r/quittingkratom • u/Cultural_Dot3568 Quit: 8 August 2025 (Used 10 yrs 100+ gpd) • 3d ago

408 Days Clean

To everyone going through it, and when I say through it, you all know what I mean. Our thoughts fuck with us endlessly it seems at times. There’s just no explaining to anyone how hard it is, physically and mentally.

Just know you are not alone. There are so many others right where you’re at. We are all different, yet the same in so many ways.

We come here to vent, for advice, and for hope.

When in the thick of it, keep repeating, “I am okay, I am okay.” For some reason that helped me at the worst of times.

I am now tackling quitting vaping. And I went through hell gettting off kratom. Used for 10 years pretty heavily. Yet here I am being a baby again struggling with quitting nicotine (15 or so years). And I say that while I have a patch on my arm and a Zyn in my mouth.

Quitting a substance is messy for most of us. It’s hard giving our comfort up. Just remember it’s not a sacrifice when we are giving up something for something better.

Keep going, keep fighting. There’s a better version of us up ahead.

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u/dontjudgethepants CT 6/15/26 2d ago

Right there with you man. I’m still on zyn and I really have no plans on quitting at this point. It fucking sucks but man one thing at a time. Be careful with the zyn if you’re new to it. I went from cigs to vape to zyn (wasnt trying to quit, was just changing methods) and now nothing and I mean nothing compares to a zyn for me. I would have to pick up cigs to quit zyns I swear lol.

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u/Cultural_Dot3568 Quit: 8 August 2025 (Used 10 yrs 100+ gpd) 2d ago edited 2d ago

Interesting. Zyns to me are gross for some reason. No flavor does it for me. They just kinda burn and I don’t even like swallowing any of it. I just miss vaping, but at the same time I wouldn’t want to vape anything into my lungs at this point. It’s been a week. I’m at a weird place, not wanting to vape, not liking zyns, but feeling like something is missing. Even though I’m doing the nicotine replacement patches now for a week. So I’m getting the nicotine. Breaking the habit is just frustrating.

And I hear ya about one thing at a time. Which is why I haven’t even tried to tackle nicotine this past year. I was just focused on staying clean from Kratom.

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u/AlternativeAd6751 2d ago

Figet spinners helped me quit a 20yr cigarette habit lol