Just a quick check in to keep tracking my vaping progress. Today is the 6 week mark, or 42 days since I last smoked a cigarette.
Which is:
- 630 cigarettes not smoked.
- Roughly £315 of cigarettes not bought.
- Cost of vaping: Initial set up £92. Liquids and coils: £52. Total: £144.
- Saving: £171.
- Health cost of smoking averaged at 10 minutes of lifespan means 6,300 minutes more. Or 105 hours. Or 4.4 days. Likely at a higher level of health.
- And despite my resistance to mid-life Lycra, I’ve started exercising again. Just the 20+ press-ups and squats per day, but it’s noticeably easier in terms of breathlessness than it was. Although my arms and shoulders are as weak as they were before I started the first time before Christmas.
- Plus my circulation has noticeably improved, particularly in my feet and toes. No more ice cold feet, or waking up in the middle of the night with cramp in my feet.
- Finally my sense of smell is now like a cross between a superpower and a Bill Hicks sketch
“Someone is smoking a cigarette 2 miles away”
“Has someone 3 houses away used manure on their garden?”
“Is that a dead body?”
And from today I’m going to be trying a lower nicotine level mixture, moving from 12mg of nicotine down to 6mg during the day. Fortunately with my back up Eleaf iStick as well as my Aspire, I can play around and it’s not a big deal if it doesn’t work out yet.
So there you go. Expect another update when I get to the 2 month mark.
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