Quitting smoking

[Penance]

@Wayward

Giving up smoking just seemed like a massive extra pressure that I didn’t need at the time.

This is where I am currently.

[spacehopper]

Same here - I love the smell of a cigar still but I don’t trust myself especially if I was boozing as well.

[anon14766838]

I was nagged for years and years, but it only worked when I was ready.

[spacehopper]

Definitely - no point making things more difficult for yourself.

[Kevin]

@anon14766838

it only worked when I was ready.

Absolutely, as i said in my first post you have to do it for yourself and i should have added it has to be the right time for you.

[Jim]

@anon14766838

I also found that the act of smoking which vaping simulates was kept me smoking for longer - I had to break the physical habit of putting something in my mouth, inhaling and exhaling to give up, in addition to the chemical and psychological addictions.

Strange you should say that - my nephew was a heavy smoker but weaned himself off the fags by vaping. Over a couple of years, he gradually reduced the nicotine % content in the vaping liquid down to nil. But he still vapes. Says he can’t stop, even though he’s not addicted to nicotine anymore. Weird

[pmac]

It’s a bit like wanking on river banks

Once you start…

[Jim]

[julian2002]

I’ve quit several times, but always seemed to go back to it. I now vape with a very low nicotine content (I mix my own so can control the nicotine level). I do occasionally cave in and buy a pack which will usually last me a week or two if i’m massively stressed. They do make me feel like shit though so I’ve not done that for a while - mainly because paying over a tenner a pack offends me.

They are horrible things with the exception of Sobranie Black Russians which if I could have come up with a way of smuggling them past SWMBO I would have bought a carton of in Geneva as I bloody love the things and they are no longer sold in the UK.