Post is what it says on the tin. I got peer pressured into vaping when I was ~13 (2022 ish), I still do it to this day, and I was wondering how on earth I can quit this nonsense. I've tried a few times by leaving my nicotine device at my house when I travel to my grandparents (I live in Dunmow, they live in Upminster) every couple of weeks for the weekend. I'm aware that electronic cigarettes are nowhere near as harmful as tobacco cigarettes. However, I don't want to take any chances with my health, as I am still relatively young, and don't want any health complications down the line.

Any advice would help alot.

Thank you, and best wishes,

Nic.

My grandfather quit smoking because he had a heart attack. He had open heart surgery. His wounds had a very difficult time healing. So, he suffered a lot after the surgery. This torture must have been so hard for him that he quit smoking. Imagine, a person who poses with a cigarette in her mouth even when my parents are getting married.

There may be institutions or associations in your country that can help you quit smoking. I live in Turkey and our government helps those who want to quit smoking.

I don't drink alcohol or smoke, but the number of people who smoke is increasing day by day. Search for places that organize smoking cessation campaigns in your country.

The advice given in this community will not last.

You can look at the website created by my country to quit smoking. https://alo171.saglik.gov.tr/

Yep, the U.K has something similar, thank you so much for this advice

I used to smoke roll-ups but restarted each time I tried to stop.

My fitness had declined due to a mainly sedentary lifestyle (and I guess smoking didn't help either).

Eventually when I took up running and cycling to get outside and become fit again, I wanted to be faster and it was embarrassing to smoke in the car park at mountain bike events (hiding behind my car) so then I finally stopped at the end of a packet. It is possible to just stop, best to plan it ahead, reduce the amount a bit and then stop on a target day. But you have to understand that you will never smoke again, not a single puff. If you can't honestly make that commitment then I guess there's no point even trying.

Physically for me it was a feeling like being thirsty for a couple of days, then for the following year or so I could think of a cigarette at any time when I would have had one in the past. But that connection gradually disappears as you do those things and don't smoke.

Now, approaching 13 years later it is very rare for me to have a thought of a cigarette and it's very easily dismissed, just seems a bit odd that it still pops into my head on rare occasions.

Sadly I'm still addicted to nicotine after 40 years. Rather bizarrely, I started smoking while on a mountain biking holiday in Cumbria! If I could go back, I'd punch myself in the face, or hit myself over the head with a bicycle pump!

I smoked for years and then switched to vaping 12 years (in May) ago. Even though I'm still addicted to nicotine, it's a heck of a lot better than smoking tobacco. Still not ideal, though, but after a lot of exercise my lungs cleared up, cholesterol and blood pressure within normals.

Addiction to nicotine is extremely inconvenient at times, and I'd like to ween myself off it eventually, but vaping is a heck of a lot less risky than smoking tobacco so the urgency is less. I'm very grumpy when I try to get off nicotine, though, and ain't nobody got time for that.