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Share your quitting journey

You can choose whatever you want. People do.

JonesCarpeDiem
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     How is imitating smoking, as in putting something in your mouth and inhaling to get nicotine, not smoking?
     All vapers will contend "Oh, you can stop using them whenever you want, but most of them don't. Why? because it's a replacement for smoking. It becomes their whole lifestyle, just like smoking

     So why don't they just quit smoking?   You'll have to ask them.

     The addiction to nicotine is the draw while we are using it but when you aren't, the familiarity of the connection to memories made while smoking is what holds your desire of continuing going through the same motions. In other words you have to change what you are doing to unlearn the motions and it takes time.    

     Vaping is fine if you want to continue the expense and addiction of smoking, including the building of your life around it.

     They will tell you how safe it is too.



Image result for scarred face from ecig

Image result for scarred face from ecig
 

     You can NOT unlearn the motions or the connections to the motions if you are still doing them

     I would suggest looking in the mirror while you are vaping and see if that's the impression you want people to have of you?

     Like any other drug user, people tend to hang out with people doing the same drug to reinforce one another.

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Hello, My name is Dale. I was quit 18 months before joining this site and had participated on another site during that time. I learned a lot there and brought it with me. I joined this site the first week of August 2008. I didn't pressure myself to quit. HOW I QUIT I didn't count, I didn't deny myself to get started. When I considered quitting (at a friends request to influence his brother to quit), I simply told myself to wait a little longer. No denial, nothing painful. After 4 weeks I was down to 5 cigarettes from a pack a day. The strength came from proving to myself, I didn't need to smoke because I normally would have smoked. Simple yes? I bought the patch. I forgot to put one on on the 4th day. I needed it the next day but the following week I forgot two days in a row I put one in my wallet with a promise to myself that I would slap it on and wait an hour rather than smoke. It rode in my wallet my first year.There's nothing keeping any of you from doing this. It doesn't cost a dime. This is about unlearning something you've done for a long time. The nicotine isn't the hard part. Disconnecting from the psychological pull, the memories and connected emotions is. :-) Time is the healer.