I am a vapist

[GroggyGrognard]

A coworker of mine just started on the e-cig train. So far he is both "vaping" and still smoking cigarettes, even at a reduced rate.

I can relate to JudgeDredd's earlier post. I quit smoking cold turkey two years ago after a 20 year habit. I tried--like many others--to quit countless times with absolutely no successful attempt being able to stick. Over the past ten years, my daily cigarette consumption was ever so slowly being reduced, but I still had to make that "cold turkey jump" two years ago.


I also had another big incentive on my side to quitting smoking cigarettes successfully: my girlfriend. After we first met and she found out I smoked, she told me that I was basically giving a tobacco company money to slowly kill myself. At the time, in a reflective context, that put my life in a bit of perspective. She herself was a two pack a day smoker during her 20's and had successfully quit smoking cold turkey. She hasn't smoked in 18 years.

She also gave me two choices after we first met: we could either sleep together and I would not be smoking OR we could not be sleeping together and I could still smoke.

Naturally, I went with the quitting cold turkey option. Don't get me wrong, quitting nicotine will have you go kicking and screaming, but IT IS POSSIBLE to quit the habit.

Just my two cents.

Groggy

[Huw the Poo]

Good for you Groggy!

If e-cigs had been an option at the time, would you have tried them?

[GroggyGrognard]

Good for you Groggy!

If e-cigs had been an option at the time, would you have tried them?

Thanks!

Hard to say. I'm the type of person that any type of nicotine alternative possibly would cause me to relapse back to smoking cigarettes again. I have to go cold turkey.

For what it's worth, part of my success in dropping the habit was making sure I was constantly distracted and LOTS AND LOTS of chewing gum.

Groggy

[MetalDog]

I did a lot of gum chewing after quitting.  One side effect of all that gum is...well...a possibility of having to see a man about a horse on a daily, need to go, RIGHT NOW, basis.  Hope that doesn't happen for you and good luck on the cold turkey.  It's the best way.

[GDS_Starfury]

you 'did' a lot of chewing gum?
its not a suppository you know.

though it gives the phrase blowing bubbles a new and vulgar meaning.

[Staggerwing]

I did a lot of gum chewing after quitting.  One side effect of all that gum is...well...a possibility of having to see a man about a horse on a daily, need to go, RIGHT NOW, basis.  Hope that doesn't happen for you and good luck on the cold turkey.  It's the best way.

It's the particular artificial sweetener in the gum, Sorbitol. It acts as a laxative. In the ER we used to give it to patients who overdosed on pills since the treatment for said overdoses was lots of activated charcoal by mouth. The charcoal would cause nasty constipation, hence the Sorbitol. Presumably it would also hasten the exit of any undissolved pill chunks...

[GDS_Starfury]

so last week I dropped to the lowest nicotine level and I just want a fucking cig!  I havent had one but I want one.  I've also been all kinds of jittery without so much crap in my system.

[Huw the Poo]

Go back to the nic level you prefer.  Apparently there's a synergistic effect between nicotine and the other crap in tobacco that makes nicotine more addictive than it would be on its own, but as I'm sure you know, it takes weeks for addiction to subside when you give up.  My advice would be to not even think about dropping the nic level for at least another month or two.  Allow whatever crap you have in your system to be absolutely gone.  Then think about dropping the nic.  But there's really no rush...latest scientific indications are that nicotine on its own isn't very harmful at all - some have compared it to caffeine - so you have all the time in the world to give it up later if you want to.  I would imagine it's easier to give up e-cigs than the stinkies, all else aside.

[GDS_Starfury]

steampunk:



but more importantly, a sonic screwdriver!

[Huw the Poo]

OMG that Steampunk mod is amazing!  I must have it!!!

And to think, I'd been looking at the Stingray as the pinnacle of good looks:



I've been giving serious consideration to getting a Stingray clone from Fasttech. :)

[LongBlade]

steampunk:

I agree with SDR - this is amazing. Homemade?

[Huw the Poo]

I agree with SDR

How dare you, sir?!

And yeah, it almost certainly is homemade.  Probably expensive as hell too.

[LongBlade]

I agree with SDR

How dare you, sir?!

And yeah, it almost certainly is homemade.  Probably expensive as hell too.

Ah, my apologies, Huw.

In my defense between Daughter #1 and Wife #1 they stole nearly half a pot of coffee this morning. I am still trying to recover.

[Huw the Poo]

Tch, I wouldn't stand for that!  What's it going to be...thumbscrews?  Couple of hours on the rack?  Also, how many wives do you keep anyway?

[LongBlade]

Tch, I wouldn't stand for that!  What's it going to be...thumbscrews?  Couple of hours on the rack?  Also, how many wives do you keep anyway?

Just one, but the other day she underfilled the water reservoir.



A couple more mistakes like that and I may be shopping around.