How to give up my e cigarette

amandacat

I’ve been vaping for about 5 years. I vape a low strength- 3mg. As I work from home, I literally find it’s hanging out of my mouth most of the day.
I’ve tried everything to give it up eg trying to only vape at certain times of the day but it just doesn’t work. As soon as work is stressing me it’s back in my hand. I’ve tried going to 0% but I can’t bear to have no nicotine.

I’m both addicted to the nicotine and the device, it’s become a habit and a comfort blanket , a bit like someone sucking their thumb.

I’ve noticed I often cough at night from it and I probably spend £40 a month on this habit. I go jogging and I know it impacts my performance.

Has anyone successfully given theirs up or can give any tips? Thanks

Dog_Lady_No_4

Ill follow cause id like to stop vaping too, 2 years since i last had a cigarette but just replaced it with vape urgh

London50

IMO the only way to give up is willpower,yes there are plenty of products on the market to help but you still need to have the mindset so not to relapse back to the "old ways".
Plenty of people for personal reasons say they want to quit either smoking or now vaping but it is something that is very easy to say but a very hard thing to do and as you say Amandacat as soon as stress happens it's in your hand so voicing "how can I stop"sounds great but deep down it is your support and until you {or anyone else in the same position}excepts the point you will never reach the goal you want/need.
I am the same,I started smoking at the age of 10 changed to vaping about 5/6 years ago and am on 18mg strength using one bottle every 4 days and being now nearly 80 I have excepted that I do not have the willpower to stop and that is what I told my doctor a few weeks back so I hope you see I am not running you or anyone else down.For you it is possible but only if you are honest with yourself and truly want to stop then throw them in the bin,suffer a period of cravings/misery then at least you can say you did better than that old London50 :0)

Good luck and I do hope you beat the habit and live a long and healthy life

Magnolia

Well done to all of you for quitting the stinkies! You have done amazing. Tomorrow I too will be 5 years free and will be into my 3rd year of zero nicotine in my vape juice. I use less than one bottle of juice a week and some weeks it till be even less. I can fill my tank on Monday and not need to refill until the weekend.

Do I see it as my comfort blanket! Too darned right I do! I am not as bed these days and can even go shopping without taking it with me.

For a long time I was terrified of not having my vape with me just incase a craving came upon me and I went and bought some ciggies - I know - totally irrational but its how a habit can hit you and getting off that habit is hard.

I am finding that I am naturally cutting down on vaping. Some days I will vape more than others - some days I will get up and start vaping straight away while others I will suddenly think about it, maybe mid afternoon, and reach for it.

I am aware that I want to stop vaping but I am in no rush to do so. If just vaping 5mls of juice per week keeps me off the stinkies and food!! than I will carry on. I am not harming anyone and doing a lot less harm to myself than smoking 30 a day was doing.

Don't be so hard on yourselves - you have done an amazing thing for your health.

ndf9876

Following this with interest. @Magnolia I am in the same position as you pretty much - I quit the tobacco about 3 years ago, went onto 6mg juice then 6 months later onto 3mg where I've stayed for the last two and a half years.

I feel that I do it too much and want to quit - a couple of friends had great success with the Allen Carr "Easy Way to Stop Smoking" book and have strongly recommended that to me (I want to quit vaping too). I have a copy of the book but haven't yet read it.

Like most people here, I take it with me wherever I go, but I'm fed up of it now. The juice has leaked and ruined clothes, and yes there's the cost element (around £40 per month, although I could apply some MoneySaving to this and use the one pound liquid site!).

Best of luck with this - if you find a method that helps you, please share it if you're able

Magnolia

ndf9876 said:

 yes there's the cost element (around £40 per month,

£40! Blimey. I get my juice from one pound liquid and spend about £3 a month!

amandacat

Thanks for the replies. It is so hard to give it up. I think I need to get a job where I don’t work at home most days! Better than smoking at least but I will give it up one day, I just need to be in the right frame of mind. 

martinthebandit

Never vape or smoke indoors, that means you have to stop what your doing and go outside to vape, eventually you get fed up and realise it's just not worth the effort.

worked for me.

amandacat

I thought I'd come back and update. I'm now one week without vaping but it's not as much of an achievement as it sounds and it happened by accident. So here's what happened...
My vape started tasting awful and needed a new coil, nowhere nearby sells the coils I need and I knew I would have to wait a couple days for an online delivery. In panic I searched through the cupboard and found a nicorette inhalator with a load of 15mg cartridges that was left from hubby giving up smoking last year. I decided I would have to use that to get me through.
I've been using it all week but as it doesn't taste nice like the vape I have only been using it when I have a craving or need something in my hand. One 15mg cartridge lasted me 3 days. Normally I vape the equivalent of that in a day. The last couple of days I have hardly used it at all. But my vape has been stored away for a week now and I couldn't use it even if I wanted to as the coil needs replacing.
So I'm feeling confident I might actually do this and am hoping as time goes on I will stop thinking about any cravings and can ditch the inhalator too. 

justjohn

i have stopped vaping for over 3 years now. i found like yourself . E-Cig was getting vaped 24/7. in the end i dropped nicotine down from 3mg to 1.5 then to 0. 
i vaped i good tasting liquid. My favorite flavour  was cappuccino. After a while on zero nic over time i just stopped.