Time to quit, Any tips?

[Rossum]

I couldn't imagine only doing 3 hits a day, I do that every 10-15 minutes and they are 8 second DL hits.

I can't either. I vape all day long, but I'm MTL. Then again, I also smoked all day long for 36 years.

Yet there are some people who will smoke one or two or three cigarettes a day, every day, for their whole adult lives. They never smoke more, but find it very hard to quit entirely.

I think it's a matter of what one's brain and body have become accustomed to.

 

[Opinionated]

I disagree with throwing out your vape gear..

you'll just end up smoking again - it's what I did when I threw out my vape gear.. it's better to keep the gear around for if you do happen to break down than it is to break down and be within a mile of a smoke..

So, keep the vape gear and work on your will power...

I've quit vaping 3 times. First time I threw out my gear and ended up smoking again..

Second time I made it 6 months before getting a craving.. I didn't have any zero nicotine stashed so I vaped 18mg (mistake) and it was a while before I quit again..

last time I quit I made it around 4 months without any vape, then I got a craving and started vaping zero mg juice periodically.. and when I say periodically I mean I was vaping a puff or two here or there, about 1ml or less a week..

I did that for well over a year (about 14 months) before stress got me vaping nicotine again, and now I'm "full time" vaping again..(2-3ml a day of 3mg)

I have real hand to mouth habit that for me is difficult to break, but at a puff or two here and there of zero nicotine, I was quite satisfied..

You will end up somewhere, just be careful not to end up smoking again..

in the end, it's about willpower.

 

[Baditude]

Increasing the amount of nicotine he uses is really not going to be helpful at all. lol

He's currently vaping 18mg nic. Those pouches come in as low as 6mg. They aren't quite as effective as vaping, so he can switch from vaping to the pouches and adjust as needed. I'm not sure what your point was @BigPappa

 

[United States]

Losing those last three a day could be harder than everything up to that point.

Perhaps lose one of the two during the day. But the main thing is breaking a habit. Not an addiction 'habit' but a routine 'habit'. Wish I had suggestions, but frankly I don't. I mean, you've likely beat the addiction. Perhaps just don't buy anymore juice, or recharge your device?

 

[ScottP]

If the issue is breaking routine (habit) not the nic addiction, then perhaps chew on a straw during the time you would normally vape. Straws can be free and as long as you don't swallow pieces can be safe and zero calorie.

 

[Myrany]

I disagree with throwing out your vape gear..

you'll just end up smoking again - it's what I did when I threw out my vape gear.. it's better to keep the gear around for if you do happen to break down than it is to break down and be within a mile of a smoke..

So, keep the vape gear and work on your will power...

I've quit vaping 3 times. First time I threw out my gear and ended up smoking again..

Second time I made it 6 months before getting a craving.. I didn't have any zero nicotine stashed so I vaped 18mg (mistake) and it was a while before I quit again..

last time I quit I made it around 4 months without any vape, then I got a craving and started vaping zero mg juice periodically.. and when I say periodically I mean I was vaping a puff or two here or there, about 1ml or less a week..

I did that for well over a year (about 14 months) before stress got me vaping nicotine again, and now I'm "full time" vaping again..(2-3ml a day of 3mg)

I have real hand to mouth habit that for me is difficult to break, but at a puff or two here and there of zero nicotine, I was quite satisfied..

You will end up somewhere, just be careful not to end up smoking again..

in the end, it's about willpower.

I am one of those people that cannot give up nic completely. I worked my way down to zero nic in my first year of vaping. I vaped nothing but 0 nic for a year and half. My depression and anxiety spun out of control. To the point where my Doctor and I had a serious talk about some serious meds. She suggested I add a little nic back into my vaping. So I went to 1 mg. Depression and Anxiety were greatly relieved and became manageable.

Life got in the way and with my mother's suicide and the family fighting afterwards I ended up going up to 3 mg nic just to stay sane.

Now I am doing 2 mg half the time and 0 mg the other half and planning to walk myself back to 1 mg.

Some of us just can't do it.

 

[BigPappa]

He's currently vaping 18mg nic. Those pouches come in as low as 6mg. They aren't quite as effective as vaping, so he can switch from vaping to the pouches and adjust as needed. I'm not sure what your point was @BigPappa

He is only taking 3 hits a day... he might be vaping 18mg, but he is getting nowhere near 6mg total for the day. That was what my point was @Baditude

 

[Opinionated]

I am one of those people that cannot give up nic completely. I worked my way down to zero nic in my first year of vaping. I vaped nothing but 0 nic for a year and half. My depression and anxiety spun out of control. To the point where my Doctor and I had a serious talk about some serious meds. She suggested I add a little nic back into my vaping. So I went to 1 mg. Depression and Anxiety were greatly relieved and became manageable.

Life got in the way and with my mother's suicide and the family fighting afterwards I ended up going up to 3 mg nic just to stay sane.

Now I am doing 2 mg half the time and 0 mg the other half and planning to walk myself back to 1 mg.

Some of us just can't do it.

I was answering the OP who said they wanted to quit vaping..

I'm not clear what your post here has to do with either the OP's post or my response to them..

 

[Myrany]

I was answering the OP who said they wanted to quit vaping..

I'm not clear what your post here has to do with either the OP's post or my response to them..

I was emphasizing as your post did that there are many reasons why just stopping is VERY difficult if not impossible for some of us. The importance is to not smoke.

Think of my post more as backing up yours.

 

[Opinionated]

I was emphasizing as your post did that there are many reasons why just stopping is VERY difficult if not impossible for some of us. The importance is to not smoke.

Think of my post more as backing up yours.

You replied to me as if my post was somehow incorrect advice to the OP and that I shouldn't advise the OP at all because of mental illness or something..

it still makes no sense to correct my advice to a person wanting advice on quitting vaping.. I'm not mentally ill, and neither did the OP indicate he/she was..

 

[Myrany]

You replied to me as if my post was somehow incorrect advice to the OP and that I shouldn't advise the OP at all because of mental illness or something..

it still makes no sense to correct my advice to a person wanting advice on quitting vaping.. I'm not mentally ill, and neither did the OP indicate he was..

That was not my intention at all as I just explained.

 

[Rossum]

I vaped nothing but 0 nic for a year and half. My depression and anxiety spun out of control. To the point where my Doctor and I had a serious talk about some serious meds. She suggested I add a little nic back into my vaping. So I went to 1 mg. Depression and Anxiety were greatly relieved and became manageable.

If I had the choice between nicotine or some prescription pharma product to keep me on an even keel, I'd take the nicotine seven days a week and twice on Sunday.

I'm amazed there's a doctor out there who agrees with this. Doctors love to prescribe pharma crap. It's almost like they get a kick-back when they do.

 

[Myrany]

If I had the choice between nicotine or some prescription pharma product to keep me on an even keel, I'd take the nicotine seven days a week and twice on Sunday.

I'm amazed there's a doctor out there who agrees with this. Doctors love to prescribe pharma crap. It's almost like they get a kick-back when they do.

My Doc had the unenviable experience of the problems the pharmaceuticals caused me when I tried them way back when. I was side effect city. Far better Vaping than trying to find a drug that worked and didn't mess me up more than I was to start with.

Hence why Chantix was never an option for me to quit smoking.

 

[Marcel K]

Good news people, didnt vape at al yesterday, what i did was keep myself entertained watching youtube, so i forgot about vaping, then when the urge came back or the thought, i used breathing as someone here suggestes, and forgot about it today.

 

[dreamvaper]

I just want to quit vaping for a year

even if you're going to a prison for a year in Norway you can still vape, you just need a letter from your doc to sign that you need to vape nic. e-juices to keep off smoking.

But if you choose to quit it, it's up to you. I also believe that 3 hits a day is pretty much same as nothing.

 

[Opinionated]

That was not my intention at all as I just explained.

Sorry, I was just confused..

 

[AvaOrchid]

I really thought that even those 3 hits were too much, but guess I was wrong, most people here seem to say the same thing you are saying, that I have basically quit. Now I just need to find a way to eliminate those 2 hits at work, thats where I struggle, the one before bed will be easy, just work will be a little hard.

Honestly with ingrained habits even beyond the nicotine you're going to probably need to replace it rather than purely eliminated you can eliminate the nicotine but that hand-to-mouth action at least for me is way stronger than any nicotine could ever be. I have a friend that quit smoking using a kazoo I know that sounds stupid but they needed the hand and mouth and every time they felt the need they would blow on their damn kazoo and it sound would annoy them so much that they didn't want to do that so gradually they killed their habit they used a patch or something I think for the nicotine part but after that is when the kazoo came in. If you want to train yourself not to do a hand to mouth action blowing a kazoo in the middle of Walmart and getting all those socially judgemental stares just might give you that edge you need to break the cycle. I don't know how work would feel about it so be careful on that one

 

[Opinionated]

Honestly with ingrained habits even beyond the nicotine you're going to probably need to replace it rather than purely eliminated you can eliminate the nicotine but that hand-to-mouth action at least for me is way stronger than any nicotine could ever be. I have a friend that quit smoking using a kazoo I know that sounds stupid but they needed the hand and mouth and every time they felt the need they would blow on their damn kazoo and it sound would annoy them so much that they didn't want to do that so gradually they killed their habit they used a patch or something I think for the nicotine part but after that is when the kazoo came in. If you want to train yourself not to do a hand to mouth action blowing a kazoo in the middle of Walmart and getting all those socially judgemental stares just might give you that edge you need to break the cycle. I don't know how work would feel about it so be careful on that one

That's funny as all get out as I can picture that rather vividly, haha.. but your right, I can actually see that working!

lol.. too funny.. I'll have to try that next time I go to quit!