Well, you could start with a vape starting kit. just to know what to expect and until you get the hang of it. It should not be expensive either.
Good luck!

I quit smoking a couple of years ago, when my first kid was born. Here's my nº 1 pro tip for anyone trying are:

When you are suffering from abstinence and reach the breaking point, pop some nicotine chewing gums. Yes, nicotine chewing gums. They taste like the bottom of an ash tray and if you swallow the "juice" you'll get stomach sickness and puke, but their nicotine bump will calm the addict inside you. This is a PERFECT combination because you get out of the abstinence state without actually enjoying it.

But remember, always wait for that abstinence state before using them. Do not use them lightly, they are still nicotine and in fact they are worse for your health than cigarettes.

Remember Cigarrest commercials?

I am no beauty queen, believe me, but that were the ugliest people I have ever seen in my life! :O

Hello, non-smoker here but some familily members were heavy smokers. Just want to say congratulations to the ones who quit smoking and good luck to the ones who are fighting to quit smoking.

I can't remember when I really started smoking, I had my first cigarette at 13 years old, but it was just a one time thing. I think I started smoking a pack a day when I was maybe 17 and I kept smoking for about 10 years.

I had my last cigarette on May 26th, 2006. The reason I know the exact date is becase I smoked that last cigarette after leaving the theater on the premier night of X-Men 3. Watching such a bad movie had nothing to do with me quitting smoking, lol, it was just coincidence. :)

It's always been like that.

You want to get someone to stop smoking with visceral images; go to a hospital and show them someone with emphysema. Just simply say is it worth feeling a little calm from your nicotine withdrawl for an end state of constantly suffocating no matter how much air you breath.
Some f&%ed up teeth are nothing compared to that.
being said I vape, seems to be a lot of propaganda at the moment and no hard evidence on what it can lead to.
It's a glycol/alcohol based oil scent so a fairly sterile liquid, which at most will cause a bit of a chest infection (more to do with availability of sugars than anything else due to the sharp heating to get it into a vapor state).
Willing to be proven wrong if you've heard anything solid to the contrary.

Yay! I decided to quit smoking. After smoking for over 18 years.

Got myself a vaper (Vype ePod) for 20$(on sale) and so far so good.

It's a cheap little vaper, but it works really well. If you want to buy one, get this one. Don't buy those for 300$. At least not at first.

Stay healthy comrades! :D

Do you plan to give that up too after a while? Like half a year or a year or so.

I sincerely wish you luck. The first month will be the hardest but once you're over that hurdle, it does get easier.

Here are a few pieces of advice which worked for me (I quit cold turkey):

1) Use anger to your benefit. Every time I had intense cravings for cigarettes and was nearly out the door in the middle of the night to buy another pack, I got angry. Angry with myself for lacking the willpower to stop being a slave to cigarettes and angry at tobacco companies for profiting at the expense of people's lives. Anger is a powerful emotion which is usually regarded as being negative, but in that case I was able to turn it into something positive.

2) It may seem as though the cravings will never disappear, but trust that they will. The first couple of weeks were the hardest but after the fourth week I remember going my first day without even thinking about having a cigarette. I haven't touched a cigarette, or any other tobacco product, in 11 years now.

3) Think about how much easier it will be to breathe and how your lung capacity will increase. You will be able to run and swim and exercise properly again.

4) Think about how much your senses of smell and taste will improve once you quit. When I was a smoker, I didn't even know how much my (and other smokers') breath and clothes smelled like an ashtray. Now that I am no longer nose-blind I can smell a smoker from quite a distance away. Food also tastes better.

5) If you associate drinking with smoking (as I did) then it's probably best to stop going out to pubs and clubs or drinking in general until you have broken the addiction.

6) Consider the money that you will save from not smoking. You could put that towards buying a lot of other stuff that will last you much longer than a single day.

7) Be ever mindful from now on out and remember "not even one ever". Even a single cigarette can get you started right back up again.

In the past few years I watched my father painfully wither away and die from cancer due to his lifelong smoking and I would not wish that upon anyone. It's too bad my quitting didn't encourage him to quit like I had hoped it would. If he had quit earlier in his life, he might still be around.

Stay strong and you can kick this insidious habit.

Been quit since 2005, summer, can't remember exactly which month.

You are so absolutely right about everything you mentioned there, friend.

I was able to quit smoking before. Din't smoke for about a year. But got myself into serious troubles and because of lots of stress, I started smoking again. :/

So I know how to deal with it. I've been there before. I'm a strong man. But still, cigs are quite addictive, and I know it can be hard to quit.

But, I started today. And with help of vape, I din't smoke for the whole day. And I used to smoke a pack a day.

And I'll tell you what, I feel so good about myself. I can smell things now. Got so much more energy. I'm playing basketball and training 3-4 times longer then before. I just feel amazing!

Sorry to hear about your father. My father is a big smoker. And i got him a vape as well and motivating him to stop smoking. It's harder for him, since he's been smoking for 40 years. But he can do it. He's a military man, he's 10 times stronger than I am.

Thank you so much for sharing. Reading everything you said got me even more motivated, truly! Thank you!
Oh yeah. I'll be using vape just to kill the habit. After a month, more or less, I'll drop the vaper as well.

But i'm not saying vapes are bad. I simply need it to kill the habit of smoking cigs. That was the whole plan. I don't need nicotine in my system.
Stay healthy! ;)

Thanks. You know I had always heard that even though you quit, you will still crave them. But I started smoking in the 70's and smoked 2 packs of Marlboro reds a day up until 2005... and I'll admit I did have cravings for literally YEARS after, but at some point they did stop. I no longer have any cravings, desires, or anything else to smoke.

Wanna know how I got started smoking? The US Army. Back then (1970's) every C-Ration (this was what our packaged meals were called then) came with 2 cigarettes. Sometimes I wonder if the tobacco companies paid the U.S. Department of Defense to do that. But at first I didn't smoke so every meal that we ate C-Rations I would be a very popular guy as to who would get my two cigarettes. Finally sometime after basic training and during AIT I decided what the heck and started smoking. Finished AIT, got sent to West Germany where cigarettes (and liguor) were rationed, and just about used up my ration card (on both LOL) every month.

then what did you replace it with?

I dunno, I don't remember replacing it with anything. But maybe I did. I do think I ate more after I quit. So maybe I replaced it with food. lol

ADDED: Oh if what you were asking was about weed... well... yeah I continued to smoke that. But I wouldn't call that a replacement since I smoked that before I quit the cigarettes too.