is vaping addictive?

[RedBullHighBride]

i do have one tip, which my wife who is very knowledgeable in this field was kind enough to remind me of. The compulsion to smoke that cigarette, drink that whisky or do what ever it is your addicted to doing is a very powerful thing. You can break out in a cold sweat just thinking about these things when the compulsion is upon you and giving into it can mean a late night walk across the city to get the money, find a shop open, or whatever. In actual fact, that strong compulsion will only last about 2 minutes. It may not seem that way, but trust me, it is. Nothing lasts forever, even if your head says i must have a cigarette and if i don't have one, i'll be stuck feeling like this, actually: you won't. About 2 minutes and it will pass.

I don't mean to p*ss on anybody's bonfire here but I'm sorry Mungo, two minutes? Nope.

[texaslady]

i agree with the 2 minutes. i call them "triggers". when you have a trigger, if you're in a place where you can smoke, you smoke. if you're not, it goes away and comes back in a little while, goes away, comes back, etc.

but with vaping, when i have a trigger, i just vape and the trigger stops or leaves, immediately. i think that's why i have been able to completely quit the analogs by vaping, whereas using the patch or chewing the gum didn't do it for me. i have worn the patch and smoked. i've chewed the nasty gum and smoked.

but i don't vape and smoke. the vaping gets me past the triggers instantly. an i was at 50 analogs a day

i LUV vaping. now what i gotta do is lower the nic content in my liquids. not yet though. i'm too new, not ready yet.

[Wynterbourne]

This is essentially how my father did it, just one cigarette at a time. He'd tried to quit cigarettes for well over 10 years that I know of, doing everything from the patch, to the gum, to hypnosis, to accupuncture. Nothing worked.

Then one day he woke up, smoked a cigarette, and decided not to smoke the next one. When he craved the next one he just told himself, "I'm too busy right now. I don't have time to go smoke." And so on...

Oh, and while he was quitting he didn't throw away any of his cigarettes. He carried one in the breast pocket of his shirt for the next month, and kept a full and open pack on the center console of his pick-up for the next 2 1/2 years.

He's been smoke free for about 10-15 years now.

[bugeater]

I don't mean to p*ss on anybody's bonfire here but I'm sorry Mungo, two minutes? Nope.

I recently went to a quit smoking class at Kaiser Medical and they mentioned the two minute urge thing. Most of the people in the class did not believe this though.

One of the things they recommended was to do something physical for those two minutes. My favorite suggestion was to put a rubber band around your hand and snap away when felt the urge.

This class was before i discovered e-smoking. I wish I went to that class with an e-cig.

[DCrist721]

i was a 40 analogs/day smoker for 25 years, until last November when i got my first 901.
i cut analogs from day one and vaped ever since but also gradually cut down the nicotine.

now i'm nic free for over a week,but the addiction is still there......
when i'm without vapor for too long, i have cravings .....
not for analogs or nicotine. just to put some vapor in my lungs and "feel" the hit.

what's that all about?

i thought nicotine is the addictive ingredient.....
maybe it's not and it is the process of vaping....
....or is it too soon?


don't get me wrong,i don't mind vaping.
it is just a thought.

Many people are actually more psychologically addicted to that act of smoking (the hand/mouth movement, the oral fixation, etc) then they are actually chemically addicted to the substances they are smoking.

I read somewhere on here that nicotine on it's own actually shouldn't be chemically addictive, yet somehow in cigarettes it is, which leads researchers to believe that their are other chemicals in cigarettes which when combined with the nicotine, become extremely addictive.

So no, therefore vaping should not actually be chemically addictive. But like anything, it can be psychologically addictive. Like if you are accustomed to listening to the radio every time that you get in the car, you can become psychologically addicted to the radio.

[fiddler]

I'm sure it's addictive, whether chemically, psychologically or whatever - and I don't give a tinker's damn if it is! I like it and it probably won't make me ill, as tobacco did.

So there!