Almost 10 years into vaping, still loving the smell of a freshly opened pack, and still can’t stand the smell of burning tobacco or the stale smell still lingering on clothes…
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Yes!!!
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Instead of telling an awfully long ass story, I’ll just say that i did go back and forth over the past 8 years. It was mostly due to stressful life situations. Then I wanted to quit smoking again in 2023. Successfully went from chain-smoking to 3mg liquid, and now I just mix my own at 1.5mg. This time its for good. I very confidently feel I will never go back to cigarettes. I have too much enjoyment fiddling around with my vape, tanks and juices. My life is a lot better now too.
I think vape mods now are kind of like the new way of how the older generation people used tobacco pipes, you see the older generation that smokes tobacco pipes would have collections of them. My grandpa had a pipe collection. Now in this era, people have mod collections. Tobacco pipes needed to be cleaned and fiddled with, I think vape mods kind of give that same sort of activity, just in a different way. Not saying they’re the same thing, it just seems like they’re similar but different.
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My story is i smoked “poppers” in highschool which is basically mixing tobacco with marijuana in a bong. I started doing straight tobacco unfiltered in a bong i got so hooked
this was so much worse than just smoking, I only started Cigs because i can’t always be doing poppers i would smoke and entire cigarette in about 4 massive puffs
thankfully i only did this for a couple of years and quit smoking entirely.
Thanks vaping
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Just discovering these forums, and this post. Cool idea, and some great stories in this thread! Kudos to all the decades long smokers who were able to quit.
My story is similar. I started smoking when I was about 12. Family smoked, and once friends started, I was all in. Amazing how cheap they were then. (about $1/pack)
I smoked for approx 25 years, averaging a pack a day. Give or take the stress of the day. I worked in a machine shop environment for about 15 of these years with machinist basically chain smoking all day while standing by their machines. So it was just easy to walk out of the office, and out onto the floor to chop it up with a buddy for a sec, and smoke real quick. One heavy smoker with a 2-3 pack a day habit started vaping a high nic salt pod and was able to quit. I was amazed it worked on him. Surely it could help me, right?!
Easter 2019 I bought a 25mg pod of some menthol to try and match my liking and brand. Totally confused. But it worked! Haven’t touched a cig since, and still around them all the time.
Now I’m a total fan Boi and have about 500 flavors which I mix my own once I learned how easy after about 3 months of buying expensive pods. Now I mix 3mg,and it’s plenty.
How nice is it to not have your house, car, clothes, etc not smell like an ashtray?! Probably one of the best rewards!
Shout out to Wayne at DIYorDIE for some early skills.
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It’s good to keep the hands busy 
Well, I’ll speak for myself anyway. “Idle hands do the devil’s work” 
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Thanks for sharing your story and being cigarette free since 2019. Fantastic. Glad you found our community. Sounds like you have a lot of mixing experience. Hope you have some fun here.
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Well I’m Back!. It was in 2016 when I began my journey into Vaping. I loved how the people from around the world got together as a community. I had not seen this before, especially because many of the companies supported the vapers as well. It was truly a miracle when you look back to what was achieved. Then the bigger industries started to make waves to upset the big happy ship at sail. Well in 2020 the Con-Vid happened and I was caught up in all the mess being created. I started smoking again in May 2020 due to stress and other things. I refused to take that dam thing!. In February 2025 I discovered I had Environmental Lung Cancer and Pericarditis. So I went back to vaping, but things had changed so much including the hardware?. I cannot believe how much things have changed? There is hardly any releases of hardware. All the old channels are gone. The governments/tobacco/medical have totally pulled the guts out of it all. I am devastated to how much damage has been done!..
Well in June I was given the all clear and it was thanks to all the support of this wonderful invention called Vaping. Thankfully there is a lot of support still around
I did keep all my hardware from 2016 - 2020. Its hard to get hold of some spares but a bit of perseverance I found everything. The only thing I had to buy again, was all the concentrates. I had only thrown them out (400+) the year before because of moving, dam it lol…
Thanks to all here and the creator of ELiquid Recipes. XxX
Tony H in Portsmouth UK. Known here as TwoTone 2016-2020.
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Welcome back to the fold Tony. You’ve found the right place!
Much has changed, new concentrate manufacturers, super concentrates, lost a few and gained a few new.
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Yea, that surprised me a lot when looking for the old concentrates. A lot of the companies I used have gone. The best one for me was Rainbow Vapes in the UK. They held complete lines of concentrates. There still around but totally stripped there complete lines. I use Vapable, NomNomz or KingFlavors but I am not impressed as I have to use all 3 just to get what I want.
Regards Tony
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I smoked a pack a day from when i was 17 until i was 45. I tried medication, patches, gum, therapy when i finally found vapes i finally realized it could work. I haven’t smoked in over 8 years nor have i wanted a cigarette. I make my own juice at 4% nicotine
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Wow, what a journey you’ve been on! Congrats on coming back from all those health issues. What a blessing. Glad you came aboard where you’ll find all the support you need. Happy to have you with us 
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Congrats on 8 years smoke free. That is a HUGE accomplishment.
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Thank you very much. I enjoy everything not smelling like cigarettes too!
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