Smoked for about 15 years, tried a few times to stop, never worked. Made myself a promise to stop once I get a dog. Got a dog and stopped smoking with no problem.
Possible contributing factors:
- When it was time to stop I was already pretty disgusted by smoking. I just needed a last push.
- My mind was in a more positive state after I had a deep depression for a few years. I was also more conscious about my health because of that (see previous point)
- My friend group and work place used to be full of smokers and somehow that changed over time, so I was often alone with my addiction
Delete the application
Still trying. 😞
Dependency, reverse engineering, or heroin?
It’s heroin isn’t it. 😔
But in all seriousness and to actually add to the topics discussion, Suboxone and methadone are the 2 options. Suboxone for a quick taper. Quick tapers don’t usually last for addicts, unless you can build stability (unlikely, addicts are often addicts because they’re unhappy from a period of instability, or mental illness which is worsened by instability…) by the time you are done with your taper. But methadone has changed my life. Although I’m still on it, so technically I’m still on an opioid, but at least I can be productive and have periods of stability.
smoking: I decided it was disgusting. it was like a switch flipped and I had no desire to do it anymore.
and it helps that it actually is super nasty (I can only imagine how I used to smell), and ruins everything; I just had to realize it.
I… read a book?! A friend told me about “Allen Carr’s Easy Way to Stop Smoking”. I was more then skeptical but ended up reading it and, well, it worked! I had been a heavy smoker for 15+ years at that point. Made me realize you can actually use mental suggestion to change some habits.
started running
Stopped smoking cold turkey and it was hard as f*ck. Thirteen years ago and haven’t picked it back up yet.
17 years and sometimes I still crave one
Good for you! That is a long time. Yes it happens to me too sometimes, but then again I just laugh because now I find it disgusting and the smell is awful but then there is that part of my mind that associates smoking with some pretty good times in my life, not because of the smoking per se, but the reminiscence and nostalgia of it all.
I’m on month 4 over here. Do the cravings ever stop being daily?
You got this! Yes, but in my case they came and went on waves. Certain places or activities triggered me more than others so I avoided them until I felt I could master it. It will get better!!
Thanks man, gives me hope.
My addiction is lemmy . Someone help
Good luck.
I am hopeless aren’t i ?
What I’ve often found is that even seemingly harmless addictive behaviours leave lasting impressions on my personality. My two addictions I’m trying to quit are porn and nicotine gums.
Porn was just taking up too much of my time and energy. Especially since I was working from home. I’d be in meetings with my camera and mic off browsing some weird nsfw on reddit. Stopped cold turkey and it feels amazing tbh
Nicotine gums stay on for now. This is one addiction which has actually provided me an unintended benefit. My jawline improved drastically over a year! But I hope one day I can be comfortable sitting with myself idle not wanting to compulsively do anything!
Quit?
Make the addiction not an option among your daily list of things possible to do, not even in boredom. Quickest way to win.
Allen Carr’s Easy Way to Stop Smoking
For anyone who might want to stop smoking, just grab a used copy or download it somewhere
Indeed. I was really skeptical but to my surprise, it really works! Maybe not on everyone but I suspect it does for a high proportion of people.
Girlfriend was thinking about breaking up with me because of it. She never outright said it or threatened it but I could feel it yk? The worried comments were becoming more like requests. I’m lucky I wasn’t in too deep, addiction has just begun to settle in so breaking out was too difficult.
She has admitted to me since that she did come very close to ending our relationship. Glad it didn’t come to that
She’s a keeper!
Oh for sure, we’re at 4 years now. This happened between year 1 and 2.
Was it the shark fucking?
Yes
There are more than 420 of you ? Or are you the last one ?
We are a collective swarm with one consciousness
It announced changes to the pricing of its API for third party clients
Me too but now i got a new one
I’m still going strong, too. Congrats.
Oh I forgot!
