When I started training for running a marathon, I thought I'd better pack in smoking, which is something I'd wanted to do anyway.
Sadly, my legs and ankles couldn't take hauling me around at a run or even a jog, but I did discover "Vape" kits, or vapourised nicotine.
These are better known as E-cigs, but what I didn't know is that they come in a very wide range of kits.
You have your basic vapouriser, to which you attach a clearomiser where the liquid goes, and then the better ones will give you different rates of "burn" depending on how much nicotine that you want to take in.
Now I have to add a disclaimer here and confess that I'm a big fan of nicotine.
In fact I love the stuff when I'm having a drink.
What I don't like is the delivery systems that I used before discovering "vaping".
I haven't smoked a fag in months now, I don't miss them at all, although I still have an occasional cigar.
I get my nicotine fix via the system I use.
I bought an itaste VV 3.0 (yeah I know it sounds like a tech product
) and whilst it's not top of the range, it's perfectly adequate for my needs.
I also buy different flavour liquids to use in it, which makes a nice change sometimes.
A lot of people use this system to cut down and stop altogether, and I've read about a lot of successes.
I might go down that road at some point in the future, but for now I'm perfectly happy with this new way of getting my fix.
I'm not going to try and say it's for everyone, and as well as that I still go outside to use it rather than have people giving me disgusted looks and then trying to explain it's not tobacco smoke.
It also doesn't smell like tobacco does, but because it produces a vapour which looks like tobacco smoke, people jump to the inevitable (wrong) conclusion, so I find it easier just to step out for a few minutes from the pub/club/restaurant.
Overall, I'd recommend this system.
It costs a few quid to get started (under 50 for me) but soon shows quite big savings over tobacco.
The health benefits are more immediate, and are pretty much the same (or were for me) as stopping smokes immediately.
If anyone is looking to quit for the new year or whenever, I'd recommend it.
For info, I got my kit here:
http://myepack.co.uk/There's lots of sites around, but I went with this one recommended by a mate.