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11 days smoking e cigarettes lung buddy in East London
Ok, so we smoke. We smoke 40 cigarettes a day. We smoked 40 cigarettes a day. Now we smoke one cigarette per day. All day. We smoke an electronic cigarette called lung buddy and we’ve been using lung buddy for our nicotine fix for 11 days now.
Why did we change to smoking electronic cigarettes?
We had seen e cigarettes mentioned here and there, but had never actually seen one in a shop or being smoked by another person – then a friend was smoking one and showed it to us and let us try it.
We found out a little more about e-cigarettes, and were impressed at how much healthier they are than smoking paper cigarettes, and somewhat cheaper too, and bought a lung buddy at the Gonubie Spar, in Gonubie, East London, one for each of us three days before Christmas as a Christmas gift to ourselves. We still had some of our usual menthol cigarettes left, and alternated between those and our new lung buddy electronic smokes for two days as we got used to them, but since from the day before Christmas day, we’ve been smoking only the lung buddy.
We know smoking is bad for people and can cause cancer, but we are addicted to smoking and enjoy it, so instead of giving up smoking just yet, we are trying to be healthier about our bad habit and are also saving a little bit of money as using an electronic cigarette works out a little cheaper – especially when using the liquid nicotine drops rather than the disposable filters that are already loaded with nicotine. Perhaps we will stop smoking one day, but for now at least we want to be healthier.
Using electronic cigarettes like the lung buddy is healthier and cleaner and neater for both the smoker and for those around the smoker. Less pollution and cigarette butts all over the place too. No smoke smell on clothes or in hair.
To us, the e cigarette is basically like a fancy nicotine patch – but a smoker can get to hold a cigarette in the usual way they like to, and can still take a drag on the cigarette too – just without the over 4000 bad chemicals one finds in standard paper cigarettes.
The liquid nicotine comes in different flavours, and, to us, smoking an e-cig is gentle on the throat – not as harsh as our old smokes.
What other differences are there between our old smokes and our new electronic smokes?
The e cig is heavier and at first we were’nt sure we were going to get used to this heavier feel, but by day 3 it felt so much better – we were determined to stick it through for the sake of health and saving a little money.
We’re also really not sure if we were just imagining it, but food and chocolate (a chocolate covered turkish delight sweet) tasted absolutely divine on day 4 already! Coffee was yummier too. And we could smell things more easily – both good and bad smells!
Problems with our new cigarettes?
We haven’t found nicotine filters and little liquid nicotine bottles at all our usual shops we go to, and we’re also not yet sure if any of the e cig brands’ accessories are compatible with our lung buddy cigs, and as far as we know, lung buddy electronic cigarettes in East London are available only at the Gonubie Spar in Gonubie, East London. We do not live in Gonubie.
We ran out of nicotine filters and drops earlier this evening, and were not going to travel all the way to Gonubie to get more. Our local shop didn’t have what we needed so we bought a pack of our usual smokes each. What is NOT a problem with this? Our old cigarettes now taste absolutely awful, and feel too light to hold comfortably. We had to bring out the ashtray again, and our fingers smell bad! We also feel unusually terribly guilty about our health, having left the cancer causing smokes behind and now returning to them! We will be off to Gonubie tomorrow to get more electronic cigarette accessories!
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Great article, thanks for sharing! You’re exactly right, some people just enjoy smoking and really don’t want to quit but appreciate the healthier alternative that e-cigarettes give them. They’re better for you, the people around you and the environment in general.
Greensmoke electronic e cigarette
Do you know if this is something that works overnight, or does it take a bit for it to work?
I acquired my e-cigarette yesterday and I love it. If they can help men and women stop smoking, why would the FDA ban them?
Do these electronic cigarettes really feel like the real thing? I watched a video at this website but don’t know what to think. Are there any real smokers out there that aren’t promoting a product that can tell me what you really think?
eSmokes
Hello Otis and thank you for your comment.
We pondered over whether or not to allow your comment through as it sounds a bit like spam – and we’re also just a little offended by your “are there any real smokers out there that aren’t promoting a product…” as feel that’s directed at us. Okay, so only our friends and family know we really smoke, but if you look around our blogs and sites, you should surely notice that we cover a variety of subjects on our pages, and hopefully they all come across as genuine, as that’s what is/was intended. We’re just two people giving our honest views on this and that.
Also, it seems a little contradictory, the comment of yours about “that aren’t promoting a product” as with you leaving the link you have (we did highlight it in orange for you though), you yourself are promoting a product – ecigarettes of course.
Now what usually happens when we think a comment in our moderation may be spam, but we’d like to give the person the benefit of the doubt as has happened in your case (about 50 spam comments we receive each day are so blatently obviously spam that we just delete them right away – also see our post Are spammers from another planet?) is that we go visit the site the link leads to, to check it out. Sites that have only one page, one post (usually very recent), and links that don’t work, or content that is spun (obvious by the dreadful grammar or use of words that don’t make sense – one can actually use article spinners and spend a bit of time and effort on the spun article therafter to get it looking decent and to make it unique, but so many don’t even bother), then of course we don’t allow the comment through – we like to link to only at least fairly decent content sites.
Your comment, whether the site you’re promoting is yours or somebody else’s, has been allowed through because although there aren’t many posts on the site you link to, the grammar is good, the page is neat, and the content is interesting.
Back to our smoking: We’re still using the ecigarettes – heading for nearly two months now. What has sometimes happened when we’re away from home for a while (and away from access to electricity to use the ecigarette battery charger) is that we’ve bought old-fashioned (lol, that’s how we see other cigarettes now!) cigarettes just to get us through (we smoke quite heavily) if our esmokes batteries go flat – and, every time we do (not too often though), we’re upset we forgot to bring the spare batteries with, as old-fashioned cigarettes make us feel ill now!
So, for us, at least, ecigarettes are definitely healthier.
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Stay Positive, Quit positive. Research has shown that those that quit when in a lovely & positive mood stand a much greater chance of achieving their objective. IF you plan to quit & map out your ways to quit smoking cigarettes while under stress of when depressed it does not bode well as a negative reason as has been mentioned is nowhere near as strong as positive ones.
Lol! Great Stop Smoking Tips . You are now my Quit Smoking Guru!
I introduced myself to cigarettes when I was a kid. It was the hugest mistake I’ve made. Now I’m older I have found quitting is extremely difficult. I attmpted all of the quitting tools but not one did the trick. Then I discovered the electric cigarette. The e cig uses a nicotine juice that holds only nicotine. No toxic chemicals at all. They have luckily improved my life. Quitting breathing in poisons feels stupendous!