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milanihl (46) · 7 years ago

Well.. i smoked around 8 years.
After some failed attempts of few months, i finally made it by getting a proper e-cigarette, i wasn't even planning to quit entirely however the transition was bleeding fast and i wanted to stick with it but some day, like two or three months later, the wool in the one-use atomizer burned out.
I did not want to buy a new set of atomizers due the environment footprint, i was, well, actually too lazy to get some self-roll-atomizer-thingie for me so i was undecided a while, also obset few days due the missing nicotine but like one week ago, i didn't care anymore and was done with this whole topic.
This was a good year ago, i found other interests like running, there was never ever a situation where i wanted to do this ritualized smoke-break anymore ever again.

I think i succeeded. I will write a more detailed blogpost to this topic (actually importing, enhancing/improving it from my old Medium account) quite soon.

Hope this comment helps. :)
Just to be clear, i didn't buy this thing to stop ... getting nicotine or what it's called in english but it made me to in a peaceful way.

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spectrums (55) · 7 years ago

It does help to read others' experiences, which I'm sure you know. I have so far held off on an e-cig b/c I wanted to get off of the nictoine completely. There was a funny story I read at some point though, wherein the writer called nicorette, the nicotine gum, "smart drug gum," lol. That does tempt me, but for the future after my baseline of dopamine feels regular :)

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milanihl (46) · 7 years ago (edited)

Well, i partly mixed by my own - you can decide if and how much nicotine you get when vaping.
I used 80/20 liquide (VG/H2O) 'cause PG triggers headache very fast - the base i used had only 0,3% nicotine. This maybe was less than my cigarettes and it nuked the cigarette w/ smoke = nicotine = satisfied association which made me able to quit without really missing cigarettes anymore.

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spectrums (55) · 7 years ago

Oh wow, I didn't realize it could be so complex and personalized... A whole new world for me to explore (maybe!).

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hansikhouse (72) · 7 years ago (edited)

Kudos to you @spectrums. It took me a while to wane off smoking as well, a practice I picked up while living in Europe and one that sustained me through grad school. I still get a craving every so often but it does get easier after the first week or two.

One thing that helped me quite a bit was borrowing my cousin's Juul e-cig for a little while. Pure nicotine to kill the impulses and I got sick of it really quickly.

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spectrums (55) · 7 years ago

Thank the Lord that you quit before this professional era of yours and @voronoi. I cannot imagine running the @sndbox ship with a cig habit!

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spectrums (55) · 7 years ago

And thanks for the encouragement/anecdote. They are my lifeblood right now.

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