I made it a week then events with Trump trying to cut medicaid sent me into a doom spiral and I relapsed. So I’m looking to try and beat a week this time. I really need to figure out how to manage my emotions when I hit a bump in the road, like the medicare thing, without quickly regressing backwards.
So far the worst thing about quitting vaping is the really vivid dreams as my brain adjusts. According to google these can last for almost two months and that makes me depressed. Sleep is one of the few joys I have in my life and I like to do it, so having it get interrupted because my brain is adjusting to being chemical free sucks.
If you can make it 7 days, you got this. After 7 days, it will get so much easier. You got this comrade! Feel free to reach out if you ever need anything!
Thank you comrade, and thanks for putting up with me as I struggle with this bullshit addiction.
Addictions suck, you aren’t alone
According to google these can last for almost two months and that makes me depressed.
The thing about statistics is that you can’t apply them to individuals. You’ll experience whatever you’ll experience, and no matter whether it’s long or short you face it a day at a time and each one is less intense than the one before.
Didn’t know you could fall of the wagon from vaping lmao. Good luck though, it took me almost two years of tapering. Lord knows what kind of weird heavy metal dust I inhaled.
You can pretty much become addicted to anything and relapse so yeah.
It’s great that you are developing techniques to make it through acute episodes of craving, as that is where a lot of the struggle exists. fwiw the last time I kicked nicotine the dreams didn’t last much longer than a couple of weeks with frequency and intensity declining in time.
The medicaid thing had me worried, too. They shut down the medicaid portal in the state where I live and it appeared to be a really bad situation. The next day the move was declared illegal and the portal re-opened. I was thinking about the need to moderate my reactions to events, not in a denialist way, but in a way that allows me to not be a cortisol doll for bourgeois actors. I don’t have any advice to soften the psycho/emotional impacts but recognizing them when they happen seems a good first step. Best wishes with your continued journey
I was thinking about the need to moderate my reactions to events, not in a denialist way, but in a way that allows me to not be a cortisol doll for bourgeois actors.
I like to imagine these things to be akin to a hurricane. I can’t do anything to stop them (yet) so there’s no sense in getting myself worked up. It doesn’t help me. But that doesn’t mean I shouldn’t prepare for the worst.
I don’t have any advice to soften the psycho/emotional impacts but recognizing them when they happen seems a good first step. Best wishes with your continued journey
Thanks for the support and knowing the dreams don’t stay vivid for all that long is reassuring!
Remember, relapse is part of recovery, so don’t be too hard on yourself. You can do this!
