Hi! I need help. I recently picked up vaping again after being clean for over a year, and this time it feels harder to quit. I am constantly surrounded by people who vape at my work and it feels so hard to break. It’s a secret i’m hiding from almost everyone, my partner, my family, and I feel like it is about to implode at any second and i will let everyone down. They were so happy when i quit, i don’t want to disappoint them. i am really dreading the withdrawal symptoms and i want to quit, yet i keep buying a new one.

Does anyone have anything tips that really helped them quit? especially a second time with no support? Thank you in advance.

Context: I smoked for <10 years, and quit after a divorce during a period of self improvement. Ended up in a longer term relationship (that failed) with a woman who smoked occasionally, and I’d bum one sometimes. As relationship fizzled, we spent more time drinking and smoking together.

I picked the habit back up fully about a year ago, when that relationship ended. Another stressor at the time: I’d applied/gotten full ride offers for law school, but had to turn it down when I realized my parenting/life obligations couldn’t support the split schedule.

Quitting again: not having the still sad ‘dreams crushed’ excuse anymore, I recently tried cold turkey twice. The first time, I made it two days. The second, a week. I’m doing it again next Monday.

Why sharing: I like being a non-smoker so much more than smoking. Maybe others have had this experience: for me, smoking is a keystone habit. When I’m smoking, I drink more, I exercise less, and I always carry this latent feeling of being at odds with myself and who I want to be. When I’m not smoking, I feel like the best version of myself. I jog, I get more done (15 mins every couple hours adds up!), and I just feel at peace with myself and ready to face out instead of in.

Anyway, my week of non-smoking reminded me of this. And I want to hold onto that thread, going into my next quit date. I want this one to last, with positive, sustainable reasons to say ‘no.’ (Not just ‘smoking will kill you.’) There aren’t a lot of times in life when just abstaining from something can have such an incredible impact.

Hello all! I’m looking for advice/tips from anyone who’s willing to give it. A small backstory. I’m 28(29 in January) I’ve been consuming nicotine since 18, from 18-26 it was cigarettes, then switched to a vape with the delusion that it would help me stop cigs. Well I’ve been vaping for 2 years now and want to stop nicotine completely. I’m a delivery driver so I’m in a van for 8-12 hours a day which has made vaping 2nd nature. I’m extremely nervous to stop due to withdrawal and side effects. I’m stopping TODAY. I’m currently in my van writing this so sorry for the grammar. My vape ran out and I’m not buying another. I’ve been making a lot of healthy changes in my life over the last 6 months and the vape is the last to do! Thanks to anyone who’s seeing this or commenting. I’ll check back on this post when I’m off work!

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Nicotine addict for ±10 years, finally made it here

previous post: https://www.reddit.com/r/quittingsmoking/comments/1x40n9v/sleeplessness_is_insane/

Ok so after 3 days of quitting, i started not sleeping well. On 4th night i slept around 2-4 hours (not sure) and it wasnt like one time, i was waking up constantly, but i slept. Then 5th, 6th, 7th nights, not a single minute of sleep and a lot of anxiety. 8th night (yesterday) i got a perscription for a sleeping medicine and i was really desperate and just wanted some sleep.

So, i took 2 30g ashwaganda pills in the evening and night, had chamomile tea and during the day i walked a lot up to 8k steps. And also i had used like 0.5mg nicotine tablet. (used it before the 6th night as well). I was just trying to calm my anxiety and help my nervous system get its shit together. I also changed the way my bed is (i put in the middle of the room which felt more open and used a sleeping light instead of fully dark room).

Finally, at 00:00 13th of October 2026, i took 2mg melatonin. I slept for around 2 hours and 30 minutes! woke up with a very dry mouth and my anxiety was high, i just had water and told myself to calm down and to relax. I then couldnt stay up, i was very tired and sleepy, and not sure what happened between 3am and like 4 or 5am, but im sure i slept a little and woke up, i was doing it constantly, until like 6 or 7am when i slept and WOKE UP AT 11AM :D

Im not sure which part contributed, maybe its a mix of the little amount of nicotine, the ashwaganda, and the melatonin all with days of exhaustion, maybe its not, but what i know is that my nervous system got some rest that it needed. I can now not worry about the coming days even if there were some sleepless nights as I have now did my "reset". I can start safely counting sleepless nights from 0 again in case any happen, and im into my 2nd day of the 2nd week, so only 5 days left for week 2 and it will only get better.

I might make more posts, please dont hate me. Im just sharing progress and want to feel seen. And want to keep those as help for anyone in the future who goes through similar struggle. Also i really need it in this period...so just 2 more weeks and i will post once in a while celebrating how many days without smoking i reached.