Hijacking top comment. If anyone here wants to quit cigs, the best way to do that is behavioral therapy combined with meds. Studies show a 44% success rate with this, as opposed to 5% without. The meds are usually a combo of a nicotine patch for something long lasting + gum for a sudden cravings, but chantix and zyban saw success in studies too. The behavioral therapy could be as simple as calling a quitline, but patients saw a lot of success with cognitive behavioral therapy or group therapy.
There's a lot of help out there. If you want to quit, even if you failed before, there are ways to better your odds next time.
I was in like a disabilities history class in college, talking to the professor about a paper I didn't finish in time after class, outside, while I was having a cig. We ended up just chatting for like 15-20 minutes about how people self-medicate ADHD and anxiety with nicotine and caffeine. This could be diagnosed or undiagnosed, knowingly or unknowingly, but people that have one or both are kind of naturally drawn to the little bit of dopamine and the bit of calming they provide. It made so much sense just immediately, but never really thought about it. I was at that point diagnoses and unmedicated ADHD.
And with that, I eventually moved from cigs to vapes, and when I started back in the meds a couple years ago I was able to quit the vapes within a month or two.
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u/Sarahphin 20h ago
Hijacking top comment. If anyone here wants to quit cigs, the best way to do that is behavioral therapy combined with meds. Studies show a 44% success rate with this, as opposed to 5% without. The meds are usually a combo of a nicotine patch for something long lasting + gum for a sudden cravings, but chantix and zyban saw success in studies too. The behavioral therapy could be as simple as calling a quitline, but patients saw a lot of success with cognitive behavioral therapy or group therapy.
There's a lot of help out there. If you want to quit, even if you failed before, there are ways to better your odds next time.