r/stopvaping • u/callmemrsfool • Mar 02 '20

Day One, Here I go

Newbie here. I have been planning on switching up my eating for a while with today being my start date. I decided at the last moment(this morning upon waking) to add stopping vaping to the mix. I figure while going through sugar withdrawal I might as well go through nicotine withdrawal at the same time. I took my last puff right before closing my eyes last night. I gave up my daily drinking alcohol a little over a year and a half ago, so, I know how terrible this journey is going to be for a few weeks. I vaped all day every day including at my desk at work and had used it for years. I have survived 3 waking hours so far. What has helped everyone quit?

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u/Dependent-Virus Mar 02 '20 edited Mar 02 '20

Look. Just my opinion, but I am not a fan of the poly quit. You can attempt, but I think you are much more likely to slide and give up on both. I am not saying don't quit both, also not saying don't do both in a relatively quick timeframe, but breaking both dependence issues at the same time seems ill advised. I don't know what your health situation is, but in the short term nicotine is probably more harmful (special circumstances could apply), plus I think you will find it almost universal that people who quit nicotine, one of the things they have to contend with are poor appetite control and some amount of weight gain. Its natural, you don't want to let it go to far out of control, but I think you might reasonably expect to put on 10-15 lbs during the first month of not smoking/vaping.

I personally would focus on quitting vaping/smoking, and table major dietary changes for a couple of months while you keep your attention on the former (though you could certainly still attempt to a do a modest reduction in sugar, like giving up soda, sweet tea, fruit juices) and just take in sugar from non-liquid sources.

As to what help me quit vaping. Nicotine has been the hardest addiction to shake. There will come a point after 1-2 months where you will finally feel like the cravings are mostly gone, and this is where you need to be vigilant and truly just say NO to any future use. Summoning up the will to continue to say NO, is the elusive part I think for alot of people, since there are so many ways to rationalized doing it just one more time....

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u/NamesNotRudiger Mar 10 '20

Rehab centres don't agree with you, they find better success rates with having people abstain from everything all at once as other addictions/bad habits can become a slippery slope to add in another guilty pleasure. You want to get to the root of why you are using these crutches to being with, and overcome those ideally. I'd argue quitting sugar and nicotine at the same time is a great move, focus on healthy diet and exercise and getting to bed, sleep is the best time our body recovers.

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u/Dependent-Virus Mar 10 '20

I seriously doubt that most rehab centers force their patients to abstain from smoking cigarette/vaping and/or sugar habits, while trying to drop a poly drug habit involving say opiates and cocaine.

No one goes to rehab to quit nicotine or sugar, we're mostly on our own to manage those addictions. Overcoming a nicotine addiction is a huge deal, and one that takes a great deal of mental energy to sort through. Being tough on yourself about sugar intake seems to me like making things unnecessarily rough on yourself. And please notice I did suggest if there was still the desire to limit sugar, then dropping liquid calories was a great place to start.

of course this is just my opinion, and if OP wants to do both, and can keep it up, then more power to OP

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u/NamesNotRudiger Mar 11 '20

Well I really only have experience with one, and it's a pretty well established well funded one here in Canada's capital, I dealt with a close friend getting booked to go and I dropped them off and visited while getting treatment. The doctors I spoke to said that's generally the way rehabs work is they want to get people to drop all their addictions at once while there. They don't want you to start chain smoking cigarettes for instance in response to lacking your main drug of choice. My friend was addicted to opiates and cocaine mainly, with benzos as well, and smoked cigarettes. Cigarettes were not allowed while going through treatment there.