Quitting Smoking

I am a former nicotine addict. Here's the most important thing I ever learned.

The addiction loop is about dopamine. View your withdrawal symptoms as an imbalance of dopamine, and find out ways to increase that neurochemical.

One thing that increases dopmaine is binge eating. And that's why a lot of people gain a lot of weight when they quit smoking.

I'd recommend doing Chantix. And when you are tapering off of that, do a month or so of low dose welbutrin. It makes the adjustment a lot easier.

Start keeping the receipt from when you buy a pack and every day when you get how write on a very noticeable part of you house on a white board how much it cost. And then every day keep adding the new receipt's cost to your ever increasing number on your white board. You will be appalled by how much you are spending for no one to like you.

I quit dip about 40 days ago. I dipped for 14 straight years (since I entered teen hood).

Not the same as smoking I know, but I used sunflower seeds, chewing gum, and jerky chew to fight cravings. Oh, and chantix, I used that too. But it didn't seem to do much except hurt my stomach.

After the very mild side effects for a few days, it's all mental.

Edit: know your triggers and set goals (short, medium, long) for yourself. As someone else mentioned, use the money you would've used for cigs for something worthwhile.

I smoked my last cig a week ago today. It's been really tough man but the thing I can tell you is literally, just say no. Just tell yourself every time you get the urge, I'm not going to fricking smoke a cigarette. It's what I've done, along with a high dollar vaporizer and it has worked so far.

Im still having hard hard urges to smoke but I just pick up my vaporizer and tell myself, no matter how bad I want one that I'm not going to fricking smoke and I don't and the urge will go away. I'd say that my 3rd 4th and 5th day were the worst. I was getting hot flashes and sweating and everything. It was pretty nuts but I just set down took a few deep breaths and told myself, no matter how bad this is I'm not going to do it.

It's just a straight up test of will and if you can say no then you can do it man. The vaporizer has helped tremendously as well. I would suggest getting one.

I really only smoke when I drink, but when I'm drinking it seems virtually impossible to resist the urge.


If there's anyone who has quit smoking and still drinks a lot share your secret because that's a million dollar secret.

$143.40 a month
$1720.80 a year

No chart needed.

Here's my plan


I have two roommates and they both smoke heavily, so when I'm around them and am drinking I can't help myself.

I'm about to graduate and am engaged and she hates smoking, so as long as I'm with her and not around them I think l'll be fine.


The thing is I'm addicted to nicotine, I have been since I was a freshman in high school, but as a dipper. I still dip, but on the weekends when I'm around smokers I really prefer cigarettes (yes a know, smoking and dipping both I'm stupid and fricked, spare me your judgement).


I'll probably keep dipping for the foreseeable future, but damn if I want to quit smoking cigs period. They noticeably make me feel so much shittier in the morning.

I know the vaporizer is so 'beta' or whatever you want to call it. I know when I was smoking and saw people doing it at bars I thought they looked pussy as frick, but frick it, it's helped me so much quitting that I don't know if I would have been able to quit for so long without it.

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I'd recommend doing Chantix. And when you are tapering off of that, do a month or so of low dose welbutrin. It makes the adjustment a lot easier.

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This. If you want an herbal version use loebelia and st. johns wort. Same affect, less side effects, but not as strong.
exercise helps too. Acidic foods get rid of the taste and oral cravings. Limes, lemons, and grapefruits

If you need to taper down ecigs is the way to go.