For me, I first tried cigarettes and cigars because one of my friends said that it's a miniature high that relieves stress for about 5 minutes. For the first month I smoked, that was exactly why I smoked, and I only smoked Black n Milds at that, like once every couple days.
As cigarettes tended to be in whatever house I was in, I slowly progressed to those. A month after I switched to cigs, however, the high kept diminishing until I smoked mainly just because it truly helped me feel better when I drank, and any other time it was because I was bored or wanted to be a part of the group when someone lit up a cigarette.
After that, I started smoking whenever I was stressed (which was all the time) and it was something that I did like a stress-ball; it didn't really do anything anymore, it just gave my hands and mind something to do. Got to a pack a day, which really sucked. I developed truly painful emphazema or whatever.
However, when it came down to it, %99.9 of why I continued to smoke was that it made me feel cool and that I enjoyed inhaling the smoke. Half the people my age enjoy envisioning themselves smoking a cigarette, and the other half thinks it's pleasuring just to feel smoke going down your throat. Unless you just never develop a tolerance to nicotine, the reason why you smoke will probably be mental.
Think about it - chances are, gum, patches, all that probably helped no one. So I think, if someone truly wants to quit, you have to truly want to quit the connections you make with people who also smoke, or at least the connections you feel like you have to these people even when they're not there.
I've personally never believed nicotine is addictive; I quit cigarettes cold turkey, no vaping, and I experienced no health symptoms whatsoever. Only when I was bored to death, or needed to calm down before I slept (symptom of stressful life, nothing to do with cigs), would I really care much about it. However, what I began to realize, and this made the lifestyle final, is I realized that I don't need to be addicted to cigarettes to connect with other smokers or be cool to people who do smoke.
Now that doesn't mean I won't smoke again - far from it. But I promised myself that I won't light one up until I make a choice on my vape device and use that when no one's around - I'll even try to get my friends into it.
I just realized that I don't have to smoke behind closed doors to be cool. I can vape instead and I'm a cool enough person to make it cool. I can decorate my device however I want, seek out the absolutely greatest flavors, and turn this into a hobby. My personal plan is drilling out a wooden pipe's stem and inserting a regular e-cig battery; a really simple decoration for a newbie. Getting a big long Gandalfy mouthpiece. Shoot if I won't find a way to make this impressive.
If you really want to/need to quit, there are cool ways to vape, and make vaping seem cool to your people; heck, I'm not encouraging anyone else to simply "cut down" (quit entirely if you can) but I have no plans to be all virgin nun about cigarettes. Smoking about 6 cigs on those party nights a couple times a week really ain't gonna hurt me, and if it does, my body would be so prone to cancer that second hand smoke woulda caused it anyway.
I mean, I don't wanna get cancer, and that's why I'm cutting back. Smoking has been very painful on me, extremely painful (my horrible coughing), and I'm tired of that. And with any luck, vaping will become a new trend, and I won't have to be the abstinence nun at literally any social situation. I just don't think don't think quitting smoking for anyone under 30 is even possible once you become ingrained in the groups of people that smoke, and personally, as someone who likes smoking actual cigarettes when I drink, it doesn't bother me as much as the horrible truth it is.
But my motto is from now on, I have an alternative, and I'm cutting down my smoking by %75 (approx. 105 cigs a week vs approx. 20 a week). I already know I like vaping; I find vaping Blu's to be a perfectly acceptable vape with the exception that Blu is a ****** ***** ** ******* *** ******* ***** ****** company that sells broken products. (I wanted Blu's devices to hold up so badly, they make a good vape when the batteries and cartos work!!!) But that did get my into the hobby world of vaping, and realizing I can do things cooler than having a black e-cig with a blue light at the end.
I'm just here to say that chances are, what you're looking for is not something that mock's a cig; you may be looking for something that's simply cool as smoking, and IMO, if you think outside the box, vaping can be neato for you. And it isn't the law that you have to quit cigs. Not encouraging it, just saying that there's no law stating you have to be a cold turkey case. However, I did it cold turkey, a month and a week strong (no cigs, no vape), and it gave me the time and perception to know I have control over quitting and cutting down and finding alternatives I enjoy. You really can too!
As cigarettes tended to be in whatever house I was in, I slowly progressed to those. A month after I switched to cigs, however, the high kept diminishing until I smoked mainly just because it truly helped me feel better when I drank, and any other time it was because I was bored or wanted to be a part of the group when someone lit up a cigarette.
After that, I started smoking whenever I was stressed (which was all the time) and it was something that I did like a stress-ball; it didn't really do anything anymore, it just gave my hands and mind something to do. Got to a pack a day, which really sucked. I developed truly painful emphazema or whatever.
However, when it came down to it, %99.9 of why I continued to smoke was that it made me feel cool and that I enjoyed inhaling the smoke. Half the people my age enjoy envisioning themselves smoking a cigarette, and the other half thinks it's pleasuring just to feel smoke going down your throat. Unless you just never develop a tolerance to nicotine, the reason why you smoke will probably be mental.
Think about it - chances are, gum, patches, all that probably helped no one. So I think, if someone truly wants to quit, you have to truly want to quit the connections you make with people who also smoke, or at least the connections you feel like you have to these people even when they're not there.
I've personally never believed nicotine is addictive; I quit cigarettes cold turkey, no vaping, and I experienced no health symptoms whatsoever. Only when I was bored to death, or needed to calm down before I slept (symptom of stressful life, nothing to do with cigs), would I really care much about it. However, what I began to realize, and this made the lifestyle final, is I realized that I don't need to be addicted to cigarettes to connect with other smokers or be cool to people who do smoke.
Now that doesn't mean I won't smoke again - far from it. But I promised myself that I won't light one up until I make a choice on my vape device and use that when no one's around - I'll even try to get my friends into it.
I just realized that I don't have to smoke behind closed doors to be cool. I can vape instead and I'm a cool enough person to make it cool. I can decorate my device however I want, seek out the absolutely greatest flavors, and turn this into a hobby. My personal plan is drilling out a wooden pipe's stem and inserting a regular e-cig battery; a really simple decoration for a newbie. Getting a big long Gandalfy mouthpiece. Shoot if I won't find a way to make this impressive.
If you really want to/need to quit, there are cool ways to vape, and make vaping seem cool to your people; heck, I'm not encouraging anyone else to simply "cut down" (quit entirely if you can) but I have no plans to be all virgin nun about cigarettes. Smoking about 6 cigs on those party nights a couple times a week really ain't gonna hurt me, and if it does, my body would be so prone to cancer that second hand smoke woulda caused it anyway.
I mean, I don't wanna get cancer, and that's why I'm cutting back. Smoking has been very painful on me, extremely painful (my horrible coughing), and I'm tired of that. And with any luck, vaping will become a new trend, and I won't have to be the abstinence nun at literally any social situation. I just don't think don't think quitting smoking for anyone under 30 is even possible once you become ingrained in the groups of people that smoke, and personally, as someone who likes smoking actual cigarettes when I drink, it doesn't bother me as much as the horrible truth it is.
But my motto is from now on, I have an alternative, and I'm cutting down my smoking by %75 (approx. 105 cigs a week vs approx. 20 a week). I already know I like vaping; I find vaping Blu's to be a perfectly acceptable vape with the exception that Blu is a ****** ***** ** ******* *** ******* ***** ****** company that sells broken products. (I wanted Blu's devices to hold up so badly, they make a good vape when the batteries and cartos work!!!) But that did get my into the hobby world of vaping, and realizing I can do things cooler than having a black e-cig with a blue light at the end.
I'm just here to say that chances are, what you're looking for is not something that mock's a cig; you may be looking for something that's simply cool as smoking, and IMO, if you think outside the box, vaping can be neato for you. And it isn't the law that you have to quit cigs. Not encouraging it, just saying that there's no law stating you have to be a cold turkey case. However, I did it cold turkey, a month and a week strong (no cigs, no vape), and it gave me the time and perception to know I have control over quitting and cutting down and finding alternatives I enjoy. You really can too!
