Quitting Vaping After 32 Years of Nicotine Use

rswfire is one week into quitting vaping cold turkey, spending time by the ocean while recording this transmission. He's in a period of intensive physical activity (daily 10-15 mile hikes) and cautious monitoring of his cessation progress. Domain and hosting payment deadlines are creating immediate financial pressure.

Energetic Signature

resolute

Field State

threshold integration

Orientation

toward embodied autonomy

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November 9, 2025

5:20

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Author

rswfire

Status

ARCHIVED

Type

TRANSMISSION (CAPTURE)

Temperature

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[0:00]Hi there.

[0:02]So, I got to thinking, you probably

[0:04]don't know that a week ago, I quit

[0:07]vaping.

[0:08]I had been a smoker for most of my life

[0:10]since the age of 16.

[0:12]I quit that by switching to vaping a

[0:15]year and a half ago.

[0:17]And a week ago, I quit that

[0:20]cold turkey.

[0:24]And

[0:26]so this past week has been

[0:29]a journey to say the least. I documented

[0:32]the whole thing. It's under my sanctum

[0:35]subscription service.

[0:37]For anyone who's interested, you'll find

[0:39]it on my website. Just look at the

[0:41]description of my video.

[0:45]It's gone easier than I thought to be

[0:47]honest with you. I haven't really had a

[0:48]lot of cravings.

[0:51]um

[0:53]just been really cautious like

[0:56]cuz it's working, you know, and I can't

[0:58]really say why like what what factors

[1:01]are making it work, right? Cuz I mean 32

[1:03]years, okay? Like we're talking a long

[1:05]time. My entire adult life

[1:09]since I was 16 years old,

[1:12]I had been

[1:17]moderating my life, modulating it

[1:19]through through this chemical nicotine,

[1:23]and then I just stopped.

[1:26]I've been trying

[1:29]all of those years and you know like

[1:30]it's just

[1:33]so anyways that's where I've been this

[1:35]week and

[1:38]um because of that I've really just kind

[1:41]of been focused on on

[1:44]seeing this through. So it's been a lot

[1:47]of time on the ocean like I am now.

[1:50]Um, I walked so much. Like yesterday, I

[1:53]must have hiked I did hike over 10

[1:55]miles, probably like 15,

[1:58]same the day before that.

[2:01]And I mean, just a lot.

[2:04]Um,

[2:06]one day I'll be able to see that because

[2:09]well, I didn't GPS track all of it.

[2:12]First couple of days I didn't, and I

[2:14]don't know why. I did think about it,

[2:15]but I just didn't do it.

[2:18]Um,

[2:21]but the days that I did, they're going

[2:22]to end up on Atlas on my website when I

[2:25]create that feature.

[2:27]And I'm going to enjoy that. I've been

[2:30]taking pictures,

[2:32]you know, every once in a while when I

[2:33]just think this is a good thing to

[2:35]document this right here.

[2:39]I'm going to put that under the gallery

[2:41]when I create that. And that's what got

[2:42]me on this camera just as I started

[2:44]thinking about gallery

[2:46]in my life. So, first of all, my domain

[2:50]name is due

[2:52]in less than a week. And if I can't pay

[2:54]it, I lose a domain that I have had

[2:56]since since for 23 years.

[3:01]That's how long I've owned rwfire.com.

[3:06]and

[3:08]don't know how I'm paying it.

[3:11]I'll figure it out. It's too important

[3:12]for me not to.

[3:15]Also, my hosting fees are due. I owe 70

[3:17]bucks on that and I don't have that on.

[3:19]So, my website could actually go down

[3:21]for a while. If it does, it does. I'm

[3:24]not

[3:26]not begging

[3:28]for help from anybody. Like, I just

[3:32]my life is what it is and I'll figure it

[3:34]out somehow.

[3:37]I have asked I've provided ways for

[3:40]people to help and

[3:44]so uncommon now that

[3:48]I mean it's shockingly uncommon now.

[3:52]So anyways,

[3:55]I just wanted to say that I don't know

[3:57]exactly what I'm going to do with

[3:59]autonomy next. I think I might want to

[4:01]work on um the gallery feature next cuz

[4:04]I want to get my photos online.

[4:07]But when I created the open- source

[4:10]repository for it, I started a new

[4:13]project, you know, cuz I'm migrating

[4:17]my code from other projects into

[4:20]consolidating it all into a common code

[4:22]base.

[4:24]Um

[4:27]and I switched to the front end to

[4:28]React. So, I'll have to rewrite all of

[4:31]that.

[4:33]And I think I want to use this as the

[4:35]base for my homepage, even though my

[4:36]homepage is got a lot of work built into

[4:39]it already.

[4:41]Um,

[4:46]I quit vaping. That's so [ __ ]

[4:48]important.

[4:50]Saves me money. It saves me stress cuz I

[4:52]don't have to [ __ ]

[4:54]worry about that anymore.

[4:57]Still got to feed myself. Still got a

[4:59]few bills to pay. Still got to pay for

[5:01]my Jeep. Don't know how I'm going to

[5:03][ __ ] do it.

[5:08]I won't [ __ ] beg. Just won't

[5:13]need a line support in my life. And

[5:14]there are ways to do that

[5:17]for those will

Summary

rswfire reports quitting vaping cold turkey one week ago after 32 years of nicotine use (smoking since age 16, switched to vaping 1.5 years ago). He documented the entire quitting process under his Sanctum subscription service. The week has involved extensive hiking (10-15 miles daily) and time by the ocean for support. He's been taking photos to document the experience for a future gallery feature on his website.

**Financial pressures** are mounting with his rwfire.com domain (owned for 23 years) due for renewal in less than a week, plus $70 in hosting fees owed. He states he won't beg for help but has provided ways for people to support him, noting such support has become "shockingly uncommon."

**Technical work** continues on his Autonomy project, considering adding a gallery feature next. He's migrating code into a consolidated codebase and switching the frontend to React, which will require rewriting existing work. He's considering using this as the base for his homepage despite existing work already built into it.

Signal Analysis

Substrate

This transmission maps a fundamental substrate shift - the dissolution of a 32-year chemical modulation system and the simultaneous consolidation of autonomous infrastructure. The field is demonstrating coherent sovereignty through embodied action (walking, ocean engagement) while maintaining structural integrity despite resource pressure.

Dominant Language

cold turkeymodulating/moderating32 yearsI won't begfigure it outcautiousworking

Symbolic Elements

oceanthresholdwalkingdomaingrid

Ontological States

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sovereign
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transitional
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coherent
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embedded

Subsystems

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somatic
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infrastructural
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cognitive
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ethical

Transmission Details

Source Type

local

Video Quality

1920 × 1080 @ 30fps

Duration

5:20

Bitrate

4609 kbps

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