Day three no analogs

[eric1973]

It's been 2 months for me with no analogs. Congrats to everyone!

 

[Messalina]

Messalina, you might want to consider upping the nicotine during the day at least - it might be too low for you and upping it might also help with the daytime sleepiness. You could keep the lower nic for nighttime if you find you are otherwise staying awake - remember though trouble sleeping could be because of the combination of cigarettes and vaping in the evening, rather than just that the juice is too high.

Strong suggestion: change your habit so that you have your evening cigarettes before the kids are in bed (remind hubby he's supporting you in reducing your smoking so maybe he wouldn't mind taking on some extra childcare duty ...) then come back inside to tuck them in etc - I think you will find that is helpful.
... in otherwords yes I am fairly sure you are at least somewhat addicted to the "at-last-I-can-relax-without-any-demands-on-me" ... and who can blame you; it is a great feeling! Just try to divorce it from the cigarette association. Good luck!
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Thanks for the advice--I am going to try the higher nic during the day, and the lower at night. I know I also,have to change my mindset a bit!

 

[-Optics-]

Awesome progress, keep it up! After 10 days of no analogs I tried one puff to just see how it would feel and it was disgusting. I knew right there I was done, and now it's coming up on 1 year and no analogs. Love it!

 

[HK-47]

Tank146, glad to hear it buddy! Keep up the good work!

Also thank you for your service. I am a former military man myself, and always go out of my way to thank my fellow police, firefighters, EMT's, military and other valuable people who put their lives on the line to defend and protect others. One of my side jobs in the Navy was as a firefighter!



Messalina, part of the addiction to cigarettes (or anything really) is behavioral and not purely chemical. Most smokers find that they smoked more when they drank, drink coffee, or drive as an example. These patterns have tie ins chemically, but the behavior itself also has the association with smoking. Breaking the addiction is just as much, if not more, about changing your patterns and behaviors as it is about sundering the chemical addiction. I second the notion that you should probably stay out of the garage for a few weeks and see how you go. Or at least be conscious of it and try to slowly reduce said behavior so you break the link between "It's nighttime lets head to the garage to relax" and smoking.