Okay so my boyfriend used to have an addiction to smoking and vaping and stuff and he’s finally getting out of it and he has some urges but he fights them so he doesn’t do it, he found this product on amazon and it’s supposed to help you quit, basically a fake cigarette with oxygen instead of other stuff, but a lot of the reviews are bad and a lot of people say that it doesn’t work and that they don’t feel fulfilled with it, I’m worried that if my boyfriend gets it and he doesn’t feel fulfilled he’ll want to start smoking again and I really don’t want that. Please let me know what i should do because he’s making it up to me 😭😭😭 and honestly I feel like it’ll just make me sad seeing him smoke it even if it’s not real :/
Should I let my boyfriend get this smoking product?
Short version: I'd encourage saving the money and not buying the device. Long version: Anything that mimics smoking, no matter what the ingredients, worked against me when I quit. Only two things worked for me in the long term. First, I got on nicotine patches. That way I got my nicotine in a controlled manner, and it could be slowly stepped down. This worked for me to get past the physical addiction. Second, Nicotine Anonymous meetings helped me maintain my quit. For some reason, talking with and listening to others who were in the same throes of withdrawal as I was helped deal with the cravings. Listening to those who had months, years, and even decades away from nicotine helped me develop the knowledge that I too could someday have that much time away from nicotine. So far, it's worked for me. I quit at 10:00 pm on Sunday, February 22, 1998. That makes Twenty-three years, ten months, one week, four days, 4 hours, 14 minutes and 4 seconds. 217879 cigarettes not smoked, saving $54,469.86. Life saved: 2 years, 3 weeks, 12 hours, 35 minutes as of this post. But who is keeping track? (Quit data courtesy of my SilkQuit app. You didn't think I typed all that, did'ja?)
Here's what I did: I quit smoking cold turkey, but let myself vape an e cig as much as I wanted, with as much nicotine in it as I could get. Then, after I got over my cigarette addiction, I lowered the nicotine amount. I went from 24mg to 18. Then, once the 18mg bottle was done, I went to 12. Once the 12 was done, 6. Then, finally, 0mg of nicotine. The entire time, I let myself vape as much as I liked, whatever flavors I wanted.
After my first bottle of 0mg was done, I got another bottle of 0. And I left my e-cig out in my car. I had to walk out of work, or out of my apartment, and grab the e-cig to vape it. So I had to make the choice that it was worth walking that far, unlocking my car, opening the glove box, take a single vape, then put it back, lock the car again, and go back inside. If I wanted 2 hits, I had to go all the way inside, then do everything a second time. Eventually, it just wasn't worth the effort to do it.
Sounds kind of scammy to me. The only thing that will be effective is going cold turkey. The product you show has no nicotine, and that is the thing smokers crave. So this product will not work in the long run in my opinion. Sounds more like a quack cure for someone to make money off of at the smoker's expense.
As a smoker I'm going to say no because here's why because he will start puffing on that thing and subconsciously knows he's not getting what what he wants he just needs to quit that shit if he's already quit it just gets easier as time goes on I quit a couple times but I relapsed if he's going to do anything you might as well just Vape because I Vaped for 2 years I wish I would have stuck with it because it's nowhere near as bad as smoking and at least he'll get something out of it
I just saw your name and that explains a lot and I'm not going to explain to you why I think that is it's just going to bother you more if I don't tell you why
There is only one thing you need to stop smoking and that is the will to do it.
Any kind of replacement product will simply serve as a constant reminder of smoking which is entirely contrary to the objective - to remove this thing from your life.
Encourage him to stay away from it. Try to help persuade things by telling him you find him much more attractive when he's not smoking... which is probably true right?
