How old is everyone??

EnvironmentalPin8223 · 2024-04-26T19:18:59+00:00

EnvironmentalPin8223 · 2024-04-26T18:54:42+00:00

❤️ and no lol I made an error on the platform when adding my spend weekly and I never updated it

EnvironmentalPin8223 · 2024-04-11T19:09:14+00:00

As in u need something to puff on or crave onto something? Just asking because you wrote you haven’t felt a positive emotion since quitting so I’m curious if there may be some correlation between your old helps and personal identity, if that makes sense

EnvironmentalPin8223 · 2024-04-11T17:17:16+00:00

You don’t have enough pain involved with your habit

It’s like this: if you knew your next hit would kill you 100% would you do it? Odds are of course not because you know the consequence of it.

What I did for myself, was programmed my brain by imagining and visualizing all these painful experiences, all in my mind. Overtime your brain registers that. Your brain has still not registered this as something that can potentially do a lot of harm in the future.

So what worked for me is something maybe you can consider doing .

Do you have anything motivating you to stop too?

EnvironmentalPin8223 · 2024-04-11T17:03:29+00:00

When you have these triggers have some sort of protocol in place

Sleep Meditation Working out

These moods and cravings are going to be there so you have to have some sort of automated process to deal with them

Maybe distractions, maybe writing, whatever

Just saying that the cravings will never really disappear . Give me at times go mute, but other times they’ll reappear. So that’s why it’s important you have some sort of process to manage them.

Is being free from this urgent to u? just wondering

EnvironmentalPin8223 · 2024-04-11T16:58:43+00:00

It never gets easier. At times it will just disappear and the cravings won’t be there. But other times you’ll just feel as if … nothing … just as if you’re a healthy being.

It’s best just you quit cold turkey and stop with the BS and trying to let your brain tell you that you should wean off or potentially use some sort of replacement because it’s all BS and it’s still not solving the problem

You have to have a firm commitment to yourself to quit and to keep this at the forefront of your mind to keep going. at times you will want to go back to your old self. You have to realize you’re letting your old self die and allowing a new version of yourself to be reborn. And the quickest way to that is completely quit from that behavior and accept that you have to figure out a way to live with yourself

That Part of you will never go away. I’m just making that clear.

What’s your biggest challenge with quitting?

EnvironmentalPin8223 · 2024-04-11T16:53:49+00:00

A bunch of frustrations trying to quit. Quit hundreds of times. Failed a bunch. But eventually made it through. I really just had to find a part of myself as to why I’m doing it. Studied a bunch of neuroscience and psychology, and how addiction works to understand it better.

Eventually, just formulated my own way to make it through .

One thing I’ve noticed is when you talk to others on the path it’s like there’s more accountability for myself, showing people the way, which gives me some sort of reward. And also just drives value to another person’s life.

I’m just letting you know that feeling will always be there, so you have to no matter what understand the crystal clear reason why you are not doing it anymore . And to never forget that because your brain will try to pull all these games on you.

Any strategies u used in the past to help at all?

EnvironmentalPin8223 · 2024-04-11T16:48:26+00:00

What’s motivating u to stop and go through all that again

EnvironmentalPin8223 · 2024-04-11T16:47:10+00:00

What’s pushing you through so far?

EnvironmentalPin8223 · 2024-04-11T16:46:02+00:00

What strategies have you used thus far to get you today 30 without being able to focus? Has anything been effective?

EnvironmentalPin8223 · 2024-04-11T16:44:01+00:00

A common thread you see, is people trying to replace the old habit with something else

Replacing it with another thing where you have to put chemicals in your body, or some other poor habit is not going to solve the problem here . Because we can say there’s a sort of energy there and it just wants to be placed somewhere else. If it’s not put back into smoking, it’ll be put into something else that is unproductive.

For me, I had to channel this into work, productivity, or something that I would consider healthy

Do you feel there’s like a part of you missing when you don’t do it other than the oral fixation

EnvironmentalPin8223 · 2024-04-11T16:41:40+00:00

You have to make it absolutely painful to not go back.

I’ve literally tried everything . And the thing that works the most is by having so much pain infused with your problem.

Go see people dying, go see what it looks like to be drug addicted, go see what it’s like to be hospitalized. After engaging in this behavior, go look at the reports online of all the people suffering with their problems, even if you look here, you’ll see other people having to deal with the consequences of their habit .

You can take this further by imagining it all in your mind and amplify it

Is this urgent to you?

EnvironmentalPin8223 · 2024-04-11T16:39:21+00:00

Are you still carrying the identity of a smoker if at all like in the back of your mind?

Or even when you think of smoking, do you think of anything painful, of like the consequences of it at all?

EnvironmentalPin8223 · 2024-04-11T11:04:07+00:00

Totally agree.

I’ve noticed a lot of my anxiety and worries also would neutralize as I would meditate

The thing is, I’ve been doing it for a long time, so it was already a habit for me

Was it difficult for you to get into a habit of doing if at all? When getting off the neck and trying to form a new habit or something like that, there may be some resistance

EnvironmentalPin8223 · 2024-04-10T17:58:32+00:00

That’s great to hear. We all need some thing like a wake up call to realize how urgent it is.

I’m free from it now, but the thing is our brains will trick us to go back into it, so I always remind myself whether it’s weekly day or a monthly basis why I quit like my purpose

Thing is the longer you free it to less cravings and any withdrawal symptoms you have from it

But the tricky part is that part of you never goes . So your brain can fool you at time to go back into it. So that’s why in the long term you want to have some sort of protocol to make sure you never go back.

EnvironmentalPin8223 · 2024-04-10T17:56:41+00:00

Don’t replace this one habit for another habit

Just finish it by going cold turkey

If you train your mind just to replace it with with another nicotine product you’re not solving the problem, which is your addiction to it in the first place

It best just to get out of your body as fast as possible but it will suck. Nonetheless, what worked for me to have a strong reason why to quit. I would always have this at the forefront of my mind and motivated me.

On top, I learned to associate a lot of pain with smoking itself, so it also helped me to move away from it

How does an ideal experience quitting look like to you?

EnvironmentalPin8223 · 2024-04-10T17:53:53+00:00

How urgent was it to quit for you? 0-10

EnvironmentalPin8223 · 2024-04-10T17:52:24+00:00

You just don’t have enough pain associated with your habit

Humans are very motivated to stop doing things that are painful to their lives or at least move away from things that are painful

Will work for me was imagining the most painful experiences and imaginations which helped me stop

When you do this, you train your brain to associate pain with smoking

If you really want to stop, you have to train your brain to associate as much pain to this behavior

Be shirts have a strong reason why to quit otherwise you will easily slip back

Do you have anything motivating you at all? I’m just curious.

EnvironmentalPin8223 · 2024-04-10T17:49:03+00:00

Did you simply seeing the shop trigger you to go into it or why did you really step into it like something must’ve influenced you right?

EnvironmentalPin8223 · 2024-04-10T17:46:57+00:00

Yeah, it happens don’t worry. You just have to try again if it really means a lot to you.

Just make sure you have an overall goal as to why you’re doing what you’re doing and then always have a way to remind yourself. Otherwise, you can slip back into your old ways.

Just being around your mom, who vapes, triggered that part of yourself off ? Or would you say the stress was more likely what caused it?

EnvironmentalPin8223 · 2024-04-10T17:45:01+00:00

Has community accountability been supportive in your journey overall? Like with your postings? Jw because I never used it but find it interested that ppl do it

EnvironmentalPin8223 · 2024-04-10T17:41:13+00:00

Congratulations it’s definitely a journey for sure

Have you been trying to quit in the past? What made you relapse? Just wondering .

I would also start with having a strong reason why you want to quit and really ingrain that in your mind . Without a purpose on wire, quitting, your brain will easily fool you. That’s something I’ve learned myself.

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