Any anons try quitting cigs? If so how successful were you and what helped you quit

Any anons try quitting cigs? If so how successful were you and what helped you quit.

The withdrawals I get from cold turkey are harsh. The depression and anxiety really gets my ass

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some people can cold turkey, apparently you can't. so try tapering. over a long period of time. like cut back one or two fewer cigs a day every week or so. don't deny yourself smoking just smoke less often. if you keep at it then within a year or two you may be able to quit. but you have to WANT it.

Must suck having an addictive personality. Quit being a faggot and just quit, not that hard.

Good luck, user.

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I switched over to an ecig. Not exactly quitting, but I can breathe better and if you try harder than I did you can ween yourself off the ecig easier than the analogs.

I’m on day 4 of cold turkey quitting dip..first 2 days were fucking brutal stick to it

Hacked up something black and bloody. Quit right then and there. The withdrawal symptoms were fucking terrible, but I waited them out. Basically stayed at home for 2 weeks.

Woke up one day and was like, shit, I was a mess. Spent a whole day cleaning and then cleaning myself. Went out that refreshed as a new person.

Later ended up on anti anxiety meds to help with what is an addictive personality disorder.

I've been wearing nicotine patches for over a year. Still smoke sometimes, but not nearly as much.

I'm not prone to depression, but my doctor mentioned that nicotine has antidepressant properties.

nicotine patches or chewing gums or sprays...
they really work, just chew, alongside cigarettes at first, then when you notice you smoke less, just keep chewing more...

Bro, no shit use nicotine salts and pick up a can of zyn tobaccoless chew for when your pod mod dies and you'll be set. I had cancers kicked within the first couple days.

Not all addiction is in your head, sure emotional addictions can happen with anything you deem enjoyable enough to repeat but heroin, meth, prescription drugs, crack etc. All has physically addicting properties that "rewire" your brain basically forcing you to need it. Most addicts need to utilize therapy in order to kick their habits, but the US just usually throws them in jail.

I listened to the audiobook "the easy way to stop smoking" by Allen Carr
I was a heavy smoker for 5 years and since listening to the audiobook, I haven't touched a cig in two months and I don't miss them at all.

Me mum used that shit and only told me terrible things about it. Not sure it works well with a depressive personality, but you're free to tell me more

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This may sound shitty, but I started smoking cheap cigarettes when I couldn't afford good ones anymore. Eventually I just got tired of smoking them. I was tired of trying to scrape up money for them, and I wasn't even enjoying smoking them. So I just stopped.

My prior attempts failed, withdrawals like you said, and my drinking increased. I almost went back to smoking when a friend gave me some Marlboro reds. Realized they started better and felt better than cheap cigarettes while I was smoking them but I still felt like shit later and couldn't really afford it.

That general feeling of shittiness after smoking is my primary motivation this time around, myself. And I smoke fairly expensive and assumably decent cigs.

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Take lsd. It's currently under research for addiction therapy. Two hits and haven't had a smoke in a year.

Different user here. It all comes down to wanting to quit. Chantix works by making you nauseous/physically sick each time you have a cig. If you dont wanna quit, like I didnt, you'll just stop the chantix. However, oddly enough I was able to boot a 10 yr heroine addiction with 3 yrs of methadone and diligence. So anything is possible. I still smoke like a damn chimney tho, lol

Day 4. I just stopped smoking and i’ve been feeling like complete shit. I feel weak and i’m having a hard time breathing. I thought i’m supersick and dying but seeing how other anons have similar withdrawal syndromes calmed me immeasurably. Just need to tough it out
Thanks, and good luck

You must be a fool or an outlier. I've dropped acid on 3 different occassions and each time smoked a pack in a span of about 6 hours

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I smoked for 9 years, I tried quitting a bunch of times but I realised that the mistake I made every time was thinking I could just simply put the pack down. That almost never works.
Making it "forbidden" just makes you crave it more, the key is to slowly reduce it. Make it harder for yourself, only own one lighter, don't bring your ID everywhere (if you live somewhere they won't sell it to you without ID) and make a plan to smoke less.
Don't overestimate yourself, reward yourself and pat yourself on the back for every milestone you reach.
Start out with setting the bar quite low, it's much easier to quit if your goals seem easy. My mistake was making my plans impossible everytime, thinking I could go from three packs a week to two cigs a day. Reduce it little by little, it'll take longer but works wonders.
Adding exercise to your routine can be very helpful too. Often times it's hard to quit something when you can't see any progress or positive outcomes, but running will make you realise there is a big difference between smoking and not smoking.

Finding a replacement is another tip, it can be anything from tea, coffee or snus, to ecigs/vape or some other cigarette replacement.
Allow yourself to smoke during weekends, travels or parties during the first few months of quitting, again, to not make it entirely tabu. I realised that the effects of smoking (such as soar throat and reduced breathing) are very obvious when you havent smoked for a while, which slowly made smoking less attractive to me.
The final tip, which is probably what made my final attempt to quit so easy, is to start quitting at the right timing.
-Make sure you're not completely mentally unstable
-Quit during the winter (if you have winter) or when it's a hassle to go outside and smoke
-If you have a bad cold or a soar throat it will be a LOT easier to quit, since smoking while sick sucks balls

The most important thing though? Don't give up. Don't punish yourself for falling back into it, realise that relapsing is part of recovery from any addiction, and that there is no shame in making your quitting plan slow or longer. I would say it is more important to reduce your smoking consistently rather than quickly, so just focus on rewarding yourself for your success rather than punishing yourself for your failure.

Smoked half a pack a day for about 10 years. Slowly brought that number down to 5 a day and then over the course of a few months (when I decided that I was going to quit) brought that number down to 1 a day.

Then I stopped and that was five months ago. I've had 4 cigarettes since then but I don't want to pick it back up as a habit. I'm done with it.

>I'm done with it.

For now

hahahahaha, being addicted to fags. What a massive faggot you must be.

Just quit already and don't be a little bitch.

Nobody likes a quiter

The dubs have spoken

Hey user, I just quit cigs cold turkey it's been more than a month, i'm okay first week was fucking hard tho, also since i've stopped smoking I feel a bit less deppressed, and didn't get any panic attacks since. Good luck friend. If I did it trust me user you can

>Guys help me, im too much of a faggot to quit without tapering down, I have ZERO willpower. I think im going to post about it.
>CIG WITHDRAWALS ARE SO FUCKING HARSH MAN, I CANT HANDLE IT

Grow a fucking pair of balls, kid. If you think this is bad, try going through opiate withdrawals, you'll really want to kill yourself then.

Don't listen to this faggot. Cold turkey is the best bet, any other method you're wasting money and time.

It sucks you didn't fam

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I tried quitting with my friends before vaping was a thing. We tried the gum/patches route at first but didn't last long.

Then a few years later we tried vaping and I spent a few weeks on vapes before I went back to cigs again.

Last year I decided "fuck it" and quit cold turkey. Wasn't easy, but I managed to keep at it and I haven't smoked since.

I fucking miss it though. It's the routine that I find hard to break. I'd always roll a smoke after dinner, or late night and just chill in my back garden listening to music/audio books while I smoked a cig or 2.

That would be from the anti-anxiety drugs and anti-depressants they add to cigarettes to make them more addictive. They're "preservatives". Try swapping to un-preserved tobacco from your local tobacco store and quit after you're detoxed off the added shit. it's much much easier

If your a Canadian Fag you can go to any med store and get free nic gum, mints, patches, or inhalers
3 boxes for 3 months per year

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>If you think YOU have it bad, TRY IMAGINING THIS. It's MUCH worse. How DARE you complain about literally anything when someone else is in a worse situation than you? Suck it up you BIG BABY.

>your

4 days into no smoking
didn't use the patch
smoked over a pack and half a day. started to scare myself.

cold sweats first couple nights, last night was not bad. girlfriend has been letting me ravage her holes as incentive to keep it going. honestly feeling fine. don't be a bitch. what if you were on a deserted island or in a country that it was illegal. just be determined and remove yourself from situations that you know you might smoke. example I stop by my brothers house for a beer and we chain smoke darts. this week I didn't stop by. life goes on don't be a completely weak bitch.

My grandpa smoked his whole life, and at around 40 years old he was rushed to the hospital in the middle of the night because he couldn't breathe. Everything was fine, he survived without complications, I don't remember exactly what made it happen, but my boyfriend (who is a smoker) asked him once how he quit. Granpa said he just did it, he threw away the last pack he had and never smoked another cigarette in his life, never felt tempted to and never experienced any kind of "withdrawal". I think in many cases the addiction to smoking isn't so much about craving nicotine, but craving the whole "experience" and everything that is associated with smoking a cigarette. A lot of people who try to quit by vaping or using any other replacement for cigarettes find that it doesn't work for them, because they have associated their smoke breaks with a sense of calm. Things like smoke buddies, after-sex-cig, breaks, the hand-to-mouth motion, etc.

Imagine being so full of yourself you feel the need to flex your suffering on anons.

Vape

The depression is going to continue for 2 weeks to a month. I'm not trying to bring you down but the oppsite, if you feel down you know the cause, just keep swimming.

Yeah man, that helped me. Remembering that I was only going to feel good for a minute or two while actually smoking, and then shitty for some time later. Think of that if it helps. But if you're not ready you're not ready. Like I said, I failed multiple times. But the no smoke homos are right, the sooner you can stop the better for your health. It's also nice not having to buy cigarette, or go on smoke breaks. Instead I can do other things.

The whole concept of this is that certain pyschadelics change your perspective of life so extremely it snaps you out of addictions. I can believe it being true in some cases. There's some shit out there like this on DMT

Yeet

Vaping

>>Making it "forbidden" just makes you crave it more.
True for me with both smoking, drinking, and other things.

patches make my arms itchy
the gum is addictive

It's kind of silly, but worked for me: smoking cessation contract. Pick a date, sign contract, and stick to it. I also did nicorette pills for like two weeks to help wein off. Starting on the date of the contract.

smoked for 9 years. tried quitting cold turkey, was successful for a time. didnt really want to quit though, so went back to it. picked up vaping instead after a while. slowly phased out the nicotine till i was vaping no nicotine. then just stopped vaping.

You need to be in the mindset of "I want to actually quit" if you want to be successful at it, or you'll just pick it back up.

The worst part of quitting is the headaches from lack of nicotine. constant, painful, headaches sucked. I feel great now though. vaping also sucks btw.

I smoked for about 10 years, was convinced to stop smoking and just one day had my last pack, idk how but never felt any withdrawal symptoms, maybe its because I had a pretty solid support system with friends and family and kept myself busy most days, which corresponds with what is sorta known about addiction.