Do you plan to quit someday?

[dreamvaper]

Hello fellow vapers.
Here is a topic I was thinking of lately and I wanted to ask your opinion/plans.

Generally speaking, e-cigs were invented in order to help smokers switch from smoking regular cigs to something much less harmful and eventually help people quit this (one of the worst) habit of smoking / adding nicotine to your system.

Ideal plan was to give a smoker something similar (as a process) with enough nicotine to satisfy his needs but without all that sh@t that cigs contain.
After some time this ex-smoker was suppose to start lowering amounts of nicotine in his e-juice up until he is OK with 0 mg. nic vaping.
And eventually quit vaping as well, eliminating the habit.

In reality, I'd say about 80% of ex-smokers who became vapers don't even plan to quit vaping, they have their preferred nic. level and they keep on vaping it year after year being happy about it.

So what's your opinion on that? Do you also plan to keep on vaping or you might quit it in the future?

 

[Eskie]

I figure when I die I may have to stop vaping. Still want to be buried with a few mods, attys and juice just in case.

 

[ENAUD]

Hello fellow vapers.
Here is a topic I was thinking of lately and I wanted to ask your opinion/plans.

Generally speaking, e-cigs were invented in order to help smokers switch from smoking regular cigs to something much less harmful and eventually help people quit this (one of the worst) habit of smoking / adding nicotine to your system.

Ideal plan was to give a smoker something similar (as a process) with enough nicotine to satisfy his needs but without all that sh@t that cigs contain.
After some time this ex-smoker was suppose to start lowering amounts of nicotine in his e-juice up until he is OK with 0 mg. nic vaping.
And eventually quit vaping as well, eliminating the habit.

In reality, I'd say about 80% of ex-smokers who became vapers don't even plan to quit vaping, they have their preferred nic. level and they keep on vaping it year after year being happy about it.

So what's your opinion on that? Do you also plan to keep on vaping or you might quit it in the future?

I once quit smoking for a year and a half using the gum and Wellbutrin. Then one fine winter day...out of the blue, I was on the foot of a mountain, hving enjoyed a fine day skiing. While enjoying a beer I saw someone light up a cig. It was my brand of choice, and I caught a whiff of the smoke from that freshly lit cig.

A year and half! and something clicked in my head, I really wanted one. I fought the urge, for a while, but halfway home there I was at the counter of a gas station,,,buying a pack

It only took about two weeks before I was back to 2.5 packs a day, so yeah, I plan on keeping the vape close.

 

[Iron Molly]

I plan on it the same way I planned to quit smoking. I didn't. It just happened. If I eventually lose interest in vaping, so be it. If not, that's OK too!

 

[DeloresRose]

Look, we all have things we can't stop like breathing, sleeping, drinking water, m̶a̶s̶t̶u̶r̶b̶a̶t̶i̶n̶g̶.
I was always thinking that having less "habits" like that is making you more of a free person.
If you can eliminate a habit which is not a life important one, why won't you do it?

I don’t understand why we should give up things we enjoy. What’s the point of life, then? Just to work and exist?

Bad habits, which are addictions, by all means, try to get out from under them. Get away from things that add negativity, make your life worse or harder.

I can’t see vaping in that light. It’s been a very positive aspect for me.

Smoking was nothing but an addiction. Vaping is not just about getting nic, it’s a bunch of enjoyable hobbies.

 

[Blitzdonlife]

Maybe one day, not for a long time if I do. Unless it becomes a felony, or I physically can't vape for some reason, I'm planning to keep vaping. Vaping (nicotine) and coffee (caffeine) are two things that help bring sanity to an insane world for me. I could have much more harmful vices.

 

[DaveP]

I have no plans to quit vaping. After ten years vaping at low wattage my lungs are clear (compared to smoking) and I still enjoy vaping. I never really wanted to quit smoking. I just knew that I needed to get rid of burning tobacco. For me, ecigs were a safe(r) alternative. I started vaping as a safer method for using nicotine.

 

[GOMuniEsq]

I've got no plans to quit. There is a picture in my mind of the worst possible way to switch.

Meet Susie, one of those prissy people who moans about the evils of her Parliament Lights habit, but is scornful of vaping. She'd rather be independent of nicotine entirely and she doesn't want to be seen as one of those vaping people. But she does not have the strength of will to quit cold-turkey.

When Susie does finally make the switch, following a cancer scare and a dead relative, she buys a gas station cig-alike. She calculates her nicotine levels and fusses about risks and tells everybody that she plans to gradually taper down her usage to zero. But she can't stop dual-using and she's spending as much on refills and emergency cigs as she once did on just smoking, so she decides to try something else.

Susie refuses to allocate a proper equipment budget, since she's on the verge of quitting entirely, so she ends up with a weak-sauce SMOK or Voopoo device that leaks in her purse and gives her never-ending trouble. But she's got her dual-use under control now and is starting to save some money. Next Susie develops a cough and notices a harshness that makes her wonder about allergies and the safety of the liquid, so she orders some expensive organic kosher VG-only snowflake juice. The new juice gunks up her equipment so she begins to stress about dirty coils and formaldehyde.

Susie is now changing her coil head every two days, and now decides to lower her nicotine level and buy some zero-nic juice as well. She is again battling the temptation to dual-use. She is starving herself and just can't get any satisfaction.

Vaping for her is a constant source of misery because she went into it kicking and screaming, took a series of half-measures, and invented problems where none need have existed.

The smart way to switch is to recognize that cigarettes are a death sentence paid for at a premium of thousands of dollars per year. Nicotine, on the other hand, is as harmless as caffeine. So allocate a few hundred dollars and invest in some quality equipment up front, and then use it proudly. Consume as much nicotine as it takes to stave off cravings so you'll never be tempted to go back. Once you've conquered the cigarettes you've achieved the goal and there's nothing left to worry about. You are a winner.

 

[Rossum]

Do you also plan to keep on vaping?

Yes, I plan to keep vaping.

After almost six years, I still have little confidence that I wouldn't be back to smoking in very short order if I couldn't vape. I see no downside to it in terms of physical effects, and I enjoy it. Lastly, the FDA has put me in a position where the ongoing costs associated with continuing indefinitely are practically negligible.

 

[englishmick]

I worked with a couple of people who used vaping as a short time method of getting off the cigs. They both went into it with a plan and a timeline and they quit vaping on schedule. Not in touch with them now so I don't know if it worked out for them long term. I'm doubtful just because I quit smoking several times and slipped back into it so easily. Don't see how the method you use to quit would make it less likely that you would start smoking again.

The possibility that nicotine keeps Alzheimer's at bay seems important to me. I have a lot of it in my family tree. Even without that I just enjoy vaping, and I don't see any reason to stop.

 

[bombastinator]

The thing I have found watching the site for the years I have is a lot of people do manage to quit using ecigs. People who have tried to quit smoking many times before trying other cessation methods and failing. This is why I laugh so hard at anti smoking advocates who say things like “ just use a patch”. That has almost always already been tried, along with all the other stuff. E-cigarettes aren’t usually the first smoking cessation device they try its the last.

It’s a slow process generally taking several years. Not everyone can do it though. The long term posters here are generally the ones who just can’t. Even these have their lives extended though. Even a lot of these have managed large nicotine reductions.

 

[Zakillah]

I dont because I see no reason to. Whats next then; stop drinking coffee or beer?
No. Nicotine aint that bad.

 

[440BB]

I haven't had negative effects from vaping and consider the benefits of nicotine in terms of cognitive decline and dementia pretty valuable. I expect to maintain a low level of nicotine for the foreseeable future. Burning tobacco was the real health risk and even vapers sometimes forget nicotine is not the problem.

 

[cazmo]

I switched from cigs to vapes in 07/2010. Started at 24mg, and got all the way down to 1.5mg DIY. My doc told me to stop (heart reasons) so I went 0nic, but eventually just stopped on 8/31/19 as it wasn't doing anything for me. My biggest issue is what to do with all the kanthal/nichrome spools etc.. I have. I just kept buying as I told myself I'd never stop. Silly me.

I just hope these f**ktards in government don't kill vaping, it saved my life.

 

[DeloresRose]

The thing I have found watching the site for the years I have is a lot of people do manage to quit using ecigs. People who have tried to quit smoking many times before trying other cessation methods and failing. This is why I laugh so hard at anti smoking advocates who say things like “ just use a patch”. That has almost always already been tried, along with all the other stuff. E-cigarettes aren’t usually the first smoking cessation device they try its the last.

It’s a slow process generally taking several years. Not everyone can do it though. The long term posters here are generally the ones who just can’t. Even these have their lives extended though. Even a lot of these have managed large nicotine reductions.

That’s me. Tried everything, many times over the years. Nothing worked. I did not expect vaping to work either, and hadn’t even planned to try quitting. Just something I could use indoors at home, or where I couldn’t smoke.

I don’t really think about giving it up. I think, for me, staying smoke free is going to be a long term battle, maybe life long.

I do know people who got into vaping thinking they’d quit smoking and eventually quit vaping, too, and a few managed to do it.

So who knows... I don’t think I’ll quit, but never say never.

 

[rosesense]

OP, you stated that vaping was meant to be a means to quit smoking and then to quit vaping. Who said that? I have never heard that in my 10 years of vaping. Harm reduction, yes but aid to quit both...nah.

 

[Myrany]

Youtube has started an annoying thing for me. After I watch a vaping video (or sometimes during the video) it cuts to a How to quit smoking AND vaping add. No kidding they are including vaping.

In answer to the thread title. Nope not gonna quit.

 

[AngeNZ]

I loved smoking, especially the first couple in the morning with a coffee. And when I started vaping, it was only to replace smoking for a month or two, until the 3 fractures in my ankle had healed.

Then I discovered I loved vaping as much as smoking. So I kept vaping, even when my ankle was healed. And I absolutely love chain vaping first thing in the morning, with a coffee.

No intentions of quitting vaping - for me, it is one or the other, and I prefer vaping

 

[fiddleshe]

I figure either I will get too old to make my own coils or get dementia. I've quit smoking and relapsed too many times to know that the urge is always there so vaping will always be there for me.

 

[scott58]

I don't. They can bury my device with me.