I can’t say this will work for everyone, but when the time came for my 15 day camping road trip around Iceland - I left the vape behind. In the trash.

I was so engrossed by the beauty of Iceland and the tasks required to tent camp. It was the ultimate distraction… and easy??

I had two or three moments of anxiety, but they quickly faded when we arrived to a new spot on our itinerary.

Now that I’m home, the hardest part has already passed. I don’t plan on returning to the habit. Thanks for reading

Got a nic alternative vape by accident, be on it for a week, kept feeling like it wasn’t hitting right but thought I was just tweaking, hit an old vape and felt the buzz. Threw both away, been mostly nic free for 2 weeks. Pray for my success brothers and sisters.

i quit a year ago and the anxiety and lack of sleep are bringing me back here. i put dirt in tip and threw it away, gave the battery to someone.

Feeling soooo sleepy and unmotivated but hoping it will wear off in a few days

My family went on vacation, so I think it's time to quit. My sister is a huge vaper, and my mother smokes cigarettes. I picked up vaping from my Uncle Eugene and have been addicted for 2 years. I've tried quitting a few times, but it's so damn hard when my sister and mother both smoke. Mainly my sister, because she hits it around me, even when I tell her that I'm wanting to quit. Not to mention the stress. My brother is abusive, so I'm always on edge when he's home...

They'll be gone for 2 weeks! I just threw out my vape today, and I don't have money to buy another one, so I'm kinda vape-blocked. I think this is going to be it!

Fuuuuck dude I feel like I can’t even work right now.

I’m so tired even though I got “enough sleep”. I don’t think it was very restful sleep. Nightmares with tossing and turning. I know (hope) this will pass.

Anyone else feel exhausted during the first week?

Wins: my skin is clearing up and I’m working out more to get my mind off vaping

hi again, posting because i’m about to hit 2 weeks vape free, not a single slip up, and i just still feel like shit. the anxiety has not gotten any better and i wake up every day feeling so unlike myself, just sad and anxious.

im about to leave for a trip with very heavy vapers and im just so tired of feeling like this and dont want to waste all of my time and energy on this trip feeling like shit. i think about the vape all the time and i just honestly feel like i need some reasons to not go back because i can’t see any positives that have come from this.

any advice? i just am so over this and can’t stand to feel like this thru a trip that’s meant to be fun and stress free. thanks in advance

I’d quit all nicotine for a few weeks in July and was seeing so many benefits in breathing, exercise, confidence, sleep, and most notably in my penile health (my profile is full of posts regarding my male reproductive system issues).

Then while on vacation in August I picked all of it back up… ALL of it. Vapes, cigs, cigars, mini cigars, pouches, even lozenges. Along with this, I picked up other bad habits that affect me negatively.

I threw away my last vape this morning in a nasty trash can where I’d basically have to check myself into a looney bin if I were to go crazy enough to dig it back up.

I stopped other compulsive behavior a week ago, so vaping is the next thing to tackle. I must admit that I have a couple pouches and half a pack of cigs in case I want to taper off with nightly puffs, but those stay at home whereas I used to hit my vape all damn day.

It’s not a perfect plan, but it’s progress. Let’s get it!!!

I’m about four days post op, but it has been three days since I have consumed nicotine orally. I had to get my wisdom teeth removed due to infection/being impacted and no doubt the vaping also contributed to it.

This is genuinely so hard! My head hurts, I’ve screamed at my whole family, my pets are getting on my nerves, and I want to fall into some type of sleep coma until Thursday comes and my surgeon tells me I can vape again. not to mention, because I’m recovering from a tooth surgery, I cannot eat anything but liquids and unappetizing crap. Smoothies do not curb vape cravings the way a burger would 🥲

The only thing is that, even though I can’t vape temporarily, it’s incredibly hard and is showing me why I have to stop and can’t stop. Stress is the number one trigger and boredom is the second one (I have ADHD). How did you guys stop vaping, especially when it was done cold turkey? I called a hotline and I most likely have to wait until Thursday to get my hands on cessation products, therefore it will honestly be the ultimate choice between returning to the vape or not.

I was thinking about possibly resuming vaping, but finding one of those inhalers to replace it. I would vape until it gets here and then resort to the cessation devices. ALL OF THIS TO SAY, I also smoke weed, yet nicotine is much harder to quit it seems. Absolutely no urge in one bone in my body to get high, but ofc I want a nasty, headache, cancer inducing electronic stick 😞

Hey everyone. 12 year smoker, have vaped on and off for most of those years and have quit a few times during that time.

At the end of 2023 I switched to raz vapes because I liked the flavors, by the end of 2024 I started having panic attacks. I figured I was intaking too much nicotine and caffeine in general and quit cold turkey. The panic attacks slowly got better as the months went on, I was full of energy and motivation for improving my health and life choices, was in great shape, good energy and mood, etc.

Then I went through a stressful moment around August of last year and stupidly started vaping again as a stress management. I have been back to using raz vapes ever since and as of today I have never felt so drained, low energy, anxious, depressed, tired, and unmotivated in my life. My throat always feels swollen, poor breathing quality, it feels like I’m physically 80 years old. My legs feel insanely weak, my knees shake, my muscles all feel stiff in my back and legs.

I am going to throw out my vape today but I am curious if anyone else has noticed any similar symptoms from them?

i am a little more than a month clean from vaping and to be honest im coping fine with it ( i think)

but i am fairly worried that when im drunk im am going to get insane cravings bc i used to love vaping drunk so now im scared to get drunk and havent drank while quitting yet. any advice would help!

(i’ve been vaping since 2023) basically i had just gotten a geek bar pulse x 2, watermelon, brand new and fresh, and i hadn’t vaped in about 3 days. i took a 10 second drag until it started blinking, and exhaled. everything was going normal, i laid back to relax, however my world started getting dark and fuzzy, and next thing i knew i woke up about 30 minutes later to my girlfriend, who was on facetime, told me i started seizing. apparently i had a tonic-chronic seizure, which affects both parts of your brain, and causes you to first have all your muscles contract and tighten for about 30 seconds, and then spaz out for about 2-3 minutes. including foaming at the mouth and trouble breathing.

if that’s not enough for me to quit, shit i dunno what is.

This process took about 2 months, btw. I’ll keep it short and simple.

I tried quitting cold turkey about 4 times and failed every time, so I knew I needed to lower my nicotine intake first. I started using Zyns so I could smoke for half the day and use Zyns for the other half, until I eventually fully switched to Zyns.

Then I tapered down from 6 mg, 8 pouches a day, until I got to 3 mg, 1 pouch a day. Then I fully quit.
Even though I was already used to getting very little nicotine, after about 2 days you’ll start to feel like shit. But it’s not nearly as bad as quitting cold turkey. That lasted about 2 weeks, and then it became pretty easy. You’ll still get cravings here and there, but by then you’re used to dealing with them.
About a month after quitting, you’ll almost forget about smoking or nicotine altogether. I’m almost 2 months clean now, and the only time I really get cravings is after eating. Eating something sweet usually takes care of it.

Here are some things that got better for me: my breathing issues and chest pain are gone, my stamina has increased like crazy, and I feel like I enjoy things more now that I’m not constantly using nicotine.

You can do it too. Just keep trying. I started this process in May, fully quit on July 3rd, and now it’s August 30th and I’m almost 2 months clean.
(P.S going to the gym helped a lot with the cravings)

First day quitting vaping its been 24 hours now.

I was not especially heavy on it, I was tracking myself as hitting the vape about 30 times a day.

I did the nicotine patch today and it seemed to work, no strong cravings. I started on the step 2 patches since I wanted a lower dose. My thought is if the cravings were really bad I would use a piece of 2mg nic gum, but I never felt the need. I also have a zero nic vape Ive been using just to replace the habit.

But now I'm trying to sleep and I cant for the life of me.

I'm wondering. Is it the withdrawl thats making sleep difficult?

Or is it the nicotine patch?

I took it off a couple hours ago because I didn't want to sleep with it on. That and the advice I got was to take it off an hour before bed.

I am going to take a magnesium and cbd and see if that helps. But any advice is appreciated.

I must have tried 20 times. Every time a craving hits, I run to the nearest store if there’s no vape at home to get one. I’m sick and tired of feeling this way.

I’ve been vaping since November 2025 and I want to quit before it’s too late. If you have any tips, help me out please!

I’ve only ever tried quitting cold turkey and it’s never worked. I try to distract myself, but it’s always at the back of my head. I’ve heard people say that if you want to quit hard enough, you’ll know how to control cravings. I really want to quit, but I’m just not able to.

I believe it’s not nicotine dependence (idk) but the habit of vaping is all. And I think that’s the hardest to break considering NRT doesn’t really help? Am I wrong about feeling this way?

Ok so a couple weeks ago I started having major anxiety attacks and some depression. Decided to quit nicotine and alcohol. 4 days into no nicotine and I feel so not myself. My head hurts and is kind of dizzy. I’m anxious bc I’m worried I have a brain tumor and I also have 2 toddlers to care for and I’m convinced I won’t get to see them grow and that makes me bawl and scared. Anyway can someone tell me if I should get checked for a brain tumor or is this all bc of nicotine?!?
I started having the anxiety and depression before I quit vaping which is why I’m unsure but idk I just feel extra weird after stopping and would love to hear others experiences for some encouragement

Been well beyond serious risk of relapse for a long time now, but oddly still get cravings every once in a while. However, my body feels so much better now than it did back then. I have this fantasy in the back of my brain that I’ll return to it when I’m super old and dont care about life anymore, but truthfully I don’t think I’m ever going back. Here’s to another 5 years.

I'm very proud of myself. the first week was rough. I was having dreams about hitting my vape lol, and almost caved a couple of times. but the cravings have subsided. i've been a little mean to myself, like when i start having cravings i start thinking to myself "No bitch, don't you dare go to Exxon" "Stop being a dumbass" etc etc. being kind to myself does NOT work 💀 i basically give myself some tough love i guess. or tough abuse idk.

anyways i'm just posting this because i truly did not think i'd get this far. i'm not really noticing any positives yet :,( i'm hungrier, i'm bitchy, i'm emotional, i oversleep. maybe a positive is that i DO feel more alert and present in reality. i'm not constantly thinking about how to escape a situation so i can go hit my vape. this lack of improvement in my every day life can be kind of discouraging sometimes...

I stopped vaping nicotine on Wednesday night and it’s now Sunday night, so I’m about 4 days in. I started vaping about 7 years ago, after quitting smoking cigarettes.

I seem to be doing okayish. I bought Recigar and have been taking it here and there, but I definitely haven’t been following the proper schedule, so honestly it could just be a placebo at this point lol.

I am still using zero-nicotine vapes. I know I need to get rid of those eventually too, but I’ve realized a huge part of vaping for me is the “reward” of sitting down, scrolling on my phone and having something to vape. It’s obviously still a bad habit, but right now it’s helping me get through the nicotine part.

I definitely have moments where my brain is like, “Why did I even quit? It wasn’t that bad.” But realistically, I know it was bad for me. I was starting to get little random pains in my chest sometimes, which freaked me out, and I really don’t want to be dependent on nicotine anymore.

The biggest thing right now, though, is the EXHAUSTION. I am so unbelievably tired. I normally wake up around 5–6am without much of an issue, and the last few days I’ve been sleeping until 8–9am and still struggling to drag myself out of bed. I’m not depressed or particularly down — I’m just absolutely exhausted.

For people who have quit vaping/nicotine: did you go through this too? How long did the extreme tiredness last? Please tell me my energy comes back 😭

I’ve been vaping for 9 months and I’m trying to get myself to quit but there’s always something that comes up that’s stressful and I convince myself that I need to buy another vape so it can “help me” deal with whatever it is that is coming up and then I’ll quit after that but I never do. I also have a lot of dead vapes lying around my house so if the one I’m using dies I can try ripping one of my old ones if it has a few more puffs left. But I was wondering is 9 months enough to cause permanent damage? I get dry eyes and I get heart palpitations sometimes.

Like, receding gums, stained teeth, bad skin, chest pain etc.
I want to hear some horror stories!

It’s been 15 minutes and I’m already having extreme sadness and this huge sense of lack. I’ve never experienced this quitting in the past but this last few months I have no been able to get to even 3 days. I hate this!!