The day I decided to stop killing myself

Let me start by saying that I LOVE to smoke. Admitting it is a horrible fact, especially with today’s stigma attached to the subject, but I really enjoy it.

So this story starts about 38 years ago, when I was just a kid. My parents were kids from the 70’s and grew up in a time when smoking was normal and socially accepted. Everyone smoked and you could smoke anywhere you went, the grocery store, the restaurant where you were dining, work, and even the doctor’s office. Heck, even the doctor was probably smoking on the visit with you.

Now I was about 5 or 6 years old and my parents smoked around me and I hated it. I just couldn’t stand the smell of smoke and hated smelling like smoke all the time. He was whining and moaning to me begging them to stop telling them that it was disgusting and that it made me sick and of course they responded with the normal parental response of “stop whining”. I remember one time when I was still very young, but I got into my mother’s bag and decided that I was going to make her quit. So I took his pack of “Marlboros” and I was going to show them to him and I flushed them down the toilet and left them floating there. Well, my mom found them like this and she was furious with me. They probably called me every name in the book, but eventually she calmed down and talked to me about it. She said “it really bothers you that much, huh?” Well, I just told her that it was gross and stinky and that she didn’t like going to school and smelling like smoke all day. She agreed that it was a nasty habit and that she would try to kick it. Well, of course, like many people “trying to quit,” it really didn’t work. A couple of months after this event my mom found out that she was pregnant with what she was sure was my little brother and when she found out that she was pregnant she looked at me and said “I’ll grant your wish” and never smoked again. Following my mother’s example, Mt Dad even decided to quit smoking and to this day they have never smoked again.

Fast forward about 10 years. I was around 15 years old and I already knew that I had an addictive personality, even if I didn’t know what that was at the time, I knew that I tended to indulge in anything I found enjoyable. One day I was cycling down a highway (a small town highway) and found a pack of cigarettes that someone must have accidentally dropped. I picked them up even though I had never had any interest in smoking. I thought I was fine with those things in my pocket. You may be thinking that it must be when he started smoking, but you would be wrong. I kept that pack of cigarettes hidden in my bedroom for months and every now and then I would pull them out, look at them, smell them and even act like I was smoking but I knew better than to light one up because I knew I wouldn’t be able to stop once that I started and I remember so many years ago how unpleasant my parents smelled because of those things.

Years passed and I resisted the urge to join all my friends and all the “cool kids” and start smoking. I worked in restaurants where people smoked and took cigarette breaks while I worked but I refused to smoke so I would take 5 minute air breaks where I would walk away like everyone else but I didn’t smoke I just stayed over there. and breathe One day, I guess I was between 19 and 20 years old. I was coming back from a trip to Louisville, KY with a friend and he was having a smoke and I was like, hell, I’m going to try one and see what the fuss is about. I was about to. From that first drag of that cigarette. Marlboro Menthol Lights I was hooked. My nerves seemed to calm down and I was relaxed and just felt content.

So for the next 18 years I was an avid smoker. Smoking between 1 pack and 2 packs a day. I had to give up my cigarettes even choosing to smoke instead of eating at times because I couldn’t afford to buy food and cigarettes.

I got married about a year and a half ago and my wife doesn’t smoke now, she doesn’t really complain about me smoking and she has always helped facilitate my own murder. Recently, however, she had started to get frustrated with my smoking, worried that it would cost me an early life, so she has been asking me to quit and growling at me whenever she gets the chance.

Six months ago I decided she was right, I was paying $6-7 a day just to KILL myself and I had to make a change. I knew she was never going to be able to quit cold turkey, so I started doing some research online. I found all kinds of tips on how to quit and what all these other people had tried, gum and pills, patches and hypnosis. After several unsuccessful attempts, I learned about Vaping. I found a website that told me all about this new alternative to smoking called Vaping, where people had these contraptions that took this juice and when you hit them you expel big clouds of vapor. I read a lot about the products and the benefits and drawbacks. Some will say it’s worse than smoking, others will say it’s not that bad, but it’s still horrible. After all my research, I found that vaping in general is much better for you than cigarettes. The tobacco is sprayed with tons of carcinogens and incendiaries along with a host of other deadly chemicals and then rolled into a cigarette and set on fire. That already sounds horrible.

So I decided I was going to change. Learning that many people have switched to vaping and gradually weaned nicotine from the juice they buy or make.

Once I decided to switch, I still needed to find the right Vape or Mod as I found out they are called. So I went back online and started looking for the best website with the best products. That’s when I found http://www.directvapor.com/?A=1516. They had everything you can imagine. All kinds of different products ranging from beginner to advanced Vaper. At first, I chose a starter kit that had everything I needed to start vaping and quit those nasty cigarettes. I bought that kit, it was a SMOK POCKET VAPE. The service with Direct Vapor was excellent, meaning checkout was easy, logging in was super easy, and I even entered during a sale and got my product at a phenomenal price. The prices there are already lower than anywhere else I could find. So the shipping was remarkable. I placed my order and immediately received a confirmation email that reviewed my order and let me know that as soon as my order shipped I would receive a follow up email. Note that I ordered my first MOD from them at around 5:30pm on a Monday night. By early Tuesday morning I had received my tracking information, which means my package was already shipped that fast. Since that first order of business, I have been back many, many times. I have decided that Vaping is the way to go for me. So I have ordered a number of different products including newer and bigger MODs but also e-juices your options are great as well as some toolkits and items to create some of my own MODS and every time I have ordered from Direct Vapor my experience has been outstanding. I would recommend them to anyone at any time for 3rd vaping needs.

I have now decided to take action on my own to help others the same way they helped me by creating an all-inclusive view that gives people information on how to change or how to quit. It provides suggestions on which products you will need to leave and not switch to and provides direct links to those products. It also provides information on the switch to vaping and has links to some of the most popular products and the best part is that it’s actually a forum for people to share their stories and build a community of mutual support. The website name is http://www.vapeslingerz.siterubix.com. The reason for the subdomain is that this is a free site that I have created just to help people along their journey and hopefully one day it will become a solid business that can grow and help more people who STOP smoke on the way

Here are some links if you want to start the journey towards a healthier life.

http://www.directvapor.com/?A=1516
http://www.vapeslingerz.siterubix.com