I had nicfits like crazy.

[Royal]

I quit on February 26, 2009.
I had smoked upwards two packs a day for over 35 years. I had caught either a bad cold, or the flu, I don't know which it was. Anyway, I kept craving a cigarette, but every time I tried to light up, I thought I was going to die. Finally I said to myself, that's it! I have had it with cigarettes, no more.

About the third day of going cold turkey, I was going through nicotine withdrawals like crazy, I called them nicfits. Looking for help from my wife, I told her she too needed to quit smoking. She said she could not do it cold turkey and needed help. In the past, she had tried all kinds of smoking cessation aids without success. She then remembered an ad she saw in a magazine and a few minutes later she called me in to the office and said honey, look at this I found on the internet! I took a peak at the monitor, and there on the screen was a picture of what looked like a cigarette. Well, I am generally an easy going guy, and it takes a lot for me to blow my top. But after going cold turkey for three days and having nicfits like crazy, I just lost it. I got mad and yelled at her for showing me a picture of a cigarette when she knew how badly I was wanting one. She tried to explain to me, that it wasn't a real cigarette and that it was an electronic cigarette. But I didn't even want to hear the C word, and ran out of the room.
Later, after calming down a bit, I summoned up enough courage to do some research on what she was trying to show me. Not for me, but for her, as I wanted her to quit as well. When I begain researching the e-cig, I found that I can get it without nicotine. I decided to give them a try and ordered two starter kits and some nicquid for her and no-nic for me. They arrived a couple of days later, and after impatiently waiting for the batteries to charge, I felt aprehensious about trying it, worried that it would lead me back to the dreaded C word. To my surprise, it had a nice taste to it, and I could feel something of a draw from it, even though it had no nicotine. From this day onward, the e-cig has been by my side. It has become my pacifier if you will, and as long as I have my binkie, I have no desire to go back to stinkies.

For me, quitting smoking meant taking it one minute at a time. I would have a craving, then count for 60 seconds, then tell myself, ok the craving is over, now occupy your mind on something else.
Then I got the e-cig, and for me it helped to curb those cravings by giving me that hand to mouth habit and something that resembled smoke, without smoking.

For my wife, Lil Queen, well, she still smokes stinkies. But not nearly as much and she fills the gaps between stinkies with her e-cig.
I haven't given up encouraging her to quit completely, and I never will. As I better than most, understand just how hard it is to put them down.

I now feel so much better than I had in decades, my breathing has improved, I am no longer congested, I don't get winded nearly as easy, I don't smell like a dirty ash tray, or have that nasty smokers breath. I have also discovered that my sense of taste has increased.

I am not here to tell you that the e-cig is the way for your to quit, I am just sharing with you my story and how I did it. For each his own, and shall travel his own path. It is my only desire to inspire those that want to quit, to find what works for you, and to stick with it.

To those who are trying to quit,
I wish you all the best of luck and perserverence through this endeavor.

[lordmage]

so is that how you got your alter ego at ECF. from those damm nicfits.

[Royal]

Originally Posted by lordmage

so is that how you got your alter ego at ECF. from those damm nicfits.

You guessed it.

[lordmage]

Originally Posted by Royal

You guessed it.

did i win a prize... my nickname is easy i took my favorite show hackers Lord nikon character and mixed it with my favorite Paper and pencil PRG playaple class mage. so I get Lordmage. same sort of deal with phantomfrek. played by "joie" in hackers famous for smoking and saying "dude""

[mcquinn]

I was looking through junk on my desk and found receipts.I ordered my first ecigg. a Joye 302 from Vapor Station in July .A little over three months ,I cannot remember now what an analog even tastes like and I don't realy miss them at all anymore.I bought a DSE 801 in August from Awesome Vapor and another Joye 302 from Electronicstix in October.Three extra attomizers and five batteries.All in all I would say well worth it.Any newbies out there I would recomend joining a forum like this one and ask a lot of questions take advantage of the things these people have learned the hard way and most of all enjoy.

[mcquinn]

Down a level from 18 to 11 on e-juice ,can't really tell the difference.

[lordmage]

here , here quinn i totally agree.

[smokum]

I've tried from 8mg to 36mg, and still messing with flavours. Some day I'll find that right combo for me to get me there.

I found lately that its the visual and fullness of the vapour that satisfies me more to date, so have been cutting 36mg unflavoured with about 45% VG at HV then playing with a lil this flavour and a lil that flavour.

But I do enjoy a thick plume of "exhaled" vapour for sure.

VapeOn,
Greg

[PTJD]

I'm a little different, I was not looking to quit, after a 6 year hiatus from International travel, I picked up a contract last summer to set-up distributors in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Korea.
Was not looking forward to 14+ hours in a plane with out analogs. Went to a quit smoking forum and by chance saw a mention of electronic cigs.
Lucky for me I do my home work and ended at ECF, yes it was a very small community last Sept. My first one was a Janty KB, very good choice at the time. I was amazed at how it took the cravings away on the long flights, I could even drink my wines and vape away on my flights. Made me feel like the good old days in the 1990's when I traveled every month to Asia and could light up a analog in flight.
The contract was over this summer and I am back to domestic travel and have yet to kick the analogs completely, but no longer carry a pack with me in the car or when I am away from the house. My car smells great, I am no longer nervous about checking into a non-smoking hotel etc...

[Jim Davis]

Started vaping on March 13, 2009, and never touched another stinkie stick. Although there were a few withdrawal symptoms, I stuck it out, and they went away about a week later.

I'm hooked on 18mg menthol. I found that adding about 5% Jim Beam Kentucky Bourbon, gives it an amazing flavor. I add the Bourbon to our baked beans too.