Has vaping/e-cig been useful to you being cigarette-free?

[mike_c]

3. no, I quit the old fashioned way, 30 years ago or so....

Like you, I tried several times before it "took." The last time was during a bout of pneumonia, during which I couldn't smoke anyway. When I recovered, I'd been tobacco free for two weeks anyway, so it was only the secondary cravings that remained to be overcome, and although they'd defeated me after previous attempts to quit, that time I overcame them. By six weeks I was pretty certain I'd never go back, and by six months the thought of smoking a cigarette was just about as appealing as sucking shit through a dirty sock. That's an actual metaphor I used to try and explain it at the time. It has never become any more appealing.

My partner smokes, and when she moved in she was concerned that her smoking might lead me back to the addiction. Not gonna happen. That metaphor is as true today as it was thirty years ago.