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I Quit Smoking and Vaping

AnnetteMM
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I've seen others talk about re-upping old blog posts, or "snooping" into old posts of elders on here, so here I am, too!

I wrote about my own quit journey  https://excommunity.becomeanex.org/people/AnnetteMM/blog/2019/09/08/how-to-quit-juul-or-vaping-in-ge... 

There's some good tips in there, if I do say so myself , but the basics are these:

I smoked for 40 + years. I used Juul to quit, which isn't recommended by experts these days, but it worked for me.

The reason it worked is that I decided ahead of time that I'd quit cigarettes when they ran out, and I'd quit Juul when the pods ran out.  I bought about a two-month supply of them when I had one carton of cigarettes in the house.

Once the cigarettes ran out, I got rid of all ashtrays in my house and car, plus all the lighters. Then cleaned everything.

Once the pods ran out, I threw out all the Juul equipment.

I absolutely FORBID myself to ever buy more. 

Fortunately, I tend to listen to myself. Good advice for anyone, I think.

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I became nicotine-free on Christmas Day 2017. That's what I use as my quit date. I had smoked cigarettes for 45 years, then vaped Juuls for a few months before quitting cold turkey when I used up my supply of pods. I am a retired widow, living in Upstate NY.