attempt three at quitting smoking and it's much harder than before
money has gotten tight and the husband wound up in the hospital with complications from pneumonia which means we have no business continuing to smoke.
i, again, am doing the vapor pen and that worked wonderfully the first two times but is not making a damned lick of difference this time. it's day three and i am so pissy and agitated that i would cut a motherfucker for a smoke right now.
i know this will pass but i didn't think it would be harder this time around.
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thanks for the support 
try to learn something from each episode, about what triggers you and have a plan for it next time....one thing that really helped is that one by one, I stopped smoking in specific places - my car, my home, and I had to be awake for a while before I lit up, etc.....breaking the patterns
it took seven attempts for me until if finally stuck
Make sure the strength and flavor mimics whatever cigarette you were smoking. Go to your local vape shop, and ask to sample a few before you buy. You can cut back later, when your stress level isn't so high.
Don't even think about giving up, I was finally able to kick 40+ years of smoking this way.
Good luck! 
my boss is a vaping nut and is going to set me up with some nicer gear and some liquid since all i'm using is a cheapie one.
thanks for the support
The fight for freedom of any kind but especially against a habit or addiction is truly a war. You may find strength in the act of helping others in the same fight but you won't know that unless you try.
A war is fought by many but won by warriors. What Heraclitus said about warriors: "Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn't even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back."
My wife is in battle with cancer. Don't give up.
I quit years and years ago, but was never really 'hooked'. Social smoker. Went with the cocktail.
My husband has probably quit 100 times in the 31 years we've been married. Stress triggers his smoking. He smokes for a week or two,
quits, and 3 or 5 or 6 months later something else triggers it and he's back smoking again...and then quits again. Now his inability to quit
is scaring me because he's in the early stages of some kind of neurological disease process that has dementia implications. Scares
the crap out of me that we'll have another fire related to an unattended cigarette or ashes dropped outside.
So, whatever you need to do to quit, do it. You have to figure out what triggers wanting a cigarette once the nicotine is out of your system.
Hang in there!
No matter what.
I know it's hard. But that's the only foolproof way to quit. Stop and don't start again. No matter what.
When you make the transition in your mind that you're not quitting smoking but that you quit smoking, it gets easier.
(And I'm no doubt telling you stuff that you already know, so...)
Good Luck, and I hope it sticks this time! 
This was 26 years ago and it worked. I never finished all the steps but just having all that support helped me tremendously. Look, if I can do it, you can do it. Minute at a time, hour at a time, day at a time. And don't beat yourself up if you slip, just get back up on the horse. It's a process.
most of the people i work with smoke and bumming one is like shooting fish in a barrel.
i was super agitated again today but i realized today it might have more to do with being premenstrual 
