OT Joining the world of non-smokers Day 4

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I will be going for CT scan on Monday of my lungs. They have a thing here it is 99$ special screening for smokers and ex smokers to screen for lung cancer.
My dad developed lung cancer 20 something years AFTER he stopped smoking as did my mom`s sister. So we will see. Lit up a cig yesterday and took about 5 puffs and put it out, first one in awhile. I need to just throw them out but I am not ready just yet.

Terri
 
Bumping up this post from the past because I finally went out and bought myself some fluids and attachments on Sunday.

I've been smoking for 20 years now and I've quit numerous times over the years for a few weeks, months, even up to an entire year once. I'm up to a pack a day currently and I'm getting older, so I really need to ditch this last rebellious habit leftover from my teenage years. I've got 6mg, 3mg, and 0mg nicotine flavors. I'm using the 0mg flavors for when I feel like sucking on something and the 6mg flavors for when I feel like sucking on a cigarette. This is now Day Two of me NOT quitting smoking (otherwise I'm a quitter, right? :lol: ) Yesterday, I had only 3 cigarettes all day without even trying to not smoke and today, I've had two cigarettes as of 4pm (I brought to work the wrong eCig that has the 0mg nicotine flavor in it). So far, this seems so easy compared to all the other methods I've tried in the past...but is it perhaps too easy? nailbite_smile
 
Congrats, KPassa! Keep up the good work!

My mom has smoked since she was 16 or so (she is late 60s now) and had a stroke this summer. I am too scared to ask her if she quit smoking, but I sure hope she did.
 
Kay it really is just that easy. Now I do still smoke every now and then but now a single pack lives in my freeze for a week or more. A cigarette is now for me like a glass of fine wine. And my nic level in the vape is decreasing. It does take playing with flavors until you find 3-4 you really like. And rotating them if you constantly vape the same thing eventually you can't taste anything.

Mel and The Fur Gang
 
I too have a single pack that lives in the freezer like Mel. I use it as a stress relief as I have the absolute neighbors from hell now. But other than that I am still puffing on the e cigg mostly. If you were smoking a pack a day you might want to bump up your nicotine level to 12mg to start and then go back down, if its to high of a nicotine level it will irritate your throat and than you will know to go back down one level.

Terri
 
My dad developed lung cancer 20 something years AFTER he stopped smoking as did my mom`s sister. So we will see.
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Unfortunately, I have learned all sorts of amaza-facts about lung cancer recently... :sad:

Today, 60% of lung cancer cases are found with people who have quit smoking at least ten years ago, or have never smoked a day in their life. Which is exactly why when you meet someone who has lung cancer, the first question out of your mouth should NOT be "well, do/did you smoke?". Good odds they don't or never have. It also leads them to think that if they did smoke, that it's their fault they got cancer.

My best friend in the universe was just diagnosed with stage 3 lung cancer. She used to smoke. She had most of her right lung removed on the 5th anniversary of the day she quit smoking. I smoke two packs a day. I'm thinking that's not a good idea.
 
Carl,

My dad, and my aunt both who had quit smoking many years before both passed away from lung cancer. My mom who passed from a heart attack who had also quit smoking many years before had masses in her lungs when she passed according to the lung doctor.
So, no just because you quit it does not guarantee that you will not get lung cancer.
I just broke into the freezer stash and smoked one, the neighbors are at it again. Sorry to say after two weeks it did taste just as good as always.

Terri
 
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