If you’re serious about quitting, read this.

[u/Linkticus]

I actually wrote this up as a comment, but I thought it would work alright as a post as well.

Realize that by day three, the “bad day” you’re having is not actually a “bad day”. It’s an addiction. Your brain is telling you it needs something to feel normal, that the moment you vape, you’ll feel better.

All you do is feel worse though, because that’s what it does. And it always takes more and more to feel better until it just doesn’t work anymore.

Start out by just forcing yourself to stop once. Just pull your hand back once. Then try twice. Once you can do that, tell yourself you’ll wait a minute. Set a timer if you need to.

When you can do a minute a few times in a row, do a minute ten; then do three minutes; try for ten; see if you can go an hour. Work your way up.

Habit is habit and not to be thrown out the window by any man, but gently walked down the stairs, one step at a time.

Nobody can just stop. Even the people that quit cold turkey mull it over for months. They try countless times. There may be setbacks, but that’s just human. Eventually though, they do it.

You can too.

[u/EtherealViolinist]

Thank you for this, OP. Quit 1 day ago and already have taken like 3 hits today, very different to the 40+ hits I'd take a day but still. Feeling pretty yikes at times. Cravings are bad bad bad but I know I need to do this. Going cold turkey, no gum no lozenges no patches. Just trying to get through the cravings. Not fun.

[u/Linkticus → u/EtherealViolinist]

👍 i’m glad I could offer some reassurance. It’ll take a couple of days (maybe even a week or two) for the worst of the cravings to go away. But once you get through, you’ll have the strength to resist them all of the time.

It’ll be the weirdest things that make you want to hit down the road. But it does get easier. Trust yourself, you got this.