So just over a month ago I was sitting around browsing the forums, with a cigarette in my hand. It had been quite a while since I had enjoyed the debate and intelligent discussion this forum can sometimes produce and it was becoming somewhere to just kill time, or get myself through another all nighter. It had slipped, this place, overfilled with idiots, pointless posts and nonsensical ramblings.
I lit up another cigarette and sat back in my chair, pondering about life in general and wondering if I was really going to continue this.
It had been a while since I had enjoyed the sensation of smoking, the thought of the cigarette rolling in my hand as the smoke flows like silk from my mouth. I took my last drag and extinguished the flame inside of the ashtray. I stared contemplatively at the screen, I had been staring at the geek culture forums, once they were blue, now they are grey. Everything had been visited, everything had been checked, double checked, hell even triple checked.
"I can't do this any more, I have to do something about it." I said as the smell from the extinguished cigarette drifted up my nose.
I hastily grabbed the ashtray and my remaining cigarettes and threw them all into the bin. The ash flowing up for freedom as I slammed the lid shut. It was from that moment on, that I realised I had to quit. I'd finally had enough of smoking.
So it's my second day with no sleep (hence why I probably decided to make an unfunny joke in the form of a long and ultimately boring story), but it has been a month since I packed in smoking and I haven't touched them since. I invested in an
Electronic cigarette and have used it to cut down my nicotine intake. I managed to move through the dosages each week and now i'm only using it for the taste(as i'm on the 0 nicotine eliquid now).
They aren't marketed as a smoking cessation device, but as a healthy alternative to smoking. Either way they have done wonders for me. It's probably due to the fact that they emit a water vapour that simulates the effects of smoking, much better than any of those nicotine inhalators can.
Anyone who ever got into an argument with me about smoking, would know that I really did use to enjoy them. Over the past two months though, smoking hadn't been as appealing to me as it once was, the taste in my mouth was getting increasingly worse and I wasn't enjoying the sensation at all. I must admit I do still like the smell of smoke, but I feel a lot better for quitting and I hope I never go back.
There has been a lot of bad press about Ecigs lately, but they have helped me and I would recommend them to anyone.
Anyone else had any similar experiences with quitting?
