Just got a new eCig

[Cal Carpenter]

9. Hey Ruby, how's it going with this?

I'm gonna keep kicking this thread since this forum is so slow, may as well keep e-cig talk in one place...

I'm on...what..day 6 now? The last 2 days I had 2 cigs a day. I haven't even begun actually testing my willpower. It's just like all the anecdotes I didn't want to believe out of fear of failure - cigs taste gross, the vaping is fun and satisfying, it's too good to be true, LOL.

I'm so on board this e-cig train it is amazing.

Even if I keep vaping for a year or three or the rest of my fucking life it is better than smoking.

For now I'm just gonna inch along and celebrate all the cigarettes I am NOT smoking rather than obsessing about the 1 or 2 I have in a day. It is still massive harm reduction and for those of us who struggle so hard with kicking the nicotine, these e-cigs are like magic. And I can see the day - maybe tomorrow, maybe next month, but soon - when I don't have one at all. Ever again.

I think what makes this different than other ways of quitting smoking is that the fear of failure is so much less paralyzing. Whenever I've tried to quit, and had one cigarette, it ruined everything and was like starting over. Leading to giving up on quitting. With this, I am always getting my fix. WITHOUT SMOKING. And that's what is killing us - the smoking, not the nicotine.

Someday I see myself reducing the nic level to negligible, cutting it out entirely, and putting this device down for good. But in the meantime, however long it is, I am healing from the decades of smoking unfiltered cigs. I am reducing my likelihood of cancer, COPD, and almost all other associated problems from smoking cigs.

Fucking magic, I tell ya!