Topic: Anyone else smoke ecigs now and are glad they switched? (Read 214 times)

Nice!! I'm too lazy and anti-social for retail, but I like tobacco/vape stores - the dedicated stores I know of always have cool interesting stock to browse through! Thanks for reading and responding too! Cheers

I was smoking almost 2 packs of cigarettes per day when I made the switch. That was 4 years ago. I believe in vaping so much that I now run 3 vape stores. It's not a magic wand, you do have to put some effort into it, but it does work!

That's awesome! Thanks for commenting too
And I hope you are enjoying being smoke/vape-free

I switched because my wife hated that I smelled like an ashtray. I did end up reducing the nicotine concentration, and have quit altogether despite what the naysayers thought.

Firstly - I'm not trying to take a dig or convert any tobacco smokers from your current course.
I smoked Winfield Green and Park Drive Green rollies for over 10 years, and prior to that Rothmans and Port Royal - dedicated tobacco smoker for around 20 years or so.
A few years ago though, I was just getting sick of tired of the constant government price hikes on tobacco in an "effort to reduce" smoking. Thats nice isnt it - to help the community who they claimed were addicted and putting a huge strain on the health system they taxed those people more to "help them quit"... right...
So fu*k that - I decided to switch to an imported ecig with nicotine in it. Apparently it was illegal to sell nicotine ecigs here at the time. (Sidenote - retailers don't care now so everyones buying and selling them like lollies at the shops now).

So my main motivation at the time:
1- screw paying high taxes to the govt
2- be nice not to have cig butts at every door into my house - or be constantly emptying the outside ashtrays.
3- sick of my car smelling gross every day

Incremental positives since switching:
1- Don't have to go outside to smoke - no more standing in the rain or wind.
2- Car, house, clothes and person don't have aftereffects of smoke smell
3- No more ash in random places, or cig butts lying around outside
4- My doctor and dentist don't whine at me anymore about giving up smoking (now they can focus on other statistical health infringements I have with more passion)
5- You can smoke in hotels inside and they can't do shit about it
6- The nicotine hit is different and I don't get the "omg i need a fu*n smoke" thing - meaning in a non-smoking setting (long plane rides, annoyingly long meetings or events) I'm just not as frustrated by these things.
7- The company I buy off provides a full list of ingredients and is always R&D'g its products.

Again - this isn't a conversion attempt - just a list of things I noticed.

Some negative things - like with anything - someone always tries to ruin your buzz lol
1- Dickheads who assume your trying to quit smoking with a pretend cigarette...
2- People assuming they know all about ecigs, but have no idea or have not done anything close to researching them, but read government or news clickbait saying its bad for your health...
3- Dickheads in general
4- Without the buildup of 4000 odd chemicals in a tobacco cigarette - and reducing down to 3 or 4 food safe chemicals now (the vape, flavouring and nicotine), I can no longer tolerate everyday bleach cleaners or bleaching my hair (found this out by having a massive reaction to hair bleach lol). (Now I have to only get foils and not all over hair bleach.)
5- Again, the dickheads who assume they know why you do something without listening to one word as to why.
6- This one is important!! I no longer carry a lighter at all time with me. Its frustrating when you need one to burn that stray loose thread or something...

Sorry this was a longer ramble than I expected. If you TL:DR this - then ecigs - love em - hate em?