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In two months I will be celebrating my 3rd anniversary of being smoke free - after smoking analogs for 34 years. I have no desire to quit vaping, but if anything happened that I had to quit (see above mentioned government stuff), I could do it. No way I would ever go back to analogs either. Vaping makes me happy and everyone around here wants me to stay happy (something I don't understand ), so I plan to keep vaping. But...I could see myself quitting, too. I've gone for hours without even thinking about vaping and I never did that with analogs. I'm also known to vape a lot. If I'm sitting in front of the computer or the TV, I chain vape. I think the least I should do is vape for the same number of years I smoked. Seems like the fair thing to do. I've got 31 years to go. I'll decide then.

I was just sitting here vaping and patting myself on the back for my apparent success at beating cigarettes, when it occurred to me that surely, my new habit must someday be broken as well. I've been analog free since April 8, 2012, and plan to reduce my nicotine consumption by stepping down from my current level of 18 mg, to 0 mg in 6 mg increments. Once I reach my goal of zero-nicotine (vaping for taste), what then? I love vaping...love it more than I ever did smoking. I love the gear. I love the apparently limitless variety of flavors available. I love the cash savings over analogs. I love the whole "act" of vaping...and that's gonna be hard to quit. If anyone here has devised a plan to use vaping as a smoking cessation tool, and not just a smoking replacement tool, I would really like to hear about it.

I posted this up after 6 months of vaping last year. Total Cholesterol was 225 when I quit analogs. 6 months of vaping... Test Date: 06/29/2011 Value Units H/L Reference Cholesterol: 172 mg/dL (100-240) LDL Cholesterol: 77 mg/dL (40-160) HDL Cholesterol: 74 mg/dL (30-80) Triglyceride: 106 mg/dL (50-300) Chol/HDL ratio: 2.3 (2-5) A year and a half later, not much has changed....test date 08/03/2012 Cholesterol 178 LDL 79 HDL 76 Triglyceride 116 Chol/HDL ratio 2.0 I have chain vaped since Dec of 2010.... Just thought some of you shorter termers might be interested....

I've just had a ton of blood work done since my seizures started and after 3 years of heavy vaping I can also report my blood work looks good

My triglycerides seem to be over 300 if I vape before testing.My research seems to point to the way the body uses the PG or VG it turns to sugar.BUt is rapidly filtered from the system along with the nicotine.Like you my cholesterol is awesome.