#1 - Dont beat yourself up over this! As everyone else has said here, it's OK to slip. What's important is staying focused on moving forward.
As someone who studied Psychology and addictions, I think you went way too fast. Your addiction (and mine...we're all in this together!), while only short lived physically, is also a well ingrained behavior (mental). Your psychological addiction is far stronger than your physical one, and takes much more time to un-learn. Your body is over the nicotine addiction in about 72 hours. Your brain cells stop crying for their "fix" on a cellular level in about that much time too. But the pattern and behavior of smoking, and everything you have sub-consciously associated with smoking will be with you for much much longer.
If you want to quit, I would suggest coming down much more gradually at each step, and starting to change your behavior with each drop in nicotine. The general rule of thumb is 21-28 days to learn a new behavior, and another 3 months to set it in firmly. I would stay at each nic level for at least a month, and try to be conscious of when and how you vape. When you want a puff, what activities trigger your cravings, etc... Start changing the behaviors and the rest will follow.
I hope that helps. I know I sure feel awful when I have slipped and had an analog, but I have to push on and keep going.
The best part of this community is that every single one of us is here trying to escape the same thing. You won't find a better support group for what you are going through.
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As someone who studied Psychology and addictions, I think you went way too fast. Your addiction (and mine...we're all in this together!), while only short lived physically, is also a well ingrained behavior (mental). Your psychological addiction is far stronger than your physical one, and takes much more time to un-learn. Your body is over the nicotine addiction in about 72 hours. Your brain cells stop crying for their "fix" on a cellular level in about that much time too. But the pattern and behavior of smoking, and everything you have sub-consciously associated with smoking will be with you for much much longer.
If you want to quit, I would suggest coming down much more gradually at each step, and starting to change your behavior with each drop in nicotine. The general rule of thumb is 21-28 days to learn a new behavior, and another 3 months to set it in firmly. I would stay at each nic level for at least a month, and try to be conscious of when and how you vape. When you want a puff, what activities trigger your cravings, etc... Start changing the behaviors and the rest will follow.
I hope that helps. I know I sure feel awful when I have slipped and had an analog, but I have to push on and keep going.
The best part of this community is that every single one of us is here trying to escape the same thing. You won't find a better support group for what you are going through.
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