Day 7 of Quitting Smoking and Vaping instead to finish quitting.

Rich221976 · 2025-04-16T22:08:25+00:00

So far it has been a week for me of not actually smoking a real cigarette. Decided to switch to Vaping instead. Been doing pretty good with control my sugars and the fact that I am not smoking and don’t want a real cigarette. This Friday I will be ordering more cartiages for my vapes and lowing the nicotine from 20 mg to 12 mg and then slowly work my way to the 0 mg ones to completely stopping.

Rich221976

urbanriot

I am using the Vape to quit smoking. I am currently using 20 mg carriages and my next order will be for 12 mg ones. Then as I am using that one, I get to decide if I can go to 0 mg after that order is used up.

So far very little cravings, Just the habit now, but I am still getting nicotine through the Vape. I am still in the habit of trying to grab a pack of cigs and a lighter. The first three days were the roughest. However, I am at a point where I don’t even want a regular cigarette.

Plus, even though the Vape is not the safest way to quit, I am already starting to see some health benefits from it. I am using less insulin now with my diabetes. Taste and smell are coming back.

I did a lot of research on switch from smoking to vaping. In the US they do not recommend it for quitting. But in the UK they have had a pretty good success rate with getting people off smoking by having them vape instead.

Cold Turkey hasn’t worked for me at all. Tried it many times and I end up going right back for a cig. I probably need to be locked up and put into a force coma to quit turkey. Like let my body handle all of the withdrawal while I dream some of the crazy dreams.

Made it one time with the patches for a year without smoking. Smoking after quitting for a year probably was the stupidest thing I did. I quit for a year and remember all of the benefits from that quit. Having more energy. Not having to take acid reflux meds. Lungs cleaned out.

This Friday when we get paid, going to order the 1.2% nicotine carts to lower the nicotine level. At the same time, I am going to work on slowly cutting back on Vaping as well.

However, even with this short period of not smoking and just vaping I am see much more health benefits now. I actually feel better now. I won’t be on the vapes for too long. Just long enough to get past the cravings.

Donoreo

Were vapes not introduced as a way to quit smoking? I recall when they first came out everything was that 1. It was healthier right away because no smoke 2. you would reduce the nicotine amount 3. gradually you would be using so little nicotine that you could easily quit because your body would have grown accustom to having so little over time.

Somewhat-Reticent

Rich221976 The first three days were the roughest.

Also normal for fasting.

Bombtrad

broknsymetry I quit almost 18 years ago cold turkey and never looked back. I smoked for 40 years starting when I was 7. I tried other methods (patches. gum, hypnosis, cessation classes) and did quit for short periods of time but cold turkey is the only way that worked for me.

Me too, but for me 25 years ago, I was about 55 at the time, and been smoking since I was a kid.. I was smoking about a half pack a day running my gun shop. I shut down with a $4000 debt to Olin Winchester which I ignored until they got real upset.

I figured how much smoking cost ne a month, and offered them that amount per month to pay the bill.

So I went cold turkey and “paid” the bill through giving up for good. I never ever thought about taking up again.

GrumpyCanadian

Donoreo 2. you would reduce the nicotine amount 3. gradually you would be using so little nicotine that you could easily quit because your body would have grown accustom to having so little over time.

You know, I’ve had this debate with family a few times. I always asked why governments don’t legislate that gradual reduction in nicotine content allowed in actual cigarettes, until nobody wanted them anymore. They could do the same for all of the other additives that the major brands add to get their “customers” to feel like they can’t live without them.

If they had to, they could add those requirements as part of the multi-billion-dollar settlements with tobacco companies, possibly lowering the dollar amounts gradually with good-faith compliance, of course written in proper legal language added to the settlements (and even bigger penalties for non-compliance or bad-faith “compliance”). Frankly, the taxes collected from the sale of tobacco products are not worth the problems associated with smoking, nor the costs associated with the long-term health consequences that result.

Bombtrad

Down here we are in a tobacco/vape war with shops all over being firebombed. Multi ton shipments of leaf tobacco and shredded leaf being found by Customs agents being illegally imported. And vapes too.

Big time gangs are involved.

RDAnderson

I quit smoking January 8, 2018, a Tuesday at 6am. I had been cutting back before then, but it was not really working because I was drinking too much every time I wanted a cig. I had been smoking for at least 55 years, including about 20 years rolling my own Drum tobacco. I was such an experienced roller I used to roll ciggies for the amusement of friends quicker and more neater than my friends could get a tailor-made from a pack and light it.

So, for the first month I stopped drinking and used Nicorette, eventually using their spray which actually worked by killing my desire to smoke. All in all, I found it quite easy. I would stop the vaping if I was you. You need to get over sucking on something.

All the best and report back in one year.

HardlyWorthit

Quitting smoking is really easy.
I’ve done it hundreds of times.
/s

Rich221976

So far so doing really good.

I haven’t had a cig in 22 days. I am still using the Vape, but I cut the nicotine to 12.9 mg from 20.00. I have ordered a box of the 0 nicotine. I should have it next week. I got about 5 more boxes of the 12.9 mg to use. That should get me to the end of next week and then I will start the 0 nicotine vapes.

Bombtrad

Rich221976 I haven’t had a cig in 22 days.

You’re well over the hump. hang in there on the end run.

Rich221976 I got about 5 more boxes of the 12.9 mg to use.

Why not consider tapering further off having one only every so often??

Rich221976

RDAnderson

That is my plan. Once I am on the 0 nicotine, I will be able to slowly cut back the vape. I actually without really trying I been slowly cutting down on the vape.

Some people I know was able to just quit cold turkey. I can’t do cold turkey, I wish I could. I do believe this will get me off of cigarettes. I feel really positive with this quit, then I have with any other times that I have tried to quit.

Pretty soon I will also be nicotine free. Once I am doing the 0 nicotine, I will be getting some of the coffee stirs with the hole in it and I can chew and suck on that as well. My plan is to stop vaping.

I also believe there are other things in a cig that you become addicted to. I know that there is the physical dependency however, I still believe there are more things in that cig that you become addicted to than just the nicotine. I will still going through withdrawal even with the vape for the first week.

RDAnderson So, for the first month I stopped drinking and used Nicorette, eventually using their spray which actually worked by killing my desire to smoke. All in all, I found it quite easy. I would stop the vaping if I was you. You need to get over sucking on something.

The very first time that I tried to quit, I was able to stop for a year. I used the patches. I had to use tegaderms to keep the patches on. Back then the only medications available were the patches and Zyban. I was in my early 20’s when I quit the first time.

I tried the Zyban but it didn’t work for me at all. It just didn’t help with the cravings at the time. However, I did quit with the patches. I ended up getting stressed out and this one time, the stress was too much and I lit that cig. If I didn’t light that cig I probably still not have smoked.

However, I did go back to smoking and since then the patches just won’t work on me. I also used the gum and the lozenges but my issue was that I was able to stop smoking but I got myself stuck on the gum and lozenges.

I just couldn’t stop using the gum and lozenges. My weight jumped up and when my A1c jumped to 8.9 I ended up smoking again.

Now that I am on insulin and my diabetes is kindof under control I decided that it is time to quit. My health will probably just tank at some point from smoking. When I was laying down to go to sleep I could hear my lungs wheezing when I was trying to sleep. Sometimes the sound was pretty bad.

Now that I switch from smoking to vape temporarily, my lungs are doing better. My asthma is much more under control. I gotta make an appointment with my lung doctor for the asthma to see how the lungs are doing as I am doing this transition to stop smoking.

However, I do not want to smoke a real cigarette now. I don’t plan on smoking a real cig again.

timcuth

I started smoking when I was 7. I tried to quit three times when I was 21. I succeeded on the third attempt; it was a New Year resolution. I quit cold-turkey.

Then, when I was 31, there was a labor strike against my corporation. I was management, and I had to work 12 hours per day with one day off every other week for the duration, which turned out to be 3 weeks. Most of my co-workers were smoking, and I took it up again in “self defense”. I thought it would be easy to quit again, but it wasn’t. So I smoked again for about 6 months. I finally quit again, cold-turkey.

I have now been quit for several decades.

Guy54435

Rich221976 Keep at, It has been 186 day since I quit it isn’t easy but you can do it. Don’t give in don’t give up, by the way I am still every so often reaching for my pack of smokes that are not there.

Beachie

Triggers are everywhere, with that first cup of coffee in the morning, after a good meal, etc. I didn’t go bar for a long after I quit because having a drink and smoking were old habits. It’s not easy but you can find ways to overcome trigger situations with alternates like going for a walk instead of lighting up after dinner or the old trick of snapping a rubber band you put on your wrist for when the urge hits.

You’ve done great so far, keep it up!

Somewhat-Reticent

Beachie snapping a rubber band you put on your wrist

Gently.

Donoreo

Keep up the good work. Come read this thread if you feel you need inspiration.

Beachie

Somewhat-Reticent Gently.

Heh, whatever it takes to get your mind off lighting up.

broknsymetry

18 years nicotine free today!

HooRU

its been decades. My brother just took it up the dummy.

Sparkchaser

I tried but never took to cigarettes.
I did try a pipe after I got out of HS. I was hanging around U of P and Drexel a lot. I even had a pipe in the army. I thought it made me look like an intellectual. Actually, made me look like a dork. 😄

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