Tips On Quitting Smoking

[BLUETYPEII]

Does anyone have any advice on this subject?

What do you use to distract yourself from smoking?

Any advice would be appreciated
Thanks!

[Ankerson]

It's all willpower period.

I quit, end of MAY this year after my Heart Attack.

I just stopped cold turkey, just smoke your last one the night before going to bed.

Then just don't pick another one up.

It helps to keep busy however.

[BLUETYPEII]

It's all willpower period.

I quit, end of MAY this year after my Heart Attack.

I just stopped cold turkey, just smoke your last one the night before going to bed.

Then just don't pick another one up.

It helps to keep busy however.

Thanks, I’m really thinking this is the only way to go. The smoking patch seems to help a little too.

[Eli Chaps]

After 30+ years I used a vape to make that first leap. For me, it was about way more than the nicotine, it was the routine and the hand involvement and such just as much.

The vape calmed the cravings but mostly it let me do that while still partaking in the ritual if you will. I still had that morning routine, the after meal routine, the work break routine, etc. I weened off those first before the full nicotine drop. Then one day my vape broke and I said, that's that.

As you can imagine, I failed many times over the years. DON'T GIVE UP! Just keep trying. You can do it.

It's been about ten years back for me now.

[Sharp Guy]

I gave up smoking the day I moved to Texas. It was hard but I think the move helped distract me. About 7 months later I was introduced to vaping. I guess I missed having something to do while driving etc. So I found a flavor I liked in a fairly low nicotine amount and I was off and running with another bad habit. I vaped for a few years and finally came to the realization that it was almost as bad for me as smoking. So I stepped the nicotine level down a little at a time and then I finally gave it up completely. It was harder for me to quit vaping than it was smoking. It felt like the withdrawal symptoms were way worse than I remember they were when I gave up smoking a pack a day of Marlboro lights. My advice? Don't give up one habit for another. As Ankerson says, just make up your mind that you're done and don't smoke ever again. It's hard at first but it gets much easier as time goes by. I've been nicotine free for almost 3 years now and don't miss it one bit.

[Naperville]

I started using Copenhagen and smoking in my early 20's when I worked in concrete. I probably quit 20 times, and picked it right back up every time. I tried inhalers, nicotine gum, .... Sometimes when I started back up it was cigarettes other times it was expensive cigars.

I realized that I liked "doing something," liked smoking, liked nicotine, and needed to do something or it was going to kill me.

So September 15th, 2015, I started vaping. I have not smoked since.

Most of the time I buy premade vape juice, but I have 2 gallons of 100mg/ml raw nicotine in 2 freezers if they ever halt sales.

Vaping is 95% or better SAFE and will not harm anyone, so said the United Kingdom Chief of Staff for Healthcare.

[akapennypincher]

Maybe I will be blunt as when you ask for advice, you not sure, or really want to want smoking cigarettes I assume.

If you are committed to the mission of quiting smoking. You must want to quit, more then smoke.

Smokes are what s pack $4.00 bucks or more? Have a goal for something like new knife you can buy with saved put money in jar daily you same on not buying smokes.

[Sharp Guy]

I started using Copenhagen and smoking in my early 20's when I worked in concrete. I probably quit 20 times, and picked it right back up every time. I tried inhalers, nicotine gum, .... Sometimes when I started back up it was cigarettes other times it was expensive cigars.

I realized that I liked "doing something," liked smoking, liked nicotine, and needed to do something or it was going to kill me.

So September 15th, 2015, I started vaping. I have not smoked since.

Most of the time I buy premade vape juice, but I have 2 gallons of 100mg/ml raw nicotine in 2 freezers if they ever halt sales.

Vaping is 95% or better SAFE and will not harm anyone, so said the United Kingdom Chief of Staff for Healthcare.

I'm sorry but you're still in denial. Do a web search for "is nicotine bad for you". Actually read some of the links that are returned. I just did and nicotine and vaping certainly can have harmful effects on your body

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4363846/

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/ ... out-vaping

Also please send me your source where the UK Chief of Staff for Healthcare says that vaping nicotine is 95% or better safe and will not harm anyone.

I started chewing tobacco in my late teens. Switched to cigarettes in college and then smoked for 30 years. Like I said, I quit cigarettes and eventually started vaping. I was in denial too and vaped for a few years.Eventually I realized vaping was making me feel like bad in a few different ways. I'm not looking down my nose at you for vaping. Your body your choice. But don't try to sell it to someone by saying it's absolutely safe. It's not. Even if nicotine had no side effects (it does) your still putting that junk in your lungs. Do you honestly think that's ok for your body? It's not. I'm pretty sure people said smoking was perfectly safe back in the day too

[ChrisinHove]

I think the consensus is that vaping just isn’t as bad as smoking. Better to quit entirely, but many can’t.

OP : good luck! It’s tough but worthwhile. I found I had to either avoid the circumstances where I would automatically reach for a cigarette (pub, other smokers), or distracted by making myself busy (as Jim said).

[jwbnyc]

https://vaping.org/research-report/roya ... ng-health/

^These are the guys who blew the whistle on smoking back in the Sixties^.

[Ankerson]

I started using Copenhagen and smoking in my early 20's when I worked in concrete. I probably quit 20 times, and picked it right back up every time. I tried inhalers, nicotine gum, .... Sometimes when I started back up it was cigarettes other times it was expensive cigars.

I realized that I liked "doing something," liked smoking, liked nicotine, and needed to do something or it was going to kill me.

So September 15th, 2015, I started vaping. I have not smoked since.

Most of the time I buy premade vape juice, but I have 2 gallons of 100mg/ml raw nicotine in 2 freezers if they ever halt sales.

Vaping is 95% or better SAFE and will not harm anyone, so said the United Kingdom Chief of Staff for Healthcare.

I'm sorry but you're still in denial. Do a web search for "is nicotine bad for you". Actually read some of the links that are returned. I just did and nicotine and vaping certainly can have harmful effects on your body

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4363846/

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/ ... out-vaping

Also please send me your source where the UK Chief of Staff for Healthcare says that vaping nicotine is 95% or better safe and will not harm anyone.

I started chewing tobacco in my late teens. Switched to cigarettes in college and then smoked for 30 years. Like I said, I quit cigarettes and eventually started vaping. I was in denial too and vaped for a few years.Eventually I realized vaping was making me feel like bad in a few different ways. I'm not looking down my nose at you for vaping. Your body your choice. But don't try to sell it to someone by saying it's absolutely safe. It's not. Even if nicotine had no side effects (it does) your still putting that junk in your lungs. Do you honestly think that's ok for your body? It's not. I'm pretty sure people said smoking was perfectly safe back in the day too

Yeah, trading one bad habit for another isn't good.

I smoked for 40 years myself. I did quit once before about 30 years ago for 1.5 years and went back to it.

I liked smoking.

This time however it's more of a have to than a want to, that's if I want to keep breathing that is and stay above ground so there is that.

But yes putting stuff in your lungs isn't exactly good.

And no I am not going to judge others and or get on my high horse either. I have no right to judge others for something I did myself for more than 4 decades.

But in the end if you are going to quit make sure you are ready to quit, want to quit and do it for yourself. Doesn't matter what others think, it really doesn't, screw them.... (Unless it's your Doctor and YOU HAVE TO QUIT) Do it for your own health in the long run.

[cabfrank]

Smokes are what s pack $4.00 bucks or more? Have a goal for something like new knife you can buy with saved put money in jar daily you same on not buying smokes.

$9.00+ here in California. CRAZY. Yes, money and health say quit. A pack a day equals some very nice Spydercos, or whatever, plus you will live longer and enjoy your cool stuff. Easier said than done though.

[akapennypincher]

People talk about quitting smoking, weight loss, or doing something.

Talker do no accomplish much.

Doers do, and accomplish what they say.

[Doc Dan]

Vaping can be deadly. Don't do it. That is the real consensus.

Prayer is what got me off of tobacco.

[Naperville]

I started using Copenhagen and smoking in my early 20's when I worked in concrete. I probably quit 20 times, and picked it right back up every time. I tried inhalers, nicotine gum, .... Sometimes when I started back up it was cigarettes other times it was expensive cigars.

I realized that I liked "doing something," liked smoking, liked nicotine, and needed to do something or it was going to kill me.

So September 15th, 2015, I started vaping. I have not smoked since.

Most of the time I buy premade vape juice, but I have 2 gallons of 100mg/ml raw nicotine in 2 freezers if they ever halt sales.

Vaping is 95% or better SAFE and will not harm anyone, so said the United Kingdom Chief of Staff for Healthcare.

I'm sorry but you're still in denial. Do a web search for "is nicotine bad for you". Actually read some of the links that are returned. I just did and nicotine and vaping certainly can have harmful effects on your body

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4363846/

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/ ... out-vaping

Also please send me your source where the UK Chief of Staff for Healthcare says that vaping nicotine is 95% or better safe and will not harm anyone.

I started chewing tobacco in my late teens. Switched to cigarettes in college and then smoked for 30 years. Like I said, I quit cigarettes and eventually started vaping. I was in denial too and vaped for a few years.Eventually I realized vaping was making me feel like bad in a few different ways. I'm not looking down my nose at you for vaping. Your body your choice. But don't try to sell it to someone by saying it's absolutely safe. It's not. Even if nicotine had no side effects (it does) your still putting that junk in your lungs. Do you honestly think that's ok for your body? It's not. I'm pretty sure people said smoking was perfectly safe back in the day too

I've heard it all, and I have more than 200 bookmarked web documents that say vaping is safe from a scientific point of view from all over the world. I've vaped in my DR's offices here in the USA, to show them how the system works, how to make vape e-juice, etc. They were all very grateful. I would not vape if it wasn't safe, I'd probably chew a molasses plug.

UK Government: E-cigarettes around 95% less harmful than tobacco estimates landmark review
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/e-ci ... ark-review

Royal College of Physicians: Nicotine without smoke: Tobacco harm reduction
https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/projects/ou ... -reduction

Effect of continuous smoking reduction and abstinence on blood pressure and heart rate in smokers switching to electronic cigarettes
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26749533/

UK Government: UK Vaping Guide
https://www.ncsct.co.uk/usr/pub/Electro ... rvices.pdf

Don’t be alarmed about recreational nicotine. This is a choice some people make, and it is not the business of stop smoking services to make judgements about this. We are not a ‘stop nicotine service’ and if we think getting people off their e-cigarette is a good use of our time, we are ignoring a far more important opportunity to help people quit and to stay off cigarettes.
https://guidetovaping.com/public-health ... ng-manual/

NY Post: Why is the government out to destroy vaping?
https://nypost.com/2016/05/01/why-is-th ... oy-vaping/

CSPAN: Grover Norquist on the Fiscal Year 2017 Budget (Talks about vaping)
https://www.c-span.org/video/?404669-3/ ... 017-budget

I literally have at least 200 links that I could post here.... this argument is D.E.A.D. Vaping is safe as long as you are not stupid enough to vape Vitamin E, or buy e-juice off the street on the black market. That is why I joined ECF, and learned how to make my own e-juice.

I have TWO GALLONS of 100mg/ml nicotine in tinted glass bottles that is topped off with the inert gas of Argon to keep it from spoiling, in 2 freezers separated by 35 miles. If I live to be 100, I'll probably be vaping when I die.

[Naperville]

NOTE: I'm not mad at all, and I am not raising my voice, just highlighting the facts. People who are addicted to cigarettes, nicotine or want nicotine, need to vape.

Just buy everything from a reputable source.

For those interested: I use an electronic mod that has chips in it, a Geek Vape, L200 mod. I have a Twisted Messes top. I vape 12mg/ml. I change the cotton on the single coil every month or when it needs to be changed. I vape Element E-Liquid Pink Lemonade; Five Pawns, Castle Long Reserve; Five Pawns, Nana Berry; and Charlie Noble RY4 Pistachio.

Get Help Here:
https://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/

VAPE ON!

[BLUETYPEII]

Personally I would never vape. I know vaping can be harmful if you get your product from a non-reputable source.

Remember nicotine is a drug.

[Ankerson]

Personally I would never vape. I know vaping can be harmful if you get your product from a non-reputable source.

Remember nicotine is a drug.

Yes, exactly, vaping is not safe.

Back in the old days they used to say smoking was good for you.

Remember people are putting that stuff into their lungs.

[Ankerson]

Vaping can be deadly. Don't do it. That is the real consensus.

Prayer is what got me off of tobacco.

Yup, exactly.

[Sharp Guy]

I don't have read a study to know that nicotine raises heart rate & blood pressure. Even if there's a study that says it doesn't I'm not buyin' it. It sure did with me and I used a vape juice with a low level of nicotine. Not to mention putting vape stuff in your lungs. There's no way that's ok. I knew it was making me feel awful but yet I kept doing it because I was addicted to it. Withdrawl symptoms were terrible once I finally realized I needed to stop