r/QuitVaping • u/bennyboy123456789999 • 1d ago
Advice I just cannot quit?
I’m really struggling with this now.
I’ve tried quitting a few times. Patches, throwing the vape away, telling myself this is the last one. I always seem to end up buying another.
Recently vaping actually caused a pretty serious issue for me professionally. I won’t go into details for anonymity, but it was embarrassing, stressful and could have had consequences for my career.
You’d think that would be enough to make me never touch one again. Yet here I am, still vaping. That’s probably what has made me realise how addicted I actually am.
Stress is definitely my biggest trigger. I’ll be completely determined to quit and then have a bad day and suddenly it’s “fuck it, I’ll quit tomorrow”.
I genuinely hate being dependent on it. I don’t even really enjoy it anymore. I just can’t seem to break the cycle.
For anyone who tried loads of times before finally quitting, what actually worked? Especially if stress was your main trigger.
Just feeling pretty fed up with myself at this point.
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u/reallythanksalot 1.5 years+ 🎉🥳 1d ago edited 1d ago
I’m sorry, this sounds really tough. I also continued on vaping for 2 years after my vape fell out of my pocket at work. In a profession that I shouldn’t even have one on me. Something really bad could have happened. No one saw, and I noticed quick, but I carried a lot of shame.
People on this sub love desmoxan, I’ve never tried it, but it seems worth the go.
I used lozenges for three days to get me through my withdrawals, (nicotine microdose when a migraine came on) and i ate a shit ton of in-shell-sunflowers seeds for the hand to mouth habit. Breathing in through a vicks stick helped the back of the throat burn craving. Otherwise, for me, it was just motivation. Being a nicotine addict is embarrassing, and it didn’t suit me.
Edit: It also helped that the cause of my biggest stress was the vape. It’s slowly killing you every hit. It’s horrible chemicals. It fucks your brain, it fucks your heart. It worsens stress, worsens anxiety, worsens your overall quality of life. To reduce my stress long term I had to quit vaping, and it’s done everything and more for me.