How to Quit Cigarettes Without Giving Up Smoking

nds incongruous, right? Well, having been a smoker forsmoking go? My mother once commented to me that I
over 45 years, it’s true. I finally found a way tomade cigarettes too important and she was right. But
keep smoking without smoking tobacco cigarettes. Iwhy?
finally managed to quit cigarettes for good, six monthsI also finally realized that for me personally, after 45
cigarette free now but I did it still smoking water mistyears of hand to mouth cigarette smoking, I was more
mixed with a little nicotine. Yep, after years of worryingaddicted to the habit than I was to the nicotine. Big
about the damage I was doing to my health, I found ainsight.
way to rid myself of my cigarette addiction. I quitArmed with this new knowledge, I started trying every
cigarettes without giving up smoking! And I did it withfake cigarette I could find, most of which didn’t
electronic cigarettes and my own method.work for me until I discovered electronic cigarettes.
After smoking since I was only 14, I ultimately realizedThese imports from China arrived a few years ago
that my lungs must be in fairly bad shape and seriouslyand I bought two different types. Both emitted a water
started thinking about my cigarette habit. I was a veryand nicotine vapor when I took a drag although they
hardened smoker, missed cigarette smoking terribly theworked sporadically which was very, very frustrating.
times I did manage to quit and always went back toI’d managed to give up tobacco cigarettes but
smoking. I genuinely started to believe that I’dhad relied on the electronic ones to get me thru tough
just have to accept the fact that I’d never berelapses. It didn’t work mainly because I’d
able to quit…….that I didn’t have the strengthgo all day without a smoke, look forward to the
or willpower that other friends who’d quit had.electronic cigarette and then have it fail on me time
That made me feel very badly about myself. I justand time again.
might have to accept the fact that I simplyI started smoking cigarettes again but still maintained
couldn’t quit. Given that grim possibility, I knewthe system of paying myself for the paks I
that I could at least cut down on my cigarette smokingdidn’t buy. So while I still hadn’t
if not quit altogether.successfully quit smoking tobacco cigarettes, I had to
I finally decided to start paying myself for thegive myself some kudos for at least managing to cut
cigarettes I didn’t buy. Instead of counting themy smoking in half and keeping it there.
number of cigarettes I smoked everyday, I startedThis just wasn’t good enough though. I really
counting all the cigarettes I didn’t smoke! Thiswas worried about my health and truly didn’t
was the first breakthrough I had about my habit. At $6want to be addicted to cigarettes anymore. So I kept
7 a pack, my money was adding up quickly. I startedlooking for a permanent solution. That’s when I
thinking about what I’d buy myself with it all.discovered an electronic cigarette, made in the US,
Using this method, I immediately cut my smoking in halfthat actually simulated the smoking experience, was
and continued doing that for about six months, alwaysreliable and finally helped me give up smoking for good.
excited about the little “stash” of cash I’dHaven’t you smoked enough cigarettes
hidden from not buying cigarettes. And excited aboutalready? Don’t let smoking steal years of your
the numbers of cigarettes I hadn’t smoked.life. I am a strong supporter of electronic cigarettes
At the same time, I really started to think about why Ibecause I believe that they’re one of the
was different from friends of mine that had quit. Whateasiest ways to quit smoking without suffering the
was different about me? Why wouldn’t I just letwithdrawal symptoms.