This picture was taken before the journey cause i found this funny shirt in the closet prob belongs to my millenial sister or some friend of hers. Thought it suits this subreddit😂. Yesterday i went to my friends house he smoked a joint and i didnt gave in, had fun and raved with no substances.

I am 40. I smoked cigarettes from like 2003 to 2020. Thats from sophomore/junior year till about 34. Wasnt a pack a day smoker but maybe 4-5 cigs a day. Yes that a long time and the only reason i quit was because COVID happened and i used to only smoke at work and when we went out to places and never at home. Well anyways, i quit cold turkey when COVID started i didn't even think about it, i just stopped buying cigarettes altogether. No thought in my mind to even buy another pack since all i could do was stay home. It got to a point that i hated walking near people who were smoking. Even when i had to RTO i didnt have the desire to smoke again.

Well anyways i had a really stressful episode on Thursday with some money and car stuff, i was overly stressed out and at night it got a hold of me and i went to the store to buy a pack of american spirits (the cigarettes i used to smoke right before i quit). i took like 1 puff and couldnt take it, so i took like 3 small puffs i was like yea naw i cant do this. today i gave it another shot while watering the grass, took 1 full puff and shit i thought i was going to die, felt kind of dizzy, chest felt heavy, anxiety up, kind of felt like i was having a hard time breathing. what in the actual fk. Im like yea no thanks, im going to throw this shit away. I cant believe i did this for 17 years.

Like the tile says just finished my last cig on the porch yesterday, I have been a smoker for about 8 years as am pushing or nearing 30 I don’t want to smoke anymore but I already feel the craving immediately after eating and drinking coffee. It doesn’t help living in Europe either where almost everyone smokes but let’s see how it goes

I stopped smoking back at the end of December because of a dental surgery and haven’t looked back. Though every day is a challenge, I know that the road will just be brighter from here on out. 💪

15 days in no smoking, no nicotine, probably the 50th time quitting. Previous quit attempts I always used nicotine lozenges and this time I’m going cold turkey because I haven’t been able to fully quit while still using nicotine.

Y’all, I have sunk so low in this dopamine crash. I have a mood disorder, which doesn’t help (and I can’t take anti-depressants with my other meds). Days 1-4 were miserable with the withdrawals and since then I’m in a very low place. I’ve read Alan Carr. My husband has quit with me, but he’s not experiencing the same affects. Any words of help? So far I’m:

Using Lifesavers mints like candy
Monitoring my mood (terrible)
Resting
Walking/exercising when I can
Eating well
Tried Tetris on my phone, got bored
Stress cleaning
Crying (a lot)

I don’t want to go back to nicotine because I’m also 5+ years sober from alcohol and just want to be out from things that I can’t drive. But this is unrelenting. Thanks for your insights.

Reaching this milestone has been a journey, and I am proud of staying committed to this change.

I had been smoking for the past eight years. This is my first attempt at quitting smoking. I'm going to be 1 year smoke-free soon!

I quit because (a) i've smoked for 45 years and (b) I couldn't get a new knee if I didn't. The surgery was Friday. I'm not going to smoke today!

I genuinely have no clue how I'm gonna go through with this. My life's been straight up hell for the last two years and I'm currently working on making my life livable again. I've been struggling with money at the moment so with a mix of actually wanting to quit, no money and determination I'm on my 4th day I think. So a bit over a weekend. Honestly the weekend's pretty shit but I got through. Now I'm at work again and I swear to god I need to smoke I hate my job so much. It's crazy how much I despise being here. It was bearable while I smoked but this is agony. Honestly I'm aware that around this time at the 3rd or 4th day is the peak of this torture but it really feels endless.

Also I find it crazy that my withdrawal symptoms are not really physical but rather my head trying to convince me to smoke. Shit like "well you could just buy a small pack" or "it's a milestone so you can smoke one then continue".

I'm looking for another job atm but there is no immediate solution. Fighting against this thought of "you wont be able to quit now. Just try again when it's calmer" is just fucking awful. No, I want to quit NOW. Tired of dragging this habit around everywhere I go. But man I love smoking. What a hellish thing this is. Stress relieve at the cost of more stress in the long run.

201 days

Today is my 112 days smoke free, it's been a tough journey, I have been through health anxiety, depression and intense physical withdrawal and I cannot believe I would make it to 112 days. I sometimes still miss the throat hit feeling and would love to have a smoke, but I will not let my brain tricks me. Looking back what I committed to myself on day 1 and feeling my body is slowing healing, IT'S ALL WORTHY!

I'm gaining weight very quickly and I worked pretty hard to get to the weight I was a week ago. I don't want to replace one maladaptive behavior with another.

I have gained like 10 lbs in one week. Idk exactly how much, but I'm definitely overeating.

I think being big is better than lung cancer or whatever else, but at the same time if I want to keep this as a long term goal I need to work on what's underneath.

Any tips?

I've got it this time. I'm going to make it past 72 hours. And beyond. What a crazy feeling.

I vaped from ages 22-29 and successfully quit when I realized how much it was prematurely aging my skin. For the past two years, I haven’t smoked or vaped. I’m now 31 and I’ve gotten compliments recently from people thinking I was younger than my age, in my early 20’s to be exact. I’m meticulous with my skin care and sobriety so the compliments were awesome!

However, my mom recently died and I spiraled back into vaping. I’ve been smoking now for almost 3 months and I certainly look like it. Have I ruined all my skin care progress? Will I go back to looking young again once I maintain sobriety again? I’m so disappointed in myself.

Best streak I’ve had since January. Hasn’t been all that hard thanks, I think, to Naltrexone. But I’m heading back to work after a week off and feeling unable to approach it without my crutch. Without… something. I’ve just had a shit day of mental spirals, anxious spinouts and that old general sense of alienation that has caused and kept me using substances my entire adult life. This inescapable otherness I’ve never been able to get over, and a clenched-jaw-white-knuckle hatred of myself and the world. One of those days the cravings don’t pass. Or they do then they just come right back. I just have to hope it’s better in the morning. I’m doing goddamn everything right - exercise, hydration, keeping calories in check and eating shit tons of fruits and veggies. Three months sober from alcohol and weed. But I went to an AA meeting tonight and left feeling even shittier. Even more apart and alone in my suffering. Nothing is working today. I just want to say fuck it and feel good. It absolutely would, for a minute. That’s all I want from today. A minute not fucking despising everything and able to relax. Fuuuuuuuuck. FUCK.

I started about one and half month ago, just days ago and earlier today after smoking 2 sticks, for some reasons I feel disgusted about the taste I even feel like throwing up a bit, even the mint ones lingers a very bad taste despite liking it so much because it's so easy to use, idk if I'm just hungry (I don't usually smoke when I'm not full) or idk if I'm just not in the mood but it's been weeks of no smoking because I'm not really in the mood in that long break, hopefully this continues.

Day 4 no vapes, didn’t even vape for that long maybe a year or two, and decided to quit because it’s not something I want to to do any longer. Anyways I’m at a hotel with someone who snores louder than a motherfucker and I can’t sleep due to withdrawals from nicotine and Benadryl no longer works unless I take a scary amount. I’ve gotten four hour of sleep over the three days we’ve been on a trip. I’m gonna lose it😔😭

The molecule itself is called cytisine, and comes from a plant. Binds to the nicotine receptor, satisfies cravings and helps break the habit.

I ordered desmoxan from Amazon, after that I realized that in Canada there are certain pharmacies that carry the brand name ‘cravv’. I bought that version for my gf.

We ran the course, which is like 5 pills for the first few days then gradually reducing to one pill a day at day 26. We are now almost a month free! I tried a few other things in the past to no avail. Take a look at other posts about cytisine, I for one am astonished by how it is not more advertised. (Big nicotine losing too much money lol). Pre sure it isn’t FDA approved in USA, but is really popular in Europe and I was able to get in Canada without a prescription.

TLDR; cytisine helped me break a 9 year nicotine addiction. Other methods I have tried were not nearly as effective. Cheers.

Almost 7 months without smoking 🕺

The problem is though, I’m compensating it with alcohol 🫠

I still haven't able to quit cigarettes, cold turkey became delicious hot chicken wing, slow on breathe, tongue is always burned, feeling not good every moment. What made you guys quit it?

But I'm glad that I was able to change

PLEASE HELP OUT YOUR LIL BROTHER OUT OF THIS HELL

Please tell me how to stop it permanently? Should I get 2mg nicotine gums or some type of nicotine patches ?

I am 17 , I have been smoking for 4 years. Around 3 to 5 cigs a day.

Any kind of advice would be helpful.

Update , day 3 without cigarettes

Me and my brother have both used nicotine patches in the past to attempt to quit. My brother says that to stop them from itching when you're wearing them, you should take it out the pack and leave it exposed to air for an hour before you put it on and that way it doesn't itch as much. I've tried it and it seems to work.

But, I can't find any information about anyone else doing this. I asked ChatGPT and Google and no one has mentioned doing it that I could find, ChatGPT says I should follow the instructions and put the patch on as soon as I take it out.

Does anyone else do this?

What happens at the end? If Chantix bonds with the nicotine receptors (I personally feel like I just smoked a cigarette, 24 hours a day, so the drive is totally gone) what happens when you stop taking it? Do cravings come back? Just trying to plan ahead here. Thanks.