My name is Delius Roach and I am an ex-Smoker thanks to e-cigs, personal nicotine vaporizer or how ever else you want to refer to them as. I started smoking my parent??s cigarettes when I was around 5 years of age. I steadily increased the amount I would smoke until the age of 18 when I began to smoke heavily. Over the last 20 years I tried multiple times to quit smoking. I tried changing to smokeless tobacco products, the patch, nicotine gum, Welbutrin and most recently Chantix. None of them worked. It was not until my wife and I tried an electronic cigarette that can be purchased at a convenience store that I finally was able to cut down on my smoking. A few months later I was able to stop completely thanks to the very affordable market of personal vapeing devises and the support I received on e-cigaretteforum. I have now gone a bit over 100days smoke free for the first time in my life. I suffer from asthma that have had since I was a child. I have been on medication for it since I was 7 years old. You would think that would be enough to stop me from smoking but it was not. I am also a Registered Nurse. You also may think that my knowledge of healthcare and the risk of smoking would be enough to quit but it also was not enough. My asthma was so bad that I have ??rescue? inhalers stationed all over my life. I have one in my home office, one in my truck, one in my office as work and I always also carried one in my front pocket. Since I quit smoking and have started vapeing I now have the energy and the lung capacity to take my dogs out for a 1.5-2 mile walk every day. I no longer use the ??rescue? inhaler that I have kept handy my entire life. I barely even use the other combination inhaler that is prescribed to me. I used to use it religiously as prescribed, twice a day. Now I may use it 3-4 times a week at most. I have been able to alter the strength of nicotine from where I first began vapeing. I started at 24mg and now am down to 10mg. I have the ultimate goal of getting off nicotine for good. I have tried a cigarette since I quit smoking. They do not taste, smell or feel good. I will never go back to being a smoker and I hope I get to keep my ability to continue vapeing so that I never feel like I have no other option.
