SMOKERS... LETS KICK the HABIT!!

[Loren_Q]

This thread is about kicking the smoking habit. In fact the OP mentions using a substitute to "cut the smoke from my lungs", etc. and the final question in the original post is "What is your remedy??? Or Your Game plan?'

I've posted on this thread in that spirit and laud all who have decided to find a way, their way, to stop smoking (and stay stopped).

FTR, I'm 30 years clean and 29 years sober. And I don't for a minute think that I'm 'cured' or that I'm no longer an addict; I am simply in recovery today, and let me tell you being an atheist in AA is an adventure.

My take on smoking is different from my take on drugs and alcohol because of how smoking affects (or doesn't affect) me.

When I was drinking and using, my values would change; I would lie, cheat, manipulate, steal. I would emotionally damage myself and others.

When clean and sober but smoking, my values didn't change; I didn't lie, cheat, manipulate or steal, but I was doing physical damage to myself and others.

I needed to get clean and sober not just because it was killing me, but because I hated being a person without values or integrity.

Smoking didn't take away my values, but it will shorten my life. I need to not smoke because I want a long and healthy life.

Your mileage may vary.

and the title should have been "To each their own..." yeesh.

[Loren_Q]

Originally Posted by Loren_Q

FTR, I'm 30 years clean and 29 years sober.

Oops, that's 30 years clean, 19 years sober... washed my hands and I can't do a think with them.

[uncommondialogue]

Too many people just don't know what vaping is really all about. There is no "smoke" like a traditional cigarette taken into the lung...it is harmless vapor. I just had a doctor follow-up visit yesterday and he is thrilled. He can see how clear my lungs are now and there is no more smoker's cough. For a lot of smokers as I mentioned before it is a lot of the hand/mouth stuff going on. In fact, one of the ingredients in the e-juice is used in breathing medications in inhalers. There are non of the 400 additives in e-juice that cigarettes contain and certainly no carcinogins.

This is a tasty hobby for me now, and gives me more satisfaction than any cigarette taste did. There are a plethora of e-juices out there that taste scrumptious.

All I suggest is that vaping is a much safer alternative and works for thousand and thousands of people and verifiable benefits to their health and well-being.

[not2shygrrl]

Well it has been 4 years for me as a non smoker. Have I been tempted...hell yea......have I been successful being a non smoker....hell yea but not without those moments that had me struggling at times. What people think of what I say here is important to me, as I do rally for all of us to quit, or continue to quit and even continue to try if that is the goal! By me posting here I am saying I care, and kudos are just that......unconditional!! If you are reading this, then you are human......imperfect. What cannot be taken from any one of us?.....is our accomplishments! So I applaud you "quitters" as I affectionately refer to you all and myself as. If vaping helps you then vape! Not smoking carcinogens surely is a healthy alternative. I will never diminish nor push you backwards from where you proudly stand! On ward and up ward!! I agree with the OP here, and its about giving support, and my own twist is adding respect for peoples choices on how they quit. Why you do this or how you do this is part of what leads you to learn and grow. I think that is beautiful!