SMOKING! Ewww.
Remember when I quit smoking? Remember BWBW that Diane and I started, bloggers without butts week? hehe.
Yeah, I started back.
I’m quitting again. Sort of.
I’ve been smoking for 30 years. That’s right. I started when I was 13. I’ve quit so many times. “Quit.” I’ve tried nicotene patches, nicotene gum, and recently I even tried the quit smoking pill, Chantix. And yes, I’ve quit cold turkey several times. I always go back, eventually. This time I’m trying a different approach.
I’m not going to quit at all. I’m going to smoke something different. The Electronic Cigarette! Have you heard of this? Have you seen it lately growing in popularity?
Yes, that's an e-cig
Basically, it’s a plastic stick that looks like a cigarette. You suck on it and get water vapor, inhale it, exhale it. It looks like you’re smoking. It feels like you’re smoking. And it gives you nicotene. It doesn’t give you tar or other poisons, or put smoke into your lungs. The “filter” is a cartridge. They come in flavors too, like menthol and cherry. The “pack” that it comes in is a charger that plugs into the wall. The cigarette is battery operated.
So, I can smoke, without the smoke, without all the poisons, without smelling like smoke, without bothering anyone. I can even smoke at work, in the building, if I want to. (Although, I think I would feel strange doing so.)
I ordered the whole kit online for 18 bucks. I can get the cartridge refills at a tobacco store, cheap. When I ordered it, I didn’t realize I was ordering it from Hong Kong until it arrived. The instructions are obviously translated from Chinese to English, so I had a little trouble understanding them. These are my favorite two paragraphs from the instructions:
Per cartridge can be smoked around 150 mouths. Please change the cartridge once the atomization is light.
and
If smoking difficulty or sucking heavily when sucking, please take the cigarette to hit the desk lightly, and then you can use in normally.
Heh. I don’t want to share it with 150 mouths, so I’ll assume that means each cartridge will give you 150 drags. And as for the second one… Sirs, PLEASE! That is QUITE PERSONAL!!!!
Hehe ’sucking heavily when sucking’, they certainly think of every possibility!
Heh.
Hmm, Richard’s comment impels, How does one handle the existential contradiction of sucking withOUT sucking? OTOH, compared to some Mass MEdia Podpeople who get paid for their fluency with the English language, these examples are stunningly good English…
I can distinctly recall the day, more than 20 years ago, when I discarded all my (known–20 years later I found a small stash of pipe tobacco, old, stale, dry, brittle) pipe tobacco and cigars. Shredded the cigars I had with me onto the ground, tossed loose tobacco and gave away my pipes and cigars.
Wasn’t really as easy as it looks in retrospect. And I still miss the tactile feel, gesturing tool, “thing to fiddle with” aspects of a pipe and the cigar-smoking “ritual”–rolling it, snipping one end, long, slow lighting proceedure, etc.
And the tastes. I can still recall them.
But they’re gone, now, even the old stash of dry, stale, brittle pipe tobacco. I smoked it. In a lil old bulldog pipe I found with the stash.
David, your description was so good, you made me want a pipe or cigar.
Wan ting a pipe or cigar is OK. I still do, sometimes. Just don’t smoke ‘em. At least, I dont, anymore.
I’ll be in your cheering section, Mel. (BTW, I still chew LOTS of sugarless gum… :-))
OMG! I got to laughing on the translation. That shit is funny.
Take the cig and hit the desk lightly. But what if you’re on a bus?
“But what if you’re on a bus?”
Some anti-smoking nazi will bag all over you, despite the fact thjat it’s NOT a cigarette.
OMGROFLMAO! “sucking heavily while sucking” HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I had a serious craving for a cigarette on the way home last week. Every time I check out at Food Lion by the tobacco counter I crave a cigar. Then I think “It’s been over 8 years. You can make it one more day.” On the other hand, my mom quit for 18 years and then started back. She started again after Dad died, and I refuse to nag her about it.
Anywho, good luck sucking that electronic cigarette. LOL
Wow! I want to try them.