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People hooked on vapes try a new way to quit: cigarettes

248 points · 335 comments · alephnerd

  1. S0y · · focus · HN ↗
    Here's what I did to get rid of my nicotine addiction (vaping):

    - Gradually lower the strength of my liquid until it was at the minimum.

    - Stop all vaping and switch to nicotine gum

    - Gradually increase the time between each gum

    - Stop the gum altogether

    This process took probably 3 months and tbh it was pretty miserable the whole time. It's 100% worth it tho, You don't realize how much it controls your life until you stop. You will also still get random cravings for a year or two afterwards, Heck it's been 4 years and I still sometimes get dreams where I'm vaping.

    1. JKCalhoun · · focus · HN ↗
      Stopped smoking cold turkey when my first daughter was born.

      For the first year I wanted a cigarette every fucking day.

      Years later, I still had dreams where I would light up…

      20+ years on, a distant memory.

      1. ivanvanderbyl · · focus · HN ↗
        My father did the same thing. He used to smoke a pack a day and the day that I was born he quit and never touched it again, and then when I was old enough to understand cigarettes, he taught me to never start smoking and I never have.
        1. reilly3000 · · focus · HN ↗
          Stay that way. Your first cigarette will never let you forget it.
          1. madwolf · · focus · HN ↗
            Not necessarily. I’m over 40 now and had a total of 3 cigarettes in my life, all of them in my twenties, parties, hanging out with people smoking etc. Every time it was a terrible experience and I was amazed why people do this to themselves…
            1. outime · · focus · HN ↗
              I don't think OP advice is wrong as a general advice though. I've also smoked very sporadically and never got really hooked (as opposed to my whole family), but plenty of regular smokers started with that first one. It's better to not take any chances.
            2. JKCalhoun · · focus · HN ↗
              Yeah, same for me—the first dozen or so sucked.

              And then one day they were awesome and relaxing.

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