Two Years With Electronic Cigarettes

I want to write about my experience with this type of gadget, because maybe it will be helpfull for some smokers.

I was a smoker for 41 years. It was a pleasure, sometime, and a curse, many times. I was smoking one packet a day, and in time, the negative effects of it begin to show. Even very early, like my sporting performance, wich has gone very quickly. I had tried to quit many times over those years. I begin smoking at 16, and at 18 it was my first try. Unsuccessful.

6 years ago I bought my first electronic cigarrete. I was full of hope, but in that time, the cigarette was somehow primitive, the liquids for it was many times awful, and maybe more important, I wasn't ready to make the effort to change.

Time pass by, the negative effect become stronger and stronger, and someday I decided to quit smoking, with any cost. After 2 days, I began to look for the old electronic cigarettes. And this time, this little gadget helps me a lot. The stress I felt was not dispersed instantly, but was much easy. So, in this way, day after day pass by. Until the twelve, when my liquid finishes, and in desperation, I smoked again. In this way, for about one year I was smoking 2 to 6 cigarettes a day, and the rest I used the EC. I replaced the old gadget with another new ones, I begin to mix my own liquids, from base and aroma, I learn to made my own coils for it. And finally, I quit normal cigarettes for good. And now, after one year of only vaping I can reach my conclusions.

Smoking was one of the worse things I have done in my life. And vaping EC, even if it not 100% safe, is much much better. I could say that is 95% less harmfull. At least.

Nicotine in itself is not so dangerous, but the other products in the smoke are. Now, I am vaping liquids with 1.8mg of nicotine, and all those health problems I had before seems to be gone. Except the weight. I gained about 10 pounds at the begining - lost now. More, not only nicotine creates addiction. I felt this many times, in the first 3 months. Not to talk about all those chemicals that we don't know, but we can feel in the normal cigarettes.

Vaping is not the same thing with smoking, is not the same feeling. But is close, and if you are a long time smoker, and you want, and can't quit, this is a very good way. For many, the only.

I'm not a writer, not a native English speaker, so, forgive my mistakes and that long, and maybe boring message. But maybe it will be helpfull for someone.