A few times, before I gave up on them, I used to allow myself to light one up in the morning take a few puffs and pick up my vape while it burned away in the ashtray. Kept my smoking out in the garage and one day I just didn't want to go out and that was the end. Good luck buddy.
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I'm sorry you having so much trouble with your vape.
it's going to be hard the first few days going without a cigarette and know that it gets so much easier after that.
One thing I did was made sure I had no more cigarettes at home and just my vape. Yeah, I could go to the store but I'd have to make a decision and put effort in. It was easier to vape.
I also was a dual user for the longest time and when I quit I was only have about 1 a day. So maybe that's what you need to do? Use the vape as a tool to cut down on cigarettes and gradually over time you'll be done. It can be hard at first but if you keep trying you'll succeed.
it's going to be hard the first few days going without a cigarette and know that it gets so much easier after that.
One thing I did was made sure I had no more cigarettes at home and just my vape. Yeah, I could go to the store but I'd have to make a decision and put effort in. It was easier to vape.
I also was a dual user for the longest time and when I quit I was only have about 1 a day. So maybe that's what you need to do? Use the vape as a tool to cut down on cigarettes and gradually over time you'll be done. It can be hard at first but if you keep trying you'll succeed.
I actually quit with low tech stuff with high nicotine (really low tech, talking 2011 or 12 here). What I would say is increase nicotine to the highest you can get which I think is 18mg these days - I'm also in the UK. Then I got into the whole vaping as a thing to enjoy as opposed to just a substitute. But then I had a new girlfriend who offered 'support' (she didn't want to stay with another smoker as her ex smoked like a chimney) so I had an emotional incentive.
It sounds like a lot of your family around you smoke. Do you think that contributes? My Dad smoked but gave up cold turkey, and without the excuse of "well, Dad does it too", that helped a bit as well.
Guess what I'm saying in a round about way is it sounds like nicotine delivery is only part of the story. You can get nicotine delivery from a cheap cig-a-like in the chemists or from a massive cloud factory in your pocket (or snus, patches, whatever) but if everyone around you is a smoker I'd say it's less about the method and more about the 'why'. Maybe you need a quitting buddy? Would your Mum etc be up for also vaping maybe?
It sounds like a lot of your family around you smoke. Do you think that contributes? My Dad smoked but gave up cold turkey, and without the excuse of "well, Dad does it too", that helped a bit as well.
Guess what I'm saying in a round about way is it sounds like nicotine delivery is only part of the story. You can get nicotine delivery from a cheap cig-a-like in the chemists or from a massive cloud factory in your pocket (or snus, patches, whatever) but if everyone around you is a smoker I'd say it's less about the method and more about the 'why'. Maybe you need a quitting buddy? Would your Mum etc be up for also vaping maybe?
Yes, it does, as my mother, nephew, sister-in-law smokes around me.
One thing that I hate about it is that both my S-I-L did vape once before and nephew does vape but still goes to the deadly cancer sticks.
Still struggling to keep off from smoking.
Although the last 2 days, I done 4-5 hours not smoking and only vaping.
Going to have my last at 15:52 as I should smoke it within 8 minutes. And start my counter at 16;00
Although the last 2 days, I done 4-5 hours not smoking and only vaping.
Going to have my last at 15:52 as I should smoke it within 8 minutes. And start my counter at 16;00
Is this counting thing helping you? I am sincerely curious. I think if I had counted the hours between cigarettes when I quit vaping and was tapering down I might have gone bonkers.
Anna
Anna
I used to like counting how many hours I could go without smoking, but lately just want to forget that I ever did smoke. As I hate myself for smoking even if I know it is at least 95-97% Safer.
Up to now, I fancy one. But I know I can beat the craving if I just keep vaping it away.
The last few days I have been both vaping and smoking, but I would prefer the former to do each day.
Just to iterate, I want to quit smoking, but each time I wake up from a long sleep, I instantly want to smoke.
Just to iterate, I want to quit smoking, but each time I wake up from a long sleep, I instantly want to smoke.
It's either I smoke upstairs or downstairs, but each night leave them ciggys downstairs. And wake up to go to the kitchen to smoke one.
So no place is inconvenient.
So no place is inconvenient.
Wrap 'em up in layers of something, stick 'em in several successive bags, put them at the very back of a hard-to-reach cupboard. The point is to make you have to work a while to get to them, so you have time to think, "Hey, why don't I vape instead?"
...and there you have it in a nutshell! I failed two Smoking Cessation Courses before I discovered Vaping .... and each time I practically counted the seconds until six damn weeks when I gave in. That way lies disaster/failure.
To the OP I will say the hard thing - only you and you alone can take charge of your life and until you do you will not find any relief.
Believe it or believe it or not taking the decision and sticking to it WILL set you free.
Sometimes too it can help substituting one obsession for another ... instead of obsessing about not smoking - shift the focus, concentrate on the minutae and detail of vaping - the taste, the sensation, the kit whatever.
And don't listen to them Old Voices - they are not your friends, you are!
If you don't drive and give your family your car keys, maybe that would be inconvenient?
I will confess, I did decide one day I was gonna "quit forever" and I lived on a farm. The nearest gas station was over 5 miles away, along a road that was pretty much a highway. I gave my family all the keys to all the vehicles, and tossed my smokes.
I think I made it until about noon, and I (and the little one! I think he was about 1) ended up walking over five miles to the gas station, he was in one of those little push strollers that you fold up like an umbrella along the gravel median of the highway etc.
I lit up in the gas station parking lot. It was not my finest moment, although I will say it was a rather satisfying cigarette. Still, not my finest moment by a long shot. It is quittin tales like these that made me wonder if I even COULD.
To quit, I had to accept that I had the ABILITY to smoke ALL the cigarettes in the world. Including my husband's cigarettes, always on the front or back porch. I had to decide (for the most part, I have slipped a couple times along the way) that ALL the cigarettes in the world were available for my smoking needs and I had to CHOOSE to not smoke them.
At some point, you will have to make that choice. ALL the cigarettes in the world are still available for me to smoke, I just (pretty consistently) choose not to smoke them.
That is how it IS. For me anyway.
Anna
I will confess, I did decide one day I was gonna "quit forever" and I lived on a farm. The nearest gas station was over 5 miles away, along a road that was pretty much a highway. I gave my family all the keys to all the vehicles, and tossed my smokes.
I think I made it until about noon, and I (and the little one! I think he was about 1) ended up walking over five miles to the gas station, he was in one of those little push strollers that you fold up like an umbrella along the gravel median of the highway etc.
I lit up in the gas station parking lot. It was not my finest moment, although I will say it was a rather satisfying cigarette. Still, not my finest moment by a long shot. It is quittin tales like these that made me wonder if I even COULD.
To quit, I had to accept that I had the ABILITY to smoke ALL the cigarettes in the world. Including my husband's cigarettes, always on the front or back porch. I had to decide (for the most part, I have slipped a couple times along the way) that ALL the cigarettes in the world were available for my smoking needs and I had to CHOOSE to not smoke them.
At some point, you will have to make that choice. ALL the cigarettes in the world are still available for me to smoke, I just (pretty consistently) choose not to smoke them.
That is how it IS. For me anyway.
Anna
And you know, if you are not 100% comitted it is all too easy to find, or even bring about situations, that will give you a "good reason" to smoke.
My own daftest one was as follows. One Saturday night we'd been to the Club, the act had been enjoyed and it being Scotland drink had been taken... I'd been fighting the urge to smoke all night though. We got home about midnight and my wife and fell out about something silly.
She went to bed and what did the Bold G do?
He stupidly still in his good suit, got out his mountain bike and cycled to the next town ( only about three miles away ) to the all night ASDA (Walmart) and bought cigars and pipe tobacco.
After smoking two cigars, and inhaling them btw, he mounted up and decided to go home the quick way along the bank of the river Avon walkway and naturally came off the bike and got home covered in mud.
That was my low point/my personal failure and I went back to smoking for a few more years until I discovered vaping ... I reckon in a way stopping smoking is a bit like getting off any other addiction, you have to hit a low, look hard at yourself and ask - "Is this the person I want to be?" If you don't like the honest answer you get to that then you have to decide to change, and only you can do it.
My own daftest one was as follows. One Saturday night we'd been to the Club, the act had been enjoyed and it being Scotland drink had been taken... I'd been fighting the urge to smoke all night though. We got home about midnight and my wife and fell out about something silly.
She went to bed and what did the Bold G do?
He stupidly still in his good suit, got out his mountain bike and cycled to the next town ( only about three miles away ) to the all night ASDA (Walmart) and bought cigars and pipe tobacco.
After smoking two cigars, and inhaling them btw, he mounted up and decided to go home the quick way along the bank of the river Avon walkway and naturally came off the bike and got home covered in mud.
That was my low point/my personal failure and I went back to smoking for a few more years until I discovered vaping ... I reckon in a way stopping smoking is a bit like getting off any other addiction, you have to hit a low, look hard at yourself and ask - "Is this the person I want to be?" If you don't like the honest answer you get to that then you have to decide to change, and only you can do it.
Got up today since having my last just before midnight. And just vaped.
11:30 AM is the time I woke up.
11:30 AM is the time I woke up.
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