How to quit or cut down on smoking cigarettes when I’m surrounded by smokers?

[Anonymous]

My family and partner smokes cigarettes, and I do aswell, I have for 4 years, but I feel like it’s time for me to stop. It’s starting to hurt my chest and I’m coughing up black stuff. How do I quit when I’m surrounded by smoke? I’ve already tried patches and gum the last few months but they aren’t working.

[God_of_Thunder]

As someone who's struggled to quit for years, my advice is to try switching to vaping.

I've tried gum, patches, lozenges, Chantix, and cold turkey, all multiple times. None of them worked. I switched to vaping about three months ago, and haven't touched a cigarette since.

What I've been doing is that I started with a pretty strong juice (high nicotine content), and each time I need a refill, I get a weaker one. Vaping still isn't healthy, but it's not as bad as cigarettes, and I'm essentially weaning myself off of nicotine by using successively weaker vape juice.

Bonus points because it's a whole hell of a lot cheaper, too.

[Asker]

I have pretty bad asthma and vaping makes me have asthma attacks, the “smoke” is so thick and clogs my lungs. Smoking cigarettes doesn’t effect my asthma though. So I can’t really switch to vaping 😢

[God_of_Thunder]

Aw, well damn.

I don't really have any other ideas, because nothing else has worked for me. I wish you luck, though. I know how tough it is. 😞

[bigmatt98]

As a smoker who’s tried many times you just got to stop but you need to warn people that your quitting because it fucks with you mentally hard

[Danny_dan92]

Try to get away from the smokers

[Iron_Man]

Just quit cold turkey