Vaping- means to and end or new lifetime habit?

[AttyPops]

Tried the gum.
Tried the patches.
Tried cold turkey.
Tried lozenges.

Epic fails (for me).

Tried e-cigs. 1.5 years off tobacco so far. Future.... IDK. I'm trying to live past tomorrow tho. Ask me again in a year. I may finally get tired of this stuff.

 

[throatkick]

To directly answer your question: Both.

Each person is different. I like making steps with a good level of certainty. When I first switched a little over a year ago, it was because I took a long drag and said, "Hmmm...now this can work." Since then I have gone through a lot of hardware/liquid and am down to mostly 12mg from 36mg when I started.

 

[jazdale]

If I quit vaping, I'll end up smoking again.

 

[Sweeney Todd]

Interesting topic. I actually decided to pick up vaping before I decided to quit cigarettes. The convenience, no smoke, etc. drew me in. Once I committed to vaping, the rest ended up following.

I don't have any plans to stop vaping; I'll leave that to the future. For now I'm just getting started.

But I do think that thinking of it as a true lifestyle change has made the cravings for analogs and detox symptoms a bit easier to handle.

 

[Myriad Dark]

I originally intended to use vapeing as a means to cut the analogs out of my life and then dropping the PV too, but I am just enjoying it so much. At some point I may stop and feel it will be much easier cutting one chemical out of my life than it ever would have been cutting everything out all at once. I've dropped from 24mg to 12mg and don't even think about analogs any more. There no longer seems to be the sense of urgency that came along with smoking and I'm spending far less on vapeing than I ever did smoking analogs so I am quite content with this new hobby. Happy vapeing!

 

[Credo]

I've already found that the external pressure to quit vaping isn't nearly as profound.

Smoking tobacco without a great deal of care/washing/hiding/etc. cost me clients, professional and social opportunities, and in some cases important personal relationships. It also cost big wads of cash ( 4k in one pop when a cherry hit someone's pool cover ... the owner smoked too so he was cool about it, but still, it was smoking related damage that "I" was responsible for. If I had even %50 of the money I've lost for smoking damage to things like cars and home furnishings...I could retire a year sooner!)

Since vaping...no one notices (it looks more like a cell phone or PCD), no one cares unless I make it a point to be noticed, or get pushy about singing the praises of my new smoking replacement. Even with my big honking Darwin, the ill effects are strictly visual, and I can easily avoid that when I choose without too much thought or planning (like packing entire changes of clothes in a zip-lock bag for that big business trip).

Will I ever quit? Maybe...if it gets taxed to high heaven and gathers the kind of prejudice and social .......ization as smoking has, I probably will. Otherwise, why? It doesn't seem to be any more of a health risk than chewing gum, having a few coffees, or eating too much ranch dressing at lunch time. It brings me pleasure and lowers stress, and the price point sure beats the hell out of stress therapy and prescription drugs!

 

[EJH]

The second most beautiful thing about vaping, after cutting out the 4000 poisons in cigarettes, is the freedom of choice it gives a nicotine user. You can choose to vape 36 mg or 6mg and work your way to zero *if you want.* Smoking doesn't give you that choice...you're smoking with little chance to quit, according to statistics.

In my experience, patches do not work. Gum does not work. Chantix works, but drove me batty. I truly believe I could stop vaping at some point, but I choose not to because I am enjoying the experience (even at 6mg).

Would I be better off not inhaling nicotine at all? Probably, but at this point I now consider my nicotine use on par with caffeine and chocolate on my list of personal vices. Cigarettes never allowed that...they were *killing* me.

 

[madjack]

I didn't start vaping to "quit" smoking. I started vaping because I was looking for a cheaper and healthier way to get the nic and vaping does that quite nicely......
madjack

 

[alvinosj]

vaping is a good way to divert my attention away from analog.

but quitting vaping is out of the option

 

[dormouse]

I got my nicotine all the way down to 4mg which is lower than you can get with cigarettes. Nicotine IS the throat it so it's hard to go to zero but quite a few have gotten down to zero nicotine. The lower I got my nicotine the less desperate my habit became. It's nice to not be so dependent.