About 3 months ago, actually longer than that ago, I was waking up at night with a terrible cough, sore throat, generally feeling crappy all the time. Wife said I was coughing, actually hacking all night long. I felt really rundown during the day because I was not getting any rest at night. I would get up, go grab my coffee and head out to the garage for a smoke every morning, even after waking up from a coughing fit. Someone couldn't put 2 and 2 together.... :facepalm:
So back to the 3 months ago, I decided it was time to quit the cigarettes. Knowing I had quit multiple times before and gone back, I would need a way to mimic smoking rather than a total cold turkey. The reason: the wife still smokes. As such, I knew if I tried to quit and her still smoking, I would go back to it eventually. All it took the last time was a couple cigars...
This prompted my first visit to my local vape shop. I went from knowing nothing about it to walking out with what has changed my life. I started with a Eleaf Istick and a Kanger Aerotank2 and some of the shops juice. I quickly learned their juice sucked and there was much better out there, but that day, I had smoked my last cigarette.
I started with a high mg of nicotine(18mg, cigarette level) and slowly have been weaning myself off of it, now down to 6mg. The idea is to get down to 0mg.
I can't say I have saved any money yet, as I have been buying all these different and delicious flavors, not to mention the equipment to use it.
What I can say is my sense of taste is back. Oh, the joy of biting into a steak and the flavor filling my being! I have switched beer brands because I thought they all tasted the same. That is how bad my tastebuds were. My body is feeling better. I am breathing easier and not waking at night coughing, except when I had the flu. My blood pressure medication has been reduced and would probably not be necessary as it is almost normal now. My sense of smell is back, which is good and bad. Good because there was so much I was missing, bad because some of it shouldn't be smelled and I couldn't when I was smoking.
I bought the wife several different vape setups and gave her the one I started with, but she still smokes. Dang it.
I think back to all my minibike pics that showed my garage floor littered with cigarette butts. No more. It is still littered with minibike parts, dust, dirt, tools, welding splatter, but no butts and that makes me happy.
For those that want to tell me about formaldehyde, I already know what you are going to say. Besides the results of many studies(specifically the one cited by the New England Journal of Medicine) being flawed, they did not use real world vaping technology. They tested ejuice at 600 degrees Celcius(1112 degrees Fahrenheit). That would burn your insides. Vaping is at less than 450 degrees Fahrenheit unless you like to burn the cotton wicking material. At normal levels they found almost zero formaldehyde. BTW, formaldehyde is a byproduct of combustion, which those researchers did and how they found formaldehyde. Not real world testing and skewed results.
Anyway, didn't mean to rant, but wanted to know if anyone else here vapes or is considering it.
So back to the 3 months ago, I decided it was time to quit the cigarettes. Knowing I had quit multiple times before and gone back, I would need a way to mimic smoking rather than a total cold turkey. The reason: the wife still smokes. As such, I knew if I tried to quit and her still smoking, I would go back to it eventually. All it took the last time was a couple cigars...
This prompted my first visit to my local vape shop. I went from knowing nothing about it to walking out with what has changed my life. I started with a Eleaf Istick and a Kanger Aerotank2 and some of the shops juice. I quickly learned their juice sucked and there was much better out there, but that day, I had smoked my last cigarette.
I started with a high mg of nicotine(18mg, cigarette level) and slowly have been weaning myself off of it, now down to 6mg. The idea is to get down to 0mg.
I can't say I have saved any money yet, as I have been buying all these different and delicious flavors, not to mention the equipment to use it.
What I can say is my sense of taste is back. Oh, the joy of biting into a steak and the flavor filling my being! I have switched beer brands because I thought they all tasted the same. That is how bad my tastebuds were. My body is feeling better. I am breathing easier and not waking at night coughing, except when I had the flu. My blood pressure medication has been reduced and would probably not be necessary as it is almost normal now. My sense of smell is back, which is good and bad. Good because there was so much I was missing, bad because some of it shouldn't be smelled and I couldn't when I was smoking.
I bought the wife several different vape setups and gave her the one I started with, but she still smokes. Dang it.
I think back to all my minibike pics that showed my garage floor littered with cigarette butts. No more. It is still littered with minibike parts, dust, dirt, tools, welding splatter, but no butts and that makes me happy.
For those that want to tell me about formaldehyde, I already know what you are going to say. Besides the results of many studies(specifically the one cited by the New England Journal of Medicine) being flawed, they did not use real world vaping technology. They tested ejuice at 600 degrees Celcius(1112 degrees Fahrenheit). That would burn your insides. Vaping is at less than 450 degrees Fahrenheit unless you like to burn the cotton wicking material. At normal levels they found almost zero formaldehyde. BTW, formaldehyde is a byproduct of combustion, which those researchers did and how they found formaldehyde. Not real world testing and skewed results.
Anyway, didn't mean to rant, but wanted to know if anyone else here vapes or is considering it.
