Smoking: How to stop smoking the electronic cigarette?

Smoking: How to stop using the electronic cigarette?

Lindsay POUI-DI

13 Nov 2014

updated the 6 October 2015 à 23:37

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Step 1: Find your motivation
Even if you are less worried about smoking an e-cigarette than a real one, there are many good reasons to give up the electronic version. Here are some possible motivating factors: nicotine is a psychoactive substance, it is boring, the ritual is time-consuming, you are constantly worried about running out of liquid or battery life at the wrong time, it costs money and it is forbidden on planes.
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Step 2: Adapt at your own pace
You can't stop suddenly; the main aim is to keep control. By moving slowly but surely, the body will adapt to receiving less and less nicotine. Begin by reducing the smoking frequency and by taking more shallow drags on your e-cigarette. Indeed, taking deep and repeated drags fosters as much of a nicotine addiction as real cigarettes. Try to take small, regular drags throughout the day; this will relieve your desire without maintaining a high degree of dependency. When you find a good pace, try to decrease it gradually. Mark a minimum time between two drags or have a period of abstinence (nothing for one hour, two hours, not in the morning). You can also act according to the duration of evaporation (one second instead of two).
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Step 3: Reduce the nicotine
There are two ways to achieve this: use two e-cigarettes, one with your comfortable dose of nicotine, the other with none, and alternate throughout the day; keep just one e-cigarette, but mix an e-liquid without nicotine with one containing a small amount of nicotine. For some people, it will be necessary to do this very gradually - for example, decrease by 0.1 mg.
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Step 4: Give up the e-cigarette
You are doing well; you have worked out your vaping pace, reduced your drag intake, and decreased the nicotine dose. The next step is to get rid of the e-cigarette altogether. It is easy: store your e-cigarette in the cupboard for a while. If you are afraid of withdrawal, ask your pharmacist for a patch with a low dosage. You can also see a specialist, who will propose a behavioral and cognitive therapy.
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Step 5: Anticipate the temptation
Whether it’s a fight with the children or an unplanned phone call from the office, you have to anticipate the temptation. It is necessary to plan strategies not to give in to the appeal of the cigarette; electronic or real. As a smoking cessation specialist says, the desire of smoking lasts only 3 minutes before it will pass. While waiting for the craving to pass, do something to occupy your mind: rub your body; stretch your toes or fingers; go for a run, take deep breaths; get an anti-stress ball; suck a licorice stick; inhale a bag of lavender. You can also replace the negative emotion with a positive emotion by visualizing soothing images. By relying on your physical sensations, you will stop the emotional wave. A therapist recommends the following: for regeneration and mental peace, rub your hands and place them on your eyes, touch your eyelids delicately without crushing them. Let the heat spread for 2 to 3 minutes, by which time the desire to smoke will have passed.
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Step 6: Manage the occasional slip
In the event of a slip in willpower, keep your e-cigarette material at hand for a while to avoid smoking real cigarettes. As a smoking cessation specialist says, the resumption of tobacco revives dependency more than some e-cigarettes. Do not use e-liquids with too much nicotine and take steady drags at 10-minute intervals. If, nevertheless, you go into a tobacco shop, buy a disposable e-cigarettes instead of a packet of traditional cigarettes. It is important not to be discouraged; it's normal to relapse, and in order to learn, you have to make mistakes. It is necessary to think about what didn't work, without feeling guilty, and find solutions to overcome the issue next time.

We stopped smoking thanks to it, but now it’s time to give up the e-cigarette too. Without any pressure or stress, here’re how to do it in six steps.

Our main goal was to stop smoking but we never really considered what would happen if we picked up the e-cigarette. Ideally, we figured it would be fine to stick to this addictive alternative to the cigarette, however, that may not be the best idea after all. It may seem as though the e-cigarette is infinitely less toxic than tobacco but there are still concerns as to whether it’s completely harmless. And specialists advise against using them beyond 6 to 12 months. Moreover, studies conducted on the effects of e-cigarettes will not yield any results for several years. In the meantime, rumors of toxicity continue to circulate on the web. Most of these discuss domestic accidents caused by the ingestion of e-liquid, but no doubt the tobacco industry will strongly counter-attack these claims. So, rather than becoming involved in this polemic and risk taking up smoking again, it’s definitely better to stop it altogether.

ASSISTANCE TO STOP THE E-CIGARETTE

A specialized structure exists that welcomes smokers who want to stop and ask questions about the e-cigarette.

QUITTING SMOKING MAKES YOU HAPPY

A recent study published in the British Medical Journal, analyzing 26 publications on smoking, highlights that people who manage to quit smoking (either regular or e-cigarettes) are less depressed, anxious, stressed and hold a more positive view of life than those who started smoking again. This effect tends to last about six months. Thus, giving up nicotine may be as effective as taking anti-depressants in people suffering from anxiety or mood disorders. So, no more excuses – quit smoking!

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