hey still on electric cigarettes......am i a non smoker? 7weeks without tobacco.....any views on this.... thank you

[busker]

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Well done Busker for getting to 7 weeks, I myself am using an E-Cig and nothink else and I found it very easy to stop. Its nearly 8 months for me now. Just be carefull not to become addicted to the E-Cig itself and use the lowest Nicotine as you can then it will be easier for you to stop all nicotine when your ready. You do know I presume you can get zero nicotine ones that taste like Tobacco and also Fruit and other flavours. I use one thats Vanilla I also have Chocolate and Mint which is great. Ther,s lots of different flavours out and you dont have to use nicotine. Keep up the good work and stay away from the horrible ciggys we all used.

mad

[busker 2 YEAR WINNER in reply to Hidden]

thanks mad......keep you posted.....busker

[andi22]

Hi Busker and well done on getting to 7 weeks with your e-cigs. It's brilliant that you found something that works for you. Have you been reducing the nicotine content as you've gone along and are you "smoking" less than if you were using cigarettes? Only you can decide if you are a non smoker yet. I would suggest that it's still quite early days for you and you mustn't let your guard down, especially during this "jolly" season. Keep up the good work and hopefully you'll be coming on here and shouting that you're a non smoker instead of asking if you are one. Please keep in touch.

Andi

[busker 2 YEAR WINNER in reply to andi22]

thanks andi......keep you posted.....busker

[EmJay Partner]

Hi Busker,

congratulations on entering your 8th week without having a cigarette, thats brilliant

I would suggest that you follow the instructions and programme as recommended for the type of e-cigarette that you have so that you are able to gradually reduce the amount of nicotine that you are using.

When anybody gives up smoking, regardless of how they do it, it is a two part process;

1. Stopping smoking

2. Staying stopped

... and they have to be done in that order.

It's really impossible to do them both together and its all down to the individual as to how long is spent on the first half of the process.

Most people will find that as they stop smoking and time passes by, they find themselves 'naturally' entering the 2nd stage of 'staying stopped'.

You will realise at some point that you have entered the 2nd stage and as Andi has already mentioned, you'll be making sure everyone knows about it

Just following on from our e-cigarette safety warning a couple of weeks ago...

** PLEASE REMEMBER TO NEVER LEAVE YOUR E-CIGARETTE UNATTENDED WHILST ON CHARGE!

[Kazzachoc 2 YEAR WINNER]

I am not sure when someone would be classed as a non-smoker, it is probably a matter of opinion. Some people would probably say the day you stop smoking is the day you become a non-smoker. I think insurance companies class you as a non-smoker when you haven't smoked for a year, that is what I have heard anyway, not sure how true it is. For me I will truly class myself as a non-smoker when I have given up for 6 months and until then I am in the reprogramming my brain stage with no intention of smoking ever again

I have actually wondered when a Doctor would class someone as a non-smoker.

You are doing brilliantly Busker, well done on 7 weeks and keep strong.

[Kazzachoc 2 YEAR WINNER]

I think we were typing at the same time then EmJay. What you have said about the two stages stopping smoking and staying stopped makes a lot of sense I know which is why you said it xx

[monky Administrator Cake sniffer outer]

Aup Busker,

Sorry I missed you yesterday, but a massive well done to you for getting to 7 weeks quit

Erm I think Emjay and Kaz have said most of it, but I think you become a non smoker when you dont get the cravings any more

Good luck on you trail to become an ex smoker

Pete

[busker 2 YEAR WINNER]

thanks for all your support helps a lot......busker

[MaggieMaybe]

Electronic cigarettes can't be claimed to help you stop smoking even if more people quit with them than anything else.

For the people they work for, it is the closest you can get to a cigarette witrhout smoking but don't expect it to taste like one.

I've quit with them so have friends, none of us ever managed to before and we are OAPs with a lifetime of heavy smoking.

Now I don't like the taste of tobacco but I love caremlised coconut, raspberry, vanilla with a slight cake flavour and cappuchino coffee.

My GP classes those who stopped smoking with these devices as non-smokers even if we still use them.

What worries me is that the EU plan to ban them if they contain nicotine or if they have enough in them to actually work to stop smoking, but would allow drug companies to apply for licenses (which would probably take 3 years) as a medicine. If they'd have been marketed for quitting I'd never have tried them, having failed within 3 days with all NRT.

Not everybody finds it easy to stop smoking with these, in general the ones you buy at your local supermarket are not up to the job, battery not powerful enough, nicotine too weak, or they've dried out. So I bought from an online UK supplier, the UK already having tight regulation. Also for anybody who tries these you don't use them like a cigarette, need long, slow drags. Plus the flavour can be very important and there are thousands of different flavours and different strengths. If you start with say, a 24 mg concentration, you can work down to 6 mg, then zero.

Well done anybody who finds this the way for them to quit, but please don't call it NRT or medical because if it is classed as that it will be a lot more expensive and there'll be little choice. I'd never have quit on menthol or mint, I can't stand either, and for me something that looked like a cigarette didn't work.

[busker 2 YEAR WINNER in reply to MaggieMaybe]

10 weeks now still on electric cigs ....must start thinking about cutting back on these.

HNY to all.....keep doing it yeh.....

[busker 2 YEAR WINNER in reply to MaggieMaybe]

hi maggie....can you tell me the brand name of the electric cigarettes you use.... thank you....and thanks for the other info too......busker

[MaggieMaybe]

I'll try, but high street electronic cigarettes that look like cigarettes didn't work for me although they do for others.

I bought a battery type on sale at all online cigarette stores and in the growing number of specialist shops. They were originally made by NJoye. With clearomisers, Vision CE5 to hold the nicotine plus diient and flavour, I by that from companies that make it in the UK. There is a little messing around because you have to fill clearomisers and charge batteries.

Of course there are some well-known ones that look like cigarettes, even though Intellicig has been bought by BAT. Nicolites are sold in Tesco, E-Lites are popular, but I found too many of those which had been stored too long, flat batteries and dried-out cartridges.

I started with 24mg/ml, now on 18mg/ml, can buy 12 mg/ml and 6 mg/ml plus no nicotine. The 6 mg/ml stength is not much different to no nicotine, which can also be bought.

I also hate anything that is a tobacco flavour. I like fruits, vanilla, coffee and even creme caramel!

Sorry I can't be of more help, but I had to do a lot of online research plus trying different ones first. There are hundreds of UK companies and although imports have to be batch-tested and comply with more regulations than other products.

[madametobacco49]

you are a non smoker addicted to nicotine and working towards recovery

[chronis 16 Months Winner]

thats good, I;m on 1year on e-cig have some bad withdrawll when i lower the nicotine (was my mistake I went from 18mg to 12mg) . But our health its much better now. I have check my lung(just for check didn had any problem) and the doctor told me that everything is like I was not smoking at all, ok x-ray is black this is going to take at least 5 -10 years. So stay in e-cig and try to lower the nic after some time, good work man.