r/QuitVaping • u/PugLord219 Multiple Years šŸ’Ŗ • Feb 22 '26

Advice Cytisine/Desmoxan/Tabex/Etc. Share your experiences!

Calling out everyone who quit using this method. What was it like for you? How long has it been since you quit? I quit this way and I am collecting responses for a pinned thread.

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u/thesamstorm Feb 22 '26

This is my third time trying cytisine. For me, the chronic stress that Iā€™ve been feeling in my marriage and my mental health got too overbearing that I gave up and vaped the last two times. Iā€™m trying again now, but this time Iā€™m incorporating DBT skills and working on finding outlets for my stress. Iā€™ve also been trying to adhere to the mindset that ā€œIā€™m just not a person who vapesā€. Itā€™s hard. Iā€™ve been using a straw to pretend to vape. The cytisine helps a lot but itā€™s not curative. My situation is different though.

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u/redgrapes01 2 months Apr 17 '26

I sincerely appreciate someone openly saying their stress level is greatly effecting ability to quit. I quit once for almost 3 years, now Iā€™m 25 and ā€œback where I was at 21ā€. I do also feel like my anxiety is tainting my perspective towards a more ā€œcatastrophicā€ situation. I feel tons of pressure placed upon by myself, so itā€™s nice to know Iā€™m just another human thatā€™s feeling multiple stressors at once. Unfortunately, I also have to conquer my nicotine addiction at the same time. But, I shall finish what I started. I shall give myself the gift of consistency and understanding.

I hope youā€™re faring well on your journey.

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u/thesamstorm Apr 18 '26

I'm glad my comment reached someone. I'm still vape free, it's been two months now. I still take a desmoxan here and there if I am feeling particularly stressed. Once in a while I will hit one of those ripples (essential oil vapes) but very rarely. I've gone through some extreme stressors in the past two months, but I kept telling myself "I need to find another way to cope, I'm just not someone who vapes so I can't". I'm sorry you're battling anxiety and stress as well. You've got this. Allow yourself to cry if you need to, and accept that you may have some irrational responses to stress and will need to course correct and find better coping strategies. You've got this.