Anyone here successfully quit smoking cigarettes? I really want to quit but having a really difficult time doing so. Please help! 🙏

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I’ve heard “the easy way to stop smoking” by Allen Carr is a life changer and will help you quit

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Whats the gist?

Juul worked for me

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Switched to vape, wasn’t hard

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Baby Boomer Response - “Just buck up and do it! I quit cold turkey when I was 14. Everyone’s gone soft nowadays!”

Millennial Response - “Surround yourself with positive energy and healthy life choices. You got this!”

My response - I don’t smoke, but good luck!

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No need to make snarky remarks.

If you don’t smoke or have never smoked, don’t bother commenting

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Chantix. Get a prescription.

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... I had a similar experience, mild changes in mood early on as well; but the benefits far outweighed these side effects so I stuck with it. Went from a pack a day to 0.

I quit after smoking one pack a day for 15 years. Nicotine patches helped me as well as a lot of distraction. I personally would not go for JUUL as it just shifts your addiction from cigarettes to vape.
Nicotine patches are great in a way that it still somewhat satisfies your physical addiction while you get rid of the habit of smoking, therefore easier than cold turkey. This was the hardest for me. Reducing the nicotine % and quitting patches was almost seamless. Feel free to pm me.

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I did, just go cold turkey

I had been a pack-a-day smoker for 11 years, quit in 3 weeks after I bought a Juul. I’m in Europe where pods have 3x less nicotine than in the US, I go through one pod every 4 days or so. Changed my life.

I started Juul but stopped after all the recent news

Tried to go cold turkey many times but doesn’t work :( I smoke about 10 cigs a day(half a pack), sometimes more

Recent news is deaths and illnesses from black market thc vapes

Mass market nic vapes are fine

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Juul. But I was going through the pods too fast. Trying to cut down on that now as well

I did. Smoke free for 3 years now. I used to smoke half a pack a day before that. I woke up one morning and realized that there was only one cigarette left in the pack. I promised myself that will be the last cigarette and stuck to that.

Gave my keys to my roommate so that I won’t drive in the middle of night to buy a pack. I kept myself busy for next six months. Took up running in the evening, programming, and reading cheap thrillers. The only time I missed smoking was while going to sleep but I had no way to get one. The brain wants it if you have some free time. It just forgets about it if you are busy.

After six months, my craving went down completely. I still miss it when I catch a puff but I don’t feel the need.

I started working out and I didn’t go to the gym on the days I would smoke. So I quit cold turkey to try and improve at the gym.

I always had lollipops on deck to keep myself occupied. I realize now that it was more of an oral fixation than an addiction to cigarettes.

Don’t start vaping to quit smoking. You’ll get hooked on that as well.

Well if you wanna quit smoking then chances are you wanna get rid of all the effects of being hooked on nicotine as well. Why so defensive? Are you one of those people who sucks on vape pens all day thinking it’s not harmful?

Try reducing every day. Ultimately you’ll give up. Need strong determination though.

Try to avoid alcohol too, if that makes you smoke more.

Get into fitness and eating healthy, that inspires you to avoid smoking and stay fit.

Read a lot of articles on smoking causes cancer. That should help you hate cigarettes.

And yes there are some other helpful measures like prescriptions mentioned above.

Hope this helps. Good luck 👍🏻

I quit 5 years ago cold turkey, haven't had any nicotine or anything else in my lungs other than air and pollution since. Easy peasy... I did it by reading Allen Carr's easy way to quit smoking. No joke. Not very well written but I think it's on purpose, kind of hypnotizing. You need to smoke throughout reading the book, and by the end you can't wait to just quit.

And last thing - quitting wasn't very difficult. I was a pack a day smoker for 10 years since I was 16. I tried quitting a bunch of times but couldn't for more than a day! I was the type of guy that would smoke a cig first thing in the morning.

When I quit, it was easy because (as per Allen Carr's method) I removed the psychological need to smoke before kicking the actual addiction, by making myself hate it and be disgusted by it. If you take away candy from a child, all it will crave is that candy and it will be obsessed with it. If you give the child all the candy it wants, but make the child dislike the candy, it will put it away on its own and not give it a second thought.

When I quit I never struggled around smokers or while drinking, and I barely ever craved it. Now I'm disgusted by the smell, but when people around me smoke I don't even think about it like an ex-smoker, I think about it like a person who never smoked.

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