How to Quit Smoking, Vaping or Dipping Tobacco 

This clip is from the Huberman Lab episode "Nicotine's Effects on the Brain & Body & How to Quit Smoking or Vaping." The full episode can be found on RU-vid here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uXs-zPc63kM.html

I vaped for a solid 8 years (age 16-24). I decided to quit while my lady was pregnant with my first child. Honestly, the addictive voice in my head was very convincing at telling me I wouldn’t be able to do it, but in reality once I made it a week it was smooth sailing from there. Don’t let that voice fool you guys, you can do it! I haven’t gone back ever since quitting and it’s been almost 2 years now.

Decided one day and quit, haven't smoked for a year and I don't even feel like it. For everyone thinking about quitting, believe me it's easier than you think and you are stronger than you think.

I am 24 years old and i have smoked/dipped since i was 15. I was 23 when i quit. replaced all my cravings for nicotine with zone 2 cardio sessions. Now I am an endurance athlete instead of a smoker. Huge improvement in lifestyle.

I started smoking years ago as a teenage, got addicted to cigarettes. Spent my whole life fighting Cigarettes addiction. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Was diagnosed with ADHD. Not until my wife recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 8 years totally clean. Much respect to mother nature the great magic shrooms.

I’m really good at quitting. I’ve quit over a thousand times.

Went cold turkey when I was 33 after 20 years of smoking. Told myself I didn't want to be fat and unable to keep up with my kids when I eventually had kids. Now I have two daughters and I've not smoked tobacco since I quit. Best of luck and hope that you can make it. Without good health you have nothing.

I was part of the 5% of the cold turkey people. I listened to [the audiobook version] of How to Quit Smoking by Allan Carr. Life changing book, didn't even finish it. 5 years no nicotine!

I was a 45 pack year smoker. Started at age 11. Quit 3 years ago and have not relapsed. I found incredible support through the Mayo Clinic’s EX group. An online support “group” with great blogs and encouragement. Drinking out of a straw during my quit was a great tip that I still do. That oral lips connection. Once I made it over the “hump” of a couple of weeks, I found my obsession with thinking about smoking diminished and by the month mark I was actually thinking of myself as a nonsmoker. I was also very proud of myself and I really liked that feeling. I really do appreciate that I’m no longer planning my next cigarette. I miss it but not enough to invite the nicodemon back. I choose life.

Please read this : The mind is extremely powerful, as soon as you say " I'm quitting " the mind hears this information, it's like you're giving yourself a heads up and it will make you smoke more. As a leaf fans from a tree it simply falls, the leaf doesn't sit in the branch and plans it, it's natural, simply think no words or speak, just wake up don't smoke, may read crazy but it's technically not hard as we say it is, one does whatever the mind is set to, simply set it to not smoking, you got this, WE GOT THIS ❤️🙏🏻💪🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃

I stopped vaping years ago and cold turkey and got extremely sick for like 2 weeks and fully recovered in a month and felt AMAZING once I was clean of nicotine! My body felt so healthy and happy!

I stated cigarettes to quite vaping then replaced cigarettes with copious exercise and a constant reminder of how common lung cancer is. I also had to quit drinking as they all love to party together but never invite exercise. I'm 37. Closer to achieving my dreams and regard that time in my life with shame. Thank you so much Andrew Hubberman

I quit the next day after you uploaded the nicotine, smoking & vaping episode. I am 24 days clean!! Thank you for the eye opening doc.

1 year smoke free cold turkey... had my son and that was it. pray for me.

I did the patches and it worked. I did follow the program religiously until I was having so much nicotine in my system from the patches that I changed to the gums. My mother quit using welbutrin. Ny dad quit cold turkey. All of us are smoke free for over a decade now. Do not give up!!! You can do this. Also, make sure that you substitute with a healthy habit too!

At age 35 I was given Wellbutrin for depression. I was told that I was self-treating with Marijuana, Tobacco and alcohol. When the Wellbutrin started working, I no longer needed alcohol or marijuana. Cigarettes were a little harder to quit but the Wellbutrin helped a lot. My self confidence increased dramatically, I started dating, got married, had 2 children and bought a house with the money I saved.

How many other (former) smokers couldn’t believe how bad smoke smells after you quit? 🤮 that smell Keeps me from starting back again, 8 years later and the smell still turns me off, many say they love the smell still, definitely not me

Today marks the sixth day since I quit smoking. I've attempted it multiple times before, but strangely enough, this attempt has been the smoothest. The initial two days presented a challenge, yet by the third day, the struggle began to wane. It's worth noting that I had been a smoker for almost 25 years, often combining smoking with my coffee consumption. It's crucial to recognize that the period of withdrawal is finite and not everlasting. Reminding oneself that this phase is temporary and avoiding situations that could trigger the urge to light a cigarette, especially in the initial stage - let's say, during the first two weeks to a month - is key.

7 years of smoking and another 7 years of vaping. I quit 6 months ago, cold turkey. The vaping was the harder to quit but I have improved my life tremendously since then. Probably the best health decision I have ever taken and I'm never, ever going back.

I tried everything. The only way I was able to quit was by reducing the amount of cigarettes I smoked a day, kept tabs on a calendar what I smoked for the day, decreased the amount when I felt comfortable, until I got down to four cigarettes a day, then I quit. You have to want to quit, that is the key.

I have been an on and off smoker since 18 years old. I’m now 30 and started back up after being 9 months clean. Stress is a BIG trigger. I want to learn better stress reduction techniques so I can quit this filthy, smelly and costly habit. It is EXTREMELY hard to quit when you are constantly surrounded by things that trigger your stress…

I was very addicted. The way that I quit was by using vape pens instead of cigarettes. I started off using 20mg pods and every two weeks I would decrease the pod dosage by 4mg. So 20mg x 2 weeks, 16mg x 2 weeks, 12mg x 2 weeks etc. When I reached 0 mg, I still used the vape pen for two weeks with no nicotine content. This was to try to decrease the dopamine release associated with the motor action of putting the pen to the mouth (removing conditioned stimulus). I also made sure to replace that addiction with one that was productive - running. I still had some small cravings after stopping but over time they diminished to the point where I no longer experience any. In fact the thought of smoking or vaping disgusts me now. One year on and I'm running well and smashing my fitness targets.

I quit cigs after 38 years nearly 2 years ago. Did it by vaping, the vaping began giving me breathing issues, asthma like symptoms. So 1 year ago I switched to nicotine pouches. And I still use them. I can tell you nothing beats a cig. None of these replacements will completely replace how a cig makes you feel. I can also say the only way to quit smoking is to refuse to smoke. Because you will always crave them if you smoked as long as I did. So that is they key, just realize you will always want to smoke, but you must refuse to do so. It's that simple.

I quit and then got back into it. 2nd time was harder and took longer. Did it cold turkey. If you stop and have a few weeks or months under your belt, don't think you can just have one again and be done. Be strong and now I think cigs are so disgusting. Can't stand the smell and can't believe my love ones put up with me smelling like that. My dad tried stopping on and off for years and then finally got it too.

I quit smoking nearly two years ago. One year and ten months ago to be precise. I am a man of a certain age and I had smoked for most of my adult life. I used to smoke a pack a day. That was my natural rhythm. Sometimes fewer, but almost never more. I stopped smoking with ease. Cold turkey. I loved smoking. I never felt addicted to it; and, judging with the ease I gave up the habit, I wasn’t. I experienced no withdrawal symptoms. None whatsoever. Despite having smoked all my adult life, I have never craved a cigarette since. I have fond memories of the smoking years. There’s just something about a handsome man who smokes a cigarette. It is sexy and attractive in a way that vaping could never ever be. I have not tried vaping; and nor will I ever. It holds absolutely no appeal for me. As for “dipping”, I had never even heard of the habit until I chanced upon this, your video. I’m a Brit. I don’t know whether we use that term this side of the Pond. I once knew an old man who used to buy chewing tobacco. They used to call it twist. I think that ‘dipping’ must be something similar. Again, that would hold absolutely no appeal for me. Do I feel better for not smoking? No, not really. As I said, I used to thoroughly enjoy a smoke. And, judging by what people get up to these days, I see nothing wrong with that enjoyment, either. In fact, I have grown so tired of the war being conducted on smoking. Smoking a cigarette is one of the least of our problems. It is drug use which I object to. Moreover, at the very time that it has become exceedingly difficult to enjoy a cigarette anywhere, the authorities are busy relaxing laws on marijuana and cannabis. And look at the cocaine problem we have! I recently read that London is the cocaine capital of the world! And people worry about someone enjoying a cigarette! So many myths are peddled about cigarettes. If you listen to the nonsense written about them, they are the cause of wrinkled skin, baldness, bleeding gums, tooth loss, etc. You name the malady and cigarettes are the cause! I can assure you that even at my advanced age, I have a full head of hair which hasn’t even lost its colour. I have my own teeth. My gums are healthy. I can read the print in a book even at this age without reading glasses. I have no hearing impairment; and my skin is pretty wrinkle-free. The only problem I have now, since quitting smoking, is the weight I have gained. And as I am not a diabetic, I worry about it. The last thing I want to happen is that I turn diabetic! To get back to my normal weight again, I am even contemplating re-starting smoking! But if I do re-start, it will be a conscious decision to do so on my part. As far as I am concerned, the real devil is not in the tobacco; rather, it is in the dose. Moderation is key in all things.

I am 26 and I have been smoking since I was 14. I have been trying to quit ever since I realize I was not a social smoker anymore (at 17) the longest I've last without smoking is 6 months. I got to a point were I know I'll never quit smoking, my ideal scenario is just being social smoker or just smoke whenever I really feel like. What really angers me is that I feel like I don't have control over it, I can't stand the fact that I am addicted to something, that something has control over me, that's what really pisses me off and the reason I quit every once in a while. I know someday I'll have full control over every single one of my decisions. My goal is to trascend to a new level of consciousness and smoking is on my way.

Wish I'd never got started. No one to blame but myself, trying to be cool; smoked throughout my 20 years in the Air Force; it was nice to 'take a break' and step outside and smoke with the others. I'm not 100% sure why smoking seems to make things more enjoyable. Now I can't catch my breath when I go up a flight of stairs. I have chronic bronchitis. I am motivated to quit now and want to quit.

I have quit smoking for 3 to 4 years three times. 1st hypnosis 2nd medical aid (champix i think was the name) 3rd in hospital and couldn't smoke for a week, cold turkey and managed 4 years. Smoking again, but now in final stages of COPD so just enjoying my final months. To any one reading this, please quit any means possible dont end up like me who can hardly walk and wont see my 57th birthday!

I know that over 95% of my addiction is mental. If someone offered me ten million dollars to quit I believe it would be fairly easy. Motivation makes all the difference to me. I guess I'm not scared enough or believe enough in the benefits.

For me, nicotine patches really helped. I followed the 3 step program they have and was able to quit vaping within 3 weeks. Withdrawals and the the want to smoke something made it tougher, but the patches really helped me.

4th day "sober" and holding on. Quitting e-cigs is a hell of a thing. I did it before, no smoking for 2 1/2 years, but I relapsed because I was over-confident in my non-smoker mind frame. Started again with cigarettes and switched to e-cigs for health reasons. Now I'm back to square one ( or 4 for that matter ) but I'm determined not to make the same mistakes again.

Alcohol is the trigger for me. A cigarette after a few beers is just glorious. Not sure why a cigg while you’re a little drunk is so much better than when you’re sober but it’s a real phenomenon.

So far I'm in the 5%... Im 8wks smoke and nicotine free. Went completely cold turkey after 10 yrs. It was easier than I expected, to the point of being too easy and I hope this feed isn't too long but little pieces of information I was unaware of shocked me about quitting. First before quitting I took up a new hobby of reading weeks before, I didn't plan on using reading as an alternative hobby to smoking. I just got to the point where I saw no point in smoking anymore and wanted to quit. During the first 3-4 weeks reading was a great distraction from thinking about smoking, so I had something to do to kill time other than thinking of having a cigarette or rolling one. I did have cravings but I didn't know that each craving only lasts 4-6 minutes and they really do only last that long, they just pop up and then fade away. Again reading heavily helped keep me distracted at times when at home, I'd take out my phone, open an eBook and read... Then I'd realise, I'm not craving anymore. Reading also helps with falling asleep if you struggle to sleep during withdrawal. They say the 3rd day is the worse... I got severe hunger pain by day 3 and even that was only once. By the time the kettle boiled the pain was gone but I did notice I needed an extra snack each day as my hunger was more noticeable. So 1 extra snack at night I included to my diet. But even that snack is gone now, my diet seems to have stabilised. I'm not overweight and before covid lockdown, I'd have trained with weights 4 times a week at the gym. The cravings I'd have gotten were around the times I would usually have had a cigarette and I'd guess maybe 2 cravings every 4hrs... But they are only for 4-6 minutes and they do get fewer and fewer as the days go by... Minus the 8-9hrs of sleep. So far this week I've had to remind myself once that I use to smoke, I can't remember the last craving I've had. But what was extremely challenging for me, was around week 5-6. I started to get brain fog and couldn't focus on reading, work or sleep at nights but the cravings had deminished to 1-3 a week so they weren't an issue by then. Anger became an issue though, I've never experienced anger like that in my life, I'd describe it as deep seeded hatred. Cravings weren't being an issue, I wasn't missing smoking but suddenly nothing was holding my focus and a foul horrible evil temper just clung to me for like a week. I isolated myself during this time, it was just a really bad ugly feeling but I was aware it was due to withdrawals, so I knew it was a stage I had to go through to being free. I honestly wanted to kill someone or something and my mind would remind me of things and people that upset me when I couldn't sleep or concentrate on a ebook. But I made it through, I feel so free and relieved I got through it. Since quitting I've: Saved a lot of money which has been fantastic and I've noticed I smell and taste food much better. I no longer feel a tightness when taking deep breaths across my chest and taking a dump is much smoother now 😂 Energy levels are higher, I don't feel like I need a coffee or energy drink for a boost. My skin did get a little bad which had me worried but grab a face cream and it will recover in a day or two. I had a little blotch of inflammation pop up around the nose area. Overall it was much easier than I expected, reading books that I was heavily interested in paid a huge part in getting me to quit. Cravings really aren't that bad, you will get them, they do fade, they do get weaker and they do disappear. I have had one dream of smoking and woke up freaking out and as I stated before, 8 wks after quitting, I'm at the point of having to remind myself I use to smoke. That anger phase will stay with me as a reminder and warning for the rest of my life, if I ever feel like relapsing on a night out... I'll remember that n I never want to go through that again. So now I'm a non smoker. It's worth it guys, having the extra money takes so much stress away and no longer being an addict feels fantastic.

I quit 20 years ago and I never thought I could but what he professes is completely true. Just need to have your mind focus on it m

I’m 2 weeks into cold turkey. It can be done. I’m watching this video for motivation. Cravings get less frequent day by day. day 2/3 is living hell.

Thank you for this video. I’m a Clinical Hypnotherapist and I have 95% success rate for quit smoking with one session. I appreciate your explanation on hypnosis

I smoked for 28 years, started at 12, by the time i ditched the habit i was 70-100 grams of tobacco/week, i got onto this book, "Alan carr's easy way to stop smoking", it took me about 3 weeks to read bit by bit, and about 3 weeks later the penny dropped i handed my smokes over to some smoker friends declaring i was done, much to their amusement. that was over 10 years ago, i never had any cravings or withdrawls, easiest thing i ever did, that book puts it all in perspective

my brother suffers from severe nicotine/vaping addiction to a point where I’m not sure how he’ll act if he doesn’t get a hit. He’s irrational and unpredictable and is almost at a point where he will do anything to smoke. Prayers to all family members and loved ones who are supporting someone through this.

My dad started smoking as a teen. At 47, he had a heart attack. While in the hospital, he drove my mother crazy with his constant talk about wanting a cigarette. He couldn’t wait to be discharged so he could smoke. When they rolled him out the hospital doors to go home, he said the craving left and he has had no desire to smoke since. He just turned 67! He can be around his smoking friends and it doesn’t trigger him. Idk how he did it, other than a miracle from God.

When your father dies from lung, and throat cancer that spreads to his whole body to kill him slowly, it really impacts you hard enough to never want to smoke or sorround yourself with people that smoke. I hope you all can quit for yourselves, for your loved ones, and especially for your children. I believe in you. Believing you can do it is the first step.

Started smoking since 2 months ago. I'm thinking I'm getting addicted. It's fun but I can't explain how. I think it's best to quit.

You can get out of habits easier after a mushroom trip and get a different routine going, I couldnt even finish a cigarette afterwards because it almost made me throw up with how horrible it tasted.

I never started with smoking cigarettes, but the draw to vaping was fascinating because it had all the lights and cool flavors, but the worst part was the fact that I was introduced to it in high school so that cool factor got me hooked. Now I see it as something that's got a hold of my finances, intrudes in my free time and when I'm trying to work, and it's affecting my health. Ready to give it up completely

Here is how you quit anything. You just stop. It's simple as that. It's all in your mind. You may go through withdrawals, but the only thing continuing your addiction is your mind telling your body to go acquire and use these things. Imagine going to jail for a year, then you have no choice but to quit. That's it. I know it's easier said than done, but that is how it is done. Do not give yourself the option. A person has to be mentally dedicated to stopping, it gets easier the more time passes.

I was spending $12 a day on smokes. I felt miserable all the time. What made me quit? The knowledge it made your skin worse and could cause hair loss. That was the impetus I needed. I've been done with them for 5 years and haven't been tempted to start again.

Bro I had smoked for 30 years, I started when i was 13 and I'm about to turn 43. So 30 years. I quit smoking cold turkey Last December. I haven't smoked since. Its all about making the decision to quit and be final about it. 99% Mental, 1% physical. The physical is just a habit and can be squashed easily, Its the metal part that gets you. Just remember Life is all about Decisions. If you cant say it and do it then dont say it. Once you make a decision then that its it its final and stand by it no matter what. If you take the time you think about your life everything you have done or will do are all decisions you have stood by and worked at doing to make it a reality. So make the decision and do it. I mean its that easy. Nothing in life is hard it only seams hard cause your not committed. If you commit to the decision Im going to get this done then it all become easy.

Smoked briefly but I vaped for years. 2012-2020 right before the turn of 2021 I decided that I was done vaping. Threw out everything, mod, juice, charger, batteries. That was that, same way I quit opioids, marijuana, porn... You get fed up and you stop. Don't count days, don't think of yourself as a recovering addict or ex smoker ect. That's still giving the addiction power over you. Just stop, and leave it completely behind. Granted I know this takes a certain kind of head space to do and it's not easy to get too. But despite how hard it is I think it's the most effective way.

The actual withdrawal is not bad. Finding the real motivation to quit is what is hard for people. Every person seems to have an experience that convinces them to quit. For me it was a nightmare I had where my lungs were damaged. It affected me enough where I woke up and straight up threw out the vape pen and juice. I still had intense cravings for 3-5 days, but they did not last the whole day and after 5 days reduced every day in frequency and intensity. It is not that big of a deal.

Been smoking for thirty years.... One day I decided to go coId turkey. I didn't believe i could do it. Every time I had the urge to smoke i'd grab strong ginger tea and sat down to have "a smoke" . The tea felt so rewarding and i had a feeling as if I had a cigarette. I did that same thing every time i felt like smoking... That first day i drank a gaIon of unsweetened tea.. I didn't get any significant cravings at all that first week. And i knew i was out of the weeds, i will never go back to smoking... I feel so very lucky i got to walk away from smoking and nicotine skat free. Never again

As with other commenters, I can't recommend Allen Carr's - Easy Way to Stop Smoking enough. It's creepy how it "de-programs" you and requires ZERO willpower to quit. It's a pretty easy read. I read the whole book from 11am - 11pm, had my final cigarette (as per the book), went to bed, and didn't smoke again. I have a number of friends that did it too.

I'm 29 and I'm quitting today, send me lots of luck to fight the nicotine addiction! I know I can do it, and if you're doubting, YOU CAN DO IT TOO!

I started smoking when I was 9. I quit when I was 47. I know how hard it is. It took an ugly act of god to force me to quit. I had tobacco induced bronchitis. It was so bad I could not breathe and it nearly killed me. I started to chew the gum and the doctor gave me some antibiotics. The doctor told me that in about three days something disgusting was about to happen to me. I started coughing up this ugly black tar. The tar would come out of my lungs and then seep down into my stomach. This mixed with the acid in my stomach and I absolutely exploded with a mixture of infectious tar and stomach bile. I puked my guts out for three days! It was really easy to quit after that. That taste is indescribable. You can do it. Do it any way you can. Don't be an idiot like me and quit the "easy" way. Good luck!

for everyone that wants to be succsessful in life or quiting anything: keep in mind everything that is worth something with value is hard for the same reason it has value. nothing easy has value. yes it is hard to quit, but everything is hard until you master it. for example exercise can be hard for the first 3-4 weeks but after you see progress and start seeing the benefits you get addicted. this is the rule for success, do it for 3-4 weeks and get in the rythm and you will get addicted to the results and get natural dopamine, not like unearned dopamine from nicotine. do these hard things everywhere and your mindset and mentality will change. keep in mind this qoute: watch your thoughts, they become words. watch your words, they become actions. watch your actions, they become habits. watch your habits they become you.

I have my appointment April 11, 2023 with a very good hypnotist here in Oklahoma. It takes a long time to get the appointment but I am counting the days down. It will be the biggest achievement of my life. Do you think that the reason so many of us have trouble stopping smoking is because we've been told almost our entire lives that it is so hard to quit and we will fail several times before we succeed and on and on and on? Have we been programmed to believe that we can't do it? I believe so 100%, especially since I've learned so much about what corporations do with marketing. They are ruthless.

Started smoking when i was 14. My parents got me into it, because they were heavy smokers. At age 47 i had enough, and started vaping in stead of buying cigarettes. One year later, i made the decision to quit it all, and for over 3 months i am smoke-free. I never in my best mind had the idea i could do it, but after 30 failed attempts to stop smoking, the vape thing did it for me. I hope you all have the same feeling and stop as quick as you all can!

I quit alcohol before it became a problem...I was well on my way to being an alcoholic. I've smoked since I was 14 and could only quit when I was pregnant ( it made me throw up ) I hope to quit smokes this year...wish me luck!

I checked it out, it's awesome. I never figured to self talk what it was for over what I was trying to stop. It's a huge revelation. Thanks Dr Huberman. I thank God for showing me to you.

I’m having depression side effects from not smoking. 1 month smoke free;) Best of luck all of u !!

I started smoking cigarettes since my teenage. Got addicted to Crack for over 8 years. I suffered severe anxiety and mental disorder. Not until my wife recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 6 years totally clean. Never thought I would be saying this about mushrooms.

Quitting vaping was harder for me than quitting cigarettes. The only way I was able to do it was because I had bronchitis at the time & was hocking up scary colored lung mucus. I said that I would never forgive myself if I caused irreparable lung damage. It's been 9 months, I'll never smoke anything ever again, but I do miss it. :(

I was writing reasons to quit smoking then I started taking notes on learn chem e now I'm back to writing reasons to quit and watching lectures to reinforce and better understand how to apply reasons to quit in all aspects of daily living! Yay!

With my hypnosis clients I book them in for 3 sessions. Typically they quit the first session, they come back for reinforcement two days later and almost no one comes for their 3rd session because they have quit. If someone wants to quit they will. There are many RU-vid smoking cessation recordings that I am sure would be very helpful if you are wanting to quit. Just a tip, make sure you don’t fall asleep while listening (sit up if you are prone to falling 💤) and when you are listening try to exaggerate the feelings and sensations during the hypnosis session. If you are quitting just remember NOT EVEN ONE PUFF, never again.

I was only 12 when my friends induced me to smoking, at that time it was 'cool', down the road it became addiction and worked as stress relief to me. But eventually I found a girl and got very attached to her, she promised me to never touch ciggarette again, and obviously that worked for me but after few months she dumped me, and in anger to break her promise I smoked few chains. And after that it became my addiction again, I'm still trying to quit it. I pray for everyone's success whoever is trying to quit this junk.

According to NESARC the lifetime remission rate for nicotine is 83.7%. When you say 5% that's annual remission rates. Point being that most people eventually quit. It's just that it's rarely on their first try.

just made 24 hrs Without vaping or smoking weed after 5+ years of smoking consistently.. cannot lie this is the most challenging thing iv ever faced in my life but I know with the Love of God and with faith that it is possible . 🙏 thank you for this video and I hope that other viewers that’s seeing this in this moment will have a breakthrough 💯🙏

This came just in time, I decided to quit vaping yesterday.

I read and re read Quit Smoking The Easy Way a few times back to back. After I read the book, it removed all desire for me to smoke. I got a sleeve of 8 mg tobacco free nicotine pouches to last a week. The next week I reduced 2 of my packs to 4 mg and then 2 mg until I finished with nicotine free tea pouches. It took about 2 months in total. Every time my brain wanted me to light up, I just cracked that book back open.

I stopped smoking after reading the book Allen Carr's Easy Way to Quit Smoking. Amazing book. Stopped smoking after 17 years. Started at 13 years old. 2023 will mark 4 years since stopping

I vaped for 4 years. I tried to quit at least 4x cold turkey and didnt work. One day i got so sick with a cough and coughing up mucus that I knew it was a sign from my body to quit. I am on day 4 cold turkey. I believe I can do it this time. After 3 days its all phycological at this point. I will comment back in a few months of my results :)

I’m 26 now and realize I’ve been smoking everyday since I was 16. I went to vaping and now every time I try to quit I do well the first week and then boom I get an overload of anger and frustration and end up going back to it.

I quit smoking when I was 13, then vapes became a thing and i started doing that, then i quit vaping because it was financially unjustifiable, now there are these nicotine pouches which again are financially unjustifiable and more addictive than ciggeretts, nicotine is one of the worst habbits i picked up considering i hadn't smoked regularly in over 10 years.

I've been nicotine free for around 10 days now. Keep knocking down the nicotine down to the lowest level on your e-liquid! Once you have done a week of vaping on this, you will need to take the plunge. Doing the above will help with the withdrawals! It massively helped for me anyway.

I smoked for 20 years, about 25-30 a day. Tried to quit with all the patches, gum, and so on. Vaping is the thing that worked for me. I started Vaping and stopped smoking cigarettes. At first, I thought I had found a great replacement for the fire sticks. I was sucked into the idea that is was a healthy way to get my fix without the health side effects.. but then the health side effects started to kick in. Watery lungs, coughing, and so on. It was at that point I decided I was not going back to Firesticks because vaping was not the ultimate utopia everyone said is was. I just quit vaping. The end. 5 years smoke-free now, never going back.

As an ex smoker of 20+ Marlboro light per day for 5-6 years who has stopped smoking for 6+ years and couldn’t care less about smoking again I will tell you that the way to quit smoking is starting to do sport and realising you can’t do shit without coughing and running short of breath and it’s no way to live. Also other 2 suggestions: 1. If you stop for few days because you have a fever or something then use that opportunity to carry on and stopping definitively 2. Once you stop the desire to smoke even in front of other smokers will stop after few months. Never touch a cigarette or a cigar again because it will bring your cravings back to the first day after you stopped. I am no huberman but can be certain that after years of smoking the brain is wired that way and when body tastes nicotine again it gets all the ancient excitement again and does everything to make you get more. Have faith if you are stopping is not impossible at all if just takes a lot of self control and perseverance

Man... I used to smoke heavily for 10 years then stopped cold turkey successfully for a few years and down the line picked up vaping during a difficult time in my life. I'm currently trying to drop vaping and I can tell you it is 10x harder than cigarettes.

My junior has this habit of smoking and I'm trying to lead him to the right path, no matter what I do he won't stop, he calls it an escape from his breakup but I don't want him to destroy his life he is not even 18 yet

The best way to quit smoking is a heavy psychedelic experience, 10 years ago I smoked a pack a day, while traveling through Peru I tried ayahuasca with a medicine man where I had a transformative experience and from that day I've never even thought about smoking

3 years for me and I can’t thank anyone but God for this.

I do take bupropion & it has helped. I also do acupuncture. It’s strange to walk by someone & smell cigarette smoke, could not when I smoked. I just told myself I didn’t have a choice I had to quit after 35 years. Good luck you all !!!

I replaced smoking with working out. Working out in the morning made me tired to go out during the day to smoke. Then I did cardio in the evening at the usual time of my smoking. So essentially replaced smoking with work out.

Smoked for about 10 years and vaped for about 3. Quit over a year ago and now run frequently and do high intensity exercise 6 days a week. Its worth trying over and over again to quit. Theres nothing worse than being in a nicotine prison. The otherside is eye opening. There is so much more to life than being addicted to something that gives you nothing.

i quit smoking when i was started a job that involved me in manual and high concentration for 8 h a day, it's a 3,5 years since i drop.

I'm so proud of myself being a member of the 5%

I am 44, and born to late parents who were both smokers back in 1979. Smoking was part of all my life since i was a toddler. Everyone smoked back then. You could even smoke in restaurants, airplanes, dentist offices, doorways to shopping centers etc... It robbed me of almost 30 years. Both my parents passed away from smoking related illnesses. Here is the thing though... Both my grandparents, never smoked, never drank and lived somewhat healthy until they were both over 90 years of age. If you cant quit for yourself, quit for your loved ones. Mine are gone. Theyre not coming back. Im alone. I live with memories of all the hospital and medicals just because my parents were smokers. The Nicotine was more important to them than life. Its your life surely. Youre young and nothing can ever happen to me i have body of superman!!!! Just keep playn and let it kick in. Dont come weeping to me. >Good luck.

I realized vaping gives me acne. That made it easy for me to quit.

I just gave it away 2 years ago, no problems, timing must have been perfect. Havent missed it, havent cheated, will never smoke again. (heal the trauma that got you smoking in the first place!)

I didn't hear him mention this but I'm guessing the reason one would have a harder time quitting vaping is because the ease of access to the hit. You don't have to F off outside for a smoke, it's right there in your pocket and creates no odor.

Started vaping on and off when I was 17 til 20(now). Had the occasional cigarette at social events and mooch off others who have vapes when I didn't have my own. I'm watching this tonight to help me get over this problem which has developed into an incontestable nicotine addiction. I've stopped using vapes and started using pouches and finished my last pouch the other night. I can't bring myself to buy another pack of them so here I am, finding an out.

I've been smoking for 12 years, tried many things to quit and the best one is a book "easy way" by Allen Carr. I'm free now for 18 months, feeling great, never had a thought or desire to smoke again. I know people might be sceptical, just like me before I read the book, but trust me, if u want to quit it will be your best decision. Most important thing for smokers is getting rid of horrible desire to smoke which drilling u from inside when u don't smoke and stopping u from quitting. I know, I've been in that place. Book will give u everything u need to quit in easiest posible way and u will never look back. Do yourself a favour and buy God damn book. Enjoy your life without a cigarette.

I smoke for 20 years and today is my 5th days of stop smoking, ulcers in my mouth, cough with phlegm, insomnia, its really hard

I quit out of the blue one day. I may have hypothetically been watching the sunrise on an acid comedown, smoking a cigarette while watching the view. Then I looked down at this thing I was consuming, the carcinogens and nicotine literally staining the paper brown, and was just disgusted. Threw it down, and quit right then. Just cold turkey. Unfortunately about a year later I fell victim to "misery loves company" by my own damn family, and my uncle paid me in cigarettes for house sitting while he was on vacation. That brought me back in and I've been stuck ever since, never had that level of motivation to quit since

I need to drop cigarettes because of the financial effects and the negative health effects, I feel like breathing is harder. I have less drive and my vascular system is in turmoil, I am trying everything but it's so bloody hard.

I used the Allen Carr method to quit smoking after being a 2 pack a day man for 10 years. Now I’ve been clean for 32 days, and I can honestly say I don’t even feel the need to smoke anymore

Taking psilocybin mushrooms helped me quit nicotine without having any withdrawals. The experience did so much more for me too. If you go this route know that trying to control the trip experience will breed anxiety and you will have a bad time. You need to accept it for what it is and flow with it in peace and harmony.

I started smoking when i was 12 years old, i smoked until i was 30, now iam 4 years clean, quitting smoking was always in the back of my mind and one day, the elevator wasnt working and i had to use the stairs and right there i realized that i had troubles with my breath, after that, when i was in my room, i sat down for a minute, took all my cigarettes and the lighter and the ashtray, threw it into the trashcan and ever since then i never touched a cigarette again. you dont even know what you are missing out on smells and tastes when you smoke for such a long time! after like 2 month, i felt the endurance was getting better and everything smell and tasted soo good xD tho i got a light form of depression and i gained like 15kg weight but i started to go to the gym and i lost it again, i actually found a new hobby lifting weights, it keeps my mental fitness strong too wich is a very important part to me! If you want something, go get it, i know its hard but its not impossible, iam sure everyone that really wants to quit is able to do it! just go for it! you guys got this!

I have found weight training, proper sleep cycles, and fasting has recovered youthful neurogenesis. Quitting smoking back in 2010 was the best thing I could have done. I decided on Blake’s Birthday April 7th that I would quit on Cameron Birthday March 21st. I started Champix one week before my quitting day. When that day came - March 21st, 2010 -- I quit forever and never looked back. But I have had a strong family history of stroke, especially recently.

I love your content professor Huberman. Thank you very much. There is one important aspect to vaping that I couldn’t hear you mention. In each vape there is something called a coil, it is made of different metals, nickel is a common one but some use ALUMINIUM as well. The purpose of the coil is to heat the liquid filled cotton inside the coil for evaporation. And yes, also the metals vaporised get inhaled. I’m currently about to start chealation therapy

I'm here because I want to learn how to support nictotine addicts in my life that want to quit/decrease their use I have very little experience with it so I don't want to talk down to anyone If anyone is kind enough/has time to reply to this comment with their perspective on it I would really apprecaite it :)

Wearing a nicotine patch as I'm watching. Tapering down, now on 14mg from 21. 3 weeks in. I quit before with the transdermal system 6 years ago. Ended up relapsing last year when I hit a friends disposable vape, which have gotten a lot stronger. 8mg/ml? for common disposables. The "buzz" was so strong. The addictive tendency is something similar to heroin.

The absolutely insane thing is I used to have an amphetamine and pill addiction, considerably more dangerous and addictive than nic, but I genuinely found it easier to kick the pills compared to vaping, which i've been trying to quit for months now.