I had myself a bit of a run, it was fun, it was exciting, it also has cost me my health.
No, it's not the drama that I'm talking about, it's the nasty little habbit called smoking.
Now, I tried quitting cigarettes before, and have had a bit of a success. At one point, I had quit for 3 years! But, you may know how it is, you go out for drinks, go out to talk with your buddies as they have their cigs, think to yourself "Hey, one won't hurt", and there you are. You're buying packs again.
When I first moved to Texas from Missouri 5 years ago, I bought one of those gas station gimmicks that look like a cigarette. I was smoking a lot of hookah at the time and thought it would be a great replacement. The problem is, it tasted like a turd in plastic. So the cigarettes remained.
I wanted to quit in my head, but my actions and my job were making me smoke MORE. Most of my day is spent in my car driving from house to house, so the packs were there, easy, and helped pass the time. Up to about 2+ packs a day. I felt like shit, knew what the problem was and could not stop.
Then, I started to do the math..
Nearly $4800 a year was being spent on just me making myself miserable with nothing to show for it except stinky clothes.
I started to see news items on Juul and how much they were making in revenue.
I figured, they must have figured something out since I first tried the e-cigs.
So I bought one and.. I liked it.
I jumped straight in, looking up the different flavors and how to refill the little pods to save money.
That's when I realized the Juul, while being a nice little intro device, is overall not that great.
It's messy to refill and not really that cheap.
I took the bigger plunge and started researching vape mods and tanks. You know the ones, the big things that you make fun of the neck-beard hipsters for sucking on. It took!
And, I am now proud to say. It's been 1 month since I bought a pack of squares and light up a real cigarette.
There's a ton more to talk about, because this new obsession is about to go deeeeep. but I need more posts, ya'know?
We'll talk about it more.. Trust me.