Giving up (I hope)

Hey everyone, I was one year off the smokes on August 4th and I'm so proud of myself.
I don't miss them, I don't crave them, the smell disgusts me if I pass a smoker.
It can be done folks, just like Pretzill said.
And life's sweeter without the evil fags!

Deleted User wrote: »

The vaporizer and the gum can get fierce addictive too, from experience..the vaporizer can be worse to get off than the smokes..

Firstly, good stuff all. How good does it feel to be free of the addiction?!!


I found it ridiculously easy using an ecig. I just needed a push to start it and a plan. I gradually reduced the nicotine to zero over a few months. The first couple of nicotine drops were a little ropey but it only lasted a couple of days and by ropey it was taking extra drags of the ecig. After that I didn't notice the drops in nicotine.




To echo the above posters, it can be done, and in my case anyhow, pretty damn easy!

Pretzill wrote: »

I went passed the year milestone without realising - now a year and 11 days smoke-free any of you toying with the idea honestly it's much harder thinking about it, than actually doing it, and I was very addicted!

Huge congrats Pretzill! Such an achievement!

Harpy wrote: »

Started on an ecig.. on day three cigarette free, I was a 20 a day smoker. I'm in the 6mg nicotine just hoping to use the ecig as a crutch for the first few days and then use it less and less..

No need to put too much pressure on yourself. Use the ecig until you're comfortable with it before contemplating reducing and getting off it altogether. You've already gotten away from the damaging cigarettes. Gradually reducing the nic content worked a charm for me. It was laughably easy.

Pretzill wrote: »

1 year 8 months and 13 days and I'm still smokefree! I still can't quite believe it. My only regret is I have put on an awful lot of weight and losing it is really hard. But it will take more than that to make me smoke again.

Well done Pretzill, what an achievement.
I'll be 2 years smoke free next month but like you, I've put on weight. Bah it's frustrating but at least we don't smoke anymore.

Pretzill wrote: »

Yes I know now smoking is much worse, congrats to you too, two years is a major milestone!

The start is the worst...but once the craving is gone....it's gone. Can be 2 or 22 more years, but at this stage as you know by now...it's not a problem. I make this comment to make it clear that you are not ( and have not been ) fighting the daily nicotine craving for a long time. This is to encourage smoker's who are attempting to give the cigarettes up a bit of a boost....if they thought that 2 years down the road, it would still be the same daily battle...the might give up the fight. Say you decide to stop smoking, and smoke the "last" one on Sunday night...so monday, tuesday, wednesday thursday and friday will be "Hard" days,,,,but even by Friday, cracks will start to appear in the craving pattern's. If you tend to have a few pints on the weekend...that's the danger zone !!! Surviving that,the next monday, and 7 nicotine free day's, it will still be a challenge, but even more "crack's" in the craving will become apparent. While it all depends on the individual, by the next monday @the 14 day mark, there will now be increasingly longer and longer period's of time where the craving is absent to a degree...this will increase daily, until it vanishes completely.... By day 21...the hard physical craving should be gone completely. Sometimes though, when you see some one "lighting up" it will trigger memories.....for me nowadays, cigarettes and smoking disgust me....being in a house or a car where the occupants are smokers, just makes me want to leave ASAP.

Pretzill wrote: »

I forgot to mark my two year Anniversary as a non smoker (1st of November) It still feels great!

Well done Pretzill! I'm 2 years 3 months off them and I'm still so proud of myself xx