Quiting Smoking HELP !

Hi newbie here. I changed to an ecig 6 months ago after smoking for 38 years!! always been fit though and walked loads. I had tried so many ways to quit cigs and was feeling really down thinking I was going to be a smoker for ever and die a horrible death!! I found the switch to ecigs reasonably easy, I bought an Ego C battery with clearomizers and started with 18mg nicotine juice which is a really simple setup and easily available. I didn't ditch the cigs straight away, I worked out how many cigs I really needed in a day which for me was 4, I did that by using my ecig and having a real cig when I was craving one. I then stuck to 4 cigs a day for 1 week then reduced to 3 cigs a day for a week. On my 3rd week when I reduced to 2 cigs a day I was actually starting to feel really sick when I had a real cig and the taste was horrible, much preferred my ecig. I carried on forcing myself to have 2 cigs a day for a couple of days then that was it never had another one again I found them so disgusting!!! I have put on 1/2 stone in weight over those 6 months but feel so much healthier and happier, I have now started to work on loosing that 1/2 stone with no problems. Hope that helps any questions please ask I really think ecigs are amazing!

My husband and I turned to an E-cig almost 3 months ago. My mom who has smoked A LOT for the past 20+ years, my sister and her boyfriend had switched over a month or so before my husband and I did. My mom is now down two 0 nicotine and my sister i think went back up to 6 nicotine (she was at 0 but found herself crabby a lot so decided to go back up) my husband and I started out at 24 i think and are now at 16. We are slowly moving down :-) I think the vapors are fantastic! This in my opinion is the way to go! Good Luck!!

I quit 2.5 years ago, after smoking for 25 years. I just quit. I didn't use anything. I had tried and tried lots of times with other methods but the last time felt different. Before I had always wanted to smoke more than I wanted to quit. This time it was the other way round. My desire to not smoke was stronger than my desire to smoke.

Personally I don't see NRT as that great a help, it works for some but I know 2 people who are still chewing through a pack of nicotine gum a day, thats not quitting, its transferring your habit to something else. I see e-cigs the same way, its not quitting its just smoking something else.

I used, determination, will power and Batman Arkham Asylum on hard level on the x-box (I kicked there butt to take out my frustration) Best thing I ever did was quit smoking and I was a confirmed smoker. I loved it for years. Now I can't stand them.

You can do it. I recommend a specific stop smoking board for support. This is a good one http://forum.nosmokingday.org.uk/ and where I spent 6 mths chatting to others going through the same things I was.

Good luck.

Agree!

I quit something like 20 years ago. I attended a 4 session "stop smoking class". When leaving for the second meeting, I left my cigs in the house by accident, took it as a "sign" I was ready to quit and haven't smoked since (which is not to say I haven't had the odd craving from time to time).

My methodology was a bit counter to common recommendations.as I kept an unopened pack of cigarettes in my desk drawer - that way, to my mind, it was always a personal choice to not smoke, rather than a feeling of "deprivation". I also "chewed" on cinnamon sticks - simiilar feel in my hand to a cigarette, plus I love cinnamon.