Back on my bullshit, quitting, again. This time I called my 1-800 quit line and ordered the patch to help. But it’s so ass backwards their shipping is 7-14 days usps. So with that logic by the time I get the patch the cravings will have stopped since they normally subside by day 4 or 5, fucking stupid.
I’m in a bad mood and want a smoke.
*edit: wow I’m really in a bad fucking mood, like I want to fight someone. Being sober fucking sucks.
I don’t know if this will help but the knowledge that allowed me to quit was that the chemical addiction to nicotine goes away after 3 days, everything after that is habit.
This allowed me to realign my thinking about it. All I had to do was effectively sleep for 3 days to beat the chemical side and then remind myself that I don’t need one and it’s in my head afterwards. It gave me a lot of power I did not have before.
when I quit (4.5 years ago) I got into crafting. something to do with my hands and head. sculpy, crappy paints, canvas, sand paper and little wood, boxes, stain.
so when I felt the pull for a smoke break, I would instead fiddle with something and maybe do a little work on it.
it was clutch to have like a desk area just for works in progress and their materials, because it makes starting and stopping easy.
I heard 3 weeks for full physical independence from addiction. everything after is about new habits.
one of the random things that helped me was washing all of my clothes and jackets, etc, so they smell nice. when the sense of smell returns, it’s crazy how potent cig smoke is.
“you gotta turn your woes, into Woahs!”
but seriously, proud of you, i know it’s tough to quit
Have you tried vaping? Weirdly it helped me quit even though I only switched so I could “smoke” indoors lol. It was a good substitute at first, but over time I got tired of certain things about it (taste wasn’t as good, it lacks the “rituals” of smoking, getting to “smoke” indoors meant I did it more and got nicotine poisoning headaches somewhat regularly) and when I ended up quitting vaping, I didn’t feel a need to go back to cigarettes.
I vape now and it’s bad I hit it all day like a fiend. So I’m looking to just stop all together.
I was gonna say the same. Some can use vaping to quit but i just switched to smoking my vape all day. while vaping kicks the shit out of smoking in terms of stinkiness i have no faith in the safety of these vapes. My lungs feel worse than with og baccy.
Have you ever quit before? My longest stint was for 7 years before relapse
Have you ever quit before? My longest stint was for 7 years before relapse
I did 20 days before, and before that I had a month. So it feels like a month is the best so far.
idk what it’s like where you are but here you have to buy little shots of nicotine and then nicotine-free juice (where the flavour is), then mix them yourself. the way i quit was i slowly reduced the amount of nicotine i put into the juice over time, so i got the sensation of vaping but i was lowering the nicotine levels
I quit with the nicotine pouches. If it’s any consolation to you I tried smoking again and found it pretty gross so it gets better with time.
Thanks, but I figure I’d just be better off zero nicotine. I don’t want to trade one addiction for another.
As I said I used it to stop smoking then just quit the pouches, it’s kinda like using a patch anyways 🤷♂️
Oh sorry misread that. Yeah I’m just afraid though I’d get addicted to the pouch. With the patch you step down after a week to a lower dose so it’s supposed to make quitting easier. Plus I can get it for free through the quit line.
