My wife and I met nine years ago. We were both working serving jobs. She was a waitress as this cafe and I was waiting tables next door at a pizza joint. I had never been in the cafe before. Never had a need to, I don’t drink coffee. But this one day, we were both standing out behind the building trying to smoke. She was fumbling in her pockets and purse and couldn’t find a lighter. Here I come, knight with shiny white Bic and from that first light of her smoke, she smiled and it stole my heart.
We smoked together for just about all of our marriage. It never really seemed like a big deal, it was so common for us that we looked past the butt filled ashtrays that littered our front porch. We grew used to the smell of smoke on our clothes and forgot others weren’t as used to it. So many people blame things on being young and foolish and I guess I can say the same for us, but as we’ve grown up we started to worry about our health and our wallets. If we tried quitting once over the last two years, I bet we tried over ten times.
For a while I was pretty convinced that this wasn’t going to happen. I really thought that I would be dependent on cigarettes forever. One day I was driving home from work when I heard a commercial on the radio about these electronic cigarette. I hadn’t much more than got into the house when I called for my wife and we checked them out online. We were willing to try anything! We ordered a couple of the kits, ready to try to quit again. Well it’s been six months since then and neither of us have touched a regular cigg and I don’t think we ever will again. The one thing that brought us together in the beginning has been kicked to the group and it only brought us even closer.
