FDA to order Juul e-cigarettes off U.S. market
I managed to give up fags over four years ago after 30 odd years of smoking around 20+ a day.  I&#x27;m still quite surprised that I managed it but in retrospect I did a mental job on myself - you have to be hard but in the end it wasn&#x27;t quite as bad as I thought it would be.  If I can, you can but you need to find your strategy.<p>Initially I thought that I&#x27;d transition to e-fags and climb down from there.  Nope.  You are trading one habit with another - it doesn&#x27;t matter if a e-fag cloud is better for you it is still not good and keeps you tethered to smoking.  I think it would be quite easy to go back to tobacco if you &quot;allow&quot; yourself to vape as a transition.<p>I rapidly realised that once I started down the abstinence route I had to be very hard with myself.  It wasn&#x27;t actually that bad in the end.  I came up with two mantras that I repeated to myself in my head whenever I really wanted to smoke:  they were - &quot;I don&#x27;t want to smell&quot; and &quot;I don&#x27;t want to die&quot;.  They are pretty self explanatory.<p>I did and sometimes still have dreams about smoking.  It is a very insidious habit.  I was a smoker for 30 years so it is obviously still a part of my life at age 52 but it is fading and I rarely have to say my mantras these days.<p>I had another strategy too, which helped in the short term:  I started my give up, in the early afternoon of day one (Easter 2018 as it turns out) and had a very long lie in on day two.  That got me to over 24 hours with minimal stress.  I then progressed to a series of time based targets:<p>A day (tick), two days ... a week ... two weeks ... (tried a drag on daughter in law&#x27;s fag - no thanks) ... a month ... two months (weird dreams) ... six months ... etc ... four years.