But I quit 2 days ago. Goddamn nicotine. I’m jonesing so hard that my teeth ache.
Don’t do it Ogre! Play tetris instead.
I think I’ll go to sleep. I mean business about quitting this time. I’m not going back.
But man, right now, I’m a junkie in full withdrawal.
Put that down, now!
slaps Ogre’s hand
You are a proud non-smoker who doesn’t need to feed yourself poison every hour just to feel normal.
: )
Go for a brisk walk. Take a few long, deep breaths, hold them for several seconds, then blow out slowly (just as you would when you were a smoker, but without the cigarette).
You don’t really want a cigarette, you just don’t want to feel like crap. Having a cigarette will only temporarily make you stop feeling like crap in the short term. Not having a cigarette will make you stop feeling like crap long-term.
The feeling WILL pass. Go to bed, or eat some junk food and then go to bed. Don’t drink booze, it’ll make you crave cigarettes more.
I hope you can stay strong, I am a smoker and have sort of taken steps out of concern for my health, I have been looking into ways to get nicotine without smoking… I have genuinely ordered an “iolite vapouriser” expecting it to arrive today (its 7am here)
try googling or you-tubeing an “iolite vapouriser” could be a very useful thing for someone concerned with the health risks of smoking and as a device to help quit.
I will try and let you know how it goes for me if i can.
best of luck with your attemps to quit
I quit several weeks ago myself. For good.
It helps that there are a couple of people who’d be very disappointed if I started again…and I want to do it for them as well as for me.
When I gave up smoking, I found the habit harder to let go of than the actual drug. Breaking your routine, even in small ways, may help. I also followed Kojak’s lollipop regime for a while, and that really did help: you’re putting something in and out of your mouth, it’s a comfortingly familiar shape, and you just can’t smoke while you’re eating. Telling everyone I was giving up so that I’d be too proud and stubborn to let them see me fail helped too (though I realise this may not reflect well on me!).
I just stopped by to offer support. I hope you can beat this. Good luck!
“Want” and “need” are two different things, Ogre. Appreciate the difference. Remind yourself that while you may *want *a cigarette, you need to not have one…
Here’s the basic secret lie of cravings, pay attention! The lie a craving tells you is this: “If you give me what I want, I will go away.”
That is compelte BS. If you give the craving what it wants you will strengthen it. It will become stronger, and come back sooner. It will be stronger than it was before, and you will have to start again from square one.
The only way to kill a craving is to starve it to death. It is a long slow process, and can not be interrupted. I find it helps to give the craving a form (for me, something like a ginormous nightcrawler) and then imagine it slowly getting weak and dying. That really helps to focus my thinking on what will really happen if I feed it.
For me chewing gum, brushing my teeth, drinking water, and generally focusing on making my mouth feel clean really helped. I found I really preferred that to the taste of tobacco.
Also, ask yourself what other needs the craving may be hiding. Do you really just need a break from work? is your blood sugar low? Are you lonely? Hungry? When was the last time you laughed?
Getting back in touch with your real needs can make long-term success more likely.
I wish you strength, persistence, and a healthy future!
I had a bad chest infection over the xmas and didn’t smoke for a week as I was sick as a pig. I smoked a few when I got better but thought I may as well have a go at quitting as I had already gone a week.
I could easily kill everyone in this thread and the people sitting around me at the moment 
It’s a lot harder when you are not sick. I have a pack in my pocket but haven’t broke yet. I’ve even gone out with the smokers to take a break from the monitor and haven’t broken. Quitting’s a bitch.
All the best Ogre
Didn’t smoke last night. Also couldn’t sleep. 
Will not be smoking today either.
For sleep problems, a friend of mine swears by a bowl of ice cream before bed . .
I go with another type of bowl and another type of smoking for sleep problems 
I purchased a Magma for planes/bars/etc.
After a while, and odd thing happened- The flavors that I can get for the e-cig tasted far better than an “Analog” cig. In fact, I stopped using the tobacco flavored juice, because an after-dinner smoke of Kona coffee/Bluewater Punch/Butterscotch/Dr. Pepper/Cotton Candy was far better tasting than the real thing.
It’s been 3 months, and I have not had an analog since before Thanksgiving. Over the past month, my use of the e-cig has dropped to a few puffs in the morning after breakfast, lunch, and dinner, with a few interspersed puffs throughout the day. Essentially 2 analogs or less per day.
The most interesting part is that I did not intend to quit smoking-Not by a long shot- It just sort of happened. It also “Just sort of happened” to 2 other friends of mine, and there are literally thousands of other success stories online. No cravings, no irritability, no depression.
You can purchase el-cheapo versions at a smoke shop until the good one arrives, should you go that route.
You’re not jonesing, you have a nicotine hangover.
If you have a cigarette, you wont eliminate a craving, you’ll just ensure another hangover when next you try to quit.
Best to stay quit now, and never have to deal with the withdrawal again.
As for the vapes, one of the main reasons for me to quit is to save money. I don’t need to replace one expenditure with another. I think I’ll just tough it out until the physical craving is gone.
Day 3, no cigarettes.
I’m one of those weirdos who can’t really bliss out on pot. It’s frustrating. It makes me paranoid. No fun.