[bewise93]

I had quit for over 2 weeks using the patch. Today I relapsed. I tried going from step 1 (21mg) to step 2 (14mg). This sucks. I feel less depressed and angry, but it always sucks to relapse on nicotine. But it was like when I smoked that cigarette, so many mood problems associated with quitting went away. I don't want to continue smoking, but it's also very hard to quit. I just can't do it with the patches, but what I've heard about suicides from chantix, I don't want to do that either. Anyone quit with bipolar successfully? It just seems to impossible for me.

[Unrigged64072835]

I couldn't take Chantix or Wellbutrin because of my bipolar. I was given the patch and the gum.

For me what worked was getting a vape and whittling down the nicotine until I didn't have any. I still use the vape when I'm nervous, but now with no nicotine.

Yes I quit over a decade ago. I cut down slowly over time. Kept myself busy. Drank a little more coffee to fill the void. I tapered down until I was down to 1 a day and then dropped it. The first few months after was tough, but I was determined.

I'm sorry you relapsed

((((hugs)))))

you can always try again though.

[~Christina]

I started and stopped smoking so many times over the years.

What finally worked for me was one quarter of a chanix a day , by day three i could not even think of a cigarette .. I stay on that ridiculous small dose for 4 weeks and by then I became the worse hypothetical mon smoker ever lol

My step son vapes , he has no nicotine in his anymore but having the vaping calms him down just like cigarettes use too

[tecomsin]

After many failed attempts I quit smoking cold turkey on July 14, 2015. I was a member of an online quit smoking forum and that helped a lot in the first months.

[pirilin]

I know a thing or two about smoking. 50 years. Cigars. Expensive cigars. Inhaling. Have emphysema. Tried the patch. No go. Tried vaping with the cheap pen. No go.
Expensive equipment did the trick.

I've been vaping for 6 years straight without any tobacco. Can't stand the smell of cigars or cigarettes now.
I am a nicotine addict and a will be for life. If I go under 18mgs, I vape much more. So I'm stuck.

Pros:
a) I don't smell.
b) I can vape anywhere, discretly of course, including my whole house.
c) When I fly, I make flavorless liquid and vape as much as I want in the bathroom.
d) Nothing to look for but the mods.
e) No more empty lighters, running to the store at night, or ashtrays to clean. No burnt clothes.
f) Fruit flavors taste better than cigars. Chocolate and coffee are good too.
g) Four poisons against 4000. Vegetable glycerine, propynele glycol, good ole nic, and flavor if you wish.
Check 'em out. PG and VG are in thousands of products and people don't know what they are, even if they use them every day.
h) My nostrils are never clogged, I breathe thru both of them at the same time and intensity.
There are more, but I'll mention just the most important:
My last check up with the Pulmo, he told me I can buy green bananas. I will see them ripe.
I will die with emphysema. But not from it.

Cons:
I had to do a long and hard research and spend a lot of money in tuition. But I graduated.
I can't lower my nic intake under 18mg, or I'll vape three times more.
I can't pay taxes thru my vaping. There is none in Florida.
I have to import the premiun liquid from China. The inventors of vaping. Here they are four times more expensive and of less quality. Or mix my own.

I try to convert friends and family to vaping, and they don't listen. They like to cough.

Do you enjoy coughing?.

Smoking has no benefits at all. I smoked for 24 years and it wasn't until I went through hell with Champix (AU) that got me on herbal smokes and now ... I only do weed, but rarely.

Giving up an addiction is not a walk in the park.

Join the sub-reddit for people going through the same thing.

Reddit

[tecomsin]

How's it going with your quit, bewise93?

[bewise93]

Originally Posted by tecomsin

How's it going with your quit, bewise93?

Good! I quit again a few days ago and I'm doing good on the patch.

[tecomsin]

Originally Posted by bewise93

Good! I quit again a few days ago and I'm doing good on the patch.

That's awesome. Congratulations on your quit. Not one puff ever (NOPE)!

[MyPOV]

Originally Posted by bewise93

Anyone quit with bipolar successfully? It just seems to impossible for me.

I quit CIGARETTES five years ago (quit drinking at about the same time).

I used Chantix for the deterrence effect it has (only side effect was really bizzare surreal dreams).

I vaped for the hand to mouth habit.

I chewed nicotine gum for the strictly mouth habit and needing something to do (chewing gum helped with fidgets).

I ended up chewing the nicotine gum for all of these 5 years until 3 weeks ago.

Right now I am feeling the quitting of the gum: depressed, tired, irritable, unmotivated, can't talk right, clumsy, etc, etc, etc, etc -- what's funny is that

I didn't put two and two together until today that I was feeling these because of the nicotine withdrawal. I thought I was just I had swing into depression on some unknown trigger.

I haven't really craved nicotine, until today just after lunch -- before that I was always fidgety and would get up and walk around at work, etc....

So it's possible -- just remember that smokes and gum and all that other jazz is TOTALLY WASTED MONEY -- that's partly how I quit -- I came to realize that smoking/drinking didn't get me ANYTHING -- there was nothing obtained by paying to do these things -- so I quit...or worked to quit, cuz it was work for both.

Good luck -- eye on the prize, one minute at a time -- and keep in mind craving last no longer 5 minutes if you can distract yourself when you feel them -- like I am in writing this .

[Guiness187055]

I went from smoking to vaping. I started lowering the nicotine in my ejuice bit by bit until I went down to 0 nicotine. Then I just quit vaping.

[pirilin]

Vaping success rate: 18%. Bad.
The patch: 9%. Worse.
The gum: 4%. Worst.
Highest success rate: Cold Turkey. 64%.

I am a nicotine addict and will be for life. Until the wonderful day of my death.
I've been vaping for 6 years and I won't quit. I'm no quitter.

It has improved my breathing, even with my emphysema to normal levels for my age group.
Only difference is that I educated myself in vaping, paying a very high tuition. In the thousands. I've bought over one hundred different vaping devices, or mods, as we call them. But I have arrived.
Now I can vape for less than ten dollars a week.
Consuming the equivalent of two premium packs a day. Do the math.