I've been using a Dynavap with CBD (hemp) and it's worked great: Very similar to smoking a cigarette but it's a dry herb vaporizer. The main downside is, there's a decent learning curve to using it well.
I've heard regular walks to replace getting outside and taking a break helps
Do some DMT, I've heard it works
It got me to stop drinking (when I did my first I had already had less than a month without drinking but it just enhanced me to go the 9 yards)
I haven't drank in over a year, but that's me to each their own
I used Nicotine patches and would use dip patches on occasion, as well as eating a lot of cough drops while I was quiting. Not sure how good eating cough drops was but it worked better than candy for the oral fixation.
It took me too many years to finally quit the habit from when I determined that I was going to, but I am very glad that I did. Good luck, I am rooting for you.
I did similar. Patches and gum. I was vaping between 5 and 10 ml of 18mg/ml at the end.
I followed the patch program, but during the first phase I slowed down how much gum I would chew. By the time I got to phase 2, I was gum free.
I'm not a smoker, but have a few friends that struggled to quit, the ones that succeeded went cold turkey with meds for the cravings.
Go see your doctor!
I got up to a pack a day when I decided to quit. The biggest thing that helped me quit was getting an app on my phone which tracked the cost and how many you're smoking. When you start reducing the amount smoked etc it tracked how much money you've saved, how much healthier your lungs are (lung capacity etc), how much more time you've added to your life expectency, all that sorta stuff.
Having numbers and stats to track, made it feel more tangible and felt like I was making actual progress towards something.
Its worth a shot.
My solution: peer pressure. Get your smoking buddy to quit with you. Just go cold turkey - but tapering down a bit before hand might help. Don't use gum. Don't use drugs or patches. Just fucking quit. Statistics show that people who use quitting aids like vapes, gum, patches, drugs, etc, fail far more often than people who just go cold turkey.
So cold turkey with a friend. Hold each other accountable. Use each other as a support group. If they fail, sympathize with them but guilt trip them into quitting again so they can be your quit buddy.
I bought an ounce of CBD weed rolled a joint to smoke every time I had a nicotine craving for 2-3 weeks.
This is very fascinating, I would love more people to try this and share their experiences
Siegmund Freud would recommend picking up cocaine to replace smoking.
(Ok, he actually used it as a substitute for alcoholics and continued doing so after his first client died of a cocain overdose, but close enough.)
Psychoanalyse is like any other religion. They do what the books say not to do.
Excessive masturbation, exhibitionism far from children, and maybe some bubble gum. I think that covers all the bases.
Aren't there like herbal non-tobacco smokes?
I really wouldn't recommend those: you're still inhaling burnt plant matter, and while it might not be as bad as tobacco, that's not going to be great for you.
Also, those things probably aren't as controlled as tobacco so who the hell knows if they're even actually better for you.
I wouldn't be surprised. I used to use snus and found versions that are just coffee grounds inside. It's helped a ton with curbing cravings.
Cut both your hands off.
Take walks!
Highly recommend vaping for cold turkey quitting of cigs. Once you taper the vaping nicotine dosage down to a few mg/mL., you should consider a product like fum, which is a non-vape flavored oral fixation device.
That's literally the worst idea
Why?
Replacing an addiction with another doesn't fix the addiction
Not all addictions are equal. The plan I suggested gradually reduces harm. It's better to aim for harm reduction rather than cold turkey quitting which frequently leads to relapses.
Ok let me say the issue in a different way. Both are nicotine. You have the exact same addiction. You aren't even quiting your just changing the flavor of tobacco. If I start drinking vodka instead of beer and say I am trying to get over alcoholism, you would say I am insane because that won't work.
Switch to crack
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