Quitting Smoking.....

E-Cig

I went cold turkey 61 days ago now!

I initially used the E-Cigs as Hornsby suggested... then as it wasnt the same, I changed my "triggers" and grew out of when I smoked the most.

The hardest thing for me is drinking and not smoking... but if you can diet, you can give up smoking!

Good luck!!

Definitely an E-cig. I smoked for over 10 years and I've quit all except for social smoking maybe 1or 2 cigarettes when I go out to a bar that allows smoking, which I only do once every 2-3months.

Edited to add: it's been a year and 2 months since I quit smoking regularly.

I quit 8 years ago. for years I had tried all the crutches but none worked. I finally had to just suck it up & cold turkey it.

went cold Turkey Nov 2008. No patch, no e-cig, no gum.


i was a grumpy SOB.

Cold Turkey! Any tips besides shoving down 10 cupcakes and chewing through a million packs of gum?? Don't say exercise.... I'm talking about getting through the entire day not a small portion!

I should get those candy cigarettes from back in the day and "pretend" lol.

Focus: this week is going to be HELL, next month is going to be... meh, then things will get better. That sort of worked for me. I knew it was going to get better soon, and now I barely think about smoking. I gained some weight because I wanted to eat everything in sight but, well, I only ate 50% of everything in sight. :laugh:

my flatmate binned all of her cigarettes and refused to leave the house for three days, once she got past the initial cravings she was totally fine- she's 6months smoke free now

A lot of people say they went completely cold turkey, but that's just too much for some of us to want to handle. I never liked the idea of the e-cig, but I can see how it helps some people. You have 2 separate habits/addictions to break. One is the actual physical nicotine addiction, and the other is the habit of the whole smoking process. With the e-cig, you get work on your addiction without dealing with your habit. For me, the habit consumed everything i did and was harder to break and I needed to work on that. 2 1/2 years ago i quit 20 years of smoking by using the patch for a short while. It let me gradually wean myself off the nicotine while addressing all the other changes I was having to make. One of which in the very early days was to not drink at all because that was a definite trigger. If it is for you, consider staying away from that for a short while. You'll be doing your body even more of a favor and you might find there's much more to do in the summer besides drink

I quit smoking going on 6 years ago. To this day it is the best thing I have ever done for myself. Good luck... you can do it! I however did not go cold turkey. I used Chantix, I only used it for about a month or so and not the full three month cycle.

Yup - 2 months now no smoking - eCig: and don't buy the crap at the gas station - spend a little money on the investment. In the end you'd be spending less than a carton of smokes.

I hear ya I got a nice setup with an E Cig but it just doesnt do it for me....

There are dozens more addictive additives to traditional cigs than just nicotine, so it takes about 3 days to get used to only having nicotine and not the other things. Also Vaping is more like smoking. But if you have an ecig try like heck to get past that 3 day mark.

I loved loved loved smoking and was not going to quit nicotine all together so I got the ecig and then after I got used to it I could never imagine doing it any other way. I smoked for 27 years and tried everything there is, including cold turkey, and the ecig was the only thing that worked. I did not plan on giving the ecig up, I just realized one day that I had not taken a puff off of it in 2 months. I went from not being able to watch a cop chase someone on TV with out getting winded to being able to run for miles.

I also took bee pollen capsules from GNC to help curb my appetite since I gained 8 lbs. Not only did it work, but it alleviated most of my allergy symptoms come spring time. Now if you are allergic to bees, do not do it.

I used Jacvapour ecigs - I always used low nicotene but you can pretty much match what you like to smoke and reduce over time. It was brilliant - no withdrawal and I quit naturally over a few months without feeling deprived.

I tried a few ecigs, and after a few months they gave me AWFUL chest pains. I went back to smoking, tried Chantix which made me insane
nicotine gum, which I know you didn't want to hear, but it delivers the nicotine and keeps your mouth busy.
Youll find what works for you.
Best of luck to you!!!

I hope you manage to succeed in quitting smoking.
I am on my 10th attempt to quit i think i have been trying to quit since i left school i started at secondary school to fit in with my group and when school finished and i started a family i have been smoking on and off all this time.
I have been smoke free THIS TIME lol for 18 days and 23 hours it has helpe that i downloaded a App and it shows me how long and how much money i have saved and how many cigs i have avoided also just a daily walk and keeping busy. I made a to do list off all the jobs and phone calls etc i needed to do and focused on them but everyone is different . Good luck to you all the best !! :bigsmile: