Day 2 of the electronic cigarette

Quitting smoking makes people BORING!  It's the 'junkie' thinking, it's all you think about, you talk about it too much, and I've realised that even with the electronic cigarette that provides nicotine, you STILL need willpower!

So yesterday I bought 10 fags anyway and at one point almost felt sick smoking one after an electronic one, but today no fags!

1) It's not a replacement for the real thing. Real cigarettes are more satisfying. You still need some will power to avoid the real thing.

2) You really do inhale and blow out 'smoke' (vapour). If you suck really hard, you can actually cough.

3) It doesn't stay charged long, nowhere near 24 hours. I'm charging it before going out tonight, hope it lasts at 4am in a gig/club!

4) It has an electronic red light the tip that is automated when you inhale. When the battery's dead, it doesn't light up. What's really funny is that right before the battery dies, the 'cherry' actually flashes on and off! I cannot wait until I'm out somewhere and someone sees the end of my cigarette flashing on and off!

5) It's bad in a way because you know you can smoke anywhere, so you want to! I mean, I want to smoke in the metro now, yesterday I had a quick puff in a lift where I was working.

6) When you smoke a normal cigarette you light it, and then finish it. With this one you can just have a quick puff or two, so you could easily put it to your lips 30 or 40 times a day!

7) It's also weird having a few puffs and then just dropping it into my handbag, doing that feels like it's 'lit'!

 One of those little cartridges is like 8 to 10 cigarettes at the most, (not 150 'mouths' or whatever), so I'm learning when to know to change them twice a day (the red light doesn't get activated when it's empty).

So I've got to stick with it. Right now I'm wondering if I'm putting MORE nicotine into my system, but so they say smokers are also addicted to all the other shit in fags (I think I like the effect of the carbon monoxide), so I need to give it some days yet and see if my lungs clear with no tar, etc.

It's too early to give a full verdict, it's weird, and you really do have to tell yourself you won't smoke real cigarettes anymore, but going cold turkey made me ill, I was depressed and had to take a day off work last January! Hopefully if I stick with this I'll notice a difference in a few days.

(Haha, that is so not a smiley icon with sunglasses, that was item #8!)