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Senior Member
Good to hear you're still going strong..!!! Keep it up & I'll follow in your footseps...
Now...About that avatar....Don't change it...Bogie is so kool...!! 
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I've quit smoking three times in my lifetime, once for over 6 months. Ultimately though, I always ended up smoking again. My father never smoked and my mother did. My mother always used to tell me, "Don't ever smoke cigarettes", just before she would take another puff from a cigarette. She finally quit after being diagnosed with emphysema. I was diagnosed (before I ever started smoking) with "chronic bronchitis" early at the ripe young age of 14. For those of you who don't know, Chronic Bronchitis is a precursor to COPD, or "Chronic Obstructed Pulmonary Disease" (I've also had Emergency Medical Technician training). You can tell your children what to do and what not to do until you're blue in the face, but children learn more from a parent's actions than they do a parent's words. Actions really do speak louder than words.
I started smoking shortly after turning 15 and for a number of reasons, not the least of which was my mother. That was also around the time in my life that I started weightlifting, running and exercising which I continued religiously until my early 20s. Since then, throughout my life, I had spent many years weighlifting and jogging periodically while still smoking religiously. The result was that, despite being a smoker, my lungs were always astonishingly clear whenever I had a physical check-up.
During those times that I did quit smoking, I never played the role of the reformed smoker (i.e., getting angry with, chastising or looking down upon smokers from my high horse). First of all, I had been one of them. Secondly, it would've been sanctimonious for me to do so and third, I've known a lot of non smokers who had commited much more heinous crimes in their life. Besides, it would serve no justifiable purpose for me to treat anyone as a lesser person than myself. Because it has never been in my capacity to do so and, because I understand and endure the nature of addiction. I've seen many, many, types of addictions kill or maim much faster and more profoundly than cigarettes have. Still, any loss, including those that kill slowly over time are equal in their end result. It's easy for a non-smoker to think highly of himself as he/she looks down with disdain from his high throne upon the suffering serfs below. Including the traits of the non-smoker, it's hypocritical for the smoker to act or feel this way. They should understand more the addiction they once were victimized by. I probably understand better than most, the implications of smoking. Having seen up close and personal, the myriad cases of emphysema, lung cancer, COPD and heart diseases. I too, hope to quit again someday, like many other smokers. I applaud all who do quit, which should go without saying, but I'll reiterate nonetheless for those who might cast the first stone.
Congratulation MWolfe.
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What Werher said.
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Junior Member
Yeah, no. All that glycerine cannot be good, and you are basically replacing cigarettes with a vape.
Best way is to cut down until the cigarettes start to taste nasty, I get that around 3 a day, after a month on 3 or 2 a day, I end up not wanting them more than I want them
I have stopped twice, restarted when mother died, then stopped again a while back. It is hard, but a lot easier if you cut down lots first.
Replacing with a vape is not going to kick that habit, and vapes make you smoke more than less lol.
Plus, they aren't really tested enough to say if they are or aren't safe yet.
