Juul has helped a few friends quit smoking, but some still use the juul. Nicotine salts in their juice make it feel stronger than cigarettes, so its easier to switch than standard nicotine-base juices.
I've known several people in my life who went from being 2-pack a day smokers to, well, vapors on a low nicotine dose. Juul is sort of an overpriced unit and really they're trying to run a subscription model on their dumb pods - but in general vaping can help in smoking cessation (though not necessarily nicotine addiction!)
I had the same problem and then quit with the first round of chemo treatment for Hodgkin's Disease, and certainly not because I had an epiphany.
It must have been one, or a combination of the many drugs against nausea, vertigo etc. I strongly suspect that the mild euphoria caused by the Corticosteroids played an important role.
Vaping did it for me. For some reason that I ignore, you can then, as a second step, quit vaping very easily (at least for me, it was much easier than quitting cigarettes). There have been some studies about this, it’s been speculated that it’s because of the different way you absorb nicotine when vaping, as opposed to smoking. (Sorry I’m unable to find a link now but I will try later when I get home). I am now 2 years off the stinkies, and about 9 months off vaping.
10 years ago I quit smoking. I don't recommend doing it this way, but I started chewing tobacco. I didn't like it, didn't care for the taste, but for some reason, it let me break the mental habits of having a cigarette every so often, and the hand movements, etc.
About a year later, I was planning on having Lasik eye surgery. They recommended no nicotine/caffeine for 24 hours prior and 7 days after. I gave caffeine up for the next year, and never picked up nicotine again.
There is probably a few reasons why you smoke. Just remember, you probably like all of them. Start to figure out how to remove and replace them. And keep trying to quit. At some point it will work.
I probably tried to quit 200 times cold turkey, 2 or 3 times with medication, and maybe a dozen times with patches.
I’ve had success with nicotine patches. For me it worked best to very slowly ween myself down to lower doses over a period of several weeks. Been cigarette free for almost 5 years now (after smoking for 17 years).
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