A very close friend was recently diagnosed with a liver disease so we’ve decided to quit Ms. Nicotina together. I’ve been ingesting nicopeen competitively for around 15 years, ever since I worked as a busboy and couldn’t take a break unless it was for a ciggy (thanks food service industry!!!!).
Genetically I’m fucked from an addiction standpoint. My dad’s mom is 84 and gave up on quitting 20 years ago and her mom didn’t quit until she was forced by the nursing home after she went blind and started a few fires. Both women are living/had lived very long lives but they never successfully got off the nicoco.
However, I have a good feeling about this time because this is the first time I feel I have a good reason outside myself to motivate me: my friend’s health. In the past my attempts at quitting were either motivated by the fear of disappointing a partner or my general lung performance. The former never worked out cos I couldn’t wait to cop a pack as soon as the break up hit (or a big fight for that matter) and the latter worked up to a point but there’s plenty of ways to ingest nicorobin without putting partial-combustion bullshit or even mystery vapors in your air sacks.
Anyway, if you’ve been there tell me how it’s going! What are good nicofleen replacements as a habit or tick? I’m not too worried about oral fixation but I’m considering keeping a surgical steel needle on hand to poke myself with. In your opinion, do I need to turn down grabba/backwoods blunts from my friends? swishers? Is my partner about to be living with a huge baby for a few weeks??
Thanks!!
Good luck, actually wanting to quit instead of feeling a responsibility to makes it much easier. It's still gonna fucking suck though so I'd both warn your partner now that you're going to be kind of a pissy dickhead for a couple of weeks and make sure you apologise for anything you've done or said afterwards. One thing I found helpful was reassociating my breaks - going outside and just playing on my phone or something for 5 minutes instead of having a cig. After 10 or so years a break and a cig were essentially the same thing in my mind, so breaking that association helped a lot.
Yeah I’ll give my partner the full warning. Luckily (?) we’re both ADHD and he’s on the SSRIs so we’re very familiar with mood swings lol.
The reassociation is a good idea! I was thinking about carrying a lil game thing (likely the psp go I have) and taking breaks with that. Definitely one of the things i’ll miss most about smoking is the excuse to separate from the crowd for a moment.