r/stopsmoking

I started on step 2 patches with nicotine gum. Is there any tricks or things I should know that help y'all quit?

Does anyone else have frequent dreams that they are smoking? I’ve been 72 days without smoking but at least once a week I dream that I’m smoking and usually they are very lived dreams I wake up desperate thinking I had a relapse

Hey everyone,

I’m currently at the end of Day 3 of my cytisine treatment (using Desmoxan/Recigar), and I honestly i feel like not using cigarettes is much simple than any other attempt. We ll see on medium periodo.

The cravings have drastically dropped. Today, I smoked zero cigarettes.

To give you some context, just three days ago I was a heavy user: I was smoking around 26/30 cigarettes and 5 joints (mixed 50/50 with tobacco with big paper) every single day. Today, I am at 0 cigarettes and I've cut down to about 3 or 4 small joints that are half the size of my old ones, and most importantly, 100% tobacco-free/pure weed.

Tomorrow is the day I’m supposed to completely throw away my cigarettes and cut them out for good. The crazy thing is, the idea of throwing away the cigarettes doesn’t even scare me—which would have been unthinkable before starting cytisine. What does scare me is the thought of giving up those few pure weed joints. Even though I’ve drastically reduced the amount and completely eliminated the tobacco from them, the mental habit of smoking them is still holding a strong grip on me.

My question for those who have used cytisine/Desmoxan, or anyone who has transitioned away from a heavy nicotine + weed habit: Should I force myself to quit the pure weed joints right now too? Will keeping them ruin my cytisine treatment or trick my brain into keeping the smoking ritual alive, even if there's no nicotine in the weed?

I'd love to hear some advice, insights, or support from anyone who has been through this. Thanks in advance!

Yeah im done with smoking and im on day 9. I feel.im.about to fold soon, has anyone got nicotine patches after quitting. Its the psychological , the routine i feel i am suffering from

About last night and parties.

I'm 10 and a half months smoke and alcohol free. I stopped drinking too because whenever I drink I smoke for sure (and also had a bit of a drinking problem too). I'm so proud of myself and this weekend both nights I was with people who were and drinking and smoking, in parties where people were also drinking and smoking. I drank water and didn't smoke and managed even to dance and to have a good time AT THE very BEGINNING only.

At 9:30 pm it started (both nights) to become reaaaally complicated to stay. I started craving and nearly broke. It was awful and I wanted so bad to smoke. I left a bit after midnight because the craving didn't stop. I was pissed because I actually didn't enjoy the thing but I wanted so bad to stay with my friends so I faked it.

Does this stop ? Will I be able one day to just be happily partying sober and without cigs, without craving and faking it ? How long did it take for you ?

wanna smoke so bad now
it’s the second time i’m quitting
first time i managed to stay smoke-free for several months

now have been going 2 days without it after smoking a pack daily…

need some encouragement or reassurance

It’s July 4th and I’m alone and considering smoking cigs for the first time. I’m extremely depressed and devastated in life right now and I can’t think of anything to do that will make me feel better.

About a month and a half ago, I heard about “recigar” here. I researched it a bit and found out:

1. it’s derived from a plant
2. Europe uses it as a stop smoking aid
3. research papers show it’s effective for some people
4. it blocks nicotine receptors

So ordered it from Amazon for $57. It took a week and a half to arrive. I took the first pill that next day. You take a little birth control sized pill every 2 hours to start for 12 hours. I set my alarm for every 2 hours and did it. I didn’t think much about it. I felt like I was doing it on a whim just to see what happened.

About the third day my husband asked if I was smoking less. And I told him I’m actually smoking more because I feel like I can’t get the nicotine that I need. I can’t get the “satisfaction” or something I can’t really explain. I continued on.

On the fifth day I ran out of cigarettes. This was when you stop smoking. I thought, oh no this is gonna suck. But it didn’t. I just stopped smoking.

I didn’t feel a craving but I felt like I had to break the physical habit of smoking. So I had to do other things after eating or waking up to keep a different habit.

So I decided to drink a glass of water. So I’d finish dinner and drink a whole glass of water as a finishing act. I also just avoided sitting where I normally sit in the evenings. Because I would sit there and then repeatedly go outside for a smoke all night until bedtime. So I had to just watch tv in my bedroom away from the “normal” evening tv watching.

I would get the idea to smoke and I could easily dismiss it by telling myself “remember you don’t smoke anymore”. In repeat with every craving. But it didn’t feel like a craving. It felt like a habit I was breaking. And it was soooo easy.

It felt like I “accidentally quit smoking”. I didn’t have the intent but it just happened to me.

I have quit smoking over the 36 years for a year or two at a time but I always resumed smoking. I have figured out that I start again because I think I can have just one. And I can’t. I can never have just one again.

But I feel amazing and free and if I can do it after 36 years you can to. I want to scream it from the rooftops. It was sooooo easy. Still had minor difficulties but I overcame them. Thoughts were the main difficulty but I just mantra-ed myself out of those.

I will never be able to have just one. It’s an addiction like alcohol and an alcoholic cannot just have one.

I hope you all can give it a try. It’s worth it. Recigar or whatever other name brand you find works the same. It was 25 days. Starting with every two hours and going down to one single pill on the 25th day.

* Final note: it messed with my tastebuds for the 25 days I took it. I couldn’t taste spicy and I couldn’t taste food correctly. But that’s all back now. I taste food better than ever now.

Edit: it also grave me diarrhea the first couple of days but that passed.

Tldr: recigar helped me stop smoking and it felt like I “accidentally stopped smoking”

Hello everyone,
My mom has been smoking since she was in her late teens, and now she’s 48. I’m constantly worried sick about her and she refuses to listen to me when i talk to her about the risks of smoking. I’m in the 10th grade and i dont have much close family other than her, so im really afraid. she often brushes me off and tells me that shes going to stop when she wants to, and that her mother and grandmother smoked their whole lives and nothing happened to them. she always gets really angry at me when i say something. at some point i was able to convince her to lower the amount of cigarettes she smokes in a day, but i have a feeling that she’s lying to me about it now. I understand that nicotine addiction is very hard to overcome, but its been years and she refuses to talk to a therapist or actually try to stop. Im very concerned because she has a bit of a weak immune system and tends to get sick pretty easily, so smoking might make that even worse in the future. she says that she gets yearly x-rays, but i honestly dont think that its enough. i cant tell if im being too dramatic over this since i tend to get really anxious and panicky over health related topics. she constantly tells me that its just anxiety and i need to let it go and that she can figure it out. im sorry for this post being all over the place but if anyone has any tips or advice it would be greatly appreciated.

today marks a month since i quit and honestly, it's been a rollercoaster. some days i feel like a champ and others i just want to give in and grab a pack. the cravings are less intense but so frustrating. anyone else find it gets harder after the initial quit? just looking for some support and tips to keep pushing through. it feels good to share this. thanks everyone.

Idk if this is a withdrawal from not vaping for 7 days but I’m constantly grinding my teeth. Anyways, why did I quit? I fucking hated walking 3 miles to my nearest vape shop for new nic juice and I sure as hell was not buying 13£ disposable vapes, I used zyn to remove my dependency on smoking I bought one pack and used like 1-2 zyn pouches per day. Occasionally I would train my brain with removing nicotine dependency for example when I go to work I would always have a vape with me but last week I decided I wouldn’t carry a vape to work. Why did I start smoking? Curiosity, for the first months of vaping I didn’t even know I had to bring the smoke to my lungs I was holding it in my mouth and letting go. Later when I actually learnt to smoke instead of not coughing every inhale, I bought my first cigarette pack (I was 16 and couldn’t afford to buy vapes). At first I would take a whole week to smoke the pack but then it went from a week to 2 days. I’ve been smoking constantly since I was 16 and I quit 7 days ago now that I’m 20. I can’t believe smoking was the central core to my depression I was actually considering to buy antidepressants. If you are a young adult like me that quit smoking, congrats we are among the 10% who succeeded.

Unlike most people I see here, I’ve never actually attempted to quit vaping. I was so addicted that I made it an integral part of my life. However there was 1 instance 4 months ago where I did want to quit and here’s how the story went:

I work in a hospital and had bought a new professional vape which I adored a lot it was a drago. While taking the bus to my hospital I had dropped my vape in the bus and lost it without me realizing it. It’s only when I got off the bus that i realized I lost it, so that made me really depressed and I thought ok I’ll use this as an opportunity to quit for good. How wrong I was I lied about being sick 3 hours into my shift and went straight to a vape shop to buy another vape.

This was me at my lowest point I was taking in so much nicotine I couldn’t even feel much from it I was depressed when I vaped and I was depressed when I didn’t buy it. Nicotine addiction suppresses your dopamine levels from their potential peak. I used to not really have an answer for the worst invention in the world but if I had to give an answer it would be cigarettes. Who seriously thought cigarettes would help with stress without realizing the worst it can do. Me not having much nicotine cravings anymore is literally the best thing that’s ever happened to me, now all I want is to never in my life touch a cigarette or vape. It took so much from me, my 4 years of being miserable and depressed. For those of you wanting to quit, an opportunity will knock on your door to quit so when that happens take it. Your days will be beautiful when your dopamine levels are back to normal.

Guys its been a year, i feel really perfect. But this summer nights cold beers, ughhh i realy want that time back....i am really close to get back help me..

I’m a vaper, but also an occasional smoker. I’m grieving, my grandma died yesterday. I chain smoked 6 malboro reds and also kept vaping. My lungs feel on fire right now.

I just need to stop. I’m sick of this cycle. What do I do? I have some Nicorette gum should I use that instead? I desperately need advice because I’m sick to the teeth of this cycle and I’m at such a low point right now.

Yesterday I hit 5 years cigarette free!!!!!

I mean, yeah smoking is unhealty for you we know that. But dude, nobody talks about this. [I call everybody dude.] Smoking makes you emotionally numb. It's like anesthesia. Yeah you feel bad stuff less but you feel the good stuff less too. It's like, life turned out black and white. It's like, depression stick. Yeah that's the right term. This isn't just about the cigarette but it is probably all nicotine products.

Hello everyone,

Well just wanted to share that as of today I have not had a single puff for 10 days.

In this past year of a million attempts to quit, the longest I have lasted was 9 days.

Still using the patch and the gum ( as well as the few lozenges I have left) but even the lower price of the NRT at my small family pharmacy is draining my bank account, so thinking that I will really have to taper myself off it,then face intense withdrawal...however I absolutely cannot afford smokes either and would feel awful if I broke down and bought a pack.

At the moment not really allowing myself to feel proud or confident really...bewildered I have lasted 10 days with much stress and anxiety plaguing me...

Want to thank you all again for sharing your successes.

It is so, so encouraging!

honestly, i didn’t know quitting would feel this good. i used to think cigarettes were my energy boost, but now i’m working out, tackling projects, and actually enjoying life. some days are tough, but the cravings don’t rule me anymore. if you're thinking about quitting, do it! you won’t regret it.

Hi all, I stopped smoking 2 and a half weeks ago. Felt great the first week, some cravings but fairly okay, then last weekend went camping had a drink by the fire surrounded by smokers and caved in (I know, I know) and had 2 cigarettes that day, then another half a cig on Sunday, haven't had any since. This whole week tho I've been feeling weird, I keep getting these hot flushes and just feeling like burning up at the most random times, been feeling jittery almost like high, can't concentrate, a little lightheaded and disoriented and been really struggling to breath when walking up hill or something (that's been getting better now). Is all this normal? Could it be the not smoking? I've stopped before years ago and never felt so bad after so many days as well, I don't get it. Has anyone had this experience before? Thanks