a challenging day for me

[Smokeandsteam]

I can only speak from my own experience. I prefer vaping to smoking. If stressed out I can chain vape. If I feel boak I can knock it right down. I can vary the strength and I can change flavour depending on mood.

You really don’t need the cancer sticks. When stressed even less so!

 

[Mitz]

I wasn't disagreeing with you, the opposite.

Tomayto - Tomato.

 

[Nick0steam]

This is one of the biggest issues with quiting smoking; DELUSION.

My car just broke down so I need a fag. I just got fired so I need a fag. Just had a fight with my other half so I need a fag. I fucked up so I need a fag. I'm stressed so I need a fag. I'm in pain so I need a fag.

A fag will make me feel better. Everything will be better after I smoke a fag.

Yeah, poisoning yourself will make everything better. When shit goes wrong inhale a few thousand deadly toxins to make it all better.

Smoking a fag doesn't change anything. The only reason you feel better is because you tell yourself that a fag will make you feel better. I tell myself a vape will make me feel better. Others tell themselves the gym will make them feel better or meditation or even a cup of tea.

The things that make us feel better are whatever things we convince ourselves will make us feel better.

Stop convincing yourself that smoking will make things better. Because things won't be better when you wake up one day to be told you have cancer or you have a heart attack.

There are no benefits to smoking over vaping. But smoking will kill you. At least then, I suppose, you won't have a care in the world.

When I was about 25 I met a bloke who just come out of hospital after having leg cut off because of smoking, he told me all about it but still I kept smoking for years and years after, imo smokers just ignore any info about the harmful effects, they throw a "deaf one" as my mate would say, they use every excuse in the book then when they run out of excuses they use themselves as an excuse, like, "I know, I am really stupid aren't I?" "What am I like?" Or the classic "oh well I'm only human nobody's perfect" I know, and I am guilty of it also, smokers will only truly quit when they finally admit to themselves that enough is fucking enough but only they can ever get themselves to that point if ever. It's fucking hard as hell to quit but doable, as most on this forum know.

 

[licklemoose]

Lol, you call it delusion, I call that the addiction. 'A cigarette will calm me down', 'a cigarette will wake me up', lol it can't do both, which is it?!

Whatever it's called it is a tricky bugger to overcome, it manages to ingrain itself so deeply that years later when you think you've conquered it and you get a shock to the system, that little voice can easily creep out once more!

@licklemoose I've had that implant before, it didn't hurt much having it removed (just a bruise remaining for a few days), and I don't remember it hurting having it put in. If you're still in pain it might be worth having your doctor look at it, that doesn't sound right to me, am worried about ya!

its ok today, the arm it was removed from feels fine today, the other arm it was put in is better than yesterday, i think the bandage was too tight making it feel worse, very tender to touch still

 

[licklemoose]

This is one of the biggest issues with quiting smoking; DELUSION.

My car just broke down so I need a fag. I just got fired so I need a fag. Just had a fight with my other half so I need a fag. I fucked up so I need a fag. I'm stressed so I need a fag. I'm in pain so I need a fag.

A fag will make me feel better. Everything will be better after I smoke a fag.

Yeah, poisoning yourself will make everything better. When shit goes wrong inhale a few thousand deadly toxins to make it all better.

Smoking a fag doesn't change anything. The only reason you feel better is because you tell yourself that a fag will make you feel better. I tell myself a vape will make me feel better. Others tell themselves the gym will make them feel better or meditation or even a cup of tea.

The things that make us feel better are whatever things we convince ourselves will make us feel better.

Stop convincing yourself that smoking will make things better. Because things won't be better when you wake up one day to be told you have cancer or you have a heart attack.

There are no benefits to smoking over vaping. But smoking will kill you. At least then, I suppose, you won't have a care in the world.

ive also turned to fags when down in the dumps, ill, coughs or in pain
yesterday i didnt i had my usual morning 2, it was hard and every now and then i thought id go for a fag but instead i vaped my head off and did some crochet
ive been seeing the smoking nurse for months and have failed all NRT
went to a vape shop in town before buying my smok to be told the smok wouldnt help me quit and i needed another vape first
i found the smok online with 2 free liquids and cut down on the fags straight away and now tomorrow is my quit day i dont have cash so cant buy more

 

[Leni]

What strength nicotine do you use in the Smok stick? It seems that dtl vaping suits you best, so it's worth getting a back-up kit when you can, and a slightly higher nic content might help you knock the cigs on the head altogether. You did well yesterday, keep reminding yourself that you can do this