Let's quit smoking! - (screaming internally)

[The Crawling Chaos]

72h "sober", might kill someone dunno...

 

[Gatorbroh]

took me a long time to stop. getting off drugs helped. it seemed like they went together like peanut butter and jelly. the longer off drugs the less i craved cigs until i actually stopped craving entirely

 

[Flawda Man]

took me a long time to stop. getting off drugs helped. it seemed like they went together like peanut butter and jelly. the longer off drugs the less i craved cigs until i actually stopped craving entirely

Funny how nicotine pairs with other drugs so well. Had the same experience when I was addicted to opioids. Smoking just felt so good on them.

I’m still smoking/vaping. Way tougher to quit than opioids were.

But I’ve switched almost entirely to the vape and have been hanging around the 12mg/ml range for a couple months now…. need to lower it again soon

 

[Tinfoil]

Let's quit smoking!

I'm reminded of Dennis Learys stand up: "They say smoking takes 10 years off your life. But it turns out it's the 10 years at the end, wandering around with a colostomy bag, wondering where the fuck you are."

 

[eternal dog mongler]

Funny how nicotine pairs with other drugs so well. Had the same experience when I was addicted to opioids. Smoking just felt so good on them.

Yeah, that's no lie. I'd blow through a whole pack in four hours.

Anyway congratulations on getting clean from opioids. That's not an easy feat.

 

[BobbyBriggs69420]

I haven't smoked or dipped regularly in years but I have been for years hooked on lozenges, gum and starting this year On! brand nicotine pouches. I would guess I was regularly using around 20-25 pieces, 80-100mg of various products each day.

I quit caffeine a few weeks ago and getting a surprise that it's super easy to roll back my nic use now the last few weeks down from 20-25 pcs/day, for the past few days I've been rationing myself 10 pieces/pouches but been only using about 7 and I've switched down to 2mg pouches too. I'm going 3 and 4 hours between and I'm able to leave the house now without anxiety about having a supply with me.

At what point should I just quit? I think I should taper some more. I was 80mg a day and now quickly down to 14 and I've always beleived that "cigarette = 1mg" stuff so is it really like I'm an almost a pack a day smoker still?.


edit: holy crap a week later and I'm on patches-only for the first time in my life. Patches never done anything for me before but I randomly decided to try a 10mg one fri and I went 6 and 7 hrs between pouches that day and then flushed all my pouches down to satan the next day sat. Sat and Sun were fine, got some brutal cravings monday day 3 of patches that caused me to binge like one of those youtube heifers, doing fine today though.

To me this is huge, yes I'm still taking in nic but I've eliminated that need for on-demand nic, never had this. I now have a flat line of nic during the day that I guess I can start lowering down either by cutting the patches or the time they're worn.

 

[Polystyrene Glioblastoma]

I quit nicotine for 8 days but gave into my craving. My vape shop, whom I was a loyal customer, royally pissed me off.

The FTM troon operated vape shop pissed me off because the retard left rebar sticking out in front of the space when the barrier got broken back and it ripped my undercarriage liner/bumper. They knew it was an issue but did nothing to help others before I reported them to their landlord. So I went to the Ugandan vape shop in the ghetto and they would either overcharge me and be nice, or be rude and yet somehow give me a discount. Those niggers would let customers skip over me and I'm convinced they stole my debit card information and sent it to someone in Florida, but luckily my bank caught it.

I will let those retards fuel my fire to quit nicotine permanently. My vape is dead now and I'm not setting foot in a fucking gas station or vape shop for one again. Fuck being ripped off. If I can do a week off nicotine, surely I can go farther than that. I'll find other things to cope with and I'll try the cream of tartar + orange juice method again.

 

[Nuke Africa]

I can't even imagine life without smoking anymore. Been addicted for over 12 years now, quit once for 1-2 months and ended up hiding from people like a thief when I started again. Friends and family think i managed to hold for 3 months but the truth is I gave up less than two months in.
The worst of all is I love it and the thought of ever giving it up again gives me shivers knowing how fucked up that last time was.

 

[Polystyrene Glioblastoma]

I finally did it. I am 4 weeks sober of nicotine. I stopped listening to that little voice in my head. I stopped going to the vape stores and siphoned my burnt vape collection like a crackhead for a week, weaning from it. I threw my horde of old, nasty vapes away. I did relapse once in the first week due to a dangerous scare that sent me into panic, but I chose a shitty little flavored one. I threw it away like I promised two days later when everything is okay.

Not sure how effective they all were in helping, but I used orange juice, cream of tartar, yougurt shots, a killer multivitamin, a PCT pill, creatine, and a multi-supplement that has a bunch of stuff anti-aging doctors shill. Gym workouts helped. Breathing in and holding my breath a long time, 30 seconds, then breathing out and breathing in helped me when I felt a craving coming on.

I also have gotten CBD "cigarettes" and they've helped me with anxiety. The best way I can describe CBD is diet marijuana. It get you a little buzz, but nothing crazy. I'd rather puff on that than deal with tobacco or chemical garbage again.

It's possible to quit, convert your willpower and spite into strength. I was bitchy and borderline insane the first 3 days, it passes. Fortify your spirit, as batshit Tommy Tooter esqe as that sounds. I've noticed I can finally sleep better and faster. My dreams are more vivid. My skin started glowing after the stress breakout ended and I treated, I can lift more and do longer cardio in the gym. I've treated myself nice to laser resurfacing and botox as a reward for me quitting vaping.

 

[TheRetardKing]

 

[POWER IN MISERY]

month #3 no tobacco

 

[NOT Satoshi Nakamoto]

The Easy Way to Stop Smoking is a helpful book on this topic.

 

[Smug]

One way to try to quit is using medication that blocks the neural pathway between your nicotine receptors and the dopamine providers in your brain, so to speak. I don't know the full details regarding exactly how different ones work but I've tried doing that and I've not had a smoke for I think half a year now, and so far haven't had any wild cravings or anything.

If you're serious about quitting, I'd recommend giving it a shot.

 

[Wine em Dine em 69 em]

Next month I’ll be 7 years smoke free.
I remember hearing it takes 5 years for your brain to rewire itself from nicotine addiction, but I still get the odd craving.

 

[ryuichi]

Can't get a leopard to change its spots!
I know a couple hundred who'll blow up your garage in smoke.
♪'Smoke dick everyday'♪

 

[Duke Nukem]

Vaping is not a substitute for smoking. I'd rather people that vape quit being pussies and smoke a safer cigarette. Second-hand smoke doesn't make me dizzy and sick; but second-hand vaping absolutely makes me feel sick.

Don't vape.

I have nothing against people who are into it but I'm baffled that vape devices have become a sort of, how do you say, "lifestyle accessory" and there's merch and conventions and shit for artificial fruit mist of all things. Those things are everywhere, I could toss a boulder in any given direction and hit at least a dozen of them.

Honestly I say do whatever you want in your life, I don't give a shit. Just don't tell me what substances I should and shouldn't indulge in, or try to convince me that your substance of choice is "who you are." And don't try to shame me when I don't know what a "double helix coil mod" or whatever is.

Sort of? If you've ever managed to quit for a decent length of time, your sense of smell comes back. I forgot just how bad smokers smell, especially the dirty ones who don't shower or change their clothes daily. Also the "people" that smoke shit Like black and milds. It smells like stale garbage mixed with decomposing rat.
I don't ever want to smell like that.

Yeah I never really got into cigarettes, I don't mind the smell all that much personally but I don't like how it gets into everything. Plus it's like $11 a pack for Marlboro Red, which seems about average in my area price wise.

smoking is for retards. it makes you smell like shit, look like shit, and your organs work like shit. getting over any addiction is fucking hard but you deserve a good, long BJ when you do. maybe two.

But what if you're incel and want to quit smoking?

I like drinking as much as the next guy but going into work stoned is better than drinking on the job.

Honestly it's nuts that frequently drinking is more socially acceptable and less likely to make you unemployed than the occasional joint.

Can't get a leopard to change its spots!
I know a couple hundred who'll blow up your garage in smoke.
♪'Smoke dick everyday'♪

Well smoking does involve insertion of phallic objects into your face hole, so you're not far off.

 

[Neurotypical Mantis]

But what if you're incel and want to quit smoking?

then you get to lose your incel status if you (succ)eed

 

[Duke Nukem]

then you get to lose your incel status if you (succ)eed

I find it hilarious that chicks who smoke like a pack a day or whatever will complain about others' breath

One way to try to quit is using medication that blocks the neural pathway between your nicotine receptors and the dopamine providers in your brain, so to speak. I don't know the full details regarding exactly how different ones work but I've tried doing that and I've not had a smoke for I think half a year now, and so far haven't had any wild cravings or anything.

If you're serious about quitting, I'd recommend giving it a shot.

I think there's something like that called Chantix or whatever. It blocks the reward path in the brain but creates bad dreams and things like that in some people.

 

[Smug]

I think there's something like that called Chantix or whatever.

Champix is one of them yeah.

It blocks the reward path in the brain but creates bad dreams and things like that in some people.

More vivid dreams at least, definitely.

 

[VeePeeN]

One way to try to quit is using medication that blocks the neural pathway between your nicotine receptors and the dopamine providers in your brain

I tried Chantix many years ago, and it was amazing how it made you not want a cigarette.

I fucked up with my dosing tho (not taking the full script, and then started retaking it when I realized I was in danger of reignited the habit). I did manage to go 3 months without a cig, and then stupidly started gradually back up again, didn't help that I recently switched to an outdoor job with other smokers.

But I recently heard about Chantix taken off the market due to cancer risk, thanks Big Pharma!

I'm trying to make this my final year of smoking. Just weaning little by little, using th3 same numbers-chasing autism that helps me in the gym (counting my daily cigs, the time between smoke breaks, etc). I've already managed to switch to a lighter brand, cuz the ones I used to smoke were making me light headed and I couldn't finish them.

My goal is to go to an ultralight by mid-to-late summer, after lowering my consumption with these (Amer Spirit blues), and then weaning those down until I'm finished.