Who This Book is For
This quit vaping book is written for any vaper, no matter how long you’ve been vaping, if it’s your first or fifth attempt at quitting, you’re just contemplating whether to quit, or are serious about the desire to succeed.
It’s for those who have looked for help elsewhere and not found any credible, reliable source of help, or indeed any form of help at all.
What This Book Will Give You
You’re Going to Learn:
- What makes vaping so addictive (it’s not just the nicotine).
- Why quitting is so hard – and how to make it easier.
- How to manage cravings with multiple distraction techniques used successfully in addictions of any kind.
- How to replace the habit, not just remove it.
- What to expect in your first thirty days and how to get through them.
- How your life will look and feel as an ex-vaper. A life of fulfilment.
You’ll get reflection prompts, tools, strategies, and simple exercises. But most of all, you’ll get constant support and assurance that you can and will do it.
Why I Wrote This Quit Vaping Book
Two years ago, I started vaping to help treat a side-effect of a medication I was taking at the time for depression, a side-effect called akathisia.
A desperate man in a desperate situation, after trying multiple drugs to treat myself, I found a scientific paper showing that nicotine helped.
Not only did it not help me, it made my depression worse, and I was fully addicted in a week. I was vaping from morning to night, constantly craving more, and vaping in the toilets of restaurants.
At the time, I felt ashamed, guilty, and trapped. But now that I’m free, I can see that I was shackled by the third most addictive drug known to science, exhibiting stereotypical behaviours of someone suffering from addiction.
This doesn’t mean lacking willpower, this means changes that have happened within the brain that lead you to do things you wouldn’t normally do. Addiction is a medical condition, one that can be treated, and not something to be ashamed of. It can happen to anyone, at any time.
My addiction continued for six months, at which point I decided I needed to quit. I began my search for help. What I found, or didn’t find, deeply concerned me.
I started on the internet. I couldn’t find anything of decent quality that I believed could help me. It was either far too basic and lacking in anything of proven benefit, with nonsensical statistics I knew weren’t true, or inflated outcomes to get you to spend your money.
Then I turned to my local smoking cessation service, who didn’t have any knowledge or experience of vaping and were of little help.
I looked at mobile phone apps and found them all poorly designed, not created by healthcare professionals, and mainly focused on tracking tools with no valuable content on how to navigate the withdrawal phase.
Does any of this sound familiar to you?
This is why I wrote quit vaping book The Last Puff. To fill the void in the scarcity of resources currently available to the people who are taking the brave move in reaching out for help but are being let down by the lack of anything currently available.
I’ll be with you every step of the way.
Dr Marc Picot MRCGP
Founder, Vape Escape
GP | Health Coach | Ex-Vaper
