I don’t care what anyone says. I tried patches, gum, Chantix, cold turkey, mint chews, etc. Everything short of hypnosis.
The ONLY thing that worked for me was the ecig.
With everything else, I went back every time. Reason was, I had no conditioning to make me NOT want to go back. Just stopping is easy. Making your body lose interest is the hard part.
I started on 24 mg nicotine. At that level, a hard puff off of the ecig would just about take your head off. Cigarettes became pointless, and I began using the ecig entirely.
Weaned myself down to 12 mg, 6 mg, 3 mg, and 1.5 mg. Then, 0mg. That was last summer.
Then I started noticing some weird things. I’d lose my ecig. I’d set it down for hours at a time then suddenly realize that I hadn’t hit it in a while, and then I wouldn’t be able to find it. Started forgetting to take it with me when I went out. Started leaving it at home when I went to work.
Eventually, my fancy voltage controlled, giant nerd battery died. I said, “I’ll just order another one tomorrow.”
Tomorrow turned into days, days into weeks, weeks into months. Never found time to place that order. I’m coming up on one year since the last time I put nicotine in my body. This winter, I’m going to be coming up on one year without inhaling anything except air pollution and campfire smoke.
I have no desire to pick up a cigarette. I’ve been offered on many occasions and I always turn it down.
What’s left of my ecig sits in a drawer. I keep it as a reminder of the electronic ball and chain I used to have to carry around with me. It was some of the best money I’ve ever spent.
Great job.