Once you get started vaping it becomes a mind over matter, and alot of self control. Your subconscious thinks that you NEED a cigarette because you smell them and are around them. Your body is trained to light up a smoke whenever you feel a craving for nic.
All you need to do is stand strong and tell yourself you DONT need it. Pull out your vape and get your nic that way.
I agree. Except for the bit about '"self control". It sounds like a horrible effort, a fight against yourself. You need "self control" when dieting, for example, denying your body the food, the nourishment that it is screaming for. I have done it. It is horrible. And when you give in to your body's demands, then you feel "weak", "worthless" and you are full of self-blame. Which leads to a vicious cycle.
How about a much easier way?
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. ~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
What does your body want? When drinking, after a nice meal, with a cup of espresso?
It wants the usual act of taking in nicotine. Of inhaling some nice nicotine containing stuff, of exhaling it with pleasure.
And you can have all that - with vaping.
What do your taste buds want? When drinking, after a nice meal, with a cup of espresso?
They want the lovely flavor (e.g. of a small, sweet-flavored cigar - I used to love those) that they are used to. The nice flavor that goes so well with those activities.
And you can have all that - with vaping.
What do your habits want? Any time / on any occasion when you used to light up a cigarette?
Nothing that you cannot have with vaping.
You can have it all
Only without the smoke as such.
I say: If you are anything like me, if the mere thought of "I can never (do something) again" makes you crave just that thing - then forget "self control'". Forget fighting against your body, your desires. Instead, ask your body, your desires '"What do you really want?" 'And then listen. Because they will tell you.
They will say "I want the nice flavor of a cigar" - Then give them that flavor, in your PV.
They will say "I want to fiddle with something in my hand" - then grab your PV and fiddle with it.
They will say "I want to inhale deeply - I always do that when I have to think hard" - then grab your PV and inhale deeply.
You can have it all
Yes, sometimes your desires will speak of a tobacco cigarette. For the simple reason that they have not yet realized that you have something much better now.
And yes, it takes a conscious effort to transform all smoking rituals into vaping rituals. Vape instead of smoking in all smoking situations. Your desires will catch on quickly. So will your habits. And after a short time, you will reach for your PV as normally as you reached for your cigarettes.
Trust me. I've been there.
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I'm happy that I was able to walk away completely though without any real temptation to ever light up again.
Same here.
And some applied psychology (see above) made it really easy for me. I gave my desires what they really wanted - and they were happy and satisfied
