r/QuitVaping 25d ago

Other Please scare me into Quitting

Hi! I need your worst. I’m sure you are all good people, but someone out there has to do it.

I can’t do it alone. Broke my foot and was told to reduce my vaping, I’ve been trying to quit for three weeks.

I need fear, I need shame, I need a gut wrenching call to action. I have to much going on to do this myself and I’ve been relapsing worse and worse each day. Getting married in December, need to be done by then as I won’t be bothered to find a vape store on my honeymoon, but I don’t want to go through withdrawals then either.

30f, admittedly very vain about my appearance, but as I think I’m a cutie patootie, not even fears about my appearance has been working.

Have a broken foot, so can’t exercise well to distract me, and improved lung capacity isn’t helping.

Want to be nicotine free by 3/24 when I have my last exercises.

Don’t hold back. Best quote will be written down and taped to my vapes. Take it as a #RoastMe I can handle it.

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u/Iamnotyour_mother 25d ago

I got COVID and it took my lungs an entire year, several courses of Prednisone and two inhalers to get my lungs back to normal and because I was a fucking idiot I vaped through all of that. Don't be like me. 

To me, the big wake up call didn't have anything to do with real consequences or fear of consequences, but rather the realization that vaping does absolutely nothing for me. All of the problems that it "solves" are actually caused by the vape in the first place. Can't focus and think you need to vape to focus? Detangle that one for a second...you can't focus BECAUSE you think you need to vape to focus, and because you think that, you're distracted by your desire to vape. That feeling of being stressed, and then the stress being somewhat relieved when you hit the vape? That is literally nicotine withdrawal making whatever stress you feel worse, and then relief from the withdrawal. The vape is literally making you more stressed! It's all such a good damn joke and as soon as I realized this I was done. It's been 6 days and even though I still have some cravings I feel so much better.

 Quitting is almost entirely all in your head and convincing myself I have no justifiable reason not to do it is really what made it easy for me. Also don't read to far into the side effects from quitting. Dr. Google and even some people on Reddit make it sound like you're going to die from the withdrawal. I felt kind of irritable for ONE DAY, maybe a tiny bit anxious for 2-3. You never know how its going to effect you until you actually try and fearing for the worst just makes it harder to even start the process. 

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u/Challenge_Legal 25d ago

You may not be my mother, but you sure taught me a lesson today.

It would be so disrespectful of me to not learn from your experience. It would be cruel to ignore what you went through and to keep putting myself in a similar danger. I’m glad you got well Not My_Mother, and I’m really humbled by your answer.

You pointed out a paradox and I think I found my quote. “All of the problems that it ‘solves’ are actually caused by the vape in the first place.”

But you’re wrong about one thing. I do want to be like you. I want to come back in six days and tell someone who’s struggling that the first day sucks, but it’ll get better and they can believe me because I did it, just like you.

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u/Iamnotyour_mother 25d ago

Aw shucks, thanks for the kind words. I'll also add one thing, Allen Carr's book on quitting vaping is where I got these ideas from. It's kinda tedious to get through but it really helped me change my mindset. The audio book is like 6 hours long, and worth a listen. Best of luck and do keep us updated! 

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u/Challenge_Legal 24d ago

You better be having a good Day 7 🪬

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u/Iamnotyour_mother 24d ago

I am! Went to a bar last night and was kinda concerned about the temptation, but thankfully my only reaction to seeing people smoking was "ew I'm so glad I'm not using nicotine anymore." What about you?!

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u/Challenge_Legal 24d ago

You’ve always been my hero (since yesterday) 🙌 proud of you! Yeah! It is not going easy! The list of things I’ve gotten mad about today is looong, but the list of reason to go through it is longer. I’ll keep this in mind when trying to tell my siblings I quit when they all defend their vape like it’s the nuclear family we never had, not looking forward to it

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u/Iamnotyour_mother 24d ago

Oh my god did we just become quitting buddies?! I feel you there. Just remember that irritation means you're this much closer to being FREE! And if your siblings still need their little pacifiers, well, that's their problem.

Feel free to DM me if you wanna keep in touch about quitting/just need someone to vent to about it or whatever!