substitutions for that nasty smoke ?

[Opah]

This is where you long timers can really help with what you have substituted for a smoke in trigger situations.  IE: Jill's smoke free invisible fake none nicotine  OK OK I forgot the Name but you all get my drift.  Such as That cold foggy morning sitting on the Refuge porch drinking a hot cup of coffee and puffing on my pipe or a cigar, I kinda  substituted toast bread to crew on, did it work yes for that one time  looking more towards a cinnamon bread stick next time or a jerky stick cheese sticks work well.

Driving I have substituted the Vitamin water for a beer and been cold turkey with the smoke was doing sunflower seed but my tongue kept swelling up from the salt.  So what have you long timers come up with as substitute and what was the trigger situation ?

[jillar]

How can you forget my JAC (jillars air cig) when I've talked about how well it worked for me for so long lol. And I thought your go to was sugarfree butterscotch candy?

[Opah]

still all over the sugar free butterscotch !

 

Edited March 13, 2021 by Opah

[Opah]

They robbed you Jill !  They call it the Harmless Oxygen cigarette ?  have you seen it ?

[jillar]

Yes @Opah I've seen them. One of our members said she bought one. Imo a cut straw, pen or my invisible one, all free, work just as well. And my invisible one works best because I never had to worry about forgetting where it was

[Doreensfree]

I found sugar free gum helped me through the tough times ....

Scented baths ...and my trusty I Pod......

[Martian5]

I always went with Jillar's Air Cigarette (a plastic straw cut to size), That and a cold glass of water or juice always helped me a lot!!!!

Edited March 13, 2021 by Martian5

[Opah]

My new thing is those Mexican chili suckers with the Lock Jaw sour stuff inside,  not sugar free but a killer flavor rush.     

Edited March 13, 2021 by Opah

[Opah]

Take a drag off of one of these babies instead of sniffing it in the nose, Guaranteed you'll have fresh breath and the desire to  puff on anything will go away.

[jillar]

I don't know @Opah it looks like those are nasal inhalers so I wouldn't use it as an air cig....

[Mee]

I'm not crazy about cheese but I got obsessively hooked on Cheetos during my quit.  Thankfully I got over my addiction with them after my year smoking quit.

 

[jillar]

Oh yea, I was obsessed with those soft peppermint puffs and would buy them by the tub the whole first year quitting. 

[Opah]

Yes it is that is why you need to keep track of which one you had up your nose, unless your into bogger/mint flavor!   

[Angeleek]

Lol I did a lot of eating! peanut butter, chocolate, donuts and, amazingly, alcohol. I don't recommend it. lots of exercising going on now to get the extra weight off...and dieting. if I had to do it again, I would go for water, and those inhalers LOL, and exercise, Oh yes and the JAC

[Sirius]

I think I still have my whiskey jar half full of water and packed with cigarette buts somewhere in my garage.  

There were a few times I would unscrew the lid and take a big whiff to remind me of what I was missing.

I...haven't felt the need of such reminders in quite a while.