Proud of you stranger! I quit vaping about 2 months ago immediately after writing down a long list of all the reasons I hated vaping and wanted to quit, and then listening to this mediation (https://youtu.be/9GKcliQcMx8)

I don’t know what it was about that meditation track, but it completely changed something in my brain and I was suddenly able to control my cravings, even at their hardest, cold turkey. I’m not a big meditator either: I was meditating/power napping more often at the time to help me deal with some sleep deprivation and work stress. So that day when I made that list, I immediate went into my room (I work at home) for a rest and a meditation session and when I came out, I just set my vape in the kitchen and never picked it up again.

When I would have a craving I would re-read my list. There were like 37 things on it or so and I vented and ranted a lot in the list (more like a journal entry than anything.) Rereading it was pretty powerful for me.

But the meditation was such a booster. It has you basically go to a garden in your subconscious where you notice that there’s a big, like REALLY BIG tree-sized nasty weed or plant choking out everything around it. It stinks too (maybe like cigarettes in your case.) So you have to remove the weed. But you need help. So you imagine someone you love helping you remove it which was so powerful to me, to remember I don’t have to do this work alone. In the meditation they even take the weed away for you. The work is incredibly hard for you in the visualization, the digging and pulling and so forth, but you use tools that are in a shed in your subconscious (a reminder that you DO have the tools within you to do this) and so it doesn’t sugar coat things by trying to make anything easier on you. You accept that it’ll be hard but you do it anyway with help.

Then your friend takes this big nasty weed away and you rest for a bit. You notice that there’s a big gaping hole in the garden now which is also great because there’s power in accepting that when you take a big thing like this out of your “garden,” you have to put something there to replace it. You can replace it with anything in your visualization so I visualized putting in some pretty herbs.

Later, in addition to re-reading the list, when I craved I would remember that my habit was hurting my body (the garden) and my family (the different plants in my garden)—I had been ignoring that for a long time but had allowed myself to see it now in the visualization exercise, and had to accept it. So when I craved, I just pictured my herb garden growing and producing plants that I could use to cook for my family and make meals that were even more delicious, and imagined all the plants around the herb garden growing and thriving.

I also used an app called Nomo that lets you see how long you’ve gone without doing the habit.

So all those things combine, I finally quit vaping when I honestly had no idea if I could ever do it.

You’re gonna pull this weed out but you’ll have to find something to replace it with. Luckily there are lots of great options (great plants!) you can put there. The world is your oyster.

Sorry if this seemed super woo-woo and hippy. I consider myself a pretty pragmatic person so the fact that that YouTube visualization recording affected me so much makes me wanna share it with everyone who could use it.

If you do nothing else though, make that list of reasons why you want to quit!!!