Let's quit smoking! - (screaming internally)

[Communism4Dummies]

Made it past the 2 month mark. I'd be lying if I said that I no longer crave it. I think about it every day.

this is the shit I fear. I had a guy I work with tell me the second YEAR was the hardest. Makes me wonder if nicotine has a forever hold on your brain. Like an anti-cheat running at kernel-level.

 

[Battery Low]

I think nothing can compare to the first few days. It's easy for the distance of time to let you forget just how brutal that bit was.

That said, I think if I had the money plus no fear over the health impacts then I'd start back up again. Think it's the bit where every day you briefly remember the "good" but none of the "bad" and think that you'd like one. That's the urge that may not go away. Nothing like physical craving with irritability and lack of concentration. More like your mind saying "I could really do with..." or "it would be so nice right now if...." "I kind of miss/wish I had on me...." etc

It's a quieter urge, and easy to ignore compared to actual withdrawals. However, I remember my dad, who quit before I was born, saying how he could easily and happily start again literal DECADES after quitting and that it was only common sense (plus not wanting to go through quitting again) that stopped him.

 

[Vapid_Idiot]

I was lucky. Cigarettes suddenly out of nowhere started giving me migraines so I quit cold turkey. My best suggestion to quit is to take up running. It helped me quit

 

[CHARizard]

this is the shit I fear. I had a guy I work with tell me the second YEAR was the hardest. Makes me wonder if nicotine has a forever hold on your brain. Like an anti-cheat running at kernel-level.

Former pack and a half a day guy, I quit smoking 8 years ago and vaping 7 years ago.

Theres not a day that goes by where I dont crave a cigarette. Its even worse if I pass by a discarded cig on the street and can still smell it.

 

[NOT Satoshi Nakamoto]

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

Looks like it's been about a year since I quit. Easiest shit ever. Just stop buying tobacco, lol.

 

[Communism4Dummies]

Former pack and a half a day guy, I quit smoking 8 years ago and vaping 7 years ago.

Theres not a day that goes by where I dont crave a cigarette. Its even worse if I pass by a discarded cig on the street and can still smell it.

That's fucking awful. You're a better man than me, trying to kick the ciggies but have swapped to vape so I am still cucked to the nicotine. How can you say no so many times for eight years?

 

[CHARizard]

That's fucking awful. You're a better man than me, trying to kick the ciggies but have swapped to vape so I am still cucked to the nicotine. How can you say no so many times for eight years?

My then girlfriend (now wife) asked me to quit and made me promise. So I did.

When I vaped I was doing it to quit so I weened myself down to 0 nicotine over a year with the juice I bought. Now the craving isn’t intense, it’s for the action of smoking and the nostalgia. I just think “man I really want a Marlboro 27”. I imagine myself taking a drag and then it goes away.

I have quit several times for months long periods but this is my longest stretch.

 

[Sneed S. McSneedensen]

My eyesight started to really shit the bed and I felt myself developing a cavity for the first time since I was a minor. Couple that with realizing how much I was spending a week, I stopped that shit real fast. Nothing sobers harder than damage to your wallet and physical health.

 

[Flavius Claudius Julianus]

Coming up to five weeks no no cigarettes. Cold turkey. No cessation aids. It's fucking WILD how much smoking stays with you.

I'll say this though: if for nothing else, the sheer cost of smoking 'straights' in the UK would be enough to make me quit in 2024. Shit is simply unsustainable at that level.

 

[Electric Mortar & Pestle]

End of Day 1, quitting after a year of cigs and a year of vaping.
I've made it a week or so before, and then I get drunk and fuck it up. Well this time I'm gonna stop drinking, too. Weed pen taking the edge off, but I'm getting tired of reminding myself why I'm stopping.

 

[sorrycharlie]

I thought I was being smarter and healthier, but a vape/e-cig was even harder for me to quit than real cigarettes. I could just keep that piece of shit glued to my mouth all day long if I wanted. I’d sneak it in public restrooms, or even out of my shirt sleeve. Because I never smoked indoors or in cars, smoking a cigarette was a whole thing. At least I would have to stop whatever I was doing and go outside. Plus I was always kinda self-conscious about the smell and appearance of cigarettes, but I didn’t really care if someone saw me with a Juul.

It’s been almost a year. FWIW I had to quit drinking first, otherwise I never would have quit smoking.

 

[Mellisuga Helenae]

I quit smoking because it became a trend with local hipster scum trying to appropriate my culture and I reflexively cringed so hard that I had an existential crisis. We are not the same.

Imagine being Anisa Jomha's ideal man and then realizing it just in time to hit the brake pedals so hard that you throw the cigs away in defiant rejection. Really explains all the BPD bitches.

I like referring to this deferential behavior as the "Cringe Effect".

 

[Battery Low]

Have quit for 5 months during what has unironically been one of the most traumatic phases of my life (external factors, not because of quitting!).

Tbh I'd start again tomorrow if I could afford it, and if I didn't have a kid to be healthy for.

I keep reminding myself that the relief it gives you is relief from withdrawal, as opposed to relief from life's slings and arrows. That adding withdrawal ontop of it all would suck. But I'd love a bit of that proxy-relief sometimes.

Oh well. Can't afford it and it's for the best overall. I'm kind of proud of myself, deep down. Just wanted to vent a little.

 

[Redoniblueoni]

Have quit for 5 months during what has unironically been one of the most traumatic phases of my life (external factors, not because of quitting!).

Tbh I'd start again tomorrow if I could afford it, and if I didn't have a kid to be healthy for.

I keep reminding myself that the relief it gives you is relief from withdrawal, as opposed to relief from life's slings and arrows. That adding withdrawal ontop of it all would suck. But I'd love a bit of that proxy-relief sometimes.

Oh well. Can't afford it and it's for the best overall. I'm kind of proud of myself, deep down. Just wanted to vent a little.

It's not worth it and ends up making you feel like shit very fast. Not just because of the fact you feel like a loser, but it makes you feel physically drained and weak too. All I can attest to is vapes however.

Glad to see this thread exists. I started vaping again a month or so ago because I picked up my little fake nonic vape and thought "Man, I wish this was nic" and now I've spent close to 100 bucks on vape since. I was doing the gum, but that kept me addicted to nic and craving it. Honestly I think I'll go cold turkey again after this one, it isn't helping, makes me feel like shit/low energy and also gives me insomnia at the same time. I feel like a slug.

This would be my 4th time quitting or so. I wind up vaping about half the year, quit, and start vaping again 6 months later after I've forgotten how crap it makes me feel. It's way more worth it to keep your health

 

[Battery Low]

I had to step down from the vape > snus > patches > cold turkey. Patches might be old school but they removed the association of a movement/flavour/sensation being attached to the delivery (and kept dose stable).

Agree it just keeps you addicted and was sick of it. You're right in that I'd just hate myself, it's hard to remember in the moment I guess!

Good luck, am no stranger to the quit/relapse cycle too!

 

[Electric Mortar & Pestle]

Glad I took some time off work, because I am averaging about twelve hours a sleep a day.

 

[Mellisuga Helenae]

By the way, weaning yourself off is bullshit for pussies and cold turkey is the way to go. Nicotine replacement is a scam.

Yes, it's extremely hard, but you'll feel like an idiot for wasting your money on substitutes and you'd be able to quit without replacements if your heart was really in it.

I quit twice with substitutes only to relapse and it left me feeling like an idiot for even trying any form of nicotine replacement.

I haven't smoked in three years so far since going cold turkey.

Just trying to save you fags some money before weak-willed retards convince you that you need to blow money on disgusting bullshit that will probably lead you straight back to being a smoker.

 

[POWER IN MISERY]

By the way, weaning yourself off is bullshit for pussies and cold turkey is the way to go. Nicotine replacement is a scam.

Yes, it's extremely hard, but you'll feel like an idiot for wasting your money on substitutes and you'd be able to quit without replacements if your heart was really in it.

I quit twice with substitutes only to relapse and it left me feeling like an idiot for even trying any form of nicotine replacement.

I haven't smoked in three years so far since going cold turkey.

Just trying to save you fags some money before weak-willed retards convince you that you need to blow money on disgusting bullshit that will probably lead you straight back to being a smoker.

this is 100% correct. quitting is hell on earth but if anyone here reading has had a single pang telling you to quit then go through with it. the consequence of our choice to smoke is to suffer through going cold turkey or to live as a slave to a chemical that's broken you into thinking you need it. anything else is just consumerism absorbing your addiction like one bacteria eating another. do not be afraid to suffer through the withdrawals going cold turkey. you can do it. in the struggle man finds meaning and purpose. you do not become strong by looking to be strong, you find strength while suffering. you find power in misery, they might even say.

 

[TardiX]

this is the shit I fear. I had a guy I work with tell me the second YEAR was the hardest. Makes me wonder if nicotine has a forever hold on your brain. Like an anti-cheat running at kernel-level.

Theres not a day that goes by where I dont crave a cigarette. Its even worse if I pass by a discarded cig on the street and can still smell it.

Unfortunately yeah, I had quit for 3 years and always craved it... not like itching and jonesing for it but being jealous seeing someone else smoke, being allured by the smell (as bad as it is), and just general wanting to smoke.

Due to events I started again this past month and know I have to knock it off before it gets out of control. Also fucking expensive. I'm thinking of taking the cash I'd use on the next pack and creating a fund for something I really really want. And whenever I want to buy a pack, put that money there instead.

 

[Battery Low]

I did something like that. I set a weekly standing order transfering to a savings account for the amount that was close to what I'd spend on nicotine. It's pretty embarrassing to see what I was spending just to keep myself out of withdrawal.