Hawkmoon
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So the dark tarry stuff is slowly being expunged from my body, I look back at my smoking history and how I am now smoke free.
In the early years it was a case of smoking anything I could get my hands on. Most brands of cigarette, cigars, cigarillos, I even smoked a pie for a while. I finally found a brand I could stick to and did for around 30 yrs.
Increases in taxation pushed me to rolling my own, but most of the hand rolling tobaccos just didn’t hit the spot. Another consideration was that I wasn’t any good at it. Ok, I’ll try a machine! Not bad but the tobacco is too damp to get a decent smoke. So I dried it a little, but when dried it was too fine, so add a coarser tobacco, now I was getting somewhere.
And that’s where I stayed happily smoking away my finely tuned cig. Buying packs of hand rolling tobacco then started to become expensive so an alternative source was found in Belgium.
And that’s how it continued for nearly 10 years until August 2013 at the age of 55, the wife and I set off on what turned out to be the last trip. We both agreed that by the time we’d used what we had, it would be harder to get the money together for another ‘baccy run’.
A few years ago I had to have a small operation, which meant a few days in hospital. How would I survive the time without a cig! I’d seen an ad for a cigarette sized cartridge type ‘electronic cigarette’. Well it did get me through the time in hospital, but was then put away. So, forward to the end of October last year, the wife says she would like to try to stop smoking. I had seen a newer type of E-cig in the tobacconist I used and thought that she should try one. So one ‘Tornado Tank compact starter kit’, and an e-liquid of her choice later, it all started. The wife was doing ok, she asked if I wanted to try it. She had a fruit flavour of 11mg it was mild for me. I thought ‘Maybe I should give it a try’. So another ‘Tornado Tank compact starter kit’ later and a tobacco 18mg liquid. I quite enjoyed it as an alternative and started to use it more and more. On the way trying different clearomizers and tanks. (The equipment list I’ll leave for a later post).I couldn’t say I stopped smoking on a particular date but looking back I’d like to think it was on the first of December.I tried a couple of cigs since, the last being on new year’s eve, both tasted revolting.If you’ve got this far, Thanks for reading. I just thought I’d share my experience.
In the early years it was a case of smoking anything I could get my hands on. Most brands of cigarette, cigars, cigarillos, I even smoked a pie for a while. I finally found a brand I could stick to and did for around 30 yrs.
Increases in taxation pushed me to rolling my own, but most of the hand rolling tobaccos just didn’t hit the spot. Another consideration was that I wasn’t any good at it. Ok, I’ll try a machine! Not bad but the tobacco is too damp to get a decent smoke. So I dried it a little, but when dried it was too fine, so add a coarser tobacco, now I was getting somewhere.
And that’s where I stayed happily smoking away my finely tuned cig. Buying packs of hand rolling tobacco then started to become expensive so an alternative source was found in Belgium.
And that’s how it continued for nearly 10 years until August 2013 at the age of 55, the wife and I set off on what turned out to be the last trip. We both agreed that by the time we’d used what we had, it would be harder to get the money together for another ‘baccy run’.
A few years ago I had to have a small operation, which meant a few days in hospital. How would I survive the time without a cig! I’d seen an ad for a cigarette sized cartridge type ‘electronic cigarette’. Well it did get me through the time in hospital, but was then put away. So, forward to the end of October last year, the wife says she would like to try to stop smoking. I had seen a newer type of E-cig in the tobacconist I used and thought that she should try one. So one ‘Tornado Tank compact starter kit’, and an e-liquid of her choice later, it all started. The wife was doing ok, she asked if I wanted to try it. She had a fruit flavour of 11mg it was mild for me. I thought ‘Maybe I should give it a try’. So another ‘Tornado Tank compact starter kit’ later and a tobacco 18mg liquid. I quite enjoyed it as an alternative and started to use it more and more. On the way trying different clearomizers and tanks. (The equipment list I’ll leave for a later post).I couldn’t say I stopped smoking on a particular date but looking back I’d like to think it was on the first of December.I tried a couple of cigs since, the last being on new year’s eve, both tasted revolting.If you’ve got this far, Thanks for reading. I just thought I’d share my experience.
