Day 94: What is the best way to quit vaping

[Mowgli]

94 days vaping,curios how many days did you smoke?

I smoked for 35 years. I'll quit vaping in 29 years. maybe. Probably not. I like it.

I vaped about 45mg-60mg/day this past year. I vape 15ml-20ml day. It's how I do.
When I smoked people told me I should cut down. I never cut down any activity. I do what I do the way I do it or I don't do it all. I drank how I drank, I smoked how I smoked, I vape how I vape.
I chain vape. I recently dropped from 3mg to 2mg to keep my BP lower.
I already chain vaped so now I vape the same frequency but get 2/3 the nicotine. Lower BP.

I'll quit vaping when my 3 gallons of 100mg run out. Or not. I like vaping and it's ~95% less harmful than smoking so why would I quit? Maybe I'll quit when I can't afford the $25/month it costs me&mrs. or not. whatever.

I'd recommend getting used to being a non smoker before quitting vaping

 

[Jebbn]

I've gotta post to follow.

If someone has the magic path, I'm all in. Vaping's great, compared to smoking, but I plan on quitting one day myself. Who needs an unnecessary habit?

But then, no one had the magic path for quitting smokes - too individual. We can all chime in with advice (and it can't hurt), but I'm guessing over 99.9999 percent of replies are going to be from people still vaping, so........

Exactly. I don't think there would be many posters who quit vaping still actively posting here.

 

[Toronnah]

Reality check.

If any of these suggestions really worked, you could have quit smoking using the same.

That's the dirty little secret of vaping. We haven't quit anything. We just switched from tobacco to VG and PG. You're still behaviorally addicted to inhaling something. Nicotine addiction isn't as powerful as people think. If that were true, we would all be quitting cigarettes with the patch and have 100% success.

And anyone that disagrees with the above will be using typical addict responses.

Address that mental addiction if you want to quit.

 

[the wind]

I'd recommend getting used to being a non smoker before quitting vaping

we have seen a few fall into that category,and go back to smoking.we must have scared off the OP.

 

[Tabac man]

Reality check.

If any of these suggestions really worked, you could have quit smoking using the same.

That's the dirty little secret of vaping. We haven't quit anything. We just switched from tobacco to VG and PG. You're still behaviorally addicted to inhaling something. Nicotine addiction isn't as powerful as people think. If that were true, we would all be quitting cigarettes with the patch and have 100% success.

And anyone that disagrees with the above will be using typical addict responses.

Address that mental addiction if you want to quit.

You are correct about psychological addiction but for many the physical addiction to nicotine is also powerful.

 

[Toronnah]

You are correct about psychological addiction but for many the physical addiction to nicotine is also powerful.

Physically smoking yes. Nicotine not so much. Again, if that was true, the patch would have a 90% success rate.

 

[Tabac man]

Physically smoking yes. Nicotine not so much. Again, if that was true, the patch would have a 90% success rate.

You have all the answers. I'll leave you be.

 

[Toronnah]

You have all the answers. I'll leave you be.

Passive-aggressive much? That's ok. I'm not taking the bait.

 

[smoked25years]

For me, there's not really any chance at all that I'd go back to cigarettes. There's just vaping now. But it's not the same for everyone.

 

[the wind]

Passive-aggressive much? That's ok. I'm not taking the bait.

 

[Vapntime]

You have all the answers. I'll leave you be.

@Toronnah is obviously an addict because they have all the answers. Despite the new myths of nicotine, it is undisputed fact that it is quite physically addictive on its own, read some journal articles Toronnah. Now is addiction a bad thing, that is the question.

 

[Jebbn]

Im on the fence about the "undisputed facts" about nicotine being quite physically addictive. Part of me thinks yes it is and part of me questions and researches the subject to the best of my ability because of doubt about nicotine's addictiveness.

 

[stols001]

I one million percent don't care what party tricks a person can or cannot do with their nic. Go forth and prosper and etc.

I ONLY care what I do with MY nic. Let me tell you, the idea of "tolerance breaks" for my nic gives me the heebie jeebies. No thank you. I vape less than I did in the beginning, but my nic remains about the same.

I would get al cranky with you, but there a millions oh probably billions of folks who don't consider the concept of addiction to be shameful/wrong. It's just fine by me.

After I quit smoking (my last big death addiction) I was like, "I don't care if I remain addicted to the rest, LOL mainly diet Pepsi) for the rest of my life.

Nic also has benefits, benefits I really like, since Alzheimer's runs in my family. I will attempt to quit nic if and when my doctor says I have to, not before. Fortunately she is pretty intelligent.

Anna

 

[AngeNZ]

I'm with @Mowgli on this - 3 months isn't very long smoke-free. I'd put a few more smoke-free months under your belt before wanting to quit nicotine.

I plan to put another 40 years smoke-free under my belt before quitting nicotine

 

[Vapntime]

I one million percent don't care what party tricks a person can or cannot do with their nic. Go forth and prosper and etc.

I ONLY care what I do with MY nic. Let me tell you, the idea of "tolerance breaks" for my nic gives me the heebie jeebies. No thank you. I vape less than I did in the beginning, but my nic remains about the same.

I would get al cranky with you, but there a millions oh probably billions of folks who don't consider the concept of addiction to be shameful/wrong. It's just fine by me.

After I quit smoking (my last big death addiction) I was like, "I don't care if I remain addicted to the rest, LOL mainly diet Pepsi) for the rest of my life.

Nic also has benefits, benefits I really like, since Alzheimer's runs in my family. I will attempt to quit nic if and when my doctor says I have to, not before. Fortunately she is pretty intelligent.

Anna

I'm addicted to coffee, nicotine and sleeping pills however they all have a positive effect on my well being. If that changes I will consider giving it up. Quality of life is important.

 

[Toronnah]

@Toronnah is obviously an addict because they have all the answers. Despite the new myths of nicotine, it is undisputed fact that it is quite physically addictive on its own, read some journal articles Toronnah. Now is addiction a bad thing, that is the question.

Why is the patch about 2% effective and not 90%?

 

[Vapntime]

Why is the patch about 2% effective and not 90%?

Because you have to give up lol. That's why vaping works because you don't. Most vapers continue to use nicotine. I gave up cigarettes before I started to vape. Nicotine has positive effects for me. Nicotine and 'addiction' is not the enemy.

 

[Brewdawg1181]

Nobody's gonna be right here - because the medical definition of "addictive" or addiction is subjective in and of itself.

But it is a fact that without the combustion of tobacco, nicotine is not very addictive. In fact, there are almost no studies in existence that show it to be addictive without tobacco. Some studies show that it's almost impossible to get lab subjects addicted. However, if a human thinks he's addicted- by definition, he is.

And like many others, I believe nic to be on a par with caffeine. All recent research points to the fact that in moderate consumption, there can be many health benefits of nic.

 

[smoked25years]

Bunch of enablers--haha!

 

[IgnorantCig]

Day 94?

Everybody knows that you have to wait at least until day # 152 before you can quit vaping.

Seriously speaking, the question is kind of strange, because everybody is different.

When the time is right, you will know it.