Hard Yawn

Thanks to Facebook and now G+, places like LJ have fallen hard by the wayside.

I am amazed that it even exists and that my password still works.

So...here I am,posting well over 9 years after my last post.
I hope that this pings a few people who have forgotten about me, and wakes them up to LJ as well.

 That would be fun! :)

Week 11 and change

May 20, 2014

Well… more than 11 weeks done and still not touched a “real” cigarette since day #1. I have yet to find another PRO to add to my list, but I have inadvertently found one CON.
Even this one, I have not checked to see if it is linked top a specific flavour of eJuice, to all of them, or some variant thereof.

Context first: I started with apple flavour, and switched to blackberry 30mls ago. I have since switched from 18mg all the way down to the 3mg where I am now.
To put it bluntly, my personal odour has changed. My sweat, urine, feces and *coff* semen started having an unusual odour roughly 5 weeks ago, and it doesn’t seem to be going away. I decided that perhaps it was the “flavouring” additives which are messing with my body, and the latest 30ml bottle that I picked up, I did so without any flavour to it at all.
I can’t find any articles about this online, although for all I know, it has to do with the last artificial flavour in particular, and nobody on that specific brand and choice decided to post about it.

If any of my noble readers knows of this, have experienced it, have read about it and would be open to posting about it or perhaps sharing a link, It’d be MUCH appreciated.

In the meanwhile…flavourless vaping and I’ll try to post the results here.

Happy Vaping!

eCigs and the quitting game: Week 7

Well… it’s been 7 weeks now if my math is right and I still havn’t touched a cigarette. Not too bad at all.
I have reduced the nicotine/dose to the equivalent of 1/4pack a day…which isn’t too shabby at all.

 I have noticed something over the past few weeks which I find both annoying and disturbing. People have started telling me that they heard from someone, who heard from someone else that eCigs are cancer-causing agents in and of themselves and should be avoided.

 First of all… if you have proof of this cancer stuff…send it to me, or print it and give it to me… anything else is heresay.
Second of all…if it is heresay and unproven, I wonder who might want to spread such news – who might profit from removing eCigs from the market…hmmm… could it be … Big Tobacco!?
 Nah… that couldn’t be it, could it?

In either case, 7 weeks without a cigarette is nothing to sneeze at..or cough at for that matter.
At this rate, I’ll be putting the eCig down this summer. With 3 months on the eCig vs. 17years with real cigs (and native ones). I don’t think that I’ve got much in the way of cancer to worry about related to using vapes.

Don’t like it… put up a link or shut up.

Week Two

March 11, 2014

So….entering week #2 of my so far successful attempt to quit smoking with eCigs instead.

I’ve been thinking of some pros and cons of the eCig…actually, to be more specific, I’ve found many pros and almost no cons thus far.

Pros:
My breath and clothes don’t smell of smoke anymore
No more discoloured fingers and teeth
No more accidental burns (skin, clothes or upholstery)
No more discarding of filters on the ground
No more discarding of empty packs or wrapping (Recycled or not)
No more coughing up a lung
My sense of smell seems to have returned (and I can’t stand the smell of cigs anymore)
My sense of taste is pretty damned good too now
Substantial savings on the price of smokes vs eLiquids
Non-carcinogenic

Cons:
Out of the way locations to buy eLiquids
Still contain nicotine, so still adictive
Not a lot of long-term research on side-effects, if any

 Umh..that’s about it for Pro/Cons – I’d say that the Pros far outweigh the Cons any way you look at it.

eCigs and the Quitting game

 March 3, 2014

So… smoking is one of those things, that if you want to be a winner, you have to quit. I have in the past tried quitting in numerous other ways from the patch to going cold-turkey. I’m not religious, but once, I even left my pack at the door of a local church. the next morning, the pack was gone but the need wasn’t – sucks to be me. (Literally and figuratively).

I was left with 2 options. The pill – an anti-depressant which canhelp curb the appetite for nic, but has a serious set of side-effects, including but not limited to suicidal thoughts. This kinda answers the question of “Would it kill ya to quit smoking?”

The other option is eCigs. Plenty of names for these things, but they’re basically the same thing wrapped in different packages.

A power-source which heats small amount of liquids into a vaporous form, which can be inhaled through a pipe. The liquid can be flavourless or be flavoured in a myriad of ways, and it can contain varying amounts of pharma-grade liquid nicotine.

Cute, eh. You can reduce the percentage of Nic as you go. The batteries can be recharged 300 times, each giving you 4-5 hours of vaping (if you leave the unit on all the time) or quite a bit more if you turn the thing off when not smoking/vaping.

So far, so good.

I’m going to use this blog to keep tack of my path to quitting and perhaps some colour-commentary as well.