I posted on the neurodiversity com a few weeks back about stopping vaping as I worry more and more about my lungs after a few decades of heavy smoking and many many years of constant vaping, including indoors. I was one of the early adopters on vapes and they did help me stop smoking then and there. But since then I’ve been just stuck on a relatively mild self-mixed e-liquid with seemingly no end in sight.

Got advice to try nicotine pouches which I have been thinking about, but chickening out on. I was also worried it might do nothing for me, because the hand & mouth action and inhaling is such a huge part of the habit for me.

So I went and bought some pouches, chose a brand that just burnt my gums terribly at first and was like “oh hell no”. But got some additional advice from a friend who quit vaping with these and got another brand instead. And it seems to be doing it for me.

Been using them for little more than ten days I think and have touched the vape maybe five times in total, in the last few days not at all really. It is becoming less and less appealing every day.

Well aware I am just switching the delivery method of nicotine and not quitting, but I kind of need it to do anything in life. I am undiagnosed and definitely audhd, so it is what it is.

But the huge deal is that this is the first time in my entire long adult life that I have gone without inhaling something for more than a day. I started smoking at age 13 and was instatly hooked on nicotine, like even the very first inhale was glorious for me. I had pretty much given up on the idea of not doing that.