At one point I was having so many that I gave myself stomach ache. I’m an addicts addict 
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Oooh yeah…that’s no good. Stomach ache will remind you (hopefully) to not overdo them and remember that going backwards and smoking/ vaping is not the answer. You can only more forward from here 
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Keep posting your fellings it’s good for you, do not vape again
You can do it
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Awesome Menno! that’s a lot of fresh air! 
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I still miss my reward and it sometimes makes me angry. Then I look at all the money I save and how much better I breath and it makes me happy! 34 days is AWESOME!
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Thank you. I’m still trekking vape and smoke free. 
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Great work 
that’s a wonderful milestone
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Congratulations on 30 days no vape!
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Day 2,
Wanted to wait with posting until more clean time. But it’s harder then I thought. Did soft lasering, they say you don’t notice it. I do, how can you not if it diminishes the need for nicotine and it leaves the habit as the only thing to do it. My head is searching for fixes……
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She advised to use small water bottles as a replacement. Kind of same procedure as getting a sig. But drank them also when smoking, now in Bath, then some Food and to the gym.
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The moment you mentioned the habit I was looking for my toothpicks. I still use 'm, after 9+ years. A couple a day. I don’t care, I hate smoking now and I have for a long time. (Sugarfree) lollypops, zoethout (they say there’s something that helps with cravings in that too), water bottles sound good too. And use the 5 D’s. Distract, Discuss, Drink water, Deep breathes and I always forget the fifth one 
. Success friend.
Edit: it might be Delay 
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Day 2 is incredible!!! Keep at it and come here to vent/ scream as needed. The cravings do get easier
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The first week, I hit the hiking trails, without ciggs and hiked until I was exhausted. I made it as inconvenient to grab a pack as possible, I didnt stop on the way home, and I was able to sleep because I hiked my ass off. Steep hikes. It helped me stay focused on the goal. I wanted to breathe better.
I held my breath during strong cravings. I still do.
The first few days are the hardest. I held onto my time, knowing It would get easier. The first 24 was like gold, and so on.
sleeping as much as possible in the beginning helped. I had to wear myself out for that to happen.
Everything felt strange because ciggs were such a huge part of everything I did.
It wasnt easy, but it was worth it.
Now when I get cravings they are easy to shake because quitting is priceless!
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I have no idea what soft lasering is. I had a friend who cut off straws, plastic straws, and put cotton in the end of it. She play smoked them for years.
Quitting smoking will not kill you. Continuing to smoke will or it will certainly do you damage.
Just continue to say cigarettes can FRO and hopefully sooner than later, you will get past the hard part the cravings will become less, and you will be glad to have that noose away from your neck.
It’s addicting and it’s also a bad habit. Life will be better without them and when you put some time between yourself and the smoking, you will see it clearly.
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I started and stopped smoking about 50 or 60 times a day for years and years and years. It just about drove me crazy.
Finally saying to myself, I am done. And sticking to that made the difference. Saying I am done and sticking to that was so much easier than the back-and-forth torture that I had done for many years.
I chewed a ton of sugar-free gum. Many pieces at one time. I did that for a long time I needed something for my mouth to do and also I guess getting the gum and putting it in my mouth was some type of hand to mouth action.
For me personally, the patches were a disaster. They raised my nicotine level even higher and made me want to smoke more. I would take off the patch to take a shower and smoke 10 cigarettes, etc. For the people who they do work for that’s great.
In my mind cold turkey is the best.
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The fix is in your head. Telling yourself no. Accepting the craves that they will happen and that you do not have to give into them. They are not going to hurt you, as the saying goes, let them wash over you and then they will be gone.
Congratulations on two days and if you’re waking up when you see this and you have three days, that’s awesome and congratulations on that. When I quit, I would look at people with two days and go how in the world did they get there? I had joined a smoking forum. I saw the two days and I thought how did they get there? I smoked for 33 years and I never once went two days.
I saw people with three days, and I thought how did they get there, and I wish and I hope that I can get my two days, or my three days. That’s all I wanted, two or three days, and these people who had two days and three days were my heroes, the people with 500 days, they were too far out there for me to relate to them.
So it’s definitely one minute one second one hour one moment one day at a time. I looked at these other people who were doing it and I thought if they can do it, I can do it, and that’s where my hope was because otherwise I didn’t really think I could do it, but I saw other people with the same struggles and they were doing it
Congratulations to you.
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Thanks all for the suggestions and insights 
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