Nov 172014
 

I purchased a lavatube electronic cigarette from Volcano. It was the ecig I used until the end…..

I purchased the lavatube because I really wanted the “best” ecig and this was rated by many to be the best one made at the time. I would still say it is one of the tops. The only thing I did was about the same time I bought this (it was mid-2013), some local ecigarette shops started opening up. So basically, I started buying my ecig supplies locally. I replaced the original tank of the lavatube with a Innokin iClear 30 in Feb/Mar 2014. This was the ecig that I used until I finally stopped smoking entirely…..including stopped ecigs.

Part 1: how I started using ecigs
Part 2: Modern Vapor – My First Kit
Part 3: Modern Vapor – my second kit
Part 4: Addicted to flavor
Part 5: Traceable Costs
Part 6: The Lavatube
Part 7: How I successfully quit smoking

Nov 172014
 

I probably started smoking around 13 years old and after smoking cigarettes for nearly 30 years, I switched to ecigs. The first one was rather crude and was quickly replaced a couple weeks later. Once I finally did make the switch from real cigarettes to electronic cigarettes, there was a very noticable improvement in my breathing. Matter of fact, eventually I was able to go back to working out and doing cardio for long periods of time (within a year). Eventually I realized I had been using an electronic cigarette for almost 4 years and although I wasn’t ingesting the 4,000+ chemicals of real cigarettes, I was still ingesting nicotine. I made a plan in 2013 to be off of nicotine by the end of 2014. My plan was very simple: i was currently using 24MG ejuice and I would just graudally reduce it over a period of time until I got to 0MG. So, approx January 1 of 2014 i bought 18MG ejuice. I didn’t seem to “Want more” or “smoke more” or “crave more” after switching to the lower MG nicotine. It was then that I realized this was real and I would be able to do this. Around April 1, 2014 I switched to 12MG ejuice (all the dates are really just approximate because it really happened when I “ran out” of the current ejuice strength, however, my planned dates of “every three months” actually came sooner. So by saying april 1, what I really mean was sometime around the last week or two of march but before april 1). Around July 1, since i had had such great luck by reducing my current to a lower amount, I bought a 2x 6MG, 2 x 3MG, and 2 x 0MG all 30ML bottles. I decided that I would simply use them in order of strength and when I ran out….that was it. When I got to the 3MG, I would alternate between the 3MG and 0MG. Sometimes I would do 3 x 0 MG and then 1 x 3MG…..but I basically kept extending the time between when I had nicotine and when I didn’t. Around November 1, 2014 I was using only 0MG nicotine. However, I noticed something….even though I was using 0 MG nicotine, I would still freak out if things like “my ecig battery went dead” or “i ran out of ejuice” or “I left the ecig at home”. So I realized then that I was basically addicted to the “act of smoking” …. you know, “going through the motion” of smoking. This was actually harder to break than the reduction of nicotine. I just kept extending the time between “hits” and I would try to do things like “go to the store but don’t take the ecig with you” and I would extend that to “go to the mall but don’t take the ecig with you”. So, basically I was also able to break that habit too. Basically when I finally ran out of 0MG nicotine, I promised I wouldn’t buy anymore. The first day or two was hard…..I basically kept “pretending like I was still smoking” by using the ecig without any nicotine and without a battery. I was going “through the motion” of smoking, but I really wasn’t smoking….at all. Once or twice I “almost” bought a pack of cigarettes…..just in order to have 1 but I basically was able to get past that point. By day 3 those cravings to go through the motion of smoking subsided. Today makes day 6, no ecigs and no nicotine and no cigarettes. Today is November 17, 2014…….i quit smoking a full 6 weeks earlier than I had planned.

You can also see these articles i wrote on ecigs:
Part 1: how I started using ecigs
Part 2: Modern Vapor – My First Kit
Part 3: Modern Vapor – my second kit
Part 4: Addicted to flavor
Part 5: Traceable Costs
Part 6: The Lavatube
Part 7: How I successfully quit smoking

Feb 032012
 

You should see:

Part 1 – why i quit smoking (yea, I can say that now)

Part 2 – my first e-cig kit order and its problems

Part 3 – the upgrade kit that has been a dream

Part 4 – the flavor quest

So today I placed an order for some needed parts from my favorite e-cig supplier modern vapor for the lux kit.  If you want to order that kit, see the part 3 link above.  It has a link to it much like the parts I ordered below (and by the way, I do not work for and am not affiliated with modern vapor in any way.  I am just a happy customer showing huge progress in health since switching to e-cigs).

My most recent order consisted of:

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Dec 052011
 

You should see:

Part 1:  Why I Decided on E-Cigs

Part 2: I ordered my first kit (and its problems)

Part 3: The god of all kits, Lux Bliss

Part 5: Traceable Costs

By the time I placed my next order, December 5th, I had only smoked about 10 real cigarettes since October 2011.  Previously, some days I would smoke that many before noon and definitely that many before 3PM each day.  But, as any new e-cigarette user, you start to wonder about the flavors….and there are many to chose from.  So my next order wasn’t that I was out of e-juice or unsatisfied with what I had so much as I just wanted to try some new flavors.  So I placed my first big e-juice order and this is what it consisted of:

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Nov 032011
 

You should see part 1 and part 2 of this series to get up to date with what is happening with my e-cigarette quest.  You can also see part 4: the flavor quest and part 5: traceable cost

Since I was saving so much money on e-cigs, I decided to order a better kit with much longer battery life (so they claimed).  Also, since I was totally happy and had confirmed that modern vapors customer service was simply awesome, I was obviously going to continue doing business with them.

I ordered the Lux kit, which included these items:

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Oct 242011
 

Also see:

Part 2: Modern Vapor – My First Kit

Part 3: Modern Vapor – My Second Kit

Part 4: The Flavor Challenge

Part 5: Traceable Costs

I never really blogged about this but thats because I was afraid it would turn to another failure.  I am going to change the date of this article to match when it really started, then do a progress report each time I place a new order for supplies.

Over the years I have tried numerous times to stop smoking and failed.  I have to admit, smoking is the ONLY thing I have ever done in my life that I regret.  You don’t realize it until its too late how harmful it is, not only to yourself but to those around you.  Even knowing the dangers and signs, you still continue to smoke…..why?  Because nicotine is a drug, and you are the addict.

First, lets start from the beginning since this looks like something I will be able to update progress with.

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