I preemptively bought a box of patches *21mg; 14mg; 7mg that has been sitting on my counter for about a month "waiting for my quit date of January 15th".
I made a promise to myself that I would NOT buy anymore pods so I was stuck with the one that I had. It lost it's flavor in December, I could deal with that. Then it started to turn the juice to a dark brown color...1st week of January, the pod tasted burnt...by the second week it wouldn't even hold the juice in the container, it was leaking out of the bottom...so January 12th, I threw it out of my truck window because I had gotten too pissed off at it. I basically made myself annoyed at the habit so I'd leave it as a non-enjoyable experience.
I got home and slapped a patch on.
My S.O. who is also a vaper/smoker/dipper said he would quit if I did so we can go through it TOGETHER. He's been wanting to quit for a while, but he was too scared to try.... It was kind of our best kept secret. No one knew that we vaped except us so the only people that know we are quitting...is eachother. After he knew that I threw mine out the window and started with the patch, he said he would quit, too...the following day. He had to mentally prepare. After work on the 13th he came home and said "come here a minute...I want to show you something", he opened the door to our backyard in the woods and he threw it as far as he could and asked me to help him put a patch on. We threw out ALL of the paraphernalia together.
We're both irritable, miserable, and having cravings like a motherf*.
I get headaches everyday. I'm tired all the time...on the weekends I take a lot of naps. I'm hungrier than ever. The patch is helping minimally, going from 65mg of nicotine to 21mg of nicotine is kind of a big jump so we're just dealing with it...we talk about how we're feeling with eachother and complain that we want our vapes back but at the same time we're not going back. I'm 6 days on the patch today and he's on day 5. Jolly Ranchers and lollipops, the saving grace of it all...that... and I have been telling myself that it's a lot like working out. When you work out, afterwards you feel sore for a few days and then it goes away but your muscles and bones get stronger. It hurts but it's worth it. This hurts but it's worth it. Pretty soon I'll be able to RUN again!!!
Right now I am where I wanted to be months ago and it can only get better from here, it isn't going to get any worse than it already is.
