anyone had any luck with e-cigs?

[slackerinabox]

You can try e-cig.com.

on their site now - great prices! Thanks!

 

[Heller]

Its because he's a pothead

Big fucking deal. And i smoke cigs so how am i smug?

 

[bfdd]

My grandparents dealt with this by buying bags of sugar-free suckers, my uncle kept a small box of toothpicks in his pocket. both for the same reason: they just had an itch to do something with their hands but did NOT want it to be a cigarette

toothpicks helped me when I quit before. honestly i just like smoking to much to quit. i use nikostops to filter extra tar and nicotine out.

 

[Kyle]

Biased survey, those who talk are still trying to quit using some bullshit product like nicotine replacements.

What? It's not a survey- it's tons of peer reviewed scientific studies...go look at the clinical guidlines and read some of the studies before you spread misinformation.

 

[bobdole369]

If you still find the need to puff on a fake cig, then just buy a pack of smokes man, your obviously not ready to quit.

Keep on puffin' weaklings! J/K (kinda).

BTW, if it "helps" you quit, more power buds, but seriously I don't know anybody who actually "stepped down". Folks get addicted to whatever NRT they use, including E-cigs, gum, patch, etc. Out of the dozen or so former-smokers I know - only 1 used a NRT, patch/gum - my mom. Her husband CT, several friends all CT after various NRT failed over and over. Myself CT, my wife CT. I know at least another dozen still on the NRT train in some fashion or another. It really seems like a revenue source to me.

Maybe I'm just unique, but thats how it is in my world. CT quitters just stay quit. Probably because we are the ones to overcome a great challenge without a crutch? Dunno. Just my own observations.

 

[erikistired]

so do you look like more of a douchebag with a cig in your hand, or a fake cig in your hand? i'm leaning towards the fake cig.

 

[bfdd]

Keep on puffin' weaklings! J/K (kinda).

BTW, if it "helps" you quit, more power buds, but seriously I don't know anybody who actually "stepped down". Folks get addicted to whatever NRT they use, including E-cigs, gum, patch, etc. Out of the dozen or so former-smokers I know - only 1 used a NRT, patch/gum - my mom. Her husband CT, several friends all CT after various NRT failed over and over. Myself CT, my wife CT. I know at least another dozen still on the NRT train in some fashion or another. It really seems like a revenue source to me.

Maybe I'm just unique, but thats how it is in my world. CT quitters just stay quit. Probably because we are the ones to overcome a great challenge without a crutch? Dunno. Just my own observations.

Most people I know who have quit cold turkey have been able to hold it off for a LONG time. My cousins have done it, I have friends who have done it. I quit cold turkey when I was 22 for about 8 months before I started smoking again.

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

my brother had been using an e-cig for about 18 months. It worked for him, he had reduced frequency and stepped down the nicotine strength, it was cheaper, and didn't smell.

He felt much better too.

 

[bobdole369]

CT quitters just stay quit.

Maybe the CT quitters are the most vocal? I bet there are probably 5 that stay on the puffs for every one that gets out this way...

But then again these are pretty much the odds for any addiction, be it heroin, coke, pills, booze, twinkies, gobstoppers...

 

[rudeguy]

so....can anyone help me or are we just bitching?

I really could use some intelligent input

 

[bobdole369]

so....can anyone help me or are we just bitching?

here.

STOP SMOKING!

Seriously, its that easy. Stop bringing nicotine into your body. Period. Right now. If you don't want to - you don't want to quit and you may as well just keep smoking.

I can't make you quit, you have to want to - and E-cigs or any other replacement therapy is prologning the inevitable, and torturing you more than necessary.

No matter what, at some point you are going to have to go through 72 hours of physical withdrawal. It doesn't get easier if you slowly ramp down. It sucks, but if your a man about it and really want to quit, it'll happen.

After that its a lot easier. The cravings never go away.



And to answer your question - NO I've never had any luck with e-cigs. I also failed at quitting a few times using gum, patch, and gum/patch

 

[Heller]

so....can anyone help me or are we just bitching?

I really could use some intelligent input

Just buy a pack of smokes and get over it. Seriously :thumbsdown:

 

[rudeguy]

here.

STOP SMOKING!

Seriously, its that easy. Stop bringing nicotine into your body. Period. Right now. If you don't want to - you don't want to quit and you may as well just keep smoking.

I can't make you quit, you have to want to - and E-cigs or any other replacement therapy is prologning the inevitable, and torturing you more than necessary.

No matter what, at some point you are going to have to go through 72 hours of physical withdrawal. It doesn't get easier if you slowly ramp down. It sucks, but if your a man about it and really want to quit, it'll happen.

After that its a lot easier. The cravings never go away.

I didn't ask for a life lesson I simply asked for input on E-cigs.

I've got about 4 quitting smoking threads. Go dig one of those up and leave this one alone in case someone actually wants to help.

 

[rudeguy]

Just buy a pack of smokes and get over it. Seriously :thumbsdown:

I have almost a full pack???

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

take a look at altsmoke.com, looks like my brother bought some things from there

 

[Mike Gayner]

I don't want this to come off as a lecture, but it might. I have successfully quit and started again almost 10 times in the past
5 years.
...
I am now on 7 weeks without a cigarette, but I take it day by day. I wish you luck.

Hard to take advice seriously from someone who is such a huge failure TBH. No offence.

edit: BTW my measure of "successful quitting" is quitting without starting again in 6 months.

 

[Heller]

Heres your input, If you still want to smoke why are you gonna drop $100 on a fake cig and $15 for refillable cartridges? thats the price of 3 cartons of smokes, just buy a pack and get it over with, we get it you still want to smoke, just do it and stfu already.

 

[Heller]

I have almost a full pack???

then smoke it and continue on with your life, hell i enjoy smoking and dont want to quit, its my body i'll do what i want to it. If i die from cancer from smoking then that's my choice.

 

[rudeguy]

Heres your input, If you still want to smoke why are you gonna drop $100 on a fake cig and $15 for refillable cartridges? thats the price of 3 cartons of smokes, just buy a pack and get it over with, we get it you still want to smoke, just do it and stfu already.

someone must have gotten some skunk....

I want to be able to smoke inside. Plus I'm down to only a few smokes a day now and mostly its when I miss the hand to mouth action. So I figure its either try e-cigs or turn gay.

 

[bobdole369]

I didn't ask for a life lesson I simply asked for input on E-cigs.

My bad, I thought you were using them to quit. I did not realize that people used them to smoke.

 

[bobdole369]

I won't even offer my usual diatribe about how smokers rationalize smoking by thinking they like it/they enjoy it, when they really just enjoy not going through withdrawals. Oops. I gotta find a way to describe that without actually saying the whole thing.

 

[rudeguy]

I won't even offer my usual diatribe about how smokers rationalize smoking by thinking they like it/they enjoy it, when they really just enjoy not going through withdrawals. Oops. I gotta find a way to describe that without actually saying the whole thing.

do you really want to have an addiction conversation with me?

Because that is one subject that I can ramble on for hours on. I've done just a bit of first hand research and would love to discuss it with you.

 

[Heller]

Why is it so hard to believe that people enjpy smoking? Same reason why people smoke pipes/weed, they enjoy it period

 

[bobdole369]

do you really want to have an addiction conversation with me?

Because that is one subject that I can ramble on for hours on. I've done just a bit of first hand research and would love to discuss it with you.

PMs? we wouldn't be talking about E-cigs anymore.

 

[Heller]

Not all people smoke cause there addicted, why do people start? cause they want to enjoy smoking, you dont have to be addicted to smoke daily, why is it so hard to believe people enjoy smoking?