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Never smoked. But my cousin and her husband quit cold turkey 1-1-11 I believe and they have not gone back since. They go to the gym to work out and have lost weight.
Oh I did. But I have family members who smoke. But I am lucky that I haven't smoked.
I smoked, and have found it hard to quit. I currently use electronic cigarettes.
Oh I never tried any of those...
I like them. Not the cheap disposable kind though. I have a medium priced refillable kind. It is shaped like a hooka not a slender cig but fits in your pocket easy. It refills. Since it is just vapor and not smoke you don't hurt your lungs. I have quit coughing, and feel much better. No bronchitis anymore, and spend way less money. There are flavors. I am using fruit flavor now, but there are tobacco flavors as well. They have liquids to gradually step down on nicotine levels to 0 too.
So have you managed to cut down on nicotine so far?
Yes. I still use the same nicotine level in the fluid, but I use less fluid in general. I used to go through about a bottle a week. It is small a couple milliliters, now it last about two. One time I bought the lower nicotine stuff by accident, but didn't really notice a difference so I guess I could cut down even more if I really wanted to. I find I enjoy it.
I guess there can be a tension between the pursuit of enjoying it and the pursuit of quitting....
Correct. That is the nature of addiction. I have found that I enjoy egics, and since they do much vastly less harm, and cost much less money that I am not really motivated to quit. They are in a sense self weaning as I do use less over time.
Do you think that people can get hooked on nicotine with ecigs, who have not previously been smokers of conventional cigarettes?
Well-I smoked cigarettes for 29 years. And drank beer and hard liquor for 10.
Now I don't consume either one-and don't want to. And it's like I've never put a cigarette or a drink up to my lips.
God's Word is True-He can set us free completely. Oh my-Yes He Can!
It was the hardest thing I ever tried to do on my own. And in His (God's) Time and Timing-the desire was gone from me in milliseconds. I waited on The Lord and didn't let Him rest until He took that desire from me. The last 2 weeks I smoked-I smoked more in 2 weeks than in a whole month! It was bad! The more I wanted to quit-the more I smoked. I'll never get to know about e-cigs. They weren't even on the market that I know of before I quit. I will say this too-I did get addicted a little while on the gum. Then eventually I went to a Christian Doctor (for a skin rash) and she knows how to pray. She prayed and shortly I was off the gum too-just like I had never chewed a piece. Oh my God is good.
Keep praying-He is listening
Have faith In God, Much Love, N.