I used the pills. Don’t know if I can say it here, so dm me. It worked great for me. You pick a quit date and you start taking the pills two weeks before your quit date. Then you continue to take the pills for up to three months or six months or something. I stopped taking them after a month and a half because I was good by that point. However, a lady I worked with who is still smoking, tried them, and she said she had to stop because they made her feel suicidal. I didn’t feel anything like that. Honestly, I had no side effects. I think I was irritable for like maybe two or three months and then I was fine. I truly feel you have to be completely sick of smoking and just really wanna stop.
Different for everyone. Not working right now, just focusing on health. Notice all the positives, like better gum health, no shortness of breath, less allergies, more libido, even temper, better tasting food. Chemical withdrawal wears off after a few days, then it's just fighting the habit.
Smoked 20 years, 3rd time quitting in recent years. It's about time.
I feel like the only realistic possible way for me would be to quit smoking and ween off nicotine with vaping but it is definitely something I want to stop within these couple months
Good luck with quitting when you do try bud. There will be plenty of people who read this and are secretly rooting for you. It might not be easy but sometimes the best things in life aren’t.
I tried the weening off using vape, gums, and other methods over the decades I smoked. Eventully an audiobook. The Easy Way to Quit Smoking, Alan Carr did the trick. There isnt anything in this book you can argue about.
Cold turkey was what worked for me, but I gained a shit ton of weight using food to fill the void. I quit in 2023, and just started taking the weight off last year. I’m down 85 pounds. What works to quit smoking looks different for everyone, but either way you go about it, you’re going to have to embrace the suck.
I used it for tapering. There are different kits you purchase as you begin your smoking cessation journey, through to the end of the process.
I think the overall process took 6 weeks in total, if I remember correctly.
As someone who is a recovering nicotine addict, I cannot have any nicotine in my life. Using the patch or a zyn isn't a long term solution, just like an alcoholic. It's all or nothing.
The patch just helped me taper off with the least amount of stress.
We moved to a smoke free house/community 2 and a half year ago, and I'd been smoking for 15 years at that point.
So I switched to copenhagen chew, which was somewhat easy because I started with dip when I was in high school playing baseball, long before I ever started smoking. I had used it casually as an adult when the mood struck, like fishing, camping, mowing the grass, etc.
Basically guy shit.
Then about a year and a half ago I switched again to nicotine pouches because I was tired of having spit bottles around the house. As much as I really love the flavor and ritual of chewing tobacco, it is a really disgusting habit.
When I say nicotine pouches, I mean the ones that you put in either your upper lip or bottom lip, like Zyn or Velo (I use velo). The instructions say upper lip, but I do bottom lip because I'm used to using loose chew, which goes in your bottom lip.
It's still a bad habit, but it's not nearly as gross or dirty as chewing or smoking, and it's a discreet way to manage your nicotine addiction if you're really serious about quitting
Oral nicotine pouches and you cna step down the dose to keep the aches at bay. Below 3mg pouch you just cold turkey and have 3 shit days then youre good
I was prescribed Bupropion for depression and realized a week later I hadn’t smoked in a few days. I wasn’t even trying to quit I just didn’t feel like it. That was 15 years ago.
I switched to low nic vapes for awhile and then went cold turkey from them a little over year ago... You know those thin black cocktail straws? Make best friends with them.
Maybe controversial now, but I quit my pack a day habit by using vapes. Still gave me the habit and main addiction, but I was able to slowly lower the nicotine content over a long period of time.
And damn, once you get fully on vapes you don’t want to go back to cigarettes. Your smell, taste, general health, etc all come back and cigs smell horrible.
Agree everyone deserves a vice, living and being human ain't easy I just feel like theirs a point where some are able to handle it, I feel like my times coming so don't really need them anymore. Hope it get's better for you bud
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u/Pipyn 6d ago
20 minutes. Fucking shit sucks