Chain Vaping is for real.
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First, you've admitted to having a severely addictive personality - which is a behavior trait. You can't blame vaping for that.
As with anything, you have to know you intimately and work within your own personality for what works for you, personally.
You've already mentioned your hard pressed to find anyone with the same problems your having, likely because the high level of your addictive personality is rare...
Heck I took oxycontin for 10 years of my life, every single day due to severe injury, I took 20 mg in the morning 40mg in the afternoon and 40mg at bedtime with vicodin for breakthrough pain and more meds that weren't opioids for pain as well...
All this every single day for 10 years... and I stopped in one day. One day I decided I was ready to learn how to mentally deal with the pain (as it's here for life ) and so I quit taking the opiods. No tapering off, no counselling, just stopped.
While not medically advised, I had no ill affects at all short of feeling like I had a mild flu for a couple days. ..
I'm not the person you want to talk to about addictive personalities because outside of cigarettes I don't have one, and really cannot relate.
However, I do take some measure of umbrage at your statement that vaping is worse than cigarettes and opiods for addiction, because that's the biggest load of B.S. I've ever heard.
I went 5 hours this morning without so much as a drag off my mod, my first drag happened around noon after getting up at 7am, and again i went a few hours this afternoon without a drag because I went out to dinner with my husband on this, his last day of vacation - I took no mod with me because I didn't need to.
YoUR latching onto vaping because your an addict who needs to be latched onto something - anything... work on your own personality and how to overcome it, just like with anything else.
Try increasing your nicotine a little and then do what you need to do for you to cut down on the amount your vaping if that is what you need to do for your own peace of mind.
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My wife and I got Fidget Cubes, which are amazing. I keep mine in the car so I won't always have my vape (or phone!) in my hand.
But yeah, I'm a total chain vaper. Always one at hand when I'm home, two in the car whenever I go out, and I drive a lot for work. I only fear I'm doing it too much when I can't keep everything filled and charged.
As a beside - perhaps a book might come in handy. I never dismiss a good self help book...
https://www.amazon.com/Willpower-Re...gth-ebook/dp/B0052REQCY/?tag=targutajainfo-20
https://www.amazon.com/Willpower-Re...gth-ebook/dp/B0052REQCY/?tag=targutajainfo-20
I fully agree. I wish, that I could vape that way, but...
I do both, MTL and DTL and I'm chain vaping in both modes. This is like opening a bowl filled with pop-corn. Once I start, I just can't stop
I mostly use 3mg for MTL and 1.5mg for DTL.
bump up to 36 - 50 nic.... it will be harsh and you will get plenty of nic and being that it will be harsh, hard to vape, you will cut back on that premise alone...
Yes I did the same with 18mg, but 24 makes a difference. ...Personally I think it's a bit healthier to vape a small amount of hi nic juice then large amounts of low nic juice, but who knows. I feel the nic is actually a safer option to the other chemicals in eliquid , but I don't know for sure...but if your chaining even that, then it's probably not the nic like you said and just a personality thing
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I agree....I just can't get myself to vape higher nic and less of it. I wish I could, but I really like my current vaping style. This will eventually change....it always does.
Another option to break a chain vaping habit that doesn't sound like a nic issue is keep your mod in a different room. If you have to get up each time you want a puff, walk over, take a draw or two, put it down and return to your original location your chain vaping will decrease pretty fast. If you start hanging out in the same room as the mod, move it elsewhere.
Yes. I do the same with the pop-corn
I smoked 3 pp/d, and I chain-vape sometimes. Kind of a "Why the hell wouldn't I" kind of question for me. I will say if I'm busy and occupied, it improves. So, I set myself various and sundry tasks throughout the day (once I'm awake) and that helps. I know vaping is less addictive for me than smoking though, because I can go far longer without vaping which lets me know that even if I will chain-vape given the opportunity (same as smoking) I don't have to do it. Although I sometimes choose to because I enjoy it. Etc.
I'd suggest some exercise time, and some more structure in your day, including getting out of the house (maybe sometimes without your vape) and a lock box is a fine idea, too. With that said, as a fellow-addictively natured PERSON, I'm not going to blame chain-vaping on the "joy of vaping" that just isn't accurate. *I* am the actor, making the decisions I do, not vaping. You really have to approach it that way if you want to cut back, otherwise you will be fixating on vaping not your own addictive behaviors. Okay, so you tend toward extremism. I relate. Find some things that you can fixate on outside of chain-vaping, the more the merrier.
Anna
I'd suggest some exercise time, and some more structure in your day, including getting out of the house (maybe sometimes without your vape) and a lock box is a fine idea, too. With that said, as a fellow-addictively natured PERSON, I'm not going to blame chain-vaping on the "joy of vaping" that just isn't accurate. *I* am the actor, making the decisions I do, not vaping. You really have to approach it that way if you want to cut back, otherwise you will be fixating on vaping not your own addictive behaviors. Okay, so you tend toward extremism. I relate. Find some things that you can fixate on outside of chain-vaping, the more the merrier.
Anna
I understand completely. ...during certain times of the day, or my mood, I find it even harsh. But then sometimes I feel it kind of weak, so it's ok in the middle for me....everyone who tries my vape cough and say "how can you vape that"....so I definitely understand you first and foremost have to vape something that is comfortable. ...I often wonder if my vape now is more intense or has a bigger TH then my cigs I use to have, I don't remember , but feel like it's the same...
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I applaud you for what you've conquered. This is just my experience, I've truly felt this is the toughest thing I've had to put down. Having panic attacks when thinking about leaving it behind. It's not BS, to me, because everyone handles things differently. I wanted to see if anyone related to my experience.
One thing is certain, there is ample support on these forums. I'm used to getting trolled or ignored. Appreciate it, everyone.
Just take it Little by Little.
You Didn't become a Chain Vaper overnight. Chance are you're Not going to Break this Habit overnight either. The Goal, for Me, would be to get a Little Better Everyday.
So Every night when you close your eyes you can Sleep better because you Know you are getting a Handle on Things.
BTW - One time when I was trying to Cut Down on Smoking, I used a Countdown Timer on my phone. I would set it to like 30 Minutes and when it would go Off, I would Smoke.
Then after 2 or 3 days, I would set it for like 35 or 40 Minutes.
It kinda Worked. Because I could look at it and See how much Longer I had to wait until I could Light Up. Instead of just sitting there feeling like it had been 27 Lifetimes since my last Smoke. When in Reality it had only been 22 Minutes.
It also gave me some Goals to meet. And a Way to kinda Track that I was Doing Better.
Read the book I linked you to. It's scientific in nature as it's based on scientific studies and their findings and has helpful tips... you might find some idea in it that has real value to you.
My wife and I both started vaping a little over 2 years ago, both of us using pen vapes at 24 mg.
My wife is still using a pen vape, now at 18 mg. She has no interest in moving on to bigger and better units. She only vapes in the evening after she has had her trip to the gym or has run a few miles.
Me, I have 5 setups, mostly DTL making my own coils, vaping at 6 mg, .5 or .6 ohm single coil. I chain vape. I'll vape on my way to the gym and as soon as I leave the gym. I vape a lot more than my wife and she will occasionally make a comment about it but she doesn't nag me.
Sometimes I think I need to cut back but I haven't made any real effort to do it. I enjoy. It is so much more pleasurable than smoking was.
My wife is still using a pen vape, now at 18 mg. She has no interest in moving on to bigger and better units. She only vapes in the evening after she has had her trip to the gym or has run a few miles.
Me, I have 5 setups, mostly DTL making my own coils, vaping at 6 mg, .5 or .6 ohm single coil. I chain vape. I'll vape on my way to the gym and as soon as I leave the gym. I vape a lot more than my wife and she will occasionally make a comment about it but she doesn't nag me.
Sometimes I think I need to cut back but I haven't made any real effort to do it. I enjoy. It is so much more pleasurable than smoking was.
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