Just do it...QUIT!

[starsflashgordon]

Hi, I bought my first e-cig in 2009. I was smoke-free for more than a year with the e-cig, but I was still addicted to nicotine. When all three of my batteries died at the same time, I ran to Casey's and bought a carton of cigarettes...and I was back to smoking tobacco again. Felt terrible for the next two years. When I discovered that e-cig cartomizers were available and the batteries were so much improved from 2009, I returned to e-cigs. There's no difference from cigarettes except that I'm not inhaling carcinogens. But, I'm still addicted to nicotine. Instead of spending my waking hours worried about the next cigarette, I now spend my waking hours wondering when the cartos will run out, where'd I put the e-cig, when the battery will die, do I have backup batteries, etc....nicotine STILL controls my life, just like cigarettes did. The nicotine brings on anxiety...and the constant dinking around with the e-cigs is ridiculous. Buy Allan Carr's "The Easy Way to Quit Smoking" USA edition, and just quit nicotine. I want it out of my life. It takes up too much time and the addiction is, of course, never ending. I'm going to quit it all and enjoy all those extra hours that thinking about e-cigs and getting nicotine that I will not need to waste anymore. When I quit cigarettes and nicotine, I felt so GOOD! Calm, peaceful, confident and so happy with myself. Tomorrow night, I'm rereading Allan Carr's book and this time, I'm getting all the nicotine out of my system (97% of it is gone just from sleeping all night!) The nicotine cravings don't hurt, they're not painful, and when you realize they last only a few seconds, it's not hard to become nicotine-free in just three days. The rest is all in your head...the HABIT. Yes, you're not inhaling the SMOKE, but you're inhaling and feeding the addiction. I can't believe all the time people spend here just talking about it. If cigarettes created a mega-million dollar industry, then so did e-cigs. You can't stop a nicotine addiction by feeding your addiction the nicotine through an e-cig. You're simply buying into the same trap that analogs put you in. It's like an alcoholic quitting Scotch, and replacing it with beer! I want to put it all out of my mind, experience again the elation of being nicotine-free and living life like all the others who don't even think about it...well, except to feel sorry for those of us with this addiction. After a year of trying to fake my way out of addiction with e-cigs, it's time to just quit nicotine all together. I have to admit, when I quit feeding my addiction with e-cigs, I felt absolutely great...euphoric...I was FREE! Then I purchased more e-cig paraphenalia. Now,this weekend, I'm re-reading Allan Carr's book on Friday, and on Saturday morning, I again will be 97% nicotine free...and every day after that, I will have no desire whatsoever for nicotine when I use the book's suggestions. Best wishes to all of you who are still addicted now to e-cigs. Do yourself a favor, and just QUIT nicotine. You will feel wonderful.​

 

[Robin Macri]

I dont agree about an alcoholic quitting scotch and replacing it with beer,Its more like an alcoholic replacing it with NA beer.I will take it.Congradulations on wanting to quit E-cigs.Some people like me enjoy them!

 

[starsflashgordon]

Actually, the alcohol is in the Scotch just as it is in the beer...and the nicotine is in the cigarette just as it is in the e-cig. Thank you for the good wishes to quit nicotine. Technically, the reason you enjoy the e-cig is because when you start withdrawing for the previous vape, the next vape simply resupplies the need for nicotine, and it feels good to not be withdrawing. Nicotine leaves the body very quickly; hence the reason for continuous vaping...replenishing the nicotine. Wouldn't it be wonderful to not be addicted at all?

 

[thinkingaboutit]

Not to sounds like a skeptic...but this is the second "ad like" post for this book I have seen here in a very short time.

 

[HappyTimeHarry]

I don't stress over whether or not my carto runs out or whatever you were talking about. I enjoy vaping, it is becoming a hobby that I rather enjoy. I enjoyed smoking too, but it was killing me...this is not. It's that simple. And the alcoholic example doesn't work. Alcoholic's quit drinking because it is ruining their lives, killing them. When you go from Scotch to beer, it is still alcohol, still killing you. Most vapor move from cigs because they are killing them. They move to vaping which is not...see the difference?

 

[Miira]

If "just quitting" was so easy, I wouldn't have even tried e-cigs. I'm fine with harm reduction for those of us who can't, or don't want to, quit outright.

 

[mudhill]

the poster is correct i believe.
my goal is to quit the nicotine,i have been spending more money on my new habit then i did on my smokes.
i have cut back from 24 mg to 12 mgs and soon to 6mgs and hopefully to 0mgs.
once i beat the nicotine addiction i think i will be able to drop the hand to mouth thing.

i know a lot of folks think they enjoy this nic habit and will never quit,,but it is another way to keep us in bondage,,,to drain us of our hard to get dollars.

it won't belong till the gov. will figure they are loosing tax money from the PV'S and will get their hooks in to our wallets.

to me these PVS are just a stepping stone to free my self of a nasty and expensive habit.

the day is not that far off and i will be free!!!!!!!!!

Larry

 

[Miira]

I am too working on slowly cutting out the nicotine. I may still vape at 0 nic, may not. It's low on my list of concerns.

 

[dejavoodoo]

I really admire your resolve,starsflashgordon, and congratulate you in advance of what, I'm sure, will be a successful endeavor!

I am just so glad to be vaping and not smoking that I'm still euphoric about that. Yes, I realize that I'm still feeding my nic addiction, but nothing, nothing, nothing is gonna make me beat myself up for not taking the final step in that regard!

I smoked heavily for 25 years and to find something this helpful to quitting at my age is a literal godsend. I'm in my late 40's and my health has not shown any signs of the years of smoking but it was surely just a matter of time. My mother smoked her entire life and died of lung cancer and that didn't stop me. *smh*. It just made me feel guiltier every time i lit up (which was too often). My husband has the exact same story, but it was his father who died the same way. We knew we were tempting fate and due to a few attempts and failures to quit longterm we were wrestling with a bleak reality.

We both feel totally liberated and excited rather than skeptical about our future. While I would like to kick nicotine completely in the longterm I'm SO not worried about that at all. If i do--fine, if I don't that's fine too. It is what it is. Society puts so much pressure on smokers (perhaps valid) that I'm tired of feeling sub-human and I'll be darned if I will do that to myself.

So enjoy your new-found freedom and be glad for us, we have our freedom too.

If this is just another shameless plug for a book/patch/gum, you are not gonna find many takers here. This group of fine folks aren't that easily fooled, lots of life experiences on this forum.

Best of luck,

deja
"Hey look, Mom, no cigarettes!"

 

[DaveP]

I don't worry about whether I'll quit vaping or not. If I titrate downward and lose the desire to vape, I will. If I don't, it's not a huge concern. Getting off the numerous chemicals and about 40 known carcinogens in tobacco was a priority.

Maybe, I will, maybe I won't. Either way, I don't lose sleep over it. It's hard to find the danger in nicotine when the medical profession is prescribing it for elderly people with Alzheimer's disease. What if I quit and then can't remember why?

What if I wake up one morning and can't figure out what that thing is with the battery and little tube sticking out of it? What are those little bottles I have laying around that smell a little like tobacco?

Yes, I'm being facetious, but I couldn't resist!

 

[mudhill]

I don't worry about whether I'll quit vaping or not. If I titrate downward and lose the desire to vape, I will. If I don't, it's not a huge concern. Getting off the numerous chemicals and about 40 known carcinogens in tobacco was a priority.

Maybe, I will, maybe I won't. Either way, I don't lose sleep over it. It's hard to find the danger in nicotine when the medical profession is prescribing it for elderly people with Alzheimer's disease. What if I quit and then can't remember why?

thats a good one,didn't think i would quit laughing.

 

[mistinthewoods]

Dude, you are so many kinds of wrong.
Everybody isn't like you. You remind me of an evangelical preacher. You assume that because something effects you a certain way that it must be the same for everybody. Not true.
In my case, I had quit smoking for several months at a time a handful of times before I tried ecigs and every time as soon as a crap storm hit my life I was caving in and smoking again. Giving up nicotine for three days is NOT going to cure an addiction for most people.
For one thing, ecigs get you away from 4,000 toxins that are added to tobacco to make it more addictive and have nothing to do with nicotine. Another point is that you don't have to use nicotine in an ecig. I weaned myself off of nicotine a year ago and have been vaping 0 nic since then. I like vaping. I'm nothing like a whisky alcoholic who's drinking beer. I'm a vaper who is addiction free and it was vaping that got me here after 40 years on the tobacco hook.
It may not work for you but it does work for thousands of others. Who the hell is Allen Carr anyhow and what does he know about me or anyone else?
You're obviously not an expert in addiction so I'm not sure where you get off telling other people what they should or shouldn't do.

 

[nanovapr]

Whew, that's a lot of lines in a row! Congrats on your decision.

With all due respect, have you considered decaf?

 

[Iffy]

There's no difference from cigarettes except that I'm not inhaling carcinogens. But, I'm still addicted to nicotine...

Buy Allan Carr's "The Easy Way to Quit Smoking" USA edition, and just quit nicotine.

First off, paragraphs are our friends!

I got this far and will reread the endorsement when I become dissatisfied with vaping and my health improvements!

 

[dejavoodoo]

OMG, mistinthewoods, i just checked out your web link and your work is breathtaking. Love all the items shown, but *really* love the e-cig products. Thanks for bringing such beauty to the products we use everyday. You are truly gifted

 

[starsflashgordon]

*****This is not an "ad." I have smoked from the time I was 18 until now at 62...that's a lot of years...of quitting, starting, quitting, and finally, my dreams were answered with the e-cig. Toke, toke, toke...and guess what? Nicotine still rules my life. The book explains how nicotine is an addiction and exactly what causes one to smoke or vape one after another...to always make sure that nicotine is near...anyone with an addiciton is thinking about it during all waking hours, whether subconsciously or consciously. ***It takes only three days for nicotine to be completely out of your body. Nicotine leaves the body rapidly...that's why you have to continue vaping one after another. The toxins in cigarettes do not make it addictive...only the nicotine is addictive. Otherwise, we'd be addicted to sianide, phermaldahyde, and many other toxins. Did you smoke cigarettes to get your sianide hit? Vaping 0 nicotine is fantastic! That's wonderful. You are free from nicotine. Like I said, the habit is in your head. Who the hell is Allen Carr anyhow and what does he know about me or anyone else?
You're obviously not an expert in addiction so I'm not sure where you get off telling other people what they should or shouldn't do. Allen Carr smoked five packs a day...he knew more about nicotine addiction...and you than you obviously do. Nonetheless, congrats on being nicotine-free. Enjoy your 0-nic vaping. If I could do it, I would do it like you did, but I can't. I'm on 36-nic, and it's still not enough and I'm tired of wasting my time on looking for my next nicotine fix. I'm not trying to tell you what to do, just stating facts, that's all. Thanks, mudhill! And, look at all the posts in "how much time do you..." People are vaping more than they smoked. It's nicotine addiction. That's the pure and simple truth. Also, nicotine constricts your blood vessels and raises blood pressure, not to mention heart rates. But, again, congrats on being nicotine-free.

 

[starsflashgordon]

P.S. I don't use caffeine. I simply type at 100 wpm.

 

[AuBadge]

Nicotine is not, nor has it ever been, my enemy. It's the carcinogenic and other chemicals added to cigarette tobacco by the manufacturers I loathe and stopped taking into my body. The moment I began vaping was the exact moment I stopped smoking. I love vaping, I love my nicotine, and will continue to enjoy both. Congrats to you and anyone else who wants to give up nicotine and accomplishes it, but your life-journey isn't mine, and vice-versa.

 

[mudhill]

the blood pressure thing ?

my blood pressure has gone down since i have started vaping,,maybe i am a odd ball,,,you think ?



Larry

 

[MickeyRat]

How come I don't feel elated about the idea of freedom from nicotine? To be honest, I like a nice habit to accelerate when I'm stressed. I like the ease of enjoying a good vape relaxing watching TV. Somehow the ease of enjoying a good...um nothing relaxing watching TV doesn't have the same appeal to me. I don't see the elation. I'm down to 6mg nic. There's no doubt the nicotine addiction is mostly in my head but, the elation doing without it is mostly in yours.