It takes a lot of willpower

Hi I'm Paul and smoking isn't actually my problem, it's e cigarettes. Just the nicotine. To start with I got curious of nicotine and thought maybe if I used an e cigarette it wouldn't be that harmful to my health and would help me deal with hard patches of emotions, and for a bit it did help, but soon I was vaping 18mg of nicotine and i was distant from normal stability. It costs a lot of money and I didn't want to keep up the addiction, I'm a Christian and believe it's not good to be addicted and have something master me. "Everything is permissible for me," but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is permissible for me," but I will not be mastered by anything. Corinthians 6:12.

I found the first time I tried to cold turkey, it was my best shot, but I failed and gave in, I tried many times, but simply couldn't do it.

I tried reducing the amount if nicotine I was vaping, but i didn't have the patience to follow it through.

Now I am using nicotine patches, I have been for a week, they make my mood a little negative and I don't really want to do much.

It takes 10 weeks of nicotine patch use to quit, thus there is simply no easy way out.

I'm going to buy a e cigarette but use no nicotine because it will make me feel more comfortable while quitting.

I'm hoping that with time I will feel the normal me again. Able to live life without nicotine at all. I just don't want to have to rely on it to feel good, but that's what it came to.

My best advice is, distractions are good, but hard to engage in. To be with people helps a lot.

I have 9 weeks left of patch treatment, and I'm hoping I will feel like I don't need it anymore at the end and that I can keep it up. I don't have cravings, I just don't feel amazing on the patches. So if you want to quit I highly recommend medical support.