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Me too but now i got a new one
I’m still going strong, too. Congrats.
Cold turkey. You make the time to quit “now” and not a later that never comes. It worked for cigarettes and fast food. From that point you live with yourself.
Warning though for my advice. I care little for my own happiness, quiting those were not a pleasant experience. I did not strengthen my resolve to overcome weaknesses, in bouts of depression I discarded things that made me happy for my health.
I went to work for a MS only company and had a work issued laptop.
Helped a lot with my addiction - at least for a while.
I have relapsed though and have a rack with 3 2 unit servers running that OS that I shall not mention and countless VM/Containers and docker images - I also have several VPS in data centers and run a small Lemmy instance, Blog, online shop…
Um, I think I need help again.
Replace it with another not as self harming addiction.
Girlfriend was thinking about breaking up with me because of it. She never outright said it or threatened it but I could feel it yk? The worried comments were becoming more like requests. I’m lucky I wasn’t in too deep, addiction has just begun to settle in so breaking out was too difficult.
She has admitted to me since that she did come very close to ending our relationship. Glad it didn’t come to that
Was it the shark fucking?
Yes
There are more than 420 of you ? Or are you the last one ?
We are a collective swarm with one consciousness
She’s a keeper!
Oh for sure, we’re at 4 years now. This happened between year 1 and 2.
I quit smoking via vaping. I started out vaping high nicotine and then gradually decreased the concentration until I was vaping nic-free and then not at all. I haven’t smoked OR vaped in the over 3 years since.
I’m not sure it would have been possible for me without flavored vape juice, though: vaping a good flavor that’s very different from tobacco flavor helps by making real cigarettes taste absolutely awful in comparison. Like “the first cigarette you ever smoked” awful if not worse.
Vaping tobacco flavor makes it much harder to not backslide since normal cigarettes won’t taste awful to you and will deliver not only more of a nicotine kick, but also several other addictive chemicals that aren’t in e-juice.
In conclusion: banning flavored e-juice, which was already illegal for children to buy, will lead to thousands if not millions of people dying from tobacco related diseases because the most effective smoking cessation product was made much less effective for no good reason.
Went through the same path and managed to stop vaping at 0mg after a while. Tried many times to stop smoking, and vaping was the only thing that did it. I’m guessing vaping flavor ate mostly illegal because governments weren’t maming enough money out of it.
Yeah, sounds like I had about the same experience as you: before successfully quitting via vaping, I had been trying basically every other method including prescription medications for 10 of the 18 years that I smoked. Nothing worked until vaping.
I’m guessing vaping flavor ate mostly illegal because governments weren’t maming enough money out of it.
More a case of Big Tobago still having a lot of politicak influence (read: give out a lot of bribes to politicians) AND normally benevolent organizations such as the main anti-cancer foundation here in Denmark rely on sales of traditional cessation products for significant portions of their funding.
The latter is even more fucked up than the former IMO: organizations whose sole purpose is minimizing and researching cures for cancer were the main opponents to the best tool to eliminate the most common cause of cancer.
They indirectly CAUSED cancer because otherwise they’d have less money to do their great work of helping PREVENT and treat cancer.
If only they and vape makers had agreed to the same profit sharing deal as the traditional cessation product makers, vaping would probably be fully legal for adults with no unreasonable restrictions AND more effectively kept away from kids like the traditional ones are. Might even be the most used method, since it’s the most effective one.
Vaping is mostly illegal because tobacco companies have to switch. They have a lot of production facilities. Those need to be tuned down, closed or converted. That would cost them a lot of money. So it’s best to slow that down with laws.
Tobacco companies make the laws. If anything related to them is outlawed or regulated or taxed, it is because they want it that way.
Things that are outlawed become regulated. Things that are regulated can be made expensive. It takes money to compete in a regulated market. It’s a long-game. And tobacco knows how to play a long-game.
My guess: They’ll wait until more small companies pop up, then buy them all, and then kill tobacco, which is much less profitable than producing vape stuff. And then they’ll triple the price.
Which addiction?
For Adderall, Vyvanse, Dabs, Alcohol, Benzodiazepines, and meth I went to rehab and learned why I used the dopamine inducing substances, to really get to the root of the problem. Honestly it’s been a world of difference and if anyone is struggling feel free to reach out. Childhood trauma is a bitch.
For vaping I am currently using nicorette until I run out and then it’s cold turkey!
For energy drinks I looked up how bad they were for the body and heart specifically every time I wanted one.
The biggest thing for me that has helped is getting the idea in your head that you’re not currently “quitting” but instead you’ve already “quit”. It’s more of a finality of a statement and helps reinforce no relapse. That doesn’t mean you won’t ever go back in a moment of weakness, however. What’s important is to not turn a lapse of willpower into a total relapse.
Hey, I’m struggling and I’m intrigued by your first paragraph.
Hey, please reach out to me. I’m here for you and I’m an open book. Any questions, any concerns, and any advice you need I’m right here with you. I am here for you and I am judgement free. Anything I can do to help let me know even if you just need someone to talk to in recovery.
smoking: I decided it was disgusting. it was like a switch flipped and I had no desire to do it anymore.
and it helps that it actually is super nasty (I can only imagine how I used to smell), and ruins everything; I just had to realize it.
I quite smoking. Much like another post. Swapped to vaping then lowered nic levels to zero. Then I also played a game with myself. How long can I go without vaping. Never told myself I couldn’t. Id just want it more. But just told myself. Can I wait 10 minutes. Pushing it a little longer each time till I was going hours then days. I don’t remember the last time I did it. It just merged into not needing it. I still get cravings at times but I think I just kinda tell myself can I wait an hour and then I forget about it or the cravings is gone.
The thing with the cravings is that the frequency lowers the longer you’ve quit. They still occur in force, but longer apart
Allen Carr’s Easy Way to Stop Smoking
For anyone who might want to stop smoking, just grab a used copy or download it somewhere
Indeed. I was really skeptical but to my surprise, it really works! Maybe not on everyone but I suspect it does for a high proportion of people.
Quiters Inc
Great short story
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Mom didn’t raise no quitter
Proud of you bud
Delete the application
Make the addiction not an option among your daily list of things possible to do, not even in boredom. Quickest way to win.
