I already need a fag. It's only been an hour

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I promised my sister we would quit together.

I don't even normally smoke as often as 1 every hour, it's just because I know I can't have one

AIBU to ask one of you to come and gaffa tape me to the chair so I can't nip to the shop?

Or I could just go and buy just one more packet? She'd never know.

vaping is the way to go

I am vaping

[sucks madly on Vape stick]

I used it to cut down from 30 a day to 10 a day a few weeks ago. 10 is not that bad really is it?

Well done, you have dropped loads, you should be proud of yourself

10 is what my GP said was a light smoker..... But it's still a smoker! Are you vaping and smoking? E cigs are good if you normally smoke proper cigarettes, quite weird if you smoke roll ups.

Count the ones you dont smoke, not the ones you do.

I have cut down from 20 to 4 a day by vaping, I refuse to guilty about those 4.

30 to 10 is brilliant progress! That's more than I've given up

What sort of vapouriser are you using? You might need better kit and / or stronger liquid to ditch the last 10.

I'm using the 24mg liquid. Cherry flavour. It's quite nice. It's stops the craving. It's the act of lighting up, finishing a fag and stubbing it out I miss

It's a purple Evod stick. I didn't look into this much. I just bought what the man is the shop told me to buy

1 pack of 10 = 1 over the door coat hook and I really need some coat hooks.

Go and spend your money on a coat rack, and then keep your fingers busy by hanging the coats up.

Best of luck. I've only ever given up successfully when pg.

Do you have any different flavours? Changing flavours when you are craving can help. You could try something with a dual coil - that would give you more vapour. There's a dual coil evod now.

I know what you mean about the ritual of going for a fag, lighting and putting it out. I still go out with the smokers at work because of this. Changing your routine can help so you don't have so many triggers.

Would it be 'cheating' to cut out the remaining 10 one at a time, rather than all at once?

Get a nicorette spray for when vaping isn't enough. It's quite the experience, I was terrified of lighting a fag up after a blast of that

Good luck.

Dual coil Evod. I might have to buy one of those.

I'm going to tell myself I can have more real fags, just not yet. That's how I got from 30 to 10. I waited until I could no longer bear it before going to buy any and would then try vaping first each time I fancied a fag.

I have tobacco flavour too.

The bubblegum flavour is lovely, tastes like juicy fruit

Well done for getting from 30 to just 10, that's a massive improvement :)

Do you actually want to give up? I think to do it successfully you have to really want it, if you're half hearted it will be a lot harder.

Not everyone's cup of tea for cutting down/quitting but yes, I also refused to say to myself that I was quitting. I just wasn't having one right then. I was having less. I knew that the thought of saying to myself - right, that's it, you will never ever have a cigarette again would be too much.

So if that makes you manage it then think of that. You're just sticking with vaping for the next few hours. And hopefully the next few hours after that. And then a few more hours...

I also found a caffeine or sugar hit was a good replacement when I was desperate - had a very cold, very fizzy, very sugary Coke and then I at least felt like I was getting a hit of something.

I am doing that Thurlow

I have cigarettes in my bag. I can have one if I want. But im going to vape for now, and have one later. Which is working for me atm.

Yeah its like you have to trick your brain by promising it you'll have one later.

Pain in the wotsit giving up smokes.

That online shop is much cheaper than my local shop. I really should have researched this a bit more.

I don't want to quit from a I wish I never started etc pov but I do really need the money. There is still loads of stuff for my house I still need. 1 weeks worth of 10 a day is the kids bedroom curtains. Plus the kids keep ranting at me.

She told me this morning that I was only allowed my purple fag and not any real ones today and that she would be looking for real ones when she got home from school, if she finds any I will be in very much trouble indeed, apparently

I'm going to put some washing away and start cleaning up, once I get my wages at lunchtime I need to go shopping if after that I still need a fag, I can have just one.

I managed to quit like than when pg (turned out to be the one sodding person who seemed to actively crave nicotine while pregnant, rather than getting ill!), sadly started again later... Not really ready to quit again yet. But I tell myself that as long as one day I pretty much quit and don't smoke on a day to day basis than that's good - there are worse things in life than having a few cigarettes down the pub. Especially when I don't go down the pub very often!

It's odd because when I actually do have a fag it's no where near as satisfying as a few puffs on my vape stick I end up wishing I'd never bothered.

You're doing brilliantly.

I've been stopped for 10 months. I'm vaping (far more than I ever actually smoked as I'll vape in the house, it's practically attached to me now - is there a support thread for quitting vaping?!?) but not smoking cigarettes. I told myself "If I still want a cigarette in an hour, I will go buy some." then when that hour passed, I told myself the same thing again. I actually gave up smoking completely a few weeks before (stupidly) starting vaping.

I set myself a time. Which sounds a bit stupid but I say ok, it's 10am. If I still want a fag at lunchtime I'll have one. Then at lunchtime I think if I still want a fag at 3 I'll have one.

When I go into town I'm gonna check out the market stall some bloke at work told me about. He says that's cheaper than where I go. They might have those dual coil thingies.

I've set myself a time of after the town. Then after that the kids will be home.

Have you read the Easy Way to Stop Smoking?

I don't really get why you prefer a stinky, vile fag to vaping, because if my batteries pack up all at once yesterday I am heartily disappointed to have to have a vile fag. Nothing like as good. But each to his own I guess

HER own. Her.