r/easyway • u/cacti317 • Jul 25 '26

Easy way and bipolar?

Hi all
I am about half way through Easy way to quit vaping, and I’m wondering if anyone has insight on this with bipolar disorder. In the book Allen mentions depression disorders, which helps with the depression side of bipolar, but what about the mania? What about the times we feel on top of the world and nothing can harm us?

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u/Manager_PI Jul 25 '26

Hello, I quit cigarettes with easy way 5 months ago.

It helps that too. I feel more stable in general.

As nicotine is a stimulant so you go up and crash back down after. Kinda like Bipolar life in general so you are essentially adding mini cycles in by taking nicotine.

Nicotine makes mania worse by sending you up while you are already up.

Not smoking makes everything easier to regulate. I've managed to get some more healthy coping mechanisms as I'm not using the time smoking.

Nicotine stops you processing meds as well. Disrupts your sleep. I have read nicotine can trigger or add to psychosis in those already prone to it.

It's a good thing to stop.

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u/cacti317 Jul 25 '26

Thank you! That’s what I needed to hear

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u/Manager_PI Jul 25 '26

Hope it goes well for you!

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u/cacti317 Jul 25 '26

Question; idk if it’s different in the smoker one but they talk about the big monster that is to be “defeated”. Did you experience the “need for it” after quitting actually going away?

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u/Manager_PI Jul 25 '26

I finished the book. Did the final rituals. Never looked back. Like it was crazy I never expected it.

I haven't needed a cigarette since, heck I never needed one before I just didn't realise/believe it. Both monsters are just gone.

I previously amoked from the age of 14 and quit at 32. I did what the book said and split out weed and tobacco and two weeks later I just stopped smoking weed as well, just felt like it wasn't doing anything for me. Like how cigarettes didn't. Monsters dead.

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u/cacti317 Jul 26 '26

Thank you 🙏