r/QuitSmokingJourney

hey!

this is my 1st post so sorry if i ramble a bit.

my situation:
i’ve been using vapes for about 5/6 years now, started when i was 16/17.
i never had any plans on quitting. but, only the last 6 months i have been thinking it. not for any health reasons but for financial reasons.
every vape costs up to $100/$110, any time i find a shop that sells it gets raided, its almost impossible to find. it’s a headache.
i’m afraid of when i can no longer find a store that sells. and i’ll have to go cold turkey not on my own terms.
so, i’ve been thinking of quitting.

except, i am absolutely terrified of quitting. the withdrawal process seems horrendous.
i’ve had withdrawals before for something else, and it was one of the worst things i’ve experienced. and, with that one, i didn’t even know my body and brain was addicted to it.
so i’m fearful of what i know i’m addicted to, and what stopping it will look like, feel like.

i use vaping as almost an anxiety relief. it helps me calm down, take a break. i’m CONSTANTLY hitting it. and if it’s been 2 or 3 hours without a hit, i already get agitated.

throughout my years of being a user, the longest i’ve gone without a vape was maybe 18 or so hours. and i was NOT okay.

i have always genuinely thought i’d have to go back to the psych ward if i were to quit. but due to financial issues, my health care no longer covers my usual psychiatric ward. so i feel like i have nowhere safe to go. i don’t think i could do it alone.. i’d believe id need medical help. not just for the withdrawals, but for my mental health too. because i know my brain would NOT like it.

but, yeah. i’m so scared of quitting.
but thinking about the money i’d save— i’d be rich!
and no longer having to worry about where to buy it.

but it’s not just quitting the everyday vape, it’s also about when i’m feeling anxious, stressed, depressed, angry, wanting to not be breathing. those times i would struggle the hardest. as well as going out, drunk. i’d want it then too.

ugh, it’s all so hard. maybe it’s too hard of a challenge for me… idk.

but pretty much i’m asking is, please tell me everything you’ve done or do that’s helped you not only quit but stay off completely. even when you want it again.
tell me what you used— products, tools.
the psychological aspect of it— what helped you.
anything!

thanks for reading this! and i would love if you could give me some advice on how to tackle this.

my worst ever mistake was picking up that vape for the first time.
please help me change that. ❤️‍🩹

Yes,I am serious!

So the thing is, 7 years ago I started eating mawa, and on 01/01/2026 I stopped it as a New Year's resolution.

I stopped it, but I don't know when I started smoking cigarettes instead, in a month, I reached 1/1.5 packets a day.

At the beginning of the month of Shravan, I felt the desire to give up something and started thinking about it. I thought that it would be best if I gave up my addiction.So today is the 7th day, the first 2 days were tough, but after spending them, I don't even remember cigarettes.

For those who want to quit the addiction, take advice as advice and motivation as motivation. Try it, I swear it's not as hard as it seems.

I have a drug test on September 8th for a job. I'm about 210lbs and 5'9 with a body fat of 25%. Last time I smoked weed was on July 4th I used to be a heavy smoker for about 5 years taking breaks in-between for about 1-3 months every few months. Around May 17 to like May 23 I was smoking really heavy than normal due to reasons. Last time I checked if I was positive was on August 15th with a at home kit and obviously I still am. So any experts on that can help me out with this and ease my mind?

Bonjour,
Je voulais savoir si certaines personnes avaient vécu quelque chose de similaire et avaient éventuellement des conseils.

F 34. avant de rencontrer mon copain actuel, je ne consommais absolument rien : pas de cigarettes, pas de cannabis, pas d’alcool, pas d’autres drogues.
Je l’ai rencontré à 21 ans. Lui était déjà consommateur quotidien, et j’ai commencé à fumer occasionnellement avec lui. Au début, c’était vraiment de temps en temps, puis au bout de 3-4 ans, c’est devenu quotidien.

Il y a environ deux ans et demi, je suis tombée enceinte et j’ai réussi à arrêter complètement le cannabis en 2 semaines. Par contre, le début a éte vraiment très difficile, surtout au niveau du moral. J’ai traversé une période compliquée de hauts de et bas, pour enfin me sentir délivrée et légère !

Après mon accouchement, je me suis dit que je pourrais éventuellement reprendre de manière récréative, uniquement de temps en temps, par exemple le week-end. Et pendant un moment, c’était effectivement comme ça.

Mais progressivement, j’ai recommencé à fumer de plus en plus, jusqu’à revenir aujourd’hui à une consommation quotidienne.
Et là, j’ai vraiment envie d’arrêter. Pour mon fils, évidemment, mais aussi pour moi. J’ai envie de retrouver ma liberté et de ne plus avoir cette impression que le cannabis prend une place aussi importante dans ma vie.

Pour essayer d’y aller progressivement, je m’étais fixé comme règle :je ne fume qu’après le coucher du petit. Le week-end, je peux parfois avoir envie de fumer l’après-midi, mais en semaine je voulais au moins repousser le moment au soir.

Sauf que je n’y arrive pas vraiment.
Et le plus bizarre, c’est que ça me met de mauvaise humeur toute la journée. Je pense au fait que je vais devoir attendre le soir, j’ai envie de fumer, je suis irritable… alors qu’au fond, c’est justement quelque chose que je veux arrêter.

C’est assez paradoxal : j’ai envie d’arrêter, mais en même temps je passe ma journée à attendre le moment où je pourrai fumer.

Je me demande donc si certains ici ont vécu quelque chose de similaire, notamment après plusieurs années de consommation quotidienne.
Est-ce que vous avez réussi à arrêter ? Est-ce que vous avez trouvé des méthodes qui vous ont aidés à gérer l’envie, l’irritabilité ou cette impression de déprime quand on ne fume pas ?

Petit détail : je suis TDAH sous traitement depuis 8-9 mois, pour l’aspect « le thc fait du bien au niveau de l’hyperactivité ».

Je suis preneuse de vos expériences, même si elles sont différentes de la mienne. ❤️

Hi I turned 15 in March this year and I’ve been vaping since October 2024 with breaks on and off. Recently I have been getting chest tightness, I then stopped vaping around a week ago and it was fine then I went back to vaping and now it’s back. However, when I had that chest tightness, I wouldn’t use my vape that much like I wouldn’t vape during the day and by night, the tightness would be gone. So should I be worried about this? I’m not trying to see doctors or anything but I am a bit concerned.

Hola amigos, no sé mucho de Reddit, pero veo que por aquí es muy interesante debatir y compartir opiniones.

Les cuento mi situación:

Tengo 25 años y llevo fumando de manera diaria porros desde que tenía 18, solo en esos años pude estar un mes sin fumar pero al poco volví a recaer. Tengo un trabajo importante, atiendo emergencias que requieren de mucha rapidez mental y atiendo muchas cada día, y al volver el porro siempre es lo que mas estoy esperando a disfrutar. Cuando quiero disfrutar de un buen paisaje que ha costado llegar tras un dia de ruta, en el momento de disfrutarlo añado ese porro e incluso en los momentos de tranquilidad con mi pareja viendo pelis o videos de risas ese porro está para hacer la estela aún cozy. Y es que el verdadero problema es que me encanta, partes de mi personalidad e inspiración ha sido en torno a la aura que genera fumar hierba con amigos , risas , complicidad, coraje, consciencia. Pero a la vez me hacen ser demasiado profunda y somatizar todas mis emociones hasta tal punto que las rutinas de hacen pesadas, cuesta muchísimo sacar ganas de hacer cosas y te mucha inseguridad. El tema es que yo la amo a la plantita es maravillosa y sanadora. Pero he abusado de su consumo y ya no me sienta siempre bien, me deja vacía y sin ningún tipo de energía para hacer nada. Todo empieza a parecer un mundo. Sé que es mi criptonita por ello me da pánico saber que cuando se me acaban los porros no pasa ni un dia sin funar tiene que estar siempre, además de que mi entorno familiar y de amistades fuman también pero no están así..

En definitiva, que se que tengo que dejarlo pero a la vez no quiero ya que es parte de mi personalidad y mi manera de romantizar la vida.

Como una pareja tóxica estamos..🥲🙄

Entonces ustedes seres sintientes que seguro que son increíbles cuénteme su relación con la maryjane y los ex de ella como consiguieron dejarla o aplicarla pero de manera consciente a sus vidas..

Los leo, gracias✨️

hey guys, i’ma make this short. lately I been feeling like I’m kinda falling into not sadness but depression. it’s hard for me to cry so I haven’t been able to but sometimes I find myself not really wanting to wake up or getting thoughts like that. i’ve been hitting the nic and before I could take breaks but now it’s hard. my last nic is completely dead and says it’s out of juice and I’ve still been hitting it out of desperation of being able to feel something. i don’t wanna become a nic feen (barely started hitting nic this year) and i have more nics but i keep tryna resist the urge to open one and just blow this last one out. it feels like i’m torn in two.

what should i do ? how do i battle this rising addiction ( I’ve already stopped smoking weed for months , i recently drank , no other vices and i’m medicated with an antipsychotic and antidepressant though i feel like something is missing from my med list because i don’t feel as good as i know i can and it’s been months on the same dosage). how do i beat these crippling feelings and stop hitting the nic ? i wanna open one so bad :(

QUIT

Having constant mucus in your sinuses, always thinking about the next hit, that small headache you constantly have, the dry throat, it being basically a pacifier for all your problems

Just choose not to hit it, choose not to buy it, throw it away

You deserve a better life

I love you and your lungs

It took three years for me to finally be done with it.

Just be done with it. It is killing you the best part abt it is literally that it tastes good and makes your head feel light and airy for a few minutes and then the nausea and headache kicks in. There's really better things to be addicted to lol. Replace it with coffee idk it's kinda the same effect and you get less lung damage.

I just wanted to tell someone this bc I loved vaping up until today when it all hit me how shitty of a habit it is. (I know u prob heard all this before but it's TROO)

I’ve officially been smoke free for three weeks! I am also having cravings on and off here and there that I’m not sure how to cope with sometimes. But I have not smoked! I try to chew on a piece of nicotine gum it helps for a little while. What doesn’t make sense is I keep saying to myself maybe I can have a cigarette and on the other hand I also tell myself remember how discusting it was when I did relapse before and had five horrible cigarettes. 😩 not sure why I feel terrible right now when I should be celebrating my quit. Any support would help right now thanks so much

9 Years , still could not figure out.

Salut,

Je fumais auparavant 7 à 8 joints par jour. J’ai réussi progressivement à descendre jusqu’à 2 joints par jour, principalement le soir, et j’en suis déjà fière.

Mais maintenant, passer de 2 à zéro me paraît vraiment très difficile. J’ai l’impression que ces derniers joints sont les plus compliqués à enlever, surtout le soir. Quand je ne fume pas, je ressens un gros vide, comme si je n’avais plus mon moment de détente/plaisir, et j’ai aussi peur de ne pas réussir à dormir.

J’aimerais vraiment arrêter totalement, mais je me rends compte que je ne suis peut-être pas encore capable de couper du jour au lendemain.

Est-ce que certains d’entre vous sont passés par là ? Vous avez fait comment pour passer des derniers joints à zéro ? Vous avez diminué progressivement ou arrêté d’un coup ?

J’aurais vraiment besoin de témoignages de personnes qui comprennent ce que ça fait. ❤️

Im 22 (F) and I have been wanting to go to my local fire station and see if I can make my first steps as a firefighter and become a volunteer. I drive past it daily but I’m in no shape and I smoke weed daily. I have this vision of me going in ready even though I know I wouldn’t become a firefighter just cause I am in shape but it would make me feel good knowing I’m prepared. I fear weed will be my downfall but I can’t break this attachment I have to it. I thought addiction and that might be true but I really think I have a very bad relationship with weed. I started smoking weed at 17 because of how it made me feel and everyone I was around smoked too. I then got into psychedelics because I was more so intrigued by it but it never stuck weed has always been my thing. It helped me through some rough times but it was the reason I gained so much weight in the process. I only stopped once because of nursing school but I started again after that month. While I wasn’t smoking weed I still had that itch so I turned to herbs. I may also just have a severe oral fixation and weed is something I’m comfortable with so I use that to feel something. Idk I really want to stop does anyone relate or have any tips? (Sorry if this was all over the place can’t help it lol)

I don’t really know how to start this except to just be honest. I’m 23 weeks along and I’ve been smoking about a gram of weed a day this entire pregnancy out of my bong. I just started really sitting with what that might mean for my baby’s development and I’m spiraling with anxiety and guilt.

I plan to quit as soon as possible, I’m not looking for anyone to tell me it’s fine to keep going or to stop, I know I need to stop. What I really need right now is to hear from anyone who’s been in a similar situation. Did you smoke regularly through pregnancy and go on to have a healthy baby? What was your experience like- with pregnancy, delivery, and your kid’s development afterward?
Thank you in advance 🙏🏼

Before me and my boyfriend got together my boyfriend would vape consistently and smoke a cigarette once a week. I told him that he would have to at least stop smoking cigarettes for us to be together long term (with obviously the goal of trying to quit smoking all together). My mom is a smoker and I grew up around the smell of cigarettes and I hate the smell with a passion. I went to the doctors a few months ago and she asked me if I smoked and I said no. Then she asked "Thats good I hope your boyfriend in the lobby doesn't either" I told her he vapes and that he used to smoke cigarettes but he quit and she said, "I'd rather he smoked cigarettes" This got me thinking for some time and I finally brought it up to him. It's so convenient for him to just hit his vape whenever. I watch him grab it so casually and usually Ill grab it after hes done and place it across the room so that theres at least more effort put into it; he has to consciously go out of his way. But it's still too convenient to just grab and hit. There would be way more road blocks if he could only smoke cigarettes. He would have to go outside AND walk a bit away from the house because we live with his mom and even though she knows he smokes, she's not proud of it and he doesn't like to smoke in front of his family. He'd also have to come inside and take a shower because he doesn't want to smell like cigarettes. It's also harder for him to even get cigarettes because he's almost 20 and for some reason its just easier to get vapes. What I'm most scared about though is that if we do do this instead, it will just backfire into him smoking a lot more cigarettes even with the road blocks. I asked him what he thinks and he said he doesnt like the idea but understands that that is the entire point, making it uncomfortable to smoke so he doesn't. And he doesn't know if it would backfire aswell saying theres like a 30% chance it might. I just think I need some advice before we make a big decision like this.

TL;DR: My boyfriend used to smoke cigarettes and vape, but quit cigarettes and now mainly vapes. I’m considering having him switch back to cigarettes and quit vaping entirely since they’re much less convenient, but I’m worried he’d just end up smoking more.

I've been a heavy heavy vaper for the past 10 years plus. Before that it was cigarettes. I'd even wake up before my alarm and reach for it, go vape in the toilet so my husband didn't know then go back to bed. I even had breast reduction surgeryand was sucking on the vape as soon as I could move afterwards which I was told would negativity effect my surgery results. Obviously it did. But at that time I didn't care. How sad is that? I actually secretly vaped anywhere and everywhere.

After many failed attempts at quitting- cold turkey, praying, tapering down, hypnotherapy NOTHING WORKED!!! sleight back into the guilt and shame cycle.

Scrolling on insta one day and I came across DESMOXAN. I bought it from an online polish pharmacy and got it delivered here to scotland. I was sceptical but thought ill give it a go- didnt expect much as im so fcking addicted.

Day 1-5 on the pills and I was still vaping but wow- by day 3 I was literally forcing myself to vape. It was just not giving me a hit, it tasted weird. I even thought about stopping the pills so I could get that hit I was so desperate for.

Somehow I stuck with it- day 5 I was nearly gagging when forcing myself to vape so I chucked it away.

I'm now 2 days vape free, that's the longest I haven't vaped in many years. And I can say- I FEEL ALIVE. It's like I can finally be who I want to be. I felt like a fraud when I was vaping and I can't really explain why. I felt like I have more time in the day, im not interrupting nice moments with my kids to go and vape, I have this whole complete feeling which is just so precious and lovely it's giving me the boost to carry on with those treatment.

So I guess I've shared this because I want others to experience it too. DESMOXAN!!!! BUY IT!!!!!@​

I quite vaping cold turkey 7 days ago after 2.5 years of fairly heavy vaping (20mg 2ml pod a day for the last 6 months or so) and I’ve noticed that I’m still getting nausea, palpitations, and very very mild chest tightness / pain on day 8.

I was getting the palps while I was vaping too, occasionally. Sometimes I’d get them, sometimes I wouldn’t, but very unpredictable. I thought the vaping was what was causing it so I quit. And I didn’t realize that physical withdrawals were a thing, and that palps could be one of those symptoms. Sometimes happens during exertion (gym, speed walking, etc). Sometimes happens independent of any of that. I drank a beer once and started getting palpitations for like 20min straight until I sat down on the train. I’m starting to think the palps are not a symptom of the vaping or the withdrawals at all, but my 12-lead ECG came back normal. I have bloods scheduled for a weeks time but if they come back normal, I’ll have no clue. Doctor doesn’t know about the vaping because I have controlling parents who insist on seeing my appointment notes after every appointment (if they found about I’d be good as dead anyway), but again at the point I don’t think it’s that relevant as probably isn’t vaping related.

The thing that’s killing me is the health anxiety of it all. The mood swings for me are still violent. I end up balling my eyes out every time I get the nausea coming back because of how much I hate nausea and how scared I am for my health. Is this all just anxiety? I know that these are all also symptoms of that too, but there’s not much I feel massively anxious about right now besides my health and the vaping stuff.

Anyone else shared a similar experience and can help advice/reassure me, coz I’m in a terrible place right now and I can’t concentrate on doing anything else. It’s killing me.

Long story short, I’ve been vaping since I was 14 (unfortunately), and I’m turning 23 this year. I decided quit last week as an experiment - I’ve dealt with acne for most of my teenage years and adulthood, so I wondered if vaping was contributing to my bad skin. Lo and behold, after not vaping for about 9 days, by day 6 my skin was clearer than I can remember it being for a long time. I ended up “relapsing” and vaping again for 3 days, but tonight, I threw out my vape, pods, and juice. I never really thought there would be a time in my life where I wasn’t vaping, but here we are. I’m nervous because I know what withdrawal feels like, but I’m also really excited to take on this challenge.