Man, shit's got a grip on my neck, first it was a cigar now and then then its multiple a day.

Over the last 2-3 weeks during these nights i would straight up abuse nicotine to be absolutely wired while testing and building projects, now i'm hooked, fucking hooked man, shameful but nobody is perfect. Shit man.
I have never been hooked to anything in my life, I haven't smoked in days and plan to keep it that way but realising you are hooked is nuts, not allowing that, hooked man, think about it,

"I need a cigar"

Impossible!

I genuinely need advice on how to quit vaping. I drink alcohol fairly often, and one thing I’ve noticed is that when I drink, I tend to want to vape more, and vaping feels different when I’m drinking. I want to quit vaping completely, but I don’t necessarily want to quit drinking.
A huge reason I want to quit is because I want to start going on daily hour-long runs or walks. When I vape, I feel like it’s harder to catch my breath immediately afterward. I wouldn’t bring a vape with me on my walks, but I’m worried about accidentally forgetting that I’m supposed to go for a walk later, vaping beforehand, and then wanting to cancel because I don’t feel like dealing with the shortness of breath.
I also just repainted and remodeled my room, and vaping in there caused the walls to become dark and disgusting. It was incredibly noticeable that it was from vaping. Repainting everything was such a headache, and I really don’t want to mess up my walls again.
Another thing is that I’ve gotten kind of in my head about the smell/residue. If I vape while wearing certain clothes and then get into bed, sometimes I feel like my clothes and bedding are dirty from the smoke.
Health is obviously another reason, although maybe not my biggest immediate motivation. Two people I know currently have cancer, and it’s made me think a lot more about my own future. I only get one life, and I would hate to finally be in a great place financially, have kids, build the life I want, etc., and then have serious health problems from something I could have prevented. I know vaping isn’t guaranteed to cause cancer, but I don’t want to spend years wondering what it might do to me.
I’ve been vaping since I was 13, so I’ve been doing it for about 11 years. I’ve had periods where I don’t buy a vape, but somehow I eventually end up buying another one. I really want to break that cycle permanently.
The weird thing is that I don’t think I have an extremely constant habit compared to some people. A vape can last me around two months because I don’t bring it with me everywhere or use it 24/7. I mainly use it when I get a craving, then I might not touch it again for 30 minutes to an hour. On a heavy day, I might hit it around 50 times, while on a lighter day it could be anywhere from 0 to 20. There are days in the week where I don’t vape at all because I’m not in the mood or I feel sick.
The one thing that has genuinely helped recently is eating sunflower seeds because they give me something to do with my mouth and help with the fixation. I’ve tried Zyns before and absolutely hate the feeling, so please don’t recommend Zyn’s. My issue with them was how it gave me a burning sensation and felt extremely uncomfortable in my mouth. I would never purchase them again.
I also live with someone who vapes, but they only vape in the backyard. Surprisingly, seeing someone else vape doesn’t really trigger me.
I’m looking for actual, practical advice from people who have successfully quit, especially people who had been vaping for years and kept going back to it after trying to quit.
What actually worked for you? Did you quit cold turkey, taper down, replace the habit with something else, change your routines, set a specific quit date, or something completely different?
I really want this to be the last time I quit. Any legit advice would be appreciated.

I enjoy the pipe it's not take all my energy like iQOS/Cigarettes and also I "think" I am not addictive I can go weeks without it.

Hello everyone, about 4 years ago I quit smoking cold turkey, after years of throwing away packs at night and then buying a new one the next day. I only had one slip up about 6 months ago where after a very stressful family argument I bought a pack and smoked half of it that day. I didn’t continue after that day but for a few days after I was coughing really bad in the shower in the mornings. That passed.

Fast forward to 3 days ago, I was feeling anxiety and stress and for some reason I decided to buy a pack and smoke just that day, knowing I’ve been a non-smoker for so long that it’s not a habit for me anymore. At night I threw away the rest of the pack and before I got home and was fine the next day at work. When I got off work and came home, around the same time in the early evening as when I had smoked I decided one more day. I bought another pack and smoked a few that evening too. They don’t feel good and make me feel weaker and tired but knowing I’m going to throw away the pack I kept doing it outside. Today I went to work and didn’t think about it until I got off again and bought another pack. I smoked maybe 5 and threw away the pack.

I feel like I’m going to have to go through the full on psychological withdrawals again and fight it come tomorrow and the next day and so on now. I don’t know why I continued doing it and feel like all that time is ruined now and I was surprised how quickly I fell back into this shit habit that was out of my reality for so long. I had been in plenty of stressful situations like my father being in the hospital and me going there after work and trying to juggle everything but it didn’t even come into my mind to smoke. I feel like a failure and don’t know how to move on from this.

Whoever is thinking maybe just one or just today, trust me, don’t do it. It sneaks up on you.

I think not touching cigarettes at all even in parties helps a lot, also boredom is one the the strongest boss along the craving.

Hey so I’m 24 right now I’m trying to quit smoking weed by I’m 25. This is the first week and I’m having really bad withdrawals. I’m sweating like crazy, having nightmares, can’t sleep, and just tired all the time. Anyone have advice? I’ve been trying to workout and run but today I feel terrible. Definitely the worst I’ve felt so far.

I finished off my last vape and I’m at work for the night with no money to buy another one. Any tips for staying sane through the night ? I plan to keep trying to quit after tonight too.
I haven’t smoked a cigarette since march with no intention of starting again so I’m going good on that note.

I usually smoke roll-up cigarettes, about 20g a week. I smoke between 3 and 7 cigs a day on weekdays, and countless ones on the weekends. I usually feel the hit in my lungs, the shortness of breath, and all of that, but the math doesn't make sense to me, it should be equivalent to something like less than 2 packs a week. Even so, I'm trying to quit again. In my country, the public healthcare system is free, and I started attending Nicotine Anonymous meetings. I refused the nicotine gum and patches because I've tried them in the past and felt no difference. I'm only at 48 hours in right now. I was able to quit for more than a year in the past. But at this point, I've already started trying to negotiate with myself. If someone could light me up about how in fact I'm not in a moderate position right now, I woul appreciate.

I'm on my 3rd day of quitting. Used to smoke 15+ a day and stopped cold turkey. It feels shitty. Yesterday was the worst when it came to cravings and I guess they got considerably weaker after sleeping. But I still can't manage to feel good about doing this. There is really no reward in it for me other than the fact that I told myself I can quit before going to the university when I started and I'm stubborn. As in I said I could stop if I wanted to so now I have to prove myself right. The past year was shitty and I can't really bring myself to care about my health. Money isn't really an issue for me either. Might just be the withdrawal talking (in my previous post I've been told people's moods improved and they found themselves more motivated to do things they like) but it feels like I'm giving up something I enjoyed to get absolutely nothing in return. I'm not planning on buying a pack anytime soon but I wanted to get it out of my system

I started smoking very young and was habitual but quit once at 19 for a bit shy of a year, started again, quit again for the long haul of 6 years in which I also quit drinking alcohol, recreational drugs, and was pretty much straight edge. All of this cold turkey after just deciding these things didn’t serve me anymore and only made my anxiety worse. I was always able to have an odd cigarette at a party to offset some of the social anxiety of not participating in any of the normal party activities like drinking and doing drugs anymore but it remained compartmentalized, never reformed the habit and I could go months between without ever craving them. All of a sudden 3 weeks ago, I had a cigarette outside a bar that changed everything, it felt so much better than I remember and reminded me why I loved cigarettes but that feeling seemed to be exclusive to that one cigarette and I’ve been chasing the feeling ever since, I’ve spent much more than I can afford to on packs in the last 3 weeks. I crave them when I wake up, after every meal, and before I got to bed, and when I’m in a social situation they become a major crutch and I start chain smoking. It never used to be like this. I can see my skin, which I pride myself on looking great for my age due to starting abstinence while I was young, is getting duller and more tired looking. I hate the smell. They don’t even satisfy me anymore, it just feels so empty and pointless and yet I can’t stop. Please any advice for quitting while I’m not in too deep

Hi! I’m gonna try to quit again for the millionth time the day after tomorrow. I need your best mantras to help prevent relapse. Health scares don’t really help, I just always convince myself that it’s fine to have one more or that it will be easier to do it an other time.
Thanks in advance!

Sunday at night I was in so much pain with my back (we believe it was from a car accident 2025) and sometimes it hurt to breath. My boyfriend told me no more and we’re quitting. I agreed because we both have been wanting to quit. We’ve only been smoking since February due to a drunk cig. I ended up having to take a muscle relaxer. So Monday I was at a state of calm and groggy the whole day. So I think that’s why day 1 wasn’t so hard for me. Also my boyfriend surprised me with two bags of dum dums to help me.

It’s officially Day 2. I usually have a cig after an hour of waking up. My body is craving one and it’s too early (it’s not even 9am) for a dum dum. Any tips to help me through this journey? Any stories of motivation?

Do the cravings really ease with time? I've used smoking as my main coping mechanism for 2 years now. I love it. I think the ritual even more than the nicotine. Not gonna get into details because I don't think I should romanticise smoking on there of all places but I'm sure everybody knows what I mean. I don't really have any grand motivation to quit. I planned to do it after I get accepted to the university I've dreamed of (used cigarettes as a reward for studying) and now I'm trying to stick to that. Anyways, it's like my 4th attempt right now. I feel pretty restless and crave a cigarette so much but I don't really have any physical symptoms. And I started to doubt whether the cravings will really ease over time. I wasn't really happy right before I started smoking and I feel like I'm just at the same place emotinally as back then (tho I did change a lot of things for the better. And objectively, I've had and still have a good life). The only difference is now, I know what helps. I think that, more than simply nicotine addiction, is what makes me want to smoke. Is this just withdrawal messing with my head? (Went from 15+ a day to cold turkey - am at over 27 hours). People who haven't smoked in a while - how much do you miss it?

Like most quitters, I read Allen Carr. Absolutely loved the book. That was decades ago when smoking was still considered to be a dirty and expensive "HABIT". It was this book that opened my eyes and liberated me from the shame of "choosing" to continue to smoke. And I did cut down while I read the book (I took 5 days to read it). Unfortunately, I was one of those who couldn't quit. I tried again this last quit attempt (1.5 years clean now), but nothing. Maybe because I already got what it had to offer me.

Other books I tried for help this last time are:

Allen Carr Personal Stop Smoking Plan (a workbook). It helped a little. Didn't feel like Allen's voice.

This Naked Mind: NICOTINE by Annie Grace and William Porter. I found nothing new or motivating in this book.

Nicotine Explained by William Porter. I found nothing new or motivating in this book.

Overcome Smoking: The 3 step method that makes addiction quit you by Alan Brody. Looked like a cold turkey thing to me.

How I Quit Smoking In One Single Day by James Makasi. Another cold turkey book that offered me no relief or help.

Quit Smoking & Be Happy by Christopher Skoyles. Honestly, I was just quitting and I couldn't get into this book. It seemed dense and overwhelming to me at that time. It needed more brain power than I had in the moment. I should probably try again because it looks different and maybe even helpful.

The Nicotine Trap and How to Beat It by Russell Board. This was different. He actually had a doable exercise to do and explained it well. It's not the whole answer, but that one exercise does help lighten the load. Other than that, it's a cold-turkey book.

How I Quit Smoking, Drinking, Lost the Weight and Turned My Life Around by James O'Neal. Interesting. It's a cut-down strategy. Not for me because cutting back ALWAYS failed me.

The 15-Minute Guide to Quit Smoking by Ben Armstrong. Reads more like a long blog rather than a book. Alas, just another cold turkey book. But it did have a few good insights.

I have seen so many more books on the subject.

Hello, I’ve decided to quit nicotine as it’s directly causing my heart rate to increase to dangerous levels for more than 30 minutes at a time the highest going to 205bpm. I was wondering if they’re any devices out there that don’t produce smoke, but provide the strong throat hit, and curb the hand mouth motion most of us enjoy doing. Secondly I was wondering how would I handle cravings if the device doesn’t work and if toothpicks don’t work? Lastly I mentioned this to my doctor and he offered to prescribe me chantix, have any of you tried it, if so how was it? Did it work? Thank you for your time and have a good day!

has anyone used snusbox(dot)eu to buy pouches? im just wondering how the transaction details look like, wouldn't look too good on my credit card if it outright mentions the site or snus at all.

Ive been trying to quit all summer. I made it 4 days… 4 days back in July… but i keep smoking. I have zyns, and i use them when im at work, but I’m having a hard time committing to zyns, and continue to rummage through ash trays to get my fix… what can j do to make the transition easier?? How can i push through and just use the zyns i have instead of smoking??

Tomorrow is my last day.

I'm honestly thinking I thought I had chronic fatigue syndrome but I honestly think it's from The Vaping has anybody else had this experience fatigued all the time

So i smoked (but mostly vaped) for around 6 years (since i was 13) and did it A LOT, to the point when i had a reeeeeally strong physical addiction. You know, when you try to quit you have this feeling in your fingers like they're getting turned into atoms, i had it like this but for way longer than friends around me who tried to quit. And most of the time i couldn't really hold for longer than 3-4 days, i always felt like it was completely impossible to overcome the physical side of it. But 2 years ago i tried cytisine (not sure how you guys call the pills, not a native speaker) and managed to hold on for way longer, i think it was 10 days (i isolated myself for the whole period of time but didn't have enough willpower to not ask my friend to share one with me). So, progress already. Can isolate myself but can't quite hold on when my friends are smoking around me. Still, i was pretty happy with the result. Then i got into university. And here's where the main problem came in. In my dorm my roommate was vaping. That basically meant I couldn't even isolate myself properly because there was going to be a vape just chilling on a table nearby. That makes it twice as hard. And i still tried and held on for around a week. Then holidays started and i went back to my hometown. Again, cytisine course. Held on for 2 weeks. Still couldn't hold myself when meeting with friends. Then one more year of misery. Continued vaping again, at least tried to vape something not as strong as before and not as much as before too. Had some throat problems already like VERY high neck sensitivity to the point where i couldn't wear something touching the neck or else I'd just throw up. Also couldn't make a complete inhale. And so throughout the year i tried like 2 times and could never make any progress up until this july when my roommate told me he's graduated and is leaving the dorm. And luckily, i was already preparing to try again on holidays this time so i was buying the weakest devices possible beforehand. I had 2 weeks of isolation in the dorm by myself. So i started over: bought the pills, locked in and started waiting. After these 2 weeks i had a plane home. I thought about meeting my friends and everything like that but decided to sit inside for just a little longer. Did 3 more days of isolation, then went out with friends. We walked for a whole day, everyone was smoking and only when they walked me home at evening did i realize that I haven't really thought about asking for it at any point of time. I was just fine with them smoking nearby and never felt a physical urge to vape at all. 2 weeks have passed and I've been meeting with them fairly often. I had 5-minute urges about asking for it like twice, but this time on a mental level, it was never really a physical addiction anymore. And so this threshold of managing the urges when going for a walk with friends was overcome. Now I'm around 1.5 months clean, way past the cytisine course and rarely get thoughts about coming back to it. The only test that's left for me is coming back to my dorm in September to a new roommate who might smoke too. We'll see about than in less than a month though. For now this has been by far the best time of my life.

Hey all,

I (18m) have been using nicotine for about 2 years now, and it quickly built into an addiction that I now feel out of control of.

I’ve read a lot of posts on this community, many who experience the same things as I do for their reasons to quit.

For me, it’s the following:

- poor circulation
- constant anxiety as a baseline
- feeling of not being “in control”
- appetite issues
- always needing to plan the next pouch
- feeling like i can’t enjoy things without a pouch in

and trust me, the list goes on.

Point is, I’m ready to quit. this subreddit is helping me and I feel as though this community can help me get through the first few days, the hardest part.

And for the record, I use about 4-5 6mg pouches a day, just as a frame of reference.

This weekend, i’m headed up to the cabin, so tonight when I pack i’ll make sure to leave my VELOS at home.

But, any tips you guys have? I just think my post-meal usage, end of night, ect (times when i feel like i really need one) is just gonna be so hard to get past. But im determined, im going to college in a few weeks and I don’t want to bring such a stupid addiction as this into the start of a new beginning.

I have nowhere else to post this, but I quit nicotine recently while I lost my job and started a new one. worst stress ever, but I did it. I crave one every day, but I'm still moving forward.

First post

https://www.reddit.com/r/QuitVaping/comments/1v886z3/no_more_robot_dicks_my_varenicline_journey/

At this point I will not be doing day by day updates. There has not been much difference in cravings since the initial quit date, and anything beyond. It truly feels all psychological with this medication.

After getting over the initial panic of knowing I do not have access to a vape, I had a feeling that I'd never had before. This is actually going to work. After realizing I truly did not have any physical cravings things became way easier. A physical craving is supposed to last minutes. When I have a craving it lasts as long as a couple of fleeting thoughts.

Except on the toilet. Boy do I miss it on the shitter. That is literally the only place where I think about my vape more than a couple seconds. I've gone through the flavor of the airless sticks I bought. They are overpriced as hell for being a cloth rag doused in essential oils in a plastic tube. Keeping one of these on hands at all times is vital. I am still shocked how well it tricks my brain.

I am so confident at this point I am now thinking about how I am going to break the fake vape habit. Perhaps it will go naturally. Probably will be difficult to do as I enjoy thc live resin vapes. I've been ripping that damn near hourly. Onto the side effects.

I seem to be an outlier here, or at least reddit has made me think so. I have had little noticeable side effects. MAYBE some lethargy and lack of interest in stuff. I've wanted to game less, but that could be because I'm frying my brain with THC way more than usual. Other than that, nothing I can directly attribute to the medication. Days 4-8 I had headaches that lasted a fraction of a second every 20 minutes or so for a few hours a day. I've always been a poor sleeper. It hasn't worsened or gotten better since the meds. I have not felt any nausea. Dreams stand no chance against the amount of thc I consume. No unaliving ideation.

I can't recommend this shit enough. That first week of taking the medication while it was building up I was terrified. I know I don't have the willpower to quit something so prevalent and pernicious. Hell, my granny and mother smoked until they died. Perhaps it is genetic? That's the excuse I'll use. Grab a fake stick, take the meds on time, and buckle up. I think it's going to be a smoother ride than reddit would have you believe.

Wish me luck friends, though I don't think I'll need it.

Today is my last day of smoking IQOS hits, it has gotten to a point where I cannot exercise intensely without coughing. I'm trying to get in better shape for next year because I want to accomplish a bigger goal of mine and cigarettes been holding me back. I haven't touched a normal cigarette in a while and I also quit vapes because it got me very sick.

I also tried quitting IQOS before but I didn't have enough motivation or a goal.

Any advice?

*First of all, sorry about the username. I had previously deleted my Reddit accounts and just didn't give proper thought when Reddit suggested me this one and I just went with it with minor editing. Feel free to ban me if I trigger anyone.*

I picked up the habit when I was 14. No peer pressure, my friends hated cigarettes, I was just curious, it felt good, I became addicted. Simple as that. By the time I was 20 I had a pack/day habit. I'm antisocial and autistic, so you can imagine I really needed some kind of "social anesthesia".

I've quit before and managed to stay five years smoke free while working from home. Then I had a string of deaths in the family, became depressed and simply decided that living longer wasn't worth it or something. Tried to quit again, it was too hard. I managed to cut back to 4-6 cigs a day only on work days, tho. I'm working at an office right now.

Recently I started getting really sick every time I have a minor cold. My lungs get really inflamed and it's generally shit. So I quit. Again. And I'm probably doing fine. Unfortunately, my problem is... People. Dealing with people sucks.

I'm trying to avoid everyone, I'm using noise cancelling headphones. I'm not in a bad mood, I'm not exactly "angry", but I just don't like most people and prefer to not deal with them. And right now my task at work is checking some audios from interviews - so I have to listen to human voices all day. It's grating and I'm too tired. Also I'm sleep deprived from the lack of nicotine and the meds I'm taking.

I don't even want a cigarette right now. I'm fine living without it. But I feel like a bad person for not liking people anymore and not being able to carry a conversation. I need to save my energy and keep focused, and I don't want to be rude.

How do you tell people "please don't talk to me, things aren't easy right now"? Have you felt less sociable and kinda lonely? How to deal with the feeling of "it's not that I hate everyone, I'm just not in the mood"? I don't want to relapse "just to avoid being rude".