Honey, you might be hot....but are you smokin'

Grace use to smoke about 5 years ago today think they nasty and certainly not lady like. This girl is fixing to be rebirthed sometime tomorow afternoon. New life New beginning.  Best thing is never start.

Donna

I had to try a number of times with different products and vape configurations until I found one that I felt comfortable with.

To start with, I got a battery which had adjustable voltage, to get the right about of vapour.

Then I had to experiment with different brands and flavours - fortunately I found a nice brand which is made from locally grown tomatoes. It's 100% not a tobacco product!

I discovered that the highest strength (18mg) was actually a bit strong for me, and the highest temperatures made me cough.

I really didn't like tobacco flavour, so I switched to sherbet lemon, which has a nice "hit".

The voltage was turned down, and I started to enjoy the flavour.

At this time, I was alternating vape with a cigarette. At first, I could hardly wait for the cigarette, but soon I was able to have 2, 3, 4 vapes in succession.

Soon, I actually didn't want the cigarette at all.

My sense of smell and taste returned, and I have thrown away most of the clothing I wore as a smoker - can't stand the burning smell any more.

I prefer cherry or pear drop flavour now, and am trying to get down to 6mg nicotine.

I understand, it's different for everyone.

My father simply quit, and spent quite a few decades rubbing it in - "If I can do it, so can anyone".

BS

We're all different!

I do hope you keep trying with the vapes, dear - you will notice the benefits.

Love Laura

For about 40 years I smoked. After 30 dd years I had a fitness kick and ran half marathons, lighting up after each run. I had a physically demanding job and still I lit up. I gave up drinking but not the ciggies. I did try all sorts of ways to stop until one day, nearly two years ago, I finished off the last one and said enough was enough. It couldn't have been the least stressful time to do it, right at the start of the Covid pandemic.

I went cold Turkey and got sick of eating it so found solace in the vape. It wasn't easy and was an addict to nicotine. I am happy I did it as there isn't that 'smell' around me or my lovely dresses. I haven't got that hack that smokers have so all is good and, as I am on a reduced income, I am saving a few pennies and am aghast at the price of a pack of cigarettes now. 

So in answer to those who have said could you give up smoking and drinking the answer is a resounding 'Yes'. To those who ask if I could give up dressing, the answer is an emphatic 'No'

I am assuming you are referring to tobacco, Grace, since cannibas is now legal to smoke in Canada  ( not sure of the laws in the U.K.).

Odd question, but I started smoking the same time I started drinking - my late teens when I joined the Armed Forces.  So I blame the gov't!

Stevie

Congratulations on quitting Angela!!  Good for you, I'm going thru the process myself.  It is absolutely criminal how much tax the government puts in cigarettes.  I would not blame anyone for buying them black market with the price the feds charge.  Absolutely criminal...

Stevie

Smoked..... Once! Smoked a whole pack of Winstons when I was 13 in My bathroom, One after another.. What a Mistake!! I could not leave the bathroom for a couple more hours.. Acute Nicotine Sickness and you don't want that twice!! Never Smoked again!! Saved Me a Fortune!!Lol!

Wow that didn’t work for me. Neither did soap, tobacco sauce, raw onion (just a different flavored apple) or cigars…started when I was 6 so 56 yrs of smoking.

Sir Walter Raleigh…what about those dang camel we ride

Good Afternoon Grace, I'm in the same exact situation as you my Dear, I never puffed a cigarette in my life.  My parents both smoked - a lot (and both died from cancer) - so I had a great deal of second hand smoke as a youngster. It is so gross.  I also never dated a woman who smoked - that is a major turnoff for me.

I had a female staff member who smoked and tried to cover up the smell of cigarette smoke on her clothes by dousing herself in perfume.  OMG, that was the worse smell ever - the stale cigarette smell still got through the perfume and the latter was so overwhelming that I could never get within 2 metres of her - gee isn't that the social distancing for covid?

I have very few friends that smoke and those that do are always sick and look way older than their actual age.  My friend who died last week was a heavy smoker and she had COPD plus other nasty things and died from cancer.

One of the activities I do part-time is review films for a film festival.  If the film has too much unnecessary smoking (especially long close ups) that film gets a thumbs down from me.  Last week, I watched a film where a guy kept butting out his cigarettes in sunny side up egg yolks - I almost puked watching it, so that film got the old heave ho rather quickly.

I'm so happy that my kids don't smoke.  One of our successful parenting moments.

But I guess everyone does something that is annoying. If you came into our house, you wouldn't smell any cigarette smoke, but you may smell wet dog.  It's been snowing all day and Sandy and I have been on two walks, both times she got a bit damp.  So someone sensitive to that smell would be grossed out and I don't notice it at all. I'll make supper quick so that smell will be covered up by the wonderful aroma of mushrooms and onions sautéing in garlic. Yum.

All the best, Have a most lovely week.  Hugs Krista.

Sounds Like you tried Stephanie... Cigars did the same thing to me!! Good Luck if you are still trying!!

I used to smoke when I was younger. I quit back in 1998, and it was the best decision I've ever made!!!! Now I can't stand the smell of the smoke, or what a person or place smells like after smoking. Cannabis is a different story. I've found it really helps with PTSD and anxiety.

Hi Grace, I've tried it twice the first time was when i was about 8 years old , me and a friend had a 5 pack of untipped park drive ciggies back in the 60's you could buy cigarettes in packs of 5 , well we had 2 and a half each and smoked them all, i turned slightly green and threw up i went home and said to my mom i don't feel well so she put me to bed told me she would send my dad in when he got home from work, he came in took one look at me and said you've been smoking haven't you i said yes he then said you won't do it again will you and i said no so he said we will just leave it at that, the second time was when i was 15 and still at school 1 of the other kids in the playground at dinner time said here have a smoke of this it will make you a man i took 2 puff's of it and threw up again so that was me done with cigarettes,

Huggs Roz X

Sis stopping now or cutting back will help with the HRT once start same for anything with caffine in it.

Donna

Hi Grace,

I’ve never smoked. It never made sense to me, to shred some weeds, roll it up, light it on fire then inhale the smoke. I mean ….. who thinks of things like this? Really, what genius thought this was a good idea?

Not only that but my cross country coach threatened to expel anyone he caught smoking and my father said he’d break my wrist. I believed both of them.

Hugs, Jillian

P.S. never tried those “other” cigarettes either. Largely because I discovered beer when I was 13. J.

Hi Grace!

Both my parents smoked. As a kind and supportive child, I felt it necessary to bury the packs and cartons of cigarettes in the back yard. I think I was about 7. My dad's belt cured me of that behaviour.

At about 10 years of age my mom started sending me to the local candy shop to get her cigarettes for her. Dad would be at work with the one family car. I had a bicycle and wasn't afraid to ride it anywhere. She bribed me with candy money. This continued occasionally to the point where I didn't need the note anymore.

In the 9th grade I started dating a girl who smoked. She wasn't my first girlfriend but the first one that smoked. Naturally I had to smoke too to be "cool" enough to hang with her. That was in my own mind and I don't think she cared either way. We broke up after a few weeks and the open pack that I had left over stayed hidden in my closet for about 3 months. One day I took the stale pack into the woods, smoked one, got a little dizzy and coughed my head off and threw the rest out.

In college I started smoking weed and drinking heavily. Towards the end of freshman year, my roommate and I started having just a few cigarettes when we were drinking. By the time I went home for summer I was hooked.

I smoke from 19 to age 49. There were a few times I quit. Twice for over a year. When I was flat broke, there was always money for cigarettes some how. Bills could get paid late and I wouldn't care. I needed something from those butts. I was not a very happy person during much of that time, and sometimes I felt like the cigarettes were the only friends I had.

I quit at 49 when I started dating my current wife. It has been nearly 6 years now. Quitting smoking has never been easy for me. I know one thing for sure that currently keeps me from smoking again.... If I smoke just one cigarette, I will be smoking two packs a day immediately.

Hugs,

Autumn