Countdown to vape free year (Help)

Kornhub said:
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Good stuff dude.
I'm now on 3.5 Months, smoked for 25 years.... at least 15 of that was heavy smoking.

Only problem is I'm still using nicotine chappies so safe to say I have an addiction to them now... can't tell you how gatvol I am of the taste so it's time to drop that too.

As for smoking, I almost never get cravings now, but my brain did f**k with me last night and I dreamt I was smoking, woke up pretty relieved. Not smoking also finally allowed me to give up alcohol 5 weeks ago. I've tried and failed at that one before but this time I can feel I'm over it. Last year I tried to quit drinking with the intent that it might make quitting smoking easier, turns out it was the opposite, getting rid of the smokes first made it easier.

The alcohol cessation thing has been f**ing with me though. The once a week binge drinking habit changed my endocrine system to expect loads of sugar periodically so some days I get low blood sugar problems for days at a time, it's starting to get better though.

I still find it weird that I'm not smoking some days, my life revolved around it.

I knew the smoking thing was over when ~7 weeks ago I got p*ss drunk on a Friday night and ended up sitting with a cigarette outside, I think I smoked like half of it before realizing that "relief" I used to get from it was completely gone, even in my wasted state.

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Just over 6 months here, feels much longer though.
Smoked a cigarette a few weeks ago when I was really stressed with low blood sugar and it tasted like k@k and felt unnatural, so that didn't stick.

That dull lung inflammation feeling I got on-and-off over the past few months seems to have finally gone away, which is really nice.

The irony of it all is JHB winter air quality now wants to f**ing kill us...

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RaptorSA said:
Just over 6 months here, feels much longer though.
Smoked a cigarette a few weeks ago when I was really stressed with low blood sugar and it tasted like k@k and felt unnatural, so that didn't stick.

That dull lung inflammation feeling I got on-and-off over the past few months seems to have finally gone away, which is really nice.

The irony of it all is JHB winter air quality now wants to f**ing kill us...

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Ugh when you stop for very long you can basically taste all the chemicals in the cigarette on your tongue
 
You know I think sometimes at night my brain still craves some sort of rush the vapes gave.
 
Just keep going guys, never forget that you're doing yourself a huge favour dropping this krap.

I smoked for 40 years, couldn't stop so had to learn to cut down to 10 a day which itself took years. Now it's 9 years since I fully stopped. Went by fast and I couldn't be happier.

Also stopped drinking a few years later. But as I'm not an actual alcoholic will have a rare occasion glass of champagne / wine.
 
I used to smoke 2 packs a day and swapped to vaping 50mg a year ago. Thought I was doing well because I felt a lot of health improvements but after a health scare earlier in March, I had to start cutting down. I've gone from 50mg in March, to 30mg in April and yesterday 13mg. It's damn hard because I've been addicted to nicotine for 30 years but I want to see this through.

Problem now is not vaping twice as hard to get my fix.
 
AnimateX said:
I used to smoke 2 packs a day and swapped to vaping 50mg a year ago. Thought I was doing well because I felt a lot of health improvements but after a health scare earlier in March, I had to start cutting down. I've gone from 50mg in March, to 30mg in April and yesterday 13mg. It's damn hard because I've been addicted to nicotine for 30 years but I want to see this through.

Problem now is not vaping twice as hard to get my fix.
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Just go cold-turkey on the nicotine. You don't need it for anything. In 3 days your body will have worked through it all and the physical withdrawal will be over. Replace the habit with something else - drink water every time you crave, or when I quit I chewed gum for about a month after (non-nic). And start doing something physical, preferably cardio as well. You don't need that stupid habit of vaping/smoking.
 
The Darkness said:
Just go cold-turkey on the nicotine. You don't need it for anything. In 3 days your body will have worked through it all and the physical withdrawal will be over. Replace the habit with something else - drink water every time you crave, or when I quit I chewed gum for about a month after (non-nic). And start doing something physical, preferably cardio as well. You don't need that stupid habit of vaping/smoking.
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Always take the hit.
 
8 months vape free for me. Smoked for 10 years, vaped for 12 years on and off. I must admit I did change from vaping to nic pouches (Velo 10mg pouches) which I have been using for 8 months now. Need to quit those now as well before my gums disintegrate.
 
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