Your smoking two cigarettes a day? Just stop smoking, whether that means starting to vape again or just quitting all together.
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I agree with everyone who said don't beat yourself up over it but I say toss the banner or reset it. As of today, it says you've been an ex-smoker for 229 days but that isn't the case.
When I look at my life and the Daily, Uuuuugh don't ask, I have to deal with - It worries the heck out of me that someone feels they have that much stress to push them back to smoking. I just can imagine what they must be going through.
I wish you all the best and hope you can pull things together soon. Sounds like you have a few friends and family depending on it.
I wish you all the best and hope you can pull things together soon. Sounds like you have a few friends and family depending on it.
I did the same thing! Only I've only been vaping for just under 4 months now. I've been trying to understand why I've smoked a few too. I'm not really sure. More stress than usual but, still. I agree with the others and not just because im in the same boat. We are both going to keep vaping because smoking full time is no longer an option.
Don't sweat it nvadasz and don't worry about the banner, that's a non-issue
It took me almost a year and a half to really get over my addiction to cigarettes. In the first few months after I switched to vaping I smoked two cigs and really liked them, but I had smoked for 37 years and both my body and my doctor told me I really needed to quit. That was motivation enough for me to dig deeper and persevere but we're all different so our paths will also be different.
If I were in your position I would try my best to toss the cigs I had left and concentrate on ways that would help me continue not to smoke. Maybe having some higher nic juice around to get you past the tough times would help. Getting more exercise, talking it over with someone you trust, basically anything that you're comfortable with that can help you get a handle on it can really help. Google is your friend here too. There is a lot of info out there on coping with stress, you just have to read it and see what sounds good to you.
Don't let two cigs a day get you. That's not much and there are folks here who did that for quite a while until they completely quit smoking. Concentrate on the 6,857 cigs you didn't smoke (
) in the last eight months and move forward from there.You can do this my friend
In my opinion you should reset your banner. It's not really much of a consequence but it's something to mull over next time you feel like lighting up a real cigarette. You can have the smoke but there's some consequence.
As far as wife, friends, customers, it's none of their business. They don't know what you're going through and even if they used to smoke, some people get more addicted than others so they probably don't really understand how tough it can be to really quit.
One pack of smokes is a normal relapse. Learn from the experience and move on. If it's any help, I can promise you that at some point in the transition process you might really crave a vape but not even think about a smoke. Might take you a year or more depending on your level of addiction to cigarettes but it seems to get there at some point for everyone.
The Craving does some strange things. Even when you're 100% vaping and perfectly happy with that, the Craving sometimes kicks in and demands a cigarette. You know for a certainty that nothing else will do; you must have that cigarette. Your subconscious still thinks that smoking is the answer to being under-nic'd and still associates the cure with pulling out a cigarette and lighting it. Or there is some uncommon activity that it associates with smoking. For me that was cooking. When everything was done and I was only waiting to dish-up, I would have a smoke. After I was vaping for months, I was cooking dinner one day and had a stronger craving than I'd had in ages. That will change but it takes a while to weed out all the triggers and reeducate them.
There are two things you need to do when this happens.
1. Go vape like crazy before you act on the craving. Give yourself twenty minutes and then wonder again if you need to go get that cigarette. You almost certainly won't.
2. Don't beat yourself up. When quitting cold-turkey or using some other mediocre technique, willpower is all you have and self-flagellation is necessary to keep you on the path. But depression is a major cause of relapse and vaping is such a good replacement for smoking that you don't need to shame yourself over every failure.
In the longer term, you might want to consider whether there is something that smoking gives you that vaping doesn't. If so then you can try to address that. Maybe you need a higher nic intake. Maybe you need more activity such as dripping or building coils. Maybe you need more or different flavours.
There are two things you need to do when this happens.
1. Go vape like crazy before you act on the craving. Give yourself twenty minutes and then wonder again if you need to go get that cigarette. You almost certainly won't.
2. Don't beat yourself up. When quitting cold-turkey or using some other mediocre technique, willpower is all you have and self-flagellation is necessary to keep you on the path. But depression is a major cause of relapse and vaping is such a good replacement for smoking that you don't need to shame yourself over every failure.
In the longer term, you might want to consider whether there is something that smoking gives you that vaping doesn't. If so then you can try to address that. Maybe you need a higher nic intake. Maybe you need more activity such as dripping or building coils. Maybe you need more or different flavours.
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I really want to thank everyone for all of the support you've given me. I've decided to keep the banner as most of you have suggested. It has been a badge of success for me. My trigger/stress filled issue is coming to a conclusion today. It's been tough just keeping it to 2 butts a day, though I did. Tomorrow, I throw them away...SICK OF BEING A CLOSET SMOKER....I QUIT TODAY!!!
Moving from one failure to the next with out lack of enthusiasm, is true success!!! Stay excited my friend.
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