hey guys

i have been struggling today, this is usually the day when i cave in my previous attempts, but not today, i will not consume nicotine today!!

i went for a haircut today and passed by the usual store where i would buy nicotine pouches from... it was so hard not to go in and get the regular 6mgs i usually get..

i am feeling more calm then before while consuming nicotine and less anxious which is already a great mental benefit, also the skin under my eyes doesn't look like i m the undertaker anymore haha

anyway just felt like posting here, i really appreciate this community and thankful for all the support on the other posts

"The greatest obstacle in living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today" - Seneca

Sending lots of love from Eastern Europe <3 :)

Hello! I apologize if this is the wrong space for this, I know that compared to many, my concerns about smoking may seem neurotic. I, 23 M, started smoking my junior year of college on the weekends after a night of drinking. Think like 1-2 cigarettes a week, sometimes more sometimes less. Since graduating my smoking has decreased a lot and this year I’ve only smoked about 5 cigarettes the whole year. I know it’s not like I smoke everyday but a lot more recently I’ve been getting anxiety that my previous history of smoking is gonna catch up with me. Which is odd cause just a couple years ago I wouldn’t have cared at all.

Additionally, I’ve found I only ever smoke when I’m drunk and I think at this point I may want to stop drinking all together in hopes of not smoking. Is this normal for people to associate drinking with smoking? Will I have more luck in quitting if I quit the drinking?

This has been the longest I’ve quit smoking in over 5 years and was wondering at what point do you start noticing the positive effects?

I’m also worried that vaping will become an even stronger addiction but without it I’ll surely buy a pack of smokes.

Does anyone have advice on how to now also ween off of vaping too?

Hi! 21f here. I quit smoking for 9months last December, and started smoking again this year. In my industry, almost everyone smokes, most of my friends also smoke.

I think smoking was at first a social clutch, because I struggled with imposter syndrome (my industry is very superficial) but now I am at the point where I can’t stop smoking. I smoke alone which I think is horrible.

I started smoking again while out with friends, and I had a moment where I felt insecure and I had been struggling with nicotine cravings so I gave in.

I don’t enjoy the side effects, I feel like my physical health is horrible and everyone who loves me wants me to quit. But i can’t help but feel like if I quit, I will be so miserable socially. I find that smoking is an easy way to make friends.

Any advice would be helpful, Thanks

Hello, I have taken a good scroll of this Reddit and just want to say it is one of the best things I have ever found. Everyone is very supportive to one another, and genuinely provides great advice to one another. With that said, I am in my early twenties and started vaping back in high school because a couple of my friends did. What started as fun, turned into “oh I am going to college now and am stressed” and then eventually when I graduated college, it turned into “oh my job is stressful” and I kept providing myself excuses to do this. I have consistently vaped (outside of maybe a few week stints) every single day at a rate on average of 70ish mg per day (according to some research I did on the disposable vape I exclusively have been buying and using for these past years). So clearly, I am someone who lacks self control, at least when it comes to this. I bought nicotine patches and am wearing one currently, and I guess what I am looking for here is that if anyone in here has been in a worse spot in terms of nicotine consumption and was able to get through it. Also, I am kind of just curious what I am in for, it may help me in the long run.

TLDR; I have chronically vaped for about 5 years and am looking for any advice or stories of those who have recovered from a similar nicotine consumption or even worse

Well it's not my first time smoking, I use smoking as a crutch in stressful times, but over the last 7 years have only smoked like 50-60 packs max. Last time I smoked before this was a year ago.

So I quit again after just 5 days smoking 2 packs. And immediately the day after, I have horrible post nasal drip, constant throat clearing, sore throat, cough and fatigue. I never had this happen when I quit before. It can't be a normal flu because it never starts with post nasal drip, that's usually the last symptom.

But I thought only hardcore smokers got smoker's flu, when quitting after years and years of smoking? It's literally only been 5 days, and a year gap since last time I smoked.

Whatever the case, I've decided never to smoke again, this shit ain't worth it ✌️

Recently came across a brand called ‘quitci’from India but cant find any honest reviews to establish its credibility and safety.

In a month im going to have surgery and i have to make some adittional tests before anaesthesia. one of them is X ray of chest area. im 40 yo.ive smoked since 23- 23 .last 2 years it was quiting / relapsing cycle ( not smoking for 3 months,smoking for one etc ) Im really scared of this x ray.i m afraid it gonna show something that we all afraid .anyone else had similliar ? im not afraid of surgery but this x ray is only thing i think about :(

[19, M] Ive smoked like max like 3 ciggerates a week for the past 6 months. This make me feels bad. I go on smoke free for 15 days, then I get back on track for a ciggerate and the cycle continues. recently got a gym membership and planning to never look back the ciggerates again. I am worried that I might have lost my lung capacity.

Today I smoked my last ciggerate and planning never to get back on this cycle.

How to stop the "one ciggerate is never gonna kill" mindset.

I don't wanna smoke again. I don't like the smell of tobacco, but the nicotine buzz is what keeps me comming back, I don't have any options to Vape, or nicotine pouches. Since it is banned in my country

Wish me luck, please provide me with your wisdom.

Thanks.

Didn’t smoke for 4 years after I lost two of my grandparents to lung cancer. Keep slipping up due to stress.

I’ve had some really tough circumstances recently, without dumping in this post I’m dealing with some difficult family problems and I think I’m really burnt out.

Have been antidepressants last 8 years but recently I don’t feel great. I sort of keep myself steady but as soon as my child’s dad comes to see her I sneak out and sit in my car and smoke. It feels like my only alone time and to be honest as much as I hate smoking I do feel better after.

I don’t know what to do instead, I’m not physically addicted again but it’s an emotional relief I’m not finding anywhere else.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Today my first day of quitting smoking I want to trek around Nepal in march, need tips to help me stay clear and go cold turkey

Hi everyone,

I quit smoking cold turkey over a year ago after 4 years of being a smoker. Since then, I’ve only had a cigarette once every few months at parties.

Lately, though, I’ve started slipping. At work breaks, I’ve smoked a few times with colleagues, and today I had two. I hate that I’m falling back into this, especially since I’m in the best phase of my life—hitting the gym, studying, and feeling great otherwise.

I don’t crave it at home, but in social situations, I just give in. Any tips to help me stop before this turns into a full relapse? Thanks for reading!

Background and explanation:

I have been smoking weed for almost 5 years daily. I smoke multiple times a day, usually bongs/joints and I used carts for my first year or two of smoking. In between those 5 years I've taken a few 1-2 month long breaks. I just started seeing this in my mucus the past 3-6 months I wanna say. This is by far the worst I have seen it and It's giving me a ridiculous amount of anxiety and stress.

Outside of smoking multiple times daily. I am an extremely active and a healthy person. I workout 5x a week, eat healthy, and don't drink/ use other recreational drugs. I am just a chronic marijuana lover and smoke a lot because of it.

These past few days, I fell ill and have had severe cold like/flu symptoms. Cold and hot aches, runny nose, super sore throat, coughing up mucus, etc. This could be the reason I have been coughing up more of this black and brown shit than usual. But I know for a fact just from looking at it that this IS NOT from just being sick. I have the regular yellowish nasty orange mucus you would normally get when sick and coughing stuff up. But this is way different and much more severe than I've ever seen.

As I said previously, this has been happening for around 3-6 months. I would say around 3-5 times a day around the time when I smoke. But its gotten progressively worse and it's freaking me the fuck out seeing this much.

IF ANYONE has any experience or knowledge in what this might be. Please, please let me know. It would mean the world to me and ease my stresses and anxiety. Thank you!

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Smoking for 8 years now and I've been thinking heavily about quitting for the first time in a real way lately, even tried to quit cold turkey today but failed at 22 hours. I've been bargaining with myself trying to say I can just go back to being a social smoker or maybe I can have one as a treat after work or on my weekend or whatever. I know I need to quit though and when I smoked today after almost a whole day of withdrawals I was so disgusted with myself. Right now, for the last few months, I'm smoking more than ever before, half a pack a day, and I'm really noticing my hair is breaking, my skin is so dry, my teeth and gums are kinda unhealthy feeling, my nails are breaking, I just feel so disgusting and gross. In addition to the always feeling sick, always being cold, always being tired, always being stressed and irritable. I'm just disgusted with the whole thing and myself. If you quit and noticed your appearance improving, please tell me about it!! I want to be a nonsmoker :(

Can anyone point out this to me? There are a ton of resources where we can see the effect of cigarette smoking to someone's lungs, but there's practically none related to cigar or pipe smoking based on my Google search.

Granted, there are far fewer cigar and pipe smokers and they don't inhale like cigarette smokers and vapers. I wonder if this has anything to do with how little research dedicated to the former.

Hey guys! How do you add the days not smoking timer on your badges?

Hello,

I know this is a smoking forum but I quit vaping about 3 months ago. Recently, my fein for nicotine started to raise. I tried to use nicotine pouches specifically On1 3mg pouches.

They only coated £3 and they made me feel like shit. I was sweating, heart racing, feeling sick and so many more.

Do you think it would be worth it to try pouches again or go back to vaping?

Hello everyone! So after countless failed attempts I'm making a new attempt to quit smoking. This time I'm trying to make myself accountable so I thought I should create a challenge to stay smoke-free for the month ahead. I know it's not going to be easy but I have many reasons to stop this addiction for good. I don't feel hopeless but some support would help. I'm planning to update on my journey during this month long challenge. If you want to join me post your answer here and update me on how you're doing. I just smoked my last cigarette of november half an hour ago and I'm not willing to smoke a single one in december. It would be a huge success for me if I could do this because the last time I had more than a week without smoking was like 8 years ago. Wish me luck. :)

I'm scared. My father and aunt both were heavy smokers and were dead by 45.. I'm 39. I was 16 when my father caught pneumonia and it overpowered him within a week. I watched him die. When they took him off life support his death was immediate. His lungs and body simply couldn't take anymore.

I smoke weed as well for terrible anxiety and I don't know that I'm ready to give that up.. It's the only thing that calms me down immediately and I rely on it. I take other medications for my anxiety as well. I stopped drinking after heavy drinking for 20 years. That was the hardest thing I've ever done. My heart isn't great. My liver did not like me for a long time, but it's not bad.

I cough so much. My lower chest hurts. I wheeze and can't breath. I'm underweight and don't eat much. I feel like I might be too late. I feel like I'll end up like my dad. I don't want to die not being able to breath.

I don't know where to start on how to motivate myself. I know I need to get in better shape or I will die. I quit once and it felt like couldn't breath even more. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. As a recovering alcoholic I was heavily addicted to smoking too and I have relied on it to get me through the last year and a few months of sobriety. I was terrified to stop drinking and I feel just as scared with quitting smoking.

I’m back here and would love any help to get me back on track. Thank you!

Hey everyone I am trying to create a quit smoking app for a class. It would be used in conduction with Nicotine patches/ or quitting cold turkey. Would you please answer a few questions, it would really help me out.

1. Did/do you use an app the help you quit?

2. For those who has used nicotine cessation apps before, what features were missing that would have actually helped you stay on track with quitting?

3. What's the most frustrating thing about current quit smoking apps that made you stop using them?

4. If you could design the perfect app to help you quit smoking, what would be the one feature you'd absolutely need to have in it?

5. For those who successfully quit smoking - what support/tools did you wish you had during the process that no app seemed to provide?

After 40 years if smoking a pack a day I quit cold turkey 9 months ago yay for me! I am at the point where even though I do think of cigarettes here and there the temptation is long gone. I have been around people literally smoking in my face and it's actually very gross to me now!! Well I don't ever drink alcohol except for every Thanksgiving I get pretty drunk with my sister...so an annual alcohol thing lol. Well she hits the darn vape all day and my drunk self hit her vape about ten times!!! I had never tried a nicotine vape ever. Well I feel no different and have no desire to start smoking again. I am also definitely not starting my quit timer over either!! Has anyone has something similar happen to them?

Just an advice if you want to stop smoking beware of your surroundings, if you’re surrounded by smokers you will be affected by them, and that was my problem for not quitting. When I relocated to another country left everyone behind I find it very easy to quit surrounded my self with non smokers, also replaced this bad habit with reading books for the first time of my life 😂 Just self-discipline yourself to change your life, because quitting smoking is a life changing decision trust me.

Everything was going well and I thought it's going to be good today. Suddenly one person I know verbally abused for personal reasons.

My anxiety and sadness peaked now !! Trying to keep the mind in presence but racing thoughts already occupied.

So for now sadness, anxiety and fear !!! Don't how many more hours I am going to be a non smoker. I feel bad :'(

I’m 3 weeks vape free. I vaped for 7 yrs. I went cold turkey. The first 2 weeks were hell I lost 10 pounds couldn’t eat or drink anything, I was super nauseous had chills, headaches, acid, pain in my chest, and my anxiety was off the charts, I literally thought I was dying. I went to the er about 3 times within the 2 weeks, they said my liver enzymes went up and I feel like it’s cause I quit baking because it was in normal range when I used to smoke. By the third week I felt a little better I could eat but my appetite is much smaller. I’m still having diarrhea not as bad as the first week where it was constant and yellow(sorry tmi)now it’s mushy and brown. I feel like my stomach is still learning to process there’s food in my stomach cause I haven’t ate in 2 weeks causing the upper right pain and bloating.And finally the gurgling in my stomach was constant until 2 days ago where it would barely be there. I’m at week three and the only symptoms I have are high bilirubin which the doctor said I have Gilbert’s disease and health anxiety. Like I don’t want to go out in a crowd I’m scared. Also do you think the high bilirubin is temporary because I just quit vaping? I believe it is givin I was at normal range before.

Hii, so as the title says, I really wanna quit smoking because I have some cardiac risk markers in high numbers, my throat is infected, my uric acid is high, and generally because of how horrible it is.

I manage to stay away for a few days but something or the other pushes me back. I have done it all, research, identifying triggers. Last week I tried this approach of 'even I relapse I just won't consider it and continue the quit' but as you all experts know, nicotine doesn't let your brain go that easyyy

I smoked a cigarette this morning and I wanna try quitting again, but my decision doesn't even feel real anymore, I have no faith in myself.

Please help.

A few friends of mine and my girlfriend are smoking on partys or on vaccation and then stop again right after. How are they doing this? I smoked 1 at my last quitting attempt (2 month) and got a pack after. I am now again on week 3 and I am a little bitter at my friends for being able to smoke and stop right after… 😅

I am smoke free for a week now, the worst of the withdrawals are over. But as most of you would understand, i get these romantic ideas about cigarattes lol. You know, just walking out there in the cold weather, a cigaratte in the hand, sitting on a bench all alone in the park and just relaxing, maybe grab a can of beer too. I can't stop thinking about grabbing a cig, but I don't experience the withdrawal symptoms that I did a week ago either. How do you come over this?

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