I've given up vaping, and need as many tips and messages of support as possible

[givingitupok]

I'm giving up vaping after 7 years of it. My lungs hurt. I'm constantly worried about cancer. I used the vape to quit smoking. I'm proud of that. I'm ready for the vape to go now. I have a 6 year old son, who I love more than I can explain. He needs me, at my best. I've started running and am loving it, but my lungs are going to hold me back. I'm scared of life without nicotine. I'm a single mum, and my life is hard. I need help, and am going to write here when I'm craving, and need support. I hope that's not too self indulgent of me, to think that strangers really care about me giving up the vape. My vape is about to die (I can tell the battery is running out). I've got a nicotine patch on as I know I won't do it cold turkey. I plan on waking up tomorrow, taking my son to school, going for a run and going to work vape free, hopefully forever. Thank you in advance for your help. I certainly need it.

I'm wishing you success and happiness, and of course health! Just imagine how fit you're going to be soon. Pretty impressive.

Could you read the Allen Carr book? It's about cigarettes but is just as relevant to vapes. It will help to adjust your attitude away from "I'm giving something up and it's going to be really hard" and on to a "isn't it marvellous to be free from addiction, lucky me, and look at all this money I'm saving too" sort of mindset.

Bloody well done you! That takes courage to even make that decision.
Having been a 14 a day smoker for 20 years, I switched to vaping 7 years ago. I've cut down to 1.5mg nicotine in 50ml liquid which I make myself... 70p per bottle Vs £6 I was paying until a month ago
Good plan going for the patch but I think you need mouth feel too. Sweets, gum, frozen grapes and berries for a healthy option?
I promised mine I would quit at 50.. I managed at 53
sending waves of support to you
You can do it. The first 3 days are the worst
Be prepared for possible headaches or generally feeling off, but this will pass quickly.

Bloody well done you! That takes courage to even make that decision.
Having been a 14 a day smoker for 20 years, I switched to vaping 7 years ago. I've cut down to 1.5mg nicotine in 50ml liquid which I make myself... 70p per bottle Vs £6 I was paying until a month ago
Good plan going for the patch but I think you need mouth feel too. Sweets, gum, frozen grapes and berries for a healthy option?
I promised mine I would quit at 50.. I managed at 53
sending waves of support to you
You can do it. The first 3 days are the worst
Be prepared for possible headaches or generally feeling off, but this will pass quickly.

Buy one of those breathing whistles, you can get ones with flavoured filters which have the same resistance as breathing in your vape. You can use them anywhere, even on a plane.

There’s an Allan Carr Booknook now specifically for vapes.You can get it on Amazon. I read it at the beginning of April, binned my vapes 2 days later and haven’t touched one since. I’m finally nicotine free for the first time in 25 years and it feels amazing.

Good luck, OP. You can do it.

I've listened to it on audio book! I think I need to just be a little more determined this time. I'm 9 hours down already, so 2 or 3 days to go before I'm through the worst of it. I just need to not buy snacks!

I need to not have the hand to mouth as I need to crack that too, so I've stocked up on chewing gum.

Well done and keep coming back when you need encouragement. Three days will fly by and you'll have cracked it! You've got the right mentality, now prove to everyone you can do it 💪

Best of luck OP. I quit over 2 weeks ago now- didn't think I'd manage it tbh. I know that sounds like a defeatist attitude already but I was so very hooked! I did it with patches too and honestly- if I can do it, you can!

The hand to mouth was the hardest bit for me- it felt like I was forgetting something constantly for the first couple of days. What flavour/s did you vape? I was menthol so used sugar free mints and the deepest breaths I could manage when cravings were bad.

I actually forgot to put a patch on yesterday so trying to go it alone from now on..

I want to vape so badly. I'm 14 hours in. I'm NOT going to vape. Argh this is so hard I don't know how I'm going to do this!

Get yourself some strong tasting gum to hit your senses( Airwaves?)
Have you still got a patch on? Maybe it's not enough Nic
Nicotine gum?

Good luck @givingitupok! I need to quit too. I’ve not bought any more nicotine pods but I’ve got some of the 0% disposables I stocked up on. Hoping that will help me break the cycle, but I know what you mean about hand to mouth. Could you get some kind of fidget toy or ring to help distract your hands?

I thought about the 0% but I actually worry more about the crap that's in the vape than the nicotine. Yes I need to give up the nicotine too but my lungs are achy. They feel so much better even after not vaping since last night. Clearer already.

No cravings today at all! Amazing! What are the chances o got over the worst of it on day 1? I heard that day 2-3 are often the worst but I feel really good!

Day 3

Made it to day 6 🤙🏿

Fantastic! Well done. You're definitely over the worst and done the hardest bit.

My one bit of advice is - be prepared for cravings to hit you suddenly when you least expect them and have a plan in place for how you're going to handle that.
I gave up nicotine (again!) on 21 Nov 2024 and last night had immense cravings for a cigarette because I was sitting alone in the garden with a glass of wine (no family around to disapprove) and I'd had a busy day getting all sorts of things done on my To Do list. So in the olden days I absolutely would have smoked 3 or 4 cigarettes in those circumstances and my brain is lagging behind in understanding that I just don't want to do it any more.

Good for you, and good luck! Keep your hands busy.. fidget toys, colouring, cross stitch etc.

Well done! Keep reminding yourself of how much good it’s doing you to not be breathing in that awful stuff. I’m really pleased for you!

When I stopped smoking the thing that helped most was reading lists of the benefits repeatedly online.

Amazing! 👏 Keep going now.

Well done @givingitupok keep going! I last had a nicotine vape on Thursday, then 2 days on the zero nic ones but they were so disgusting I’m going cold turkey. No nic cravings so far 🤞🏻