I'd been a smoker for about 28 years when I first started browsing this forum. I'd tried various methods to quit over the years - gum, patches, cold turkey - and never made it more than a couple of days. I tried cig-a-likes half a dozen times over the last ten years, and didn't have any better results. Bad draw, bad flavor, always ending up with that nasty bitter liquid on my tongue - and for me, anyway, the form factor and action was too close to the real thing, and just reminded me of what I was missing.
After lurking here for a couple of weeks, and seeing so many "vaping helped me quit smoking" success stories, I decided to give it a shot. Worst-case, I'm out $100 for gear and a bottle of liquid, right? Browsed the forums for ideas, and ended up with an iStick TC60, a Nautilus and a bottle of Tribeca. Shipment arrived in mid-November, and I haven't had a cigarette since. The most amazing thing is, after all those years of fighting like hell to make it a day or two without a cigarette...it didn't seem like a struggle at all. In six weeks, I've thought about having an analog smoke maybe two or three times - not very seriously, and not for very long.
A few weeks later, I bought mods and appropriate Halo tobacco flavors for my smoking family members - three sisters, a brother-in-law, and my mother, who'd been smoking for 50 years and never showed any real sign of wanting to quit. She tried it anyway, to humor her kids, and hasn't had a cig in nearly a month now. Sibs are also doing well, with one sister and the bro-in-law fully transitioned to vaping, and the other sisters vaping more often than smoking. Now I'm just waiting for them to decide they want better hardware - looking forward to shopping for mods and tanks with someone else's money!
Speaking of that...I guess I've really just traded the monkey on my back for a different, friendlier monkey that doesn't smell bad all the time. The downside to all of this is that I'm a dyed-in-the-wool gearhead. There's not a damn thing wrong with my iStick/Nautilus setup - in fact, that's what I'm vaping with right now. Somehow, though, I've got a Nautilus 2 and a Nautilus X, a Spirals, a Cobra, a Supertank, a Crown III.
An Aegis, and a couple of Battlestars. An SXMini is on the way, and I'll be ordering a Charon and a Cylon. Maybe a Triade, and a Paranormal, and a Dotbox and the Cartel and the Double Barrel and the Tesla Punk and the VooPoo Drag...and I'm starting to look at rebuildables and DIY liquid possibilities.
First time I went in to a vape shop, before I found VU, I told the kid behind the counter that I was looking for something that drew like a cigarette, but was a little more robust than a pen-style. He started talking about sub-ohming and RDAs, and I said "I'm just trying to quit smoking here - I'm not looking for a hobby." In these parts, I'm guessing those are famous last words...
After lurking here for a couple of weeks, and seeing so many "vaping helped me quit smoking" success stories, I decided to give it a shot. Worst-case, I'm out $100 for gear and a bottle of liquid, right? Browsed the forums for ideas, and ended up with an iStick TC60, a Nautilus and a bottle of Tribeca. Shipment arrived in mid-November, and I haven't had a cigarette since. The most amazing thing is, after all those years of fighting like hell to make it a day or two without a cigarette...it didn't seem like a struggle at all. In six weeks, I've thought about having an analog smoke maybe two or three times - not very seriously, and not for very long.
A few weeks later, I bought mods and appropriate Halo tobacco flavors for my smoking family members - three sisters, a brother-in-law, and my mother, who'd been smoking for 50 years and never showed any real sign of wanting to quit. She tried it anyway, to humor her kids, and hasn't had a cig in nearly a month now. Sibs are also doing well, with one sister and the bro-in-law fully transitioned to vaping, and the other sisters vaping more often than smoking. Now I'm just waiting for them to decide they want better hardware - looking forward to shopping for mods and tanks with someone else's money!
Speaking of that...I guess I've really just traded the monkey on my back for a different, friendlier monkey that doesn't smell bad all the time. The downside to all of this is that I'm a dyed-in-the-wool gearhead. There's not a damn thing wrong with my iStick/Nautilus setup - in fact, that's what I'm vaping with right now. Somehow, though, I've got a Nautilus 2 and a Nautilus X, a Spirals, a Cobra, a Supertank, a Crown III.
An Aegis, and a couple of Battlestars. An SXMini is on the way, and I'll be ordering a Charon and a Cylon. Maybe a Triade, and a Paranormal, and a Dotbox and the Cartel and the Double Barrel and the Tesla Punk and the VooPoo Drag...and I'm starting to look at rebuildables and DIY liquid possibilities.
First time I went in to a vape shop, before I found VU, I told the kid behind the counter that I was looking for something that drew like a cigarette, but was a little more robust than a pen-style. He started talking about sub-ohming and RDAs, and I said "I'm just trying to quit smoking here - I'm not looking for a hobby." In these parts, I'm guessing those are famous last words...
I'm not even close to the number others have. DIY is next when you realize you can make 30ml for about a buck and find good recipes in the DIY section...LOL ..
