Day three and four..

At least seven cigarettes today. Picking up an e-cig is still a long way off being natural response..

Not much else I can say except that I have to try harder..

Day Two..

Habits of a lifetime are hard to break. It isn’t the cigarette alone. There is the removal from a pack, ensuring that the right end is lit, looking for an ashtray, wondering if the whole cigarette should be smoked in one session, a variety of things.

All of the above I do using minimum thought. The E-cig requires none of the above other than a quick charge.

So today has been another mix where I probably had seven regular cigarettes and the rest of the time with E-cig. Tomorrow’s target is just five regular cigarettes while I get used to the battery usage, incorporating it better within the hours that I will use it..

Day one.. Actually yesterday

 

At 06:15, I decided to make the effort to try e-cigarettes with a view to kicking the regular cigarette habit. I don’t think for a second that it is going to be easy.

You see, one of the reasons that I smoke, especially first thing in the morning, is to loosen phlegm build-up over night, a problem which has plagued me since I was a baby. Cigarette smoke irritates my bronchial tubes enough that I can cough it up, and before anybody chimes in, the remedies available in pharmacies do NOT work.

Vapour from the e-cigarette doesn’t do the same, so for the first day it has been a mix of types. I have had maybe seven real cigarettes today, which is quite a lot less than usual.