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Hi @stzr500 I am very glad you came back here. I know the withdrawal symptoms from any form of nicotine whether it be cigs or vaping is horrible. Vaping is even worse than cigs. A read an article in the NY Post last week about a 22 year old woman who vaped a lot and developed lung cancer and has been told that she has about 18 months left to live. https://nypost.com/2026/04/20/health/uk-woman-blames-vaping-habit-for-lung-cancer-diagnosis-at-just-22-years-old-and-she-has-just-months-to-live/ One thing that we all can promise you is the withdrawal symptoms will go away. The longer you stay quit, the faster the symptoms will go away. What helped me in the beginning months, I would take a cinnamon stick and pretend that I was smoking, inhaling air, and blowing pretend air out. It really helped and it tasted quite nice. If you don't like cinnamon you can use cut up straws. Another piece of advice is stay close to this board, come on as much as you can because I truly believe the support here is what got me through it. The first time I quit, I used Chantix but didn't know about this community. I stayed quit for 6 years but then went back. I really believe that if I found this board back then, I wouldn't have gone back. You got great advice from everyone else so please stick around!

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I think today there are many less smokers than years ago, plus the price for cigs are so high that if you are a pack a day smoker, that can add up to lots of money. I was in a card store the other day buying birthday cards and behind the counter they have the cigarettes. The price for a pack here in NYC is $18.50/pack, $185 for a carton! Totally insane, I don't know how anyone who isn't very weathy can afford it, if they smoke a lot. I don't know how they can enforce that law in the UK for someone who is older. Will they ask every person even senior citizens for ID? I was driving with my mom the other day, we were going food shopping and usually when we go places together, I drive but going there she likes to listen to her 1940s music and coming back I listen to my more modern stuff. Anyway, the 40s channel played a song called "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)". That song wouldn't work today for sure. My mom turned 100 last week and "Knock Wood" she is doing very well for a person of her age and she still smokes! The doctor told her not to give it up now because the withdrawal would be extremely difficult for her. My husband and I made her a big party in a nice restaurant in a place on the Brooklyn waterfront under the Williamsburg Bridge overlooking the Manhattan skyline. We all had an amazing time!

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