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Reduce first but have attainable goals. Go easy and steady.
For some folks cold Turkey works best but it might not be for you.
Most importantly, find a reason that's really important to you.
Maybe try sports - something measurable. It easier to tell yourself no after a cardio as you realise how it ruins what you just achieved.
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Get a dry herb vaporizer like the arizer air max as the smoke all be much cleaner for you
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Buy some cheap hemp flower or pot and mix it with the tobacco, slowly skew the ratio towards hemp flower/pot over time. Throw a little dried lavendar in there too if you have access to the plant
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Micro dose on magic mushrooms daily, not enough to trip just enough to feel good, for some reason I hate smoking anything while on mushroom trips and have heard personal stories of people quitting cold turkey
I got up to a pack a day when I decided to quit. The biggest thing that helped me quit was getting an app on my phone which tracked the cost and how many you're smoking. When you start reducing the amount smoked etc it tracked how much money you've saved, how much healthier your lungs are (lung capacity etc), how much more time you've added to your life expectency, all that sorta stuff.
Having numbers and stats to track, made it feel more tangible and felt like I was making actual progress towards something.
Its worth a shot.
I used Wellbutrin about 7 months ago to quit. And was only on it for about a month or two. I have since gone through the death of my best friend for over 30 years, and recently the loss of a beloved pet of 15 years. Neither of these events triggered my urge to smoke again, so thereβs at least a testimony to itβs effectiveness.
More on the process:
So I went to my GP and asked for help in quitting, (habit was a pack or more a day for 40 years) was prescribed Wellbutrin and just went with it. I was smoking while on the medication for probably two weeks or so, and then gradually lost the taste for it along with the urge to smoke. It got to the point where I would forget to smoke at times when I normally would, such as- after waking up/eating, etc.
Having dealt with some extreme grief/sorrow/stress/anxiety over the course of this shitshow of a year and still not smoking as a result of it has been one of the very few things I have to be happy about.
Helping someone achieve this and paying it forward would certainly help make it more worthwhile, so I wish you the best of luck in whatever works for you.
Hang in there.
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I bought an ounce of CBD weed rolled a joint to smoke every time I had a nicotine craving for 2-3 weeks.
This is very fascinating, I would love more people to try this and share their experiences
Siegmund Freud would recommend picking up cocaine to replace smoking.
(Ok, he actually used it as a substitute for alcoholics and continued doing so after his first client died of a cocain overdose, but close enough.)
Psychoanalyse is like any other religion. They do what the books say not to do.
My solution: peer pressure. Get your smoking buddy to quit with you. Just go cold turkey - but tapering down a bit before hand might help. Don't use gum. Don't use drugs or patches. Just fucking quit. Statistics show that people who use quitting aids like vapes, gum, patches, drugs, etc, fail far more often than people who just go cold turkey.
So cold turkey with a friend. Hold each other accountable. Use each other as a support group. If they fail, sympathize with them but guilt trip them into quitting again so they can be your quit buddy.
I'm not a smoker, but have a few friends that struggled to quit, the ones that succeeded went cold turkey with meds for the cravings.
Go see your doctor!
My Dad quit after almost dying from lung infections. So maybe see if you can get yourself one of those every year for a decade to where you're hospitalized for a few weeks at the end and the doctor says the next time you leave in a body bag.
Cut both your hands off.
Aren't there like herbal non-tobacco smokes?
I really wouldn't recommend those: you're still inhaling burnt plant matter, and while it might not be as bad as tobacco, that's not going to be great for you.
Also, those things probably aren't as controlled as tobacco so who the hell knows if they're even actually better for you.
I wouldn't be surprised. I used to use snus and found versions that are just coffee grounds inside. It's helped a ton with curbing cravings.
Take walks!
Highly recommend vaping for cold turkey quitting of cigs. Once you taper the vaping nicotine dosage down to a few mg/mL., you should consider a product like fum, which is a non-vape flavored oral fixation device.
That's literally the worst idea
Why?
Replacing an addiction with another doesn't fix the addiction
Not all addictions are equal. The plan I suggested gradually reduces harm. It's better to aim for harm reduction rather than cold turkey quitting which frequently leads to relapses.
Ok let me say the issue in a different way. Both are nicotine. You have the exact same addiction. You aren't even quiting your just changing the flavor of tobacco. If I start drinking vodka instead of beer and say I am trying to get over alcoholism, you would say I am insane because that won't work.
Switch to crack