Bad tasting juice to stop vaping

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I wonder if this approach is flawed logic. I know some obese people that are terrible cooks.
Would bad juice enable you to stop or just send you back to cigarettes?

I think it can go either way for different people. Those who want to take the bad tasting juice route will probably succeed if they have to discipline to say "Look, it's either vape this crap or quit, no other choices".

People who are gonna succeed will do so with different methods and variations of the same method. Those who are quitting because they feel they "have to" will never succeed regardless of method.
 
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I wonder if this approach is flawed logic. I know some obese people that are terrible cooks.
Would bad juice enable you to stop or just send you back to cigarettes?
If the taste of cigarettes is any indicator, no. I personally think leave the flavor, get to zero, then worry about it.
 

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I think it can go either way for different people. Those who want to take the bad tasting juice route will probably succeed if they have to discipline to say "Look, it's either vape this crap or quit, no other choices".

People who are gonna succeed will do so with different methods and variations of the same method. Those who are quitting because they feel they "have to" will never succeed regardless of method.
Not so sure about that. My Dad and grandpas both did in the 50’s when the first links to cancer and cigarettes came out. Probably harder though. The rate of cold turkey is what? 20%? My memory is the rate is near 50% with e-cigs. So better but not 100%
 

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    Hi there, I’m a smoker who switched to vaping trying to stop smoking, but now that I have to stop vaping, I’m looking for the most basic solution:

    is there juices that purposely taste terrible? I’m looking for that as I won’t take pleasure hitting the vape and eventually it can help me stop.
    I have been vaping full time for over a year and DIY both liquid and coils. I ahve found preflavoured liquids and liquid concentrates now feature many ingredients that gunk up and IMHO make vaping more unhealthy than it should be. I now vape with only 70/30 VG/PG and switching between 3% nic salt and no salt. That is no flavouring at all. The taste is neutral with the hop to stop vaping altogether in the coming months. This is coming from Smoking 30grms of Tobacco every 2 days!
     

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    Hi there, I’m a smoker who switched to vaping trying to stop smoking, but now that I have to stop vaping, I’m looking for the most basic solution:

    is there juices that purposely taste terrible? I’m looking for that as I won’t take pleasure hitting the vape and eventually it can help me stop.
    There are, though I am not sure it would work well. The standard thing to do is lower the mic concentration in you juice gradually. This is the primary advantage with e-cigs. You can titrate down. If you’re vaping store bought juice, the common method is to buy the concentration you normally buy, as well as a bottle of zero, and mix some in. give it a good long shake (I count to 100 myself), and vape that. You do that until you’re used to it, then drop the Nic concentration again. And you keep doing that till you hit zero, once you do that vape unflavored zero (which is much cheaper) till you don’t feel the need to vape at all. Can take anywhere from weeks to years. YMMV.
     
    Hi there, I’m a smoker who switched to vaping trying to stop smoking, but now that I have to stop vaping, I’m looking for the most basic solution:

    is there juices that purposely taste terrible? I’m looking for that as I won’t take pleasure hitting the vape and eventually it can help me stop.
    Not to be a dick, but take a few dry hits-!
    You won't be eager to put your mouth on that drip tip!
     
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    Yes, there are e-liquids designed with intentionally unpleasant flavors to discourage vaping and aid in quitting.

    You can check with local vape shops or online retailers that specialize in smoking cessation products.

    I found no such thing available on the web.

    Vape vendors in the USA are prohibited from selling vape kits and juices as a smoking cessation product as vaping has not been approved by the FDA as a smoking cessation product. They have deemed it strictly as as a tobacco product under the same umbrella as cigarettes, cigars, chew, etc.
     

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    Hi there, I’m a smoker who switched to vaping trying to stop smoking, but now that I have to stop vaping, I’m looking for the most basic solution:

    is there juices that purposely taste terrible? I’m looking for that as I won’t take pleasure hitting the vape and eventually it can help me stop.
    There are recipes for DIY like but they don’t help you quit. Remember analogs taste like ... and that didn’t stop you (or me). The way to quit is titration. If you don’t want to diy, you can mix a zero with a nic containing juice of the same flavor to get lowering nic concentrations. What is your nic percentage now? Also what hardware do you use?
     
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