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AttackZerg
Profile Blog Joined January 2003
United States7454 Posts
July 24 2010 05:11 GMT
#1
I closed my northern california stores and went into the Electronic Cigarette industry.

My first 23 days, I have quit smoking, started jogging and every day I get to watch 3-5 people make life changing decisions.

Quit Smoking Now
Our locations are in

San Jose - Valley Fair
Modesto- vintage Faire
Roseville- Galleria @ Roseville
Pleaston - Stone-ridge
Fairfield - Salano Mall


I quit smoking after smoking a pack a day for 7 years. I had no withdrawals, Anybody who you love who smokes, come check this shit out, test out what the entire internet has already heard about.

I swear on my life that this product changed my life, any struggling smokers out there need to see this, there is a way out of certain lung cancer.


I am not posting this to generate interest in our stores alone, but to spread the good word.

The Quit Smoking Now Movement is in full swing.



Pokebunny
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States10654 Posts
July 24 2010 05:13 GMT
#2
Congrats, smoking is just such a bothersome idea to me, makes me sad that it's so mainstream.
Semipro Terran player | Pokebunny#1710 | twitter.com/Pokebunny | twitch.tv/Pokebunny | facebook.com/PokebunnySC
ClanOverdosed
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
691 Posts
July 24 2010 05:15 GMT
#3
Wait so your using Electronic Cigarettes now? Those are obviously better but they are also pretty expensive...
Overdosed--www.overdosed.net
AttackZerg
Profile Blog Joined January 2003
United States7454 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-07-24 05:23:18
July 24 2010 05:17 GMT
#4
I own a share of five stores that sell them.

There are good deals too be found!

Garaman
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States556 Posts
July 24 2010 05:23 GMT
#5
i quit cold turkey a month ago.
still doing alright. BOOYA haha
well, gl with electronic cigarette quitting though
Ranix
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States666 Posts
July 24 2010 05:28 GMT
#6
Congrats! Glad you pulled through.. I've never smoked a cig and don't plan on doing so.. grandmother had terrible shit because of it. I do enjoy cigars though :D
Legends never gg
AttackZerg
Profile Blog Joined January 2003
United States7454 Posts
July 24 2010 05:28 GMT
#7
On July 24 2010 14:23 Garaman wrote:
i quit cold turkey a month ago.
still doing alright. BOOYA haha
well, gl with electronic cigarette quitting though

Right on brother!

Do you have any tips on how you were able to do it?

I would love to be able to share them with my customers!
Cambium
Profile Blog Joined June 2004
United States16368 Posts
July 24 2010 05:31 GMT
#8
I heard from my friends that "quitting" isn't hard for a short period of time (this could even be months), but then there will always be this temptation to smoke "just one" (especially when drinking, or bored waiting for someone/something), then once you start, there's no end.

Is this true?
When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
boesthius
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States11637 Posts
July 24 2010 05:32 GMT
#9
--- Nuked ---
SanguineToss
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Canada815 Posts
July 24 2010 05:38 GMT
#10
i have so much respect for people who manage to quit smoking cold turkey.
COLD TURKEY JUS FUCKING KILLLSSSSSSSS MAAAAAAAAANNNNNN


but theres no other way that i feel will keep you off permanently with no relapse or whatever

i will find a day soon when i will quit too
Lucid90
Profile Joined September 2008
Canada340 Posts
July 24 2010 05:48 GMT
#11
I dont understand why people smoke
First of all, it's expensive as shit, and im a broke ass college kid.
Second of all, it has no health benefits whatsoever and the feeling you get from smoking isn't that good either.
Still dont understand why join
My sc2 account: http://www.sc2ranks.com/us/1296221/LuciD
Zona
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
40426 Posts
July 24 2010 05:53 GMT
#12
What did your old norcal stores sell? (maybe cigs?)

Good luck on your quest and on your business.
"If you try responding to those absurd posts every day, you become more damaged. So I pay no attention to them at all." Jung Myung Hoon (aka Fantasy), as translated by Kimoleon
nttea
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Sweden4353 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-07-24 06:01:12
July 24 2010 06:00 GMT
#13
On July 24 2010 14:48 Lucid90 wrote:
I dont understand why people smoke
First of all, it's expensive as shit, and im a broke ass college kid.
Second of all, it has no health benefits whatsoever and the feeling you get from smoking isn't that good either.
Still dont understand why join

I think people experience smoking cigarettes different, just as with alcohol and other drugs. For me it was pretty damn wonderful, and once i got addicted to the nicotine satisfying it with a cigarette became even better. Quit smoking using Snus instead (:
Ranix
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States666 Posts
July 24 2010 06:21 GMT
#14
On July 24 2010 15:00 nttea wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 24 2010 14:48 Lucid90 wrote:
I dont understand why people smoke
First of all, it's expensive as shit, and im a broke ass college kid.
Second of all, it has no health benefits whatsoever and the feeling you get from smoking isn't that good either.
Still dont understand why join

I think people experience smoking cigarettes different, just as with alcohol and other drugs. For me it was pretty damn wonderful, and once i got addicted to the nicotine satisfying it with a cigarette became even better. Quit smoking using Snus instead (:


ahhh.. I love swedish snus man :D but I only usually use it when I'm away for the weekend with friends.. never used it by myself or anything
Legends never gg
HeadhunteR
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Argentina1258 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-07-24 06:32:23
July 24 2010 06:29 GMT
#15
keep on keeping on bro! After 3 moths you wont even miss them.. I quit for a year and now I started again arrgh why ?! I smoke 1 o 2 in the weekdays and 20 in the weekends so im relapsing now.. last weekend i smoked 40 cigarettes I think it was the max I ever smoked, so i have to stop before its a real addiction.. for now i wont be smoking for a while as I have no car and underwent surgery in my left foot so Keep it on bro!! Be proud of yourself its hard to quit....
in The Kong line forever
Fredflintstone
Profile Joined January 2009
439 Posts
July 24 2010 06:31 GMT
#16
Congrats! I quit 1 year 20 days ago after being about a 1.5 packs a day smoker for about 3 years. Quitting actually wasn't that bad, cause I really did want to stop, I did have cravings etc, but got over them after about 4 weeks. Still to this day I randomly have super vivid dreams about smoking, I can feel the smoke in my lungs and the nicotine fulfilling the craving so well, in the dream, and sometimes it leaves me with the memory of feeling like I actually smoked.
Disregard
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
China10252 Posts
July 24 2010 06:40 GMT
#17
My father has been smoking for 25 years, most of my family have a certain tolerance to it... I cant even take one whiff passing someone on the street without totally choking on it. Seem to be really sensitive to cigarette/tobacco smoke.
"If I had to take a drug in order to be free, I'm screwed. Freedom exists in the mind, otherwise it doesn't exist."
waffling1
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
599 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-07-24 06:58:58
July 24 2010 06:52 GMT
#18
r u serious?

of course u dont' have withdrawals... ur not quitting nicotine!

u really think those vapors are absolutely innert and have no effect on you?

ppl on the patch may just as well say "i quit smoking" too.

the real goal of the patch, or any other form of alternative nicotine is to wean down on it. a lesser goal would just be to keep taking the nicotine while avoiding the cigarette chemicals, but that's not really quitting. stop making it sound like u quit.

why do u think the E-cig is being all hyped if it's main thing is to deliver the nicotine? there's already a nicotine deliverer without the other chemicals of cigarettes. the nicotine patch. the answer is that it's more profitable than the patch. and it's not that hard for companies to get doctors on board for promotion.

also, ppl have too much faith in the bearers of science. science is all sound and dandy, but the people regularly twist, obscure, hide, data, studies, and conclusions. exmaples : aspartame, glutamate, NSAIDs, holding back laetrile on faulty grounds, etc etc etc. I say again, do u really think that vapor is innert and harmless?

u know a few decades ago scientists and doctors were promoting ozone inhaling? they had ozone generating machines and whatnot.
doctors also recommended smoking the old fashioned cigarettes too.



congrats for not truly quitting, and getting suckered into paying more than you need to pay for nicotine.

1) buy patch instead.
2) eventually quit the patch.
3) save $$$
4) enjoy true health.

i know my tone isn't very nice but u do what u want with the info.
commendations on the decision for regular jogging. that's something everyone, regardless of smoking status can do.
Perdition
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
American Samoa77 Posts
July 24 2010 06:54 GMT
#19
On July 24 2010 14:48 Lucid90 wrote:
I dont understand why people smoke
First of all, it's expensive as shit, and im a broke ass college kid.
Second of all, it has no health benefits whatsoever and the feeling you get from smoking isn't that good either.
Still dont understand why join

I concur completely. Nicotine constricts arteries. That includes electronic cigarettes.
The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least.
waffling1
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
599 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-07-24 06:57:05
July 24 2010 06:56 GMT
#20
On July 24 2010 15:54 Perdition wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 24 2010 14:48 Lucid90 wrote:
I dont understand why people smoke
First of all, it's expensive as shit, and im a broke ass college kid.
Second of all, it has no health benefits whatsoever and the feeling you get from smoking isn't that good either.
Still dont understand why join

I concur completely. Nicotine constricts arteries. That includes electronic cigarettes.


it's the image of coolness. it's the only reason why ppl start. even starters hate it at first. they keep at it b/c of peer pressure and the image pressure.

heck u even see the SCV in SCV2 with a cig.

if the FDA were really looking out for us, they'd ban nicotine, not to mention aspartame as well as lifting the ban on the cure for cancer.
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