Comment on You don’t realize how bad it smells till you quit
Rivermoonwolf@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Shit. Quitting is hard.
I believe it. Seen my mom try it 6 times. It never held more than 3-4 months. Soon she’ll retire, and she’s still smoking.
My dad tried less often, and also didn’t succeed. Recently he switched to one of those tobacco heater things.
At least I had two bad examples from a young age, and never started.
The main problem imo is how easy it is to buy. Imagine if they had coke for sale at the gas station. It’s impossible to quit if you have an easy at hand opportunity to buy more 4 times a day.
Alcohol is rough in a similar way for many folks.
My dad only quit once he had a moment where he couldn’t breathe any more. Asphyxiating is a good motivator!
For me it was buying a vape, using it for a bit, and ultimately being dissatisfied with that it tasted nothing like the real thing and didn’t have the same experience.
Eventually as my sense of smell and taste came back, I was just straight up disgusted with how awful all my clothing, and living space smelled. Took every piece of clothing I had to the laundromat, clean or not, and washed everything, then deep cleaned the place and let everything air out as much as possible.
Getting my sense of taste back was really interesting. I vividly remember going to a restaurant and ordering a steak and taking a bite and it was the most delicious thing I’d ever eaten. It was like holy shit is steak always supposed to taste this good? On the flip side, when I’d go to my boss’s place he’d always stock Busch beer. I remember taking one when offered, like usual, taking a sip and spitting it out because it was so god awful tasting. It was like how the hell did I ever drink this?
I did lapse back to smoking like once a year for a few weeks (usually around the 4th of July) for a couple years after, and smoked cigars occasionally, but that stopped eventually.
Nowadays I really can’t stand the smell of cigarettes. Like I gotta be far away from it.
TwilightKiddy@programming.dev 2 days ago
Very happy for you!
Must warn people against trying vapes as a tool to quit smoking, though. It has the same if not worse health risks in addition to much less research about any long-standing effects.
If the standard nicotine patch approach does not work, please consult with a proper doctor.
kaklerbitmap@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That’s a pretty strong claim. Source?
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TwilightKiddy@programming.dev 2 days ago
You can start with the Wikipedia article. The problematic part here is that we have no long-term studies about vaping and even less studies about people who exclusively vape. There are plenty of studies that indicate that there is a lot of nasty stuff mixed in the aerosol that vapes produce, like this one.
Another thing is that people who are selling these are the same people who sell tobacco and they have decades of experience mudding the research field.
I in general despise vaping as it made a lot of younger people pick up nicotine and it is far more addictive when you are young.
And, well, yes, I am exaggerating with that statement, but the problem is that we don’t know for certain. Substitution therapy exists, but I just can’t support it when whatever you are using is wildly underresearched.
Zorcron@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
There are few things worse for your health than smoking cigarettes, and vaping is definitely not one of them. It’s not perfectly safe, as some people like to pretend, but if nicotine replacement therapy or meds made for quitting don’t work, e-cigs are a viable option.
I do echo your point about talking to a doctor though. A few different quitting meds can be used together and increase your chances of quitting, and the more times you try to quit, the more likely you are to succeed.