Ex-smokers?

I quit using an e cig 2 years ago last week. My biggest tip is keep busy, go for a walk when the craving comes visiting. Good luck, it is worth the pain and I promise it gets easier.

I am almost 3 years now, I smoked an e cig for a year and a half. Best investment EVER!! Not the kind you get at 7-11. Go to a vape shop spend the money buy the e juice something you like with a cartridge to fill with the nicotine and slowly ween yourself down. You still get a draw of nicotine, just not the cancer. Than you can wittle yourself down on the nicotine levels eventually to nothing! Good luck buddy, living is good choice

I just passed my one year anniversary last month. My strategy was to just be stubborn about it and never put one to my lips again. Period. N.O.P.E. = Not One Puff Ever.

I was a pack per day smoker for over two decades. Then just quit cold turkey. Was I a zombie for the first 3 days? YES! Was I craving one desperately for a few weeks? YES! What you are experiencing is part of the 3's. The worst days for cravings (apparently) are the 3rd day, 3rd week and 3rd month. Weird, but it's what I've heard.

You have already eliminated the nicotine from your system. Don't introduce it back in. What you're experiencing now is the mental habit which is incredibly difficult to break but you will. Just know that everytime you have a craving, it WILL pass. It's uncomfortable while you're in it, but it goes away. Take deep breaths.....that always helped me.

You CAN do this! You ARE doing this!! YOU HAVE ALREADY DONE IT!!! You are there!!

The only reason I don't go back to it (aside from health, money,etc.) is that I never want to put my family through me quitting again. I was a freakin monster to be around!! But they are grateful that I've quit, and I am grateful for their support.

Keep at it! It gets better, I promise :):)

Congrats on 3 weeks! I quit 5 years, 8 months and 4 days ago. I used patches to help, the Equate ones from Wally World.

One tip some people think is funny but it works for me is I remember exactly when and where I quit and I reflect on it every day at that time. I'm glad and grateful every day to have gone another 24 hours without smoking.

Dude what you are craving is a lie, straight up. You know in your heart the cigarette gives you nothing, doesn't calm you down, doesn't help you focus, does relax you, doesn't relieve stress. Dont fight the craving, just know its there, be aware of it, and feel it dissipate. I'm right there with you, and you got double the time I have....

You don't want to start over. Sick or not sick -- go for a walk. It is the only thing mindless enough to keep you away from it and to give yourself just a bit of distraction.
Cravings do go away if you give them a bit of time.

I quit 2011 was my new years smoke free start and to thid day still not smoking I smoked for 20years aswell,now I cant stand the smell of them and feel so much better etc......

Ride it out. The craving will go away. Just remind yourself that it is just a craving. Do something that will occupy your mind and take your mind off of it.

Don't do it. You will smell, UGGGGGGGGGGG.

Smoked for five years, a pack a day at least. I've been 7 months clean now :happy:
Kinda got addicted to nicotine gum, but it's better than being a chain smoker. And I've almost weaned myself off the gum as well. It's mostly a psychological thing, I'm happy with just two pieces a day, used to be the whole strip initially. Hopefully another couple of weeks and I'll be done with nicotine altogether.
And did I mention I can jog up flights of stairs without panting like a *kitten* now? And exercise so much better :drinker:

Thanks everyone, drank a ton of water today, even tried that mimicking thing(which actually seemed to work). No smoke for me! Being cooped up in the house is terrible. Need to get outside.

Good Job keep it up - The first week i quit I used an e cig (just a plain Vapour one no Nicotine no fancy Flavours - Called Blu I think - only ever used the one took a couple of weeks to wear it out just used it as a psychological crutch.
If you are an Addictive Personality (I am and I have a number of friends who became Junkies) - All of whom said quitting junk was a piece of cake compared to quitting smoking so don't feel bad when the cravings continue beyond the true physical addiction (it's 3 days to clear the Nicotine from your system a lot longer to clear all the habits and cues

I quit four years ago when I divorced my husband (who was a smoker).

One of the most brilliant drivers for me was the quote from the movie Dead Again: "You're either a smoker or a non-smoker, decide which one you are and be that"

I decided I was a non-smoker. Period.

And really, once you are over the hump and a smoker walks by you and you realize how bad it smells, Oy you don't want to go back to that. You really don't realize how bad it smells until you stop.

And the amount of money you spend to feed this habit is crazy. Cigarettes cost almost $10 a pack here, and it shocks me that people pay that much. Pack a day? You are spending $300 a month, that's just crazy to me.