encouragement needed please!!!

[adeline]

I've been one of the folks who has been happily quit and hasn't looked back. I too had been smoking since I was 15, but I was only at it for 8 years. I quit Nov. 1st and haven't looked back.

Unfortunately, events in my personal life have started to push me over an emotional edge that just makes me crave a real cigarette. In fact, an entire pack of them.

You are not alone. The only thing keeping me from buying and smoking them is the reason I quit -- a person that I care deeply for, despite the chaos and madness that has come between us.

I know this is probably not any comfort at all, and for that I apologize. But I am facing a point now that I want to throw away the progress I've made. I don't see it as progress, either. Not at the moment. Sometimes things get so bleak, all the good kind of fades away into the background, leaving you wondering why.

Hold on tight, and don't give up. And pray that I too can practice what I preach. You will be in my prayers.

 

[mlinky]

DrewDav, I have been off analogs almost the exact same amount of time, and I have been fighting an awful craving the past few days. It made me remember something. Years ago I went through a smoking cessation program. They had a bunch of charts and graphs that showed, based on studies, when the cravings for cigarettes usually hit, and their strength, after quitting while using nicotine gum. The strongest cravings were around day 2 or 3, then again very strong at 2 weeks. Surprisingly, one of the strongest cravings occured around 8 weeks. That may be what is happening.

Another thing, make sure you have lots of batteries charged. Ice storm heading your way.

Good luck!

 

[Rosa]

DrewDav, I have been off analogs almost the exact same amount of time, and I have been fighting an awful craving the past few days. It made me remember something. Years ago I went through a smoking cessation program. They had a bunch of charts and graphs that showed, based on studies, when the cravings for cigarettes usually hit, and their strength, after quitting while using nicotine gum. The strongest cravings were around day 2 or 3, then again very strong at 2 weeks. Surprisingly, one of the strongest cravings occured around 8 weeks. That may be what is happening.

Another thing, make sure you have lots of batteries charged. Ice storm heading your way.

Good luck!

did they say anything about 6 months? That's as long as I could ever go for. Six months was my deal breaker.

 

[mlinky]

did they say anything about 6 months? That's as long as I could ever go for. Six months was my deal breaker.

Yep, that was the LAST big one...after that, it's all downhill.

 

[Stosh]

did they say anything about 6 months? That's as long as I could ever go for. Six months was my deal breaker.

Before I discovered vaping, 6 hours was about my limit.....

 

[Jennie O]

New to the forum, but smoke free since May. Hang in there! And trust me, you will feel a big difference if you smoke a cig now, and probably not in a good way...I went May to Oct without touching one, and as an experiment while drinking with friends, I took a drag off one of their cigs (I'd been vaping all night) and it made me sick and so swimmy headed that I had to lay down and was done. That just proved to me that it's not the nicotine but all the other chemicals in analogs that I was so glad to be done with.
Good luck! Don't let bad times or something send you back to those nasty things. (that goes for adeline too!

 

[P-Dub]

Don't beat yourself up. You are, in fact doing great. Your body has been accustomed to the additional toxins that are found in your analogue cigs. As your ultimate goal is to quit the nic all together, you are doing great but as I said before don't beat yourself up. If you have not had an analogue cig for over a month may I suggest that you have one and only one analogue cig. Don't make the same mistake that I made and buy a whole pack. Find a friend or even better yet bum one from a complete stranger (that will really help with the discouragement) and smoke it. Ever thought what it might taste like to lick the bottom of a used empty ashtray? You will have your answer and will be begging for your next vape. Try upping the nicotine levels AND go for a fruit flavor if you haven't tried one yet. If you have, try a new one.
I smoked for 20 years and trust me, you now smell better, i.e. you don't stink! You will start to develop your palate and your taste buds will relearn how to taste and your nose to smell. Don't expect miracles, the seas to part, and life to magically be all better. Give yourself and your vaping time and don't place rules/limitations on the whole process.