First Experiences with Ecigs

I started to seriously consider quitting when my life was stable since one always has the excuse that smoking relieves stress and one considers to quit when everything in their life was okay. That's what I did at first. I tried the patch, gum, hypnosis, and Chantix. None of them helped. Simply put, the act and the ritual of smoking was too attractive. I liked the feeling of inhaling, the taste, and smoke blowing out. A few people at work had electronic cigarettes that at the time, could only be ordered from China, but they seemed realistic when they used them. They looked like cigarettes and blew smoke out. They also were stored in a box that looked like a pack of cigarettes, so there was the ritual, but it's not smoking. Obviously, that's pretty attractive.

I found some e-cigs locally. They were designed to look like cigarettes and even had a glow at the end.

They looked like the real thing. I guess they tasted like it, too. They had that strong, burnt smell of cigarettes. The white part is the battery, also called an atomizer. The filter screws into it and holds the heating element and e-juice, which is the flavoring. It didn't work for me. When I smoked it like a cigarette, it burned my throat and made me cough. To use it, one has to smoke it more like a cigar by taking a puff into one's mouth, then waiting a second before inhaling, then exhale. The other major failure is that once has to take a really strong suck on it to get anything out of it, so it was not like smoking at all and thus, didn't work for me.