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I know it's gross, unhealthy, a stupid habit, makes no sense.

Trouble quitting cuz it's something to do with hands, fidgety, restless, oral fixation I think, and it gets me out of the house. Can't find a habit to replace it with.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But how many actually follow through?

[โ€“] Dkarma 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's the thing about quitting you kind of have to want to.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Some will still want to quit, but the extra steps might have the opposite effect of just not being able to stick to those self-inflicted constraints. I know all too well how it won't happen until you actually want to quit, I've since quit as well, but I know it wouldn't have worked for me, I'd have abandoned this plan in a matter of days, not so compatible with my usual ADHD scatterbrain. Too much organization.

Vapes, going down from 8mg to 0mg over a while, then eventually just having the habit left to drop, was what worked for me. YMMV, of course.