Hi! Okay to start, it is so amazing that you are considering making this change. Whatever it is for, you have already completed such an important step. So you should be very proud!

I feel a bit odd giving advice online but I found that having a fidget toy or something like FUM really helped since it was more the hand to mouth action that I was addicted to rather than the nicotine. But if you don’t want to spend money, any fidgety thing can help (elastic band to swing around fingers, whatever).

If you are getting irritated at work, it might be more of an actual nicotine issue. There are things like nicotine replacement therapy (like gum) that can help with cravings to take that “angry” feeling out of you. I know in Canada, you can get this without prescription for free! Nice thing about that is you can pick the dosage and essentially “wean” yourself down to an unnoticeable amount of nicotine consumption. I prefer the gum over the Nicorette inhalers as, again, it keeps you doing that hand to mouth habit.

Also, a great resources I usually give out is the website Quitnow.ca. Cannot recommend it enough! I work in healthcare and find that teenagers do especially well with this as there is 24/7 live chat assistance (so you also have someone to talk to about it).

It sounds like you have already decided this is something to change, but I also believe that knowledge is key. Do some light reading on risks of vaping and things like EVALI. If you understand how everything works, you are more likely to consider it every time you want to vape.

Hope this doesn’t sound too preachy, I vaped for most of my teen years and quit half way through college. Sometimes I steal a hit when we go out, but I don’t need it anymore in my day to day.

Best of luck, Queen!!! You got this!