong with you?

I didn't even view their message so no harm done.

More power to you!!!

over the method they used to quit smoking, or how long they used it.

I've said before and I'll say again, I believe the motivation of anyone who does that is the desire to see smokers suffer, even after they've quit. It pisses them off that people usually have an easier time quitting when they use nicotine gum, e-cigs, patches or whatever. They don't want you to have an easier time, they'd rather you just keep on smoking than quit without being utterly miserable. E-cigs, in particular, drive them into a rage because vaping is so enjoyable in and of itself, that putting down the cigarettes is just about effortless.

There's a certain puritanical zeal to their denouncements of e-cigs.

Too bad there isn't a gum or vaporizer to wean them off of THAT!

Quit years ago, too. So liberating. Don't you love how great everything smells now? How your own skin feels nicer and things are more flavorful? During particularly tough days even years later I long to inhale because the act of smoking was relaxing but the smoke? Don't miss it at all. So if e cigs help with that then that's great.

A step towards health, great news!

Look for it described as "Mary Jane" or MJ. Given that cannabis oil is as old as time and e-cigs can vapourise pretty much any liquid, I wouldn't be surprised if some are huffing cannabis oil already.

It was called "bong water".

(If there was mold it was considered "primo&quot

My own tastes usually came in pill form and these days, taking anything that messes with my perceptions is a really unwise idea.

great

Lost someone so dear to me to lung cancer, they tried so very hard to quit, wish they would have had e cigs then, that might have been what worded for them in quitting!

Well done, I mean it, giving you a standing ovation today. I am in Marysville Washington right now standing on a deck watching Pilchuck High School where there was a deadly and sickening and sad school shooting, watching the news choppers circle the sky over and over and looking for anything good to grab onto for a while.

Saw this post!

Thank you, rooting for you!!!!

Well freaking done!!!!!!!!!!

This is a big deal, big deal.

That pounding you feel on your back is me through the interspace patting the hell out of your back.

You deserve that and hugs and any support you ever want or need.

Good news, such good news.

Thank you and well done again Prophet!

They help.