Congratulations!

And I don’t intend to buy more. I am not sure if I am going to regret this.

Sooo... 2 years and 8 months ago i decided to quit smoking weed, and so i did. Cold turkey i decided to just never smoke the green grass ever again, and so i did. And it was a walk in the park, with a light breeze and some sunshine...

Well 3 days ago i decided to quit smoking regular cigarettes too, and well so i did. Except this time in was not a walk in the park with a light breeze and somme sunshine. It feels like a never ending walk in the park with windstorms going 29 kilometers per hour and hail and snow and lighting strikes every other second.

I am in agony with a 10/10 craving every second of the day, it doesnt eb and flow like most people describe. I barely sleep, i'm lucky if im getting 3 hours of good quality sleep, and even if i do sleep i dream so vividly that i barely feel rested.
I expected to cough up some more stuff, but i barely notice any difference when i cough, and maybe im impatient that could be obviously.

I am also scared shitless to gain weight. I've been fat my whole life to the point where i did weightloss surgery 4 years ago which resulted in me losing 60KG's, which i already gained 5 ish back just normally. I am absolutely mortified to gain back more and everyone i know has gained 15-20KG's after quitting smoking.

I feel like i'm quitting harddrugs and it feels ENDLESS, hopeless and not worth it (its the opposite probably but addiction brain am i right) Can someone who's been there done that pleaseee share their experience with timestamps etc if you want ofcourse. I could use a village that knows what quitting addiction is like. (i have a lovely village that supports me and i dont have to do it alone but they have never been addicted to anything so they just dont get certain stuff)

Can I get it nice?

Do we observe nice day here? iDK I'm observing

I'm on day 17 of quitting and I have unbearable muscle ache and brain fog for couple of days now. I though I overcame the worst part but now it's getting hard to focus on work and pretty much do anything. I wake up dehydrated every morning with dry mouth. I have no cravings so even with these symptoms I don't wanna start but I want this to be over. Has anyone experience such a thing?

It’s been a long time since an attempt to quit has gone this long, and this time feels so much easier. But my previous longest is a whole year quit, so I’m not really celebrating much till then! But even a few weeks can feel like an accomplishment.

I’ve lurked around this sub for some inspiration from time to time, so I thought I’d share in case it helps anyone!

To be honest, I don't even think about cigarettes anymore. I spent 3 years getting to this point. It is not the first time I've stayed smoke-free for 3 months.

I failed countless times.

Sometimes I stopped smoking for an hour. Sometimes for a month. The longest has been 6 months so far.

But this time I feel completely free. I can spend time with people who smoke and just feel sorry for them, without any desire to smoke.

I can drink alcohol, party, and have fun without smoking. I can travel, drive, wake up with no cigarettes in my mind.

So if you think you will always think about it and miss it, well, I don't miss it, so you can either. Just keep going ❤️

Today is day 3 for me, cold turkey! Why is this so hard? The anxiety is unreal and the dizziness is no joke!

I could use some support, or even a funny joke would help.

Hello everyone! So i really want to quit smoking cigarettes and using nicotine, but i just cant get past one or maximum 2 days. i tried like 6 times already and my record is 5 days clean.

Can you give me some advice how to go through the first couple days/weeks? im feeling really restless, irritable and unmotivated after 8 hours clean and always happen to relapse and smoke again.

im going cold turkey, because reducing the amount of cigarettes smoked per day was never working for me.

Thank you!

Thats it. I thought it was a fart but it came out as shit. I guess cigarettes have that affect on me when i dont have weed to mix it with. Fuck im gross

Im so happy about this. I still want a cigarette sometimes, but I know I can manage.
Proudest moment: drinking without smoking.

Hello all,

wanted to write this down just to get it out of my system and maybe so someone can share something to get me on track.

Thing is, I've successfully not smoked a cigarette since Sunday. I've had a trip in the car to see family, spent the day outside, had a very minor road incident, had quite a taxing therapy appointment, had a day at home, today I'll go out & meet friends, taking the bus this time. So wide range of situations, two or three 10/10 triggers that I made it past, and I should be really proud and all, but I'm feeling more demotivated somehow. I feel the improvement in my body and I feel like the physical craving has receded which tells me my brain is calming down with wanting nicotine. I feel like I've never been more aware of how harmful smoking is, how expensive etc etc. I did the preparation period, I worked through the brochure, I use the apps, I'm reading that Carr book, I don't even feel like I'm having a horribly hard time not lighting up, even though some moments it sucked.

But I'm just not happy, somehow. I don't know if it's that expectations were too high, mental games my addiction brain is playing, putting rose tinted glasses on to look back at smoking with, or all of the above, but I feel honestly a little depressed and lethargic now. Like I miss those little pick me ups that smoke breaks were for me, be they illusions or not. Subjectively, it felt like a positive spike, and it feels like now I've just gone to no spikes, flat line. And it's like... shrugging and going hm. I feel like when I was smoking I got more excited and moved by things around me, now everything is take it or leave it. Anyone been through something like this? When does it pass? Is there a replacement for cigarettes for this mood? Because like going for a walk or eating veg or what have you all feel like chores, not treats, and maybe that's what's frustrating me, that I don't get to have anything that feels like a treat anymore throughout the day (I'm already like trying to enjoy my coffee and make it more special and similar). Probably stuck in a spiraling loop, but knowing this doesn't help get me out of it - I just kinda wish I was back a week ago when I was a smoker.

Sidenote: I've been considering stopping on off and aware of negatives I didn't like for a while, but decided to quit kind of out of the blue because my sister has bronchitis and had to stop and I didn't want to let her go through the stopping alone. 27, been smoking since I was 16-ish, was at ~10 a day, quit cold turkey.

Did anyone that was a smoker have found that the Diarrhea and sensitive gut was caused by tobacco/nicotine? And did the symptoms vanish after quitting smoking?

I'm a 26 year old male, been smoking a pack or so since I was 16. I just switched to nicotine replacement tools a month ago (I use a variety, gum, spray, lozenge) and picked up some snus in case I have a few drinks and really crave a cigarette. I quit cigarettes using a vape a year ago, but my lungs didn't feel any better so I went back to cigs.

I still crave nicotine (and use it), but the way my body feels is simply incredible.

I never realized how terrible cigarettes made me feel. I used to think that I was just not made for running. Now it's really no problem at all. It feels like my lung capacity literally doubled.

So to anyone struggling with it, don't be hesitant to take up NRT or smokeless tobacco or anything that will help you stop inhaling smoke. It really is worth it. I dont know if this fits the subreddit rules, as there is still nicotine usage, but I feel like the health benefits of SIMPLY NOT INHALING SMOKE is amazing. I really had no idea.

i’ve been smoke-free for 3 weeks now, but this week has been a struggle. cravings hit me out of nowhere, and stress made it worse. i’m honestly surprised at how much i still think about it. but i keep reminding myself why i quit in the first place, and that helps a bit. if you're feeling the same, just know you’re not alone. let's keep pushing through together!

I started smoking since 2 years ago and now im addicted to smoking cigarettes but i dont vape and smoke weed like 2 times a month help how do i quit smoking all together

I quit 2 months ago and, as it was a promise to my son, I won't relapse. But Nicotina, that little monster's voice, was so loud today.

I had to take one of my cats to the clinic today, hopefully he'll be ok in a few days. But still,I had to book an appointment in emergency, while taking care of my son (yeah, full time solo parent here)

That's the stupidest cat you can imagine. But I love that idiot, no matter how ugly or stupid he is. So I found him an emergency appointment at the opposite side of the city, took a lot of public transport with a sick cat and a 6 year old son.

I thought so much about smoking while I was looking for a solution, while we were waiting that tramway, while we were in the waiting room. Evil Nicotina shouting in my head:" it would be soooo nice to just smoke one, you'd feel so much better!" I didn't listen. I didn't smoke. But that was hell.

The vet was awesome, and will do everything possible to help that stupid cat getting better (it will probably cost more than a little, but it is what it is)

I don't know how long that silly cat will have to stay in the clinic. And you know what? We're going on holiday in 2 days and obviously I can't cancel because my son has been waiting this holiday for months. I found someone who can take care of my cats, so that's ok, everything is under control. Evil Nicotina, that naughty voice, is whispering: "a cigarette would be such a nice reward!" I won't listen. She will shut up, eventually. But f***, it's hard today.

If you read all of this, thank you. Hope it's easier for you right now.

Quitting is about trying harder not to fail in the same way next time. There are a finite reasons to smoke, if you eliminate them all you will decide to be smoke free.

Failing is what the process of quitting feels like. It took me lots of failed attempts to quit. The difference between failing forever and failing to quit is you have to be honest with yourself about why you failed, learn from it and fail again in a different way, eventually you will run out of ways to fail and you will be smoke free.

🧠 read on if you want more brain dump 🧠

What this actually feels like: you will get a sense of wanting to quit but also wanting to smoke and at some point in the journey if you do the above you will decide you dont smoke anymore, its easy after that. I mean that, its easy once the decision is made. At this point I started saying "I don't smoke" instead of "im quitting" or " im trying not to smoke".

Unfortunately you cant really reverse engineer this in my experience. Changing your language will help with social pressures particularly, but it probably wont help you decide. I dont know why you cant make the decision at any time, but there is a point where it feels like you are making the decision but you dont get to choose when that is. This cant be forced, it takes time, but it is definitely a skill that improves with practice.

I have done the same thing now with alcohol, and it took a lot less time to reach the decision point and saying "i dont drink". I wanted to quit but I hadn't made the decision so I kept failing and learning until the decision came. In May this year I have been sober for two years.

Quitting isnt about trying harder to not smoke, all your doing here is thinking more about smoking - like trying to force yourself to sleep makes you feel more awake. Its about learning why you fail each time and solving those problems; these might be habits, cravings, triggers, etc. If you arent objective and honest with yourself it wont work. When you want to quit you are in conflict because you also like something about smoking and dont want to stop, you can be both, that the difficulty of being human we hold conflicting thoughts. Failing and figuring out what these things are and fixing or replacing them with something less destructive eliminates the things you think you like abut smoking and leaves more space for "i dont want to smoke, its bad for me", when that voice gets loud enough its easy to decide to quit because youre getting very little out of smoking thats positive.

If you want to do your own research this method is apparently called ambivelance resolution, something I found out later. This advice is retrospective, it took me years to quit because I did it on my own. If you are in the know perhaps you can speed up the process.

Good luck on figuring out how to decide you dont smoke.

Dec 6th 2025! That's the day I put down cigarettes for good. I had quit twice before for 4 months but came back. This time was different. I was a week away from a stroke. A brain hemorrhage. One week! That's how close I came, after 32 years, to leaving everything. My wife of 3 decades. My 4 children. A good job. House. Everything anyone could hope for. For an addiction that was killing me. Robbing my energy. Destroying my lungs, heart, arteries. Everything I need.

Brain bleeds are based on hole size and pressure. A few Marlboros that morning, and who knows. It would not be good. More pressure equals more bleed and more brain damage. Yet here I am, back to work. Still struggling with energy and numbness. But I am HERE for my family. To all those wondering if it is to late, no! I am 55 and almost waited a few days too long. Come join us!!! It is worth it! You can do this! For you, those you love, and those that love you. The clock is ticking. Time to get your life back.

32 F here. Been smoking and drinking since I was 11. I was sober for a year before and during pregnancy. As soon as I had my baby I smoked and drank because I felt trapped the whole time. Worst mistake ever. He’s now 14 months and I’ve been struggling the whole time. Well, I’ve started again yesterday and even stayed strong when my partner didn’t. Usually I would ween off with THC gummies but this time I’m going completely sober. No THC. No tobacco. No alcohol. Last night my sleep wasn’t that bad and hopefully the day goes alright today. I guess I am here looking for encouragement because I am tired of announcing my sobriety to my close ones just to break it. I’m serious this time. My life depends on it (high bp). I’ve got to do this for me and my son.

hi everyone, i’m going through big life changes and the natural progression of things is that i finally quit smoking.
i started smoking when i was around 19 and i’m now 28, it only got heavy in the last 5 years or so and i’d never considered quitting before. i really don’t want to hit the 10 year mark so it has to stop now.
my problem is, i started smoking because cigarettes taste disgusting and it quells hunger for a bit, which is the same reason i’ve been unable to stop since i started.
i’ve been reducing since the start of 2026 but it gets bad still when i’m especially hungry. i know it’s a pretty common phenomenon that people who stop smoking tend to overeat because of the oral fixation (which might be solved with something like adult chew toys or gum?) and i’m terrified it might happen to me.
another reason why i haven’t managed to quit is because having a cigarette gives me the feeling of having a break in between things (freelancer working from home), which is a feeling i have no idea how to recreate.
i’ll be joining a gym in september as part of the bigger changes i’m implementing in my life, which means i’ll be out of the house without cigarettes for a couple hours several days a week (i don’t bring them with me unless i’m out clubbing or eating out), which is going to help, surely.
if anyone has any experience/suggestions on how to avoid overeating when quitting i’d be forever grateful, especially if anyone has managed to maintain/lose weight while quitting!

I've been smoking on-and-off (mainly on) since I was 13...I'm a 36M now and it's time. For my health and my finances of nothing else.

I stopped drinking with the incredible support of the stopdrinking sub so looking forward to being here with you guys.

Day 1, wish me luck!

I will not smoke with you today!

I messed up and I feel like I'm about to slip up. I don't want to... help!

Edit: Thank you to those who talked me down and helped me through. I'm glad to say I didn't slip or cave in at all. The first week is so freaking hard, but we have to keep fighting.