In September of 2013 I was hit with a desire to quit smoking. Although I'd had a sneaking thought of it from time to time, even controlled my smoking, I hadn't had a real desire to quit for a while--nor a belief that I could succeed.
I was 54 and had smoked most my life from age 17 on. The desire to quit seemed to come out of nowhere but it stuck and that desire within 24 hours became a decision and that decision over two and a half weeks became a plan as to how--details and to-dos.
It was troubling. I didn't recognize myself. The plans, the sudden go ahead to quit. But I kept at it no matter how weird it all seemed.
Take time to decide that you will quit. At this point by promising to quit and not following through you are teaching yourself a new routine--your mind is becoming accustomed to "I'll quit tomorrow..." Tomorrow never comes for quitting because it will always be about tomorrow. I've been there, a lot of quitters have. And we've also tried to bargain with addiction, or make excuses such as 'I can't because...'
Stress is a common excuse. No judgement from me on that. Like I said I was 54 before I quit for good one day at a time. I made a lot of excuses in all those decades.
You've got the first piece of the quit puzzle: you want to quit. Take some time to think about how you will make that happen. Avoid promising, think about a plan--one that will make sense to you. Try to take stress off the table as a legitimate reason to go back to vaping. Your stress is real, but maybe it's better for you to see it as it really is--life happening. You may not like it (do any of us?) but you can learn to deal with stress without vaping.
One step, one day at a time you can do this.
