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Cake day: December 18th, 2023

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  • I vaped for quite a while. Got a bit addicted to the tinkering and the juice hunting. It can be a fun hobby which probably makes it a bad way to quit if you’re anything like me.

    I worked myself down on the nicotine levels until I was at zero.

    Relapsed back to cigarettes after not having vaped for a few months due to stress.

    Finally stopped cold turkey. Didn’t go back to vaping just decided it was time.

    Things that ultimately helped:

    • Having a reason to quit that I could remind myself of daily as an affirmation.
    • My partner was also quitting, I needed her to stop and needed to be there to support her efforts.

    If I was going to do it again, I’d probably look into Fum or something similar. Probably add some nicotine gum at the start to ease the chemical addiction.




  • This is the hard part for me. I would willingly lay down my own life, but I cannot ask those I love to risk their lives or comfort.

    Though even typing that sentence, there does come a point when they would have neither and my action to defend what we believe in, may just preserve life and comfort for them.

    I hope it doesn’t come to having to make that choice and if the time arrives I will need to have that conversation. I don’t want to watch them suffer knowing I could have done something and didn’t.